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Indonesia

Asia · Pop. 283.5M · #29 startup ecosystem by EV

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$64.8B+38%
Combined startup EV
$485.3M
VC invested (last 12mo)
1,208
Tracked startups
#60/ 67
Unicorns per 1M people · world rank
🦄 Unicorns
12
12 live · +0 new in 2025 (incl. 0 new decacorns)
💎 Decacorns
1
$10B+ tier
🐎 Thoroughbreds
9
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Indonesia grew 17.4× since 2015

Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in Indonesia that's still operating today — public and private companies combined, totalled by founding-year cohort.

0 $50B $100B $150B $200B Indonesia · $68B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent ecosystems by EV

Startup hubs

Inside Indonesia: top 2 startup hubs

Sub-national ecosystems ranked by combined enterprise value, paired with their 5-year growth multiplier.

By enterprise value
1 Jakarta $59.4B
2 Bandung $2B
By 5-yr EV growth
1 Bandung 24×
2 Jakarta 4.7×

Startup funnel

Indonesia's power-law funnel

From the first cheque written to a $10B+ outcome. Each arrow shows what fraction of companies at one stage graduate to the next, tracked by founding cohort.

Pre-Seed
187
Seed
144
Series A
119
Series B
65
Series C
37
Unicorn
11
Decacorn
1

* C→Unicorn and Unicorn→Decacorn rates are derived from current counts (no founding-cohort data); the four mid-funnel rates use Dealroom's cohort tracking.

Notable companies

Top private companies in Indonesia

Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.

Decacorns $10B+ valuation 1
Gojek
Unicorns $1B+ valuation 11
AjaibBukalapakKK GroupKopi KenanganOVO IndonesiaAkulakuTokopediaPT. Global Jet ExpressKredivo GroupGoTo GroupXendit
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 7
GoTo GroupBukalapakKopi KenanganXenditPT. Global Jet ExpressEFisheryAkulakuTokopediaKredivo Group

Academia

Indonesia's academic flywheel

Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Indonesia.

University-linked startup formation
6
University spinouts
158
Total alumni-founded companies
104
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
35
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
19
Scaleups ($100M+)

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Indonesia stacks up

Peers chosen from the same Asia cluster within ±70% of Indonesia's combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size for the wider continent — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.

Combined enterprise value
$186B
Indonesia
$64.8B
$59.4B
$55.7B
$34.3B
$33.6B
$21.2B
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV
peer median 9.0× 3.2× 172.9× 342.6× $12.3B $267B $5.8T EV growth (5yr ×) Combined enterprise value (log) China India Israel South Korea Singapore Japan Indonesia

Top overview

Asia ecosystems — combined view

Top ecosystems in Asia ranked by combined EV. Indonesia's row is highlighted.

# Ecosystem Combined EV 5-yr EV growth Unicorns VC invested Tracked startups
1 China $5.8T 3.2× 479 $33.4B 24.5K
2 India $884B 7.1× 125 $13.9B 13.3K
3 Israel $600B 5.6× 128 $10.7B 4,762
4 South Korea $439B 15.6× 41 $8.2B 7,931
5 Singapore $359B 9.6× 38 $3.3B 3,900
6 Japan $255B 6.4× 19 $4.3B 7,794
7 Hong Kong $186B 13.0× 21 $3.6B 1,222
8 United Arab Emirates $79.1B 10.6× 21 $3.9B 1,553
9 Indonesia $64.8B 5.0× 12 $485.3M 1,208
10 Taiwan $59.4B 7.9× 5 $209.1M 621
11 Türkiye $55.7B 20.7× 8 $714.3M 2,031
12 Vietnam $34.3B 15.3× 4 $461.5M 616

Patent intelligence

Indonesia startup IP portfolio: 105 patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Indonesia. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.

Granted patent families
105
Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.
0.37 patents per million residents · #60 globally
Top patenting hubs
1 Jakarta 101
2 Bandung 4

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Sector breakdown
Where Indonesia's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Indonesia's domestic vs foreign capital mix
% domestic VC by stage
Cross-border lead investors
Sovereign-fund participation
Foreign-LP exposure
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Recent momentum
Indonesia's VC investment trajectory by stage
2024 vs 2025 by stage
Round-size trends
Stage-conversion deltas
Quarterly velocity
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Founder origins
Where Indonesia's startup founders come from
By country of origin
Per capita
Top universities
Top alumni-factory companies
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AI talent
Top employers of AI talent in Indonesia
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Indonesia
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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