Tokopedia's First Birthday, Booked 5 Billion IDR Transactions

Launched on a historic day of August 17th (Indonesia's independence day) last year, Tokopedia celebrate their first birthday by launching their new mobile version of the site. William, Founder and CEO told us that the mobile version has most major features just like in the standard web version. Seller can check orders, delivery statuses and withdrawal, while visitors can buy items, check their orders, confirm payments, etc.

As the first startup to be invested by the aggressive VC East Ventures, Tokopedia also gain quite a strong traction compared to other competitors like Krazymarket, Juale and Kemana. Their traffic keeps going up and experienced a few spikes every now and then, but most importantly they also claim 5 billion IDR transaction record. Too bad this doesn't necessarily a good thing for Tokopedia since they're not taking a cut out of the transactions made, instead they're preparing to make money from advertisement. I personally find it weird, but hey.. every startup got its own way of thinking.

And now that they're one year old, Tokopedia also decided to drop the beta label form their website, giving their user more  of a trust level with their service. Happy birthday Tokopedia!