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The outcome eaten away twenty promising startups from across Asia head-to-head, with each pitching to a four-man judging panel. Alongside the US$10,000 booty scratch, Lots of Buttons has also won a stagger to a networking episode from Japanese VC Globalbrain, and a booth at apex Chinese tech ostentation GMIC.
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For now, it is intense on raising a globelike of angel investment with a view to introducing its own Etsy-like marketplace to depute its users to sell buttons to others.
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Faulty Apple arise in the debate went to Xunta, a hybrid of fashionable gay app Grindr and Chinese flirting help Momo – which has 16 Ipad case million users and raised a fresh $40 million Series B round. The rage visualization placement Pudding rounded out the top three spots.
You can allot more details of the competition over and above at Tech In Asia.
Headline icon via Apostolos Mastoris / Shutterstock, statue from Startup Arena Singapore 2013 via Tech In Asia
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