Asia’s Startups
News from 06/2016
- Chosen as Vietnam’s best startup, MimosaTEK to join Seedstars Summit
- A look at FORBES Philippines’ list of top tech startups
- Mobile wallet provider Cellum takes mcommerce to Myanmar
- Lithan Technopreneur Accelerator to invest $3m in Myanmar startups
- Silicon Valley and fintech giants head to Sydney in regional tech power play
- Korea’s K-Startup Grand Challenge: applications close June 14
- Australia’s Seatfrog: snag last-minute upgrades on your next flight
- …lack of risk capital for tech startups in Myanmar…
- Why Bitcoin is China’s latest craze
- A quick look at 30+ startups providing alternative data for investors
- Limeroad, Indian online fashion retailer, enters menswear market
- SolarPVExchange crowdfunds pioneer project, sets solar energy as asset class
- A look at the rise of Chinese investors in US tech companies
- Life.SREDA opens ‘Banking on Blockchain’ fund, targets corpus of over $100m
- Melbourne rental broker startup finds opportunity in ‘poorly serviced’ industry
- Indonesia’s Kresna acquires two tech startups
- Taiwan’s HelloWings, low-cost airline ticket startup, lands seed funding
- Bangalore opens India’s first startup hostel
- Sydney’s HowAboutEat uses FB Messenger for office food delivery
- Trov partners with Suncorp Group for on-demand insurance in Australia
- Singapore’s NUS and Microsoft launch program to boost data science
- Singapore’s ExpertDB, ‘Uber for consulting’ lands $500k
- Startup fair set for Ho Chi Minh City later in 2016
- A brief look at Swiss Re’s broad list of emerging risks
- Square Invoices launches in Australia
- A look at 14 of Japan’s startups at Infinity Ventures Summit
- Fremantle startup Life Cykel: gourmet mushrooms from coffee waste
- World’s first driverless city may be in Wuhu, China
- Women to Watch in Asia’s Media and Marketing: Still time to enter/nominate
- Australian Technology Competition open for entries
- A look at Carhood’s success, post-Shark Tank
- HK’s Nest launches Metta platform for entrepreneurs, startups, brands
- A market map of insurance startups
- Santander UK unit makes Blockchain payments available to staff
- Microsoft Indonesia to partner local VCs for funding 20 startups annually
- Alibaba now 3rd largest money market fund in the world
- Who uses which social sites in Japan?
- Vivo Capital raises $100m for new Sino-healthcare VC fund
- Sydney fintech hub Stone and Chalk set to expand to Melbourne
- Ascendas-Singbridge partner NUS Enterprise to launch incubator
- CSIRO’s Data61 enters China tele-medicine market with Coivu
- Byron Bay: The case for investing in innovation in regional Australia
- Australia’s Uno takes home mortgage finance to next platform
- RiverPitch: 6 startups pitch to Australia’s biggest investors
- How Jaarvis Accelerator aims to shape India’s startup ecosystem
- 2016 DBS Accelerator: applications open to June 5th
- A look at 3 winners from Alpha Startups Vietnam Batch 1
- Loop cowork platform wants to get Asia’s freelancers into the right spaces
- Hong Kong signs MOU with Austria to grow startup ecosystem
- 4 startups launching apps in Indonesia this week
- The difference between angels and seed VCs
- How FindFace, facial recognition app, could end anonymity
- Projected internet use growth from 2014 out to 2020 in Asia-Pacific
- Facebook users yet to take to Reactions
- Bangladesh-based payment startup CloudWell raises $2m
- Unicorns losing their horns? Maybe in US but not in Asia
- Aus startups to pitch at Beijing O’seas Talent Entrepreneurship Conference
- Infographic: 72 startups changing bricks-and-mortar retail experience
- Australia’s 1st Indigenous Startup Weekend set for July
- Obama at Dreamplex: ‘America is taking notice of Vietnam startups’
- HK: Social-Tech Incubation and Youth Entrepreneurship Programme launched
- Deloitte on the hype around fintech industry
- China’s Weidai fintech startup lands $153m
- Open Data Lab Jakarta to help cities use data in decision-making
- Google’s Project Ara modular phone set to launch next year
- SigFig lands banking partners for tech-enhanced advisory services
- Malaysia’s bumbung, the country’s first tech-based real estate company
- Finland’s adtech startup Kiosked to invest up to $10m in Asia push
