Pasay City, Philippines – In a significant recognition of its transformative contributions, Twala was honored by the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) on October 30, 2024, at the Sheraton Hotel in Pasay City. The prestigious award acknowledged Twala’s pivotal role in promoting the Ease of Doing Business and delivering more efficient government services across the Philippines. Among the 21 awardees celebrated for their exceptional contributions, Twala stood out as the only non-government agency, underscoring the company’s unique position and impact in supporting ARTA’s mission through private sector innovation.

In 1991, two Bellcore researchers, Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta, were quietly revolutionizing digital trust with their seminal paper “How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document” in the Journal of Cryptology. Their opening words were prophetic: “The prospect of a world in which all text, audio, picture, and video documents are in digital form on easily modifiable media raises the issue of how to certify when a document was created or last changed.” This wasn’t about cryptocurrency — it was about something far more fundamental: How do you prove a digital document existed at a specific moment in time without relying on trust?

Blockchain startup Twala has received a P4.6 million grant fund from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) — Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD) to further help companies power their remote or hybrid work arrangements through its digital signature solution.

On July 2, 2020, Disini Law, in partnership with Digital Freedom Network, presented “E-Signature: Are They Legal”, the second episode in the webinar series Digital Transformation Thursdays (DTT).

A blockchain-powered e-signature solution and a leading education technology (edtech) platform won the very first Startup Pitch Competition virtually held by the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the Philippines (CCIFP) last Feb. 8.

Twala, a tech startup that offers digital transformation of businesses with their legally binding and secure electronic signature platform powered by blockchain technology, got selected as one of the startups that will join the IdeaSpace Philippines Acceleration Program 2021.

IDEASPACE Foundation, the startup support organization behind IdeaSpace and QBO Innovation Hub, announced a new round of investments after closing the ninth cohort of the IdeaSpace acceleration program.

Notarization is to certify or attest to a document by a notary public. A duly notarized document carries with it the presumption of regularity, authenticity, and due execution.

If your startup can pivot toward sustainability, and, at the same time, respond to issues surrounding COVID-19, then the business has a good chance of surviving this pandemic.

The use of electronic signatures in the Philippines remains a vast sea of opportunities that is unexplored by different industries.

The E-Commerce Act of 2000 allows the use of electronic and digital signatures in the Philippines.

As companies embrace new ways of working like remote or hybrid work setups, having a systematic process of saving, retrieving, sharing, and retaining business data is now more important than ever.

They’re an important tool in an effective and efficient contract management process. Curious to see how this tool could revolutionize how you do business?