Startup News
Indonesia
A broad summary of Indonesia’s startup news from July 2019.
- Indonesia: SweetEscape photography platform startup secures $6M Series A, aiming to build AI automation capabilities
- Indonesia: Sweet Escape platform for booking photographers raises $6M with plans for broad services expansion
- Indonesia: Kredivo payments startup gains backing from Telekomsel, in part aiming to help customers break large payments into monthlies
- Indonesia: An intro to \Startup News Asia – publishing platform and mobile-based news coverage, in Bahasa Indonesia
- Indonesia: Skala pre-seed accelerator opens applications for 2nd batch of startups, seeking 15
- Indonesia’s GGWP esports website acquired by IDN Media, aiming to make it the ESPN of e-sports
- Simona Accelerator APAC Women Founders Batch 2 applications open to September, seeking 20 startups interested in expanding to Indonesia
- Visa backs Indonesia’s Go-Jek to expand digital payments in Southeast Asia
- Indonesia: Go-Jek to offer digital insurance services via new Go-Sure service, starting with travel insurance
- Indonesia: Blibli launches BlibliPlay live-streaming video app, aiming to grow across sports, movies, music and more
- Indonesia: Raena raises $1.82M with platform to help SE Asia’s influencers launch their own consumer brands
- Indonesia: Halodoc telemedicine platform secures Bill & Melinda Gates investment, taking fundraising totalling close to $100M
- Indonesia: Pomona secures $3M with platform helping brands increase customer engagement
- Indonesia: Halosis natural language processing-based chatbot platform secures $1.2M with VA services to more thank 3K MSMEs
- Indonesia: Ralali B2B marketplace secures $13M to connect suppliers with MSMEs
- South Korea: Shinhan Financial Group preps to launch more overseas startup incubator operations in Indonesia, the US and the UK, adding to its first in Vietnam
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