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[RECAP] B Corp Forum : Gotong Royong 2018

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September 3rd 2018 – David Soukhasing (Managing Director of ANGIN) was invited, to the B Corp Forum organised last week, to present about the funding landscape for social enterprises.

Quite new to the Indonesian ecosystem, B Corp is a certification for companies provided by the Non-Profit B Lab Institutions. Certification is given to companies that during the audit process are able to prove that their business process – from the supply chain, operational systems to products / services sold in the market – can have a positive impact and added value. The five aspects of concern in B Corp certification are governance, employees, environment, society and consumers. There are currently more than 2,600 companies from more than 60 countries have B Corp certification. As for Asia, B Corp has become a community consisting of 81 companies and spread in 17 countries. This number is up 10 times compared to 2014. While in Indonesia, there are two B Corp companies namely Percolate Galatic, a creative digital agency, and Danone-AQUA, a bottled drinking water (AMDK) company.

In its mission to grow the social and/or technology entrepreneurship ecosystem in Indonesia, ANGIN has developed its Advisory Services to service clients in understanding better the Indonesian ecosystem and solve operational challenges in achieving the SDGs. ANGIN has led several research works, strategic consulting missions and events for both domestic and international organizations. It was a good opportunity for ANGIN to share some of its views on the market. We mostly focused on highlighting the challenges and opportunity the impact investment landscape is facing. Some of the discussion points :

Challenges:

– Reliance on foreign capital

– Existence of several investment gaps

– Pipeline access and readiness

– Lack of exits and realized returns

Opportunities: 

Mobilizing the Domestic Capital

Growth of the SAO /enabling environment (See ANGIN research on that topic https://angin.id/angin-resources#angin-research )

Role of new capital providers to fund early stage deals (e.g. fintech)

New investment implementations being discussed (e.g. blended finance, first loss)

Please contact our team at contact@angin.id for the slides used during the presentation.

[UPCOMING] Project Alpha

Fund your startup with Project Alpha!

Seedplus, in partnership with AWS is bringing Project Alpha to Jakarta! Project Alpha aims to identify early stage, high-potential startups in Southeast Asia and provide them with support to help them grow their business.

For the next event in Jakarta, Project Alpha will be hosting Dayu Dara Permata (SVP GO-JEK, Co-Founder of GO-LIFE), Ahmed Aljunied (GO-LIFE VP of Engineering and Product) and Norman Sasono (Co-founder and CTO of Bizzy). Seedplus and AWS will also present details on the project and how we intend to work with start-ups. The event will take place on Thursday, 9th August, at the GO LEARN Auditorium in GO-JEK HQ (Pasaraya Blok M, Building B, 6th Floor, Jl Iskandarsyah II No. 2, Jakarta, DKI Jakarta 12160) from 1 – 4pm. If you’d like to attend, you can sign up at the Project Alpha website here.

The Jakarta event is part of a larger series of events across Southeast Asia (Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok and Singapore). They successfully held our inaugural event in KL on 5th July, where more than 100 startup founders came together to hear from speakers from Fave and iFlix.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to be part of a greater Southeast Asian ecosystem and to get the support you need to grow!

[RECAP] GNB Networking Party

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On 19 July 2018, the ANGIN team met and mingled with investors and startups alike at the GnB Networking Party. The event was packed with multiple ecosystem players including VCs like Monks Hill Ventures and Skystar Capital, as well as the GnB Accelerator Batch startups. Each startup gave a short elevator pitch to the crowd and then proceeded to mingle with the rest of the room. The night was filled with discussions, laughter, and reconnecting, with many business cards exchanged.

GnB Accelerator is a collaborative program between Japanese IT company Infocom Corporation and Fenox Venture Capital from Silicon Valley. It is a global network dedicated to progress and innovation that brings together the people, the funding, and the partners that drive business velocity. We are happy to have worked with GnB in the past and to support one another in the ecosystem, and look forward to their coming startup Demo Day.

[UPCOMING] Skilling Up: Fostering a Robust MSME Workforce in Indonesia

How can micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) sustain a productive and well-trained staff? Small businesses often have less initial income to pay for performance, and MSMEs struggle with high attrition rates, absenteeism, and migration of their workforce – compelling them to rethink strategies around employee management.

