As usual, we have quite a few Asian tech start-ups on our radar this week, from China, India, Japan, and Hong Kong. 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.
And if you’re a tech start-up founder in Asia hoping to be featured, kindly send us your pitch here.
1. Brandmile | India
Luxury goods tend to be tough for many wallets to handle. But Brandmile, an e-commerce start-up in India, found a way to make luxury goods (more) affordable by buying up last season’s inventory from luxury brands and selling it online to its consumers. Even with a marked up price, users can still enjoy up to 70 percent discounts off of the original prices. The e-commerce site, or the “shopping club” as it calls itself, is exclusive and private.
2. Zaizher | China
Zaizher is a new but neat looking professional mobile app for China. It pulls data from your Sina Weibo account and turns it into a professional looking digital business card. As Sina Weibo is huge in China, Zaizher is the perfect app for folks in tech circles to exchange business cards digitally. After exchanging cards users can follow, message, and build a list of business contacts within their mobile phone. Robert Hsiung, the founder of Zaizher, said that the app has generated over 40,000 downloads and 50 percent of them are active …
3. 88tc88 | China
Thomas Reemer is the co-founder and CEO of 88tc88, a start-up which helps artists and record labels sell their music legally in China. Reemer told us that there are basically three steps that 88tc88 takes to bring western music over to China: 1) Translate the music, 2) Gain approval from the ministry of culture, 3) Distribute the music with telcos in China, particularly, China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom. He said that in China, only 2.5 percent of western songs are sold legally in China and many western folks have the …
4. Unitedstyles | China
The unique fashion e-commerce site Unitedstyles might not have won the TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing ‘Start-up Battlefield’ prize yesterday, but we found its fashion design and manufacturing service the most visually impressive and captivating of the six finalists (see who won here). And so we felt it’s worth an overview. As a bonus, it’s based in Shanghai, despite having overseas (Dutch) founders. What makes Unitedstyles spectacular is that it allows users to design the entire outfit, preview it with 3D online modeling, share your designs socially, and then finally order the production …
5. Loiloscope | Japan
Some of you may recall back in September when we previewed Loiloscope 2, a major update of Loilo Inc.’s video editing software. We’ve finally received word this week that the new version has been announced. As we mentioned in our previous report, Loiloscope is a somewhat unconventional, but pretty intuitive video editing software. One of its main features is that it relies on your computer’s GPU rather than its CPU for video processing. According to Loilo, among the new features included with this upgrade are: a guide feature which walks new users …
6. TalkBox | Hong Kong
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