Here’s our newest round-up of the featured startups on our site this week. If you have startup tips or story suggestions, feel free to email us or tell us about your startup on this form. Any juicy tech news tips go here. Enjoy this week’s list!
1. Gunosy | Japan
Gunosy is a popular Japanese news reader app that aims to help user digest all of the day’s news in three minutes, with a main revenue stream coming from display advertisements. The startup announced that it has closed a fresh funding round from KDDI this week – following a US$12 million funding round from the same telco in March. JAFCO and B Dash Ventures also joined KDDI for the latest investment.
2. Berry Kitchen | Indonesia
Indonesia’s Berry Kitchen makes lunch boxes and bento meals, typically for office workers. It does the whole thing – it deals with suppliers, makes the food, does the packaging, and then delivers the food to clients. The startup recently received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from East Ventures
3. SoundForge | Japan
SoundFordge is a Japanese site for musicians to not only virtually test guitar pedals, but is also an ecommerce platform that will recommend the best price for buying said pedal new or used.
4. Flashcall | Pakistan
Pakistan’s Flashcall provides brands with a toll-free number that allows them to communicate with customers via missed calls, sending back SMS to people containing more information. At this early stage, the startup is using its own cash but has talked with a number of investors.
5. GoFresh | Singapore
Created by the founders of Beeconomic, known as Groupon Singapore, GoFresh is a Singapore-based online groceries platform provides high quality, nutritious, and premium products with all their fresh produce sourced directly from farmers and fishermen from all around the world. It also offers next-day delivery free of charge.
6. Akippa | Japan
Akippa is an Osaka-based parking space reservation app that has recently secured a funding round from DeNA. Though the terms of this funding round were not announced, Akippa’s previous round, led by noted private equity firm JAFCO, was for over US$650,000.
7. Predictry | Malaysia
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