NexxStudio

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 expanding

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

Proud of our Women-Ceo

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:

  • Ability to sell. Sell your company, your vision, your product, or yourself. You must be able to sell to raise money, recruit talents, and generate revenue.
  • Management skills. With limited resource and runway, technopreneurs must be able to manage the people and funds effectively to achieve clear goals.
  • Tenacity. Persistent determination is a must have because most people will shoot down your idea in the beginning and you will meet with failures. But try, try, and try again. And repeat.

Read her complete interview here….

DME funded by 500 Startups

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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