AI Data Labeling Startup Datasaur Announces Seed Round from GDP Ventures

Datasaur, a startup for data labeling, has announced their seed round from GDP Venture. The development of this new service was due to the rise of AI. Behind every AI algorithm are thousands of human-labeled training examples. Organizing and labeling such data today is tedious, time-consuming and expensive.

Datasaur develops smart tools to make labeling more productive and efficient. It emphasizes a policy of privacy and data safety – previously, labeling was often outsourced and data could end up in the wrong hands. Based on the announcement by Datasaur’s Founder & CEO, Ivan Lee, the system will use AI-based models and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to proactively suggest labels and save time.

Project management tools are included for organizing data and assuring accuracy. Labels that do not match previous labels or do not make sense contextually will be submitted to another labeler for verification. In the first phase, Datasaur is focused on text-based data. It has plans to expand to audio in the near future.

“We have secured a seed round of funding. Since announcing last week, several investors have reached out and we are keeping the round open for a select few we think would make for good strategic partners,” the Datasaur team said to DailySocial.

Ivan Lee is the CEO and Founder of Datasaur.ai. He graduated with a Computer Science B.S. from Stanford University in 2009. He took a leave of absence from pursuing his Computer Science Master’s degree to co-found Loki Studios with three other Stanford students. After raising institutional funding and building a profitable game, Loki was acquired by Yahoo in 2013.

Ivan went on to participate in Yahoo’s inaugural Associate Product Manager program. He spent two years as a Product Manager defining and re-building mobile search using artificial intelligence. Ivan went on to serve as VP of Product at GoButler, working to define a new genre of virtual personal assistant. He most recently spent two years working on AI Products at Apple.

He currently lives in Silicon Valley. Aside from thinking about technology and its application to products, he enjoys playing Ultimately Frisbee on warm California days.

“Datasaur is co-located in California and Indonesia. We believe Indonesia’s rich tech ecosystem and abundance of data provide excellent opportunities for us to help out growing startups and established companies working on AI. We are very grateful to be partnering with GDP, a well-connected and respected firm. We see ourselves as a global company from the very start, and are happy to democratize access to AI worldwide,” he added.

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Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian

Startup Pengembang Platform Pelabelan Data AI “Datasaur” Dapatkan Pendanaan Awal dari GDP Venture

Startup pengembang platform data labeling Datasaur menerima pendanaan awal (seed round) dari GDP Venture. Pengembangan layanan ini dilatarbelakangi tren kecerdasan buatan (AI) yang terus meningkat. Di balik setiap algoritma AI ada ribuan pelatihan (mesin) yang umumnya berbasis “human-labeled training”. Mengelola dan memberi label data seperti itu adalah pekerjaan yang sangat membosankan, memakan waktu, dan mahal.

Datasaur mengembangkan alat cerdas untuk membantu pemberi label data bekerja secara lebih produktif dan efisien. Termasuk meningkatkan privasi dan keamanan data – sering kali pekerjaan pelabelan data dilakukan secara outsource. Berdasarkan ulasan yang ditulis Founder & CEO Datasaur Ivan Lee, sistem kerjanya menggunakan pemodelan berbasis AI dan didukung Natural Language Processing (NLP), yang secara proaktif menyarankan label.

Label data yang tidak selaras dengan perilaku pemberian tag sebelumnya atau secara kontekstual tidak pada tempatnya akan disorot untuk diverifikasi. Pengelola proyek dapat mengatur setiap data akan diberi label berapa kali, untuk menjamin tingkat akurasi. Di fase awalnya, layanan Datasaur masih berfokus pada masukan data berbasis teks. Ke depan akan memperluas cakupan pada masukan audio juga.

“Kami telah mendapatkan seed round dari GDP Venture. Sejak diumumkan minggu lalu, beberapa investor telah menghubungi kami, dan kami juga masih membuka partisipasi untuk babak pendanaan ini bagi beberapa orang terpilih, yang kami anggap akan menjadi mitra strategis,” ujar tim Datasaur saat dihubungi DailySocial.

Ivan merupakan lulusan ilmu komputer (B.S.) dari Stanford University. Ia memutuskan untuk mengambil cuti studi masternya untuk mendirikan Loki Studio bersama tiga rekan lulusan Standford lainnya. Di tahun 2013, Loki diakuisisi oleh Yahoo. Pasca akuisisi tersebut, Ivan ditunjuk sebagai Associate Product Manager perdana Yahoo.

