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Willis Wee · · 3 min read

This Week in Asia Tech Start-ups: 13 That Caught Our Eye

As usual, we have quite a few Asian start-ups on our radar this week, from IndiaChinaJapan, Indonesia and Singapore.

For folks who are interested to invest or partner with these start-ups, drop us an email — hello[at]penn-olson[dot]com — anytime. And if you’re a tech start-up founder in Asia hoping to be featured, kindly send us your pitch here.


Here’s this week’s list:


1. Reverie | India:

India-based Reverie Language Technologies kicks Google Translate to the curb and teaches the search giant how translation in India should be done.

2. M-Stars | Indonesia:

Italo started his career as an entrepreneur in 1998. After the dot-com bubble, he started his own VoIP Service provider startup in Singapore and subsequently moved on to mobile-related businesses in 2006. That’s when he joined M-Stars as CCO.

3. Heckyl | India:

Heckyl, an Indian-based start-up, helps to make financial information and fact-finding about a stock, FOREX or commodity really simple.

4. TouchTen | Indonesia:

Remember Hachiko? The mobile game app that was mentioned by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt in a talk at Bali, Indonesia last month? IdeoSource has invested in the start-ups.

5. elLoka | India:

It’s small and it runs on solar power. It’s light, requires little maintenance and it runs on a license-free operating system, HomeOS. And it can bring smiles to many kids living in rural areas.

6. TrueCaller | India:



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Willis Wee

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