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Irmansyah Putera

Principal at Ascent Venture Group

Jakarta

Overview 

Irmansyah Putera is a Venture Capitalist based in Jakarta, specializing in investing in FinTech, Consumer, AgriTech, SaaS, and Blockchain sectors. With a Master's degree from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and experience at reputable firms like Ascent Venture Group and Finch Capital, he currently serves as Principal at Ascent Venture Group, where he focuses on backing next-generation founders in Southeast Asia and contributes as a startup mentor and venture builder. Highlights of his career include serving as Head of Accelerator & Incubator at MDI Ventures and holding positions as Principal at both Ascent Venture Group and Arise, showcasing a strong track record in venture capital investments and startup mentorship.

Work Experience 

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Ascent Venture Group

  • Principal

    2023 - Current

    Ascent Venture Group is a thesis-driven venture platform whose mission is to nurture, advance and expand innovation ecosystems in Southeast Asia. Ascent manages funds and investment vehicles that primarily invest in Southeast Asia’s technology or technology-enabled companies, focusing on early-stage investment rounds. Ascent is backed by leading sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, family offices, and corporates, including Telkom-backed MDI Ventures and KB-backed KB Investment. Ascent also works alongside BCA-backed Central Capital Ventura as ecosystem partner to bridge access to the group ecosystem. www.ascentgroup.vc

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Arise

  • Principal

    2021

    Early investors in: Agriaku (ID), Pitik (ID), Delos (ID), GoCement (ID), Proglix (ID), Gaspack (ID), The Packworks (PH), Luwjistik (SG), Beleaf (ID), Slice Group (ID), Bebas Investasi (ID), FishLog (ID), Runchise (ID), Kecilin (ID), Jutsoo (ID) & Wifkain (ID) In September 2023, Arise and Centauri, two Indonesian VC based firms formed as a result of joint ventures between MDI Ventures-Finch Capital (Arise) and MDI Ventures-KB Investment (Centauri) established a successor VC Platform called Ascent Venture Group. The firm announced that it is raising a third fund with target corpus of US$200 Million

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Orbit Startups

  • Mentor

    2022

    Orbit Startups (formerly SOSV MOX) is a global accelerator fund with 78 companies in 16 countries and access to 102M users across the globe.

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tinc.id (Telkomsel Innovation Center)

  • Business Mentor

    2020

    Business Mentor at TINC.id ,Telkomsel’s Accelerator for Indonesian Innovators -TINC 5 Mentor Lead for Bizhare (Indonesia’s licensed equity crowdfunding platform for Franchise Based Businesses) -TINC 6 Mentor Lead for Kecilin (Southeast Asia’s Leading Enterprise Grade Data Compression Engine) -TINC 8 Mentor Lead for Qasir (Indonesia’s Leading POS platform for Micro to Small Enterprises)

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Finch Capital

  • Investment Manager

    2019 - 2022

    Responsible for early-stage Southeast Asia focused fintech investments (Grab, AyoConnect, TADA & Jojonomic), portfolio management, partnerships, fundraising & joint venture fund initiatives

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Ayoconnect

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2022

    AyoConnect is Southeast Asia’s largest Financial API Platform. Backed by prominent global & regional investors such as Tiger Global, SIG, PayU, Finch Capital, STRIVE, Patamar, BRI Ventures & Mandiri Capital

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Jojonomic - The Future of Work

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2022

    Simplest way to manage business organization with cloud based digital platform through robust environment of real time monitoring and data driven management.

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TADA

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2022

    SaaS, Advocacy Engagement Platform (AEP)

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Indigo Incubator

  • Resident Mentor

    2019 - 2022

    Startup Mentor for Indigo Incubator & Accelerator, a nationwide startup incubation & accelerator program of Telkom Indonesia Tbk (NYSE:TLK)

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MDI Ventures

  • Head of Accelerator & Incubator (Manager)

    2016 - 2019

    Managing Telkom Indonesia Tbk (NYSE:TLK) seed investments (Indigo Creative Nation) and nationwide digital startup ecosystem through MDI Ventures (Telkom Indonesia's CVC Arm, $800M AUM). Previously served as Entrepreneur in Residence at MDI Ventures (EIR) & Program Manager at Mandiri Inkubator Bisnis (Digital), a national startup incubation initiative by Bank Mandiri (IHSG: BMRI) in partnership with Mandiri Capital Indonesia, Bank Mandiri’s CVC arm. https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/1489945D:IJ-metra-digital-innovation-ventures

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