SK Innovation E&S Selects Six AI and Energy Startup Teams in Indonesia
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- 2026-11-13 16:41:55
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- 2026-11-13 16:41:55
[Financial News] SK Innovation E&S will select six young startup teams in AI and energy in Indonesia and provide follow-up support. About 300 teams applied to this year’s startup support program, and the selected teams will receive startup training and opportunities to attract investment over about a year.
SK Innovation E&S said on the 13th that it had held the ‘MAJU:ON Hackathon,’ a university startup idea competition, in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the 11th and 12th.
MAJU:ON is an Indonesian youth startup support program launched last year by SK Innovation E&S together with Korean ESG solutions company UD Impact. Last year, 220 teams applied in the energy and environment fields, and three teams were selected. This year, the number of applicant teams rose to about 300 with the addition of the artificial intelligence transformation (AX) field.
Thirty university startup teams took part in the hackathon and presented business ideas related to developing AI agents, automating work, improving energy efficiency, and distributed energy. The organizers assessed business feasibility, team capabilities and other factors, and selected three teams each in the AX and energy fields.
The top prize in the AX category went to the Orbitani team, which proposed a platform that uses AI to analyze satellite data and other information and recommend crops suited to local and soil characteristics. In the energy category, the top prize went to the Little Mermaids team, which proposed a system that uses environmental information at different depths—including water temperature, salinity and oxygen levels—to automatically adjust shellfish farm locations.
Over about the next year, the six selected teams will be offered training in entrepreneurship, management and AI, as well as opportunities to interact with Indonesian government officials and energy-sector experts. A program to help connect them with venture capital (VC) investors will also be provided.
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