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. Wongnai | Thailand
Founded in 2010, Thailand-based restaurant review startup Wongnai has revealed this week to have grown to one million registered users. The Yelp-like site received series A financing from Japan’s Recruit Strategic Partners (RSP) back in May 2013.
2. Foody | Vietnam
Similar to Singapore’s Hungry Go Where, Foody mainly focuses on providing good restaurant recommendations for its users, and at the same time allowing them to comment and rate the quality of those restaurants. This week, the startup announced it has reached over one million monthly unique visits since its founding in August 2013.
The company also received investment from CyberAgent Ventures back in November last year.
3. TinyBox | Philippines
Developed by Philippines-based startup Scrambled Eggs, Tinybox is a fun and simple iOS app to send a surprise photo gift to anybody via SMS. Users can pick from the designed digital gift boxes, and upload personal photos to put inside. This can be matched with personalized voice messages for the receiver.
4. Baolau.vn | Vietnam
Vietnma’s Baolau.vn is a “multimodal travel search engine”, which allows travelers to search for multiple routes and methods to get to their destination. Currently, the company covers domestic flights, trains, and ferries in Vietnam.
5. Clickdrive | Singapore
Singapore-based startup Clickdrive recently launched a crowdfunding campaign to for its first product, a computer that can be plugged into your car’s dashboard to give it a second brain.
The device aims to extend the functionality of your car and change the way you interact with it, like what Apple did to mobile phones. It already has several apps in the pipeline, including customizable dashboards, a fuel saver, performance monitoring, and a blackbox data recorder.
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