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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 Winter 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

VP of Samsung R&D Institute Indonesia, 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 Finance 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.

 

Andi Boediman

Director, Ideosource Venture Capital

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, Saqina, Gimmieworld & Kelir TV. 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.

 

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 "whats 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.

 

 

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). During grad school, I maintained synopsys (VLSI design tools) for our lab. I was also familiar with Cadence, Mentor Graphics, (Edge), and SDL-tools (from Verilog). I was trying to mix and match VLSI dan telco tools. I still have a kick in VLSI. Currently, I am with Microelectronic Center in ITB, Indonesia, but am not doing research in VLSI anymore. I used to run the .ID (Indonesia) domain management (still the .ID domain admin).

 

Danny Oei Wirianto

CEO, Mindtalk

Danny Oei Wirianto is the Chairman of Merah Puth Incubators, Indonesias 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 Wiriantos 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.

 

Denny Santoso

CEO, PT Jaya Sportindo

14 years experience in Indonesia Fitness Industry. Developing the integrated solution and ecosystem for Fitness Industry, including e-commerce with Sportindo.com (with more than thousand offline network), Fitness Media Portal with DuniaFitnes.com. Also a Digital Business public speaker and DIET public speaker featuring as a contributor and consultant in some Fitness Tabloid & Magazines Contributing as the Expert in TV Show Body in Shape with Denny Santoso at MNC Lifestyle, talking about Diet, Fitness and Healthy Lifestyle Passionate in Digital Marketing, Internet Marketing and Social Media. Specialties: Entrepreneurship, Distribution, Business Building, Diet & Fitness Expert. Fat Loss Specialist. Digital Business Strategist and Motivator.

 

Dian Noeh Abubakar

Founder & CEO, Kennedy, Voice & Berliner ( edit )

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]. Dians 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 in 2007 – 2009 - In house at UBS AG Indonesia - Weber Shandwick: hired as Vice President in 2009 and promoted into Senior VP in 2011 Dian lectures at Prasetiya Mulya Business School and regularly writes for selected publications on PR / communication and active in Perhumas. Dian has been helping Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia [GEPI]. Her portfolio include corporate communication, banking and finance, brand/consumers, Islamic Finance and public advocacy. Dian is finalist of Australia Alumni Awards 2011, under category of Media and Journalism. Dian has just recently appointed as the Communication Director - Indonesia for Myanmar Tourism Federation.

 

Djarot Subiantoro

President Director

Djarot Subiantoro, President Director of PT indoInternet known as Indonet [the first ISP transforms to a leading ICT managed services company in Indonesia]. Prior to Indonet was the President Director of PT Sigma Cipta Caraka known as Sigma [the leading IT software and services company in Indonesia], until its acquisition by PT Telkom Indonesia in 2010. Has been over 30 years in the IT services industry, started in 1982 in IBM indonesia, and continuously active in the communities. Currently hold as President of Indonesia ICT Software Association (Aspiluki), active in the Indonesia IT Federation, MasTel (ICT Society) and MES (Sharia Economics Society). Involves in the international ICT competitions as judge and/ head of delegation, such a AICTA (Asean ICT Awards) held by Asean governments, APICTA (Asia Pacific ICT Awards) held by alliances of 17 economies in Asia pacific, i-Mulai and Imagine Cup held by Microsoft.

 

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. In October 2008, Kompas.com started Kompasiana as the journalists blog and has successfully transformed Kompasiana (www.kompasiana.com) to become the biggest citizen journalism site in Indonesia. As key strategist of Kompas Cyber Media & Kompas Daily, he initiated the web and mobile business development that have regularly won multiple awards in Asian Digital Media Awards by WAN-IFRA Asia, including Silver Award for Best in Newspaper Website (Kompas.com, 2011). In late 2011, he expand the company’s network by investing in Urbanesia (www.urbanesia.com), a city directory startup, as major shareholders. He is currently developing e-commerce model for Gramedia.com and other vertical business models.

