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. Appota | Vietnam
Appota specializes in mobile content delivery through its platform. It is also a graduate of the Founder’s Institute program based in Hanoi. The platform serves up apps via developers who use its SDK and then delivers the content and apps to customers who download its third party app store. The company has just raised an undisclosed series B funding with two investors from Japan and Singapore.
2. Payroll Hero | Philippines
Philippines Payroll Hero offers a unique service that helps companies keep track of employees using biometric facial recognition to ensure workers are at work when they should be. The startup announced that international doughnut and coffee brand Krispy Kreme will now be using PayrollHero to aid its team management.
3. SnapClip | Singapore
Instead of catering only to consumers, SnapClip is video effects app developed by Singapore-based startup Basilo Labs. The app is designed as a marketing vehicle for brands. In essence, it will make money from selling premium video effects as well as branded content.
4. Nanapi | Japan
Started in 2009, Nanapi is Japan’s largest lifehack media site that has 28 million visitors and generates over 60 million pageviews every month. In July last year, the company raised a funding round from Globis Capital and KDDI’s Open Innovation Fund.
5. Dineout | India
Dineout is an online restaurant booking startup that was recently acquired by Times Internet, the online subsidiary of The Times of India Group, to merge with TimesCity, a web portal for restaurant and venue reviews and listings.
6. Geniee | Japan
Founded in 2010, Geniee is an ad tech startup, with its real-time bidding (RTB) ad network serving up to 20 to 30 billion impressions per month. The company claims to be the leading ad network in Japan and has already started to explore markets overseas.
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