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. Enjoy this week’s list!
1. YellowNepal | Nepal (Techlist Profile)
Kathmandu-based startup YellowNepal is a location based restaurant search app which provides a discovery service for 1,500 restaurants in the Kathmandu Valley. The interface of the app allows you to search for restaurants by name, cuisine, or area with an option to check details like menus, directions, business hours, and contact info of the establishments.
2. PinoyTravel | Philippines (Techlist Profile)
PinoyTravel is Philippines’ first online provincial bus booking system and also among the first batch of startups funded by Philippine accelerator Ideaspace Foundation. Since its launch in September 2013, PinoyTravel has expanded its services to include ferry and hotel bookings. It will soon launch a reseller portal, allowing even small neighborhood convenience stores to sell bus tickets.
3. Hopscotch | India (Techlist Profile)
Hopscotch is an ecommerce portal selling merchandise for babies and kids in India. It is recently revealed that Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and venture capital fund Velos Partners have invested US$11 million in the startup.
4. Aoliday | China (Techlist Profile)
Travel and ticketing booking site Aoliday does things differently from most of the other similar sites by focusing on selling daytrips, tours, and adventurous experiences around the world. The startup has recently secured US$1.5 million in seed financing from Gobi Partners.
5. Dealoka | Indonesia (Techlist Profile)
Launched mid last year, Dealoka is a mobile app that enables shoppers to receive exclusive and targeted offers from the brands that matter to them. The company is among the first graduates of Indosat’s accelerator program, Ideabox, and is raising an undisclosed amount of series A funding from SB ISAT, a US$50 million fund by Softbank and telco Indosat.
6. Meituan | China (Techlist Profile)
Meituan is one of China’s biggest startups as well as one of its top daily deals sites for localized consumer services. The company revealed this week that it has secured US$700 million in funding.
7. SmartNews| Japan (Techlist Profile)
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