Our technopreneurs head to Silicon Valley

KUALA LUMPUR: Persistence and lots of practice at public speaking helped five local technopreneurs get their ticket to Silicon Valley in the United States.

The five — Piktochart, OctoApp, FanXT, Voucheres and SecQ.me — caught judges' eyes in a pitching competition called Pitch Your Way to Silicon Valley organised by StartupMalaysia.org, a not-for-profit initiative aimed at spurring enterprises in Malaysia.