Nusantara Incubation Fund diluncurkan untuk startups Indonesia

Startup asal Indonesia yang mencari peluang investasi sekarang punya pilihan lain untuk pitch berbagai ide yang mereka punya. Bakrie Telecom kemarin meluncurkan Nusantara Incubation Fund untuk berinvestasi pada perusahaan baru yang mengoperasikan layanan web dan mobile, pengembangan aplikasi serta yang bergerak di bidang media generasi berikutnya.

Selaras dengan Visi Bakrie Telecom Media dan Teknologi 2015 yang diumumkan pada bulan Maret lalu, inkubator baru ini mengalokasikan lebih dari US$11 juta untuk mendukung beberapa startup selama tiga tahun.

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Nusantara Incubation Fund launched for Indonesian startups

Indonesian startups looking for possible investment opportunities now have another option to which they can pitch their ideas. Bakrie Telecom yesterday launched Nusantara Incubation Fund to invest in new companies who operate web and mobile services and apps as well as next generation media.

The new incubator is allocating more than US$11 million to support several startups for three years and is part of Bakrie’s Telecom Media and Technology Vision 2015 which was announced back in March of this year.

The investment committee at Nusantara Incubation is made up of four highly experienced professionals who are recognized as leaders and experts in their fields. They are Shinta Dhanuwardoyo, Frederik J. Meijer, better known as Erik Meijer, Jastiro Arbi, and Hasan Yahya. Their respective profiles are available at Nusantara’s website. Continue reading Nusantara Incubation Fund launched for Indonesian startups

Investidea: Social Commerce Adalah Peluang Terbesar di Indonesia

Menindaklanjuti artikel kami tentang investasi yang dilakukan oleh Investidea di Bistip dan Kartumuu, e27 mencari informasi yang lebih mendalam dan mewawancarai Charles Gandha, salah satu mitra di perusahaan tersebut.

Menurut Gandha, industri teknologi di Indonesia akan segera booming dan social commerce adalah peluang terbesar, dan mungkin yang terbaik yang bisa didapatkan oleh investor yang ingin masuk dalam industri ini. Wawancara di e27 tersebut mengungkapkan rincian lebih lanjut tentang Investidea serta menyoroti aspek-aspek tertentu dari industri teknologi Indonesia.

Gandha sendiri terlibat dalam dua perusahaan yang beroperasi di bidang telekomunikasi dan layanan informasi industri. Dia adalah presiden direktur di Lasmana Swasti Prashida, penyedia infrastruktur untuk telco, dan wakil presiden senior di Scientek Computindo, sebuah perusahaan solusi penyimpanan data.

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Investidea: Social Commerce Presents Biggest Opportunity in Indonesia

Following our story on Investidea’s investments in Bistip and Kartumuu, e27 did a little more digging and interviewed Charles Gandha, one of the partners at the company.

According to Gandha, Indonesia’s tech industry is about to explode and social commerce presents investors with the largest, and perhaps best opportunity to embrace the industry. The interview reveals more details about the company as well as highlighting certain aspects of the Indonesian technology industry.

Gandha himself is involved in two companies operating in the telecommunications and information services industries. He is president director at Lasmana Swasti Prashida, an infrastructure provider for telcos, and senior vice president at Scientek Computindo, a data storage solutions company.

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Bistip: Investment, New Facility and Strategy

DailySocial have written about startups invested by InvestIdea: Kartumuu, Whuzz.net dan Bistip. For Bistip, before the investment news reached our editorial team they have renewed some of their services. The renewal includes some changes on their UI, and some things related to their facility such as using RekeningBersama for payment method for Bistipers, forum, influencer, trending items, and most active routes.

Several features above in my opinion is worth developing by Bistip as online service for a web-based courier service that provides facilities for those who wish to entrust their items or have items entrusted to them for delivery purposes for a fee. These several new facilities can be useful for their users and maintain relationship with users. Influencer for example is a mediator facility for those who entrust their items and those who was entrusted. And for Forum, facility asked by Bistipers, can be main source for information and facility for discussion.

