Behind-the-scene of ANGIN

A closer look at ANGIN. Meet the team working behind the scenes to shape Indonesia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem!

Our Story

Story about how ANGIN was founded.

2011

Brewing Time

ANGIN was born in as a project within a USAID-funded non profit entity named GEPI (Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia). GEPI was formally established in January 2011 by a group of 13 prominent business leaders in Indonesia. GEPI was also part of a wider global initiative called the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP), which grew from an initiative of President Obama and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. For the old souls of the industry, GEPI was the first accelerator and even coworking space operating in Indonesia. It supported some of the now successful startups such as GOJEK, who got awarded USD 10,000 from GEPI in 2011.

2016

The Creation of ANGIN

As a lot of grant-funded organisation, GEPI’s funding started to run out and discussions started to emerge on how to ensure a continuity of GEPI’s mission post grant funding. In 2016, David Soukhasing supported by some GEPI Board Members saw an opportunity to spin off ANGIN from GEPI and turned ANGIN into a brand new for-profit venture. At that time, all the foundations needed to be built: The website, the logo, the team, and all of the process, but that was a unique challenge to be tackled. ANGIN stand alone was born in 2016!

2017

Surviving and Proving the Model

As any early stage ventures, the first years were not an easy ride at all. We have to build everything from scratch. The bank account was empty and our team went through a lot of ups and downs: Searching the right model, building a team with no budget, not having a proper office to save cash (we were using David’s appartment), scouting for our first clients and fighting for revenue…But this time brought us unique insights on the real life of being ourselves entrepreneurs.

2018

Seed Round Funding

Our team commitment and grit paid back: We grew our ANGIN to become the largest investor network in Indonesia, we successfully invested in more than 35 startups and established ANGIN as a key component of the entrepreneurial space in Indonesia. Prominent clients, such as UNDP, OXFAM started to contract us to support their programs. In 2018, in order to speed up our execution, we raised our first seed round from three prominent Indonesian business leaders and 500 Startups, super star VC from the US. This funding helped us to innovate new programs and new ventures (connector.id) to continuously bring more support to entrepreneurs and answer market needs.

2019

Innovate and Grow

We are excited by the perspective to continue growing beyond an investment platform. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we aim to design new impactful services to build more impact for the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem and our clients. ANGIN Advisory and our equity crowdfunding are signs of this commitment to grow further.

OUR MISSION

Since our inception in 2016, the mission has not changed at all: our team and shareholders have been striving to support Indonesia’s economic development by investing in the next generation of entrepreneurs and by bringing best in class practices to Indonesian early stage investment. We strive to do that with an independent private sector approach and by being who we serve (investors, entrepreneurs, capacity builders…).

THE ANGIN TEAM

Our core management team consists of diverse high-performing personalities united by the passion and commitment to support the development of Indonesia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Say hi to us!

DAVID SOUKHASING

Managing Director

David Soukhasing has been leading ANGIN since 2014. From a single person company, David has bootstrapped ANGIN, going through the downs and ups any startups (e.g. hosting the entire team in his apartment, holding meetings at coffee places…) to turn it around the leading and trusted investment platform in Indonesia.

After a career in Private Equity and startups, David moved to Indonesia in 2013 to manage the accelerator program and investments of a global impact investor supporting high-growth and impact companies. He then joined IMJ Investment Partners (Spiral Ventures now), one of the most active tech seed venture capitalists in Southeast Asia. He graduated with a Master Degree in Corporate Law and Finance from Sciences Po in France and with a Master Degree in Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris. David is also one of the Partners at Teja Ventures, leading VC with a focus on the She Economy and Gender Lens investment.

In his free time, David enjoys climbing summits (last one was in Iran), diving (dive master work in progress) and the discipline of Muay Thai/Boxing.

YOHANA PARIDA

Partnership Engagement Associate

Yohana is paving her way in the impact and development sector since she started her journey as Campaign Manager at WeCare.id, a health-based social impact startup, where she led fundraising campaigns to empower patients who don’t get equal access to healthcare.

Working with ANGIN allows her to combine her communication expertise with her passion for development. She has been involved in building the local presence of a global competition that enables Indonesian women-impact startups to receive mentoring and funding from international investors and VCs. She also led capacity-building programs for aspiring student entrepreneurs and engages daily with impact ecosystem players across the globe.

