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Klinify, a document management system that helps private medical clinics manage patient records while preserving their existing workflow, today announced that it has closed a S$770,000 (USD$604,000) seed funding round led by Jungle Ventures through Singapore’s Technology Incubation Scheme under the National Research Foundation (NRF). The round was supported by angel investors from the medical…

SINGAPORE – OurHealthMate, an online platform that allows non-resident Indians to manage and monitor their family’s healthcare from a distance, today announced it had closed a SGD560K (USD440K) seed funding round led by Bimal Shah, heading an international syndicate of business angels. The round is supported by Singapore-based Benjamin Tsai and a second international angel…

SINGAPORE — JFDI.Asia announces that it plans to operate three runs of our accelerator program back to back through 2014. Commencing on 20 March, 26 June and 2 October, each batch will include 10-15 startup businesses. Ambitious early-stage digital startup businesses from anywhere in the world are invited to apply immediately.   In exchange for…

SINGAPORE – enMarkit, a social commerce company that increases sales on ecommerce sites by engaging online shoppers and rewarding them for sharing reviews, announced today that Murli Ravi is joining the company as a non-executive director. Mr Ravi is the former Head of Investments for south and southeast Asia at venture capital firm JAFCO Investments…

This post contains a selection of tweets and images from our most recent Demo Day. We will soon update our website to show more feedback from teams and investors for the class of 2013B. In the meantime, please enjoy these highlighted moments!  They had toiled with gusto and good humour for 100 days, in an…

Skimbl.com, an online product that allows retail venues to audit their service quality, today announced that it had secured a firm commitment of S$75K (US60$K) towards the seed funding round it hopes to raise following JFDI.Asia’s demo day next week. The investment pledge was made by Pascal Ballot, a Shanghai-based business angel. Ballot is also…

Collabspot, the sales email platform that integrates CRM with Gmail, today announced that it had secured S$80,000 seed funding from an international syndicate of investors including Louis Naugès (France), Kevin Dewalt (US/China) and 8 Capita (Singapore), writes Hugh Mason. The move to build international connections reflects two further disclosures by Collabspot: that two thirds of…

Razmig Hovaghimian, Changseong Ho and Jiwon Moon founded Viki.com in 2007 while they were students. Following a few years on the back-burner while the trio finished their studies, the website offering on-demand streaming video from around the world came out of beta in 2010. Yesterday, Viki.com was valued north of USD200m in a sale to…

The Singapore blogosphere is all atwitter: Viki just got bought for $200MM! That’s the biggest news in Singapore startups in two decades. Not since Creative’s Soundblaster in the 1990s has a Singapore tech company succeeded on such a spectacular scale. Congratulations to Razmig, of course, but what does it mean for the rest of us…

317 digital business startup teams applied before today’s deadline for our second accelerator program this year. The program is scheduled to start on 29 August and the first confirmed participating team is Vault Dragon, led by Singapore locals Tseng Ching-Tse and Vishesh Mittal. They will be joined on the 100 day ideas-to-investment program by 10-12…