K-Cube Ventures invests $500M won in Mobile Beauty Content Company “Seed Paper” Seed paper shares practical beauty tips for its users through its mobile lifestyle content platform. The service is linked KakaoTalk Plus Friend, which is a premium service from Korea’s top mobile messaging platform, KakaoTalk. Well-known experts in the field of beauty and cosmetics, including Hong Cha, Saem-Mul Jung, and Hyun-Cheung Woo, provide practical tips through the service, which includes tips…

On September 16, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) opened the ‘Born Global Startups’ (forgive the slightly dodgy name) project at the Future Global Business Start-up Support Center in Seoul. The twenty selected teams, three accelerators and two business incubation centers participated in the event. The aim is to support startups with strategy and to attract investment. The program will also finance three Korean incubators including Venture Square (teamed…

Korea is still seeing some immense growth. According to the Korean Venture Capital Association, venture capital firms in Korea raised $191 million in the first quarter this year, up slightly from $189  million in 2012. Interestingly, there is a general slowdown in the U.S. startup scene – U.S. venture capital firms raised $4.1 billion from 35 funds during the first quarter of this year according to the National Venture Capital Association (this is about a 34%…

뛰어난 기술과 서비스는 교육의 발전에 영향을 끼친다. 전 세계 중 특히 아시아 지역은 소비자, 인터넷, 온라인 교육에 대한 의지가 대단하기 때문에 대부분이 인터넷을 사용하고 온라인 교육을 선호한다. 아시아 지역의 교육 기업 정착에 관한 좋은 성과를 기대할 수 밖에 없다.   교육 분야의 창업자라면 알고 넘어가자! – 교육 분야의 창업자들은 교육의 ‘가치’를 재정립 할 필요가 있다고 한다. 사실은 ‘비용’의 문제이다. – 인터넷 사용량도 사실 상관 없다. – 향후 20년 안에 교육 시스템을 바꾸고자 하는 의지가 있다면, 교육 분야에 진출을 계속 준비해도 좋다. – 미국에서는 저소득층 아이들을,…

First-come, first-serve! ‘beLAUNCH 2013’ will be providing FREE standard promotion videos for the first 10 startups who register for startup booths! Please note that the startups have to provide a script to introduce their services and provide $100 to pay for the voice-overs. Setting Up a booth at beLAUNCH 2013 is a great way to reach out to potential customers, partners, investors and media directly. beLAUNCH will be attended by entrepreneurs, startup…

Once again, for your weekend reading, we have for you a compilation of all the startups in Asia, Tech in Asia has covered this week.