Di Yahoo salah satu tanggung jawabnya ialah menyempurnakan platform mobile search dengan AI. Selanjutnya Ivan bekerja sebagai VP of Product di GoButler mengembangkan layanan virtual personal asistant. Sempat bekerja juga dua tahun sebagai AI Product di Apple. Saat ini Ivan tinggal di Silicon Valley untuk mengeksplorasi banyak hal mengenai produk aplikasi dan teknologi.

“Bisnis Datasaur berlokasi di California dan Indonesia. Kami percaya ekosistem teknologi di Indonesia dan berlimpahnya data memberikan peluang bagi kami untuk menumbuhkan startup dan perusahaan yang mengembangkan AI. Kami sangat bersyukur bisa bermitra dengan GDP. Kami memandang diri kami sebagai perusahaan global sejak awal muncul dan dengan senang hati akan mendemokratisasikan akses ke AI di seluruh dunia,” lanjutnya.

Outpost Layanan Coworking & Coliving Space Berbasis di Bali Dapatkan Pendanaan 18,8 Miliar Rupiah

Pengembang layanan coworking dan coliving space Outpost baru saja mengumumkan perolehan pendanaan awal (seed funding) senilai $1,3 juta atau setara dengan 18,8 miliar Rupiah. Putaran pendanaan ini melibatkan tiga investor, yakni EverHaus, Strypes Holdings dan Clarenberg Ventures.

Saat ini Outpost telah memiliki dua unit properti di Bali dan satu unit properti di Phom Penh, Kamboja. Modal yang baru didapat rencananya akan dimanfaatkan untuk ekspansi ke berbagai wilayah lain di Asia Pasifik. Dalam waktu dekat, properti keempat mereka akan segera diluncurkan, dengan lokasi yang masih dirahasiakan.

Pada dasarnya Outpost berdiri karena melihat tren pekerja remote semakin meningkat. Mereka memfasilitasi kebutuhan ruang kerja untuk individu maupun kelompok (startup). Menurut Co-Founder Outpost David Abraham, generasi digital nomad telah banyak mempengaruhi bisnis di semua tingkatan.

“Pekerja dan pengusaha menginginkan alternatif dari gaya hidup perkotaan yang berintensitas tinggi. Mereka ingin terlibat dengan gaya hidup Asia yang beragam dan menarik sembari menyelesaikan pekerjaan,” ujar Abraham.

Peluang tersebut lalu dijadikan Abraham bersama rekannya Bryan Stewart landasan mendirikan Outpost di lokasi yang strategis. Di Bali, ada dua lokasi properti yang disediakan, yakni di kawasan Ubud dengan suasana pegunungan yang sejuk dan di Canggu dengan suasana pantai yang menawan.

Terkait akomodasi, baik untuk coworking dan coliving space disediakan paket harian, mingguan dan bulanan.

“Asia adalah pusat penemuan dan kewirausahaan. Outpost ingin memimpin dalam pengembangan gaya hidup kerja jarak jauh di Asia Pasifik. Kami adalah tim yang berbasis di Asia dengan pandangan global. Terhubung secara dengan komunitas lokal tempat kami beroperasi adalah penting agar bisa berkelanjutan dan menguntungkan di pasar,” tutup Abraham.

Tokopedia Partners with Laku6 for Online Trade-in Feature

Tokopedia has currently released Tukar Tambah (Trade-in) feature, a strategic partnership with secondhand device store Laku6. It allows users to trade devices through app without having to go to the offline store.

Rumor has it, the feature has encouraged Tokopedia to pour some cash for Laku6. However, there’s no confirmation on this investment rumor.

“We give no comment for market rumor,” Nuraini Razak as Tokopedia’s VP of Corporate Communications said to DailySocial.

Previously, Tokopedia also declined the investment rumor of the wedding product marketplace Bridestory.

Tukar Tambah feature

The trade in is currently available only for Tokopedia users in Jabodetabek and in Android version. They only need to choose device’s type from selected store in Tukar Tambah program. The stores include Official Store Erafone, Samsung, Asus, and Telesindo Shop.

Next, select Tukar Tambah button to run the software and hardware check to the device. It starts from touch screen, volume button, accelerometer, IMEI, Wifi, front and back display.

Moreover, Tokopedia will offer a price for the device. If it fits, user can finish the transaction by reducing the price of a new device of the old device’s price., and add up the delivery and insurance cost.

Furthermore, select the pick-up time for the old device, and delivery time of the new one that fits the user and courier schedule. If the user asks for an online exchange, devices available in Erafone Kota Kasablanka and Erafone Mall Ambassador. Yet, all transaction should be online.