- Logistics startup OpenPort lands funds to push into Indonesia
- Comarch pioneers use of virtual reality in wealth management
- Ping An becomes first Chinese member of R3 blockchain consortium
- Gold Coast startup sees IoT potential in wireless mesh network
- Singapore’s soCash wants to convert every minimart into an ATM
- Australia: Silicon Dragon Forum to explore Sydney as fintech hub
- Study: SEA’s internet economy to touch $200b inside 10 years
- A look at 10 startups in Melbourne Accelerator Program
- Unilever talks about taking its startup program Foundry to Asia
- President Obama in discussion at Vietnam entrepreneurship event
- Australia: Blackbird Ventures launches program to help tech startups recruit
- Startup develops non-permanent tattoo ink, seeks investors
- Singapore startup SiS lands US$1.45m to boost maritime IoT
- BlockFin Asia 2016, Ho Chi Minh City: June 15 and 16
- Malaysian fintech startup Jirnexu raise US$3M
- Indonesian agritech LimaKilo lands funding from East Ventures
- Vietnam’s Hoozing aims for a solution to rental market woes
- President Obama visits Dreamplex, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
- Next Generation Lending Summit Asia: July in Singapore
- Oracle, Wharton fintech report: Millenials’ banking habits and preferences
- A look at 10 early-stage healthy beverage startups
- Sydney’s Chronic Pain Australia hackathon: 60 people, 6 teams
- Singapore uses data analytics to cater libraries to the elderly
- University of Dayton partners for Vietnam’s HATCH! business plan competition
- PayPal cofounder warns Australia’s mining, property focus is holding back tech
- The 8 top-ranked startups from Seedstars Manila
- IBM report: How do you secure 100 million smart IOT objects?
- INSEAD aims to break ‘cookie-cutter’ system by launching incubator
- 2016 Singapore ICT tenders expected to value at S$2.82 billion
- Islamic crowdfund site EthisCrowd gets US$362K seed for homes projects
- A quick look at some of the UK’s challenger banks
- Vietnam launches slew of initiatives to develop startup ecosystem
- In Fortune: Here’s why the Blockchain powers prosperity
- Chinese tech firms tap crowdfund sites to crack US market
- Moody’s: Fintech can’t disrupt Wall Street
- Steady start to Singapore’s startup funding seen in 2016
- Global from Day One Fund II raises NZ$38 million
- Google exec: Vietnam’s ‘net market the most dynamic in the world
- OCBC reveals participants in ‘The Open Vault’ fintech accelerator
- In April: 114 fintechs raised $7.3 billion
- FT Asia Banking Forum set for June, in Singapore
- Japan finds PlayStation VR more appealing than Oculus Rift, tho many don’t know brands
- A quick look at 75 startups reshaping how and where we buy consumer goods
- Nasdaq explores how Blockchain could fuel solar energy market
- India emerging as a hub for fintech startups
- Coworking Unconference India set for September
- Nabable: Clearance and second-hand furniture, delivered
- India’s peer-to-peer lending portal i2ifunding raises lands funding
- Google Search to get ‘rich cards’, starting with recipes, movies on mobile
- Inside 2 days Melbourne’s Nura crowdfunds $200,000 for smart headphones
- Regional startup Rundl targets Australia’s geographic isolation
- Unpitch, Australia: 60 startups, 20 VCs – May 26th
- We need to talk about startups…it’s 1999 all over again’
- Malaysia: Venture builder LaunchPad raises $6m for tech, early-stage investments
- Halal Speed Dating seeks $87k on FundedByMe platform
- A quick look at 11 startups improving the lives of the elderly
- HSBC to close near 50% of India branches, focus on digital banking
- Vietnam’s startup scene in one online spreadsheet, from Geektime
- Facebook co-founder’s VC firm raises $143.6m, looking at SEA, India
- Vietnamese startup community showcases solutions at FPT Tech Day
- Sydney Stock Exchange developing Blockchain trading system
- Japan’s IMJ Investment Partners scouts for more deals in Vietnam
- A look at Springboard Enterprises, global entrepreneur network for women
- StartupAUS independence questioned with likely $360k govt funding
- Thailand launches constitution referendum app
- Bangkok Bank enhances mobile banking with Mobiliti Edge
- Who will own your data if the tech bubble bursts?
