[RECAP] Impact Accelerator-Batch 3 Awarding Ceremony

Kinara Indonesia’s Indonesia Impact Accelerator organised an  awarding ceremony for its Batch 3 participants  last Thursday (5/12). 

At the reception, 12 women-led in Innovative and Ethical Fashion businesses pitched their business to a crowd of investors, government and other relevant stakeholders. At the end of the pitching session, four of them were announced to be the top winners and received USD 25,000 investment from Patamar Capital supported by Investing in Women. The four were uniquely selected via peer assessment model. (Congratulations Astungkara, Kostoom, HeyStatic and Minikiniz!). The event was closed with a warm networking and dinner reception.

This batch is rather interesting for ANGIN team as it focuses on sector that is rarely focused on in other similar programs. We thank the Indonesia Impact Accelerator team for inviting us to participate in the speed dating and awarding ceremony event. Because of this opportunity, we found  many interesting ethical fashion businesses operating across the archipelago, which we have never heard before!

 

About Indonesia  Impact Accelerator Program

Indonesia Impact Accelerator Program is initiated by Kinara Indonesia, Patamar Capital, and Investing in Women in 2016. This is a 4-months intensive capacity building support targeted for women-led businesses in Indonesia. Beyond acceleration, the program also provides USD 25,000 investment for winners, who are interestingly selected via peer selection process.

[RECAP] Nexus Indonesia Salon

NEXUS Indonesia organized its first Salon in Jakarta with theme “Sustainability Check Up & Incubating Ideas on the Workers Safety”. At this event, ANGIN team had the opportunity to mingle with more than 20 exceptional young individuals, who have interest to tackle certain social and/or environmental causes. For the whole night, we were struck by their story and their passion in doing their impactful works; that ranges from educating women migrants, creating alternative solution to plastics, to improving the live of farmers and fishermen.

While these individuals have different backgrounds (from family foundation to social enterprises and business professionals) and aim to achieve a diverse set of impact missions (from women empowerment, environmental protection, to poverty alleviation), their common passion and spirit resulted in an engaging dialogue and fruitful idea exchange.

This Salon was also aimed to support Fahreza & Janhavi from http://www.tft-earth.org/. Through their work, they found that the workers at the end of the supply chain are exposed to dangers to the wild animals, accidents like cuts being hit by heavy fruits. As there is a high no of accident rate, the workers refused to wear the safety equipment. Through this Salon, Fahreza and Janhavi facilitated a discussion on how to address the issue. In the short term, they also plan to organize a hackathon to collect more insightful solution to this challenges. Currently, they are welcoming ideas and support from everyone (Any thought? Feel free to drop comment below!)

Seeing young individuals thriving to make a better Indonesia revived our spirit to create better impact for the country. This event is a refreshing experience. We thank NEXUS Indonesia leader and our very own angel investor, Michella Irawan, for hosting this amazing event and inviting us.

 

About NEXUS

NEXUS is uniting Next Gen Philanthropists, Impact Investors and Social entrepreneurs to encourage collaboration and the goal is to catalyze new leadership in order to accelerate the most promising global solutions of our generations. NEXUS has over 40 Country Chapter (Including Asia – Europe – India – Middle East – Africa and many more ), has over 3500 members, 37 Summits & Forums & 15 working groups and labs that address the different topic & global challenges.

NEXUS holds member interactions to be sacred and safe, which is why solicitation in not permitted. NEXUS events are not transactional; rather they aim for authentic connection and inspiration. Salons are a meet up where members get to deep dive in a topic and its a good chance for likeminded peers to catch up and share wonderful resources like ideas/support/network.

In Indonesia, NEXUS Indonesia chapter  aims to create a Warm & Safe space for Indonesia members and likeminded peers- to cultivate trust by living with a sincere wish to help each other access our best selves and to contribute to the needs of our global community.

[RECAP] Rise Inc: The Right Funding for Social Enterprises

Realizing that finding the right funders and securing finances can be challenging for social entrepreneurs, Rise Inc. organized a workshop titled “The Right Funding for Social Enterprises (SEs)” for its incubated companies. Through this workshop, Rise Inc team shared knowledge on sources of funding and tips and tricks to fundraise.

To even better prepare their incubated SEs, Rise Inc.’s team held a pitching practice for them. ANGIN team had the opportunity to sit in a panel session together with team member of Patamar Capital, Empassion, and Digitaraya. There were 14 SEs who pitch; they come from variety of sectors. The 14 SEs were Dukung.ID, Tenoon, Diffago, Camp on Farm, Ortwo, Cooltura, Jahitin.com, Tanijoy, Studio Dapur, Lactashare, Siswa Wirausaha, Jelajah Garut, Botanina and Melaut.

We thank Rise Inc. team for inviting us. We had a great time hearing the business story and progress of these SEs.

Good luck for all Rise Inc’s graduates!