After graduating cum laude from Communication Science, University of Indonesia, she has been involved in various gender lens movements, investing in women and local communities as future agents of change. This eventually led her to be the Project Leader at Girl Up Jakarta by the United Nations Foundation, leading a fundraising program to support education funds for young girls in East Indonesia.

Art and literature is her muse, as a theatre actor/writer, performing and writing keeps her spirit alive!

SARITA ANGGUN KINANTI

Advisory Associate

Sarita is the Advisory Associate at ANGIN. Her role is mostly doing end-to-end project management in ANGIN Advisory projects, from knowledge generation, program design & implementation, to ecosystem building. Sarita led a mentoring program for 18 startups from Asia-Pacific and also supporting women across Indonesia to become entrepreneurs through ANGIN Advisory’s various capacity-building programs.

She has a strong interest in empowering micro-small entrepreneurs and often sees entrepreneurship from the cultural side. It was because of her background in cultural anthropology from Udayana University Bali, where she also lived there for 4 years before moving back to Jakarta.

Prior to joining ANGIN, she was an assistant researcher at the Udayana Anthropology Research Centre for 2 years. She supported 6 of her lecturer’s research around East Java, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara, and East Nusa Tenggara.

In her spare time, she loves to play classical guitar, meeting new people, and reading political articles.

AISHA NADIRA

Partnership Engagement Lead

Aisha started her journey in the startup and investment industry when she supported the establishment of NextICorn Foundation- a foundation mandated to connect investors and startups which was founded by the former Indonesian Minister of ICT, Mr. Rudiantara.

After one year, Aisha continued her journey with ANGIN where she helped grows the ANGIN network by engaging with investors and clients across the globe from Europe, Asia, and Australia. Aisha also led capacity-building programs for aspiring student entrepreneurs and supported writing Investing in Impact in Indonesia report as the first nationwide report on Impact Investing that is publicly available. She has a strong interest in empowering entrepreneurs and supporting Gender Lens Impact Investing

Aisha graduated cum laude from the University of Indonesia with a Bachelor of Social Sciences with a focus in media studies. During her spare time, Aisha loves to dance and paint.

KHALYA KARAMINA

Advisory Associate

Khalya has a unique blend of a well-rounded consultant given her background in Brand Planning and Marketing Strategy. This experience honed her skills in unearthing human insights and seeing things in a broader perspective as a visionary. Feeling unchallenged in a traditional marketing career sector, she pursued higher education all the way in London, UK as a fully-funded scholarship recipient (LPDP).

Her curiosity about the entrepreneurial ecosystem brought her to pursue a Masters of Arts in Entrepreneurship from University College London. Upon graduating from MA, she was inspired to play a role in Indonesia’s entrepreneurial scene, and there is no better place to learn than ANGIN. At the moment, Khalya enjoys utilizing her best skills of critical thinking, project management, and stakeholder liaison to meet the Advisory clienteles’ needs and interests in building and growing Indonesia’s main source of GDP, the SMEs.

Outside career, she is an advocate for a healthy and active lifestyle – having traveled (almost) around the world, scuba-dived over the archipelago, and being a certified Strong by Zumba instructor.

GREGORIA FREDERIKA MANDIAS

Advisory Lead

Gregoria was graduated from the University of Indonesia, majoring in Communication Science. Ever since she was sent to be an Indonesian ambassador in a cultural exchange program, Gregoria developed a huge interest in Indonesia’s diverse culture, identity, heritage, and conservation. Prior to joining ANGIN, she co-founded Copa de Flores, a contemporary clothing line leveraging authentic tenun ikat NTT to modern fashion, she was also a research and strategic content planner in a digital marketing agency.

In 2019, Gregoria joined ANGIN Advisory to channel her passion to dive deeper into traditional Indonesian culture. She is responsible for advisory work related to cultural products and its innovation related to entrepreneurship in reviving cultural heritage talent.

Gregoria also likes to do sports in her spare time, developing her own personal project, or volunteer in a social project.

ATIKA BENEDIKTA

Impact Investment Lead

Atika is the Impact Investment Lead at ANGIN. She is in charge of sourcing investment opportunities in social enterprises and exploring impact investment schemes with clients. Atika has also been involved in several research projects and delivering training with topics of social enterprises, angel investing, and gender lens investing. Atika is also part of the AVPN Impact Investing Fellow.

