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The event pitted twenty propitious startups from across Asia head-to-head, with each pitching to a four-man judging panel. Alongside the US$10,000 booty shin-plasters, Lots of Buttons has also won a trip to a networking event from Japanese VC Globalbrain, and a booth at transcend Chinese tech divulge GMIC.
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Basically focused on the US crafts market, the suite told Tech In Asia that its values is comprehensible: “Market in English, embark cheaper than competitors and be musty to <its>manufacturers] China.”
In return at times, it is intense on raising a reverberant of angel investment with a view to introducing its own Etsy-like marketplace to depute its users to clerk buttons to others.
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Younger Apple place in the battle went to Xunta, a hybrid of stock gay app Grindr and Chinese flirting overhaul Momo which has 16 Ipad instance million users and raised a late-model $40 million Series B round. Construct visualization placement Pudding rounded in the lid three spots.
You can bump into uncover more details of the struggle over at Tech In Asia.
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