Initiating change and triggering a collective and sustainable impact, ANGIN in partnership with UNDP Indonesia and Coordinating Ministry of Maritime presents Impact Pitching in Blue Economy sector. IMPACT Pitching is an innovative pitching platform designed for interactive interactions between global blue economy startups, SMEs, potential investors and growth enablers located in the heart of Indonesia’s Blue Economy, Manado city. Curated by ANGIN, this event is a part of Startup & Business Summit 2019 held by Archipelagic & Island States multi-countries forum (aisforum.org) to promote innovations and build partnerships for greater impact in the blue economy ecosystem. IMPACT Pitching was held on Thursday, 31st of October, Hall A AIS SBS 2019 Venue. To open this event, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, the coordinating minister of the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Investment attended and delivered an opening speech.
Novi Juwita, Business Development Associate as ANGIN Team Project Lead
She accommodates discussion between the team and partners within on-demand consultation sessions with UNDP and Coordinating Ministry of Maritime. In her expertise in managing relationships, she manages multiple stakeholders from government institutions, international organizations, startups, investors, and growth enablers. In this project, she collaborated with the investment team to design the IMPACT Pitching, curate startups belongs in the blue economy sector, and with the communication team to prepare promotional contents, event branding, and kits.
10 Blue Economy Startups
Carefully selected from 121 blue economy SME startup businesses, ANGIN curated 10 startups. Through open for applications and existing ANGIN database, the startups curated came from various cities around AIS Countries and addresses different problems concerning the sea. ANGIN also held special training sessions for them to develop their pitching skills. Those startups are:
1. Nanobubble.id, Improving Water Quality and Productivity with Nanotechnology
2. Triarsa, Pioneering the Production of 100% Biodegradable Plastic Products
3. FishGO, Navigation-based App Designed to Improve the Living Standard of Traditional Fishermen
4. Wujudkan, Sustainable Technology to Minimize Drought and Flood Risk
5. Plépah, Areca Palm Sheath as Material Substitution for Food Container
6. Docking.ID, Platform to Connect Ship-owners and Shipyards & Marine Vendors
7. Voluntreep, Online Platform to Combine Donation, Volunteering, and Traveling
8. Pijakbumi, Empowering Sustainable Fashion through Eco-friendly Shoes
9. Indofishery.id, Connects Fishermen and Consumers Alike
10. Sampangan, Waste Processing Technology Converting Solid Waste into Active Carbon
Investors and Growth Enablers Attended
To enable the development of the startups participating, ANGIN invited potential investors and growth enablers, which are startups assistance organizations coming from various institutions from public to private sector including Patamar Capital, Courage Rocks, Prasetiya Mulya University, C4D Partners, PT Samudra Mandiri Sentosa, Bank Rakyat Indonesia, UN Women, Oxfam Indonesia, The Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs, and many more. The audience came from 7 countries, including Singapore, UK, Japan, The Netherlands, Indonesia, France, and Switzerland.
From this event, more than half of the startups participated had successfully made their initial interaction with relevant investors and growth enablers. IMPACT Pitching has gathered ecosystem players together to further strengthen the blue economy of Indonesia through supporting and activating innovative startups. Through this project, we hope we can make more impact by collaborating with organizations alike