It costs additional cash for cancelled transaction. It might be because the device’s condition or different IMEI with the one given through Tokopedia, or when the user is not available in the place at the time on the agreement.

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Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian

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Tokopedia Gaet Laku6 Buat Fitur Tukar Tambah Ponsel Secara Online

Tokopedia baru-baru ini merilis fitur Tukar Tambah, hasil kerja sama strategis dengan situs jual beli ponsel bekas Laku6. Fitur ini memungkinkan pengguna untuk tukar tambah handphone lewat aplikasi tanpa harus datang ke gerai offline.

Perilisan fitur ini dirumorkan membuat Tokopedia mengucurkan sejumlah dana investasi untuk Laku6. Namun pihak Tokopedia enggan mengonfirmasi rumor tersebut.

“Kami tidak berkomentar atas rumor pasar,” kata VP of Corporate Communications Tokopedia Nuraini Razak kepada DailySocial.

Sebelumnya, pihak Tokopedia juga menolak terkait rumor investasi untuk marketplace produk pernikahan Bridestory.

Fitur Tukar Tambah

Tukar Tambah sementara ini baru bisa dijangkau oleh pengguna Tokopedia yang berada di Jabodetabek saja dan khusus tersedia untuk pengguna Android. Pengguna cukup mencari jenis handphone baru yang diinginkan dari toko-toko yang mengikuti program Tukar Tambah. Toko-toko tersebut di antaranya Official Store Erafone, Samsung, Asus, dan Telesindo Shop.

Lalu, pilih tombol Tukar Tambah untuk menjalankan sistem pengecekan software dan hardware terhadap handphone pengguna. Pengecekan ini mulai dari layar sentuh, tombol volume, accelerometer, IMEI, Wifi, tampak depan dan belakang.

Setelah itu, Tokopedia akan memberikan harga terhadap handphone pengguna. Jika setuju, cukup menyelesaikan transaksi yang terdiri atas harga handphone lama dikurangi harga handphone baru, ditambah biaya pengiriman dan asuransi.

Kemudian, pilih jadwal penjemputan handphone yang mau ditukarkan, dan pemberian handphone baru sesuai dengan jadwal pengguna dengan kurir. Apabila pengguna ingin menukar secara offline, telah tersedia di outlet Erafone Kota Kosablanka dan Erafone Mall Ambassador. Hanya saja, seluruh penjualan harus tetap dilakukan secara online.

Ada biaya tambahan yang dibebankan pengguna apabila transaksi dibatalkan. Misalnya karena kondisi atau IMEI tidak sesuai dengan yang diberikan ke Tokopedia, atau pembeli tidak ada di tempat dan waktu yang sudah ditentukan dan disepakati oleh kurir.

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Kejora Ventures Involves in Sorabel Funding

In early May 2019, Sorabel fashion commerce is said to receive Pre Series C from some investors. One of them is Kejora Ventures through its investment arm Kejora-Intervest Growth Fund. Andy Zain as Kejora’s Founder and Managing Partner confirms to DailySocial that their team has involved in Sorabel’s latest funding.

Zain said, the fresh funding is to tighten Sorabel’s cash position. In addition, it’s to intensify promotion of rebranding activities. Sorabel is a new brand since early 2019, a rebranding of Sale Stock.

The team leaks no further detail on this funding. Lingga Madu as the Founder & CEO of Sorabel said, “Rebranding is a complicated and challenging process, therefore, we’ve got enough support from internals and externals. We can only say it includes financial support.”

He also mentioned, the rebranding went well. Starts from internal research, Sorabel’s brand perception indicator has surpassed Sale Stock’s, within three months. Lately, Sorabel took the fifth position in Google Play in Shopping (free) category in Indonesia, with Shopee, Tokopedia, Lazada, and Bukalapak.

“Last year we decided to make a rebranding from Sale Stock to Sorabel, the name reflects consistency on our strategy to become the main destination of fashion lifestyle,” he added.

In order to set the business in the front gate of fashion commerce, some strategies are served. Using a new innovation called “Coba Dulu Baru Bayar”, the courier will wait for 15 minutes for consumer to try on the products. Then, they only have to pay for those fit their size and return the unsuitable ones, without additional cost.

“Many of the customers order two sizes for the same product, and return the ones that didn’t fit,” he said.

In the mid 2017, Sale Stock receives Series B funding from some investors, includes Gobi, Alpha JWC Ventures, Convergence Ventures, KIP, MNC, and SMDV worth of 360 billion Rupiah. In 2018, precisely their third anniversary, they claimed to achieve the break even point (BEP).

