Happy Lunar New Year to all our readers! Here’s the list of startups which we have written about in the past seven days. For tips and stories suggestions, feel free to email us. Alternatively, you can send tips here and/or tell us about your startup here. Enjoy this week’s list!
1. The Mobile Gamer | Singapore
The Mobile Gamer (TMG) is a Singapore startup that builds mobile games on platforms like mig33, as well as, Kotagames, TMG’s very own platform. This week, we have a story on how this startup hustles for growth in Southeast Asia.
2. Harpoen | Indonesia
Indonesia’s Harpoen is a location-based messaging platform and wants users to leave digital marks at their locations. It has recently rolled out a major update and has tens of thousands of users leaving over 50,000 of those digital tags around the world to date. Harpoen is also one of the three Asian startups to win the World Summit Awards.
3. Redmart | Singapore
Redmart is a Singapore-based e-commerce startup that sells necessities and groceries, and has them delivered right to your doorstep. It seems to be doing pretty well these days, as they have recently announced their move to a much spacious 12,000 sq ft. warehouse and increasing their product offerings to over 8,000. The team has also grown from a humble team of four to a team of 48.
4. PicMix | Indonesia
Indonesia’s photo app PicMix, which stands for ‘pictures’ and ‘mixing,’ impressively passed eight million users last month in just nine months since the app’s inception, with more than 108 million photos posted on the app so far. The app was initially just for the old Blackberry OS, but now also supports Blackberry 10 and Android.
5. Burpple | Singapore
Burrple is a Singapore-based social food journal that mixes photo-sharing with foodie fanaticism. This week, it has hit a new milestone with the launch of Burpple for Android, today landing on Google Play to accompany its iOS iteration.
6. InstaWaves | Sri Lanka
InstaWaves is an interesting startup from Sri Lanka that provides a pictorial storytelling approach for users to consume Instagram content, similar to the way you can use Storify to contextualize Twitter posts about a certain event.
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