Welcome back to another compilation of all the startups in Asia that we have covered this week. We had a couple of interesting startups from Thailand, as well as quite a few startups that have received funding. For tips and stories suggestions, feel free to email us. Alternatively, you can submit tips here and/or your startup here. Enjoy this week’s list!
1. 8villages | Singapore
Southeast Asian startup 8villages is a mobile social network for smallhold farmers. Specifically, it’s an information and experience-sharing platform for these farmers that’s initially focusing on rural Indonesia.
2. Exteen | Thailand
Exteen is Thailand’s most popular content management system (CMS) for bloggers – sort of like WordPress – which generates 30 million monthly page views with over 600,000 registered bloggers so far.
3. Wongnai | Thailand
Wongnai is a Thailand-based online restaurant review site and mobile app that has 360,000 users. Thus far in its growth it has about 60,000 restaurant reviews in its database.
4. Playmoolah | Singapore
Singapore startup Playmoolah recently launched its Moolah It app which aims to educate children on how to manage their money.
5. Mizhe | China
Mizhe is a Chinese discounts-oriented shopping guide that monetizes from referral links to e-commerce sites such as Taobao, Amazon China, and many more. IDG Capital Partners has invested just over 10 million RMB (US$1.6 million) in a series A funding round for the startup.
6. Gimme | Singapore
Gimmie is a Singapore-based loyalty platform that recently announced receiving just over US$500,000 from various investors, led by WaveMaker Labs in partnership with the Singapore National Research Foundation.
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