19818 Top startups in East Asia for August 2026

Klook is the leading travel and leisure e-commerce platform for experiences and services anytime, anywhere. Klook curates the most joyful experiences so that users can satisfy their relentless curiosity for adventure and experiences at home and around the world. With our website and app, users can experience a world of joy, from attractions, tours to local transportation and stays. Founded in 2014, Klook is inspired to enable more moments of joy through over half-million activities in over 1,000 destinations.

Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book) is a popular social media and e-commerce platform in China that combines lifestyle content with user reviews and shopping. It offers a unique blend of shopping inspiration and community-driven recommendations for users.

ByteDance, a Chinese tech company, owns TikTok and other content platforms, leading in social media and digital entertainment innovation.

Weibo is a social media platform designed for microblogging and allows people to create, distribute, and discover Chinese-language content. It specializes in the fields of social media, communities, and blogging platforms.

PayPay is an online payment application. This benefit is not applicable when paying with PayPay online payment service. For PayPay, per person, the granting limit for one payment is equivalent to 15,000 yen, and the total granting limit for one month is equivalent to 30,000 yen.

Huya.com is China's interactive broadcast platform, enriched by the world's first communications service operators. The company's live products cover PC, Web, and mobile three-end, and have nearly 300 featured channels in 4 categories including online games, single-game hot games, mobile games, and entertainment variety, covering e-sports, music, sports, beauty, outdoor, A wide range of popular content such as reality shows, variety shows, entertainment, and food.

KKday is a travel platform that facilitates access to authentic local tours and activities for travelers. It offers a wide range of experiences across numerous countries and cities, enabling users to easily search, discover, and book their ideal activities. The platform also supports travel suppliers in their digital transformation by providing tools for product management and order fulfillment.

NetEase Cloud Music is a popular music streaming platform in China, providing a diverse collection of songs with interactive social features. Join the community to discover new music, connect with others, and enjoy your favorite tunes anytime, anywhere.

Kakao Pay is the financial technology division of Kakao.  It allows over-counter payments, peer-to-peer transactions, bill payments, web banking, and more, and it will move to offer financial services such as loans and financing. Kakao Pay is a platform that aims for a new financial effortless that is completely different from the existing and difficult and cumbersome finance beyond just cashless and walletless life without cash or wallet.

OP.GG creates profiles for gamers by analyzing game data from the games they play. Through these profiles, gamers can improve their gameplay and see the game performance of their opponents and friends. Currently OP.GG has services for League of Legends, Overwatch and PUBG with over 28 million monthly users from around the world.

Zeekr develops and manufactures premium electric vehicles and automobiles. It specializes in the fields of electronics, automotive and electric vehicles.

CSDN (CSDN) is an IT and community service platform focused on providing Chinese software developers and IT workers with life-long services such as knowledge diffusion, career development, software development, and more. It is able to satisfy people's rigid needs of learning and sharing knowledge and information during their career development, establish a social circle of career development, and achieve commercialization of technology by software development. Established in 1999, CSDN ranks No. 39 among global Chinese websites, with a base of more than 25,000,000 registered members, which includes 8,000,000 monthly active members and 500,000 registered companies and partners.

MonotaRO is a top eCommerce distributor specializing in industrial and business supplies. Offering a wide range of products, they provide a convenient online platform for businesses to easily purchase necessary supplies.

Sohu provides a network of community-based, web 2.0 products to millions of Chinese users on a daily basis. Sohu corporate services consist of online brand advertising on its matrix of websites as well as bid listing and home page on its in-house developed search directory and engine. This matrix of Chinese language web properties and proprietary search engines, consists of the mass portal and online media destination sohu.com, interactive search engine sogou.com, the games information portal 17173.com, the real estate website focus.cn, developer and operator of online games www.changyou.com/en/ and online video website tv.sohu.com. It also provides multiple news and information service on mobile platforms, including Sohu News app and mobile news portal WAP.Sohu.com. Sohu's online game subsidiary, Changyou.com has a diverse portfolio of online games that includes Tian Long Ba Bu, a massively multiplayer online games in China, and DDTank and Wartune (also known as Shen Qu), which are two popular web games in China. Sohu.com was established in November 1995 and went public in July 2000.

Hozon integrates hardware products and software services through innovative technology research and development, intelligent manufacturing, and multi-channel sales services. Through the development of electricity, intelligence, and connectivity, they are committed to creating cost-effective Intelligent electric vehicles of high quality, providing users with a simple, intuitive, and comfortable travel experience.

T3 Mobile Travel Services offers car-sharing services powered by renewable energy.T3 is purely market-driven, with a mission to build what it calls a “smart mobility ecosystem” by combining the data capability of its technology partners with the manufacturing know-how of its automakers.

Zeekr develops and manufactures premium electric vehicles and automobiles. It specializes in the fields of electronics, automotive and electric vehicles.

Inspur Group Co.,Ltd. (浪潮集团) is a leading supplier of computer platforms and solutions for IT application in China. It is also the largest server maker and provider of server solutions in China. Currently, Inspur Group has developed two leading industries including server and ERP, and other industry groups as computer, software, mobile communication, intelligent terminal, semiconductor, and more. Users of Inspur Group are spread as far as industries and government departments such as finance, communication, government, education, manufacturing, tobacco and more. It meets the information demands of government and enterprises comprehensively. In 2008, the sales revenue of Inspur Group exceeded 23.2 billion Yuan.

SK Hynix is a manufacturing company that specializes in producing and selling semiconductor devices for various sectors. It has consistently led the industry with smaller, faster, and lower-power semiconductors.

Dreame Technology produces premium hairdryers and vacuums in the style of Dyson.

Hangyeol Healthcare develops LED light-based otitis media treatment devices, improving patient recovery and quality of life

DOU+ is a traffic purchasing tool that offers users increase the popularity of their video content and helps in marketing promotion and business operations.

OP.GG creates profiles for gamers by analyzing game data from the games they play. Through these profiles, gamers can improve their gameplay and see the game performance of their opponents and friends. Currently OP.GG has services for League of Legends, Overwatch and PUBG with over 28 million monthly users from around the world.