Our founders of Lovebyte did an amazing job, building a fantastic app for couples.
It didn’t get un-noticed and the Australia listed company mig.me acquired the company Lovebyte. With 30% of the 700.000 registered users being active, Lovebyte clearly brings value to their users by providing a one stop platform for couples, where they can share, communicate, log and create moments together.
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TechinAsia wrote an article about how tough it is to be technology start-up. Based on numbers from a selected few active investors of early stage companies, they categorised and summarized the the companies’ current status. The key take away message of the article is: if you want to make boatloads of money, trying to create a true game-changer won’t be the most likely way to succeed. While the scenery has become less gloomy, it’s still true that if you want to do a startup, your reason for doing it should be to create new value and navigate uncharted markets.
Read more: These numbers will remind you that doing a startup is brutal
Good job founders of Kluje!
Five Singapore-based IT entrepreneurs, start-up founders and professionals have been named as the South East Asia regional finalists for a global tech innovation awards.
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Our founders of Tripzilla were asked about their vision in the price comparision industry:
“We saw that consumers were moving online for everything and more and more people were starting their travel planning from their screens.
There were many global giants dominating the travel space but no local brand for travel. So we thought, hey, let’s be THE local hero in travel,” said Winnie.
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Dilivr.it is on the mission to be your ultimate mobile delivery man.
Have too little time on your hands and need someone to help you run some errands and do some delivery for you? Do you know that there’s an app for that?
Dilivrit is a mobile platform providing individuals and businesses with on-demand, hassle-free delivery services while filling up the idle time of existing couriers.
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Singapore’s leading travel portal TripZilla announces the official launch of its TripZilla Vietnam site today.
Featuring over 2,000 travel deals and tour packages from over 50 Vietnam based tour agencies, TripZilla Vietnam is its first non-English travel portal, catering to the local Vietnamese market. Besides listing tour packages from tour agencies, it also aggregates travel deals from group-buying websites, credit-card companies, airlines, hotels, tourism boards and travel insurance companies.
Founders Grid asked Michiel to share some insights on the angel investments scene in Singapore.
10 Questions with Michiel Wind, CEO of Cyrstal Horse – An Angel Investment Company based in Singapore.
Below is the link where Michiel Wind, the CEO of Cyrstal Horse, a Singapore based angel investment company share’s his insights on Singapore’s growing startup and investment scene.
Dropmysite is an award-winning comprehensive backup solution in the cloud that will keep website and database safe. Dropmysite signed a partnership deal in Japan with the JASDAQ-listed Paperboy, one of the fastest growing hosting providers in Japan. Next to that it will very soon launch a new service for back ups of your mobile content.
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Almost every home-owner will have experienced the frustration and worry of finding a reliable contractor for home improvement projects, ranging from simple plumbing and electrical jobs to wholesale remodelling. It would be great if someone could take over the job of finding suitable contractors for you. It would be even better if that won’t cost you anything..
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After a short journey in Gilcrux with the founder, John Fearon, Crystal Horse received an offer from an existing investor in Gilcrux.
We accepted the offer and thank John for the great work delivered, and wish him all the best in his entrepreneurial journey.
Crystal Horse remains as a stakeholder in the subsidiaries of Gilcrux: DropMySide, Eatads and Kluje.
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SocialWalk believes that business owners should have a global mindset. Through SocialWalk, you will meet serious buyers, quality suppliers and credible partners. The business community is developed by a team who delivers happiness and celebrates with you on your successful business transactions!
A very nice article in the paper about the founder of Socialwalk.
Needless to say, Crystal Horse is very proud of their founder Eileen:
DeliverEat.my, an online food ordering & delivery company in Penang, Malaysia has
completed a six-figure seed funding from Singapore-based Crystal Horse Investments Pte
Ltd and Malaysia-based angel investor, Tan Swee Yeong. This comes at an appropriate
time as the company is in the midst of gearing up to expand its business in the Northern
region. The company was founded by Leong Shir Mein in April 2012.