Prior to ANGIN, she had worked in the corporate finance and capital market for 3 years, before moving to the SME development and impact space. In 2018, she worked with Solve Education!, an education technology organisation, and Wattblock, a Sydney-based clean energy startup in 2018. She earned a master’s degree in Business Strategy and Social Enterprises from the University of New South Wales, Australia, being funded by the Australia Awards long-term scholarship from DFAT.

Atika is also an art lover. For her, drawing and exploring her watercolor techniques works like a therapy.

ATIN DEWI IRIYANTI

Operation Officer

Prior to joining ANGIN, Irien previously worked as an executive assistant for an Indonesian construction company and three years for a boutique law firm in Jakarta. With experiences in assisting different kinds of business leaders, Irien has the deep insight to manage operations and assisting all kinds of support needed working with ANGIN’s high-profile clients and projects.

Irien has been working on various projects of ANGIN, especially the TPSA (Canada-Indonesia Trade and Private Sector Assistance) project, when ANGIN partnered with the Canadian Government. During the project, she had been connecting diverse group of people which would not have happened in common occasions. Through ANGIN, she hopes to help entrepreneurs get better access to ecosystem players.

Irien enjoys travelling and she’s now learning to develop her Chinese language skills. She also likes to spend time with her little daughter.

SASKIA TJOKRO

Director of Advisory

Prior joining ANGIN Advisory, Saskia worked as a market consultant in various impact driven organization projects focusing in Southeast Asia. Her specialty is strategic market planning, market intervention, and policy development for SME and tertiary sector ecosystem building for emerging market.

MBA graduate from University of Gadjah Mada with several entrepreneurship credits from Rotterdam School of Management. She won the global Erasmus University MBA International Business Case competition Spring 2010 and was an early adopter of EU incubator movement in Maastricht 2011. Currently aiming for PhD, she wrote scholar articles for MBA handbooks focusing on future workforce and Indonesia case studies. Knowledge sharing is her passion. A certified training method from SKKNI; ESG, impact and design thinking are her curiousity. Check her footprints in Angin Advisory!

Hyacynthia Kesuma

Investment Analyst

Hyacynthia Kesuma has been working in both corporate and startup environments. She spent her college years trying to have a deeper understanding about how retail and institutional clients operate in the capital market sector by working as a sell-side analyst in Mirae and Trimegah. Cynthia started to develop an interest in startups since she first got involved in a startup consulting project, and received first-hand experience from direct participation in investor meetings. At that moment, she didn’t realize that it had actually caught her attention. In early 2020, she had an opportunity to manage a SME project in the F & B sector, dealing with strategic planning and business development.

After investing some time learning about the startup perspective through projects, organizations, and competitions, she decided to have a deeper dive into investor’s perspective by joining BRI Ventures, a Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) arm of Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), one of the largest SOE banks in Indonesia. Aside from her work, she is also passionate in providing education related to the capital market, personal finance, and finance for startups. What kept her going was when she found out that many people benefited from her sessions. She enjoys sharing as much as she enjoys seeing people grow. That is when she finally took her first step to fulfill one of her life’s purposes i.e. to positively impact her surroundings by creating a financial literacy platform, Duit Academy. With ANGIN, not only does she love to explore entrepreneurs’ potentials in Indonesia, but also to improve literacy about startup and fundraising opportunities.

Cynthia dared to join a fencing athlete association and succeeded in winning numerous fencing championships. During hard times, the sounds of sea waves, ocean breeze, view of blue water, and painting would help her to restore her energy.

Pius Bagas

Investment Analyst

Joining as an Investment Analyst at ANGIN channels Pius’ interest in startup, investment, and finance world. He sees early-stage investment as art & creativity rather than hard numbers.

As a business major graduate from Universitas Prasetiya Mulya, Pius has a strong interest in entrepreneurship. Before ANGIN, he created several businesses while in university and managed to exit from some of the businesses. His interest in entrepreneurship also manifested through involvement in some projects such as Pop Up Market, one of the largest local brand events in Indonesia, and community development program, a program from Universitas Prasetiya Mulya dedicated to developing rural entrepreneurs in Cianjur, Jawa Barat.

Pius spent his spare time reading & grinding on a personal project. Addiction to books becomes his way of reinventing himself. He’s also an outdoor activity enthusiast. He believes that nature can teach people to be the best version of themselves.