As usual, we have quite a few Asian tech start-ups on our radar this week, from China, India, Japan, Australia, and Singapore. For folks who are interested in investing or partnering with these start-ups, drop us an email — hello[at]penn-olson[dot]com – anytime. No promise, but we’ll try our best to be the bridge.
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Yongche’s CEO, Zhou Hang, is the no-bullshit panelist I was telling you about last Friday. He said that LBS should be used as service and not just as means for e-commerce. He piqued my curiosity, so I spoke with him to find out more about Yongche.com, which directly translates from Chinese into ‘use car.’
MeetDoctor is an integrated web service platform for patients and health service providers in Indonesia. It was one of the finalist for Asia’s Top 50 Apps, and just this past week it officially released its beta version.
Umeng is an analytics and in-app platform for iOS and Android apps that’s a Chinese rival to the American service Tapjoy. The Beijing-based Umeng was founded only last year, and is now backed by Innovation Works and serving over 10,000 mostly Chinese apps.
Bangalore-based OfferGrid has received seed investment from MyFirstCheque, a seed fund that invests in budding Indian start-ups. OfferGrid is a start-up that builds internet products. Its flagship product is OfferGrid Exchange which is basically a deals aggregator with more than 6,000 deal offers collated from Indian and U.S. markets.
Japan-based investment and incubation firm Digital Garage announced today that it has invested in file-sharing service Kicksend, a start-up based in Mountain View, California. Kicksend was incubated in Y Combinator this past summer, and launched in beta in August.
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