Startup Roots Speaker Series: Product Management and Design In Practice – 7 Jul

This Thursday (7 July), Zihuan Wee, Wen Huang and Gary Teo from Savant Degrees, as well as Andy Croll from Anideo and Nav Pawera from Bubble Motion and Opera will share about Product Management and Design In Practice during Startup Roots Speaker Series session. Read more

Bubble Motion Raises USD 10M from Singtel Innov8 and IIPL

Mobile social communication company Bubble Motion has just raised a USD 10M (SGD 12.6M) round of funding led by SingTel Innov8, the communications giant, SingTel Group’s corporate venture capital fund. This round also includes IDA’s Infocomm Investments (IIPL), Sequoia Capital, Palomar Ventures, and NGC. Read more

TWIA #61: This is Social Media!

Starting off with congrats to Mike Foong with his 4th kid, Myra Ines Foong, the TWIA crew is back to discuss the interesting stories that dominate the Asian mobile, web & tech landscape this week. While we look back at Open Web Asia Conference & Google Dev Fest in KL, we also discussed interesting stories covering from iPads selling out in Singapore to an Asian company called Bubble Motion funded by Sequoia and how it’s kicking ass in India. If you are not impressed, then the gaffe from MOL CEO, Ganesh Kumar Bangah on his rival OffGamers’ FB page surely hits the most entertaining story of the week in Asia. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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Interview with Sunil Coushik, co-founder of Ogywawa

Sometime back, I was invited by Preetam Rai to attend the launch of Ogywawa, an interesting web service integrating with the mobile phone for users to buy drinks for friends. If this is not interesting, Sunil Coushik, the co-founder of Ogywawa, started the company BubbleMotion (funded by Sequoia Capital and based in Singapore). We managed to get him to come on board to talk about Ogywawa and the challenges ahead for this festive season if you are thinking of gatherings and meetings with friends from clubs to pubs.

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