public source · not yet founder-confirmed · 2021-06 · 🇵🇭 Philippines · F&B · solo founder
Kangkong chips from an aunt's recipe, ₱3,500 to start
A student cooked and sold water-spinach chips to friends, then resellers, then Shopee and Facebook Marketplace; six figures a month within six months.
- Business
- Packaged snack brand (Kangkong Chips Original)
- Founder
- Josh Mojica
- Started
- June 2021
- Start-up capital
- ₱3,500 (about US$65)
- Revenue
- ₱100,000+/month within six months; first million within a year (as reported)
- Team
- —
Numbers are ranges or the figure the source published; we never publish a founder's documents.
Source, pinpointed
Wikipedia — Josh Mojica (with press citations)
public record (Wikipedia, citing Philippine press) · 2021-06
Cross-check: no second public source found yet; a Starter Story or press snippet is added when one exists.
First customers — the part nobody publishes
Channel: Friends and family, then resellers and marketplaces
Public reporting (Wikipedia and Philippine press): sold first to friends and family, enlisted classmates to cook and pack, then resellers and marketplaces. Numbers are as published; not yet confirmed with the founder.
Would it work in…
The same idea, other markets — our read from the database's country filters, not a forecast.
- Jakarta — likely — keripik culture; TikTok Shop is the reseller layer
- Singapore — maybe — SFA licensing before the first sale
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