“The team at DeliverEat is very excited with this new investment and we look forward to add
more restaurants and to cover more delivery areas in Penang soon.” said Shir Mein, founder
of Delivereat.my
Michiel Wind, CEO of Crystal Horse Investments wrote: “We are excited with our first
investment in Penang and our ninth start-up investment in a Malaysia.”
There are currently more than 50 restaurants available on DeliverEat.my for users to order
their food, beverages and desserts. The company received pre-seed grant from Malaysia’s
Cradle Fund previously.
For more information about DeliverEat.my, visit the website.
After a short journey with the founder, Ng Say Joe, the company received an acquisition offer.
As early stage investors we left it up to the founder whether to take the offer or continue to build the business.
After lots of thoughts the founder decided that the company would be in good hands with the buyer: Star Publications (M) Bhd.
Joe will still have an interest in the company he founded and will continue to build the business.
We thank him for the great work delivered, respect him for his continuous ethical dealing with all parties and wish him all the best!
Crystal Horse is very excited to announce its investment in Nexx Studio.
Nexx Studio is an iOS game development and publishing company that was founded by Ken Neth Wong on August 10, 2008. It was incorporated in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 11, 2011 after receiving it’s initial funding from an angel investor. It has since produced 5 iOS game app and they have been downloaded over 16 million times on Apple’s iTunes App Store to date.
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Save22 is an Asian web & mobile shopping app that scans products and finds local stores selling that product. The iPhone app version of Save22 (then known as Lobangclub) won Asia’s Most Valuable App 2011 Award at Singtel TechVenture.
Save22 raised a follow up round after its seed round and the money raised is primary for expansion. They are planning to expand outside Singapore, to Malaysia and Philippines. Read more
Travelogy builds online media platforms to connect businesses to travellers. Optimising on the booming travel market and growing digital consumption trend in Southeast Asia, we develop localised travel portals to enable better travel experience.
Travelogy operates TripZilla, ComeSingapore, and Nearby.SG.
Quotes we really like in a recent interview with the founder:
Winnie: Tech startup founders wear many hats and so there is a long list of essential skills. I will probably be able to write a whole article just trying to list all these skills. Let me just list the few skills/traits that I personally think are the most crucial:
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Dropmyemail is a free service that lets you backup your emails automatically easily.
It also provides services to web-owners to backup websites and databases
dropmysite.com.
On the 1st of March 2012, Dropmyemail was launched to much fanfare at DemoAsia ‘12, a launch pad for emerging technology in Asia. At the event, Dropmyemail won the “DemoGuru” award from the judges and “Freedom” award from SGEntrepreneurs.
Dropmyemail won the DEMOguru award at the inaugural DEMO Asia on 1st March ’12.
Dropmysite became one of the portfolio companies of 500 Startups
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Gametize is a fully customizable, feature-rich gamification platform. It can be intregrated into any existing or in-progress applications for an added dimension of fun and engagement.
Gametize is designed to work on any server environment, and you have full control and ownership over your data.
You can make full use of the various types of challenges provided in our war chest and tailor it to your desired behavior. The Gametize platform is also a loyalty system that packs a lot more fun than existing loyalty apps. Digitally track your desired actions – such as browsing and purchasing – and reward your customers through our simple REST-based API.
Recently Gametize got acquired by..read more
What is LoveByte?
LoveByte is a mobile app that provides a private space for two to communicate, share things and remember precious moments. Recently selected as “One of 20 Hottest Startups to watch in 2013” -Singapore Business Review.
With Lovebyte you can:
Send scratchcards; Surprise your loved one with a fun date idea. Write sweet, love notes Make it a point to share how you feel using words. Chat with emoticons Express your feelings as you chat. Record happy moments Reminisce good memories as you scroll the timeline. Remember important dates Upcoming and past dates – record so you wont forget. Count days together More reasons to celebrate the special days.
