Sunday, June 10, 2012

19 Asian Startups That Caught Our Eye This Week


1. Wujudkan | Indonesia


Wujudkan is a startup that focuses on crowdfunding for Indonesia’s creative industry. It is highly talked about at Startup Asia Jakarta too, courtesy of Andy Zain.

2. Croak.It | India


Croak.it is a startup that takes on a more “open” approach towards voice messaging. It allows users of the internet — web and mobile — to push and speak on any webpages.

3. Ohdio | Indonesia


East Ventures invested in Ohdio this week, an Indonesian startup that promises to provide users with access to seamless streaming music. The service hasn’t launched but I’m sure a lot of folks are looking forward to it.

4. Harpoen | Indonesia


Picture this: Leaving digital messages at places you have physically visited before, telling stories, and engaging in future conversations with people who would eventually visit them. Harpoen does just that.

5. Grepsr | Nepal


Grepsr provides extraction and web crawling service. This concept is awesome, as it enables any individual or business to automate data collection, regardless of their skill level.

6. Gobann | Indonesia


Finding work can be a big problem in Indonesia. Gobann aims to solves that all — “micro-employement” that is.

7. Payroll Hero


Ghost employees, time stealers, time wasters, and buddy punchers — all are pain to the employer’s ass. Payroll Hero aims to reduce these pains, with a pretty neat solution.

8. BibbyCam | Indonesia


BibbyCam is what I call an Instagram on BlackBerry, an app built by husband and wife team – Grace Tahir and Ronald Komalaputra.

9. SupportBee | India


Providing customer support can involve using some ugly and awkward apps and interfaces, and so India-based SupportBee proposes to make it a smoother process whereby communicating with customers becomes friendlier and easier.

11. Promoote | Indonesia


Promoote is a service marketplace for the Indonesian market. it’s a

12. Moso | Japan


Moso is a simple-to-use video editing product with over 200,000 downloads so far. It is also the only Japanese startup competing at Startup Arena in Jakarta but managed to clinch top spot and walk away with US$10,000. Congrats!

13. Onigi | Indonesia


Onigi is a turnkey solution for businesses looking to sell online and tap into the Facebook audience.

14. Loan Garage | Singapore


Loan Garage allows users to search, compare, and apply for legal lenders — all in one app.

15. PinjamBuku | Indonesia


“We build friendships through books,” says PinjamBuku’s co-founder in the startup’s pitch. And so the emphasis is on the social elements in the book lending and borrowing website.

16. PerkStash | Singapore


PerkStash is a service that helps merchants retain customers and customers earn loyalty rewards — all by using just their emails.

17. Tripid | Philippines


Jakarta’s traffic is certainly quite miserable. Tripid tries to help resolve this by creating a “safe, community driven route-sharing platform” that matches commuters and drivers on the web and on mobile.

18. WakuWakuw | Indonesia


WakuWakuw wants to be a platform and useful social website for any kind of group – from a local karate club to a hobbyist meet-up – that can help them organize, promote themselves, and perhaps even raise funds. A Meetup.com for Indonesia, that is.

19. SquareCrumbs | Singapore


SquareCrubs is a mobile HTML 5 app which facilitates outdoor learning between teachers and their students.

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