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Willis Wee · · 3 min read

8 Asian Startups That Caught Our Eye This Week

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In the last seven days, we have covered a couple of startups on Tech in Asia, specifically from Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, China, India, 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 the bridge.

And if you’re a tech startup based in Asia hoping to get featured, please send us your pitch here.


1. Crucco | China


Combining e-commerce with building your own fashion brand is one massive task – and so it’s perhaps with quite some relief that the Chinese B2C clothing site Crucco is celebrating its first anniversary online today. Crucco.com sells only its own-brand clothes, shoes, and some household goods. Its approach is quite minimalist and…


2. SalingSilang | Indonesia


Great entrepreneurs are everywhere in Asia. I recently met one who I would say is addicted to entrepreneurship. He is Didi Nugrahadi, an Indonesian serial entrepreneur who founded Detik.com (acquired by Para Group in 2011), Inmark communications, Teladan primary school, and now SalingSilang.com Didi started out as a…


3. Zomato | India


Zomato announced a somewhat surprising (but logical) move by announcing that it is expanding into print. It will publish the ‘Citibank Zomato Restaurant Guide 2012’ in four Indian cities: Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Pune. According …


4. LiiHo | Taiwan


A Taiwanese-made messaging app looks set to cash in on the craze for doodling that was stirred up by the OMGpop/Zynga game Draw Something. The app, LiiHo Handwriting Messenger, is free and out now for iPad, and has an English and Chinese interface. But anyone in the world can use it in any language since it’s all about chatting with your friends using handwriting, drawing, and even scribbling on photos. Actually, the LiiHo app predates Draw Something by a whole six months…


5. BingDian | China


BingDian claims to help hotels sell more directly to consumers and thereby build up better customer loyalty than on conventional e-commerce platforms…









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Willis Wee

Founder at Tech in Asia. Aspires to build a company and product that people love.