Chinaccelerator lands in Shanghai with 9 new startups to watch

Chinaccelerator held its fifth Demo Day yesterday for its newest batch of graduating startups. It was the first one since the program relocated from Dalian to be closer to the Chinese tech action – and the hipsters – in Shanghai.

In between introductions from mentors and supporters, these are the highlights of each of the nine startup pitches.

1. Daily Themes

This is a startup we wrote about earlier this month, and one with a lot of promise. Daily Themes uses a mix of data analysis and expert human intervention to help people who are learning English to write more polished prose.

During the onstage pitch, CEO and co-founder Hassan Siddiq, who hails from Pakistan, says the service has seen its user-base climb nine-fold in the past few months, and it now has over 8,000 users. He added that the startup is aiming at $15 million in revenue by 2016 from 30 million registered users – 300,000 of whom will be, they hope, premium subscribers.

2. Asyncode

Asyncode proved to be the hardest to grasp for the audience packed into Shanghai’s 8Cafe. It’s a big data service that hashes data to pull out insights, and offers them up in an easy-to-consume dashboard. Possible applications range from retail to medical research to education.

The startup promises to hash data and make it presentable for a lot cheaper than the whole process would cost an organization to do it for themselves – as much as one-third the normal cost.

3. Shophop

Shophop wants to help people find local fashion labels so they can avoid the usual chain stores and High Street brands.

4. NYCareerElite

5. Agada

6. Eventurers

7. NeoNan

8. GiftPass

9. Chishen.ma