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Tripzilla believes planning for a holiday is part of the holidaying experience and so should naturally be simple, easy and fun. TripZilla.com was built to help you find the best tour packages and deals with the greatest ease, hence making your travel experience more relaxing.
Tripzilla is not a travel agent. TripZilla.com offers a free service that lets you compare real prices and itineraries from Singapore’s top travel agencies. TripZilla collates the latest tour packages from hundreds of travel agencies from your all of your local agencies and put it all here for you to browse.
Recently tripzilla expanded to Malaysia. For more read here..
Dropmyemail is a free service that lets you backup your emails automatically easily.
It also provides services to web-owners to backup websites and databases
dropmysite.com.
On the 1st of March 2012, Dropmyemail was launched to much fanfare at DemoAsia ‘12, a launch pad for emerging technology in Asia. At the event, Dropmyemail won the “DemoGuru” award from the judges and “Freedom” award from SGEntrepreneurs.
Dropmyemail won the DEMOguru award at the inaugural DEMO Asia on 1st March ’12.
George Kellerman from 500 Startups invested just recently in this backup providing company from Singapore
A recent publication from the Singapore Business Review listed 20 hottest startups to look out for in Singapore for the year 2013. Amongst them, we are proud to say that three of our incubatees – Travelogy, Dropmysite and Lovebyte – were mentioned! Well done guys!
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India based startup Investopresto secures a second funding round with CHI and other undisclosed investors around the region.
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After successfully raising fundings from Crystal Horse and several other angel investors, coupled with the inclusion of 2 new co-founders, EatAds is ready to rock our world!
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Taught by industry experts around the world, HelpLearn aims to provide technical online marketing knowledge through their various courses.
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How GameMaki, a startup located in Singapore, turn all the odds into their favour and became one of the most recognized startup locally.
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LoveByte, a new social app entirely for the love birds, announced that it had obtained a 6 figure funding from two singapore based incubators! might just be the next in-thing that will solve Singapore’s problem of a decreasing birth rates. Find out more by downloading the app!
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LoveByte, a new social app entirely for the love birds, might just be the next in-thing that will solve Singapore’s problem of a decreasing birth rates. Find out more by downloading the app!
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Already having over 25,000 dates, SocialWalk, a B2B matchmaker for businesses, is still expanding and seeking for even more dates.
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webintravel: Travelogy to get funding boost from Crystal Horse Investments and MDA.
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Talking travel tech: TripZilla secures $200,000 of funding and sets it eyes on other Asian markets.
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Travelogy just announced that it has received a funding round from Crystal Horse under the iJam Reload scheme by MDA. Started back in 2010, Travelogy aims to be the one stop travel guide in Singapore.
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Wanted by the Interpol for some serious black hat hacking, Steven, the founder of Spawt, recounts his dark days and share with us his arduous journey from a hacker to an entrepreneur.
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After learning that the term “LobangClub” refers to a woman’s …. LobangClub, the Singapore and Manila based startup officially rebrands itself as Save22.
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After securing a funding round from Crystal Horse Investments, HiShop recently announced that it is forming a partnership with Malaysian based group-buying site MilkADeal.
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After closing an undisclosed 6 figure round with Crystal Horse, GameMaki has recently just launched its iOS app in the Apple iTunes store.
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SocialWalk recently announced that it just managed to close a funding round of RM1 million from Singapore based investment firm, Crystal Horse Investments.
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Tradesparq emerged as one of the most memorable enterprise startup at the recent DEMO Asia 2012 in Singapore.
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FashionSpace.com is an online social fashion magazine that allows users to create their own fashion magazines. Acting as a online match making platform for bloggers, designers, and merchants, FashipnSpace managed to gain 500 users since it launch in May 2011.
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Frenzoo, a Hong Kong based 3D fashion gaming startup just announced that it has received US$1 Million from investors.
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John Fearon, CEO of Dropmyemail will talk about his story of acquiring a user base of close to 1 million within 50 days and the rapid scaling of startups at TechSparks 2012. Fearon will also be on a panel to discuss more…..
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