Microsoft Brings AI Founders Club Community to Indonesia, Contains 18 Local Startups

Microsoft is bringing the Microsoft AI Founders Club community to Indonesia. This community is exclusive for B2B startups committed to accelerating their business growth with AI in Indonesia.

The launch of the Microsoft AI Founders Club is a continuation of Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub introduced in 2022, which reinforces Microsoft's commitment to empowering startup ambition, accelerating innovation, potentially creating a new economy, and navigating the complexity of the ever-changing business landscape.

Following benefits provided to community members:

1. Personal coaching from Microsoft Executive Advisors in various fields of AI, such as engineering, finance, and to market .
2. Guidance on how to build thought leadership of LinkedIn.
3. Exclusive access to preview new AI solutions from Microsoft.
4. Interact with Microsoft engineers to access deep solutions preview to develop a comprehensive AI product development roadmap.

“With the many opportunities offered by AI, we believe startups can revolutionize their business operations, gain unique insights into customer behavior, develop new solutions and economies out-of-the-box, and create a positive impact that did not exist before. "This is why we are very happy to be able to bring the Microsoft AI Founders Club to Indonesia," said President Director of Microsoft Indonesia Dharma Simorangkir in an official statement, yesterday (6/3).

He continued, “[..] With the Microsoft AI Founders Club, select Founders Hub members who are committed to accelerating their growth with AI and creating a new AI-powered economy for Indonesia, will receive additional access to the technologies, tools, and resources they need to be successful, and create a positive impact in this new AI era.”

A total of 18 Indonesian startups have been selected to join, including MTARGET and Meeting.AI. Contact further by DailySocial.id, Microsoft declined to provide further details about the startups entering this community, other than MTARGET and Meeting.AI. The reason is because there is an agreement that cannot be disseminated between the two parties.

Community participants

MTARGET is a company email marketing which is committed to providing all-in-one email solutions. Meanwhile, Meeting.AI is Indonesia's leading AI-based automatic transcription and summarization software that utilizes Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to turn every meeting, both online and offline, into a valuable asset. Meeting.AI is the result of a pivot from language.ai.

MTARGET Co-founder and CTO Masas Dani said that there are still many businesses that rely on email for marketing, as well as getting and retaining customers. Initially the company only considered a one-size-fits-all email solution, it turned out that this model was not sustainable because customers wanted a more personalized solution.

Then, it is trying to develop a feature that can suggest creative content to help customers compose emails as part of marketing campaigns, thereby helping them be more productive. After adopting the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, this solution can be released within two weeks.

“We are pleased to announce that this feature, which we call Digital Intelligence Assistant, has just been launched, and is one of the first of its kind in Southeast Asia,” said Masas.

Meanwhile, Co-founder and CEO of Meeting.AI Hokiman Kurniawan explains transcription services in the past, which were largely manual, could take a long time, were limited in terms of language support, and required extensive training to ensure the information contained in the notes was accurate and relevant. These concerns prompted his team to develop a superior solution powered by genAI, which offers accurate transcription in Indonesian as well as local dialects that can be used to summarize offline meetings.

“Our solution has successfully supported clients in reducing the time required for their employees to take meeting minutes; the average employee of our clients now only spends 20% of their time compared to previously reaching 450%, without sacrificing the quality of work output. "This shows that AI can revolutionize productivity and offer a more efficient way of knowledge retention, and we look forward to integrating it in all our products," continued Hokiman.

In just four months of operation, Meeting.AI recorded more than 50 thousand users who registered for their services, and this number is expected to continue to grow as more companies want to provide a more meaningful work experience for employees to encourage innovation, creativity, and productivity.