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A night for tech start-ups in Singapore

Chan Chi-Loong
Last updated: June 13, 2014 at 4:49 PM
Chan Chi-Loong Published March 11, 2009
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Firstly, a big thank you to the folks who took time out of their busy lives to come down for our first meet-the-techgoondus event last night. We hope you had fun, learnt something, and made some useful contacts.

Originally I had a crowd of about 20 to 25 in mind when I first planned this session, but it seems that word-of-mouth was so good that we roughly doubled that amount.

Besides the seven start-ups who did present their stuff in an informal unconference-styled event, we had a smattering of interested attendees from PR agencies, vendor brands, fellow bloggers (a shoutout to Daniel and Chinmay from Tech65), traditional media, analysts, Web2.0 community activists, and interested kay-poh friends.

Start-ups who presented include:

  • Twinity (Jeremy Snyder): a 3D online-world that replicates real world cities in a virtual environment. The city of Berlin has already been launched, and both London and Singapore will be up later this year. According to Jeremy, they have about a 100,000 sign-ups since the launch of Twinity in September last year in 2008.
  • Brandtology (Aaron Koh): a social media monitoring start-up that help companies makes sense of the big bad web by mining sentiments from it. Brandtology is founded by CEO Eddie Chau, who previously incubated managed security services player e-Cop that was acquired by Temasek in 2007.
  • Makeaffinity (Thomas Tan): ever wanted to control robots over the internet to slug it out in a death match? Now you can with Makeaffinity’s robot sharing platform, which allows folks to play with and make web robots without much programming whatsoever.
  • 2359 Media (Hong Ting and Wenhan): founded by a trio of passionate entrepreneurs who just finished their NUS studies and a stint in Silicon Valley. 2359 Media is an advertising platform for mobile phones utilizing location based services.
  • Jorbb (Shen Heng): Most job advertising portals cater to the white-collar worker. Shen wanted to create a portal specifically for blue-collar workers — part-timers, trade promoters, temp staff — and Jorbb is the result.
  • Neat Co (Sarabjit Singh): Neat co, a small US company with a second office in Singapore, was the only physical tech appliance company amongst the presenters. Showcased was their contextually aware OCR reader, a smart scanning solution for receipts and the like.
  • Phokki (Sean Seah): And lastly, Phokki, a start-up which turns your photos into works of art via a platform that links artists to end users directly. I’ve written a post on Phokki before.

We had a couple of other start-ups who didn’t present like seemeCV and Airvert. Not to worry. Due to good interest in this first event from anecdotal feedback (thanks to those who gave theirs!), the Techgoondus will think about running this on a semi-regular basis once in a few months. Will keep you readers posted if we do run this again. Meanwhile, if you’re interested in ideas on this front, feel free to drop me an email.

It’s important to recap that Techgoondu started this because we believe that the tech start-ups don’t get enough visibility through traditional channels. Daniel, who runs the Youngupstarts blog, summed up this sentiment well in this entry, saving me the time of having to reiterate the purpose of the meet-ups. 🙂

Lastly, events like this work because of the content and passion attendees bring when they come for such an event — YOU folks provide the content. Feedback is crucial to understanding what works or what doesn’t. If you attended the event (or even if you didn’t), please feel free to give your unvarnished feedback on this post, or drop me a note via email. Thanks!

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10 Comments
  • Jeff says:
    April 6, 2009 at 4:20 pm

    great stuff. would love to be there for the next one.

    Reply
  • ezprezzo says:
    March 12, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    Guys,

    thanks for holding this event on a regular basis here at Geek Terminal. This sort of forum definitely helps Geek Terminal to be what it is meant to be.

    See you for the next one!

    Warmest Regards,
    Danny

    Reply
  • Sean Seah says:
    March 11, 2009 at 10:40 pm

    Jeez…you guys thinking of doing this on a semi-regular? How can that be? It should be a monthly event!

    This is definitely a great event and you guys should think of doing this regularly and help more young startups like us. Great work guys!

    Reply
  • Chi-Loong says:
    March 11, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    Yeah. A big thank you to Geek Terminal for letting us use the place and AV for the event!

    Thanks for the feedback folks!

    Reply
  • Shen Heng says:
    March 11, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    Hi Chi-Loong,

    Thanks for organising the event and letting us present Jorbb.com.

    Attached is our PR, should you wish to write about our platform.

    http://www.prweb.com/releases/jorbb/sept2008/prweb1296384.htm

    Will look out for the next event!

    Shen

    Reply
  • APLINK says:
    March 11, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    hey it was an awesome turnout and all the startups who presented have very cool ideas… i think also the Venue: Geek Terminal allows for these kind of meetings to happen so thanks to the Geek Terminal for the venue & AV sponsorship too …

    Reply
  • Daniel Goh says:
    March 11, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    Hi Chi-Loong,

    Thanks for the shoutout! It’s heartwarming to see more support for the local startups, and I hope to see more events such as this to spur more interaction.

    Sorry I wasn’t able to turn up, was stuck in another event.

    All the best.

    Reply

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