 

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 still exists until now, and profitable. Ekas passion for the bleeding edge leads him to develop amongst the worlds first forest carbon credit projects in Central Kalimantan, using the forest as a critical reserve for repatriation of orangutan into their natural habitat. It is now the largest such project in the world.

 

Erik Meijer

Director & Chief Commercial Officer, Indosat

Erik Meijer is the Director and Chief Commercial Officer of Indonesian telecoms operator Indosat, 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). Erik was voted as Indonesia’s Marketeer of the Year (Insan Pemasar Indonesia) 2006 by the Cakram Advertising Magazine, Creative Marketer 2007 by MIX Marketing Magazine, one of the Top-10 Figures in Indonesia’s Technology Industry 2009 by TechLife magazine, and awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Indonesia Cellular Awards 2007.

 

Hermawan Kartajaya

Founder & President, MarkPlus, Inc

Hermawan Kartajaya is the Founder and President of MarkPlus, Inc. In 2003, he was named by the United Kingdom’s Chartered Institute of Marketing on the list of "50 Gurus Who Have Shaped the Future of Marketing" that includes the likes of Philip Kotler, David Aaker, Gary Hamel, Tom Peters, and Seth Godin. He has written 6 books together with Philip Kotler, including the recent best-seller, Marketing 3.0

 

 

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. James completed his Double Major: B.Sc in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon, and earned his M. Sc in Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University. In his spare time, James pens his thoughts on technology, venture capital and entrepreneurship on his personal blog at www.motochan.com.

 

Kartini Muljadi

Senior Partner, Kartini Muljadi & Rekan

Mrs. Muljadi is the founder and senior partner of Kartini Muljadi & Rekan, one of Indonesias 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 "Whos Who Legal" as among Indonesias leading lawyers in these fields. In addition to her practice advising private enterprises, Mrs. Muljadi is also prominent in the public sector. She is regularly consulted by the Indonesia government and has worked closely with government institutions such as IBRA, INDRA and the Jakarta Initiative, in efforts to improve governance and foster Indonesias private economy. She is also regularly consulted by multinational agencies such as the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. Mrs. Muljadi has been actively involved in a number of significant law reform initiatives in Indonesia including law reform relating to the capital markets, company law and insolvency.

 

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. As the Director of GDP Venture, the leading strategic investor company specializing in Indonesian Internet companies, Martin supports and nurtures Indonesia’s Internet entrepreneurship through the investment in Kaskus.us, the most popular and successful internet start-up in Indonesia, and MerahPutih Incubator that nurtures a range of Indonesia Internet start-ups such as mindtalk.com, lintasberita.com, lintas.me, DailySocial.net, and krazymarket.com. Though one of GDP’s subsidiaries, PT GDN, Martin has also been actively involved in the development of Blibli.com, an innovative social e-commerce website that brings fun, simple, and free shopping experience to Indonesian shopper.

 

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

CTO, GDP Venture

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. He was the Executive Vice President Engineering & CTO at LogLogic (San Jose, CA), overseeing the day-to-day operations and setting the strategic direction of products and technologies. He built the Advanced Concepts Group at Symantec (Santa Monica, CA). The Symantec Advanced Concepts Group is a startup-type organization within Symantec Research Labs that focuses on building new solutions in emerging areas with the potential of $100+ million in revenues.

 

Prita Kemal Gani

Founder, The London School of Public Relations Jakarta

Prita Kemal Gani is the Founder and Director of STIKOM The London School of Public Relations Jakarta. STIKOM LSPR was established due to her great concern over the lack of availability of PR professionals who are ready-made in Indonesia. Her passion to the world of education also brought her to numerous awards from various institutions, among others: Outstanding Entrepreneur Award 2009 given by Enterprise Asia which has a program to provide a regional award for best entrepreneur in Asia Pacific, Award of Perhumas in the education category in 2006 and also Best Practice in Public Relations and Communications Profession by the Institute of Public Relations Malaysia (IPRM). In June 2011, Prita was elected as the Chairman of PerhumasPublic Relations Society of Indonesia for the period 2011-2014 and became the first woman Chairperson elected over the last 39 years of Perhumas existence.

