The Founder Institute's four-month curriculum covers everything you would expect from an early-stage startup program, including topics like "Startup Legal and IP” towards the beginning, to “Fundraising” near the end. What makes the curriculum special is the Mentors that teach it, whose passion, feedback and support helps our companies avoid rookie mistakes and set the foundation for a meaningful and enduring company.
The Founder Institute carefully recruits approximately 25 Mentors per Semester, who are normally the CEO or founder of a successful startup. Rather than specialists or consultants, we prefer Founders and CEOs to give our companies "the entrepreneur's perspective." The mentors share their experiences, best practices, and mistakes, while also providing specific guidance and feedback on the Founder companies.
In addition, the Founder Institute's unique Graduate Liquidity Pool allows our mentors to share in the equity of companies formed in each program - and, their share is based solely on the anonymous ratings they receive from the Founders both during, and after the program. In this way, the Founder Institute incentivizes mentors to take a special interest in our startups, and provide as much assistance as possible after the program.
We have a great lineup of Mentors confirmed for the Spring 2013 Jakarta Founder Institute, including many from out of town. See the full list below.
Adrian Suherman
Managing Director, DealKeren, a LivingSocial Company
Adrian Suherman is currently the managing director of LivingSocial Indonesia. He has more than 10 years consulting and industry experiences, primarily in the area of strategy, marketing and operations. His previous companies include A.T. Kearney, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems. Adrian received B.S. from University of Arizona, M.S. from Stanford University and MBA from INSEAD.
Alfred Boediman
Managing Director of Media Solution Center, Samsung Electronics
Jack of all trades, master of none; who has implemented changes to answer business needs across a number of areas in the IT and Telecommunication sectors. Alfred holds a Doctoral degree from University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. Specialties: managing all technical and product aspects of a start up technology company, project and vendor management for a multinational company in the software development and telecoms sector.
Alvin Yap
CEO, TheMobileGamer Pte Ltd
Alvin is the CEO of TheMobileGamer, an award-winning and venture funded startup based in Singapore. TMG develops mobile social games played by over 2.5 million users across SEA and thousands more are joining each day.
Andi Boediman
Partner
Andi S. Boediman is a Director at Ideosource, a venture capital focusing on digital industries, including content, media, ecommerce and its digital infrastructures. Current Ideosource portfolio includes companies like TouchTen game & KARK mobile. I also invest in some startup including ShopFair – The Online Shopping Fair, @kerjakreatif and 7langit mobile developer. Founder of IDS Education, offering graduate studies in creative entrepreneurship in partnership with IKJ (Institut Kesenian Jakarta). IDS also offer undergraduate studies in Design, Animation & Filmmaking in partnership Billy Blue Australia. In previous role as Chief Innovation Officer Plasa.com–a subsidiary of Telkom in the area of content and ecommerce, I am bringing eBay and Microsoft as being the most crucial and most important partnerships for Plasa.com. And I closed major content deal with Barclays Premier League (BPL) for Telkom Group to become the official mobile partner. As the key strategist, my responsibility is building the company foundation, from envisioning the road map, creating the business model and setting up the team to build the company from ground up.
Andi Zain
CEO, Numedia Global
Andy is a mobile industry evangelist, founder of MobileMonday Indonesia, part of global networking forum for mobile professionals across 40 countries. Basically, the "go-to market" guy for Indonesia. He is also the CEO of PT Numedia Global, pioneering the new mobile VAS industry in Indonesia, focus on distribution, discovery, engagement and payment in the mobile sector. He partners with some of the most interesting service providers, including mig33, Vuclip, Snaptu, UC Mobile, Froute, Payfone, etc. and is always working on "what's next" in the industry. Andy has spent more than 15 years in the mobile & ICT businesses - launched the first mobile content provider and ringtone business, pioneered the "old" mobile VAS businesses, which is now an annual USD 1.2B industry in Indonesia. He worked with almost all major brands in the industry from Yahoo! to Disney, Apple to Nokia, Cartoon Networks to EA, etc.
