
Profile: BRI Ventures’ Nicko Widjaja

First at MDI Ventures and now at BRI Ventures, Nicko Widjaja has established himself as a pioneer of corporate venture capital in Indonesia. The journey has been long and sometimes bumpy
Nicko Widjaja arrived for the dinner meeting with Telkom Indonesia in April 2014 in poor spirits. Systec Ventures, which he had launched three years earlier, was on its last legs. A generous interpretation...
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