Author Archives: Chandan Raj

LaunchHouse Accelerator Invites Entrepreneurs From Around The World

launch_house
| 375 days ago

Ohio-based seed capital investment fund LaunchHouse, has launched a new LaunchHouse Accelerator program to bring innovation to Ohio by inviting the world’s brightest entrepreneurs to participate in a 12-week Accelerator program. Selected teams will receive $25,000 in funding and will be surrounded with experience-based lab sessions, world-class mentors from their specific industry, an innovative work environment, [...] Read More

11 Innovative Tech Start-ups Pitched at JFDI – Innov8 2012 Bootcamp Demo Day

| 380 days ago

Over 100 investors including MIH Internet, JAFCO Asia, iGlobe Partners, Crystal Horse Investments, WaveMaker Labs, Golden Gate Ventures and Jungle Ventures attended ‘Demo Day’, an event to showcase the results of the JFDI – Innov8 2012 Bootcamp, this morning. Demo Day marked the end of an intensive 100 day acceleration programme that has given 11 digital start-up [...] Read More

ShopSpot of JFDI-Innov8 2012 Bootcamp Raises Funding from Kris Nalamlieng and other Angel Investors from Thailand

ShopSpot of JFDI-Innov8 2012 Bootcamp RaisesFundingfromKrisNalamlieng and other Angel Investors from Thailand
| 383 days ago

Singapore-based startup business ShopSpot Pte Ltd announced today that a group of angels and business entrepreneurs in Thailand led by Kris Nalamlieng has agreed to invest an undisclosed sum to fund development of ShopSpot’s mobile peer-to-peer commerce platform. In its own words, ShopSpot “makes selling stuff as easy as sending a tweet”. ShopSpot launched its mobile app [...] Read More

Kark Mobile from JFDI Innov8 2012 Bootcamp Raises Funding Ahead of Investor Demo Day

Kark Mobile
| 387 days ago

Kark Mobile Education Pte Ltd, one of the startups being incubated at JFDI Singapore, has announced today that Ideosource – a Jakarta-based investment firm incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, has invested an undisclosed sum to fund development of a new product. The product, also tentatively called Kark, is a tablet-based edutainment platform for 5-12 year olds based on simulation [...] Read More

Dropmyemail.com Cloud Startup Signs 500,000 Users in 50 days, Faster Adoption Than Dropbox, Pinterest

Dropmyemail Email Backup Service
| 395 days ago

Dropmyemail.com, a comprehensive consumer email backup service (along with contacts, calendars and chat), has announced that they have signed-up their 500,000th user only 50 days after starting operations. The company began offering the freemium service on 1 March, 2012 and within days they saw great traction in new user adoption and the coveted hockey stick [...] Read More