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Zoposh launching soon to take on Malaysia’s real estate ‘cowboys’

Zoposh is a three-week-old idea for an improved property listing platform in Malaysia from Co-founders Gadiy Lim and Claire Berneron. The idea is that finding a place in the country will be made faster, more relevant and safer. The website is due to beta launch in two weeks, but visitors will already be greeted by the landing page […]

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Two-man startup Gigfairy secures US$28K pre-seed funding

GIGFAIRY, which operates a community marketplace that matches musicians with (what else?) gigs and promoters, said it has secured RM100,000 (approximately US$28,000) in pre-seed funding in a round led by Endeavor Capitals, an investment company based in Kuala Lumpur. Gigfairy was a winner in Batch 4 of the 1337 Accelerator programme, operated by 1337 Ventures,

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Airbnb for live music Gigfairy raises small but telling pre-seed

Malaysian startup Gigfairy, a community marketplace for artists and promoters, today announced raising about US$28,000 in pre-seed funding led by Endeavour Capitals. The three-month-old startup plans to use the money to boost product development and spur user acquisitions in the region. A release noted that the funding comes a month after 1337 Ventures invested in and included Gigfairy in

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Malaysia’s Airbnb for live music lands seed funding to bring good music to the world

Malaysia’s Airbnb for live music, Gigfairy, today announced the raising of MYR 100,000 (US$27,000) in a seed funding round led by local investment firm Endeavor Capitals. The investment comes quickly after the live music startup won the recently concluded edition of the Alpha Startups pre-accelerator program, in which they received US$3,000 and mentorship from 1337

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Both hiring and being a professional musician just became a whole lot easier with Gigfairy

“I’m a musician!” These are three words that typically raise the eyebrows of your conversation partners – and the ones of those within earshot – unless you’re in South Korea. It’s common knowledge that being an instrumentalist or vocalist by profession is a tough life – it’s hard to land regular gigs or make a

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GigFairy, CLOSETStyles win at 1337 Ventures’ pre-accelerator initiative

Malaysia-based 1337 Ventures has announced the two winners of its five-day Alpha Startups pre-accelerator programme (Batch 4) — GigFairy, a live music booking platform, and CLOSETStyles, a C2C fashion marketplace app for ladies. They were chosen from an initial batch of 40 teams. The programme ran from January 5 to January 9, 2015. 1337 Ventures has also announced five new separate investments.

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5 Startup Baru Menerima Dana Dari 1337 Ventures

Terdapat pelbagai aktiviti memfokuskan startup yang telahpun berlangsung pada tahun lepas. Aktiviti seumpama pitching, hackathon, malahan tinggal bersama-sama untuk beberapa bulan bagi melaksakan aplikasi yang diinginkan telah berjalan. Salah satu organisasi yang bergiat dalam perkara ini adalah 1337 Ventures, yang sebelum ini pernah hadir dengan programGeeks On A Plane pada tahun 2013.

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1337 Ventures gives RM10,000 to Alpha Startups Batch 4 Winners, Invests in five new startups

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 15): Two startups, GigFairy and ClosetStyles, emerged as winners at the Batch 4 Demo Day of1337 Ventures’ Alpha Startups programme yesterday, snagging a RM10,000 cash prize each as well as further opportunities and mentorship from 1337 Ventures. ClosetStyles is a C2C fashion exchange platform, while GigFairy is a discovery and booking platform for

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