Posts Categorized: Startups


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8Villages Offers Information Hub Through Mobile for Southeast Asian Farmers

You might have heard a bit about 8Villages. Not only has the startup been interviewed by us, but also by the BBC, which is a rare feat for a...

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  • April 5, 2013
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PixBento iPhone app

PixBento: Facebook Albums Suck, We’re Going to Do Photo Sharing the Right Way

Quite a few startups are trying – or have tried and failed – to crack the first-world problem of how to share and transfer image...

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  • April 5, 2013
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SocialHappen Brings Discounts and Rewards to Thai Shoppers

The shopping discounts app ShopKick has proved to be popular, and now Bangkok-based SocialHappen wants to bring the same model to Thai consu...

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  • April 5, 2013
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SocialAgent

SocialAgent Helps Make Sense of Business on Chinese Social Media

SocialAgent.me is an online lead generation tool to help businesses find leads in the Chinese market. Based between Shenzhen, China and Hong...

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  • April 5, 2013
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Coffee Chat: MetroDeal – How to Build $18 Million Annual Revenue at Age 26 (Live Blog)

Next, for what promises to be a most entertaining session, Ralph Wunsch, founder of the Groupon-esque MetroDeal.com, talks about how they be...

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  • April 5, 2013
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Cosmetics E-Commerce Site Luxola Raises Series A Funding from GREE Ventures

Singapore-based cosmetic and skincare e-commerce startup Luxola announces today that it has received series A funding from GREE Ventures for...

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  • April 5, 2013
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RockItDub: A Startup that Makes it Easy to Be a Musician in the Philippines

There was once a time when musicians were just that­ the guys who made the music, and nothing else. The laborious process of producing, mar...

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  • April 5, 2013
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Discussion: The Asia Startup Wave (Live Blog)l

We’ve got an amazing cast for our panel here this morning at Startup Asia. Here’s their names and titles just in case you don...

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  • April 5, 2013
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Pombai Gives Thai Travelers a Bus Ticket to Ride

Next up at Startup Arena is Pombai, a Bangkok-based startup that provides transport companies with an online ticketing system. In Thailand, ...

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  • April 5, 2013
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DealPOS retail SaaS

DealPOS Wants Retailers to Ditch Cash Registers and Pick Up iPads

For retailers, cash registers are an expensive, space-hogging, eye-gougingly ugly experience. Indonesian startup DealPOS instead wants to pu...

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  • April 5, 2013
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Tell My Friends Wants Music Fans to Profit From Sharing Legal MP3s

Singapore-based Tell My Friends is one of the more established young tech companies on our newest Startup Asia roster having been in beta fo...

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  • April 5, 2013
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Cambodia’s Puddding Helps Women Crowd-Source the Perfect Pair of Jeans

The battle between “thigh and denim” ends today, apparently. Founder Janice Wilson’s new startup Puddding helps women find...

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  • April 5, 2013
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Coffee Chat: The MOL Startup Story

As one of the biggest payment companies in Southeast Asia, it is going to be interesting to hear what MOL founder Ganesh Kumar Bangah has to...

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  • April 5, 2013
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Sharing Session: An Introduction to Thailand’s Startup Ecosystem

Our Startup Asia Singapore 2013 event, which wraps up today, has been focusing on Southeast Asia. So it’s an opportune moment to get some ...

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  • April 5, 2013
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Burufly Receives Investment From Walden and Batavia

Indonesian social travel site Burufly has concluded a financing round from Walden International and Batavia Incubator. The sum of the invest...

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  • April 5, 2013
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Coffee Chat: Gunning for IPO – The PropertyGuru Story

We’ve written a lot on the PropertyGuru story, and last year it has also raised US$47 million last year. Our very own Willis Wee, take...

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  • April 5, 2013
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