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. eKincare | India
eKincare is a health monitor which can store all your medical information in one place, monitor it, and give timely alerts. It is free for users with no limits on the data stored. The startup recently raised seed funding from Hyderabad-based Bitchemy Ventures and Adroitent.
2. Boxful | Hong Kong
Boxful hopes to introduce a new model for warehouse despository that gives city residents a little more space. Upon request through Boxful’s web or mobile apps, the company delivers weather-proof, stackable boxes to customers looking to pack up their stuff. Boxful team members then drive the boxes to a warehouse facility. The startup received US$1.5 million in funding for the venture from undisclosed angel investors.
3. VMFive | Taiwan
Etablished in May 2014, VMFive is looking to ease the world’s app store woes. It’s flagship product, AdPlay, lets people demo an app before downloading it to their phones.
4. Horsepower | Philippines
Horsepower provides affordable health insurance packages for the self-employed and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Aside from health insurance, it also offers other services such as online payments to government social security and pension funds, human resources and financing tools (accounting and time-tracking systems), and even advice on legal and tax issues.
5. Sensbeat| Hong Kong
Launched in 2014, Sensbeat is an app designed to help people share their moods, with the help of music. Users can upload photos and pair them with any song that’s licensed in iTunes. Friends can then flip through posts that peers in their network have shared. The company secured an additional US$500,000 in funding from HeungKong Group, bringing its total funding to date to US$1 million.
6. Tapcibo | India
Bangalore-based startup TapCibo is promising to deliver fresh, tasty, and affordable ‘cibo’ – which means ‘food’ in Italian – in three taps on your Android mobile screen. The startup has their own chefs and reliable partners who prepare fresh and healthy food every day.
7. Qork | Israel
Qork aims to meld the best of Facebook groups, Twitter, Yik Yak, and Reddit to create a social media app that’s local to wherever a user is based. It aims to create, he explains, “a productive community of local sharers.” They can post text and photos related to anything in their area, such as events, stores, or news.
8. CliponYu | Indonesia
CliponYu is a new portal allowing people to interact with video DJs in public and private, and is mix between an online radio/video podcast site and a social network. There’s also an attached merchandise store.
9. AppVirality | India
Growth hacker for mobile apps AppVirality, one of Tech in Asia’s Startup Arena finalists at Startup Asia Singapore 2014, has raised seed funding from prominent investors, including Google India managing director Rajan Anandan.
The Hyderabad-based startup offers a plug-and-play white-labelled toolkit for mobile app developers to identify and implement growth techniques without having to code. The aim is to increase app downloads and user engagement through organic channels.
10. Unified Inbox | Singapore
Communication-as-a-service platform Unified Inbox announced this week the launch of its first product in the form of social media management tool Outbox Pro. Not unlike Buffer and Hootsuite, this Chrome browser extension allows users to schedule and publish web content on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
11. Aixuedai | China
Aixuedai allows college students to purchase items like phones, tablets, laptops, and cameras using monthly installment plans. Customers need only need two photo IDs, one of them a student ID, to apply for a loan. They just find the item they want on an ecommerce site, such as JD or Tmall, and paste the URL into the application. The company has just completed a series A round of financing.
12. Livehouse.in | Taiwan
Livehouse.in is very similar to Twitch, where users can create channels and record themselves doing whatever they please, in an effort to reach an audience. Viewers can also follow channels and communicate with the broadcasters through a chat box that sits next to the media player. The company has announced it closed a US$1.3 million round of funding.
13. KnewOne | China
Shenzhen-based startup KnewOne might make you rethink everything you thought you knew about how ecommerce is supposed to work. It is a community for gadget lovers first and an ecommerce site second. Users can write reviews, post photos, share to social media, and leave comments. They can follow other users with similar tastes in gadgets as their own. And in a country where the major ecommerce sites are inundated with fake reviews, KnewOne’s approach is refreshingly grassroots and genuine.
14. Dicoding | Indonesia
Dicoding is an online community aiming to be the number one hub for developers in Indonesia. It has a platform that aims to connect the needs of the Indonesian tech market with the collective expertise of the nation’s developers. It also provides a supportive community environment in which developers can sharpen their skills.
15. Gift Card Indonesia | Indonesia
Launched in 2012, Indonesian startup Gift Card Indonesia has developed two products. The first is Fokado, which offers gifts in the form of experiences such as dining and spa treatments. Second is the TaDa! card, a multi-purpose gift card which can be used at over 40 different merchants and 14 charity institutions. The startup revealed a series A investment led by US-based Sovereign’s Capital.
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We’re now gearing up for our 9th edition, Startup Asia Singapore, to be held in May 2015. For the first time ever, we will be featuring about 400 startups at the Boostrap Alley on both days, and startup founders are able to exhibit for free!
Furthermore, we will be having a 10-city search in Asia this coming March, for the best startups to showcase at Startup Asia Singapore. Winners of each city’s pitch will stand a chance to get free flights and accommodation, startup passes, booths to Startup Asia Singapore, and priority consideration to be one of the 10 finalists at the Arena finale during the conference itself!
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