10 fresh startups on the rise in Indonesia – February 2017

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Who are the next wave of tech and business innovators in Indonesia? In this monthly series, we take a look at teams working on products fresh out of the oven.

Of the 10 listed below, some have recently raised seed funding, won a competition, or otherwise caught our eye.

1. Ekrut

Based in Jakarta, Ekrut is a tech-supported headhunting service. It matches job openings with suitable high-quality candidates through its platform.

The founding team consists of Steven Suliawan, Ardo Gozal, and Anthony Kusuma. The industry they are focusing on for now is tech – because this is where the co-founders have most experience and connections.

Since the service started operating in September 2016, Ekrut has recruited candidates for about 30 companies, including big startups like Tokopedia and Go-Jek.

Ekrut raised a seed round of funding from East Ventures last month.

2. TeleCTG

TeleCTG is a healthcare startup with a very specific application: cardiotocography (CTG). That’s when midwives and doctors use a device to examine expecting mothers for a fetal heartbeat and contractions of the uterus.

TeleCTG makes the process more efficient by providing an app that helps nurses or midwives interpret and store data from the examination, or share them with doctors for further diagnosis.

This tele-diagnosis, estimates the startup, makes the process four to ten times faster and cheaper. It was created with Indonesia’s rural areas in mind, where doctors are sparse and tele-diagnosis could help detect issues during pregnancy early on.

TeleCTG is one of six startups accepted into Fenox VC’s GnB accelerator program last month.

3. HaloHola

HaloHola calls itself an onboard entertainment service.

It offers a range of movies, music, games, and magazines that users can stream on their devices. The idea is to offer this as a service onboard trains and buses – environments where people will be looking for entertainment, but connectivity tends to be spotty.

The startup makes the streams available through wifi, so users signed up for the service won’t have to use up their own mobile data. The startup is already working together with Indonesia’s national rail service, as well as some bus operators.

4. Pop Legal

5. Bukapintu

6. Paprika

7. PesanLab

8. Neetip

9. Mobilkamu

10. Indogold