Andrew Lee
Senior Advisor, U.S. Small Business Administration
Andrew Lee is currently a Senior Adviser with the U.S. Small Business Administration where he focuses on high-growth startups. Before his advising role, he co-founded JamLegend, the online equivalent of Guitar Hero, which reached more than 2M users and was later acquired by Zynga, where he worked on flagship game FarmVille. While in college, Andrew created Fantasy Congress, an online political fantasy game that garnered recognition from the NY Times, BBC, NPR, and Time Magazine, amongst others. Before startups, Andrew worked in politics for then U.S. Senator Ken Salazar, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, and the Environmental Protection Agency. He is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College where he was a Truman Scholar, Udall Scholar, Rhodes Scholar Finalist, and named Student Entrepreneur of the Year. Check out his TedX talk - tiger mothers, startups, and games, oh my! http://youtu.be/iQposu-6rnU
Ari Juliano Gema
Lawyer/Intellectual Property Consultant, Assegaf Hamzah & Partners
Ari is a senior associate of Assegaf Hamzah & Partners, one of 30 fastest growing law firms in Asia (Asian Legal Business magazine, 2006). He has a wealth of experience advising both domestic and international clients in a wide range of industries and sectors, especially in telecommunications, information technology and intellectual property fields. Ari holds a bachelor of law degree, majoring in international law, from the University of Indonesia. He also attended intellectual property courses in Japan (scholarship from Japan Patent Office, 2007) and Australia (scholarship from University of Wollongong, 2010). He is an active member of the Indonesian Bar Association (Peradi), the Indonesian Intellectual Property Consultants Association (AKHKI), and the International Trademark Association.
Budi Rahardjo
Founder, PT. Indo CISC
My current field of interest is information security. I was named the #1 network security expert in Indonesia by Swa magazine (a business magazine). Currently, I am running my own start-up companies and teaching at Institut Teknologi Bandung / ITB (the best tech university in Indonesia). Previously, I was more into VLSI IC design and (formal) verification (my PhD thesis).
Danny Oei Wirianto
CEO, Mindtalk
Danny Oei Wirianto is the Chairman of Merah Puth Incubators, Indonesia's first tech and digital incubator. He is also the Co-Founder at MindTalk, Chairman at Merah Putih Inc, Evangelist at Kaskus Networks, Founder and Partner at Klix Digital, and CEO and Founder at SemutApi Colony. Danny Oei Wirianto's goals are to help as many people as possible and build a strong relationship to all friends and business colleagues while together make a great business deal. His passion is to think creative solutions and perfectionist in developing the idea into reality to reach the goal.
Dian Kurniadi
Head of Business and Technology Development
Dian is one of the key persons behind the success of Jatis, a major information technology and software consulting firm in the region that was sold to Sumitomo Corporation, a leading international investment institutions, and Fuji Television Network, Inc. He has expertise in enabling all components in a enterprise by applying best practiced technology application on top of proper change management process to meet its objectives which are: increase product margin, increase sales volume and manage the risk. His specialties are enterprise integration from supply chain to customer touch point.
Dian Noeh Abubakar
Founder & CEO, Kennedy, Voice & Berliner
Dian is Co-Founder and CEO of Kennedy, Voice & Berliner Public Relations firm. Under Kennedy, Voice & Berliner [established December 2011], Dian recently launched PR solution for startups: Voice Of Startups [September 2012]. Dian's adventures in communication industry included: - Internship & contributor at SBS Radio in Melbourne, Australia - Ogilvy PR Worldwide / Jakarta, first in1998 – 2002 and returned for the second service
Dian Siswarini
Director/Chief Technology, Content & New Business Officer, XL Axiata
Appointed as Director of Network Services in April 2007, she has more than 15 years experience in the telecommunications industry, mainly in Network and Engineering. She joined XL in 1996, and served as a Manager of Radio Network Design Engineering and other key positions in Network and Engineering Department, last serving as Senior Vice President of Network Planning & Development. She graduated from the Bandung Institute of Technology majoring in Telecommunications in 1991.
