Indonesia

Fresh Factory, an Indonesia-based integrated cold chain fulfillment and enabler startup,a cold chain fulfillment startup, announced Monday that it has secured $4.5 million of seed funding led by East Ventures. The round also saw the participation of PT. Saratoga Investama Sedaya TBK, Trihill Capital, Indogen Capital, Prasetia Dwidharma, Number Capital, Y…

Populix, an Indonesia-based homegrown consumer insights platform, announced Monday the closing of a $7.7 million Series A round of financing, led by Intudo Ventures and Acrew Capital, with participation from Altos Ventures and Quest Ventures. With this round of financing, it will reinforce its efforts to digitize the entire data collection process.

“Gojek is not currently available in Malaysia and we have no current plans to enter the market,” a Gojek spokesperson told TechNode Global in an email.

AC Ventures(ACV), an early-stage Indonesia-focused Venture Capital firm, said Wednesday it has appointed Alan Hellawell as Senior Advisor and Venture Partner. Alan will bring to bear deep technology industry experience to support ACV’s portfolio companies in areas such as value creation, advisory, and strategic introductions; as well as apply his expertise…

Startup Studio Indonesia (SSI), a government-initiated incubation program for early-stage startups, officially opened registration for the Batch 5 program in May. The intensive program, developed under the Ministry of Communications and Informatics (Kominfo), aims to assist and advance Indonesia’s early-stage digital startups to achieve product-market……

Desty, an Indonesia-based startup building a full stack e-commerce solution for merchants, announced Thursday it has raised a new round of funding led by Square Peg. This is in addition to funds raised from a Pan Asia investor base last year, including East Ventures, Jungle Ventures and 5Y Capital and other prominent angel investors in the region.

Vidio, an Indonesia-based over-the-top (OTT) platform owned by PT Surya Citra Media Tbk and part of PT Elang Mahkota Teknologi Tbk (Emtek Group) said Tuesday it has secured an additional investment of $45 million from several strategic investors. PT Dian Swastatika Sentosa Tbk (DSSA), a business pillar of Sinarmas Group, through its subsidiary, PT DSST Mas…

Flip, an Indonesia-based consumer payments platform, announced Tuesday a second close of a Series B funding round led by Tencent, with participation from Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.) and existing investor Insight Partners.

In the interview, Co-Founder and Chief Sustainability Officer Sus Utari Octavianty also shared details on Aruna’s plan, strategy and challenges it faced.