 

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, and more. Sakti was one of the semi-finalists of Ernst and Young’s The Young Entrepreneur Award 2004, the most prestigious entrepreneur competition in the world.

 

Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno

CEO, Saratoga Capital

Sandiaga Uno is the founding partner and CEO of Saratoga, a private equity firm focuses its investments in natural resources and infrastructure in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.He currently holds directorships at PT Adaro Energy Tbk, Interra Resources Ltd. and PT LintasMargaSedaya. He also co-founded a boutique investment firm, PT Recapital Advisors. As a prominent entrepreneur, Sandi is active in the Indonesian business community promoting entrepreneurships and empowering the Indonesian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. He was elected as a member of National Economic Committee (KomiteEkonomiNasional) in June 2010, after serving the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) for the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Cooperatives sector from 2004 to 2010. Sandi was also the Chairman of Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association (HIPMI) from 2005 to 2008. Beside active in business community, Sandi also initiate Indonesia Setara on 2010, a foundation which its aim to linked and collaborating Indonesian potential people to build better Indonesia (www.indonesiasetara.org).

 

Sanny Gaddafi

Cofounder

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 Beauty Artists called BeautiPlan.com and a Social Networking for Farmers called 8villages.com. One of the Initiator of #StartupLokal community, also taking part on the mentoring program on Jakarta Founder Institute. Marketeers magazine by Mark Plus named Sanny as the Top 100 young influencers in Indonesia.

 

Takeshi Ebihara

General Partner, Rebright Partners / Batavia Incubator

Ebihara has 17 years career as Venture Capitalist, as well as serial entrepreneur in internet industry. His carrier started at JAFCO, the largest Venture Capital firm in Japan. Then he founded several internet startups himself as serial entrepreneur, includes CEO role of Tokyo Stock-EX listed company.

 

Tauseef Riaz

Chief Digital Services Advisor, Indosat

Tauseefs expertise is in investing in and building disruptive and innovative technology businesses from within incumbents. To date, Tauseef has executed and managed investments and joint ventures exceeding US$ 1B in value in both start-up and established businesses in emerging markets. He is currently the Group Director for strategy, investments and corporate development for Digital Services with Ooredoo Group (formerly Qatar Telecom). He was recently assigned to Indosat as its Chief Digital Program Adviser to help build some key digital services such as mobile commerce, advertising, payments, banking, health etc. and oversee Indosats innovation program including Indosats start-up incubator, the ideaBox. Previously Tauseef has held leadership positions in strategy, corporate development, M&A, start-up incubation and management of Telecom, Media & Technology businesses with leading companies in Asia, Middle East, Europe and North America. Tauseef is a CFA charter holder, has an MBA degree from University of Western Ontarios Ivey School of Businesses in Canada, and an Electrical Engineer degree from Lahore University of Engineering & Technology in Pakistan.

 

Toto Sugiri

CEO

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.

 

 

Weihan Liew

Venture Partner, Nokia Growth Partners

Weihan is a venture partner at Nokia Growth Partners. He has previously served as a senior project planner for Microsoft China R&D, a product manager of Windows Mobile at Microsoft, and an associate at Boston Consulting Group. Weihan earned bachelors degrees in business and computing from Monash University in Australia and a MBA from in finance and economics from the the University of Chicagos Booth School of Business.

 

William Tanuwijaya

Co-founder & CEO, Tokopedia

William Tanuwijaya is the co-founder & CEO of Tokopedia, the largest 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, Beenos, and Softbank Ventures Korea.

 

 

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