Edi Taslim
Director of Digital, Kompas Gramedia
Edi Taslim is the Vice Director of Kompas Cyber Media and Digital Group Director of Kompas Gramedia, the holding company. He started his career at Kompas Gramedia as founder of CHIP, a licensed computer magazine from Germany. Following the success of CHIP in Indonesia, he led the company’s expansion from 2004-2006 to publish CHIP magazine in Singapore & Malaysia as CEO & Editorial Director. In 2007, he returned to Jakarta and was a key figures in reformulating & rebranding KCM to Kompas.com as the leading news portal in Indonesia.
Eka Ginting
Founder & CEO, Indo.com
Eka is one of the pioneers of Internet business in Indonesia. In 1995, he started Indo.com, not only one of the first Indonesian Internet companies, but also one of the only few that can survive and is still exist until now, and profitable. Eka is currenlty busy developing REDD carbon credits through restoration of forests in Central Kalimantan Province and repatriation of orangutan into their natural habitat.
Erik Meijer
President Director, Bakrie Connectivity
Erik Meijer is the Deputy President Director of Indonesian telecoms operator Bakrie Telecom (product: “ESIA”), President Director of wireless broadband operator Bakrie Connectivity (product: “AHA”), and Investment Board Member of venture capital funds Nusantara Ventures and Nusantara Incubation. Prior to this, he previously held several positions at PTT Telecom Netherlands/KPN Royal Dutch Telecom in Netherlands, England, and Indonesia; at Unisource NV, Netherlands and PT Telkomsel in Indonesia. He was also the first CEO of one of Indonesia’s largest News Portals VIVAnews and a Director in convergent media holding VIVA (Visi Media Asia).
Izak Jenie
CEO, PT MMS
Izak is the Founder of PT MMS, the company behind the proliferation of content in the Nexian handset. With a vision of providing cheap communication amongst Indonesian, Izak created Nexian Messenger, which successfully grabbed 5 million users in only 8 months and has 2,5 million active users per month. Nexian Messenger now delivers more than 1 billion messages every month and is still growing at 40% per month. Izak also designed a soon to be launched mobile payment system. In early 2011, part of the company was acquired by Spice Group, an Indian-based conglomerate.
James Chan
Investment Manager, Neoteny Labs
James is Investment Manager at Neoteny Labs, and works closely with General Partner Joichi Ito on the fund and its portfolio companies. Prior to Neoteny Labs, James served as Investment Manager at Walden International Singapore, where he worked on Seed Ventures IV Pte Ltd (S4), a new fund organized under the National Research Foundation’s Early Stage Venture Capital Fund Scheme that was focused on making investments into early-stage technology companies in Singapore. In 2007, James served as Investment Manager at Infocomm Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, which made equity investments into growth-stage infocomm enterprises.
Jeffrey Paine
Founding Partner, Golden Gate Ventures
Jeffrey Paine is the founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures, an early stage technology incubator based in Singapore. Jeff started and manages the Founder Institute in Asia where he is currently overseeing its expansion in the Southeast Asian region. Since 2010 the Founder Institute in Singapore has graduated over 60 companies in Asia. Jeff spent the first eight years of his career in early stage venture and private equity in the US, North and South Asia. He co-founded a China market entry advisory firm which was then merged with a China mid-market private equity firm. He also cofounded Pyrks in early 2012 and currently sits on the board of TheMobileGamer, Acheev.it and AtticTV. He is Singapore native and graduated with a Bachelors of Business Administration (Information Systems) from the University of Southern California.
