Top 15 Social Media Startup Investors in Indonesia in December 2024

Investor	Social Media Indonesia investments
East Ventures	3
SMDV	2
Vertex Ventures	2
Andy Zain	1
Emtek Group	1
GDP Venture	1
Pegasus Tech Ventures	1
MNM Creative	1
Linear Venture	1
B Dash Ventures	1
Rebright Partners	1
Majuven	1
Global Founders Capital	1
Spiral Ventures	1
Centurion Private Equity	1

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

SMDV sinar mas digital ventures

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jejakin — Kick off your sustainable journey with us
Social+ — Discover Amity, where we create digital solutions that help organizations, teams and individuals achieve more through technology and social innovation.
Gravel — Gravel is a technology company that makes it simple for you to find qualified and trustworthy construction workers.

Vertex US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Trustero — Trustero provides solutions and services that enable demonstrable, sustainable trustworthiness for emerging enterprises. The Trustero Compliance as a Service (CaaS) offers, establishes, and manages regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments, security risk analyses, and other measures to ensure all business processes and systemsremain in full compliance. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies means their clients have the visibility needed to gain actionable insights into their compliance across the extended enterprise.
Deagent AI — DeagentAI is a decentralized artificial intelligence agent network to create a decentralized network platform.
Firefly — Firefly provides the cloud infrastructure management tools missing from traditional CMDBs

Andy Zain is one of the pioneers in the mobile industry in Indonesia. He helped launch some of the first and most successful mobile start-ups in the country. He also established digital services and go-to market strategies for global brands such as Disney, Yahoo!, Cartoon Networks and advised several successful startups in social media, mobilevideo platform and social gaming.Andy is a founder of MobileMonday Indonesia, a networking forum for mobile industry professionals in Indonesia and a Director of the Jakarta Founder Institute, a mentorship and incubation program for startups.Andy oversees the growth and marketing strategy for 8vilages and manages relationship with carriers and key distribution partners.

Investment focus

Retail, Music, Events
Seed, Angel, Series B
Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Laku6 — Laku6 helps emerging middle class own and upgrade smartphones affordable through recommerce and financing.
GDILab — Social Media Analytics helps corporations or brands in creating strategy for their overall business performance achievements.It makes business owners able to listen to their consumers’ experiences and feedbacks about the products and services they used. PT. Generasi Digital Internasional is a startup technology operating under IBM GlobalEntrepreneurship Program. Our focus is to develop a smart digital analytic engine we called LEAP (Listen Engage Analyze Predict) Technology, which will enable brands to accurately strategize and be the best. LEAP Technology capable to capture and monitor structured (company’s data) and unstructured data from social media platforms such as twitter, facebook, and instagram, as well as online media platforms.
Konserku — Konserku is an online demand forecast platform that allows music fans to bring their favourite artists to perform in their cities.

Emtek, Elang Mahkota Teknologi

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

AMILI — Asian Microbiome Library microbiome company and a stool bank serving as a hub for gut microbiome therapy.
TipTip — Platform pilihan para content creator untuk berinteraksi dengan fans serta menambah penghasilan. Ikuti sesi live video/kelas online dari Creator hingga topik favorit kamu, atau buat sesi kamu sendiri dan raih penghasilan tambahan! Cek www.TipTip.tv untuk info lebih lanjut.
Genexyz — GenexyzA is a Creator of metahumans and aggregator of virtual influencer IPs, disrupting the advertising + web3 ecosystem through new age IP influencers, virtual humans.

GDP Venture is a venture builder focusing on commerce, consumer product, media & entertainment and solution companies

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.

Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, offering intellectual and financial capital to exceptional emerging technology companies around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Indonesia, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Biolinq — Introducing a revolutionary platform for metabolic health.
Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
Epicore Biosystems — Epicore Biosystems, Inc. has developed a proprietary wearable microfluidic platform that is ‘skin-like’ and capable of analyzing small droplets of sweat for proteomics, inflammatory markers, hydration, and health biomarkers to enable personalized management of health, performance and nutrition. Epicore's wearable sensing technology is basedon over two decades of microfluidics and soft materials research by Prof. John Rogers and Prof. Roozbeh Ghaffari at Northwestern University's Querrey-Simpson Institute for Biolectronics.

