It claims of saving salespeople 5 hours per week.

Collabspot bills itself as a sales email communication platform which gives salespeople all the tools needed to communicate more efficiently with their prospects.

Founder and CEO Jeremi Joslin said that the company is driven to solve problems that has anything to do regarding email and salespeople.

"A typical sales workflow revolves around two services: email and CRM. Managing and unifying customer data between these two services is already time-consuming that salespeople become distracted from their main goal, to close deals. Collabspot solves this issue by removing unwanted steps in the sales workflow. It removes the need of tedious copy-pasting of data from email to the CRM. This allows salespeople to easily keep the CRM up-to-date."

Joslin added that another time saver is the ability to view past correspondences contained in the CRM without having to leave the mailbox. Skipping such unwanted steps in the sales workflow, he said, allows salespeople to focus more on building genuine customer relationships in order to close deals faster than ever.

"Salespeople spend a majority of their time interacting with leads through emails. Having to sending dozens of emails that are personalized per prospect can be slow and inefficient. It’s also apparent that the good ol’ days of email blasts have come to an end, and now people receive way too much spam. This is why Collabspot built a sales email platform that’s focused on making them more productive."

Joslin boasts that its platform saves salespeople 5 hours per week on average.

The concept of the product, he said, originated from the need to have CRM information and capabilities alongside their email.

"We were previously working on another product and they needed to start handling sales. It’s during this period that we decided to grow the team and have started to use a CRM. The problem came about when we needed to maintain the CRM, as most of our communications are happening through email. We were not maintaining it due to the burden of data entry and always have to switch back-and-forth between email and CRM." 

"As a solution to the pains we encountered regarding CRM management, we went on to build a browser extension that integrates CRM with Gmail. The extension sits right within Gmail, so it can automatically enter data for the user and can display CRM contact information without the user having to leave the mailbox. This has truly boosted the sales productivity of our customers."

As of today, Joslin said that Collabspot is a bootstrapped company.

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COMPANY PROFILE:

Name of the company: Collabspot
Founder/Founders:
Jeremi Joslin
Adler Santos
Gino Tria
John Del Rosario
Website: https://www.collabspot.com
Major Investors: None
Total funding at hand:
Target fund: 800k SGD
Source of funding:Bootstrapped
Start of operation: September 2012 

Items are at 20-70% discounted rates.

FoxySales is an online shop that offers discounted European products to its members. The website has a rapidly growing membership, currently with 35 000 members and works with 180 exclusive brands including Kenzo Kids, Swatch and Pediped.

Their aim is to provide each of their customers with deals that beat all the competition. Sale items are available exclusively to its members, who sign up for free.

The flash sales last for 5 to 7 days. The company aims at offering high-end brands and focuses on quality rather than quantity.

“I was very positively surprised when we started to see the clear interest of our members for emerging brands. It is great to see that not only established international brands are selling well online and when we introduce a brand for the very 1st time on the local market we are always very excited to see how it's going to work. Clearly, parents are looking for quality products for their kids, and not only going for the cheapest product possible. It gives us much more possibilities in the brands selection and makes our job all the more exciting.” Says Alexia Sichère, Founder of FoxySales.

How does a sale work?
Free subscription to be a member on the homepage of the website.
Email invitation to its members every time a brand is launched (daily at noon)

Sale:
Limited period of time (usually one week)

Payment:
Paypal and Visa (secure)

Policy Return:
7 days if the customer is not satisfied with the product(s)

Customer service to its members:
The staff replies individually to its clients as a way to maintain a good and sustainable relationship.
Customer service has been enhanced with a live chat section on the website so the cleints can ask questions while shopping.

Delivery:
The showroom on JooChiat is opened to the clients who desire to collect the goods themselves (and you can also catch some of the collection by WantesLabels).

Otherwise, delivery is free for a minimum of $100 spent.