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InvestIdea Investasi di Bistip dan Kartumuu

Investidea adalah sebuah VC company yang relatif baru di Indonesia, dan diluncurkan hanya beberapa bulan yang lalu. Dan ternyata secara diam-diam sudah deal dengan 3 startup yaitu Bistip, Kartumuu dan Whuzznet. Bistip adalah sebuah startup dimana anda bisa menitipkan barang untuk dijual, Kartumuu adalah lulusan SparxUp 2010 di bisnis kartu ucapan online ~~printing~~, sedangkan untuk Whuzznet sepertinya masih belum diluncurkan.

Investidea sendiri mengaku lebih mengarah ke inkubasi dan bukan sekedar VC biasa, dimana mereka juga membantu memberikan space kantor untuk portfolio companies mereka, dan juga mentoring dari pakar di bidang teknis dan non-teknis.

Info lengkap mengenai Bistip dan Kartumuu ada disini.

Investidea Close Investment Deal With Bistip and Kartumuu

Investidea is a new player in Indonesia’s tech investment scene, launched just over 3 months ago. And much to everyone’s surprise, they’ve been quietly close several deals, 3 deals to be exact, with Bistip, SparxUp 2010 Finalist Kartumuu and Whuzz.net. Bistip is an unique online marketplace, Kartumuu is an social and online greeting card platform and Whuzz.net is still yet to be seen.

Investidea claims they’re going more to a tech business incubator rather than your regular investment company, because they’re being run by technical people and not the usual finance guys, InvestIdea also give office space for their portfolio companies.

You can click here to see our reviews on Bistip and Kartumuu

Tech VC Activities On The Rise As Indonesia’s GDP Increase 6.5%

For the past few months VCs from the technology industries from all around the globe is visiting Jakarta to see the landscape, see if they can do something here in Indonesia. Indonesia has been standing under the spotlight ever since the Koprol-Yahoo and Disdus-Groupon acquisition, and also a huge contribution from the country’s amazing economic growth for the past few years, enabling investment security for all sectors including tech. As reported by MalaysiaInsider (quoting from Reuters), Indonesia’s GDP grow 6.5% in Q1 this year. Driven by strong consumption and investment, making Indonesia the biggest economy in South East Asia.

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East Venture’s Latest Investment: Penn-Olson.com

Penn-Olson officially announced that they are now funded by East Ventures.

The news didn’t come as a surprise for me, because I can say I’ve seen it coming since Jakarta Ventures Night on March 21, 2011.

Along with time, I’ve discussed it with Rama and Aulia, and even though we had no solid evidence at that moment but everyone agreed that East Venture’s (EV) process in funding Penn-Olson.com can be seen from days away.

Finally the news of Penn-Olson being funded by EV appeared few days ago, but still not official. Willis Wee, founder and CEO of Penn-Olson wrote a little disclosure in their article on Tokopedia, and today official release was sent through email to Daily Social, confirming that east Ventures has invested in Penn-Olson.com, and the amount of funding is not disclosed.

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Investing in Tokopedia, CyberAgent Ventures will Open Branch Office in Indonesia

Along with their portfolio expansion by funding towards Tokopedia, CyberAgent Ventures as investment company from Japan announced their plan to open Indonesia office. Nobuaki Kitagawa, Director of Overseas Investment CyberAgent Ventures, said, “We saw Indonesia’s huge potential in internet market, so we are planning to open an office here to develop our investment.”

Previously we’ve informed that CyberAgent Ventures has invested US$ 700,000 for Tokopedia and get 10% of stock share. This means Tokopedia’s valuation has reached US$ 7,000,000. This is an excellent achievement for Tokopedia, which was established less than two years ago. Previously Tokopedia also received fund from PT Indonusa Dwitama and East Ventures.

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