Julian Gorman
Strategic Advisor to CEO, Indosat
Global telecommunications marketing experience with demonstrated ability to adapt to new demands and deliver under pressure. Track record of delivering immediate impact through effective leadership and robust decision making. Strong project management skills developed over variety of roles and industries. Robust commercial acumen supported by legal qualifications delivering higher level of results. Proven capability in negotiating and managing expectations to deliver commercial outcomes and exceed revenue projections. Global experience in emerging market operators.
Kartini Muljadi
Senior Partner, Kartini Muljadi & Rekan
Mrs. Muljadi is the founder and senior partner of Kartini Muljadi & Rekan, one of Indonesia's most distinguished corporate and commercial lawyers. For many years, Mrs. Muljadi has provided counsel to business leaders, government representatives, practicing lawyers and academics, from within Indonesia and overseas. She has advised many leading domestic and international enterprises on their investments and operations in Indonesia and has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance and project finance and capital markets. Mrs. Muljadi is regularly ranked by the like of "Who's Who Legal" as among Indonesia's leading lawyers in these fields.
Martin Hartono
CEO, GDP Venture
Martin Basuki Hartono, CEO of GDP Venture, started his career as the Business Technology Director of PT Djarum where he led the implementation of various enterprise systems applications such as ERP (SAP) and Supply Chain Management. In his leadership, the Business Technology Team had also developed various in-house knowledge management applications such as Social Office, e-mail, and Instant Messaging.
Novistiar Rustandi
Co-founder & CEO, HarukaEdu
Novistiar is the co-founder and CEO of HarukaEdu, a startup focusing in education industry in Indonesia. He is also the co-founder of Nextweb Technologies, a leading mobile and web application development company based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Prior to moving back to Jakarta, Novis was an accomplished Consultant with PwC US firm specializing in system implementation, information technology general control, and business process improvement with extensive experience in various business cycles and industries.
On Lee
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
On Lee is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at GDP Venture. He has over 20 years’ experience in internet, mobile, consumer, game and enterprise software development. He previously held various management and technical positions as a co-founder, CTO, Executive Vice President of Engineering (VPE), and developer in startup and Fortune 500 companies. His specialty is building new teams to start strategic new products in startup and large companies.
Peter Vesterbacka
Mighty Eagle, Rovio
Peter Verterbacka is the Mighty Eagle at Rovio, the maker of the ludicrously popular Angry Birds. Peter also a co-founder of MobileMonday, a monthly meetup to bring the players in the mobile ecosystem around the world together. From it's humble beginnings in Helsinki, Finland, MobileMonday has grown to become the world's largest mobile community with a presence in every major city on every continent. In 2011, he made it to the list of Time's 100 most influential people in the world.
Remco Lupker
Director, Tokobagus.com
Remco Lupker, director at Tokobagus.com, is a passionate International oriented ICT and Internet entrepreneur. Remco is co-founder, co-owner and director at PT Tokobagus (http://www.tokobagus.com) which is the largest classifieds/ecommerce site of Indonesia. Remco has a long time experience in ICT, Internet and e-commerce specifically. Previous owner of Soltria Europe and CTO of Boober Int NV, the first peer-2-peer lending site in the Netherlands and Italy. After two years agressive online & guerilla marketing Tokobagus expanded their strategy to nationwide TV and Radio campaigns on top of their aggressive online campaigns. Tokobagus is currently #20 on the Alexa ranking for Indonesia and undisputed market leader in online classifieds. Remco focusses mostly on the Indonesian e-commerce market which is as challenging as promising.
Rudy Ramawy
Country Head, Indonesia, Google
Rudy Ramawy is the Country Director, Indonesia of Google. Rudy has previously held senior positions at national television channel RCTI, started and head Sony Music Entertainment Indonesia, head Warner Music Malaysia, worked at Axis Telecom Indonesia and Procter & Gamble. Rudy holds a chemical engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Sakti Makki
co-Founder, Managing Director
Sakti Makki is the co-Founder, Managing Director, Principal Consultant and Creative Director of MakkiMakki, the leading strategic branding consultant In Indonesia. He leads, directs and manages branding consultants and designers in strategic brand development encompassing brand strategy and positioning, brand architecture, brand road map and activation strategies including brand expression (naming and identity) and communication. Up to date, MakkiMakki has been working in synergy and strategic partnership with diverse national, regional and multi-national brands and companies such as Unilever Indonesia, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Frisian Flag, and Sara Lee.
