This week in Asian start-ups

Tech in Asia presents you with the hottest Asian start-ups making the news

CollegeDekho | India

CollegeDekho connects colleges and their course listings with interested students and includes features like a step-by-step search tool that uses basic interests to figure out appropriate colleges and chat forums for prospective and enrolled students in the same college. It also provides information on a variety of entrance exams and rankings.

Bookme | Pakistan 

Pakistani start-up Bookme is an online booking platform for movies, events and bus services. The start-up just announced a partnership with local company Lychee Ventures to bring bus and cinema ticketing services to Yangon.

 

SwarmX | Singapore 

Singapore-based start-up SwarmX wants to make entire drone fleets – and not just individual drones – easy to command, using a system called HiveMind and a hardware called a hive.

Arya.ai | India

Mumbai-based start-up Arya.ai developed a study companion that can store a database of previous research, then help with relevant queries in real time. With the research companion, you can leave the mindless tasks to your robot study buddy and maximise efficiency by only concentrating on the parts of your day you have to put in some good old-fashioned human creativity.


 

BitMEX | Hong Kong 

BitMEX is a real-time Bitcoin-based trading platform. Currently, the service is still limited to currency futures trading, but programs for stock derivatives and other financial products are in the works. Since launching in early 2015, it has garnered 3,400 registered users and is now trading an average of $5 million each day.


 

Loco | Singapore 

Developed by Singapore-based 40Tasks, hyperlocal flash deals site Loco allows brick-and-mortar stores to advertise deals to shoppers passing by, react to different situations, and set up different offers to users.

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