Singapore Early Stage Scene

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

Tripzilla goes Vietnam

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.

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Interview With Michiel

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.

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DeliverEat received Funding

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.