A Final Roundup of Startups in Asia Singapore

This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here.

This marks the first time our Penn Olson team has been in the same room together

Well, it has been a pretty busy two days for our team [1] here in Singapore over the last few days, covering all the action at Startups in Asia Singapore. For those of you who missed it, here is the entire wrap-up from our two day event, including all the coffee chats as well as the 19 startups who pitched.

Once again, a very big congratulations goes out to Teamie, who walked away with top honors as our Startup Arena winner!

Coffee Chats

• Day 1

  • Coffee Chat: All Things Entrepreneurship in Singapore (Lim Kuo-yi, CEO at Infocomm)
  • Coffee Chat with James Tan: A Singaporean Entrepreneur in China (James Tan, co-founder of 55tuan, managing partner at QuestVC)
  • Discussion Panel: Starting up in Singapore: the Good and the Bad — Nicholas Aaron Khoo (Moderator, CNET), Zaki Mahomed (Game Ventures), Alvin Yap (TMG), Sanjay (Replaid), Bernard Leung (Chalkboard)
  • Coffee chat: Southeast Asia and Japan through a German’s Lens (Dr. Serkan Toto, Independent Consultant, former Japan Correspondent For TechCrunch)
  • Coffee Chat: Social Gaming Startups in Southeast Asia, the DeNA Perspective (Tetsuya Mori, managing director at DeNA Asia and ex-VC at Mitsubishi UFJ Capital)
  • Coffee Chat: Tatsuya Tsutsumi Tells What GREE Ventures is Doing in Southeast Asia (Tatsuo Tsutsumi Director of GREE Ventures Investment Office and Noritaka Kobayashi, head of APAC business development at GREE.)
  • Coffee Chat: Building a Hardware Startup in Singapore (Lux Anantharaman, co-founder and CEO of iTwin)
  • Discussion Panel: Cloud Computing and Entrepreneurship – Serkan Toto is the moderator, talking to Francis Lee (Joyent), Zane Adam (Microsoft Azure), Christopher Bousigues (Nubefy), and Simone Brunozzi (Amazon Web Services) about web services and startups.

• Day 2

  • Running LinkedIn Singapore like a Startup (LinkedIn APAC VP Arvind Rajan)
  • Raising Capital, Generating Revenue, and the God Damn Exits (Steven Goh, the CEO and co-founder of mig33)
  • Coffee Chat: From Singapore, Silicon Valley, and then to China (James Tong, President Asia Ops, Dextrys & Venture Partner, Gobi Partners)
  • Raising Funds From Strategic Partners (Anuj Khanna Sohum, founder and chairman of Affle Group)
  • From Ex-bankers to Entrepreneurs (Sold.sg co-founders Angeline Tham and Tian Qiuyan)

Startup Arena

• Day 1
  • Piktochart Wants to Ignite the Web With Interactive Infographics
  • Mocku.ps, a Slick Tool for Designers
  • Dr. Pad Will Help Doctors Save Your Life
  • Flocations, a Travel Site for Adventurers
  • Japanese Startup Phroni Delivers a Smarter Smartphone Browsing Experience
  • Teamie is a Social Collaboration Platform Targeting the Educational Market
  • Ecommerce Meets Eye-Candy: Japan’s Panoplaza Produces Virtual Storefronts
  • Vibease Lets You Please Your Lover With an App, Because Orgasms are Awesome
• Day 2
  • CloudyRec Has App Developers’ Backs, and Backends, in the Cloud
  • Waffle: Making Public Wifi Social, and Hopefully Easier
  • Social Marketing With Discounts Hits the Gspot
  • SecQMe is Watching You (in a Good Way)
  • Gushcloud Wants Users to Gush On Favorite Things Online
  • Justaple: Social Bookmarking For Reading With Buddies
  • Innova Tech is Going to Stop You From Losing Things
  • Sakebii: A Closed Social Network for Drinking Buddies
  • SpellDial Wants to Make Phone Numbers History
  • Start Now Aims to Make Volunteering a Snap
  • Acheevit: Helping Salespeople Sell