17 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. Katsana | Malaysia (Startup Profile)

Katsana is a startup that offers telematics for monitoring vehicle fleets in real time and gleaning insights with data analytics capabilities. It installs a beacon in vehicles that allows owners to track them and retrieve their movement history down to the smallest details.

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2. The Postbox | India (Startup Profile)

The Postbox is an e-commerce platform that works with 250 artisans across India to offer a tiny but precious range of art and lifestyle products, all designed by an in-house team, all examples of functional art. They release no more than three or four products a month, yet The Postbox gets around 1,100 orders, with an average order value of US$30.

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3. Paylatr | India (Startup Profile)

Fintech startup Paylatr enables recurring offline grocery payments at neighborhood stores without cash or cards. It extends a monthly credit of INR 5,000-8,000 (US$74-118) to those users who sign up with it. When they go shopping in neighborhood stores that are also on Paylatr, the customers literally pay later for the things they buy.

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4. Tima | Vietnam (Startup Profile)

Tima uses algorithms that pull people’s credit scores and analyze data from their social media accounts to determine their creditworthiness, then matches them with lenders. It charges a fee for every successful transaction. The startup now has over 960 lenders on its platform, which has seen more than 2 million transactions since it was created in July 2015.

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5. GoFro | India (Startup Profile)

Delhi-based GoFro is an online travel planning and booking marketplace focused on Indian travelers. An end-to-end online travel agent, it combines flight, hotel, and transportation booking with an itinerary planner. Users can also indicate a “theme” they want the trip to follow. Themes include romance, beaches, bachelor parties, honeymoons, or budget travel.

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