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. Nanoleaf | Hong Kong
Nanoleaf, a new generation light bulb maker backed by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing’s venture capital firm, has released a new product: a light bulb that dims without a dimmer switch. It promises to be the world’s most energy-efficient, inviting comparisons to the G7 Power Vintage.
2. Jink | Taiwan
Taipei-based Jink hopes their new app will alleviate your waiting-in-the-cafe woes. If you’re looking to meet a friend, retrieve their number from your phone’s contact list and they’ll appear as an icon on a map. You and your friend can then message each other, and the icons will move in real-time as each person walks towards the destination.
3. SocialCops | India
SocialCops, a data technology startup based in India, is building a tool that will allow policy-makers, researchers, and journalists to collect, analyze, and visualize data about some of the most daunting social and governance issues in India. For that, it has just raised seed funding from 500 Startups, as well as individual investors Rajan Anandan, managing director of Google India, and Manoj Menon, managing director of Frost & Sullivan APAC.
4. Taamkru | Thailand
Taamkru hopes to change education through its web and mobile apps, giving pre-schoolers a fun, gamified way to prepare for examinations in a manner that black-and-white paper workbooks can’t. Its platform also lets parents track their child’s performance and benchmark it against other kids in the nation. The startup received seed funding from Silicon Valley fund and accelerator 500 Startups. M&S Partners, IMJ Investment Partners, Ookbee, and Red Dot Ventures also invested this time.
5. Jetbay | China
To be launched this October, travel platform Jetbay will have local travel and event listings, in English, at local prices for visitors to China. It is also the first mainland China-based startup to get accepted into US-based accelerator 500 Startups, and part of the 500 Startups Batch 9, which is made up of about 30 startups from around the world.
6. Sciement | Japan
Japan’s Sciement is a combination of science and entertainment. At its inception, the company was focused on creating easy-to-comprehend 3D animations. Now, Sciement also creates medical legal animations which can be used during criminal trials to visually explain trauma inflicted on a victim. Initially bootstrapped with the founder’s own savings, the startup has raised approximately US$98,000 from private investors.
7. Quipper | Philippines
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