- Staying the course as a tortoise entrepreneur, again on Inc
- Flipper entrepreneurs vs builder entrepreneurs, on Inc
- A look at Born2Global, Korean startup hub
- An infographic look at how startup funding works
- 25 startups building their own fashion brands
- India’s BHIVE Workspace raises $1m
- New $1.3m Ho Chi Minh City Startup and Innovation fund launched
- A look at the Female Fantastic panel from Advance Queensland Innovation Summit
- Perth’s BankVault one of top finalists in World Cup Tech Challenge
- Deepdive Travel wins WIT Indonesia’s Start-Up of the Year
- AOL Launches DeskAid for Australian NFP startups
- Aus tech entrepreneurship under the microscope from StartupAUS
- Finca and First Access join forces for microfinance fintech
- Thailand waives venture tax, launches 500m baht startup fund
- 9 startups selected for UOB FinLab accelerator programme
- 3 years from now, analytics and big data skills expected to be in high demand
- A look at 8 Malaysian startups presenting at TOP100 Echelon Asia
- Android Pay now in the UK; Australia and Singapore are next
- Goxip, ‘shoppable Instagram’, lands 1.6m seed round
- The 29 startups on DBS Singapore HotSpot Pre-Accelerator Programme
- A look at the surge in mobile banking in Asia, from Fintech Singapore
- HK’s Cyberport Creative Micro Fund open for applications until June 1st
- A look at insurance accelerator activity in Asia
- Japan:ABBALab incubator sets up $14m fund for Internet of Things startups
- SPRING Singapore partners incubators, investors to support tech startups
- Nest partners Edelman Hong Kong to fuel startup ecosystem
- Zoom2u raises $1.85m to expand into Australia’s regional areas
- Major tech firms, Aus startups back new innovation organisation TechSydney
- Sony invests in US startup Cogitai, bets on AI as key business pillar
- Geodesic Capital launches $335m debut fund to bridge Silicon Valley, Japan
- How Qualcomm India is backing tech hardware startups
- Philippine Startup Challenge returns for third year
- New Zealand’s TechWeek AKL 2016, on now
- Vietnam: Internet group VNG acquires 38% in Tiki ecommerce startup
- TechSG: Singapore’s NUS platform working to integrate startup community
- OCBC the 1st bank in Southeast Asia to have an open API
- Singapore National Research Foundation funds companies to invest in startups
- Australia’s MyState sets for digital banking transformation
- Bank of Queensland and River City Labs partner for banking hackathon
- Finnovasia Hong Kong conference set for end of May
- Philippines: 8th BankTech Asia – Manila Series, 24 and 25 May
- Singapore’s YCH Group launches US$7.3M fund for logistics startups
- Australian Budget 2016 roundup for startups and SMEs from BizSpark Australia
- Indonesia to deploy part of SME credit scheme to fund local startups
- India: 15-25 consumer tech startups on IDG Ventures’s radar
- Melbourne’s Shopping Links named to Anthill Magazine’s SMART 100 Index
- IFC to invest $3m equity in Myanmar ride-hailing service Oway
- India’s travel tech startups closing the funding gap with Chinese counterparts
- Leftover foreign change at the airport? WorldKoins app may be able to help
- Australia’s biggest techs and startups join forces for TechSydney
- Meet Saloneses, a Vietnam beauty care app startup
- Survey: startup news habits?
