MilkADeal and HiShop Malaysia Combine With New Funding From CHI
MilkADeal is a group-buying site. HiShop Malaysia is a flash sales site, the sort of e-commerce that opens exclusively to members for a limited period of time and focuses on selling just branded goods...
View ArticleDropmyemail Passes Half Million Users, is Working on Second Round of Funding
Just 50 days into launching the Dropmyemail service for email cloud backup and migration, the Singapore-based startup has announced its 525,000th user, averaging the addition of 10,500 new users per...
View ArticleVideos: What investors and mentors think of JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp Demo Day (2)
The Bootcamp is a technology startup accelerator program in Singapore (part of the Global Accelerator Network) where participants build a prototype within 100 days. Demo Day was on 4th May, 2012....
View ArticleSingapore’s Dropmyemail snags senior Google exec
Google Southeast Asia’s senior conversion specialist, Vinoaj Vijeyakummar, has left the search company to become the head of product development at Dropmyemail, a service owned by Singapore startup...
View ArticleSix failed businesses on, Dropmyemail’s John Fearon says, “I’m amazing”
“I’m a good boss, I really am,” John Fearon, founder and CEO of DropMySite, tells me, in full earshot of his employee at their office in Block 71, Ayer Rajar Crescent, considered the nexus of...
View ArticleFashionspace gets extra 6-figure investment from Crystal Horse and private...
FashionSpace, a Singapore-based social publishing platform for fashion, has received a six-figure investor from existing backer Crystal Horse Investments (CHI) and a private investor, it announced on...
View ArticleOnce wanted by Interpol, hacker-turned-entrepreneur is now in the business of...
Steven (right) and Nicole (left) from Spawt. Singaporean Steven Goh was on Interpol’s wanted list for being a black hat hacker. But the law grabbed him by the tail. Nine years ago, He was arrested by...
View ArticleLoveByte gets 6-figure seed funding from Crystal Horse Investments, Ruvento...
LoveByte is spurned no more. After receiving little love from investors, the startup, which has developed a private social network for lovers, received a 6-figure seed funding from Crystal Horse...
View ArticleEatAds, the Online Marketplace for Offline Ads, Raises Funds and Adds 2 New...
The newly-expanded EatAds founder crew: (L-R) Nigel, Dhruv, John. We’re seeing a great proliferation in online marketplaces in Asia this year, and here’s another one that’s blossoming. Singapore-based...
View ArticleMalaysian Mobile Game Dev Nexx Snags $250k from Crystal Horse Investments
Nexx Studio is a Kuala Lumpur-based iOS game developer, with titles like Pig Shot, Glow Puzzle (which just broke 5 million downloads), and The Idiot Test 3 among its most well-known creations. Founded...
View ArticleThai real estate search site HipFlat gets $335,000 in funding, eyes Southeast...
Thailand-based online real estate search startup HipFlat has successfully raised $335,000 from various international investors including Singapore-based early stage funds Crystal Horse Investments and...
View ArticleThis crowdsourced courier service wants to make the system more transparent,...
Delivery services in Singapore generally leave much to be desired. A cursory glance at reviews on ecommerce sites such as Qoo10 will confirm this – many tend to complain about how the delivery times...
View ArticleBuying and selling designer clothing just became a whole lot easier with this...
Ladies, tell me if this sounds familiar: despite having a wardrobe chock-full of clothes that you’ve never worn before, every new fashion season you’ll be out there swiping your credit card. If you’re...
View ArticleLawCanvas provides startups with ready-to-go legal documents, saves you...
The early days of founding a startup are always the most fun, as any entrepreneur will tell you. Coming up with outrageous ideas, splattering them across whiteboards in glorious vagueness, and chowing...
View ArticleThese numbers will remind you that doing a startup is brutal
So you want to change the world? Create a cutting-edge, highly-scalable product that will get hundreds of millions of users and hurtle towards a billion dollar exit? Nevermind a billion, as cool as...
View ArticleHere are 4 investments by Singapore’s Crystal Horse you didn’t hear about
Crystal Horse recently topped up five digits in Kluje, a home renovation site. Crystal Horse Investments is a stallion among seed investors in Southeast Asia. Already, the Singapore- and Malaysia-based...
View ArticleThree years after its launch, Malaysia’s Socialwalk is finally finding its...
“Take Aviato. That’s not a name that I found. It’s a name that found me. On a vision quest,” said Erlich Bachmann, the fictional owner of a startup incubator in the HBO hit Silicon Valley. This...
View ArticleCradle brings four investors to Malaysia in unconventional partnerships
Six months ago, Malaysia’s Cradle Fund inked a partnership with Singapore-based VC firm Golden Gate Ventures, pledging to match investments made by the latter up to MYR 500,000 (US$150,000). Today,...
View ArticleScrollback raises $500k for its real-time chat web widget
Scrollback, a Singapore and India-based startup that’s building a real-time chat widget for online communities, has raised US$500,000 in seed funding. The round is led by Jungle Ventures and supported...
View Article18 Malaysian startups poised to breakout in 2015
2014 turned out to be quite a mixed bag for Malaysia’s startup community. On one hand, homegrown online payment company MOL Global listed in the US, but hasn’t quite lived up to expectations. Popular...
View ArticleCleaning service ProperHands raises seed funding to scale up
Singapore’s home and office cleaning startup ProperHands has raised US$177,000 (S$250,000) from Crystal Horse Investments and Tri5 Ventures, it announced today. ProperHands matches customers with...
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