Cre8 Community and Workspace Committed to Creating Quality and Independent Startups

Aims to create an independent and quality startup community, coworking space Cre8 was founded by a number of observers and startups in Indonesia. Located at the Metropolitan Tower, TB Simatupang, Cre8 targets startup founders located in South Jakarta and its surroundings.

Claiming to be more than just an ordinary coworking space, what distinguishes Cre8 from other coworking spaces is positioning Cre8, who wants to focus on helping "cockroach startups" not only focus on pursuing funding and valuation, but also focus on forming a solid business model and profit with startup founders who have the resilience to build a startup that sustainable.

"In addition, with the support of vOffice as a parent company, Cre8 members can get full access to the facilities and networks owned by vOffice. One of which is Regional Coworking Passport with several coworking spaces in Kuala Lumpur and Manila, which allows Cre8 members to work there for free," said Adryan Hafizh, one of Cre8's Partners and CEO and Co-Founder of the Indonesian Collaboration.

Cre8 provides 3 registration options to become a member, including: connect members, community members and resident members. For those of you who want to enjoy other services, there are also options available Prepaid Coworking Plans.

Mentoring and fellowship programs

In accordance with its commitments, in particular Cre8 strives to create quality startups by holding various positive activities. Among them are Mentoring and Fellowship. Activities that are held regularly every month are in the form of a series of programs starting from seminars, workshops, networking nights, to speed dating investors.

Cre8 collaborates with several investors from various fields who will actively provide mentoring and opportunities for all members who want to do pitching.

"Cre8 founders and partners who are active in various business organizations such as HIPMI, will provide access to members not only to Venture Capital but also from the Angel Investor network owned by Cre8," said Adryan.

Currently, it has been recorded that in approximately 3 weeks since it was opened, there have been 6 startups that have joined and actively collaborated. Not only digital startups such as Crowde.co, Spacey.co.id, and Callanswering.me, but also startups in the creative education sector, Circle.co, and incubator startup Kolaborasi.co.

"Cre8 will focus on providing startup programs such as mentoring program, scale up service, funding, company incorporation, accounting and book keepingg, also various events such as gatherings, networking, awards, talk shows, workshops. Cre8 is also open to all startups, communities, events, and investors who want to work together [to create events] to help build a strong startup ecosystem," said Adryan.

To expand services and provide opportunities for startups in other regions, in September 2016 Cre8 will open a branch at Pantai Indah Kapuk Avenue Mall. Cre8 claims that the coworking space will be the largest and first coworking space in a mall, and is expected to be able to build a startup ecosystem in the North Jakarta area.