We hope you’re loving our new site makeover! As always, here’s our weekly list featuring a bunch of hot startups from all over Asia. For tips and stories suggestions, feel free to email us. Alternatively, you can send tips here and/or tell us about your startup here. Enjoy this week’s list:
1. Tribehired | Singapore
Tribehired is a social recruitment startup based in Singapore, and taps into its users’ Facebook connections to spread job recommendations. The startup wrapped up a round of funding led by TNF Ventures this week.
2. Fourleaf | Thailand
Thai startup Fourleaf helps hotels to create beautiful looking menus on that can be given to guests on iPads. So, instead of browsing through the usual paper menu, Fourleaf conveniently digitizes menu content and order processes on the device.
3. Adzcentral | Singapore
Founded in 2009, Singaporean startup AdzCentral coins its service as “scientific media buying”. It provides advertisers with a one-stop shop to buy ad spots in real-time, using techniques such as visitor profiling, targeting, optimization and differential bidding.
4. Kreditmart | Indonesia
Started in 2008, Kreditmart sells a range of large, business-oriented goods, from heavy machines to electronics, and offers payment in installments to consumers even if they do not own any credit cards.
5. CheckInTonight | Cambodia
Founded in late 2012, CheckInTonight is a Cambodia-made mobile app that helps users find hotels and book them quickly and cheaply on the very day you need a place to rest your head.
6. Not A Basement Studio | Vietnam
Not A Basement Studio is an mobile app developer startup based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It has recently released a brand new app, KeepShot, on the US app store. Do also check out our previous interview with them here.
7. Scoop | Indonesia
Scoop is an Indonesian e-reader startup and book webstore that announced this week a range of major partnerships with publishers across India, Singapore, and the Philippines. Those will bring a lot more magazines into the Scoop store.
8. Giao Hang Nhanh | Vietnam
Vietnam’s Giao Hang Nhanh (GHN), which means “Fast Delivery”, is an e-commerce delivery and logistics business, aiming to solve the payments and deliveries issues in Vietnam’s growing online shopping industry. Read our exclusive interview the the founder.
9. OfferChat | Philippines
Founded in August 2012, Philippines’ OfferChat is a live chat software that is available for use at absolutely no cost for users. So, how do they monetize? Read our story to find out!
10. Stilomo | Indonesia
Stilomo, one of the first graduates from the Jakarta Founders Institute, is a mobile app that allows users to get promotions/deals by sharing them to social media accounts. It launched its mobile site for daily deals last month and now also lists current deals from nearby venues and companies like malls and banks.
11. TradeHero | Singapore
TradeHero is a mobile app for trading virtual money based on real-world stock market data. We checked out the startup’s growth statistics since its launch in late 2012.
12. KT Care | Myanmmar
The Myanmar-based NGO is fighting to improve education in Myanmar through increasing computer and internet literacy in the region. KT Care is currently running a crowdfunding campaign (you can donate here) that, if successful, will allow it to open a print shop where all proceeds will be funneled directly into computer and IT training classes that will be provided at minimal cost to students.
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Events
It’s just four days until we return with TechinAsia’s Startup Asia Singapore 2013 Conference. Here’s the almost-complete compilation of all the previews of the awesome speakers that will be onstage:
- Keewi’s Story and and Some Tips on How To Run a Startup in Vietnam
- The PropertyGuru Story
- Nuffnang Founders’ Story and Their Lessons Learned
- Airbnb’s Voyage Into Asia
- Rakuten Branches Out to Asia (Startup Asia Preview)
- Why Revenue Matters: The Ookbee Story (Startup Asia Preview)
- Startup Management: Prioritizing and Scaling (Startup Asia Preview)
- What Rakuten Taught Me After We Got Acquired (Startup Asia Preview)
- Twitter Is Taking Southeast Asia Much More Seriously (Startup Asia Preview)
- KakaoTalk: From Startup to a Giant Mobile Platform (Startup Asia Preview)
- How E-Commerce King Taobao Is Expanding Out of China (Startup Asia Preview)
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