Brands
o Children’s Apparel: Kenzo Kids, Bobux, Pediped, Little Blue Lamb, Poney baby & kids, IKKS, Catimini, Periwinkle, Gingersnaps, La Faute A Voltaire, Mon Marcel, Chandamama, Little Anh Em, Chilli Padi, Nesting Baby, Jelly the Pug, Dandelion, Libella Bedwear, Adidas, Hello kitty

o Baby stuff: Chicco, Lucky Baby, Baby Art, Skip Hop, Babymel, Think Baby, Action Baby, Mii baby, Hana Wrap, The Teathing Bling, Diaper Dude, Swimava…

o Toys for baby & kids: Sophie the Giraffe, Snoozebaby, Sassy, K’s Kids, Sigikids, Moulin Roty, Spinkie, Topozoo, Winther Trikes, Ybike Original, Rody…

o Educational Toys & books: The Learning Journey, VTech, Scholastic, Leapfrog, Baby Can Read, Baby Einstein, Barefoot Books, Disney Books, Croco Learn, Sesame Street books, Flashcards Factory…
o Maternity: Jojo Maman Bebe, Palmer’s, Anielina, Maternalove, De Mois en Mois…

Women Fashion Brands

o Woman Apparel: Passé Composé, Mademoiselle Sarong, Gat Rimon, Marie-Sixtine, Blune.

o Woman costume jewellery, bags & accessories: Nat & Nin,Missiessy, Mohekann, Sur les toits de Paris, Les Néréides, Les Tropéziennes, Skalli, NoaDya, Simone & Georges.

o Maternity Wear : Jojo Maman Bebe, Palmer’s, Anielina, Maternalove, De Mois en Mois, Supermom ?

COMPANY PROFILE:

Name of the company: Foxysales Pte Ltd
Founder/Founders: Alexia Sichere (founder), Maelle Ternot (partner)
Website: www.foxysales.com
Major Investors: Own funding - Love money - Business Angel - VC
Total funding at hand: S$450K
Target fund: above $2 million
Source of funding: Equity
Start of operation: January 2011

Patients can now make online booking for preferred doctors.

DoctorPage claims it improves healthcare access across Asia by providing a convenient and user-friendly platform that enables patients to search and book appointments with their preferred healthcare providers in a few simple clicks.

The website, DoctorPage.sg, was launched in September 2012 and claims it provides the quickest, most reliable and user-friendly platform for doctors and patients in Singapore and progressively, Asia.

DoctorPage was founded in June 2012 in Singapore by Max-F. Scheichenost, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Dawn Soo, Co-Founder and Chief Information Officer (CIO), and Daniel Endres, Chief Operating Officer (COO).

"The e-health platform is a free portal for patients, with clean pages that are easy to navigate, whether they are looking for doctors by specialty or by location," said Scheichenost

Once a selection has been made, the website responds quickly and at a glance, users are able to see the doctor’s experience, affiliations, the location of his clinic and even concise directions to get there. Patients can then make real-time appointment bookings with their preferred doctors and will be able to see a doctor as early as the same day. In addition, patients will also be prompted when there is an available slot that was cancelled last minute to decrease the waiting time to see a doctor.

Scheichenost also noted that DoctorPage also functions as a platform for doctors to provide relevant information about their practice to potential patients. Doctors may include details such as professional mission, description of area of specialization, qualifications, hospital affiliations and professional memberships. They may also include professional pictures of themselves, their colleagues and practice.

Additionally, a complementary customer relationship management system (CRM) is provided to the healthcare professionals to help optimize patient flow and clinic efficiency, he added. 

DoctorPage launched its mobile website in October 2012 to help patients book doctors’ appointments on the move. It launched the updated version of the iOS and iPad applications in November, and they are available for download on iTunes. 

Since its establishment, DoctorPage claims that it has become the number one e-health portal in Singapore, according to Alexa, global web metrics provider.

Currently, it has more than 12,000 doctors online with 400 doctors on its database with an active real-time appointment booking system.

In addition, the DoctorPage mobile application has been ranked the fastest healthcare app of its kind by users in Singapore and was awarded a five-star rating by users in the iTunes App Store. At the same time, medical professionals in Singapore have given their seal of approval to the app as the number one mobile app they trust. 

"The upside potential of DoctorPage lies in the aggregation and specialization of the service. Doctors have the benefit of a physician and a team of online-marketing experts as founding managers, maintaining their website and looking out for important details to constantly improve the product. On the other hand, patients find a clean and user-friendly product which will take the hassle out of making appointments with
the specialist they seek," said Scheichenost.

According to Scheichenost, with an increasing adoption rate from both doctors and patients, the team behind DoctorPage is able to "efficiently" react and respond to feedback provided by users. This gives DoctorPage, he said, the opportunity to develop and improve the service, ensuring that it meets the needs of both the medical professionals and patients.

DoctorPage is continually working to build a greater experience for all parties involved, be it on the web or mobile. Scheichenost shared that the focus from the beginning has been to build a "highly scalable IT-infrastructure" so that it can internationalize quickly. However, DoctorPage also wants to concentrate on specific markets where it can build an "absolute" market leader position – as it is the case for Singapore. With plans to expand to the rest of Asia, DoctorPage envisions to be the largest e-health portal in Asia.

