Submissions at Startup Arena are coming in fast. And we have already accepted a couple of them to compete for our top prizes this June. You will love them.
Meanwhile, we’re also keeping track on the startup movements in Asia. In the last seven days, we have covered a couple of startups on Tech in Asia, specifically from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
For folks who are interested in investing or partnering with these startups, drop us an email — editors[at]techinasia[dot]com – anytime. No promises, but we’ll try our best to be a bridge.
And if you’re a tech startup based in Asia hoping to be featured, kindly send us your pitch here.
1. Acheevit | China
Acheevit provides real-time performance information and feedback to sales teams by applying techniques from social media, analytics and gamification to increase the motivation for salespeople. We recently sat down with Nicky and Mike from Acheevit at their office in eastern Beijing to learn more about Acheevit, their experience running a startup in Beijing, and their new deal with mig33…
2. Harpoen | Indonesia
Harpoen is a location-based messaging platform; communication on the basis of where you are, rather than merely who you are. We spoke with one of its founders, John Patrick, to find out more about his startup…
3. Gushcloud | Singapore
Gushcloud is on a roll. The social media marketing platform who pitched and battled at our Startup Arena last month has recently gotten funding and is currently expanding abroad. Its first stop? The US, with a base in San Francisco…
4. 8 Securities | Hong Kong
After 18 months and a recent $8 million in funding, 8 Securities is finally set to launch publicly. The Hong Kong-based financial startup is a sexy financial trading platform which allows users to select their own web apps, ranging from news, Twitter feeds, trading tools, to videos. The dashboard looks pretty. Note that it isn’t another tool just for trading research, but you can also do actual trading on 8 Securities…
5. Volpen | Indonesia
A writing collaboration service from Indonesia recently caught our attention. It’s called Volpen, and it aims to unite casual writers all over the globe to create the next epic literary work, one book at a time…
6. Updaterus | Indonesia
Updaterus.com is a new website that shows the profile pictures or avatars of its female users, along with their social networking links. Men can check out those beautiful girls’ profile pics while catching up on some news at the same time. Visitors to the site will be shown the profile picture of a girl along with an option to ‘heart’ (or ‘like’ on Facebook) the picture; women who have received the most hearts will win prizes in weekly, monthly, and yearly contests…
7. Piktochart | Malaysia
Piktochart is a Malaysia-based startup that focuses on helping customers build infographics fast. Like really fast…
8. Splaype | Singapore
In a nutshell, Splaype is a new desktop application plugged into Skype that helps solve the problem of keeping your kids engaged during video-conferences with long-distance family members. It adds age-appropriate video-conferencing content and games such as reading e-books or playing tic-tac-toe to facilitate communication between family and friends. The folks at Splaype…
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