This Is What Investors Are Looking For From Indonesian Startups

Seen from all metric Indonesia is currently very attractive and promising to establish startup Investments are starting to come in a lot, funding startup from home to abroad. 500 Startup Managing Partner Khailee Ng, East Venture Co-founder Wilson Weather, Monk's Hill Ventures Partner, Founding General Partner Takeshi Ebihara, and Ideosource Managing Partner Andi Boediman talk about the reasons and challenges of investing startup in Indonesia as part of Echelon Jakarta 2015.

Every investor or Venture Capital has a certain view and interest in the business, as well as its founder. They have different investing styles.

Investment style and preferences

Khailee has an investment style that doesn't focus too much on which market to choose startup Khailee is more concerned with the plan and where the income will come from.

Meanwhile, Wilson, one of the most active investors in Indonesia and has a portfolio startup which are very diverse ranging from E-commerce until EduTech suggests that its investment style is fast. Besides that timing also become an important part in disbursing funds to startup The right product launch time, and the right service provided by startup for certain markets will get optimal results.

It's different with Ebihara who prefers to invest in the area consumer mobile startups. Ebihara says he prefers to invest locally founder who knows the market well.

Ecosystem startup in Indonesia in the eyes of investors

Stefan sees that Indonesia is still "healthy" to invest. He has also recently noticed that growth co-working space, incubator, more and more startup emerging, and the flow of funds is a sign of a fairly healthy ecosystem. "The ecosystem is growing healthy so optimistic for the Indonesian market"

However, despite all the encouraging growth, Ebihara still sees that Indonesia is still lagging behind in terms of internet network (or condition of infrastructure). Meanwhile, the opportunities and potential are still very large.

In addition to infrastructure, Khailee also added that, issues that need attention startup Indonesia is the way they use investment funds. "There should be more knowledge for them (the startup founders) for this," he said.

Startups looking for investment

In addition to investing styles, the panelists also have a different way of seeing from startup that they want to fund. One thing they all agreed on was to see the founder. The difference is that Khailee sees two sides of an entrepreneur in herself founders, The first focuses on business, and the second focuses on relationships. "The combination of the two would be very good,"

Wilson added the question of good blending for a founder is one who has a global vision but understands the local market very well.

Ebihara has another opinion, he is actually looking for a founder who focuses on building his product. This means that there is no need to think about monetization in advance. "Show me your product, and we'll talk," he challenged.

Stefan also saw founder be the key. In addition, he also said there are three things that are important founder, marketsize, and business models. "However founder remains the most important. Because business models can change, but what is needed is founder able to keep up with these changes," he concluded.