Excursion to Startup World Cup 2017 by Fenox VC and BEKRAF
On the 19th September 2017, Business Administration Department – Swiss German University went on excursion to Startup World Cup 2017 with Semesters 3 & 5 students at Balai Kartini, Jakarta. Startup World Cup is an event organized by Fenox Venture Capital that is dedicated to launching and advising the world’s next wave of leading entrepreneurs. Annual Startup World Cup winners can accelerate their ideas into reality with the help of 1 million USD in funding and global recognition. Previous fields of startups that have been developed through this event include healthcare, artificial intelligence, robotics, transportation, financial technologies, IoT, augmented reality, and agriculture.
One of the activities that took place in this event was pitching presentations by 10 selected startups from all regions in Indonesia with a team of judges consisting of TriawanMunaf (Head of BEKRAF), Martin Hartono (CEO GDP Venture), Patrick Walujo (Co-Founder & Managing Partner Northstar Group), Piotr Jakubowski (CMO Gojek), Leon Hermann (Investor Global Founders Capital), Samir Chaibi (Investment Manager GREE Ventures), dan Abraham Hidayat (Director Skystar Capital). Mr. Moch. Riyadh Rizky Adam, S.T., M.S.M, a lecturer of SGU’s Semesters 3 & 5, saw a good chance at this event. For Semester 3 students, this event gave them more ideas to create their own businesses for Semesters 4 & 5. Meanwhile, for the 5th Semester students who at the end of this semester will present their business plans in front of the judges, they had the chance to gain experience and knowledge on how to present their business plan to judges and investors. In addition, this event is also a place for students to build a network with the startup.
