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He sold nail polish on push carts. Now he’s building the ultimate nail art app for women.

He sold nail polish on push carts. Now he’s building the ultimate nail art app for women.

Daryl Chew’s startup, Nail Deck, lets women find, try, and buy nail polish within the app. Think of it as a Pinterest and marketplace for cosmetics.
Terence Lee · · 7 min read
Yes, this reality TV show about apprentice VCs in Singapore is a real thing

Yes, this reality TV show about apprentice VCs in Singapore is a real thing

Believe it. This YouTube program is being developed by Singapore’s Infocomm Investments. Join as a contestant if you want to get a taste of VC life.
Terence Lee · · 2 min read
Taamkru plans to fix Thailand’s ‘disgracefully bad’ education system, raises seed money

Taamkru plans to fix Thailand’s ‘disgracefully bad’ education system, raises seed money

It makes learning fun for preschoolers through gamified web and mobile apps, hoping that they will absorb fundamentals better.
Terence Lee · · 5 min read
Digify, a Snapchat for documents, is an app Quentin Tarantino would love

Digify, a Snapchat for documents, is an app Quentin Tarantino would love

Digify aims to make file sharing secure by storing documents only in the cloud and warning users if a screen capture was made while viewing the file.
Terence Lee · · 6 min read

Millions have died from medical errors. This Singapore startup has raised US$470k to fix this

440,000 people die from preventable medical errors yearly in America. I3 Precision wants to change that.
Daniel Tay · · 2 min read

P2P car rental site iCarsClub opens doors in Beijing, trust issues remain

The online car rental space in Beijing just got a little bit more heated as Singapore-based startup iCarsClub, which operates a peer-to-peer car rental service, launches in China’s capital city.
Terence Lee · · 2 min read

Protag Elite prevents you from losing your stuff for 10 years

How does it feel when you’re about to board that bus and you realize you forgot your wallet? Or how does it feel when you lose your precious phone that
Vanessa Tan · · 3 min read

Inside Red Dot Ventures’ USD 464k Bird’s Nest cosmetics brand

Venture capital investing and Bird’s Nest rarely mix. One belongs to the world of cutting-edge technology, the other is a traditional 400-year-old Chinese delicacy. Which makes this deal, a SGD
Terence Lee · · 3 min read

Singapore’s Protag to launch Indiegogo campaign for anti-loss device

Losing a valuable item can be a traumatic event, which is why Singapore startup Innova Technologies has developed the Protag Elite, a hardware-software combo system that alerts you when you’re
Terence Lee · · 2 min read

Red Dot Ventures leads USD 661K round in mobile games company Daylight Studios

Update – November 29, 11.06am – We have recently reviewed Daylight Studios’ newly launched games, Conquest Age and Spirit Horizon at our sister site, Gamesinasia.com. Red Dot Ventures announced today
Terence Lee · · 2 min read