Marketplaces Startups

ZuBlu is an online travel agency for booking scuba diving holidays, offering handpicked dive resorts and liveaboards with expert travel advisors and a guest concierge service. It provides tailored dive itineraries across destinations including the Maldives, Indonesia, the Philippines, the Red Sea, and the Caribbean.

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ZuBlu is an online booking platform and travel agency for scuba diving holidays, offering handpicked dive resorts and liveaboards with expert travel advisors and a guest concierge service. It serves divers planning trips to destinations including the Maldives, Indonesia, the Philippines, the Red Sea, and the Caribbean.

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Zuzuche is an online platform for booking overseas car rentals, offering support across the booking, pickup, usage, and return process for self-drive travel. It serves Chinese travelers renting vehicles in nearly 200 countries worldwide.

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Zwende is an online marketplace selling handcrafted products and gifts made by artisans across India, including items such as Rakhi and Raksha Bandhan gifts. The platform features weekly new launches and works with women-led businesses.

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Kardix is a Persian-language job search platform that aggregates specialized job listings from multiple recruitment platforms into one site, letting users browse and apply to openings at leading companies. Users can register, complete a profile, and receive weekly emails of new job postings tailored to their chosen fields.

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StudySenior (공부선배) is a one-stop education platform connecting students and parents with private academies (학원), offering admissions information and counseling for students/parents and operational and procurement tools for academy owners. It serves the South Korean private education market.

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Dear Monday is a Korean booking platform for workations and vacation stays, offering hotel rooms, packages, and premium day-office access across regions of South Korea. It also lists government-subsidized rural and regional workation programs for individuals and groups.

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Online marketplace platform that connects consumers and sellers for product transactions. The company operates as a communications sales intermediary managing service usage, payments, and dispute resolution.

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Vely Monkeys (블리몽키즈) operates a retail platform that helps Korean beauty (K-beauty) brands enter the Indian market, connecting some 1,300 vetted brands from listing through local distribution via a proprietary AI system. It runs the Maccaron (Maccaron.in) K-beauty commerce service and operates an Indian subsidiary that analyzes local regulations and market trends.

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Yeolmae Company is Korea's first issuer of investment contract securities, offering fractional investment in artworks. Its Art&Guide service lets investors buy shares of art pieces as part of the security token offering (STO) market.

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ONE store operates a South Korean independent app marketplace for distributing mobile apps and games, offering developers lower commission rates and a web-based D2C payment platform. It also runs digital content platforms for web novels, webtoons, and eBooks, an advertising platform for developers, and a global one-build app market expanding to around 120 countries.

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A matchmaking platform that connects clients with vetted video/content production studios, handling team recommendations, quotes, portfolio comparison, 1:1 consultation, meeting scheduling, contracts, and payment management. Production companies bid on project requests, allowing clients to compare studios and pricing in one place.

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Zimssa operates a platform that connects consumers with vetted partners to obtain quotes for moving, cleaning, transport, and internet services in South Korea. It provides dispute resolution and a compensation program ("Anshim Plus") to handle issues such as cancellations, damage, or unexpected fees.

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Kowork operates a job-search and recruitment platform for foreigners seeking employment in South Korea, connecting international talent with Korean employers across professional and production roles. It also provides related services covering visas, studying abroad, and settling into life in Korea.

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Trashbusters offers a single-source platform for event supplies and infrastructure, spanning 14 product categories such as tents and lighting, so event planners can source everything in one place instead of coordinating multiple vendors. It serves event organizers in South Korea.

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Heydealer is an online used-car marketplace in South Korea where consumers can buy and sell used cars, get scrap-car quotes, and check vehicle history. Listed vehicles are curated and offered with accident-free guarantees, a one-year free warranty, free nationwide delivery, and free refunds for buyer's remorse.

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Akiya Katsuyo (空き家活用株式会社) builds systems to bring vacant homes back into the market in Japan, including a portal connecting vacant-home owners with users and developing new reuse models for such properties. The company focuses on addressing Japan's vacant-housing problem and local community revitalization.

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WATCHNIAN is a brand centered on wristwatches, with a stated mission of promoting the "circulation" (resale/reuse) of watches. The page explains the meaning behind the brand name, logo, and mascot character but gives no concrete product or service details.

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Gaxi (株式会社ガクシー) operates a Japanese online scholarship search platform where students can find and apply for scholarships, grants, and tuition-reduction programs offered by foundations, companies, and governments. It provides search tools, rankings, and editorial content covering domestic and overseas study funding for high school, university, graduate, and vocational students in Japan.

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Giftee provides a platform for sending gifts in various forms—digital gifts, experience gifts, and physical items—through a unified interface. The company aims to reduce friction in gift-giving for individuals, corporations, and municipalities.

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Cookbiz operates a job-placement and recruitment service focused on the food-service and restaurant industry in Japan, matching cooks, kitchen staff, and other hospitality workers with employers. Career advisors support job seekers from interview through onboarding, and the service is free to candidates under a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare certification.

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クルマテラス is a Japanese used-car dealer that helps people who struggle to pass loan screenings—such as freelancers, sole proprietors, single parents, non-regular workers, and foreign residents—buy a car through partnered credit-company loans. It also offers used-car purchasing, auction agency services, vehicle sourcing, and acts as an insurance agent, serving customers in regional Japan where a car is a daily necessity.

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A Japanese company that issues and operates digital securities (security tokens), including the individual-investor product "renga" backed by real estate such as hotels. It is building a marketplace where investors can select and trade digital securities among themselves for asset management.

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PartnerSuccess Passport is a referral marketplace platform that enables companies with existing customer bases to generate new revenue by cross-selling curated products and services without procurement negotiations or direct contracts, with automated case management and commission tracking.

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