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COMPANY PROFILE

Name of the company: DoctorPage.sg
Founder/Founders: Max-F. Scheichenost, Daniel Endres, Dr Dawn Soo
Website: www.doctorpage.sg
Major Investors:
Michael Brehm is the Founder and Managing Director of Rebate Networks, one of the leading Daily Deal holdings worldwide. He also facilitated the establishment of VZ Netzwerke, Germany’s largest Social Network and has investments in many of Europe’s leading internet companies.
Damian Doberstein is Co-Founder of Russia’s largest e-commerce company, KupiVIP.
Christian Gaiser is the Founder of KaufDa, (acquired by Axel Springer AG in 2011) and CEO and Founder of Bonial International Group, the largest network for location-based shopping information worldwide.
Tim Marbach, Founder of KaufDa and Business Angel, Value Invest, a venture fund that specializes in e-commerce, Alps Ventures, as well as other prominent investors from Singapore.
Total funding at hand: Cannot be disclosed
Target fund: Cannot be disclosed
Source of funding:
Start of operation: June 2012, Launched 18. September 2012 

It boasts of over 1,200 likes as of January.

Collegify has diverse team of mentors comprising graduates from leading global universities, including Yale, Columbia, MIT, Virginia Tech, Rutgers (USA), Imperial College (UK), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Management University (Singapore), amongst others.

Additionally, co-founder Rohan Pasari boasts that by having an NTU faculty member on its team, whose prior experience includes not only studying and teaching in leading universities in the US but also being part of admissions committees, provides a great value addition to their clients.

With particular emphasis on providing quality personalized attention, Pasari notes that Collegify uses technology to structure the college application process and make the students college ready. “We believe that every student is different, and Collegify strives to find the “perfect fit” for every individual by bringing clarity and in-depth knowledge to the process. Unlike the agency model, where the service is not student-centric and students are ‘encouraged’ to study at partner universities, at Collegify, mentorship is provided with the best interests of the student in mind and strives to help them enter their dream universities.”

In the current (on going) application season for Fall 2013 admissions, Pasari said that Collegify has already helped students get accepted into Wharton, Brown, Cambridge, Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt University (100% scholarship for MBA), with several other results still pending.

“Previously, students from Collegify have been accepted into Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, UCL, and Imperial, just to name a few. We take pride in our 100% placement record with students working with us for five or more colleges.”

On Facebook, Pasari claims that they are the most ‘liked’ applications consulting group in Singapore with over 1,200 likes as of Jan 2013.

Recognizing that innovation spurs both quality and growth, Collegify is introducing a revolutionary online platform to restructure the entire college application process for undergraduate, postgraduate, and MBA students.

“ “Collegify.com”, which is our proprietary web portal, will host this tool starting April 2013. We understand that the college application process can be tedious and stressful. Students often struggle to manage multiple applications and tend to be very confused when pursuing the various options available for their tertiary education.”

According to Pasari, Collegify.com’s online application system will provide a comprehensive set of tools to help students structure their applications in an easy and efficient manner. “We will provide them with a complete suite of solutions that will be helpful to students when applying to their dream universities.”

Besides the portal, Collegify aims to venture into other areas in the education space through career workshops, entrepreneurship seminars, and speaker series. 

COMPANY PROFILE:
 

Founder/Founders: Rohan Pasari, Stanley Chia Dingli (board member of two national committees (Our Singapore Conversations & REACH Supervisory Panel), Dr. Jitamitra Desai
Website: www.collegify.com.sg
Major Investors: Self-funded till date
Total funding at hand: SGD 100k
Target fund: SGD 250k
Source of funding: Self funded + Operational Revenue; Currently looking for Angel Investments
Start of operation: Jan 2012

Check out if this travel portal got guts.

Flocations aggregates travel products to find what's available to each travelers and make it easy for them to select the ones matching their wishes.

Founders boast that it's very different from any other travel search product, which all focus on finding the price once the person knows where they want to go.

“Many people don't know, or even don't care of the destination. It is said that around 40% of visitors on an airline website are just browsing destinations. They just know they want to travel. The important part is the experience, what they will do once there. Hence Flocations allows to compare destinations available to a person (because a traveller from Singapore will not go to NYC for a weekend for example, but has 50+ destinations available by flight from the closest airport... which would take a lot of time to compare manually - I know it, I used to spend nights doing it,” said co-founder Florian Cornu

After starting with flights, Cornu said that the company is now integrating full packages, so that their users can have an answer to their question "What can I do for $500 next weekend?", by getting both flights and accommodations for them.

