Sunday, 23 November 2014

33 startups in Asia that caught our eye

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Here’s our newest round-up of the featured startups on our site this week. If you have startup tips or story suggestions, feel free to email us or tell us about your startup on this form. Any juicy tech news tips go here. Enjoy this week’s list!


1. Kudo | Indonesia


Kudo offers consumers a new way to shop online through physical point-of-sale kiosks in public places around Jakarta. Essentially, Kudo is a hardware startup with an online component – the team builds the machines, but also curates the content within the collective marketplace.


2. ReShop.ph | Philippines


ReShop.ph, which went live on November 15, allows users to give away or sell unwanted items to people who have better use for them. The platform has a system for rating users’ integrity where users earn “green points” for every interaction on the platform and when they get others to sign up. They may use their accumulated points to redeem rewards from ReShop.ph’s partners, including businesses and individuals.


3. YouthsToday | Malaysia


YouthsToday is an online platform for projects spearheaded by youths to help young people stay away from bad company. The startup works with several government agencies and multinational corporations who target the younger crowd – such as Maybank, AirAsia, and Sony – to get their support for youth-run projects in the areas of entrepreneurship, technology, and the creative arts.


4. Orori | Indonesia


Indonesian jewelry ecommerce site Orori not only sells products such as gold, diamonds, and other jewelry. It also offers investments products like gold bars. Services also include providing a common space for users to trade second-hand jewelry, scrap gold for refinement, or simply pawn precious gems for cash.


5. Vgulp | India


Vgulp wants to help users find awesome bars and liquor stores in Bangalore, and save some dough with the deals and discounts offered to them. Currently, the startup has partnerships with over 200 bars in Bangalore, and helps over 300 customers a day, on average, bag good alcohol deals.


6. Gogovan | Hong Kong


Hong Kong smart logistics startup Gogovan has been called “Uber for logistics”; its app makes it easy for people or companies that need vans to book them on the fly. The company recently grabbed a $10 million investment from Renren for China expansion.


7. Sleepace | China


Shenzhen-based startup Sleepace developed RestOn, a sleep tracker placed under the user’s bed sheets to better quantify his or her sleep patterns. Vaguely resembling a safety belt on a commercial jet, it stretches horizontally across the bed roughly where the user’s chest lies. From there, it tracks heart rate, breathing, and movement.


8. Pikavia | Indonesia


Indonesia-based Pikavia is an online marketplace for travel tours in the region. Soft launched in October, Pikavia currently has 386 tour packages – domestic and international – from 227 tour agents. The startup does not take any commission out of any tours sold on the site.


9. GoPitch | Australia


Melbourne-based GoPitch is an online platform where startups can upload their 35-second pitch, receiving feedback and exposure at the same time. The platform has received over 50 pitches so far since launching in September, and attracted close to 20,000 unique visitors in total.


10. BitSpark | Hong Kong


Hong Kong-based Bitspark wants to skip the hassle and let users send remittances with zero required knowledge of bitcoin. The startup has just announced the first end-to-end cash remittances using bitcoin between Hong Kong and the Philippines. There’s no need for a bitcoin wallet, and the cost is less than one percent commission.


11. eFishery | Indonesia


Bandung-based eFishery is a smart feeding system for commercial aquaculture that can feed fish automatically, sense the fish’s appetite. The company has built its own hardware and software, including sensors to monitor the water motion of a pond. If sensors detect certain motions, the feeders can determine that fish are agitated and hungry, and then release food. The app lets farmers see when this is happening in real-time on their phone, and further control the system should they feel the need. The startup has just won a competition called Get in The Ring, which promises grand winners investment of up to US$1.2 million.


12. ShareOn | South Korea


Shareon is a free app from South Korea that wants to make file transfers less of a headache. It enables users to zaps photos, videos, and music files between devices. It requires a free sign-up, but after that it’s fairly simple – and a lot easier than most home networking set-ups involving routers, bridges, and goodness knows what. The app works on both Android and iOS.


13. Office de Yasai | Japan


Veggie delivery service Office de Yasai, founded by Tokyo-based Kompeito in April this year, allows even the most time-strapped desk jockey to get to enjoy a healthy snack for a reasonable price. This week, the startup announced that it has received a US$424,000 investment from ubiquitous mayonnaise producer Kewpie.


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