- Bangkok Angel Investors Meetup launched, seeks members
- Demo day near for 10 HCMC startups chosen from Alpha Startups Vietnam
- Malaysia plans $123 million entrepreneurship fund
- Your startup news habits – a quick survey
- Business Speed Networking + Pitching: 15 meets, 10 pitches, in Bangkok
- Meet CarryBack, a Singapore startup for getting foreign products
- Malaysia: StoreHub lands $850K to enable retail management via iPad
- Vietnam’s ELSA app helps you pronounce English without an accent
- Singapore runs startup scheme for elderly care, mental health
- Entrepreneur Summit Thailand 2016 set for May 25th in Bangkok
- India and China at two ends of foodtech funding spectrum
- Seedstars World heads back to Ho Chi Minh City, June 29th
- Japanese angel Hajime Hotta on finding investment-ready startups in Vietnam
- H2 Ventures backs 5 new startups, basing them in Sydney
- First FinTech Bridge established between Britain and Singapore
- CES Asia 2016: a look at products and Best-Of-Show winners on final day
- Singapore’s car-pool app RYDE expanding to HK in June
- Nordea seeking fintech startups for 2nd Stockholm accelerator intake
- In the US, Android share up to 65.5%; in China over 77%
- A quick look at the insurers actively investing in IOT startups
- Bosch injects $2.5m into Tasmanian agritech startup, The Yield
- ‘Australia wants more fintech opportunity despite low budget commitment’
- Swiss council area to soon accept Bitcoin for some public services
- Fintech Brisbane Startup Weekend set for July 8-10
- Australian teachers’ simple startup helps schools ‘see and save’ kids
- A quick glance at what Asian investors want in Australian tech startups
- Malaysian POS startup StoreHub raises $850k
- Korea’s K-Startup Grand Challenge seeks 40 high-potential startups
- Barclays swerves Android Pay with smartphone NFC payments
- Japan’s GREE Ventures closes 1st round for $60m fund, adds India to targets
- India’s Unacademy lands $500k funding
- India: IDG Ventures raises $150m for $200m 3rd fund
- FinovateSpring 2016 Best of Show winners announced
- Why it’ll be Visa and MasterCard, not tech startups, that truly disrupt banking
- Slush Asia, startup event in Japan, on now
- Jaipur’s crowdfund startup Dreamwallets lands funding
- 2 Indian startups have SE Asia in sight for ecommerce, transportation niches
- In the WSJ: Asian startups hit by venture-capital slowdown
- 6 Indian startups selected for Google Launchpad’s 2nd batch
- Aus startup CliniCloud aims to bring doctor’s office into US homes
- US$29.2m gov’t fund for Singaporean startups unveiling next week
- Vietnam: Startup Wheel 2016 contest opens in HCM City
- Australia’s new StartMesh fund raising $20m to back tech startups
- ShopWings, Grocery Butler join forces for grocery deliveries in Australia
- Crowdfunding: the future of angel investor funding?
- The 6 Indonesian startups joining the Google Launchpad accelerator in June
- Vietnam: AIESEC Alumni Int’l Startups Meeting 2016 set for Hanoi this month
- Curren$eek, Kapital Boost, Prime Keeper win at Asean Fintech Challenge
- A simple rebrand helped this Sydney startup accelerate growth
- Lazada Group opens Bangkok tech hub to drive regional mobile development
- HK’s Efficiency Unit: citizen complaints cut by 50% in 1 year by improving comm’s
- Mumbai’s TranServ hires former MasterCard, MobiKwik execs
- 50% South Korea’s digital banking subscribers are active users, numbers rising
- UC Capital, Indo-European investment firm, launches $171m Europe-focused fund
- Bank Negara Malaysia reviews regulations in light of fintech
- Sydney’s GorillaStack aims to help IT managers control costs
- Meraki Startup Kit for Australian startups – apply for 1 of 10 free kits
- New Union: Singapore crowdfund platform putting up big numbers
- Alpha Startups Xpress, Vietnam: I’m in, so next week’s a busy one…
- Money-change app Curren$eek wins at Asean Fintech Challenge
- IBM Watson to bring cognitive computing to South Korean banking
- Marketers, organisations struggle to make sense of big data
- A look at 11 Thai startups heading for the Echelon Asia event
- Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for Asia Pacific: helping women excel in tech
- China’s Kuang-Chi launches $300m int’l innovation fund, incubator in Israel
- Has food-tech lost its flavor for investors?
