With her accelerator Qbo, which she co-founded in 2016, Katrina Chan aims to kickstart the Philippines’ tech startup ecosystem. The company is a novel private-public partnership, involving collaboration with the Department of Science and Technology, Department of Trade and Industry, JP Morgan and accelerator IdeaSpace. It organises the annual Philippine Startup Week and has conducted more than 500 startup programmes, and recently launched Start Up Pinay to support women in technology.