TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

Atma , an Indonesian startup that wants to make job hunting less painful, announced today it has raised $5 million in pre-seed funding led by AC Ventures, with participation from Global Founders Capital. Atma says up to over 100 million people in Indonesia fit into this category.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

More than half of the population in Southeast Asia is under 30 , making it a coveted market for novel technologies. Indonesia is “catching up” on web3 because its huge talent pool still rests in the Web 2.0 “With so much money coming into crypto, why isn’t much [web3] creativity coming out of Indonesia?”

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2020

But Mike Mignano, head of podcast mission at Spotify, says the data point speaks to the large global podcasting ecosystem that people might not know exists. Spotify says Anchor’s top five markets in 2020, by total number of shows, were the US, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, and Great Britain.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

million USD) Series B led by Tiger Global, with participation from Jason Lenga. “Southeast Asia is predicted to be the world’s largest e-commerce market in the next five years, and the addressable market for us in Southeast Asia alone is already five times the size of Australia and twice the size of the U.S.,”

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Hangry , an Indonesian cloud kitchen startup that wants to become a global food and beverage company, has raised a $13 million Series A. It will be used to increase the number of Hangry’s outlets in Indonesia, including launching its first dine-in restaurants, over the next two years before it enters other countries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Una, one of the largest e-commerce aggregators in Asia, has already established its presence across Asia, including Singapore, Australia, India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan, since its launch in 2021. . The e-commerce market of South Korea is expected to increase up to $250 billion by 2025.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

One Impression, an Indian influencer marketing platform that does business in markets including Indonesia, Dubai, Europe and the U.S., The Gurugram-based startup is building an Amazon-like platform to help brands quickly find relevant influencers for their marketing campaigns.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

trillion, per the company ) in its public-market debut on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) earlier this month. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The IPO market is moribund across the globe today, most notably in the United States, where many technology companies have historically listed. billion (IDR15.8

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The new round brings its total raised to $538 million and was led by Coatue and Insight Partners, with participation from Accel, Tiger Global, Kleiner Perkins, EV Growth, Amasia, Intudo and Goat Capital. Part of the funding will be used to expand into new markets, like Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. billion to $15 billion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Indonesia’s sprawling archipelago has long been a headache for logistics companies, but there’s no lack of brave challengers. The Series B round was led by Accel, Citius and Tiger Global, with participation from existing investors AC Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Lightspeed and Sequoia Capital India.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia. YCAB Foundation is an NGO based both in New York and Jakarta, Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Now it’s set a goal of investing in 100 more startups with the launch of its second emerging market seed-stage fund, called Seedstars International Ventures II (SIV), with a first close of $20 million. We’re really looking to diversify holdings, leveraging learnings from one market to another,” said Sosrodjojo.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Wagely says its user base grew 10x year over year in 2021, with clients including British American Tobacco, Ranch Market, Adaro Energy and Medco Energi. Wagely also received backing from Central Capital Ventura, the venture capital arm of Bank Central Asia (BCA), one of Indonesia’s largest private banks. pre-Series A.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Launched in South Korea five years ago, content discovery platform Dable now serves a total of six markets in Asia. Now it plans to speed up the pace of its expansion, with six new markets in the region planned for this year, before entering European countries and the United States. Taboola and Outbrain call off their $850M merger.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

But in markets like Indonesia, many still use digital wallets or e-commerce platforms, creating alternative sources of user data that can help them secure working capital and other financial tools. Once it completes the program, it will be able to partner with more fintech companies in Indonesia, including bigger institutions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s good momentum for us to launch new products and grab the market.”. While the rate of retail investment in Indonesia is still low, its growing quickly because of a confluence of factors , including people’s desire to diversify and increase their assets during the pandemic. million public equity investors in the country.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Peeba says the lack of B2B-focused online wholesale solutions and tech infrastructure hampered Asia’s antiquated B2B retail, wholesale market in business growth and new market entries during the pandemic. Peeba is bringing about the next stage of global retail innovation. Wholesale marketplace Abound raises $22.9M.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

