Seekmi Books Million Dollar Series A Funding

Today (25/5) marketplace Seekmi services announced that it has booked a multi-million dollar series A funding from six investors. Seekmi's series A funding was led by CyberAgent Ventures, followed by Ventek Ventures, Convergence Ventures, Kinara, Grupara, and Balancop. The plan is that the newly acquired fresh funds will be allocated for product development, talent recruitment, and expansion of operational areas outside Jabodetabek.

CEO Seekmi Nayoko Wicaksono said, “Marketplace services are a great local business.[…] This new funding allows us to strengthen our advantage in the Indonesian market and further enhance our business. product experience which is good for both users and vendors.”

“We will allocate a large amount of funds for technological excellence through R&D (research and development). We will develop our IT team and recruit engineer best to make Seekmi more intelligent, responsiveand reliable,” said Seekmi COO Clarissa Leung added.

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Seekmi is service marketplace services initiated in early 2015 by Nayoko Wicaksono and Clarissa Leung. Shortly after launching its website in August 2015, Seekmi was also selected as one of the Indonesian representatives who follow Google Launchpad Accelerator program. Not long ago they also had launch application mobile devices for device Android and iOS..

Seekmi's newly obtained series A funding round will indeed be allocated mostly for product development and recruiting talent. Even so, Seekmi also plans to allocate funds for the expansion of operational areas outside Jabodetabek. Cities that are on Seekmi's radar are Bandung, Surabaya, Semarang, Bali, Medan, and Makassar.

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Regarding this Seekmi series A funding, CyberAgent Ventures Vice President Steven Vanada said, "Seekmi has the potential todisrupt service industry in Indonesia by assisting SMEs in acquiring new customers, and vice versa. To realize this requires strategy and long-term thinking and we believe Seekmi has the right approach and has the best team for implementation in this market.”

Currently Seekmi claims to have succeeded in providing more than 500 types of services, has 5000 professional service providers, and has received more than 250 thousand service searches in platform they. The big mission he wants to achieve is to be able to facilitate services throughout Indonesia.