Tapas is building an Android-based, youth-centric, and entertainment-focused smartphone operating system (OS). As part of a complete turnkey solution (OS, applications, cloud service suite, app store, etc.), Tapas’ OS is tailored specifically to address Chinese users’ requirements
Wonderpod (Wandoujia) is building a PC and cloud sync tool for Android-based smartphones. Wandoujia facilitates app discovery, search, download, and synchronization of mobile content. It has more than 10 million users in the China domestic market.
Umeng is building mobile developer tools and a mobile ad network, allowing developers in China to accelerate growth through real-time analytics, cross-promotion, and an advertisement management tool. Umeng is installed in more than 5,000 apps and collects data from close to 60 million smartphone devices.
Ascending Cloud is building a global social gaming platform for developing and publishing social games. Xing Cloud is helping to bridge the gap between social networking sites and game studios, and to lower the barriers-to-entry for China’s low-cost, high-quality game developers.
Buding is building mobile applications for Android and iOS that facilitate local discovery and lifestyle services via location-based services (LBS). Buding functions as a one-stop information and service platform for users to find, plan, organize, participate in, and share their activities. The service reached more than 3 million registered users in its first 6 months of operation.
Doodle is building a mobile casual games and a mobile social game platform for Android-based devices. Doodle supports social graph leaderboards and online multiplayer game modes, and provides a one-stop mobile social gaming experience for game players. To date the team has launched more than 50 casual and social games for Android and has more than 70 million downloads, including some of the most popular titles on Google’s Android marketplace.
Yingyonghui (AppChina) is creating the largest third-party Android Marketplace in China, providing a multi-channel platform (context-aware mobile client, web service, and PC suite) for the consumption of Android applications.
Leiyoo is creating a mobile platform for HTML5 games and gaming-related social networks in China. Leiyoo’s platform includes China’s first comprehensive HTML5 game platform and, via organized workshops and developer relationships, is creating a standard for HTML5 in China.
Diandian is creating a standard for light-blogging in China. Diandian provides a context-aware, multi-platform, live-streaming service, aimed at Chinese youth. The service reached more than 3 million registered users in its first 6 months of operation.
Zhihu has created a Q&A-based social knowledge network. Zhihu, as an open web community and mobile application, curates high-quality content to be shared across multiple knowledge domains. It has already become one of the most user-engaging platforms on the Chinese Internet.
Ikamobile is creating a mobile application, Jiudiandaren (a.k.a. Hotel Finder), for iOS and Android devices, which leverages location-based services (LBS) to help users locate hotels in their vicinity. Using Jiudiandaren, users can locate, browse, and reserve hotels both in China and globally while on-the-go, at competitive prices.
Nevel is building a cloud-based service, Anquanbao, which helps protect websites from security breaches, in addition to optimizing them for performance. Anquanbao was recently the runner-up in TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing’s Startup Battlefield competition (November 2011).