About the Founder

An Award-Winning Entrepreneur

Stampsfree was founded by award-winning serial entrepreneur Goh Kim Siew, who is well known in Singapore and Malaysia as the developer of the CalendarONE.com. This pioneering Internet events calendar won the 1998 Singapore National IT Award organized by the former National Computer Board (now IDA) for the Most Innovative Service. Two years later, CalendarONE.com was cited as one of the top 10 startups in the E50 Enterprise Award.

Kim Siew’s entrepreneurial journey began in 1992 when he started iD Technologies after spending six years in FairChild Semiconductor and Seagate Storage as an automation systems manager. In 1997, he sold iD Technologies and made his first cash exit. Recognizing the business potential of the Internet, he founded CalendarONE.com in 1997 and spent the next five years managing CalendarONE and another events-related business. He exited CalendarONE in 2001 and took over one of its subsidiaries, TicketCharge, and managed it for the next four years. In 2006, Kim Siew sold TicketCharge offices to Singapore and Malaysia, to one of NTUC Singapore's subsidiaries and a publishing company in Malaysia respectively.

He also founded Primeslot.com, the first interactive ads banner aggregation company in 1999 which he subsequently sold to China.com, a Nasdaq company.

In Jan 2009, Kim Siew decided to productise PORTAGY, an application software targetted at clients who needs to address collaboration, ecommerce-enabled and marketing reach capabilities. However, instead of just selling it as an application or service, PORTAGY charges clients based on revenues generated and hopes to grow with the clients.

Building Communities of Interest

StampsFree.com builds on-line communities and marketplaces, and brings together buyers and sellers across a wide range of shared interests - work and career, education and training, (hobbies and )recreation, and others.

By connecting together and aggregating these various local on-line communities, we create global platforms for commerce.

Founded in April 2006 by award-winning serial entrepreneur Goh Kim Siew, the company has received S$2 million in seed/venture funding from SME Bank of Malaysia.

Our on-line communities and marketplaces are based on a powerful city-centric model with local branding, marketing and content. We achieve this by collaborating with best-of-breed industry and domain partners to accelerate our speed to market, and by supporting them with innovative e-marketing strategies and programs. This is a proven model, and a number of leading travel and publishing companies has already invested in our niche on-line communities.

StampsFree.com employs 30 IT/business development staff operating regionally from three offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Shanghai (China), and through our Shenzen regional office, which covers Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzen and Guangzhou.

By connecting together and aggregating these various local on-line communities, we create global platforms for commerce.