Scraplr close to getting seed funding from East Ventures
Indonesia-based startup Scraplr has almost completed a seed funding round from Singapore’s East Ventures, said Fares Farhan, one of Scraplr’s founders.
“There is no legal binding (agreement) yet. But we have no objection to [East Venture's] proposition as well. So if there’s no bump ahead, I’ll inform you once the deal is finalised,” Fares wrote in an e-mail response to us.
Dailysocial had earlier reported that the team behind Scraplr, a task management web application, had received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from East Ventures. The report was later updated to say that the two parties had no legal agreement in place yet.
Scraplr was the sole Indonesian representative at the echelon 2010 Launchpad session.
Scraplr’s twist on the GTD app genre is by adding a social dimension to task management. It gets users to encourage each other to complete tasks by including a scoring and rewards system. It’s got a slick UI and also sends to-do reminders by e-mail, Facebook, SMS and Twitter.
East Ventures has three investments in Indonesia. It has seed investments in Urbanesia, a Jakarta directory and lifestyle portal, and Tokopedia, an online marketplace. It is also vested in mobile app developer Apps Foundry. The fund has four partners, including Batara Eto, the former CTO and a co-founder of Japanese social networking giant Mixi.
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