ideabox Won Stevie Awards in New Products & Services: Telecommunications - Product category as a Silver Winner

The Stevie® Awards are the world's premier business awards. They were created in 2002 to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals worldwide. In short order the Stevie has become one of the world's most coveted prizes.

This year, the awards were presented to winners during a gala event on Friday, 5 June in Shanghai, China. Ideabox (Indosat) got a privilege to receive a Stevie Award in New Products & Services: Telecommunications - Product category as a Silver winner, together with Hutchison Global Communications Limited, Hong Kong as a Gold winner.

Stevie Award judges include many of the world's most respected executives, entrepreneurs, innovators, and business educators. Each of our awards programs harnesses the insights and talents of more than 200 judges every year. 22 nations may submit entries to the Asia-Pacific Stevie® Awards.

Grand Stevie Award trophies were presented to the organization that won the most awards overall in the 2015 competition, and to the highest-rated nomination from the four nations that submitted the most nominations.

“We’re very grateful received 2 International Awards in the same times. We never satisfied what we’ve achieved, we always keep maintain and doing improvement of quality of programs. Since we launched we’ve graduated 11 startups, two of them has closed the deal with Series A and all the companies has partnership with Indosat. The key for startup to be successful is requires a collaborations from stake holders. Ideabox is partnerships among big players in Industry, Mountain SEA Ventures who has portfolio in 200 companies across the world, Indosat with over 60mio customer base of cellular market and Founder Institute with over than 100 mentors from all over the worlds. This strong partnerships is bringing up startup to higher exposure into market, potential partnership and investors”, said Prashant Gokarn, Chief of Strategy And Planning Officer PT. Indosat.” “After they graduated, some of them are collocating with our office for 1-2 month or so, working closely with us to integrate their apps with our systems to launch product bundled with Indosat.”

More list of Stevie Awards winners: http://asia.stevieawards.com/2015-stevie-winners

About Ideabox

Ideabox is a tech business incubator powered by Indosat in partnership with Kejora and supported by Ooredoo Group.We focus our investments on early stage startups related to telecommunication, media and technology sectors.We run 120 days acceleration program to bring startups from ideas to awesome product.

About Stevie Awards

Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevie Awards recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide.