by Daily Mail Online President Donald Trump has temporarily put his sons in charge of his company, but the Trump Organization still does business abroad. That has prompted questions about whether that might influence Trump’s official decisions. A look at some of his business partners and contacts in Asia, where he is winding down a…
by Jovic Yee, Philippine Daily Inquirer Houses that can be built in days, not years. The government has partnered with a $1-billion local company in a bid to turn the country into a leader in prefabricated houses. The partnership was sealed on Friday between the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the private firm…
by DOST-PCIEERD Revolution Precrafted, the country’s first unicorn and the trailblazer for local start-ups, combines world-renowned designers and the latest advances in construction technology to deliver designer, custom homes at five times the speed and nearly half the cost to property developers and landowners. This winning business model may just expand further through Revo’s recent…
by The Philippine Star If millennials are, fairly or unfairly, typecast as those who expect to be handheld more, and the ones who feel “entitled”, then startup entrepreneurs are the antithesis of that stereotype. Not only are they self-motivated and independent, they are mentally prepared for hard work and sacrifice. They are not overnight successes,…
by Anne A. Jambora, Philippine Daily Inquirer The game changer is here. Century Properties Group, the real-estate company behind some of the most exciting and revolutionary developments seen on Philippine soil—Gramercy Residences (a hyperamenitized and fully serviced luxury residence), Azure Urban Resort Residences (featuring the country’s first man-made beach and beach club designed by Paris…
by Van Dam, Cafe Biz Vietnam Revolution Precrafted specializes in selling prefabricated homes with an average price of $120,000 per unit. Customers can order through the company’s website and have their homes delivered in as little as 90 days around the world. According to Tech in Asia, the Philippines’ pre-built home-selling startup Revolution Precrafted is valued…
by Audrey N. Carpio, Esquire Magazine There’s a montage in HBO’s Silicon Valley where startup founders pitch their product at a TechCrunch Disrupt conference. They each earnestly and nerdily claim that their app is going to revolutionize the world and/or make it a better place, using the rhetoric of technological determinism to capture the deep…
by Tina Arceo-Dumlao, Philippine Daily Inquirer The peripatetic Robbie Antonio is a man in a hurry, driven hard by his lofty ambition to make Revolution Precrafted, reputedly the world’s only branded housing company, the country’s first “unicorn” or startup firm valued at over $1 billion. And Antonio, who maximizes every second of his waking hours,…
by Tech in Asia A prefab home designed by David Salle. Photo credit: Revolution Precrafted. The Philippines has hit a huge milestone: it just got its first unicorn startup. Revolution Precrafted, a developer of prefabricated designer homes, has raised its series B round co-led by Singapore’s K2 VC, valuing the company at over US$1 billion, according…
by Town & Country Philippines, Esquire Magazine We’ve narrowed down the city’s most respected names and selected the very best. ABOITIZThe family currently engaged in banking, power, and real estate among many other ventures traces its history in the Philippines to a Spaniard of Basque origin, Paulino Aboitiz, who arrived in the 1870s. He married…