Here are the 4 graduate startups from Indosat’s first ever Ideabox

Telcos in Indonesia are starting to support the tech startup ecosystem, and that’s great. Last Thursday, Indosat revealed its first graduates from the Ideabox accelerator program. From over 100 teams that initially applied for Ideabox, only four went in and came out the other end after four months of mentorship, workshops, product building, and customer validation. These four startups have received seed funding and promotional assistance from Indosat worth over US$100,000 in total.

Indosat CEO Alexander Rusli comments:

Indosat is committed to building one of the strongest digital ecosystems in Indonesia. We started seven years ago with IWIC, Indonesia’s first innovation competition, encouraging Indonesian youth to be more innovative and passionate about digital technologies. We now have one of the broadest technology programs in the region, spanning the IWIC idea completion, early stage investment through Ideabox, and growth stage investments through the Softbank-Indosat Fund. We are also planning to introduce other models such as crowdsourcing for digital innovation in Indonesia with credible partners.

See: Indosat partners with Softbank to launch $50M fund in Indonesia

Here are the four startups that made their demo pitches last week:

1. Dealoka

This is a mobile application that distributes targeted evouchers to users based on their geographical location and interest. Merchants who give away vouchers get to understand which promos work best from the data on Dealoka’s merchant dashboard.

The team began the startup’s development from scratch when they joined Ideabox four months ago.

The app is currently available on Android, and will soon be launched for iPhone and HTML5. Another startup in this sector is Banting.

2. Unyu

Whilst the smartphone market grabs all the headlines, there is still money to be made in the feature phone industry. Unyu wants to replace the traditional SMS function on feature phones, as well as offering a fun comic-style chat app for smartphone users.

On feature phones, all SMS will be automatically displayed in the Unyu app. These SMS will appear in the Unyu inbox in chat bubbles next to a cartoony character, making it look like the character is talking.

3. Shoop

4. Ngomik