Indonesia’s tech startup news: August 2020
The Indonesia tech news collection here is drawn from online coverage of Indonesia’s startup ecosystem across August of 2020, as covered in English-language media.
Startup news items listed here gather Indonesia’s tech startup news headlines; each headline links to the online article behind each headline, giving readers an instant overview of recent Indonesian startup news, and allowing you to instantly read any Indonesian startup news item in full.
Our monthly news collections are drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily startup news updates – delivered on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and by app – which gather technology news from across 17 locations across Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
- Indonesia: An intro look at Burgreens, vegan food startup which has grown from 2 people to a staff of 150 in 3 years
- Indonesia: Wahyoo gains $5M Series A to help small eateries digitize their activities, from ordering supplies to managing finances
- Indonesia: More on Wahyoo’s $5M Series A funding, the second investment into Indonesia by Coca-Cola Amatil’s $10M venture capital arm
- Indonesia: An intro to Tridi Oasis, women-led recycling startup
- Indonesia: Ayoconnect raises $5M, connecting bill providers such as utilities, telcos with online and offline partners – minimarkets, postal service, financial institutions
- Indonesia: Aruna raises $5.5M with digital platform connecting thousands of fishermen in 31 coastal areas directly to buyers, cutting out middleman fees
- Indonesia: BukuKas raises $9M pre-Series A with digital ledger platform for MSMEs, allowing them to automate processes and monitor sales, profit and credit
- Indonesia: MDI Ventures, corporate VC arm of Telkom Group, launches new $500M fund, in part looking at taking traditional, offline SOEs into digital activity
- Indonesia: An intro to InfraDigital, helping schools digitize tuition and enrolment, and partnering everyday outlets to help parents make digital payments for tuition
- Indonesia: A recent look at the growing presence of tech firms like GoPay and OVO in the digital payments space, already handling over 55% of all digital payments in the country
- Indonesia: An interview with the country’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology on the ‘war room’ approach taken to combat fake news
- Government agencies in Malaysia and Indonesia sign cooperation agreement to establish ‘collaborative framework’ for fintech development, aiming for joint projects
- Indonesia: KitaBeli raises seed investment with social commerce approach, enabling group buying for FMCG customers
- Indonesia: Gojek launches Melaju Bersama Gojek initiative to aid SMEs into digital transformation of their businesses, where over 90% of Indonesians work
- Another look at the 11 startups selected from the End Plastic Waste Innovation Platform program, from Australia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar and UAE
- Singapore’s Igloo insurtech partners Union Bank of the Philippines and Indonesia’s Akulaku for expansion of micro-insurance products
- Comparing the startup ecosystems of Indonesia and Vietnam, an online event from Tech In Asia, set for September 3rd
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