Live notes on start-up pitches.
16Fun (China)
- Focuses on mobile games imitating virtual reality
- Features include playing games with friends
- Business model: Virtual currency, in-app purchases, linking game with business owners
- Distribution strategy: Consolidate a list of distributors, build relationships, events
BookRice (Hong Kong)
- “Transforming how restaurants and consumers interact with each other”
- Problems – Diners: Inconvenience, Restaurants: Still paper and pen reservation, no data analysis
- BookRice allows diners to reserve tables anywhere, anytime
- Key points: personalized consumer data, scheduling reservation
- Competitors: OpenTable but no strong presence in Asia
- Judges are concerned about the small market in Hong Kong.
RedSparro (Singapore)
- The 20:1000 problem in events – 1000 attendees but an average participants can only meet about 20 people
- RedSparro helps you connect with others in an event. Through scheduled meetings, synced with social networks. The app allows you to send message for meet up
- RedSparro also help users to find the right people, such as business mentors or co-founders
- Post deals also allow users to promote tickets through the app
- Competition: Twitter, Presdo
- Answer to competition – “Twitter is unstructured and not catered for events and meet ups”
- Mentor includes Adeo Ressi and Jeffrey Paine
Kwestr (China)
- Social games + real friend + real goals = Kwestr
- Gamification any experience within a social framework. Doing things fun and social.
- E.g Users set up a “Stop smoking” quest. Milestones will checked and updated via social networks
- Energetic presentation 🙂
Fonaja (Indonesia)
- Fonaja is a virtual enterprise phone system for self-employed professionals and small-medium businesses
- Managing a local phone number, creating call rules, providing phone extensions, and many others.
- Analytics: Call stat- phone traffic
- Business model: Direct subscription, every user = subscriber. Stable revenue compared to ads
- Best feature – Intelligent voice response. Answered by auto recordings, aka giving advice through bots voice
Moglue (Korea)
- Interactive eBooks
- Moglue is basically a drag and drop interface for users to create interactive eBooks on the iPad and Android powered devices
- The demo is pretty cool!
- 5 years from now: Right now is more about creating the eBooks, but eventually it would be about distributing these eBooks.
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