32 startups in Asia that caught our eye

Here’s our newest round-up of the featured startups on our site this week. If you have startup tips or story suggestions, feel free to email us. Enjoy this week’s list!

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1. Nutright | Pakistan (Startup Profile)

Nutright is a weight loss program inside an app. The app will suggest a time period and recommended exercises to its users. If users sign up for the premium plan, they’ll get personalized daily meal plans, direct access to a nutritionist, and a much more thorough exercise regimen. There are roughly 8,000 monthly active users with around 60 people who’ve signed up for the premium service.

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2. BankGo | Vietnam (Startup Profile)

Vietnam-based startup BankGo is a financial comparison website. It does comparison for financial services like personal loans and credit cards. Users can pick the most attractive option and book it through the site. The startup receives a commission for successful transactions from the chosen bank, while customers use the service for free.

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3. Furlenco | India (Startup Profile)

Furlenco is an India’s furniture rental startup. With the vision of being the Ikea of India, the startup doesn’t want to be just another aggregator. It designs and makes its own furniture to make people rent it. Furlenco has 15,000 subscribers in Bangalore and Mumbai now.

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4. Teabox | India (Startup Profile)

India startup Teabox is a disruptor of the US$40 billion global tea market with its online direct-to-consumer distribution channel and supply chain innovations. The startup introduced vacuum packing and cold storages to source teas from hundreds of growers in India and Nepal and deliver them to 95 countries across the world.

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5. Inception | Israel (Startup Profile)

Inception is a Tel Aviv-based startup and has its sights set on becoming the “Netflix for VR. Through its portal, users can browse content filmed exclusively for streaming on VR devices. Currently the app is available for Oculus, Samsung Gear, and Google Cardboard. Support for HTC Vive, Playstation, and Daydream is expected soon.

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6. Qiniu | China (Startup Profile)

Founded in 2011, the China startup Qiniu offers multimedia-focused public PaaS services to over 500,000 companies and developers. Stacked together, its clients service millions of users in China.

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7. Ubiklan | Indonesia (Startup Profile)

Jakarta-based startup Ubiklan offers businesses a more affordable option to advertise offline by wrapping their message on privately owned and rented cars. The startup takes about 15 percent from whatever amount a company spends in a campaign.

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8. Direct Fresh | Bangladesh (Startup Profile)

Launched in 2012, Direct Fresh uses a method known as contract farming, which helps it monitor the entire grocery supply chain to meet the demand for organic produce in Bangladesh.

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9. Grofers | India (Startup Profile)

Grofers is an app-based hyperlocal delivery startup that delivers everything from grocery to beauty products to your doorstep within 90 minutes. It has just scrapped its app-only model to launch a working desktop site. The launch of transactional website for Grofers will help the startup gain volumes – the chunk of customers who were so far being alienated by its app-only business model.

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Startup lists

10 -13 : 4 rising startups in India – Oct. 17, 2016

14 – 18 : 5 rising startups in India – Oct. 19, 2016

19 – 32 : 14 cool hardware startups in India you didn’t know about

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