= First quarter 2018 =
Indonesia’s startup news
Below is an uncategorised summary of Indonesia’s startup news as reported in the English-language press in January, February and March 2018.
We also deliver a monthly Indonesia startup news update.
Accompanying this, we also deliver a daily startup news report
via social media, posting Indonesia’s startup news on Twitter,
on LinkedIn and via StartupAsiaNews on Facebook.
The collected quarterly items – spanning all countries in South and Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand – can also be ordered as a 90+ page publication in full-colour hardopy.
- A look at PayRide’s take on car advertising
- Indonesian Governtment considering Bitcoin’s use as an investment instrument
- Kata startup aims to make chatbots easy for anyone to build
- A look at Freeware Spaces moves into the co-living industry
- Smart ‘warung’ project launched to bring retail tech and ecommerce to local kiosks
- Indonesia’s Pundi X blockchain startup considering crypto PoS network in India
- 5 of Plug and Play Indonesia’s 1st batch raise US$1M follow-on funding
- Mecapan beauty services marketplace launches equity crowdfund campaign
- The 13 startups in the 2nd batch of Plug and Play Indonesia accelerator
- Etobee crowd-sourced urban logistics delivery platform lands $3.5M for web/mobile appl for individuals and businesses
- Kolase crowdfund platform raises US$750K for musicians to crowdfund their works
- Jakarta city to prioritise cashless payments to improve financial accountability
- Internet penetration hits 143M of 262M population
- Warung Pintar ‘smart kiosks’ help vendors revamp with digital POS, Wi-Fi, LCD screen, chargers and more
- An intro to Kingaru Sleep, aiming to disrupt the mattress market
- RIDE Jakarta fitness studio secures US$500K for mobile app and digital platform
- A look at DOOgether’s moves into the fitness services market
- ‘Indonesia likely to have more than 5 startups worth at least $1BN each by 2019’
- Indonesian government set to give venture capital firms investing in tech startups freedom from income tax
- GetCRAFT launches marketplace for brands to find creators and marketers; sets for Thai, Vietnam, Singapore expansion
- Indonesia expected to have more bitcoin investors than stock participants by year-end
- UnionSPACE coworking space operator partners Australia’s Stone & Chalk to support local fintech startups
- EV Hive and Jenius launch Jakarta coworking space focusing on fintech
- An overview of Indonesia’s internet market and what to expect of it in future
- The challenges and opportunities with insurtech in the country
- BTN Morgtech mortgage tech hackathon unveils 3 winners
- An intro to Jala, water quality management platform for shrimp farmers
- An intro to Medan City’s startup ecosystem
- M Cash digital kiosks platform partners with aim of digitising 50K offline small retailers
- Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia to set up innovation centre
- UangTeman P2P lending platform sets sights on $20M fundraise
- Du’Anyam social enterprise backed for local impacts
- Startup Nation Summit set for Surabaya in November
- Indonesian VCs enter JV with Yahoo Japan for $150M growth-stage SE Asia and Indonesia startup fund
- 100 hectare ‘tech park’ opens in Batam, aiming to be ‘digital bridge’ between Singapore and Indonesia