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, in partnership with Global Affairs Canada, invites you to join SKILLING UP: Fostering a Robust MSME Workforce in Indonesia. Researchers, policy-makers, and local entrepreneurs will be addressing these topics with a focus on gender, environmental sustainability, issues facing young entrepreneurs, and more at this interactive workshop exploring obstacles and opportunities that domestic and regional MSMEs experience around human capital in Indonesia.

If you would like an invitation please send your email and title to Amar Nijhawan, Project Specialist – amar.nijhawan@asiapacific.ca

NOTE: This event is open for women entrepreneurs only.

 

[UPCOMING] K-Content EXPO Thailand 2018

In K-Content EXPO Thailand 2018, 42 companies representing the Korean creative industry in various genre will participate as well as 9 startups. They are in the fields of broadcasting, game, VR, animation, character licensing, comics(webtoon) and edutainment materials. They are all ready to meet and show you their latest and finest content,
expecting new partnership and business opportunities.

You can connect with our team member, Kenan, who will be attending by sending him an email at kenan@angin.id!

About KOCCA

KOCCA is a government agency under the MCST, supporting the advancement of creative industry in Korea, which encourage global business and enhance cultural exchanges, MCST and KOCCA hold K-Content EXPO around the world yearly.

[UPCOMING] Echelon Asia Summit 2018

Join ANGIN at the Echelon Asia Summit 2018 to gain insight on South East Asia from over 130 speakers, showcase your products to thousands of potential customers, pitch and get funding from over 400 early growth investors and more! We have one ticket for an angel investor to attend – email meredith@angin.id for more information. And of course if you are in attendance, let us know. We would love to catch up and hear from you! 

Date: June 28 9:00 AM  – June 29 1:00 PM

Location: Singapore EXPO

Echelon Asia Summit brings together the key stakeholders in Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem. Why? Because for truly impactful innovation to happen, we cannot operate in silos. Startups, entrepreneurs, investors, accelerators and incubators, and corporates need to connect, collaborate, and learn from each other. And we’re happy to provide the platform for that.

You can expect:

  • Presentations from top founders in Southeast Asia on their futures strategies, lessons learned and how they are going to be the next SEA unicorn
  • Hands on workshops sessions where founders can get deeper knowledge, how-to and strategies on some of the biggest startup challenges.
  • Pitches from 150 handpicked promising startups from APAC
  • A marketplace bringing together the best tech products and services in the region
  • 400+ early growth investors ready to get a slice of the next SEA unicorn
  • Country hosts from all over SEA to share about exciting opportunities in their markets and how you can bring your startup to a new market and go regional

Register here: https://e27.co/echelon/asia/register

[RECAP] UNLEASH Innovation Lab 2018

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UNLEASH Innovation lab is a global non-profit initiative that brings together 1000+ passionate young talents, experts and facilitators from all around the world to collaborate on ideas and solutions for the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNLEASH was first held in August in Denmark in 2017. This year the UNLEASH Innovation Lab was held in Singapore from May 30, 2018 to June 6, 2018. It featured 1000 carefully selected talents from 100+ countries and diverse backgrounds, who participated in 8 days of intense ideation to unlock the power of collaboration and human innovation to provide solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. I was fortunate enough to be selected from a pool of more than 7,000 applicants to attend and participate in the UNLEASH Innovation Lab in Singapore this year.

Inspiring and thought-provoking speeches from experts and leaders such as President of Singapore Halimah Yacob, former President of Timor Leste, Jose Ramos-Horta, Academy Award winning actor Forest Whitaker and the social humanoid robot, Sophia, were some of the highlights of this year’s event.

This year, UNLEASH focused on 8 SDGs: Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well Being, Quality Education, Clean Water and Sanitation, Affordable and Clean Energy, Responsible Supply Chain and Production, Sustainable Cities and Communities, and Climate Action. The participants, called Unleash talents, were divided among these 8 categories. In a team consisting of amazing 6 individuals, I worked on SDG 12, Responsible Supply Chain and Production, and developed a solution to tackle the problem of food waste by supermarkets at the consumer level. My team created ‘Second Life Shelves’, an offline and online platform that enables supermarkets to connect with consumers to sell the food that is approaching the specified date (use by, sell by or best before) using a dynamic pricing algorithm.

During the eight-days program, the teams followed a structured innovation process facilitated by content and business experts to co-create innovative ideas and solutions for the designated SDGs. UNLEASH’s innovation process consists of five steps: problem framing, ideation, prototyping, testing and implementation. The teams were carefully formulated to ensure diversity in terms of experience and strengths. Many people might argue that innovation and ideation cannot be structured via pre-determined activities and steps, however, UNLEASH believes that with the help of a structured set of activities and design thinking, teams can co-create and innovate to develop viable solutions for a variety of problems.

