Venture Building

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……

With venture building on a consistent rise, Slash, a boutique venture and tech studio, is coming forward with a new social project - Venture Builder Map. This is the first attempt to create a global interactive directory of all the venture builders.

The 4IR-themed innovation center was one of the government's initiatives to guide entrepreneurs comprehensively from the prototype development process to product commercialization.

Priorities will be given to Internet of Things (IoT), Advanced Manufacturing, Consumer Digital, EdTech, Health Tech, Clean Tech companies.

The announcement also comes as Malaysia aims to create more tech startups, unicorns and accelerate M towards becoming an innovation-driven economy.

The fund will invest in high-potential businesses and help them grow online, scale operations and become great consumer brands. Touted as the biggest fund among brand aggregators in Southeast Asia, the fund will focus specifically on investing in and providing operational support for e-commerce sellers, initially in Indonesia.

Wavemaker Partners believes that climate change is an existential threat for the region, with three of its largest cities facing the threat of being underwater by 2050. Thus, the founders of Wavemaker Impact believe that entrepreneurs will drive solutions to addressing climate change and aim to launch companies that will reduce 10 percent of global…

TVSG is focused on early-stage, high-growth tech businesses in Southeast Asia. It will seek opportunities in domains including e-commerce, community, FinTech, online to offline, biotech, healthcare, FoodTech, and sustainability.

By bridging the funding gap, MaGIC and Penjana Kapital aspire to reorient private capital for innovative start-ups, attract global and regional VCs into Malaysia, as well as elevate knowledge transfer, talent development and creation in Malaysia ecosystem.

In this Q&A with Natasha Dawn Bautista, Head of Marketing Communications and Program Management at 917Ventures, we learn how Globe aims to utilize its wide reach and assets in building upon viable technology startup ideas.