Ardent Capital Receives $12.5 Million Funding from Sinarmas Group and Opens Indonesia Office

The investment company and venture builder Ardent Capital, which is based in Thailand, announces that it has already received $12.5 million (around Rp 150 billion) from group of investor led by Sinarmas Group and supported by several existing investors. The fund will be utilized to expand the business built by Ardent within Ardent Labs, including aCommerce and online retail group WhatsNew. Roderick Purwana from Sinarmas will join Ardent board.

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Ardent Capital Peroleh Dana $12,5 Juta dari Sinarmas dan Buka Kantor di Indonesia

Perusahaan investasi dan pembangun bisnis Ardent Capital yang berbasis di Thailand mengumumkan perolehan dana sebesar $12,5 juta (sekitar Rp 150 miliar) dari grup yang dipimpin oleh Sinarmas dan didukung oleh sejumlah investor lainnya. Dana tersebut akan digunakan untuk pengembangan bisnis yang dibangun oleh Ardent Capital dalam Ardent Labs, termasuk di dalamnya aCommerce dan grup ritel online WhatsNew. Roderick Purwana bergabung di dewan direksi Ardent sebagai perwakilan Sinarmas.

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Smartfren Develops Mobile Payment and Mobile Banking Applications

One of the things that haven’t been thought of by banking industry (and developer) is application for customer’s financial activities. Several bigger banks provide m-banking (via SMS) and internet banking (plus its mobile version) service, but to complement the available function, there should be banking application – for Blackberry and iPhone platform, for example – as solution.

Previously I found out that there’s an application developed by PermataBank in Blackberry platform. Unfortunately, the application is “a pseudo one”. Each transaction conducted with it will be sent through SMS, not thorough data connection. Which means this application is some kind of launcher for m-banking via SMS activity. Resulting every activity or transaction will be deducted from phone’s credit, and will happen fast, because such special SMS will be charged Rp. 500 per SMS sent.

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