Sampingan Announces Series A Funding of 71 Billion Rupiah

Sampingan announces the closing of $5 million Series A funding or equivalent to 71 billion Rupiah. This round was led by Altara Ventures, with the participation of Access Ventures, XA Network, iSeed SEA, and two investors in the previous round, Golden Gate Ventures and Antler. Currently, the startup founded by Wisnu Nugrahadi, Margana Mohamad, and Dimas Pramudya has managed to raise up to $7.1 million in funds.

Fresh funds will be focused on strengthening the technology, product, and sales teams. Since their launch in 2019, they have served around 150 corporate clients with 850 thousand workers. Its services allow business partners to connect with blue-collar workers to perform various types of work, such as making sales, creating product reviews, conducting surveys, installing applications, etc.

In Indonesia, there are several platforms that specifically target blue-collar workers (informal workers). In general, it consists of two forms. First, there is a job marketplace that allows companies to recruit prospective workers with a more formal recruitment process. While agency services usually provide certain jobs on the platform, registered workers can take on and do the task directly, and get a commission after successful submission.