19 startups in Asia that caught our eye

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. Sribu | Indonesia

Sribu is a design crowdsourcing marketplace from Indonesia which has currently 37,000 designers who have produced over 245,000 design portfolios for more than 1,000 paying clients.

The startup revealed this week that it has raised a series A round investment from a publicly listed company in Japan called Infoteria Corporation.

2. HipVan | Singapore

First launched in April 2013, HipVan is a design-oriented e-commerce startup with presences in both Singapore and Malaysia. This week, it was announced that Skype co-founder Toivo Annus has joined Singapore celebrity Jade Seah, tech entrepreneur Darius Cheung, and Singapore investment firm Silicon Straits as one of the investors. The amount invested is undisclosed.

3. FoodRunner | Singapore

Online food delivery service provider, FoodRunner announced that it has acquired City Delivery, a Philippine company which delivers restaurant food, groceries, flowers, and other items. The company hopes that its expansion-through-acquisition approach can give it an edge against the more well-funded FoodPanda.

4. Action Stack | Philippines

Launched in January this year, Action Stack is an avenue for Filipino individuals – students and professionals alike – to gain more knowledge on tech entrepreneurship through workshops. It has gathered 21 mentors, a mix of startup founders and tech experts , who share their knowledge and experience with the tech community.

5. Mobvoi | China

Mobvoi is a mobile voice search developer from China makes a service called Chumen Wenwen that was originally built on top of WeChat.

Users can ask it a question using the same voice chat function you would use to talk to a friend, and Chumen Wenwen will respond with a WeChat message containing the answer. If the app can’t return the results directly, it will let you sift through search results from Baidu, 360 Search, or Google.

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