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Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian

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Kejora Ventures Konfirmasi Keterlibatan di Pendanaan Sorabel

Awal Mei 2019 lalu, layanan fashion commerce Sorabel dikabarkan telah membukukan pendanaan Pra-Seri C dari sejumlah investor. Salah satu yang terlibat dalam pendanaan tersebut adalah Kejora Ventures melalui instrumen pendanaannya Kejora-Intervest Growth Fund. Founder & Managing Partner Kejora Andy Zain memberikan konfirmasi ke DailySocial bahwa pihaknya berpartisipasi dalam putaran pendanaan terbaru Sorabel ini.

Dalam pernyataannya Andy menuturkan, modal baru yang disuntikkan tersebut akan diperuntukkan untuk memperkuat posisi cash Sorabel. Selain itu dana juga akan digunakan untuk meningkatkan promosi dalam aktivitas rebranding. Sorabel adalah brand baru, berubah awal tahun ini, yang diusung perusahaan yang sebelumnya bernama Sale Stock.

Pihak Sorabel memilih tidak berkomentar terkait pendanaan tersebut. Co-Founder & CEO Sorabel Lingga Madu kepada DailySocial memaparkan, “Proses rebranding tentunya pekerjaan yang sangat besar dan menantang, untuk itu kami mendapatkan dukungan penuh baik dari pihak internal dan eksternal. Kami hanya bisa menjelaskan bahwa salah satu bentuk dukungan yang diberikan tentunya adalah secara finansial.”

Ia turut menerangkan, rebranding yang dilakukan berjalan sangat baik. Dari riset internal yang dilakukan, dalam tiga bulan indikator persepsi brand Sorabel sudah bisa melampaui Sale Stock. Dalam beberapa waktu terakhir, aplikasi Sorabel berada di posisi kelima Google Play kategori Shopping (Free) di Indonesia, bersanding dengan Shopee, Tokopedia, Lazada, dan Bukalapak.

“Tahun lalu kami memutuskan untuk melakukan rebranding dari Sale Stock ke Sorabel, nama Sorabel lebih konsisten dengan strategi kami untuk menjadi destinasi utama fashion lifestyle,” ujarnya.

Untuk membuat bisnisnya tetap berada di garda depan dalam fashion commerce, banyak strategi yang terus digencarkan Sorabel. Dengan inovasi “Coba Dulu Baru Bayar”, kurir akan menunggu 15 menit agar konsumen bisa mencoba baju atau sepatu yang dipesan. Selanjutnya konsumen hanya perlu membayar barang yang cocok dan bisa mengembalikan barang yang tidak cocok ke kurir, tanpa biaya tambahan.

“Banyak dari customer Sorabel yang memesan dua ukuran untuk barang yang sama, lalu mengembalikan langsung ke kurir ukuran yang tidak sesuai,” terang Lingga.

Pada pertengahan 2017, Sale Stock memperoleh pendanaan seri B+ dari sejumlah investor, termasuk Gobi, Alpha JWC Ventures, Convergence Ventures, KIP, MNC, dan SMDV bernilai 360 miliar rupiah. Pada tahun 2018, tepat tiga tahun berdiri, pihaknya mengklaim telah mencapai break even point (BEP).

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Bobobox Terima Pendanaan dari Surge Sequoia, Agaeti Ventures, Everhaus dan Investor Sebelumnya

Startup akomodasi hotel kapsul Bobobox belum lama ini menerima pendanaan dalam seed round dari beberapa investor, termasuk Sequoia Capital India (Surge), Agaeti Ventures, dan Everhaus. Investor sebelumnya yakni Aplha JWC dan Ganesia Ventures turut terlibat dalam pendanaan ini. Tidak disebutkan nominal keseluruhan yang didapat.

Menurut informasi yang beredar, Surge memberikan kontribusi sebesar $1,5 juta (atau setara 21,6 miliar Rupiah). Tidak hanya untuk Bobobox, beberapa startup di Asia turut mendapatkan pendanaan dari Surge, dari Indonesia ada startup insurtech Qoala.

Modal tambahan yang didapat akan difokuskan untuk pengembangan outlet, improvisasi teknologi, dan inovasi pengembangan. Sejak hadir di tahun 2017, Bobobox menjadi game changer yang fokus pada pasar milenial/traveler yang membutuhkan akomodasi terjangkau.

