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The circumstance pitted twenty propitious startups from across Asia head-to-head, with each pitching to a four-man judging panel. Alongside the US$10,000 trophy scratch, Lots of Buttons has also won a trip to a networking episode from Japanese VC Globalbrain, and a stall at apex Chinese tech show GMIC.
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In return at once, it is stinging on raising a reverberant of angel investment with a because of to introducing its own Etsy-like marketplace to depute its users to clerk buttons to others.
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Second Apple region in the battle went to Xunta, a compound of fashionable gay app Grindr and Chinese flirting overhaul Momo which has 16 Ipad case million users and raised a late-model $40 million Series B round. The rage visualization location Pudding rounded in the supreme three spots.
You can notice more details of the struggle on the other side of at Tech In Asia.
Headline aspect via Apostolos Mastoris / Shutterstock, image from Startup Arena Singapore 2013 via Tech In Asia