Building Belonging through Creative Expression

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Digital Media, Film
Seed, Series A
Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

IDN Media — IDN Media is the leading media platform company for Millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia.
Canvas Media Studios — Innovative Storytelling For Every Canvas

Linear Capital (Linear Venture) was founded by Jingdong, Lynx former executives and early Facebook employees Chuan Wang Huai, attention Pan smart, technology-driven big data early in the project area. Has invested horizon robot, Rokid, with shield, melting point, etc. more than 30 start-up team, and is trying to become China's best intelligentapplication data Fund (Applied-Data-Intelligence). Our existing limited partners from Asia's top hedge funds, but also from Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, the public comment, go, people network, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and other well-known Internet company founders or executives and Xue Manzi, Mr Leung and other aspect of capital investment sector for decades veterans. We strive to use industry expertise and resources to help the investment company move fast and break fewer things, and ultimately the linear path and nonlinear growth.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

JINGdigital — JINGdigital is China's Leading Marketing Automation Platform. Since our founding in 2014, JINGdigital has been providing brands with digital marketing optimization solutions through our JINGsocial platform. The platform enables brands to better understand customers and empowers brands to create valuable personal connections at scale.
Mindverse — Create autonomous AI agents for your professional tasks. MindOS offers advanced AI solutions for a wide array of professional tasks. Let AI Work Like You.
Bizhen Technology — Bizhen Technology provides the creation, publishing and trading of 3D real-time interactive virtual spaces.

B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Taiwan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

Venture Capital Firm based in Singapore and Tokyo, focus on seed to early stage Internet & Mobile software Startups in Southeast Asia and India

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
LetsTransport — Lets transport is a “Last mile” logistics solution provider. Their solutions are reliable, professional, economical and structured to serve businesses as well as consumers. They currently provide Tata Ace on demand as well as on attachment basis.
ClickPost — ClickPost is a Logistics Intelligence Platform helping eCommerce companies select right courier partner, generate labels and track shipments leading a delightful customer experience and operations excellence.

Majuven is an early and growth stage VC firm founded by experienced business leaders from Singapore. We are focused on disruptive and evolving trends in the high tech segments of healthcare, financial services and digital consumerism.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Series C, Seed
Singapore, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

TechStorm — Asia's number one 24/7 Esports, gaming & tech-centric entertainment network available in 26 countries. TechStorm is a brand new 360 international network on Asian Esports and tech-centric entertainment. The network celebrates the region’s trail blazers, the biggest Asian Esports and tech names, bringing them to a truly global audienceand fan base.The 24/7 network’s meteoric rise across Asia now reaches 43 million viewers, 100 platforms across multiple countries and is slated to exceed 20 countries globally. Its original Storm Bytes content is readily distributed to 96 million mobile handset users in 26 countries. This exponential growth was all achieved in less than 22 months.TechStorm is an international Esports and tech entertainment network backed by blue-chip, high profile venture capital groups and founded by prominent industry business leaders in media and technology with more than 30 years of extensive domain expertise and business operations. Its dynamic leadership team is fuelled by a passion to drive change and be the voice for Asia’s Esports and tech entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Turnkey Lender — Turnkey Lender is a Commercial lending software that can improve efficiency and reduce costs for financial services companies.
New Horizon Health — New Horizon Health is an innovative bio-tech company focusing on early screening and genetic testing services for high-incidence cancer homes. Nuohui Health is committed to reducing the morbidity and mortality of cancer through biotechnological means. It first proposed the slogan of early cancer screening and is committed to promoting early cancerscreening into thousands of households so that the public can enjoy convenient and efficient health services .

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

Our former entity “IMJ Investment Partners” was established in 2012 by IMJ Corporation (“IMJ”), a major digital marketing company, as an independent venture capital subsidiary in Japan. After IMJ was acquired by Culture Convenience Club (“CCC”) in 2013, we continued our investment activities independently, and eventually relocated our office toSingapore to change our strategy and start a venture capital fund for the Southeast Asia market. In 2015, we established the Japan office and started a venture capital fund for the Japanese market.In tandem with the expansion of our business, we left the CCC Group, changed our name to “Spiral Ventures” in 2017, and made a fresh start as an independent venture capital firm.taken from https://spiral-ventures.com/en/group-info/

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
Inflow — Looking for reliable suppliers and efficient supply chain management for your fashion brand? Look no further than Inflow! Our online platform offers an end-to-end solution for all your production needs, from design to delivery. Simplify and optimize your production process with Inflow's high-quality sourcing and expert supply chain management. Try us out today!
Secai Marche — SECAI MARCHE is Farm-Fresh Platform to link farmers and enthusiasm chefs and consumer in all over the world.

Centurion

Investment focus

Apps, Social Media
Series A
Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Yogrt — Yogrt is a location-based social app in which you will never miss the hottest things happening around you. Explore upcoming topics and events nearby, get social with people who have similar interest as yours, discover more about yourself, play games and have fun together!