Entrepreneurs are amazing. Whether they are doing website design for Singapore companies or investing in BitCoin, they sacrifice their resting time and life’s savings to build a product or a service for personal monetary gain, sense of achievement and an honourable desire to make the world a better place for living.
In today’s article, we would like to share with you a list of startups that have the potential to do big things. They may not be the next Facebook or Foursquare, but they are making waves in their corresponding industries by making merchantable ideas coming to life, successfully raising sizeable amounts of money and are gaining traction with customers.
Healthcare is not really intriguing, but with President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act beginning to have an effect, it is certainly becoming appealing in the eyes of entrepreneurs.
Oscar, a web savvy health insurance startup striving to mix tech, design and data to “humanize” healthcare has already signed up “thousands” of customers and has “tens of millions” of dollars in annual revenue in the first few weeks since launching.
According to the movie “Back to the Future Part II”, we should be driving flying cars in 2015. Sorry to disappoint our readers but that is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
However, with Dash, a Techstars-funded, connected car platform, any car can be transformed into a “smart” car. It is a tiny device that plugs into a car’s diagnostic port in order to read particulars about the car, its performance, location so the driver can drive more economically, learn about what’s wrong with the car when it breaks down and be provided with an estimate of how much it will cost to fix.
Dash makes our cars smart. Humin, on the other hand, makes our smartphones smarter.
Sometimes we look at our phone’s contact list, trying to contact a person whom we can remember everything and anything except their names. This is the time when Humin comes in handy. When you meet someone new, Humin can help you recall the context around the moment.
Therefore, instead of an alphabetical contact list, Humin has generated an engine that enables you to search for a contact with terms such as “lives in Orchard Road” or “met at International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis”.
Shaving is something that men do so often, so habitually that most of them have come to regard it as a humdrum task thrust upon them by the civilized world.
The founders of Harry’s have a different opinion on this matter. Instead of being stuck between selecting over-priced razors that disrespect one’s intelligence and cheap razors that disrespect one’s face, Harry’s is determined to consummate extraordinary shaving experiences by rendering a prominent shave at a fair price.
By doing so, it had successfully raised more than $120 million in funding. Just goes to show that startups ideas do not always have to be complicated.
Boxful aspires to give Hong Kong city residents more space by inaugurating a new model for warehouse depository.
Upon request, Boxful supplies weather-proof, stackable boxes to customers to pack up their stuff, which would then be driven to a warehouse facility.
The startup had received US$1.5 million in funding for the venture from angel investors that have not been revealed to the public.
Here are our 5 startups to watch. What’s yours?
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