Liyana Ismail

Co-founder & COO at Anchor Grid · supply chain, agriculture

Anchor Grid

Jakarta, Indonesia · WIB (UTC+7)

11+ years experience

Melbourne Business School

English, Bahasa Indonesia

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Overview

Building Anchor Grid in Jakarta - agritech. Raised $36 million across 2 rounds. Before that: Coupang and Singtel. Most at home with rural distribution and supply chain. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

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Investors who back our stage and sector
Second opinions on supply chain decisions
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Skills

fintechsupply chainrural distributionagriculture

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closes in 3 months

Series A round open - cold-chain monitoring for manufacturers in Southeast Asia, $7M ARR

Stage: Series A
Raising: $7M
Instrument: Convertible note
Committed so far: $606k from an existing fund
Lead investor: Looking for a lead
Traction: $7M ARR after 6 months
Use of funds: 18 months of runway to Series A milestones

$7M ARR after 6 months. Looking for investors who know AI infrastructure and can help with enterprise sales.

Jakarta, Indonesiaagriculturesupply chainrural distribution

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Experience

Co-founder & COO
Mar 2025 - Present
Anchor Grid · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Jakarta, Indonesia
- Raised $6 million across 2 rounds.
- Took Anchor Grid from zero to $11 million ARR.
- Grew the team to 108 people across 2 countries.
Sales Manager
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Coupang · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Jakarta, Indonesia
- Opened 4 new logos over $5 million ACV in the region.
- Shortened the partnerships sales cycle from 10 months to 5.
Senior Account Executive
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
Singtel · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Jakarta, Indonesia
- Signed 15 channel partners that now source 39% of pipeline.
Partnerships Manager
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
UOB · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Jakarta, Indonesia
- Opened 7 new logos over $5 million ACV in the region.
Enterprise Account Executive
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018
Maybank · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Jakarta, Indonesia
- Signed 30 channel partners that now source 35% of pipeline.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from company

2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling agritech.

Open-source agriculture toolkit

2023

A small library for agritech that 314 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

Melbourne Business School
MBA, Business Administration
2009 - 2011
Seoul National University
BS, Business Administration
2002 - 2006

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