FROM THE EDITOR Singapore’s hottest startups set to soar
Publisher & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Tim Charlton Assistant Editor Jason Oliver Art Director Jane Kristine Cruz
In this issue of Singapore Business Review
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Singapore’s ten hottest start-ups to watch, or work for, in 2012.
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Our methodology was to ask some of the leading
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venture capitalists in Singapore to name the
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hottest and most talked about start-ups and from that we got a list of over 28 companies, which we have whittled down to just ten hot start-ups to watch. Many of these start-ups were also mentioned by several of the venture capitalists we talked to.
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What makes this list particularly interesting is that it is very different from similar lists which are coming out of the United States and tend to focus overwhelmingly on tech start-ups. To be sure there are some web companies on our list, such as Anafore, which is involved in social e-commerce.
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What the lists shows is that Singapore is still an inventive, entrepreneurial city and that the future still belongs to those who dare to try something new.
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