- Indian banks taking a serious look at Blockchain tech
- India: Aarambh Ventures launches broad-focus tech accelerator
- OMG Mobile looks to capture youth market with access to fun experiences
- India’s HealthifyMe health and fitness app lands funding
- Singapore’s Temasek backs Farfetch, online shopping for high-end boutiques
- Digi Accelerate selects 3 Malaysian startups for bootcamp
- New Zealand’s RipeTime aims to beat food waste problem
- Melbourne’s Giggedin: Netflix-style subscription for live music
- Enterprise Monkey heads to India with Australian Sports Tech trade mission
- 500 TukTuks funds 10 new startups, soon to be Thailand’s top investor
- A quick look at 5 of Asia’s service industry startups
- Australia’s Design Make Produce, helping ASEAN fashion designers and manufacturers
- Mentioned in Startup News Asia, April 2016 edition @MagicCyberjaya @Groupama @KNOLSKAPE @clusterVR @MassChallenge
- A look at how small banks can partner with fintechs
- Singapore’s IZMUS-IIPL aims to bridge ASEAN / Israeli startup opportunities
- Singapore’s iFashion Group seeks hot Asian e-commerce startups
- Singapore: 4 companies crowd-raise $750k on FundedHere
- You’re in April’s Startup News Asia: on/offline @WhatClinic @ribitdotnet @sgfintechfest @Fishburners @plattarglobal
- RBS and RocketSpace to open tech startups campus in London
- Startup looks to connect breached data with likely fraud victims
- India: Knowlarity Comm’s acquires customer engagement startup Smartwards
- US report warns on big data discrimination
- Oneflare lands $15m as trades marketplace space becomes 2-horse race
- The 29 startups in DBS HotSpot Bootcamp: 8 to be selected
- Singapore tests video games, apps, sensors for elderly care
- Singapore’s Tagit, mobile banking app builder, lands $9m
- US Ambassador’s Entrepreneurial Challenge in Vietnam, open now
- Point72 venture unit signs first fintech investment
- Suncorp partners Trov for on-demand insurance tech platform
- China, India, Singapore: where healthcare startups go to flourish
- A quick look at Offpeak in Vietnam, in Startup News Asia’s April edition
- KPMG Challenger Banking report: A new landscape (pdf)
- WeWork to set up coworking spaces in Shanghai, Hong Kong
- Research: ‘Artificial intelligence, risks and regulation in financial markets’
- Australia’s H2 Ventures backs 5 new fintech startups
- Australian Budget paves way for fintech ‘regulatory sandbox’
- India: Funding increases for IoT startups; 13 deals in Q1
- Aus investors among world’s least willing to go for investment tech
- Ho Chi Minh City seeks smart city and IOT ideas from startups
- Start Tel Aviv opens for Vietnam’s female-driven startups
- A look at 3 notable Philippines fintech startups
- Infographic: a look at the media companies moving into AR and VR
- Indee gives indie filmmakers tech tools usually reserved for big budgets
- Malaysia’s MaGIC graduates raise $4m collectively, cohort 2 launched
- Big Frame founder joins NZ VR start up 8i as President of Studios in LA
- Australia to launch 5th and final startup ‘landing pad’ in Singapore
- Citigroup to launch voice recognition in Asia in drive towards digital banking
- Malaysia’s MaGIC completed MVP phase, now to scale up: CEO
- Expara Vietnam Accelerator steps in as 1st investor in graduating startups
- Report: Blockchain, wearables and AI to transform insurance
- April 2016 Startup News Asia summary: online and offline
- Australia’s CSIRO exploring bitcoin’s blockchain technology
- Atom Bank adds system to its tech set-up; readies mobile app