Bisnis yang berpusat di Bandung tersebut menghadirkan pods, kapsul ruang tidur, yang dilengkapi dengan aplikasi untuk mengendalikan akses pintu, nyala lampu yang bisa disesuaikan, fitur keamanan, bluetooth speaker, hingga pendingin ruangan.

Pasca pendanaan ini pihak Bobobox turut menyampaikan akan membuka unit di 10-20 lokasi baru. Cukup percaya diri, pasalnya mereka mengklaim traksi yang didapat cukup tinggi dari pangsa pasar yang ditargetkan.

Untuk tetap unggul di pasar, Bobobox miliki tiga strategi utama. Pertama ialah dengan pengembangan produk dan teknologi secara berkelanjutan. Kedua dengan pengembangan sistem yang meningkatkan pengalaman tamu. Dan ketiga adalah penambahan lokasi dan varian unit yang ditawarkan.

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The SaaS Platform Developer for Supply Chain “Advotics” Receives Seed Funding of 39 Billion Rupiah Led by East Ventures

The SaaS platform developer for Offline-to-Online Analytics, today (5/14) announces seed funding led by East Ventures. Some investors are involved in this round, but there is no further detail. The amount has reached $2.7 million (around 39 billion Rupiah). It’s to be focused on developing technology and accelerating user growth.

The platform focuses on supply chain business players in making decision based on data. Most of them are still using offline method in managing and tracking sales and distribution. With loads of documents that must be managed manually, they only spend time for routines, not for something strategic.

“Clients can buy solutions that suits their issue, either comprehensive digitization or certain modules. Advotics also provides features on demand, such as productivity apps to monitor in-store employees with geographic tracking system, route and items distribution, offline-to-online marketing, B2B trading, and analytics and business intelligence dashboard for the management team,” Advotics’ Co-Founder & CTO, Hendi Chandi.

Advotics tries to digitize data related to labor, business networks, and the company’s physical asset and products. The main objective is to transform data from trading activities and offline work in field to be a useful data to help management team in making business decision, such as marketing penetration, productivity, and retail sales strategy.

One of Advotics breakthrough is to digitize products through unique identities, such as QR codes printed on product packaging. It’s to help the company track the product location from the first distributor to the consumer, and keep it against fraud.

“The Advotics team managed to solve the issue on supply chain monitoring in Indonesia. Their solution can help companies monitor the movement of labor and its items. The collected data point can be used to understand the heatmap of product distribution and make an efficient supply chain in Indonesia. We welcome the Advotics team to the B2B ecosystem in East Ventures,” East Ventures Managing Partner, Willson Cuaca said.

The Advotics management team consists of three engineers with various background, Boris Sanjaya is an industrial engineer with experience in consulting in Boston Consulting Group (BCG); Hendi Chandi as former software developer senior in Amazon, also a graduate from computer science in University of Washington Seattle; and Jeffry Tani which acquired Ph.D in engineer from MIT.

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Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian

GoBear Plans in Indonesia After 1.15 Trillion Rupiah Funding

A financial product marketplace GoBear has announced funding in early May 2019 in the form of venture round led by Aego. nV and Qalvis Participaties. It was worth $80 million or equivalent with 1.15 trillion Rupiah. The money is to be focused on product development, partner network expansion, and resource improvement.

The Singapore based startup has entered some market in Asia, including Indonesia. GoBear has build office branch and special team to run business here. Regarding funding, DailySocial tried to contact GoBear Indonesia Country Director, Tris Rasika to ask about the next strategic step for business development.

“Currently, we (in Indonesia) started from 4 products, loan, credit card, car and travel insurance. Furthermore, using the additional funds, we are to become a complete marketplace for financial products. We’ll try to be consistent to form partnerships with banking and insurance companies,” Rasika said.

Since its debut in Indonesia in May 2019, the users has a significant growth. Globally, GoBear has reached 40 millions of people. Moreover, they will intensify the market expansion outside Java. In fact, GoBear is now officially registered and observed under OJK.

“GoBear Indonesia offer a smart targeting system that is not only help users to find the financial product they wanted, but also suitable for their profile. It means, we will display the products that matches user’s criteria and budget. Thus, it will increase the opportunity for their submission to be accepted,” she added.

GoBear wants to provide information accuracy. When the user looked for the financial product, we give transparent information. Therefore, users can compare the current products and capable to decide. In addition, they can also submit the product directly to GoBear’s bank partners.

“Seeing the Indonesian market potential, we believe GoBear Indonesia will contribute a significant number to our global growth,” she said.

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Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian