Tech news: Indonesia
Indonesia’s tech startup news from August 2019
(Today’s startup news: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook)
- Indonesia’s Pundi X enables cryptocurrency payments in Traki stores, Venezuela’s largest department store chain, via blockchain-backed POS devices
- Indonesia: Kedai Sayur raises $4M with digitised approach to traditional supply chains in buying and selling farmers’ produce
- Indonesia: Social Bella beauty platform launches bricks-and-mortar store in online-to-offline growth
- Indonesia: Jualo consumer-to-consumer marketplace with 4M monthly users acquired by Singapore’s Carro in first-of-4 growth move
- Indonesia: Regulators have closed down 826 unlicensed fintech firms so far in 2019, with aid requested from the public
- Indonesia: An overview of the biggest e-wallet apps by monthly users and downloads
- WhatsApp reportedly in talks with multiple firms to launch mobile payments in Indonesia
- Indonesia: NTT Startup Challenge 2019 set for November 20th in Jakarta – startup pitch opportunities now open for applications
- Indonesia: Grab ride-hail giant to invest $2BN across 5 years with Japan’s SoftBank to accelerate development of the country’s digital infrastructure
- Tech In Asia Conference 2019 set for 8-9 October in Jakarta, Indonesia – startup exibition booths still available
- South Korea: An intro to the 15 startups from Seoul’s Guro District as they prep for October networking tour of Indonesia’s startup ecosystem
- Vietnam’s HCM City representative suggests Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam’s southern hub take turns holding SE Asia startup fair to develop and collaborate