“ The vision is to provide traveller the fastest, easiest, most fun experience to find their trips. Many criteria are to be considered as it's not just about flights, hotels, places, but things like weather, activities, seasons, people have to be considered. Think about it, what is your best travel experience? if you have been in a perfect place but it was raining, that probably ruined your trip. On the other hand, an underrated place might have been fantastic for you because you met a local artist, other travellers or even your partner”

How the company started?

According to Cornu, the corporate story of Flocations is that it started as a StartupUpWeekend project, with a "wow effect" on Sunday evening.

“Imagine, in 54h we had acquired flight schedules and prices from different Southeast Asia airlines, mapped them and made it fun to search flight destinations.”

According to Cornu, the team remained together to work part time on it for a few months, until it turned down US$250,000 from Singapore TV reality show Angel's Gate and went to startup accelerator JFDI.

“JFDI's Demo Day introduced us to more than 10 serious investors. We reviewed the people involved in the different funds, the value they would bring to the table and the personality matches to analyse the different term sheets we received. We chose to go with TNF Ventures and announced a S$700k funding in December 2013.”

The Team

The team could not be more international than it is: 4 cofounders, 5 nationalities, 6 languages.

“We have backgrounds ranging from VoIP, M&A in a big smartphone company, Finance in a leading Asset Manager firm,” said Cornu.

According to Cornu, the four founders are now all based in Singapore. Founders believe Singapore to be the fastest growing travel market with middle class expanding on a daily basis.

He notes that the 3 biggest aircrafts orders in history have been made by Asian companies over the past 2 years (AirAsia, Lion Air and IndiGo).

Corporate Profile

Name of the company:
Flocations

Founder/Founders
Shaw Chian
Venkatraman Dhamodaran
Tudor Coman
Florian Cornu

Website:
Flocations.com

Major Investors:
TNF Ventures, Singtel Innov8, JFDI

Total funding at hand:
S$715,000

Start of operation: 2012
 

Renters can now simply use their mobile phones to unlock the car and start driving.

iCarsclub bills itself as a revolutionary personal mobility solution for everybody. It’s a marketplace where car owners can list their vehicles and rent it out, and those who need a car can rent a nearby one by hour or day at low rate.

As a renter, you simply search for nearby cars on iCarsclub website and make a booking with the online payment support. Later you can use you mobile phone to unlock the car without meeting the owner and start driving!

iCarsclub was founded in May 2012, with the mission of collecting all the free resources from the society and making them easily accessible to everyone.

iCarsclub first went live on 12/12/2012 in Singapore, with support from NUS Enterprise. 

Here’s what founders said when asked what makes them unique from other car rental companies: 

“We don’t invest any money in buying cars, but rather in building up a platform to facilitate the sharing and re-using the resources. We build up the framework including the system, the rules, the channels etc. so that the market place will be running properly. With such model, not renters on iCarsclub can enjoy the convenience anytime anywhere, but they also have variety of choice. From compact cars to luxury cars, you can always find something meet your favor on iCarsclub,”

Besides the innovative business model, iCarsclub also invented the keyless entry technology. 

By installing a smart device, which we called iCarbox, into the owner’s car, the renter can simply use their mobile phone to unlock the car and start driving.

Founders boast that it got hot response from the community since it was launched. During the past month, iCarsclubgot over 150 car owners and over 500 renters joining the marketplace.

Founders said that the big picture for the next 6 months is to establish its brand in the Singapore car sharing market.

“ We will have 1000 cars on our platform by June 2013. After that we will enter other markets, especially the China market.”

“In terms of offering, we’ll form strategic partnership with more merchants relevant to the automotive industry to provide more benefits to our members. Up to now we have formed partnership with Esso, which offers exclusive 20% petrol discount to our members, and several car servicing workshops that offers 20%-30% discount on car washing, polishing grooming etc.”

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COMPANY PROFILE

 Name of the company: iCarsclub Pte Ltd
Founder/Founders: Eddy Zhang, Joya Zhao, Chengkun Xue, Jamie Wang
Website: https://iCarsclub.com
Major Investors: bootstrapped
Total funding at hand: N.A.
Target fund: $500K-$1M
Start of operation: 2012 May