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Regina Lin · · 3 min read

6 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. Enjoy this week’s list!


1. TNG Wallet | Hong Kong (Startup Profile)

TNG Wallet lets users pay bills and shop at partner merchants. It also allows peer-to-peer transfers. To put credit into the wallet or withdraw cash from it, users can go to partner banks or any 7-11 store in Hong Kong.


2. Red Dot Payment | Singapore (Startup Profile)

Online payments gateway Red Dot Payment helps businesses to build and enhance their capability to accept payments over the internet. Besides its Singapore headquarters, the company currently has offices in Bangkok and Jakarta.


3. Zilingo | Singapore (Startup Profile)

Singapore-based Zilingo provides an online marketplace for offline vendors of clothes, jewelry, and related beauty and lifestyle products. It recently has added new vendors from Cambodia, China, Korea, and Vietnam, and currently ships goods to eight countries throughout Asia-Pacific.


4. Dropfoods | Vietnam

Dropfoods operates an army of smart vending machines in Vietnam. It combines physical vending machines selling food and drinks, and a mobile app to enable cashless transactions. The digital wallet connected to the machines allows users to buy products, top up their mobile credit, pay bills, and transfer money to other users.


5. Infostellar | Japan (Startup Profile)

Commercial space startup Infostellar has developed a cloud-based satellite antenna sharing platform – named StellarStation – which connects satellite operators with antenna operators around the world. The startup charges satellite operators by the hour while communication channels are open. It shares these revenues with the antenna holders.


6. CashShield | Singapore (Startup Profile)

CashShield uses machine learning to track user behavior patterns on websites that involve financial transactions, like ecommerce stores. The startup has developed its own software from scratch with real-time pattern recognition and passive biometric analytics capabilities.


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Regina Lin

From Taiwan and lives in Singapore now. Regina is the Startup Evangelist at Tech in Asia and enjoying connecting with startups. She also loves to eat, travel and meet new friends!