Meet Batch 8 of Grab Ventures Velocity, Grab’s impactful startup accelerator

Grab Ventures Velocity (GVV) Team

. September 1, 2025 . Regional

Grab Ventures Velocity (GVV), our impactful annual startup accelerator, is back for its 8th batch. The theme—Driving a Sustainable Future: Helping MSMEs to Adopt Greener Operations—builds on Grab’s long-term commitment to support profitability, environmental responsibility, and social impact—the triple bottom line approach.

This year, five promising Indonesian startups are joining the journey from kick-off in August to graduation in November 2025. We’ve selected startups in two key areas, Renewable Energy and Circular Economy. Throughout the course of the programme, we want these mission-driven founders to find ways to apply their environmentally friendly solutions to a wide range of businesses connected to Grab’s ecosystem.

Meet the Batch 8 startups

Casion: Compact charging stations for EV adoption

Kevin Pudjiadi, CEO & Co-Founder

Casion supports Indonesia’s fast-growing micro-mobility and logistics sectors by deploying cost-efficient AC and DC charging stations. With strong local partnerships and a data-driven rollout strategy, Casion accelerates the shift to clean electric mobility.

Jejakin: Carbon tracking and offset solutions

Arfan Arlanda, CEO & Founder

Jejakin empowers businesses and communities to take measurable climate action through its platforms—CarbonIQ, CarbonAtlas, and CarbonSpace—integrating AI, IoT, and grassroots partnerships for ecosystem restoration and climate resilience.

Liberty Society: ESG-driven merchandise and empowerment

Tamara Soerijo, CEO

Liberty Society is a B Corp social enterprise that transforms corporate waste into eco-friendly goods and experiences. By upcycling and empowering marginalized women, they help companies meet ESG goals while creating impact.

Rekosistem: Tech-powered waste transformation

Ernest Layman, CEO & Co-Founder

Rekosistem advances the circular economy through waste pickup, traceability, and awareness campaigns, helping consumers, businesses, and waste workers turn waste into valuable resources.

Sirsak: Meeting Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) targets

Angeline Callista, CEO & Co-Founder

Sirsak helps businesses collect, track, and recycle packaging waste. With 150+ collection points, partnerships with FMCG brands, recyclers, and communities, Sirsak is reducing packaging waste and improving livelihoods.

The highlight: pilot phase

The most exciting part of GVV’s programme is the pilot phase. Each startup will get the chance to test their ideas directly in Grab’s ecosystem—whether with merchants, drivers, or even Grab for Business clients—supported by Grab’s internal teams. This hands-on collaboration helps startups validate solutions in real market conditions and accelerate adoption.

What’s new in GVV this year

Startups across Southeast Asia, especially those in ESG fields, face many hurdles. They must find access to funding and mentorship, develop sustainable growth strategies, and deal with a market that is still immature when it comes to the adoption of socially and environmentally aware products.

GVV helps bridge these gaps.

Each year, we refine the program to make it more impactful. For Batch 8, we’re excited to partner with an even bigger group of partners, including our supporting partners, Superbank and Genesis Alternative Ventures, who are giving the startups opportunities to explore strategic partnerships and receive guidance throughout the programme

We’re also working with four VC partners, Alpha JWC, BRI Ventures, East Ventures, and Trihill Capital, to offer Batch 8 participants guidance and support, including the opportunity to pitch their startups and explore potential investment opportunities.

Leveraging its strong network and reputation as a trusted ecosystem enabler, our organizing partner, Endeavor Indonesia, plays a central role in the programme, identifying the best founders through a rigorous multi-layered selection process, curating mentors and speakers tailored to each startup’s needs and growth potential, and driving the successful execution of the programme. Last not but least, GVV’s media partner, Tech in Asia, offers the participating startups a chance to present themselves to a wider audience.

Together, these partners will provide guidance, connections, and opportunities for startups to improve and scale their innovations, even long after the GVV programme is concluded.

A legacy of impact

Over the past eight years, GVV has supported 40 alumni startups, with more than 85 per cent still operating today—a survival rate above global averages. Some have been acquired, others have secured new funding, and all have contributed valuable lessons to Indonesia’s innovation landscape.

At Grab, we believe in the immense potential of Indonesian founders to drive meaningful change. With Batch 8, we’re doubling down on our commitment to sustainable business, environmental responsibility, and social impact—because building the future means making it greener and more inclusive.

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