In conjunction with the ASEAN Angel Alliance Summit (AAA) 2018 that being be held in Malaysia on 27-28 November, a parallel pre-conference dialogue was organized one night before as a roundtable discussion to allow for a frank and interactive exchange among country representative of each member state in the region.
ANGIN Team represented by David Soukhasing (ANGIN Director), Valencia Dea (ANGIN Principal) and Feby Ramadhani (ANGIN Advisory Consultant) attended the pre-dinner alongside Ibu Noni, the President Director of Bluebird Group. It was a great opportunity to have a dynamic discussion for the success of the event with people and some old friends from Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, and Malaysia.
Some key issues discussed at the dialogue were the ways to strengthen regional collaboration and promote cross border angel investment between AAA members in ASEAN region, the feasibility of making ASEAN Angel Alliance Summit as an annual signature event for AAA, and the joint mechanism to organize future AAA Summit.
The AAA is essentially a collaborative platform for angel groups and other early stage ecosystem players operating within ASEAN member countries to cooperate and work together on activities of mutual benefit. The Summit is poised to attract more than 200 delegates including angel investors, ecosystem players, government agencies, and entrepreneurs from across ASEAN.
We are very much looking forward to the ASEAN Angel Alliance Summit (AAA) 2018 and contribute more in the advancement of angel investment collaboration in ASEAN region.
Let’s find more information and documentation of the event at www.ASEANangel.com.
ANGIN had a great opportunity to support, as a community partner, The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada training event for MSMEs and entrepreneurs hosted by BLOCK71 Jakarta on November 21st, 2018. The training goal is to introduce relevant Canadian best practices for small businesses through workshops conducted by Canadian trainers (provided by APF Canada) in Indonesian practioners on MSME business development.
David Soukhasing (ANGIN Director) was invited to open the training day and emphasized how much this training was in line with ANGIN’s core mission and activities. ”ANGIN strive to provide key services to both investors and entrepreneurs to make sure that investors are enabled to invest with best practices and more importantly that entrepreneurs manage to get access easier to funding with the right terms and timing, in full transparency. I would like to remind how ANGIN also has pioneered to support women entrepreneur and women empowerment. We are a strong believer that women entrepreneurs do represent a force of change and development for any country. This is why we have included several dedicated programs or gender inclusivity parameters to most of the work ANGIN is doing, and several of them were strongly supported by Canada”.
In this training, Valencia Dea (ANGIN Principal) also shared her presentation about Financing for SMEs. As many SMEs feel constrained to access external financing from traditional sources, there are other non-bank alternatives that address their barriers, such as funding leveraging financial technology (crowd funding)or Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and others types of investors such as Angel Investor, Venture Capital, and Impact Investor. Valencia Dea also presented her analysis about pro and contra and also some tips for getting funding from each of these non-bank financing alternatives.
This training session also announced the launch of an online toolkit (developed by APF Canada for Indonesia) for MSMES’key business capacity development needs and a training on MSMEs could use it. Please check the toolkit here : https://apfcanada-msme.ca/toolkits
In addition, the APEC-Canada Growing Business Partnership has launched the 2018 Survey of Entrepreneurs and MSMEs in Indonesia: Building the capacity of MSMEs through Human capital – A national survey of entrepreneurs and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia to provide an analysis of business development in the region, and to better understand the opportunities and challenges faced by Indonesian MSMEs and aspiring entrepreneurs around human capital. The survey report is broken down into three major sections focusing on company and entrepreneur profiles in Indonesia, growth plans and barriers to growth, and challenges and opportunities related to human capital. Each section also identifies age, gender, and industry-specific data and trends.
Let’s find more information about the research result and The APEC-Canada Growing Business Partnership by clicking this link.
ANGIN is proud to have been selected to attend ChangemakerXchange Vietnam Summit from November 8th to November 12th 2018. The summit – co-created by Ashoka and Robert Bosch Stiftung Foundation – marked ChangemakerXchange’s first ever women’s summit, and congregated 14 women leaders from all over Southeast Asia to ideate, co-create, and learn from one another. Upon completion, participants enter a network of over 500 inspiring young social entrepreneurs across 90 countries – all trying to make the world a better place. Due to her work leading ANGIN’s Women’s Spotlight and Connector.ID, Meredith Peng (Senior Consultant) represented ANGIN at the summit.
During the summit, Changemakers learned from one another about various leadership frameworks and strategies for accelerating their own ventures and projects. Each participant was able to offer their own skill sets to the mix. For instance:
Meredith Peng, on behalf of ANGIN, hosted an Investor Shark Tank session to help coach the social entrepreneurs present on their pitches and business models, as well as investor readiness and strategies going forward.
Nattinee Dora Sae Ho, founder of Kid Hero (Thailand), offered various leadership frameworks and strategies. Building trust within teams is first and foremost for any organization to expand, and trust is often a process. By forging pathways for team members to succeed at tasks, managers can create smaller increments of trust until a high enough threshold of trust is achieved. Underlying all of this is the motive of leaders – why are leaders behaving the way they are? This is vital for all teams to work together with trust.
Wan Wei Soh, founder of IKIGUIDE (Singapore), hosted a session on using Blockchain technology for social impact. Through understanding the basics of Blockchain and cryptocurrency, participants were then able to understand real world applications of the technology. Blockchain can be a powerful tool for social entrepreneurs who wish to raise funds through ICO or as a means of crowdfunding projects by decentralizing investment.
