Lintasarta Appcelerate Programme, Creativity Application Development Competition
Lintasarta
INTRODUCTION
The rapid growth of technology today is very helpful for people in their daily activities. And with the growth of technology, opportunities for the emergence of various digital businesses through startups are presented. Lintasarta has an unwritten moral obligation to always support IT solutions by the sons and daughters of the nation to meet the needs of society and industry. Through Lintasarta’s CSR programme in the field of Education, the Company wants to contribute directly to the development of the digital economy in Indonesia through the Lintasarta Appcelerate programme. Appcelerate is Lintasarta’s social investment programme that aims to find new young talents through a competition to make business plans in the form of product innovations or digital applications that have business value or can be applied to various industrial sectors: financial, oil & gas, plantation, manufacture, e-health, logistics, transportation, maritime and tourism.
FRAMEWORK AND STRATEGY
Appcelerate is designed as a business incubation and acceleration programme for startups, focusing on innovative products and digital applications. The startups will be assigned with professional mentors for the purpose of achieving Go To Market Stage and Investment Opportunity. There are several stages of this programme that must be carried out, such as carrying out screening ideas at the beginning of the programme, where previously Lintasarta provided a theme as a reference guide. The theme came out based on the results of market research, and industry targets from the Company. The resulting product will be collaborated with related units in the Company. Additionally, the collaborated products will be assisted by Lintasarta’s sales and marketing team. Startups will get revenue share for product sales. Finally, as a form of ecosystem development and sustainability, the Company will help the startup to get investors.ACHIEVEMENT AND IMPACT
More than 450 proposals were submitted for screening, 97 startups qualified for the incubation and acceleration stages, and 4 startups who had become the Company’s partners to be assisted with commercialisation with more than Rp 19 billions revenue. Evaluation is always done at the end of the programme and the evaluation concludes how well the products were produced, how was the theme is carried, how wide is the scope of startups participating, for the theme to be more industry specific, the startups involved have reached the provincial level, and the products produced are more ready to be brought to the market.FUTURE DIRECTION
Appcelerate 4.0 is the next future plan. This programme is designed to be able to search for innovations in the digital service and telecommunication industry by reaching a large ecosystem of startups. The startups will have a 6-month incubation programme with professional mentors for the purpose of achieving Go To Market Stage and Investment Opportunity. This programme can provide more specific aim towards improving the quality of participants, finding new discoveries for the industry, and contributing more to building a digital ecosystem in Indonesia with an industry focus on smart cities, IoT, Healthcare, Supply Chain, Fintech and resources.
Lintasarta is a provider of Data Communication, Internet and IT
Services for various industry sectors. Lintasarta was founded in April
1988 and has become part of the business dynamics in Indonesia
by delivering reliable data communication, business information and
internet services even to the most remote areas in the Indonesian
Archipelago. The Company has served more than 2,400 corporate
customers with more than 35,000 networks which include fiber optic
data communication services, satellite networks and many more.
