Tech in Indonesia
April, May & June 2021
Tech and startup news from Indonesia in Q2 2021
The Indonesian tech news summary for the second quarter of 2021 gathers startup-related news headlines from April, May and June of the year across subjects like, for example: peer-to-peer lending startup moves benefitting women micro-entrepreneurs; earned-wage access fintech startups; Gojek’s moves into brick-and-mortar commerce presence; Indonesia’s buy-now-pay-later fintech startups; and more.
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Indonesia’s tech news: June 2021
- Indonesia: An intro look at DishServe, working with home kitchens and focusing on small and medium restaurant brands as a last mile delivery network
- Japan’s KDDI telco backs Indonesia’s Qlue smart city platform and solutions provider, aiming to expand AI, IoT and other tech solutions to wider SEA
- Indonesia: Prixa raises $3M to scale AI-driven platform user base, while supporting B2B customers and improving healthcare access and digital health transformation
- Indonesia: goKampus raises pre-Series A, aiming to provide all-in-one app-based college services, spanning enrolments, virtual courses, scholarships, internships, loans and more
- Indonesia: Amartha peer-to-peer lending startup raises $7.5M, connecting investors funding with women micro-entrepreneurs in rural areas as business capital loans
- Indonesia: Wagely raises $5.6M with earned wage access focus on Indonesia’s 100M Indonesian low- and middle-income workers
- Indonesia: Alodokter, major digital health platform, gains new funding, connecting 43K doctors and 1500 hospitals and clinics with millions of patients
- Indonesia: Applications for DSLaunchpad ULTRA, 4-week pro-bono startup incubation program from DailySocial, close June 20th, running online
- Indonesia: Cyber and Crypto Agency inks MOU with Kaspersky cybersecurity company around shared goal of beefing up the country’s cybersecurity capabilities
- ICYMI: Indonesia’s central bank now planning to launch ‘digital rupiah’ currency and is assessing which platform it will use
- Indonesia: Cryptocurrency transaction volume grew by nearly 470% from $4.4BN last year to $25BN in the first 5 months of 2021
Indonesian tech news: May 2021
- EduTech Indonesia set for August 4-5, running virtually with over 40 presentations and live panel debates
- Indonesia: Amartha gains $28M from Women’s World Banking fund with peer-to-peer lending focused on Indonesia’s 30-to-40 million micro-entrepreneurs
- Indonesia: GajiGesa fintech startup gains new backers with earned wage access and other services for workers in Indonesia’s 60M small businesses
- Indonesia: Bibit raises $65M with digital investing app and robo-advisory service, helping first-time investors invest in mutual fund products
- Indonesia: Gojek e-commerce giant acquires brick-and-mortar hypermarket operator, seen as possible move towards retail network with both e-commerce and traditional streams
- Indonesia: Gojek and Tokopedia to merge, creating one of SE Asia’s largest tech conglomerates, spanning ride-hailing, digital payments, e-commerce and more
- Indonesia: BRI Agro, lender primarily serving the agricultural sector over the last 3 decades, announces plan to transform into a digital bank as part of an overall rebranding
- Indonesia: TaniHub Group raises $65M with system streamlining helping 45K farmers get better prices and more customers for agricultural crops
- A brief intro to 5 firms working in the ‘buy now, pay later’ market, touching on virtual credit cards, point of sale financing and more
Indonesia tech news: April 2021
- Tencent Cloud launches first Indonesian data centre with sights on a second, and Thailand and South Korea by year-end
- Indonesia: East Ventures Digital Competitiveness Index 2021 now available, assessing digital economic condition of each region in the country
- Indonesia: Pluang raises $20M with app-based investment and wealth management services, integrating with super-apps Bukalapak, Gojek and Dana
- Singapore’s Habitap smart home management system launches Indonesia presence, introducing AI-driven system at luxury residential development
- A look at the recent launch of Nongsa Digital Park and Nongsa D-Town, aiming to be a regional tech hub and bridge between Indonesia and Singapore
- Download: Co-regulating the Indonesian Digital Economy, from the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (pdf)
- Indonesia: Nongsa Digital Park opened officially recently, aiming to be the country’s digital economy gateway and launchpad
- Indonesia: A brief intro to the Bali-focused 10 Founders Club, aiming to run 5-week sprints to develop 10 tech companies per year
- Indonesia: Bukalapak e-commerce giantis reportedly backed in $234M round led by Microsoft, with cloud, digital skills training and digital banking initiatives coming
- Indonesia: Populix gains 1.2M pre-Series A with app-driven consumer research across 250K users in 300 cities
- Indonesia’s Xendit fintech to waive P3.5M per business in transaction fees in the Philippines as part of new Level Up marketing campaign
- Accelerating Asia unveils accelerator cohort of 11 early-stage startups from from Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh working in healthtech, AI-driven HR, dating and more
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