Open For Business

We’ve all had a fantasy of being the hero in a storybook, and as films like Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians have shown, seeing someone like yourself represented in media is incredibly powerful and important. Warren Leow is the founder of a startup called Amazing Fables that allows your child to literally become the hero of their own story. He discusses his unique business model, the didactic aim of his stories, and how the company is 100% bootstrapped.

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As more people skew their travel itinerary towards more local-centric experiences, startups like Tralulu have emerged to bridge the gap between tourists and homegrown businesses, while empowering the locals in the process. We speak to Andrew Cua, founder of Tralulu, about the amazing experience that led him here, and why he thinks platforms like Tralulu are pivotal to the local travel scene.

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What exactly is “hotel DNA”, and how can both travelers and business owners use it to their advantage? Alexandra Ramos explains how her company, Travelsify, has discovered an untapped pool of data - and with the help of artificial intelligence, has begun classifying hotels and travel destinations in a whole new way.

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Discover the power of the humble receipt. The guys behind Innergia Labs talk to us about the issues Malaysian retailers are facing today, and how their SYCARDA business analytics system, which mines information from receipts, is helping hundreds of SMEs here prevent shrinkage and pilferage at the till.

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Especially when you’re working a 9 to 5 in an office, it’s easy to neglect proper nutrition OR overcompensate by bringing in plain salads every day. So what is the middle ground? Jackie Leong, founder of Ours Eatery, discusses the importance of the clean eating food community.

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Meetings are boring, right? Julian Jost thinks so too, which is why he founded Spacebase - a platform that connects people with a multitude of conducive spaces, so that meetings can be unique, refreshing, and most importantly, productive.

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City Harbour International School pledges to offer a unique educational experience to your child – one that emphasises on emotional, spiritual, physical and intellectual development, at an affordable price point. Located close to the harbour in Manjung Perak, it is also the only international school in Malaysia to collaborate with Outward Bound School, challenging its students to activities like rafting, rock climbing, sailing and community service, instead of tuition classes, which most students are accustomed to. But with international schools mushrooming all over the country, why should parents choose City Harbour?

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Founded in India, AI-driven marketing-tech platform SilverPush is now expanding into Southeast Asia, to work with brands like Samsung, CocaCola, McDonald’s, Cadbury and Unilever to enhance audience engagement for customers in the region. Silverpush uses advanced technology such as video fingerprinting and content recognition technology to help brands break through the ad clutter, and we speak to them about what’s in store for the company and for us consumers in 2019.

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We all rely on grocery shopping to keep our households healthy and happy. But we don’t often think about where our groceries come from and the logistics of that process. That’s where Wosco, an e-commerce platform that supplies groceries in bulk in a B2B capacity, comes in. Wong Su Yi, the CEO of Wosco, discusses how she came up with the idea for the company and why she decided to oversee the entire supply chain.

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Water heating systems are a dime a dozen and the market is full of options to choose from, which is why Dato Ken Foo and his team at SEERS are always inventing and innovating new ways to crank up the heat, while staying cost efficient and eco-friendly.

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