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JumpStart Indonesia
JumpStart Indonesia is a Jakarta-based automated retail company that operates the country's largest network of smart, AI-enabled vending machines. Founded in 2018 by CEO Brian Imawan as a single self-serve coffee machine, it has grown into a broad smart-retail platform - coffee bars, snack and merchandise vending, beverage-capsule dispensers, ice cream and gamified machines - with more than 6,500 units across Indonesia. The machines run on cashless, contactless payments and use software to track sales and manage stock, positioning JumpStart as a distribution channel connecting global brands, especially from Japan, with Indonesian consumers.
Yili Wu
Yili Wu is the founder and CEO of SandStar (formerly YI Tunnel), a computer-vision company that turns ordinary shops, shelves and vending machines into checkout-free, self-analyzing retail. A first-generation graduate of Tsinghua University's School of Software, he spent roughly eight years selling enterprise software at Oracle and IBM before betting that brick-and-mortar retail could be digitized the way e-commerce already had been. He founded the company in 2016, sold his first big contracts top-down to Fortune 500 headquarters in the US and Europe, and grew SandStar into a business operating across a dozen countries with dual bases in Beijing and Charlotte, North Carolina.