We plant the seeds. The Philippines grows the industry.
A ₱250M program to build the Philippines' first semiconductor design ecosystem.
A ₱2.5B AI infrastructure project at New Clark City got ZERO BIDDERS because 4,000 acres of land is a real estate play disguised as a technology strategy.
The SEED Program costs ₱250M — 1/10th of what the government already failed to spend on a building. It creates the companies that fill the buildings.
Compute-in-memory architecture. AI inference at 1/100th GPU power consumption. Bringing physical AI to edge devices.
The program operates through two dedicated internal entities that manage funding, talent development, and commercialization.
The Capability Builder (Non-Profit Governance)
A non-stock, non-profit trust established in the Philippines. It receives all public grants, corporate partner investments, and development funding. The Foundation administers the 10 SEED PhD Fellowships, funds the university research labs, and oversees the curriculum deployment. It ensures the technology baseline remains a shared public-private AI Commons.
The Commercialization Engine (Equity Fund)
The Phase 2 private venture capital fund. SEED Ventures provides equity-based seed funding and growth capital to startups spun out of the SEED Product Design Incubator. It helps founders commercialize their hardware, secure manufacturing capacity, and expand to ASEAN markets, providing real financial returns to institutional and corporate investors.
SEED doesn't train engineers to build gadgets. It trains the engineers who build the compute architecture for ASEAN's sovereign orbital infrastructure.
US geopolitical positioning
ASEAN sovereign interests
Everyone talks about "AI in space." Nobody can do it with GPUs. You can't put a datacenter in orbit.
When a handful of multinational technology giants own the entire computational stack, they possess structural leverage over local economies, national datasets, and public policies.
Sovereign AI is not about ideology or state control. It is a pragmatic, **anti-greed shield** that prevents corporate special interests from capturing public digital infrastructure. By building a shared **AI Commons** on the BSA-CIM architecture, SEED keeps data, value, and control where they belong: within local ASEAN communities.
SEED is the Philippine contribution. EquaSat is the ASEAN project it builds toward.
Same ambition as Pax Silica. Opposite power structure. ASEAN builds for ASEAN.
11 university tracks, SEED Fellows, and lab buildouts.
Product Design Incubator, FPGA prototypes, OEM workshops.
Tape-out (Singapore fab) and first spin-out companies.
Chip design
NLP/translation
Physical AI
Hardware
Business models
($1.5-2M) Funds Sibacus's contribution. Every product ships a Singapore-fabricated module.
($2M KSTA grant) Capacity building technical assistance. Strategy 2030 alignment.
($0.5-1M) Government co-funding. National semiconductor design capability.
OSAT companies, conglomerates, banks. The institutions that built themselves on Filipino labor invest in upgrading that labor.
Convenes stakeholders. Trains founders. Pairs MBA graduates with SEED engineers to form companies.
(UP, Mapua, DLSU, Ateneo) Train the chip designers. Run the research tracks. Build the labs.
The hardware strategy does not start in Clark. It starts in the **nickel mines** that supply the foundational materials for AI hardware.
Raw wealth is exported, leaving ecological damage behind.
Capturing the processing margins to heal the source.