Berbincang Dengan Aryo Ariotedjo, Otak Di Belakang Grupara dan Freeware

Beberapa waktu lalu kita sudah sempat mendengar Grupara yang berinvestasi di startup fashion pria, Maskoolin yang juga merupakan portfolio ke dua dari Grupara selain Gravira. Kami berbincang dengan Aryo Ariotedjo, mastermind dari Grupara dan juga coworking space FREEWARE yang terletak di bilangan Ampera, Jakarta Selatan. Continue reading Berbincang Dengan Aryo Ariotedjo, Otak Di Belakang Grupara dan Freeware

ID Apps Academy, Incubation for Apps and Web Developers

IDC Indonesia, a data center service provider in Indonesia, holds an incubation program for app and website developer in Indonesia. The program named ID Apps Academy is open for public. ID Apps Academy participant will not only receive investment to develop their app but also payroll and bonus for certain periods if the app get the appreciation from the community.

ID Apps Academy is a 2 year incubation program. In the beginning of the period, incubation participant will get a facility in the form of infrastructure as free server. Then ID Apps Academy will continue to rate every incubation participant. Participants whose apps/websites get a lot of appreciation from the community will get the chance to free workshop, working space with internet access, monthly payment, bonus every certain period to promotion to investor.

Interestingly, the rating process is not decided by the judges but by community. The rank for incubation program’s participant will be based on number of download, number of visit, number of active user, etc. The amount of the bonus will be determined on the number of investor interested to be the investor of this incubation program. Therefore, the incubation participant is required to be creative to be able to invite more investors to join.

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Team Europe Enters Asia through South Korea

Successful in incubating a couple of startups in Europe, Team Europe now starts paying attention to Asian startups, by opening an office in South Korea. This new office in Korea will be used as its headquarters in starting activities in several countries in Asia.

Korea is chosen as the opening for Team Europe in Asia, according to Markus Fuhrmann, one of Team Europe’s partners, because they see that Korea has the potential in the internet and mobile ecosystem. As reported by Tech Wire Asia, Fuhrmann also said that South Korea resembles Berlin in the olden days.

Team Europe’s office in South Korea will be lead by Ludolf Ebner-Chung, a German born Korean who previously worked as a consultant in McKinsey. Fuhrmann will help in handling investment issues through the subsidiary, Point Nine Capital.

In Europe, Team Europe is involved with some startups like Spreadshirt, studiVZ, brands4friends, Sponsorpay, Madvertise, Misterspex, and Delivery Hero. Those startups engage in e-commerce, online learning community, mobile ad, game ad, online food order and online ad.

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ITS Industrial Incubator Center is looking for startups from East Java

Industrial Incubator Center Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November (ITS), supported by the East Java Department of Cooperatives of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, looking for 30 young innovative entrepreneurs to be given business scholarship. This offer is valid not only for ITS alumni either S1 or D3 but also to alumni of other universities in East Java.

If you have a business in the creative industry, located in East Java and have been running for at least 1-2 years, you have until April 14, 2012 to sign up and participate in this program. Then, the ITS Industrial Incubator Center will do a selection and interview on April 17, 2012 at Surabaya Plaza Hotel.

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ICT Incubator: an Incubator from KEMKOMINFO

Few days ago, I read an interesting article on the official website of STMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta. It is mentioned on the article that there is an incubator established by KEMKOMINFO (The Ministry of Communication and Informatics). It is called as “ICT Incubator”.

Besides, the article also explained the result of ICT Incubator socialization event in the last October in Yogyakarta. The speakers were the academicians, game developers, and business and animation enthusiasts. There was also a representative from KEMENKOMINFO who explained the aim of ICT Incubator at this socialization.

The explanation about this incubator, as cited by DailySocial from the article, said “since 2008, Sub Directorate General for Informatics Applications has established a pilot project for Telematics Incubator Innovation (or in Bahasa called as I2T). In Bandung, it is named as 12TB. The objective of its establishment is to create and add the number of qualified technopreneurs in Indonesia”. In Bandung, I2TB has been actively recruited some tenants to develop some business on many branches such as game, application, internet-based service, and so on. Their office is in the area of Surapati Core – Bandung.

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Investor-Incubator-Accelerator Should Help for Innovation

Some days ago, I read an article on Businessweek Indonesia magazine 15-21st September 2011 edition about Steve Perlman and his business incubator, Rearden.

Steve, Rearden founder, is developing DIDO (distributed-input-distributed-output). It is explained on the magazine, DIDO a wireless technology that is expected to be the solution for the network traffic and disturbed phone calls.

