37 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. Ralali | Indonesia

Ralali is a B2C ecommerce site from Indonesia which sells industrial supplies as well as MRO (maintenance, repair, and operational) equipment. The startup announced this week that it has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from East Ventures.

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2. Candy | Singapore

Candy is a platform developed by Singapore-based YOYO Holdings where by completing “missions” such as surveys or viewing advertisments, users are rewarded with prepaid phone credits that can be used for making calls or using mobile internet. This week, the company announced has secured funding from Gree Ventures, Cyberagent Ventures, and Incubate Fund.

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3. HelloMarket | South Korea

First started in 2011, South Korea-based HelloMarket is like Craigslist on steroids, with a better interface oriented around photos and a built-in escrow payments system. This week, the HelloMarket team revealed that it has secured funding from led by Korea’s GS HomeShopping, along with input from Hanhwa Investment, Daesung Private Equity, and, Hanbit Investment.

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4. I3 Precision | Singapore

Singapore’s I3 Precision has a primary goal to reduce medication errors, improve patient safety, and increase productivity for hospitals and pharmacies. With that, the company is creating an independent medication registration and identification system called Medsafe, with Red Dot Ventures as their investor.

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5. Unified Inbox | Singapore

Launched in 2012, Singapore-based Unified Inbox allows users to pull in data from email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, or SMS. It also has connectors to Basecamp, Dropbox and Evernote. The mobile app is integrated with Line, WeChat and Whatsapp as well. That’s how it melds together email, social media, and enterprise messaging.

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6. Freakout | Japan

FreakOut, Japan’s first and largest demand-side platform (DSP) for real-time bidding (RTB) on digital advertising was approved for IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Mothers index earlier today. FreakOut’s DSP platform matches brands with the most effective advertising spot for each impression by utilizing a massive amount of stored audience data.

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