Sendah Direct is a service that allows Agents, Distributors, and OFWs to resell digital and physical goods including mobile airtime credits (load/top-up), gift certificates, and other products. This service is available in M. Lhuillier's 1,700+ nationwide branches.

To anyone familiar with the Asian fintech and remittance world, Ayannah can be considered a household name. Started in 2009, Ayannah offers ways for underbanked people to transact online without going through banks, and also provides an e-commerce gateway that lets guest workers send goods to their relatives back home.

The Philippine startup scene is young. But no doubt it’s starting to get the attention of investors overseas.

That’s made evident by a number of funding rounds and exits that came this year. The biggest of them all: the initial public offering (IPO) of Xurpas – among the earlier generations of homegrown Philippine tech companies that startups today very well look up to. Awash with innovative ideas and serious talent, young and promising startups also gained their fair share of attention as they started to foray into other markets. Without further ado, Tech in Asia brings you the list of Philippine startups that got the biggest funding amounts in 2014:

Gree Ventures has joined a US$1.5M pre-series A round in support of Ayannah, a migrant-focused remittance service based in the Philipines and California. Founded in 2008, Ayannah deploys two main products for unbanked overseas workers: Sendah, a B2C gift remittance service that targets the 12 million Filipinos working overseas, and Sendah Direct, a B2B payment platform that distributes prepaid mobile phone credits, online game credits, and microinsurance products.