The March 2020 month-end collection of Indonesia’s startup news, from Startup News Asia.
Each month, we gather Indonesia’s startup news, along with venture capital funding items and tech news to produce a monthly summary, in this case for March 2020. Items are drawn from our daily news feeds, which collect startup news in Indonesia from online news sources, tech news channels and Indonesia-focused online news services; and each item linked here will take you to the original news source.
- Microsoft set to explore building data centres in Indonesia, potentially joining cloud giants Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud
- Indonesia: State-owned Telkom to launch new VC fund of up to $500M, building on the success of its two existing funds
- Indonesia: Digiasia fintech gains Mastercard as lead investor in Series B round, aiming to widen financial services access for individuals and SMEs
- Indonesia: A look at the issues of gaming and gadget addiction in children and teens in the country
- Indonesia: Grab Ventures Velocity opens 3rd Accelerate Startups Growth program for applications
- Indonesia: A 7-point introduction to the Traveloka PayLater Card
- Indonesia: Standard Chartered launches nexus Banking as a Service product aiming to help e-commerce, social media and ride hailing companies tap the banking space
- Indonesia: A brief intro to 3 of the country’s education-tech startups helping students work from home
- Indonesia: Pahamify edtech startup lands $150K from Y Combinator with focus on college admissions tests
- Indonesia: Chilibeli social commerce startup raises $10M Series A round led by US VC firm Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Indonesia: Kargo Technologies trucking and logistics marketplace gains investment from Amatil X, Coca Cola’s VC arm
- Indonesia-based venture capital companies raised a total of $582M last year, a 79% increase from $325M in 2018
- Singapore’s Akadasia partners IndonesiaX to provide free access to education to all learners across Asia via FREEJOO, Akadasia’s learning management platform
Tech news: By subject
Other subject-specific news from across Asia-Pacific in March 2020:
• Blockchain news across Asia-Pac
• Artificial Intelligence news, Asia
• Cybersecurity and data security news
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