ANGEL INNOVATION HACKATHON 2024, The Inaugural Event of the PEIAB ANGEL UII Flagship Program

In order to realize the vision of an Entrepreneurial University, the ANGEL Innovation and Business Acceleration Ecosystem Center (PEIAB) under the auspices of DPPK/UII Growth Hub opens opportunities for all levels of society who have an interest and competence in business planning to join as co-founders in the startup business pioneered by the UII academic community through Growth Academy activities entitled “ANGEL INNOVATION HACKATHON 2024” Accelerating Green Innovation & Impact.

This event is the first event of a series of flagship programs initiated by PEIAB ANGEL UII with the theme of green innovation in response to climate change issues that are increasingly real and become a serious challenge for every country, including Indonesia. Thus, businesses involved in the “ANGEL INNOVATION HACKATHON 2024” event are offers of business lines that are oriented towards sustainability.

The Growth Academy program is a bridge that connects innovators with co-founders to collaborate in creating solutions that can have a real impact on green innovation.

The series of Growth Academy activities was held on 2 separate days, namely Monday and Wednesday, December 2 and 4, 2024 and was attended by 4 innovators and 22 prospective co-founder participants divided into 5 teams. Some of the business categories that are members of this program are green economy, blue economy, digital economy, health beauty & wellness, agriculture & aquaculture, technology & manufacture, and creative industry.

The first day was a presentation session on startup business innovations by innovators as well as the formation of a team of co-founders who worked together in the formulation of business plans. Then the next day was a presentation session of business proposals from 5 teams formed and a growth academy awarding session and the signing of a memorandum of agreement by the parties involved. 

There are 3 business proposals that have successfully received funding from this program. Among them, the GEN EMAS team with the Bio-EOF startup business, the Banyu Mili Enterprise team with the LIMASKU startup business, and the Tiati team with the RS Pro G startup business.

With this program, it is hoped that UII can become a pillar that is able to contribute to efforts to realize a sustainable business ecosystem and participate in regulating environmental problems through collaboration with other important pillars.