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Indian Startups make a pitch at Singapore incubator JFDI’s Demo Day: And how...

Looking to setup office in Singapore? We were at Singapore’s most ‘joyful’ incubator, JFDI (Joyful Frog Digital Incubator) DEMO day on the 3rd of June where several startups (with teams from all over...

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iKheti, bringing sustainable farming to urban households

Urban India is waking up fast to the organic and natural way of living. We cannot say if its a genuine change in thought process or simply a ‘fad’ but many new businesses see this as an opportunity –...

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Simplifying employee management, team collaboration in their own unique way,...

Employee engagement by organisations and various tools to simplify employee efforts has been in focus lately. Among the startups engaged in that space is Sriram Hariharan and Srikanth N K’s Myfriday....

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In conversation with Mahesh Baxi, CEO of Bangalore based Compassities on...

Mahesh Baxi Bangalore based IT services firm, Compassities has been in operation for seven years. In these years, they have had several successes, which has also helped the company go global. After...

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CityShor claims to be operationally profitable: Will open up in other cities

We spoke about Ahmedabad based CityShor, which identifies the ‘treasure troves of Ahmedabad’, all the ‘hidden must-dos’ of the city, only a couple of months back, when they had formally launched their...

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‘Ecosystem exists, you need to know how to access it’: In conversation with...

Investors are hard to meet. Mentors, harder to find. Perceptions, which are perhaps true to a certain extent. Last week we attempted to answer ‘where is the startup ecosystem in India‘. Many of you...

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Singaporean Startup addressing a concern about healthcare of family members...

Abhinav Krishna moved to Singapore in 2001 from Lucknow, on a Singapore Airline Scholarship available to students after class 10. He graduated from NUS with a computer science degree and joined the...

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How a lazy afternoon with friends led to a startup on Home Automation...

Imagine being able to change TV channels, monitor the settings of the air conditioner, switch on and off the lights in the room, draw the curtain, lock the door, turn of the gas, all with one remote....

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How an Indian, a Singaporean, a Canadian and a French started Flocations in...

Everyday we tell you startup stories – to inspire and encourage you. We talk about entrepreneurs’ journey, often from the corporate to the startup world. Yesterday we happened to meet a startup whose...

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Building the missing link among current crop of social media platforms:...

Facebook allows you to connect with friends. Twitter enables conversations with strangers. In this age of social media overdose, is there room for another community platform? Two IIT Kharagpur...

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Overcoming the stigma of starting a Publishing House: Gatehouse

The print and digital debate has been well documented. In this age of kindle and apps, the desire to touch and smell paper, to read something is undoubtedly declining. Personally though, I still buy my...

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Knocking out the familiarity of power cuts is Chennai based startup SolarTown

India is familiar with power cuts. It may be the 21st century, and notwithstanding all the technological developments, several rural areas and second tier cities see hours of planned power cuts every...

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Singapore based UserScout simplifies research process: Looks at India as a...

Research is a growing market, a fact that is corroborated by the large number of research softwares available in the market. While there is merit in the argument that a well designed project can give...

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JFDI, Singapore opens applications for the second 2013 Accelerator Program

The Joyful Frog Digital Incubator has announced that they are accepting applications from early stage Internet businesses to its next 100 day acceleration program. Teams are selected on merit and...

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‘I was an entrepreneur and I didn’t know it’- Takeaways from the life of an...

Varadharajan Kumaravelu’s story began in Chennai. Born in a ‘business family’, as it was referred to back then, Varad was 12 when his father lost everything with the sudden closing down of their...

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From Bloomberg to Travel bug: Roomorama’s journey

Jia En Teo and Fedrico Folia, were living and working in New York, at Bloomberg, when the travel bug bit them. The couple would sub-let their apartment and rent a similar arrangement during their...

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The role of NUS in the startup ecosystem of Singapore- With Director of NEC,...

In the last few weeks, I have met several entrepreneurs in Singapore with one common thread binding them – National University of Singapore (NUS). Most of them said their entrepreneurial journey began...

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“It’s not about the money, it’s about value creation,” Amit Anand, Managing...

Singapore based Jungle Ventures, early stage investors, incubated under the Government’s National Research Fund Technology Incubation Scheme talks about their investments, Southeast Asia, India and...

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The business of car rental in Singapore, with Drive.sg

Singapore is an expensive place to own a car. Firstly, import being the only source of supply makes the car itself more expensive than most other countries in the world. Add to that, increased taxes...

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Building a data analytics company on top of social media: SE Asia focused,...

Social media and tagging is intrusive and annoying for a few but if you look at the broader picture, everyone engages in it at some point in time. At Echelon 2013, I saw the Wooz.in counter soon as I...

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Learnings from a serial entrepreneur – with John Fearon, Founder of Dropmysite

Successful entrepreneurs often find a logical transition to becoming an investor or mentor to young startups. South African born and Singapore-based John Fearon, founder of Dropmysite.com, has managed...

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Crayon Data Founder, Suresh Shankar analyses Big Data over the last 13 years

With ever increasing volumes of data, companies have started stressing a lot on how to make sense accurately from this and hence the filed of Big Data has emerged. From retail to telco and pharma to...

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“Singapore is a good place to have a regional HQ,” Shirley Wong, Managing...

TNF Ventures is an approved Incubator under the Technology Incubation Scheme by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of the Singapore Government. Managing Partner Shirley Wong, who has also been the...

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Internships with startups around the world; decoding the NOC Program by NUS,...

The National University of Singapore has several initiatives to foster an entrepreneurial spirit among its students. Few weeks back, we spoke about the role of National University of Singapore in the...

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Enabling smooth Doctor – Patient connect in Singapore, DocDoc

Singapore based DocDoc is an online platform that enables patients to search and book doctor appointments, at no cost. We caught up with Co-founder Grace Park on starting up the company, its challenges...

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