May 28, 2026
May 28, 2026
BYC VENTURES CO-FOUNDERS GELO WONG AND RAPHAEL SEVILLA JOIN FORBES 30 UNDER 30 ASIA
BYC VENTURES CO-FOUNDERS GELO WONG AND RAPHAEL SEVILLA JOIN FORBES 30 UNDER 30 ASIA
BYC VENTURES CO-FOUNDERS GELO WONG AND RAPHAEL SEVILLA JOIN FORBES 30 UNDER 30 ASIA
Two Filipino founders recognized for building the systems behind government transparency and public record integrity in the Philippines.
Two Filipino founders recognized for building the systems behind government transparency and public record integrity in the Philippines.
MANILA, Philippines — BYC Ventures today announced that co-founders Brandon Angelo "Gelo" Wong and Raphael Sevilla have joined the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, recognized for building verification infrastructure that has changed how Philippine government institutions manage and prove the integrity of public records.
Wong and Sevilla, together with co-founder Paul Soliman, established BayaniChain to address a problem that had long gone unsolved in Philippine public institutions: official records that could be altered, lost, or disputed without consequence. The company built systems that make government data independently verifiable, giving citizens, auditors, and oversight bodies a reliable reference that no single authority can edit or erase.
Their earliest and most consequential deployment was with the Department of Budget and Management, the first Philippine government agency to upload and verify key budget documents through a tamper-evident record system. That work is still running. It helped establish a new standard for how public finance data is published and preserved, and it contributed to the legislative push to institutionalize this approach to record integrity across national government.
"We didn't come from Silicon Valley, generational wealth, or Ivy League networks," said Wong. "We came from a conviction that the developing world deserves infrastructure that nations and citizens can actually trust."
Since that first government deployment, BYC Ventures has extended its infrastructure into other parts of the public system where record integrity matters most. The company now supports institutions managing housing finance records, public works documentation, disaster response data, and academic credentials. Its regional presence has also grown, with an active partnership in Malaysia under that country's national digital infrastructure program.
The Forbes recognition places Wong and Sevilla among the region's most prominent young leaders in technology and enterprise. It also marks a broader signal: that the infrastructure being built for the developing world, by founders from the developing world, is earning the attention it deserves.
BYC Ventures works with governments, enterprises, and civic institutions across the Philippines and Southeast Asia. A full view of its partner ecosystem is available at byc.ventures/partner-ecosystem.
About BYC Ventures BYC Ventures builds verifiable and intelligent infrastructure for critical systems. Through its product suite Lumen, BYC helps governments and enterprises create records that are independently verifiable, audit-ready, and resilient.
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MANILA, Philippines — BYC Ventures today announced that co-founders Brandon Angelo "Gelo" Wong and Raphael Sevilla have joined the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, recognized for building verification infrastructure that has changed how Philippine government institutions manage and prove the integrity of public records.
Wong and Sevilla, together with co-founder Paul Soliman, established BayaniChain to address a problem that had long gone unsolved in Philippine public institutions: official records that could be altered, lost, or disputed without consequence. The company built systems that make government data independently verifiable, giving citizens, auditors, and oversight bodies a reliable reference that no single authority can edit or erase.
Their earliest and most consequential deployment was with the Department of Budget and Management, the first Philippine government agency to upload and verify key budget documents through a tamper-evident record system. That work is still running. It helped establish a new standard for how public finance data is published and preserved, and it contributed to the legislative push to institutionalize this approach to record integrity across national government.
"We didn't come from Silicon Valley, generational wealth, or Ivy League networks," said Wong. "We came from a conviction that the developing world deserves infrastructure that nations and citizens can actually trust."
Since that first government deployment, BYC Ventures has extended its infrastructure into other parts of the public system where record integrity matters most. The company now supports institutions managing housing finance records, public works documentation, disaster response data, and academic credentials. Its regional presence has also grown, with an active partnership in Malaysia under that country's national digital infrastructure program.
The Forbes recognition places Wong and Sevilla among the region's most prominent young leaders in technology and enterprise. It also marks a broader signal: that the infrastructure being built for the developing world, by founders from the developing world, is earning the attention it deserves.
BYC Ventures works with governments, enterprises, and civic institutions across the Philippines and Southeast Asia. A full view of its partner ecosystem is available at byc.ventures/partner-ecosystem.
About BYC Ventures BYC Ventures builds verifiable and intelligent infrastructure for critical systems. Through its product suite Lumen, BYC helps governments and enterprises create records that are independently verifiable, audit-ready, and resilient.
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