startup arena jakarta 2013

Garuda Robotics wins Startup Arena Jakarta 2013 with coffee-delivering drones

Garuda Robotics wins Startup Arena Jakarta 2013 with coffee-delivering drones

It has been an exciting two days over here at Tech in Asia, as we saw eight startups take to the stage to battle at the Startup Arena Jakarta 2013
Vanessa Tan · · 2 min read
Project Shoe wants to walk from East to West with customized, user-designed shoes

Project Shoe wants to walk from East to West with customized, user-designed shoes

Asian startup Project Shoe took the stage today at Startup Asia Jakarta 2013 to introduce its online service for designing and buying personally-customized shoes to a panel of investors. Founder Andi Anissa
Phoebe Magdirila · · 3 min read
Zap lets consumers get discounts and connects merchants with more customers

Zap lets consumers get discounts and connects merchants with more customers

Philippine startup Zap is a shopping loyalty program with a rewards system. This afternoon, the team pitched at our Startup Arena, hoping to catch the eye of our panel of judges. Zap lets
Phoebe Magdirila · · 2 min read
With Garuda Robotics, drones aren’t killing machines – they’re killer apps

With Garuda Robotics, drones aren’t killing machines – they’re killer apps

Popular culture and news media have inculcated the masses with the image of drones as weapons of war. Depending on who you ask, they’re either tools against harmful terrorist elements
Terence Lee · · 5 min read

Love Out Loud Asia is an online dating app that takes couples offline

It’s lovely to see our past Startup Arena finalists scale to greater heights and return to our competition. Six months from their first appearance, the boys from Triibe are back
Vanessa Tan · · 4 min read

Bio3D wants to print body parts and make prescription drugs cheaper and better

Mingwei Fan, co-founder of Bio3D Technologies, took the stage to pitch at this year’s Startup Arena competition. The startup is creating a bio 3D printer that Fan believes could drastically
Terence Lee · · 4 min read

SmartBike is making a device that allows users to track where their motorbikes are with a SIM card

SmartBike just pitched on stage today at Startup Asia’s Startup Arena. It’s a device that allows you to track and prevent theft of a motorbike.
Anh-Minh Do · · 2 min read

Can Bitcoin solve Southeast Asia’s electronic payment problems? Artabit says yes

The team from Artabit, a US and Indonesia based bitcoin startup, takes the stage at Startup Arena Jakarta 2013 today to discuss their plans to improve Southeast Asia’s electronic payment problems using
Paul Bischoff · · 3 min read

Keynote: The State of Indonesia’s mobile landscape (LIVE BLOG)

Opera is one of the most popular mobile browsers in Indonesi,a experiencing a 189 percent growth of Opera Mini users on all smartphone platforms in Indonesia from May 2012 to
Josh Horwitz · · 2 min read

Japanese video-editing app Moso is now gone, but Piktochart and Payroll Hero are thriving [Startup Asia Preview]

This article is part of our coverage of 2012 Startup Arena participants. We’ve been tracking their progress since they pitched at last year’s event, and here’s where they stand now.
Dewi Yuliani · · 2 min read