October 2019
A round-up of key tech, startup and funding news from Indonesia’s startup ecosystem, through October of 2019.
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- Indonesia: Qlue smart city solution provider focusing on AI and IoT expands overseas with Malaysia office, and sights set on Dubai, Thailand, and Japan
- Indonesia: Digital Discourses Conference set for October 25th, looking at fake news, black campaigns, online radicalization, hate speech and more
- Indonesia: Total loans disbursed by fintech P2P lenders as of August stood at $3.87BN, up more than three times from $828.65M in 2018
- Indonesia: Bukalapak ecommerce marketplace partners Google My Business to register 95K MSMEs online, making warungs visible on Maps and Search
- Indonesia: TouchTen games developer gains funding to aid growth of women’s mobile gaming
- Indonesia: Sampingan on-demand workforce startup gains $1.5M pre-series A funding with network of over 150K agent-partners across the country
- Indonesia: Gojek Xcelerate unveils first cohort of 5 startups, each receiving mentoring from McKinsey & Co, Google Launchpad Developer, UBS Bank and Digitaraya
- Indonesia: An intro to StickEarn, adtech connecting brands with drivers for measurable OOH advertising which recently raised $5.5M, in part from Grab
- Indonesia: Fuse app-based insurtech gains funding with aggregation of 200+ products drawan from partnership with 30 local and international insurance firms
- Indonesia: RoomMe proptech startup gains China’s Ant Financial backing with Jakarta-focused co-living service
- Myanmar’s UMG Idealab seeking potential co-investment opportunities with Indonesian VCs as it looks to invest beyond its pre-seed stage expertise
- Indonesia: Wild Digital Conference set for Jakarta, November 26th – networking, over 40 speakers, pitch competition and more
- Indonesia: Yummy Group startup gains $7.75M funding with ‘cloud kitchen’ approach and catering solutions
- Indonesia: A data-backed overview of the country’s startup ecosystem
- Indonesia: Crewdible secures $1.5M pre-A to turn empty facilities, houses or offices, into warehouses for online sellers
- Japan: State-backed Cool Japan Fund to invest circa $50M in Go-Jek ride-hail giant, aiming to push Japanese content to Grab’s new video streaming offering
- UN Sustainable Development-focused 2019 Accelerate2030 finalists include InvestEd from the Philippines, and Indonesia’s Sampangan
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