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Emily Goh · · 4 min read

31 startups in Asia that caught our eye

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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. ERI | Hong Kong

ERI is a new fitness-tracking sports band developed by Hong Kong-based startup DigiCare. It doubles as a simple digital clock. The ERI is now up for crowdfunding on Indiegogo, where the startup is seeking funding by December 31 to help it ship to customers in early 2014.


2. Karamel | Indonesia

Karamel is a captcha solution that was first launched in August. Instead of having traditional text-based captcha, the startup offers visual captchas. The three-man Karamel team has been focusing on product development in the last nine months, but now they are ready to work with partners.


3. TrustedCompany | Malaysia

Launched this week, TrustedCompany is an open review community and Yelp-like service for e-commerce, which helps Asian consumers identify trustworthy and reliable online merchants.


4. Wildfire | Singapore and China

Focusing largely on the Chinese market, Wildfire uses big data analytics to provide Fortune 500 companies with tools to gain insights on consumers, manage social media crises, shape the outcome of social media conversations, and convert online conversations into real purchases. The startup revealed this week it has raised $2 million.


5. Splitforce | China

Splitforce is a multi-variant A/B testing and analytics tool for the web which can also perform localized experimentation. The startup emerged from China Axlr8r as one of the most promising graduates of the bunch.


6. NewsHunt | India

NewsHunt is a news reading app from India that has recently updated for Android and added in an e-bookstore with a mix of paid and free e-books. The app is proving itself to be really popular, now seeing a billion page-views per month.









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Emily Goh

I love creating great experiences for people. Also dabbles in florals and lettering, a fair bit of gaming, and enjoys lots of traveling. Happy to connect for collaborations for Tech In Asia events!