Alibaba Cloud's Commitment to Support Indonesian Startup Ecosystems Through Integrated Cloud Technology Initiatives and Solutions

A leading cloud computing technology service provider, Alibaba Cloud is increasingly strengthening its commitment to support Indonesia's digital ecosystem. After serious about working on local talent In adopting cloud technology, the company recently explained how Alibaba Cloud has proven its full support for the growth of the country's startup industry through a capable cloud infrastructure. At least, that is the essence of the Asia Forward: Indonesia Startup Day event on Thursday, March 24, 2022, presented by Alibaba Cloud.

In the event which was held in Jakarta, a number of local startup players admitted that technology infrastructure such as cloud computing provides significant acceleration power, not only in product development, but also in an effort to accommodate market demand for consumption of digital products and services, which continues to increase from time to time.

This was stated by Ronald Molenaar as Director of Business Development from Advance.AI. As one of the startup customers, he admitted that investing in cloud infrastructure is very important for faster company growth. Moreover, the technology and services provided by Alibaba Cloud also help it to further strengthen the company's existence in the global sphere.

"Since the beginning we have always trusted Alibaba Cloud as a partner to not only help us grow faster and bigger in Indonesia, but also help us to strengthen our presence in the Southeast Asian market," said Ronald.

He also added that the company's business, which is mostly in the realm of financial technology (fintech), will certainly not be accelerated properly, without the availability of a capable and reliable infrastructure. For additional information, Advance.AI is the company that oversees Atome - a fintech paylater platform that is currently on the rise.

"I am very grateful to Alibaba Cloud for helping us to achieve success in Indonesia," he added.

Similar to the testimony above, Alibaba Cloud's cloud computing solution is also claimed to be very capable of supporting the growth of startups engaged in blockchain - a field that is currently a hot topic in the community, ranging from cryptocurrency, metaverse, to NFT. As stated by Muhammad Wendy Taufiq Hidayah, TokoCrypto's VP of Technology, who stated that cloud solutions are very crucial for TokoCrypto and the blockchain ecosystem within it.

“The ecosystem of TokoCrypto's products and services is very complex, of course it requires a technology infrastructure that we can rely on, and we entrust Alibaba Cloud to be a partner who is able to handle this. Especially now that we have Tokoverse driven by TKO (TokoToken), so we think the presence of Alibaba Cloud has an important role for us," said the man who is familiarly called Wendy.

From this “story”, it certainly raises a few questions, about what exactly is Alibaba Cloud's support for the startup industry specifically? In the presentation at the same time, Tifi Liu, Head of Marketing Indonesia & Vietnam Alibaba Cloud explained about how Alibaba Cloud carried out an initiative entitled "Go Startup Program". Tifi Liu said that the initiative carries the most comprehensive startup acceleration program in terms of technology support and cloud computing solutions. He explained that the Go Startup Program brought the main objective to support the Indonesian startup industry to be more advanced, successful, and highly competitive in the global arena.

In general, the Go Startup Program carries a number of agendas, such as; integrated training, workshops, demo days, to networking facilities in the international technology industry. In addition to the tactical agenda, this program also offers various benefits related to resource support, product credit, and so on.

Various startups can participate with the Go Startup Program initiative, it's just that there are some terms and conditions such as; The startup has minimal seed funding, is a new customer of Alibaba Cloud, and most importantly has an interest and interest in cloud technology solutions.

As one of the cloud computing technology service providers, Alibaba Cloud is a corporation that looks quite serious in working on the Indonesian startup industry. The event also explained how comprehensive and dedicated technical support and training were provided from Alibaba Cloud to customers and partners. For startup players, this kind of support is clearly needed to build strong competitiveness, from talent to technology and product development.

“This year [2022], we are focusing on investing millions of dollars to support Indonesia's startup ecosystem. This support is also through training, activities, initiatives, and others. The point is we want to advance the Indonesian startup ecosystem, which has a lot of unicorns, and we are always excited to advance Indonesian startups together with solutions from Alibaba Cloud," said Leon Chen, General Manager of Alibaba Cloud Indonesia.

Details of the startup program that Alibaba Cloud will launch on April 5, 2022 can be found at this page.

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