Introducing the Startups Joining GIA Jakarta Batch 12
- 5 days ago
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We’re excited to announce the latest startups joining the Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) Jakarta program, in partnership with Enterprise Singapore.
As startups continue to look towards Southeast Asia for growth opportunities, Jakarta remains a key market for companies seeking regional expansion, strategic partnerships, and deeper engagement with the local innovation ecosystem.
The latest GIA Jakarta cohort brings together startups across biotechnology, regenerative health, AI, and retail innovation as they begin their market expansion journey into Indonesia.
Meet the startups joining GIA Jakarta Batch 12:
1. Biodefense
BioDefense turns food side-streams into high-performance bioproducts that improve freshness, productivity, and margins. By combining circular inputs with field-proven performance, the company helps make sustainability commercially attractive across the food ecosystem.
2. Celligenics
Celligenics is a Singapore-based regenerative biotechnology company developing cell-free secretome technologies for cosmeceutical, therapeutic, veterinary, and longevity applications.
Its proprietary platform harnesses a purified, quality-controlled blend of bioactive factors derived from stem cell research to support regenerative innovation across health, beauty, and wellness sectors. Through scalable manufacturing capabilities and scientific expertise, the company develops commercially viable regenerative solutions for global markets.
3. Fuchsia Retail
Fuchsia Retail is a retail-focused transformation firm serving enterprise brands with expertise in Customer Experience and omni-channel integration.
Over the past 15 years, the company has evolved from a CX consultancy into an AI-led CX partner through its partnership with Talkdesk, enabling automation and agentic CX across channels. Alongside this, its proprietary OmniConnect platform helps retailers connect systems, data, and decisions across increasingly complex omni-channel environments, enabling more intelligent and responsive retail operations.
Through the program, participating startups will gain access to mentorship, market insights, ecosystem connections, and opportunities to engage with corporates and industry stakeholders in Jakarta.
The startups will also be pitching at the upcoming Jakarta Innovation Network Socials on 12 June 2026, from 3PM to 6PM Jakarta time. Learn more about the Jakarta Innovation Network Socials here.
We look forward to supporting these startups as they build connections, explore partnerships, and navigate opportunities within Jakarta’s innovation ecosystem.
About Plug and Play
Plug and Play is the leading innovation platform, connecting startups, corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we're present in 60+ locations across five continents. We offer corporate innovation programs and help our corporate partners in every stage of their innovation journey, from education to execution. We also organize startup acceleration programs and have built an in-house VC to drive innovation across multiple industries where we've invested in hundreds of successful companies including Dropbox, Guardant Health, Honey, Lending Club, N26, PayPal, and Rappi.
Our Asia Pacific headquarters was launched in Singapore in 2010 and we are now present in five cities in Southeast Asia with additional locations in China, Japan, Korea and India. We work closely with both the public and private sector with programs, innovation initiatives and startup investments across the region.
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Find out more about our GIA program here.