The capital will be used for expansion and growth in markets including New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom. Its Series D will be used to support growth in those markets, and enter new Southeast Asian countries, including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. million USD).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Cryptocurrency transactions in Indonesia hit $60 billion last year , according to the country’s commodities futures trading agency. Crypto exchange and marketplace Reku has been riding the wave with what it says are the lowest fees on the market, and a platform that is aimed at both newcomers and experienced traders. Reku’s team.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Socar , South Korea’s largest car-sharing startup, tumbled in its Seoul stock market debut Monday even after pricing shares below the bottom end of a marketed range. Socar’s debut comes amid a sluggish period in the IPO market in South Korea that has prompted a series of Korean companies to delay their listing plans.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

Discovered more than a century ago in South Sudan, excelsa coffee is exciting cash-strapped locals and drawing interest from the international community amid a global coffee crisis caused mainly by climate change. It receives financial support for global health and development coverage in Africa from the Gates Foundation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. So he started researching markets with large populations of Muslim people. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. It’s not just SPACs that have fallen out of favor almost as fast as they boomed — the IPO market has once again vanished. Globally, IPO deal volume in the first quarter fell 37% year on year. However, there is one market where things appear brighter: Asia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Brick currently operates primarily in Indonesia, but is planning to expand into Singapore and the Philippines before eventually covering all markets in Southeast Asia. Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. Fintech outperformed the market in 2021, and it’s set to do even better.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This brings its total raised to $43 million, including the oversubscribed first tranche of its Series B, which was led by Tiger Global and closed in January 2022. It works with regulators and incumbent banks, and was recently awarded a Bank of Indonesia (BI) Payment Service Provider Category 1 license.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. Flip is Insight Partners’ first investment in Indonesia. . Arriyan, Luqman Sungkar and Ginanjar Ibnu Solikhin co-founded the company in 2015 while studying at University of Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

If you follow startup news from Indonesia, you know that the country’s estimated 60 million small businesses are a hot target for tech companies. million in seed funding from Go Ventures, RTP Global, AlphaJWC, Sequoia Capital India’s Surge, FEBE Ventures and Taurus Ventures. Staff management platform Vara’s team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Byju’s plans to expand to international markets in the second half of next month as the Indian edtech giant, valued at more than $13 billion, looks to accelerate its growth, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. Brazil, Indonesia and Mexico next month and explore other geographies later this year, it told employees in an email.

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TechNode

AUGUST 18, 2024

BYD is aggressively expanding its global production footprint as the Chinese EV giant announced on Aug. 17 that it will open a car manufacturing plant in Pakistan. The new plant will be located in Karachi, the countrys largest city, and begin operations in 2026. TechNode reporting, Reuters ]

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

AC Ventures (ACV) , a venture firm focused on early-stage startups in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia, has reached the first close of its fifth investment fund (Fund V). Founded in 2014, ACV’s portfolio now has over 120 investments in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

We started in higher education as it was the closest, most relevant market to where we were at the time of launch. The new funding will be put toward product development and supporting the platform’s global expansion, per Khudir. “Brazil, India and Indonesia are key targets for us due to a wider need for digital education.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Other investors included the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Ventures, PT Triputra Investindo Arya, Global Founders Capital, Trihill Capital, 1982 Ventures and Willy Swandi Dharma, former president director of insurance company PT Asuransi Adira Dinamika. In Indonesia, wagely’s competitors include GajiGesa and Gajiku.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Now 10 months later, Pintu chief marketing officer Timothius Martin tells TechCrunch that it has added more tokens, making more a total of 66 available, with more added each month. For example, gaming is a big thing in Indonesia with over 100 million gamers in the country. Users can top-up or withdraw their Earn wallet at any time.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

million in Series A funding led by Tiger Global, with participation from returning investors Global Founders Capital and HOF Capital. It is currently used by over 10,000 merchants in Singapore and Malaysia, with plans to expand into more Southeast Asian markets, including Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Also participating is Anthos Capital, Global Brain, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Moneta VC, Mitsui Fudosan and Firestartr. Nigel Verdon, co-founder and CEO of Railsbank, tells me the injection of capital will be used to continue expanding the fintech’s global footprint and for further product development.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The company, which is best known for its electric Smartscooters and swappable battery infrastructure, announced today it will list on Nasdaq through a merger with Poema Global , a SPAC affiliated with Princeville Capital. Gogoro has always had the vision to go after these big markets. Gogoro is going public.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Jamil Wyne is a co-author of the World Bank report “The Evolution and State of Singapore’s Start-up Ecosystem: Lessons for Emerging Market Economies.” It is a young country as well — having gained independence in 1963 — and resides in a neighborhood with far larger economies, including China, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

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