Top 20 Social Media Startup Investors in Indonesia in January 2026

Investor	Social Media Indonesia investments
East Ventures	4
Vertex Ventures	2
SMDV	2
B Dash Ventures	1
Convergence Ventures	1
Global Founders Capital	1
North Base Media	1
Living Lab Ventures	1
Majuven	1
Rebright Partners	1
Linear Venture	1
Spiral Ventures	1
MNM Creative	1
Andy Zain	1
GDP Venture	1
Emtek Group	1
AC Ventures	1
Pegasus Tech Ventures	1
Centurion Private Equity	1
Optimatic Pte Ltd	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

Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
Bibit.id — Beli Reksa Dana & Obligasi Negara dengan mudah di aplikasi. Mitra Distribusi SBN Terbaik 2022-2024. Diawasi OJK.
Prefab — Prefab offers cutting-edge AI SaaS solutions tailored for the construction industry, enhancing efficiency, safety, and decision-making through data-driven insights.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Own Company — Own from Salesforce provides comprehensive data protection and management solutions to increase data security, compliance, and resilience.
Vayar Vision — Vayar Vision turns images to knowledge: it's a Google for pictures and images, and a missing link between pixels and text.Transform your images into searchable ones. The visual tags are compatible with environments such as Flickr and Picasa. Vayar exposes hidden, beyond words, connections and associations between images. Vayar visualsearch results can be integrated with various decision support systems, and respond to the user with information, which is attached to the found images. When pixels communicate with words- the possibilities are endless. And you are invited to join the adventure.
Ace Turtle Omni Pvt Ltd — We help retail businesses in India, Singapore & Malaysia convert multichannel sales & marketing strategies to omnichannel on marketplaces & own websites

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
Amity Corporation — Discover Amity, where we create digital solutions that help organizations, teams and individuals achieve more through technology and social innovation.
Social+ — Add pre-built social features to your app, analyze first-party data, and boost engagement with AI insights and monetization capabilities.

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

Convergence Ventures is an early stage technology venture fund focused on investing in Indonesia. Led by their partners Adrian Li and Donald Wihardja who are seasoned entrepreneurs with extensive operating experience in Internet businesses in emerging markets. They seek to back exceptional founders by leveraging their experience, network andresources to empower them to build long lasting and impactful businesses for Indonesia and the South East Asia region. Their Advisory Board and Limited Partners from the US, China and Indonesia have backed hundreds of technology businesses in the past decade and bring deep local networks and resources in media and related industries to their founders.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Stockbit — Aplikasi saham untuk berdiskusi, analisa dan berinvestasi dengan harga real time, berita terkini, riset, data fundamental, charting, dan analytical tools yang lengkap
Pandemic Insights — Know and Manage Health Risk Anywhere
Kargo Technologies — Kargo adalah layanan logistik online yang menyediakan solusi pengiriman barang yang mudah, cepat, dan terpercaya. Temukan layanan yang dapat diandalkan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pengiriman Anda.

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

Personio — Personio is the Intelligent HR platform for companies from 10-5,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
Talentry — Talentry TRM is your central platform for Talent Relationship Management: Sourcing, CRM, Alumni Management, Employee Referrals, Advocacy, Internal Mobility.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!

Living Lab Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Home Services
Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

AMODA — Construction process should be simple & transparent. AMODA democratize the process and enable everyone to achieve faster, cost-effective & high-quality construction assets through the latest prefabrication and modular approach.
JumpStart Coffee — JUMPSTART COFFEE is Indonesia first fully automated self serve coffee shop, serving freshly brewed coffee anywhere you are, anytime you want, in just under 1 minute. Equipped with the newest technology and beautiful wood design, we seek to give you the ultimate convenience of drinking coffee.
Digital Classifieds Group — Digital Classifieds Group owns and operates a range of classifieds websites in the South Pacific and Asia.

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 .

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

Eggoz — Welcome to the World of Eggoz Nutrition, where you will get bright Orange Yolk Eggs which is an indicator of better nutrition.
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.

Linear Capital is a Frontier Tech Fund founded in 2014 by Harry Wang, Facebook's first Chinese R&D manager. We currently manage 10 funds with AUM of more than $2 billion.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cathoven — IELTS writing & speaking checker with rewriting support. Get AI feedback, real band score estimates, and boost your score to Band 8 in just 4 weeks.
D-Robotics — D-Robotics is a provider of robotic computing solutions. We're committed to delivering paradigm-shifting products that drive efficiency, simplify development and accelerate innovation.
Weijian Technology — Weijian Technology is a building intelligent robotics product company for the construction industry through robots, IoT, and AI algorithms.

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

Fragaria — Discover innovative farming practices and high-quality, year-round fruits in India with Fragaria's advanced agricultural technology.
VeXeRe.Com — Founded in 2013, VeXeRe.com is the largest online bus ticket platform in Vietnam. They help passengers book bus tickets conveniently thanks to their 1,000+ bus companies network and coverage for trips within Vietnam and from Vietnam to neighbor countries. Their payment channels include online payment, payment at 24/7 convenience stores, banktransfers, and other channels that provide customers with convenient booking experience.
Instapay Technologies — Instapay is the only e-wallet in Malaysia to offer a corporate portal. It enables you to self-manage the salary payment process with greater visibility. It serves to streamline payroll processing within organizations while promoting finances.

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

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.

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.

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.
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.
Mangkokku — Welcome to the home of no. 1 Rice Bowl in Indonesia! Bersih, Merakyat, Nikmat Nyata. A culinary startup founded by Chef Arnold Poernomo, Randy J Kartadinata, Kaesang Pangarep, and Gibran Rakabuming. See our menu, locations, promos, and more!

Founded in 2014, AC Ventures is a Southeast Asian venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups focused on Indonesia and ASEAN, with over US$500 million in assets under management across five funds. The firm’s areas of investment focus on a variety of industries, including digital enablement, financial technologies, agriculturetechnologies, logistics, e-commerce, consumer technology, MSME solutions, waste management, renewable energy, and sustainability solutions.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Indonesia, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Bibit.id — Beli Reksa Dana & Obligasi Negara dengan mudah di aplikasi. Mitra Distribusi SBN Terbaik 2022-2024. Diawasi OJK.
Koltiva — Koltiva is a farmer first global tech company empowering over 480,000 farmers and business users across 27 countries. We support some of the largest multinational companies by digitizing global supply chains and technology. Our focus is to enhance traceability, inclusiveness, and sustainability.
Simplus — Simplus offers customers more fashionable and cost-effective small home appliances.

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, Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Shikomel — Shikomel is a restaurant app that receives recipes from the store. The menu offered by other shops can also be ordered. The app can be used to develop new menus.
Iambic — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
NAiEEL Technology — NAiEEL Technology offers energy and environmental technology solutions.

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!

Leading startup-focused media company in Asia. We cover tech news (www.e27.sg) in startup communities of Southeast Asia such as Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia etc. Co-organizer of Google Devfest Asia 2008. Hosted Geeks On A Plane (Asia) 2010 at our annual conference Echelon. Other companies we work with include Facebook, Amazon, eBay/ Paypal,Microsoft, Yahoo etc.

Investment focus

News, Incubators, Social Media
Series A
Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Dailysocial.id — DailySocial is Indonesia's #1 tech portal covering startups, apps, gadgets, game, social media, enterprise and future technology.