One of Singapore’s local tech startup heroes, Darius Cheung launched his second startup, Billpin last year. BillPin lies in the social money management space and enables friends to track their shared expenses to figure out who owes whom how much, so that there are less embarrassing moments of badgering friends for monies owed.
The young startup just announced the launch of their Android app, to extend the OS universe in which they play in. Their iOS version was launched back in August 2012. In addition, the less-than-a-year-old startup just raised a seed round of 40K USD with Singapore’s NUS Enterprise and government under the iJAM investment-grant scheme.
We’ve been hoping for an in-app payment solution from the team, but looks like the feature will still be in the making for a while longer.
BillPin is a team of 5 that includes four others that have also had experiences with startups: Saurabh Mandar of tenCube, now McAfee (together with Darius); Aileen Sim of FirstMeta (bank for virtual economies); Ruiwen Chua of Remember (that was one of the 11 startups under startup incubator, JFDI.asia); and Anuj Bheda of Chalkboard.
After the acquisition of tenCube by McAfee in 2010, observers have been eagerly anticipating what Darius Cheung, co-founder of the mobile security company, might work on as his next venture.
They didn’t have to wait too long for his second act: His new app, BillPin, was released on iTunes over the weekend. Read more
The last Developer Garage Meetup is happening in December. Darius Cheung of tenCube and Eddie Chau of Brandtology, who brought their startups to great heights, will speak during the session. This is especially poignant as the unstable global economic climate looms.
Event Details
When: Friday, 2nd December 2011
Time: 330pm-6pm
Where: Yellow Pages Building, 1 Lor 2 Toa Payoh Level 5 Singapore 319637 (Map)
RSVP in their FB page event.
Next Wednesday, NUS Entrepreneurship Centre will hold a panel discussion entitled “Startup Asia: Top strategies for cashing in Asia’s Innovation Boom”. It will reveals the winning strategies of a new generation of entrepreneurs who no longer look to Facebook, Amazon and eBay for cues but are crafting their own business models, going global, and scoring IPOs on Wall Street. The panel includes Koh Soo Boon of iGlobe Partners, Wong Kok Cheong of Sparky Animation, Darius Cheung of tencube Wavesecure. Rebecca A. Fannin and Prof Wong Poh Kam will act as moderators.
Event Details
When: Wednesday, 16th November 2011
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm (Registration starts at 6:00pm)
Where: Blk 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent #02-18, Singapore 139951 (Map)
Register here.
TiE Singapore will organize their ‘Technology’ Special Interest Group event this Wednesday. Within the 2 hours, there will be a provoking discussion on the topic of “The Dynamics of Startup Financing”. The discussion will be moderated by Hian Goh of Asian Food Channel. James Chan of Neoteny Labs, Darius Cheung of tenCube, Scott Rafer of Lumatic, and Arrif Ziaude are the panelists.
Event Details
When: Wednesday, 2nd November 2011
Time: 1830-2000
Where: Seminar Room @ Mochtar Riady Auditorium, Level 5, SMU Administration Building (Map)
Darius Cheung, one of the Singapore Youth Awards winners and founder of mobile security firm tenCube, will be one of the speakers in Startup Roots Speaker Series this week, 14 Jul. Beside him will be James Chan, Investment Manager at Neoteny Labs and Co-Founder of Startup Roots Singapore, who will speak about Startup Roots “Going Global: The Future of Startup Roots”. Read more
Darius Cheung, founder of mobile security firm tenCube, is one of four individual winners of this year’s Singapore Youth Award.
The Award, started in 1975, is Singapore’s highest recognition for under 35s who have excelled in areas like entrepreneurship, science, and the arts. Read more
Recently, TenCube, one of our local mobile security companies have made a lot of headway in the international scene. First they won the recent Google Android Challenge 2 competition with their flagship product, WaveSecure. We have received news from Darius Cheung, the CEO of TenCube, since it is near Christmas, as a giveback to Android users support that made their ADC win possible, they are offering an unlimited free lifetime account for Android users. To do that, the users can head over to Android Market and download WaveSecure before 31st Jan 2010, the new user will be able to enjoy a free WaveSecure account for as long as you use that Android device. Read more
Filed under Mobile, NewsTags: Darius Cheung, Google Android Challenge, Mobile, NAVTEQ, Nokia, Ovi, security, SingTel, TenCube, wavesecure
It has been three years since TenCube won the Start-Up@Singapore business plan competition. Over the past three years, TenCube has launched their product WaveSecure and won accolades including their recent award in the “Emerging Stage Category” for Mobile Monday Peer Awards. While Darius Cheung (CEO of TenCube) has been contributing to SGE as a writer, we have not been able to get him down for an interview. Since Darius and I met in the Nokia Developer Summit 2009, we decided to sit down for an interview and talked about the recent developments of >TenCube and its product, WaveSecure and how TenCube is navigating through the financial crisis and also some thoughts on their engagement with a major corporation like Nokia. Read more
Filed under Featured, General, Interviews, MobileTags: Darius Cheung, Mobile Apps, Mobile Monday, Mobile Security, Nokia, Nokia Developer Summit 2009, Ovi Store, QT/WRT, Singapore Entrepreneur, TenCube, wavesecure
Today, tenCube Pte. Ltd. launches revolutionary mobile phone security service “WaveSecure“, first-of-its-kind service prevents phone data loss and protects privacy. Read more
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