Top 5 Startups in Asia to Watch Out in 2015
Asia has seen a remarkable rise in startups recently, with investment funds continuing to steadily flow in the region. According to CNBC.com, Asia is already ahead over Europe by some $7 billion just in the second quarter of 2015 and now that we’re entering the fourth quarter of the year, we can only expect that the numbers had since increased. From over a hundred startups currently making a buzz in the region, we narrowed down the list to a crucial five. Started local operations in 2014, Kalibrr is a cloud-based job-matching platform that seeks to revolutionize the way candidates find....
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