- Brisbane startup Winja encourages customers to complain
- Philippines’ Future Now Ventures backs 5 more tech startups
- PayPal launches incubator in Singapore, focusing on fintech and tech startups
- Why digital buyers in Japan prefer certain ecommerce sites
- Alibaba fund invests in 3 Hong Kong startups
- Meet 9 Philippine startups presenting at June’s TOP100 Echelon Asia event
- Single digital profile for citizens across gov’t agencies launched in Singapore
- Digital Wealth Asia 2016 set for June in Singapore
- UN launches data contest for ASEAN citizens
- India’s Kalaari Capital accelerator Kstart puts $500K each in 3 startups
- Malaysia’s Tripfez raises funding led by Gobi Partners, Intres Capital
- Upcoming fintech and digital banking events in SE Asia
- China may take board seats, stakes in websites, apps in swap for news licenses
- China’s Lenovo plans to invest $500m in tech startup fund
- Lithan’s Technopreneur Accelerator in Myanmar to invest $3m in startups
- World Fintech Forum: Seoul, June 2016
- Mumbai’s Seclore tech startup raises $12 million from Sistema Asia Fund
- Gobi Partners-backed dining app Offpeak plans Vietnam expansion
- Interactive Advertising Bureau, Singapore, launches startup competition
- Asia’s first free stock trading app, Securities, launched
- Malaysia, IDB to join and found world-first Islamic Venture Capital
- Australia to set up Au$500m innovation fund
- Surf app ‘Pulse’ takes top honours at Startup Weekend Sunshine Coast
- QubeRider, Telstra-backed startup, is off to space
- Griffin Accelerator aims to be catalyst for Canberra startup ecosystem
- Australia considers options to cut double taxation from digital currencies
- Swiss Re ‘InsurTech’ accelerator in India to select 5 startups
- Entrepreneur Summit Thailand: May 25th
- Chain Open Standard: Blockchain standard developed with major financials
- 1st Annual Australian FinTech Awards: June in Sydney
- A look at the ecosystem of female Australian entrepreneurs and business owners
- Malaysia’s Tripfez scores funding to focus on Muslim holidaymakers
- Mid-career and want to lead a startup? Singapore’s Jungle Ventures wants you
- A quick look at Asia’s accelerators
- MasterCard looks to virtual reality, connected cars and AI bots
- Australian Silicon Valley star returnee heads home for tech talent
- Silicon Valley GSVLabs incubator looks to establish in Australia
- Sydney stakes its claim to Australia’s startup culture
- Color Genomics cancer testing startup now available for Aus, NZ use
- 16 of India’s startups serving the solo consumer
- Singapore makes open data easier with developer portal launch
- IOT and IIOT: A look at GE’s Predix and Flutura’s Cerebra
- Lean Startup Machine event set for Kuala Lumpur, May 13-15
- Grants4Apps Accelerator Program seeks NZ health tech innovations
- Indonesia’s HaloDoc raises funding from Djarum, Go-Jek, Mensa Group
- Online-only startup bank Tandem raising $1.4M by crowdfunding
- Gen Z: post-millenial customers for your future product, services
- Thai fintech T2P secures fundingfrom 500 Startups, Benchachinda
- Vietnam-Finland IPP2 gives $1.14m in grants for startups
- Infographic: Most active VCs in ed tech and their investments
- EveryThingIOT Smart Cities Forum: Sydney, May 12th
- Microsoft gives BlueChilli startups a cloud boost with BizSpark Plus
- CeBIT Australia, on now in Sydney: Startup Zone, Conference, PitchFest
- Vietnamese startups need more business leaders: Hackanoi’s Tom Tran
- InnovFest unBound, Singapore, May 17-18: mediatech and more
- Why fintech is different in Asia