Although my team did not win awards for the solution that we developed, I brought home invaluable experiences and gained immense knowledge about how innovation and collaboration can be used for creating an impact and changing the world. I am so glad to have participated in UNLEASH 2018, and to have met so many amazing, inspiring and like-minded individuals that I, now, can call my “UNLEASH Family”.

 

UNLEASH is a global non-profit initiative that is supported by various global actors, including UNDP, Deloitte, Carlsberg Foundation, and Dalberg. UNLEASH will be hosting the innovation lab every year until 2030 with an aim to tackle the SDGs. It’s exciting to see UNLEASH creating a wave of change around the world and inspiring thousands every year to create a better and more sustainable world.

Find out more at www.unleash.org

If you would like to know more about my experience at UNLEASH, shoot me an email at riaz@angin.id

[EVENT RECAP] Insider’s Guide Launch Event!

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On Wednesday (6/6) , ANGIN was cordially invited to Dila Karinta and Bettina Herz’ launch of their book Insider’s Guide to Jakarta Startups. While Bettina was unfortunately absent during the launch, Dila Karinta was accompanied by various speakers, including the Managing Director of Phoenix Communications, Alistair Speirs, Bizzy’s cofounder, Norman Sasono, the cofounder of Andalin, Rifki Pratomo, and others. The launch was held at what Speirs called “the first coworking space”, Starbucks. While the launch covered topics within the book, it included personal insights from each of the speakers on the startup environment, including the difficulty in making a startup, the necessity of perseverance in the face of failure, and many other topics.

Here are some important highlights from the event:

  1. The first question that should be asked before making a startup is “Do you really want to start a startup”
  2. “A startup is a newly formed business with particular momented behind it based on perceived demand…The intention of a startup is to grow rapidly as a result of offering something that addresses a particular market gap”
  3. It is difficult to create a startup by yourself –– build a team consisting of 2 or 3 people covering the technical, business development and creativity/marketing side
  4. Startups does necessarily have to be tech oriented but must use tech in order to be scalable
  5. It is important to have conviction and belief that your startup will succeed
  6. Because of Indonesian regulation (once a startup gets money from abroad, it becomes foreign), a lot of Indonesian companies are no longer Indonesian (Tokopedia is Chinese, Go-Jek is Singaporean)
  7. When startups get easy funding, they fall into the trap of over/reckless spending
  8. Indonesia’s startup landscape differs from Silicon Valley’s in that it tackles real world problems

ANGIN will continue to support efforts made for mentoring startups in Indonesia.

[UPCOMING] Women in Blockchain

Who run the world?
Women sure have a huge part in running the world, including the Blockchain world.
Asosiasi Blockchain Indonesia is inviting you to join us in a sharing session, Women in Blockchain. We will talk about how women play important roles in Blockchain industry.
Three powerful incredible women will share their experience and knowledge with us:
1. Pandu Sastrowardoyo, Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Blockchain Zoo.
2. Daphne Ng, Secretary General of Singapore Blockchain Association (ACCESS).
3. Merlina Li, Founding Member of Indonesia Blockchain Network, Head of Marketing & Partnership at Triv.co.id.
Moderated by Meredith Peng, Director of Connector.id and Senior Consultant at ANGIN.
Register now for FREE! (bit.ly/blocktalk52018)
Thursday, 3 May 2018
2.00 PM – 4.00 PM
Wisma Barito Pacific, Lv.1A
FREE

[REPORT] ANGIN Team Member to Participate in UNLEASH 2018

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We are excited to announce that one of our team members, Riaz Bhardwaj, is invited to be a participant in UNLEASH 2018! ANGIN will continue its commitment to support positive social impact related to the Sustainable Development Goals.

About UNLEASH

UNLEASH is a global innovation lab that brings together people from all over the world to transform 1,000 personal insights into hundreds of ideas, and build lasting global networks around the Sustainable Development Goals.

Every year, UNLEASH chooses different themes that are related to the SDGs for the talents to work on. They will also be provided guidelines for impact.

The themes this year is SDG 2: No Hunger, SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being, SDG 4: Quality Education, SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, SDG 12: Responsible Supply Chain and Consumption, and SDG 13: Climate Action.

You can find out more about UNLEASH here.