The Jewel of Southeast Asia

Indonesia is the jewel of Southeast Asia with year-on-year growth of over 70% beating out its northern rival China which managed 65% according to eMarketer. With almost half of Indonesia’s 248 million people moving online by 2016, topping over 100 million users, Indonesia promises strong growth opportunities. Indonesia is expected to generate 40 percent of the regions B2C e-commerce revenues by 2018 according to Frost & Sullivan.

It is data like this that drive the investment market in Indonesia. The following is a short list of recent investment activities.

Accelerators

500 Startups (Paypal & Google alumni)

Ideabox (Mountain SEA Ventures & Indosat)

Ecommerce/Marketplace

Berrybenka (GREE Ventures)

Bilna (funded by CyberAgent Ventures)

Bukalapak (P2P), (GREE Ventures)

Ever (Ideasource)

Gravira (Grupara)

IndoTrading (Rebright Partners)

Lazada (Rocket Internet)

Pasar Minggu (Ideasource)

Saqina (Ideasource)

Sidecar (Ridesharing Marketplace), (Fenox Venture Capital)

Tokopedia (Sequoia & CyberAgents Ventures)

UrbanIndo (Housing Marketplace), (IMJ Investment Partners)

VIP Plaza (CyberAgent Ventures)

Epayments

Coda (CyberAgents Ventures)

Financial Comparison

Cek Aja (Mountain SEA Ventures

iMoney (Rebright Partners & IMJ Investment Partners)

PriceArea (GREE Ventures) — acquired by Yello Mobile

Food Delivery

Klik-eat (IMJ Investment Partners)

FoodPanda (Falcon Edge Captial & Rocket Internet AG)

Gaming

Touchten Studios (CyberAgents Ventures & Ideosource)

Health

Lark Technologies (Fenox Venture Capital)

Marketing

8 Villages (IMJ Investment Partners)

Reservations

Qraved (Rebright Partners)

Social Media

Bottlenose (Fenox Venture Capital)

ShareThis (Fenox Venture Capital)