Another really long list of startups this week from all across the region. Remember, for startup tips and story 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. Qlubbr | Singapore
Singapore’s Qlubbr is a brand new social nightlife app that focuses on gigs, festivals, and clubs. It helps people discover nightlife events in Singapore, and this startup has plans to expand in the region.
2. Lavandera | Philippines
Lavandera aims to streamline the laundry service industry in the Philippines and is designed to be used by both owners and customers of laundromats.
3. LongPlay | Singapore
LongPlay is a very fun iPhone app that allows your friends to listen to your music. It originally started as a web service before launching its shiny new mobile app.
4. Coconuts | Thailand
Founded by journalist and entrepreneur Byron Perry in September 2011, Coconuts Media is a local review and news media company that now covers news in Bangkok and Manila – with a Singapore site scheduled to launch soon. The startup has also recently received funding from angel investors in Silicon Valley
5. FunSpot | Singapore
FunSpot is a Singapore-based mobile social gaming company that recently announced a partnership with Indonesia’s largest telco, Telkomsel, to bring FunSpot’s services into neighboring Indonesia.
6. Geeky.vn | Vietnam
Geeky.vn is an interesting startup that ranks developers after putting them through a series of tests. It’s to help companies identify talented developers to recruit.
7. Wantedly | Japan
Wantedly is a Japan-based social recruiting site that was built on the belief that good hires usually happen through social recommendations. Read the startup founding story here.
8. KimZua | Singapore
Instead of heading to brick-and-mortar shops to purchase paper gifts and joss sticks for departed loved ones, Singaporeans now have the alternative to purchase them online at KimZua. Yes, it’s an e-commerce site dedicated to gifts for dead friends.
9. Pedala Bike Messengers | Philippines
Pedala Bike Messengers is a bicycle courier service in Manila founded and born out of the gas crisis in 2008 which aims to help companies save money and beat the traffic. It’s also a method to reduce the carbon footprint of companies.
10. Batdongsan | Vietnam
Launched in 2008, Batdongsan is one of Vietnam’s top real estate listings sites which has shown impressive growth statistics.
11. Maskr | Singapore
Maskr is a privacy service that allows you to create an unlimited number of free, anonymous aliases that can be tied to a single email address that you own.
12. Eventifier | India
Eventifier archives your events by collecting posts using the events’ official hashtags across major social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. The startup has recently concluded a financing round for an undisclosed sum from KAE Capital and Chennai-based incubator The Startup Centre.
13. ImpulseFlyer | Singapore
ImpulseFlyer is a Singapore members-only online luxury travel site. It has just launched an iOS app, but has no plans to develop one for the Android platform as they believe that most of its members are iPhone users.
14. BrightPod | India
Mumbai-based startup Synage Software is taking on the world’s top project management web apps – things like Basecamp and Trello – with its minimalist and good-looking BrightPod. This will launch to the public next week, but TechinAsia readers can get early access right now.
15. Kuaidi Dache | China
Chinese startup Kuaidi Dache (meaning “fast taxis”) is a taxi-finding app that has flagged down seed funding this week. It currently operates in Shanghai and nearby Hangzhou.
16. CocCoc | Vietnam
CocCoc is a Russian-financed Vietnamese search engine that plans on pumping another $100 million into its business in the next decade to battle it out with Google.
17. Soccer Ticker | Indonesia
Soccer Ticker is a mobile application for BB10 that provides users with live soccer updates and scores and supports major European leagues. This application was also the overall winner of the Blackberry JamHack Asia competition.
18. VietnamWorks | Vietnam
VietnamWorks, Vietnam’s biggest recruitment firm, announced the other day that it has been acquired by En-Japan, one of Japan’s top online HR firms.
19. Iwannabuy | China
Iwannabuy is an e-commerce startup from China that caters to expats living in China. Uniquely, it supports payments in Bitcoin.
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