Populix

Market Research
$5.5Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
1open role
$4.3Mlatest round · Series B · Apr 2025 · 18 mo ago
1backers · Quest Ventures

Overview

Populix is an Indonesian research-driven growth consultancy offering market research, consumer insights and data services to businesses, institutions and government agencies in Southeast Asia. It also operates in Singapore and hires a regional director, business development managers and an AI lead for human behaviour simulation. The company is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Funding and backers

Total raised
$5.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$4.3M
Series B · Apr 2025 · 18 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
open roles
Backers
1
Quest Ventures
The money's age
Due for its next round
18 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 15, 2025 Raised a round Series B $4.3M · Marketing-Interactive Apr 29, 2021 Raised a round Seed $1.2M · TechCrunch
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.04%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Apr 2025 $4.3M — Marketing-Interactive
Seed Apr 2021 $1.2M — TechCrunch
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Jobs

≈ $132k – $292k per year (Estimated) · Remote (Singapore) · PhD
Fine-tuning
Reinforcement Learning
NLP
LLM
Machine Learning
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
25/100
Slowing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
40 days
faster than 34% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
25% ▼
Management
25% ▼
Marketing
25% ▼
Operations
25% ▼

Financials

Total raised
$5.5M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2025 $4.3M Details
Seed 2021 $1.2M Details

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Populix over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Developer tools
Adobe Photoshop
AI & ML
LLM
Practices & domains
Fine-tuning
Machine Learning
NLP
Reinforcement Learning
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Connections

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Shared investors1
Quest VenturesVia a fund
78 portfolio companies: Kredivo Group, cofab.co, Maynger and 75 more

News

Press release PRNewswire 1 year ago
Populix Research: Understanding How The Southeast Asian Tigers Plan Their Excursion
/PRNewswire/ -- Nicknamed the Southeast Asian tigers, Singaporeans are known to be a "tenacious hunter". They are disciplined, hardworking, competitive, and...
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News Marketing-Interactive 1 year ago
Populix raises US$4.3m for AI-driven market research expansion
Indonesian technology-driven research company Populix has secured US$4.3 million in the first close of its Series B funding round.
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News Marketing-Interactive 4 years ago
Consumer insights platform Populix bags US$7.7m in funds
Co-founder and CEO Timothy Astandu toldMARKETING-INTERACTIVEthat 15% of the funding will go to marketing.
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News YahooFinance 5 years ago
Indonesian consumer research startup Populix gets $1.2M in pre-Series A funding
Indonesia is one of the fastest-growing consumer markets in the world, but consumer data is still hard to find for many businesses, especially smaller ones. Populix wants to make research easier for companies, through a respondent app that now has 250,000
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News TechCrunch 5 years ago
Indonesian consumer research startup Populix gets $1.2M in pre-Series A funding
Indonesia is one of the fastest-growing consumer markets in the world, but consumer data is still hard to find for many businesses, especially smaller
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Singapore
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Jakarta Indonesia
HQ
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1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
Populix Insights Hub, Graha Pratama Building 20th Floor, Jl. Letjen M.T. Haryono No. KAV 15, RT.11/RW.5, Tebet Barat, Tebet, Jakarta Selatan, 12810, Indonesia
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Singapore Singapore
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
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