Q4 2016
Startup News Asia
Indonesia
- Bandung to get city-wide bike-share system
- Kompas, country’s largest publisher, to acquire Scoop news app
- A look at travel and tourism startups and opportunities
- Indonesian novel set to launch with VR content and app
- A quick look at fintech in Indonesia
- ‘Net penetration over 75% in 10-24 and 25-34-year-old groups
- Controversial digital ‘right to be forgotten’ enters law
- Messaging app ads most effective in reaching users
- Interview with Coworking Indonesia’s chairwoman, Faye Alund
- Indonesia to set up e-commerce startup crowdfunding platform
- Cicil, financing platform for university students, lands funding
- HarukaEdu, Google-accelerated edtech, raises $2.2m
- Edubox startup helps Bandung track student attendance, cut costs
- MCI to invest $15M into 4-5 fintech startups in 2017
- ‘IoT market…potential value of US$1 billion by 2020’
- Indonesia to have online IoT products & solutions marketplace
- Tele-CTG startup aims to boost maternal and fetal health
- MDI Ventures to invest $100m in startups; to close 3 deals by year-end
- Indonesia’s Kamto aims for 1000 startups by 2020
- 6 startups chosen for Google Launchpad batch 3
- Sleekr merges with Kiper for small business accounting
- Wobe taps SEA prepaid mobile market to aid low-income entrepreneurship
- Telkom sets up IoT marketplace; Plug and Play to JV for incubator
- India’s Aavishkaar aims at $150m Indonesia fund: 15 co’s over 5 years
- government mulls use of telco infrastructure fund to boost tech startups
- Ideabox accelerator takes next step, becomes venture capital firm
- Convergence Ventures passes target, closes US$30M early-stage fund
- A quick look at 5 post-incubator startups
- Go-Jek buys parent of mobile payments startup PonselPay
- An advance look at FINSPIRE, set for early November
- Indonesia’s Ubiklan aims to be Uber for offline car advertising
- WeShop secures 7-digit funding for cross-border ecommerce
- A look at 500 Startups’ outlook on Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
- 6 key points when looking at Indonesia’s ecommerce landscape
- Gadjian HR software startup lands Golden Gates Ventures funding
- Mandiri Capital launches summit for fintech innovation
- $10m fund launched for Southeast Asia gaming industry
- US$10m fund launched for Indonesia’s gaming startups
- A look at Kravasia, curated online marketplace for batik
- 2016 tech spending up 8.4%, startups to grow 6-fold by 2020
- How Asia’s best drones project cut farmers’ costs by 60%
- Fintech can help boost Indonesia’s creative sector
- A look at a number of Indonesia’s fintech startups
- Digital Financial Services Indonesia 2016 set for November
- Report highlights Indonesia’s untapped digital finance opportunity
- A look at 7 of Indonesia’s crowdlending sites
- CekAja and eCompareMo fintechs gain funding from Telstra Ventures
- Why Indonesia’s mobile market attracts international companies and talent
