Aldi Adrian Hartanto on Overcoming Family Challenges, Indonesia VC Partner & Passion to Succeed - E70

Aldi is the Partner at Arise, an early stage fund initiative by MDI Ventures and Finch Capital with a mission to empower the 3rd Generation of Entrepreneurs in the post-pandemic era who's building a R.A.B.B.I.T. (Real Actual Business Building Interesting Tech) through his Backward Investment Thesis which is powered by multi corporations and venture funds backers.

 

He is also the VP of Investments at MDI Ventures, an $830 Million AUM Global Multi-Fund VC Firm investing in local founders, mainly backed by Telkom Indonesia. Aldi is leading the overall global investment activities with focus on seed-to-growth equity stage startups across 5 Funds and 3 Offices (ID, SG, USA) with portfolios that represent 12+ Countries including PayFazz, Waresix, Kredivo, MPL, aCommerce, SiCepat, ObserveIT (Exited to Proofpoint), Wavecell (Exited to 8x8), Red Dot Payment (Exited to PayU Naspers), Whispir (IPO at ASX), and Geniee (IPO at TSE).

 

Prior to MDI Ventures, he was in charge of setting up, leading, executing, and managing investments of a Silicon Valley based Venture Capital firm in the SEA region and #1 Fintech focused VC arm of Indonesia largest Corporate Lender with top SEA portfolio which includes Alodokter, Investree, Koinworks, Amartha, Bridestory (Exited to Tokopedia), Moka (Exited to Gojek), Urbanindo (Exited to 99.co) Jurnal (Exited to Mekari), Talenta (Exited to Mekari), and Cashlez (IPO at IDX).

 

Recently, Aldi was awarded as the only GCV Powerlist Top 100 from SEA region among other top global CVCs such as Softbank, Intel Capital, GV, M12, Naspers, Tencent Investment, and Alibaba Innovation Ventures.

 

If you are an aspiring 3rd Generation of founders who is interested to build R.A.B.B.I.T and looking for a highly strategic and agile partner in Indonesia to crack its US$ multi-billions Digital Market opportunities, don't hesitate to reach him out - aldi.hartanto@mdi.vc

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This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.