Posts Categorized: Startups


ChatPerk gadget lets your iPhone emit smells

Attach and Sniff: Japan’s ChatPerf Lets Your iPhone Emit Smells (VIDEO)

Using a smartphone is a very sensual and immersive experience, but so far our sense of smell has bee...

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  • May 15, 2013
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Zoolook fashion app

Zoolook Brings Together Fashionistas, Fashion Bloggers, and Brands – All in One App

We’ve seen all kinds of social fashion startups crop up in Asia in the past couple of years. One o...

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  • May 14, 2013
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TMI Invests In 3 Taiwanese Startups: CitieSocial, Driving Curve, and Peeridea

TMI, a Taiwan-based early stage investment firm founded in 2012 by US venture firm WI Harper Group, ...

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  • May 14, 2013
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CyberAgent Gets Into the Crowdfunding Business in Japan

CyberAgent Gets Into the Crowdfunding Business in Japan

Japan’s CyberAgent (TYO:4751) has burst onto Japan’s crowdfunding scene with the launch ...

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  • May 14, 2013
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Kpaper: Vietnam’s First Ever Mobile Magazine App Comes To iOS and Android

Kpaper: Vietnam’s First Ever Mobile Magazine App Comes To iOS and Android

If you’re in Vietnam and you’ve got an iOS device, chances are you’re not using Ap...

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  • May 13, 2013
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Singapore’s Loan Garage Launches Kredit Aja in Indonesia with a Bang

Today Singapore-based Loan Garage, a startup that aims to help people get loans online, announced th...

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  • May 13, 2013
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TechHub in Lahore, Islamabad

Techhub Manchester’s Co-Founder Visits Pakistan, Plans New Co-Working Space

Adam Dawood is the founding partner of DYL Ventures, a Pakistan-centric venture capital and consulta...

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  • May 10, 2013
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China’s MadeiraCloud Gets $1.5 Million Funding, Opens US Office

We’ve been following the progress of Beijing-based MadeiraCloud pretty closely since last year, an...

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  • May 10, 2013
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500 Startups’s New Batch Includes Plenty of Asian Startups

500 Startups’s New Batch Includes Plenty of Asian Startups

Silicon Valley-based Accelerator 500 Startups has released the list of its Batch 6 startups, and it&...

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  • May 15, 2013
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Money Lover: Vietnam’s Answer to Mint Already Has Over 1.5 Million Downloads

After traveling up to Hanoi last weekend and hunting for cool startups, a lot of the people there ke...

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  • May 14, 2013
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Zalora Delivers 1 Millionth Order to a Customer in Singapore

Rocket Internet’s fashion e-store for Southeast Asia, Zalora, has just shipped its one million...

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  • May 14, 2013
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Reep Remembers The Photos You Took A Year Ago

Photos become more meaningful when you look at them in relation to time. Reep is a made-in-Japan mob...

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  • May 14, 2013
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Videogram's New iPhone App

Playing Around with Videogram’s New iPhone App

Will Bohn is an entrepreneur working in Tokyo for a digital marketing firm. He loves startups, Asia,...

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  • May 13, 2013
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Asian tech startups list

14 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye

This week, we have a bunch of inspiring founder stories from Singapore and South Korea, as well as i...

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  • May 12, 2013
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Chester Roh: The Story of a Hacker-Turned-Entrepreneur Who Sold His Company to Google

Chester Roh (pictured) started his journey as an entrepreneur at the Korea Advanced Institute of Sci...

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  • May 10, 2013
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VNTIC, A Vietnamese Eventbrite for Entertainment Across the Region

In Vietnam, ticketing is a relatively new place for startups. I’ve already covered Keewi, which ma...

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  • May 9, 2013
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