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. 10sec | Japan
10sec is a Japan-made social flea market app which lets people sell items online using their Instagram photos.To be launched later this month, the startup is now boosted by fresh investment from Japanese web giant CyberAgent. 10sec previously got some seed funding from Tokyo-based Incubated Fund.
2. BuzzCommerce | Thailand
BuzzCommerce, an ecommerce site for bringing international health and beauty products to consumers in Thailand, has announced an undisclosed amount of seed funding from East Ventures. The Thai startup aims to make it easier for clients to promote and sell popular cosmetics, dietary supplements, and fashion items.
3. Abraresto | Indonesia
Abraresto is a food discovery site built by the same team behind Singapore-based restaurant booking site Abratable. It allows users to browse venues based on the kinds of venue, cuisine, and location by mall and neighborhood. Currently the startup records 1.2 million monthly page-views, with more than 8,000 reviews and ratings submitted by its users so far.
4. 8pip | Singapore
A CoinPip-affiliated company, 8pip’s Bitcoin prepaid cards allow customers to purchase Bitcoin by buying physical cards, and then redeeming the card’s equivalent value in Bitcoin currency online at the CardToCoin website. As soon as customer details are keyed in, Bitcoin funds will promptly be transferred to the customer’s Bitcoin wallet.
5. Send Anywherec| South Korea
South Korea’s Send Anywhere is a file-sharing app that lets users send and receive files while bypassing the hurdles imposed by the cloud. Think of it as “Dropbox meets Snapchat,” with some libertarian supervision.
6. 99.co | Singapore
99.co focuses on long-term rentals where users are able to shortlist apartments and indicate their availability for a viewing. Once users have shortlisted their desired apartments, 99.co helps them contact and schedule viewings with the agents or landlords, saving users the trouble of having to call the lister directly.
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