Greta Rossi, Europe and MENA coordinator for ChangemakerXchange and founder of Recipes for Wellbeing (Italy), taught a session on non-violent communication and applying this method of communication to teams to mitigate and deal with conflicts
Jiezhen Wu, Director at The Hidden Good (Singapore), hosted a session on content creation and storytelling.
Participants were also encouraged to think about their own wellbeing, mental health, and motivation. Failure and burnout were two relevant topics for many participants who face pressure and stress from running ventures. The summit emphasized the importance of emotional wellbeing, expressing gratitude, and practicing empathy in everyday life.
ANGIN is happy and honored to have participated in a summit full of amazing changemakers throughout Southeast Asia. We remain committed to promoting entrepreneurship throughout the ecosystem and hope to bring lessons from the summit back to Indonesia for all entrepreneurs from all walks of life to learn from.
Last Thursday (9th of August), Meredith from ANGIN attended an event by Project Alpha, a new early-stage startup incubator created via partnership between AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Seed Plus. They’re on the lookout for the next breakout story so sign up here if you think you have what it takes!
The event hosted three brilliant speakers: 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), each with their own take on how to create a successful startup. It was a great opportunity to learn more about the various intricacies involved in startup founding and meet with a lot of important ecosystem players. We hope it was as informative and inspiring to the many budding startup founders who were at the event as it was to us.
A gathering of tech investors took place at Freeware Suites, Equity Tower on July 25th, 2018 – players ranging from prominent tech VCs such as Grupara Ventures, Alpha JWC, East Ventures, and Monks Hill Ventures, as well as representatives from Amazon Web Services and angels from the ANGIN network. The event was co-hosted by Freeware Spaces and ANGIN.
The evening was made lively by the investor community, who chatted about the year in deals, investment opportunities and outlook in Indonesia, and interesting startups at the moment. In addition, Freeware Spaces took the time to elaborate on their expansion plans, welcoming a new team member and revealing plans to strengthen core operations and community.
We thank Freeware Suites in taking the time to host this amazing event and welcome more investor gatherings in the future. It is always an amazing experience to gather together and share on how the investor community can work together towards a better-funded and ever-growing investment landscape in Indonesia.
Full list of organizational attendees:
ANGIN, Grupara Ventures, Alpha JWC, East Ventures, Amazon Web Service, Kolibra Capital, MDI Ventures, Openspace ventures, Kejora Ventures, GK Plug and Play Indonesia, Skystar Capital, Golden Gate Ventures, Incubate Fund, Venturra Discovery Fund, Gobi Partners, Mandiri Capital, Ideosource, Coffee Ventures, Venturra, SMDV, Patamar Capital, Monks Hill Ventures, Merah Putih Inc, Fenox Venture Capital, Spiral Ventures, Gree Ventures, Antler, Agaeti Venture, Vickers Venture Partners, PT Prasetia Dwidharma, PT Startuplokal, Convergence Ventures, Emasdigi, PT. MNC Tbk, OPI Digital Group, Seekmi, Stellar Kapital, Cyberagent Ventures, Syailendra Kapital, Intudo Ventures, Akseleran, Kravelist, Maskoolin
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
On 16 May, 2018, ANGIN attended the Young Technopreneur (YTech) Awards Ceremony, located at @america. The YTech program is strengthening U.S.-Indonesia partnerships in the digital economy and helping usher in cutting-edge digital solutions and apps by young Indonesians to address local and global challenges. Young technology-backed startups pitched in front of a panel of investors, who gave their candid feedback. This spirited session was followed up by the awards ceremony and an inspiring speech by US Ambassador Donovan.
ANGIN is excited to have witnessed such strong determination from these young startup leaders. We are excited to see further programs supporting Indonesian startups from our friends at the US Embassy.
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
We are proud to announce that our very own Shinta Kamdani will be a speaker at the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards Ceremony due to take place on April 26 at Capella, in Singapore. Founded in 2006 with INSEAD business school and McKinsey & Company, the Cartier Awards select each year six talented women entrepreneurs, one from every region of the world. The competition aims to support creative, financially sustainable and responsible women-led businesses in all countries and across all industries. Here is a presentation video to give you a glimpse of who they are and what they do. This year, for the first time, Cartier is partnering with TED to celebrate women and bold ideas. We have no doubt that Shinta’s business achievements and personal journey will help inspire a new community of women entrepreneurs. ANGIN continues to support empowering women in their entrepreneurial and career journeys, and hopes that this event will help catalyze more women to exhibit qualities of leadership, strength, and resilience.
On Mon (16/4), The NextDev 2018 finally had their Kick Off at Empirica, SCBD. The NextDev is in search of the best Indonesian tech startup in the field of social impact. The winners of this competition would have access to mentoring, market opportunities, and will receive equity-free funding for their startup!
Here are the things you need to know about The NextDev:
The NextDev incorporates incubation and accelerator program in their competition to give enough foundation for startups to access the market and various stakeholders.
They are raising the topic of social impact, meaning startups should consider what kind of social impact they are trying to target.
Currently, the problems startups are facing are lack of talent pool & resources especially in technology and business development, lack of access to funding, and lack of access to mentorship and network. The NextDev aims to provide all that to the startups joining them.
FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITY!:
The NextDev 2018 is now holding their roadshow to various cities in Indonesia which includes Surabaya, Semarang, Denpasar, Batam, Samarinda, Yogyakarta, and Jakarta. Don’t miss their deadlines as they are approaching soon! To apply, just submit your information and pitch decks toConnector.ID and mention NextDev in your application. If your startup makes the cut, we will follow up with you on next steps and then recommend you to the NextDev team. It should take you no longer than 10 minutes. Best of luck!
