With the high number of quality applications for the Japan Satellite, the startups were put through a preliminary round and 9 startups were selected to pitch tomorrow at the main Japan Satellite. The Japan Satellite kicked off with the Preliminaries today at the Open Network Labs' offices today. With 17…

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With 2 more Satellites to go, the Taiwan Satellite will see 14 startups pitch their products on 24 April. e27 has just passed the halfway mark for the 6 Satellites, the regional search for some of Asia's most promising startups. Next up, the Taiwan Satellite in Taipei on 24…

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Vietnam Satellite will see 14 startups present their 5-minutes product pitch. After months of working closely with the Vietnamese community, the e27 team are currently in Ho Chi Minh City to hold the Vietnam Satellite. With keynote presentations from Eric Deleglise of Veldis Experience, Linh Thai of DFJ…

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Singapore Satellite will see 14 startups pitch on stage at the Microsoft Campfire event. Day One of Microsoft Campfire ended today with the audience being treated to a day of interesting technical talks on the latest technology topics. Tomorrow, the Microsoft Imagine Cup finals will take place, followed…

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The first Philippines Satellite will be held this Thursday, 12 April, at MINT College. Witness seven startups pitch their product to secure a spot at Echelon 2012, Asia's longest running web tech conference. Fresh from the Indonesia Satellite in Jakarta, the e27 team have already…

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Indonesia Satellite 2012 saw 16 startups pitch their ideas at the event. Klik-Eat, an online food ordering and delivery service, took home the Judges' Choice Award. 6 startups were each given 10 minutes to showcase their products at the Indonesia Satellite, the first of 6 in e27′s regional hunt for Asia's best startups. And we were not disappointed...

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With just 2 days to the Indonesia Satellite, 16 companies have been selected to pitch their products to a panel of judges made out of representatives from Research in Motion (RIM), Mindtalk, e27, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Magnivate Group. The Indonesia Satellite will take place on 7 April, Saturday, at Telkom Kebon Sirih Menara Multimedia. Expect a day packed with...

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Ching-Mei is the Head of Product at Cardinal Blue Software, a social applications company based in both Mountain View and Taipei. The company is behind the iOS PicCollage app, a Top 10 photo app with over 3 million downloads, currently the #2 photo app in the US. Ching-Mei attended the prestigious Hwa Chong Junior College in Singapore before heading on to securing a PhD in economics at Cornell University...

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Echelon 2011 alumni, Garbs Inc., has announced that it recently received funding from CyberAgent Ventures Japan. The company under the Grooves group was at Echelon last year exhibiting their latest product, Social Job Posting, which has since reached new heights...

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FlutterScape, the Tokyo-based social marketplace site, has closed a seed investment round worth 15 million yen (US$177,000) with JASDAQ-listed Digital Garage...

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FlutterScape is on a roll. The Tokyo-based social marketplace site has taken a seed investment in a trade deal and they are negotiating another investments...

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Singapore-based mobile payment startup Stream Media announced today an investment of SGD1 million (US$790,000) from three firms including Stream Global (unrelated), SingTel Innov8 and the National University of Singapores...

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East Ventures and a "local angel investor" join Neoteny Labs in a US$500,000 seed-funding round in Singapore startup Foound. To our knowledge, this makes it the largest seed-funding round for a Singapore startup this year...

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Indonesia-based startup Scraplr has almost completed a seed funding round from Singapore's East Ventures, said Fares Farhan, one of Scraplr's founders.

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ABOVE Solutions Inc, one of echelon 2010 startups, unveiled TangoFX - an interactive media platform at BroadcastAsia2010. TangoFX platform provides on-demand cinematic experience to viewers with a social layer on top of it...

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Echelon 2011 happened almost two months ago and we have just received news that one of our exhibitors, FashionSpace, recently secured a seed funding round from newly established Singapore-based angel investment group Crystal Horse Investments.

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Cardinal Blue was one of Echelon 2011's Launchpad startups. Since then, they have moved on to new heights by being accepted into Dave McClure's 500 Startups accelerator programÉ

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Garbs Inc., an Echelon alumni, recently raised a funding round from CyberAgent Japan and is looking to expand further into Asia and also the US.

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Flipter, an Echelon 2011 alumni, has been busy since we last met founder Salvador De La Barrera in June at the event.

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