14 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. FootballHero | Singapore

FootballHero is not a gambling app involving real money. It is a game where you can make match predictions with virtual credits, climb the global rankings by demonstrating sage-like abilities, and become an expert with your own fan following hanging on to your every prediction.
You can challenge your friends by creating competitions, and redeem the credits you earn from correct predictions for prizes and merchandises. Players can predict matches for any league game in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, or Italy. This app is developed by the same company that created TradeHero .

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2. DragonPay | Philippines

Dragonpay is a Philippine startup that’s trying to make it easier for people to pay for things online. It focuses on prepaid cards, available at over 10,000 stores – such as supermarkets or gas stations – that can then be used for shopping online, making epayment as easy as mobile top-ups.
People can use their Dragonpay credit at major ecommerce sites such as Metrodeal, CashCashPinoy, and Ensogo, with local telcos Globe and Smart, on Facebook and MOL, and on a variety of other useful sites in the country.
The startup just raised a series A investment led by Japan’s GMO Internet Group.

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3. MoneyTree | Japan

MoneyTree is a personal finance app that recently introduced a paid feauture that allows users to separate work-related expenses from personal spending, organize them into a claim, and then download the claim from the cloud as a CSV or Excel file. So far, Moneytree has attracted US$1.6 million in seed funding from DG Incubation and angels.

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4. Edaixi | China

Edaixi, the on-demand laundry app that Tencent invested a US$3.2 million seed round of funding into in July, has already raised a series A round. This latest investment comes from Matrix Partners and SIG.
The doorstep pickup laundry service – available via native app, WeChat service account, and website – is backed by longtime franchise of Chinese laundromats, Rongchang. Edaixi’s main service charges a flat for each of its custom laundry bags, but it will also clean individual pieces of clothing, shoes, furniture, air conditioners, and handbags.

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5. PakWheels | Pakistan

PakWheels is an online car portal from Pakistan that as been around for almost 11 years, and has one of the the largest classifieds section in the country right now. The company recently received $3.5 million in funding from Frontier Digital Ventures.

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6. VideoSelfie | Japan

Launched in June 2013, VideoSelfie is a video messaging app previously known as Unda. The app allows users to capture 20-second videos, in multiple takes, while applying filters and animated GIFs in real time. Filters range from “kawaii” (which softens skin tone and emphasizes eyes, a la Japan’s purikura photo booths) to the self-explanatory “comic book.” This week, it attracted US$900,000 in seed funding led by 500 Startups, new investors include CyberAgent, East Ventures.

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7. Blued | China

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