Batara Eto

It took no more than two days for East Ventures Alpha to start its first mentoring session, with the mentors coming from its parent company, East Ventures. Willson Cuaca, Batara

A 100-day startup accelerator program called East Ventures Alpha will open for registration in August 2011. The first run will last from September to November in South Jakarta, Indonesia, although

East Ventures,* a venture capital firm based in Singapore and Indonesia, has announced a new program for start-ups in the region. The new initiative, dubbed East Ventures Alpha, is a

Pikubo, a popular Japanese photo-sharing application, is now available on Blackberry. The application is released by Singapore-based Apps Foundry, in coordination with Etolabo, a consumer web company based in Tokyo, Japan.

Back in Dec 2010, daily deal giant Groupon entered Asia with acquisitions of assets in Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Today, they have expanded again with its acquisition of

The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) will be held in Beijing on April 27th-28th, and is focused on the theme of ‘New Challenges’, ‘New Opportunities’ and ‘New Leaders’ in the

Hi from Hyatt Hotel, Jakarta. This post will be constantly updated with East Ventures’s Jakarta Ventures Night highlights. If you haven’t already known, East Venture is a Venture Capital with

Tokopedia, the popular Indonesian e-marketplace is one of the most promising start-ups in Asia. In its initial two years, the start-up failed to receive funding from investors. But that didn’t

Singapore-based venture fund, East Ventures has invested in Indonesian daily deal site, Disdus.com.

Local mobile technology provider, Xsago has recently appointed Batara Eto, co-founder and ex-CTO of the largest Japanese social network mixi, as Technical Advisor. Xsago has also raised an undisclosed amount