Sunday, December 9, 2012

14 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye

1. Venuemob | Australia

Venuemob is a Melbourne-based startup that provides a platform to search for a place to hold events. It aims to gradually add more features for both venue owners and those searching for venues.

2. Papa | China

China’s Papa brings in the voice messaging element of hit apps like WeChat and Whatsapp, allowing people to add a vocal explainer to their photos. But will this kind of ‘Instagram with voice’ app catch on?

3. Vida | China

Speaking of attaching a voice message to your photos, one established photo-sharing startup exhibited some quick thinking in adding this feature to its own app. Chinese startups sure do move quickly.

4. CliqueFund | Singapore

Singapore-based Cliquefund is a crowdfunding startup that hopes to make it easier for both non-profit and for-profit companies to get their businesses rolling.

5. WangJiu | China

WangJiu is a brand-new entrant to China’s luxury e-commerce segment, where it focuses on premium wines.

6. WineNice | China

In yet more news involving a China-based, wine-oriented e-commerce site, WineNice confirmed $15.8 million in series B funding that it’ll use to expand both its online and fledgling offline operations.

7. Soccer Ticker | Indonesia

Inspira Solusi is the Indonesian startup behind this app, which emerged as the grand champion at the recent Blackberry JamHack Asia content. The upcoming BB10 app provides in-depth, play-by-play live updates on certain soccer matches.

8. The Stakeholder Company | Singapore

The Stakeholder Company, is a data-loving, influence-mapping solution for large corporations to visualize their corporate or market structure – or that of their rivals.

9. TuJia | China

China’s Tujia offers a hotel-like online booking system for vacant and fully-furnished holiday homes. In a recent partnership with American site HomeAway, Tujia now offers even more location choices for holiday homes, such as Australia and western Europe, as compared to having only China-based listings previously.

10. Oompr | Singapore

This startup, Oompr, has the ambitious goal of replacing forum listing, buying, and selling – plus it wants to make the experience easier and more social.

11. EatAds | Singapore

Singapore-based EatAds is an online marketplace for the buying and selling of offline/outdoor advertising space in Asia and Europe.

12. Infinite Sky | Indonesia

Indonesian game developer Touchten’s flagship game, Infinite Sky, which has garnered more than one million downloads and 200,000 daily active users, is going to be adapted for the Chinese and Japanese markets.

13. Setech Viet | Vietnam

We like hardware startups but don’t find too many of them around. This one, Ho Chi Minh-based Setech Viet, is also aiming to solve a very real problem that plagues the nation’s many, many motorobike riders every day.

14. I-Freek | Japan

Japanese mobile internet company I-Freek announced on Friday that it has released Photodeco+ for Android, a premium version of its regular Photodeco camera app that has already seen over 350,000 downloads on Google Play.

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