Sandiaga Uno
CEO, Saratoga Capital
Salah satu pendiri Saratoga Capital, sebuah perusahaan investasi yang didirikan bersama Edwin Soeryadjaya pada tahun 1998. Saratoga Capital berkonsentrasi dalam bidang sumber daya alam dan infrastuktur. Saat ini ia menjabat sebagai CEO Saratoga Capital dan juga pimpinan di beberapa perusahaan antara lain PT. Adaro Energy Tbk, salah satu perusahaan tambang batu bara terbesar di Indonesia, PT. Tower Bersama Infrastruktur Group Tbk., perusahaan penyedia menara telekomunikasi. Ia juga salah satu pendiri PT. Recapital Advisors, sebuah perusahaan pengelola aset yang didirikan pada tahun 1997 bersama teman sekolahnya, Rosan Roeslani.
Sanny Gaddafi
FI Mentor
Sanny Gaddafi (nickname: SaGad), a technopreneur since in the University, develop the first local Social Networking site called FUPEI (Friends Uniting Program Especially Indonesian) and have 200.000+ local member. From that experience he partnering with some people and build several social networking sites, such as a Social Networking for Sport Enthusiast called SixReps.com and a Social Networking for Farmers called 8villages.com.
Steven Goh
CEO & Co-Founder, mig33
Steven is well experienced in developing and delivering successful Internet services for consumers, having first founded Australia’s first online stock brokerage company Sanford Securities Limited, prior to co-founding mig33. Steven is recognized as an authority on contemporary IT issues, with extensive private and public board experience, has served as a keynote speaker and panelists conferences throughout U.S. Australia and Asia. Steven received both a Bachelor of Commerce and an MBA from the University of Western Australia.
Takeshi Ebihara
General Partner, Batavia Incubator / Rebright Partners
Ebihara has 17 years career as Venture Capitalist, as well as serial entrepreneur in internet industry. His carrier started at JAFCO, one of the top Venture Capital firms in Japan. Then he founded several internet startups himself as serial entrepreneur, also was CEO at public company listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Toto Sugiri
CEO, Sigma Cipta Caraka
In 1989, Toto founded Sigma Cipta Caraka, which was acquired by PT Telkom Indonesia. While he was a Chairman there, Toto had a vision that every employee of Sigma Cipta Caraka should one day be an entrepreneur. Toto also founded Balicamp in 1999, a software development company located in Bali, and IndoInternet in 1995.
Vinnie Lauria
Co-Founder, Lefora.com
Vinnie Lauria co-founded Lefora.com, a forum hosting service for communities on the web. In less than 3 years, Lefora grew to over 100,000 communities and was acquired by CrowdGather, Inc. in the summer of 2010. Vinnie also started the Silicon Valley NewTech meetup and grew it to over 7,000 members, with hundreds of startups demoing and launching their product at the monthly events. Prior to Lefora, Vinnie was part of the Meetro.com team building a location-aware IM client. Earlier in his career, Vinnie helped shape how IBM was approaching social software as an emerging and disruptive technology.
William Tanuwijaya
Co-founder & CEO, Tokopedia
William Tanuwijaya is the co-founder & CEO of Tokopedia, one of the leading transactional-based open marketplace in Indonesia. William launched Tokopedia at August 2009, with the initial idea to enable Indonesian individuals and business owners to start and maintain their online stores easily, while facilitating a more secure and convenient online shopping experience. Since its inception, Tokopedia already received funding from PT. Indonusa Dwitama, East Ventures, CyberAgent Ventures, and netprice.com, Ltd.
