GO-JEK opens its engineering facility in Bengaluru

After acquiring two Indian startups—Bangalore-based Pianta and Pune-based Leftshift, Indonesian unicorn GO-JEK has now opened its engineering facility in India that will also serve as its headquarters in the country. Situated in the heart of Bengaluru city, this facility will also become the training center for hundreds of GO-JEK engineers both from Indonesia and India, to support GO-JEK in building on its initial success as the largest on-demand application of choice for all Indonesians.

Speaking on the occasion of the office opening, Nadiem Makarim, Founder and CEO, GO-JEK said, “We are pleased to announce the opening of this new engineering facility in Bengaluru as it will continue to drive our culture of collaboration and passion for innovation as we look to grow from strength to strength in every vertical that we operate in Indonesia. This will help us to continue and improve the daily lives of more than 250,000 motorcycle and car driver partners, more than 35,000 GO-FOOD merchants whose businesses we helped grow and more than 3,000 service providers on our other on-demand services.”

As engineering facility, the India headquarters will also serve as a training center for GO-JEK engineers both from Indonesia and India. “We have been seeing how collaboration and knowledge-sharing between our engineers in Indonesia and India have helped to accelerate our product innovation, mining data and crafting consumer experiences for GO-JEK. We are excited to see how our engineers will continue to help GO-JEK to create larger impacts for people,” said Nadiem.

Launched in January 2015, GO-JEK is the first Indonesian mobile platform that touches across socio-economic classes and verticals at a high transaction frequency that includes transportation, food delivery, same-day delivery, grocery shopping, household cleaning, beauty and health and ticket sales. It is estimated to connect millions of customers to more than 200,000 of motorcycle and car driver partners, more than 35,000 food merchants, and more than 3,000 service providers.

In August 2016, GO-JEK had raised over $550 million in a new round of funding led by KKR and Warburg Pincus LLC, the largest ever for an Indonesian technology start-up.