The article is interesting for me because it is not only the story of Steve and DIDO, but more about Steve Perlman mentality who always gives innovation to all the things he developed. He even criticizes the Silicon Valley mentality that is not that cool as it used to be in which people dare to take risk and focus on innovation.

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The Big 5 For Project Eden

Last Saturday, Project Eden held a pitching for the 20 participants who signed up to get funding and incubation, the event is in conjunction with a series of Bizconnect PPKI events.

From the 20 participants, eventually Project Eden committee chose the big five for closed pitch interviews session. Before this stage, Kevin Mintaraga explained that 52 participants were selected through online registration. They choose the 20 best business proposals to pitch their idea for five minutes to the Project Eden committee.

As written by Kompas.com, the five participants who passed are Bumble Games Indonesia, Telunjuk, PointBump, Arsanesia, and LocalBrand.

Kevin Mintaraga and Natali Ardianto explained via email to DailySocial, the five elected will conduct a closed pitch interview as a continuation of the initial selection, Natali said, “It could be in the first closed pitch interview we did not directly accept the startup, but we give a kind of mentorship to sharpen their business plan, we might even offer to do a pivot so the business plan become more focused, and they did another pitch interview with a business plan that has been sharpened.”

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5 Pilihan Project Eden yang Masuk Tahap Akhir Seleksi

Sabtu kemarin, Project Eden mengadakan pitching bagi 20 peserta yang mendaftarkan diri untuk mendapatkan pendanaan dan inkubasi, acara ini bersamaan dengan rangkaian acara Bizconnect PPKI.

Dari 20 peserta akhirnya komite Project Eden memilih 5 besar untuk sesi closed pitch interview. Sebelum tahap ini, dijelaskan Kevin Mintaraga bahwa ada 52 peserta yang diseleksi lewat pendaftaran online, mereka memilih 20 proposal bisnis terbaik untuk pitch ide mereka selama lima menit di hadapan komite Project Eden.

Seperti yang dituliskan oleh Kompas.com, kelima peserta yang lolos adalah Bumble Games Indonesia, Telunjuk, PointBump, Arsanesia, dan LocalBrand.

Kevin Mintaraga dan Natali Ardianto menjelaskan lewat email kepada DailySocial, lima yang terpilih ini akan melakukan closed pitch interview sebagai lanjutan dari seleksi awal, Natali mengatakan bahwa, “Bisa saja dalam closed pitch interview pertama ini kita tidak langsung menerima startup, namun kami berikan semacam mentorship untuk menajamkan business plan mereka, bahkan mungkin kita tawarkan untuk melakukan pivot agar business plannya menjadi lebih fokus, dan mereka melakukan pitch interview lagi dengan business plan yang sudah dipertajam.”

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Sebuah Daftar Singkat dari Investor Teknologi di Indonesia

Akhir-akhir ini banyak sekali investasi yang terjadi di Indonesia, startup di bidang teknologi menjadi sorotan dan (hampir) semua orang membicarakannya. Namun, saya melihat lebih banyak dana investasi yang dibentuk daripada startup berkualitas tinggi yang diluncurkan, bukti kuat bahwa semua orang mencoba untuk masuk ke industri ini tetapi sayangnya startup yang ada belum siap, atau kemungkinan lain dimana para startup ini tidak membutuhkan dana (kecil kemungkinannya).

Melalui artikel ini saya akan mencoba memberikan gambaran serta beberapa info tentang lembaga investasi teknologi yang dibentuk untuk berinvestasi di perusahaan-perusahaan startup Indonesia, serta informasi tentang latar belakang dan portofolio mereka. Mudah-mudahan ini dapat memberikan perbandingan yang objektif bagi para pembaca tentang para investor mana saja yang saat ini aktif bermitra dengan para startup dalam bentuk akselerator, inkubator bisnis atau VC.

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A Simple List of Indonesian Tech Investors

Investments in Indonesia is going crazy these days, everyone’s doing something with tech startups – sort of. These days, I’m seeing more fund being set up rather than high-quality startup launches, which proofs that everybody is trying to get a piece of the cake but the startups aren’t prepared yet, or the startups simply doesn’t need fund (less likely).

So, in this post I’m gonna give some overview info on the several tech investment funds being set up to invest in Indonesian startup companies, their background and portfolios. Hopefully this can give you guys a clear objective comparison on the investors currently active on looking and partnering with startups in a form of an incubator, business accelerator or venture capital.

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