Alamat.com, an Indonesia-based online directory that seeks to help consumers find service- and-lifestyle stores, has been acqui-hired by local digitised hawker platform Wahyoo, a DailySocial report said.
The acquisition is more of a strategic in nature, as both share the same vision: to provide tech solutions to offline businesses.
As per this report, Alamat’s site and apps are no longer accessible, which suggests the deal is already closed.
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Wahyoo representatives declined to comment on the matter. However, as per their LinkedIn profiles, Alamat’s Co-founders Daniel Cahyadi and Michael Diharja took up the roles of COO and CTO of Wahyoo, respectively, since September 2019.
Wahyoo said that its vision is to introduce and socialise the “new retail” concept, giving a digital touch to hawker food sellers. It seeks to help all hawker food sellers to get easy access to bulks from FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) brands.
The firm claims that it has helped around 35,000 offline business owners to go online so far.
“For 2020, we strive to focus more on product innovation, enhance the existing features on our app to help hawker sellers, strengthen partnership with strategic partners such as telecommunication company, finance institutions, online transportation, startups that supply raw materials, and others,” Wahyoo CEO Peter Shearer said.
Wahyoo is an East Ventures portfolio.
According to an article by Bisnis.com, Alamat.com is Alamat.com a SMEs directory and lifestyle O2O service platform that showcases reviews, rankings, and available promotions of the business. It also used to facilitate payment with digital wallet Go-Pay.
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