Asia Pacific Startup Winners At TiE50 2011

Founded in 1992, TiE is a global, not-for-profit network of entrepreneurs and professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship and today counts over 14,000 members in 54 chapters across 13 countries. Its flagship event, TiECon is held yearly and billed as the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs. At this event, the top 50 technology startups under TiE50 – TiE Silicon Valley’s premier annual awards program keenly contested by thousands of technology startups worldwide – are announced. Here’s a look at the startups from Asia Pacific who are TiE50 2011 winners across the five categories:

Software/Cloud Computing

OrangeScape (India)

OrangeScape is a pioneer platform company one of the leaders in the Cloud Application Platform (PaaS – Platform-as-a-Service) space. OrangeScape is one of the Global 10 companies featured in Gartner`s PaaS Competitive Landscape report and proud to be the only company outside of USA in that report. OrangeScape is also featured in all of the PaaS reports from Forrester. Profile on TiE.

Internet/Social Networking

It seems like there is no winner from Asia Pacific for this category…

Mobile/Wireless

Luna Ergonomics Pvt Ltd (India)

Luna Ergonomics is a technology R&D start up in India who are the inventors of a new technology that offers people to type in all languages of India and the world on the existing basic phone, without a printed keypad and yet offers unprecedented speed, ease and comfort to type. Using this new technology, one can demonstrably type in Hindi or Arabic on the phone faster than one can type in English on an equivalent phone today. The technology is already developed and running on the phone for 22 major languages of the world of every linguistic family. Profile on TiE.

Cinemacraft Pvt Ltd (Japan)

Cinemacraft is building an Interactive mobile broadcast platform for rich media distribution. The server side is cloud based. Our patent pending encoder/decoder compression and format (Prime Streaming Format) technologies combined with our HTML compliant player provides a single solution that can be used to stream video, images, and audio to any mobile device on any network. Through this, consumers can experience live and on-demand mobile video, animation, stereo music, interactive social media and interactive games. Profile on TiE.

Energy/Clean Tech

LanzaTech (New Zealand)

LanzaTech was founded in early 2005 to develop and commercialize proprietary technologies for the production of lowest cost fuel ethanol from gases produced by the steel industry. LanzaTech has expanded the focus of its process development program to include other industrial off gases and synthesis gas from gasification. LanzaTech is now able to offer an integrative waste gas to fuels and chemicals technology having successfully demonstrated the production of platform chemicals through its process. Today the company employs a strong technical team of 60 staff internationally, has a rapidly growing patent portfolio and is making rapid progress taking its process from pilot to commercial scale. Profile on TiE.

Life Sciences

It seems like there is no winner from Asia Pacific for this category…

Congrats to all the winners! You can check out the Singapore chapter of TiE here.

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