AwanTunai Secures 64 Billion Rupiah in Series A Round

A financial technology platform, AwanTunai, has secured Series A funding worth of $4.3 million or equivalent with Rp64 billion. It was led by Insignia Venture Partners and AMTD Group. Participated also in this round are Global Brains, Fennox Venture Capital, and some related parties. Using the fresh funding, AwanTunai aims to tighten its position in the Indonesian market with the prepared strategies and innovations.

Founded by Dino Setiawan, Windy Natriavi, and Rama Notowidigdo, AwanTunai has made digital distributions to thousands of micro-retail sellers for them to have access to working capital and payment receipts from AwanTunai consumer's credit. As a platform, AwanTunai offers Indonesian banking and multi-finance company the ability to reach customers which their branches cannot. By digitization, the borrowing cost should be reduced and access will be provided to those haven't been served.

As per October 2018, AwanTunai has served 300,000 loans and on this year's Q4, the company aims to facilitate capital for 5,000 micro-merchants.

"We realize the fintech capacity is to help financial institutions to make a broader distribution for underserved market and low-cost organizations. We intend to allow banks in Indonesia providing access for all countries to the affordable and high-quality credit service." Dino Setiawan, AwanTunai's CEO, said.

About this investment, Yinglan Tan, Insignia Venture Partners' Managing Partner said that he was very confident about the future of financial service is in the digital bank.

"Our investment in AwanTunai reflects their ability to be incumbent bank enabler, adopting necessary technology to distribute digital banking products," he explained.

AMTD Group through Calvin Choi, AMTD Group's Chairman mentioned that they are interested in the great potential ASEAN has and their investment in AwanTunai was an effort to gain a broad insight into the Indonesian market.

"We hope to make a deeper trace in Indonesia as well in the surrounding areas, and it means a partnership with AwanTunai in digital financial solution segment, including insurtech and wealthtech," he added.

– Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian