Kleii, Vietnam’s Dropbox, Closes First Round Of Seed Funding
Today’s seed funders include Do Hoai Nam, CEO of Emotiv and an investor in local Vietnamese crowdfunding site IG9, and Nguyen Hong Hai, CEO of BTIC, plus some other angel investors. BTIC is a technology park located north of Ho Chi Minh city, heavily invested in by the Vietnamese government and aspiring to be Vietnam’s tech hub. It’s also where Kleii’s office is located.
Some significant stats:
- After 10 months, Kleii’s got 750,000 users. It’s set to get one million users by the end of this year. That’s explosive growth for a startup coming from Vietnam.
- Zero dollars on marketing.
- Kleii transfers five terabytes of data per day.
- Currently Kleii users use it mostly for photo syncing (41 percent), music streaming (27 percent), and video and documents storage (21 percent).
- Kleii’s top users, in descending order, are from: Vietnam, Indonesia, United States, Thailand, Brazil, South Korea, Malaysia, Germany, Australia, Singapore. Indeed, 60 percent of users are in Vietnam. http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.techinasia.com/kleii-vietnams-dropbox-closes-seed-funding/&sa=D&usg=ALhdy2-wAaSWxB_K5To8TReg2R3pzUQOxg
