eFishery

In April, eFishery’s co-founder and former CEO Gibran Huzaifah admitted to systematically manipulating the company's financial reports since 2018 to attract investors and “survive” a cash crunch.

Lesson from eFishery’s fraud: A wake-up call for Indonesia’s startup ecosystem

This scandal underscores that good governance and transparency are essential – not optional – for country’s startup ecosystem, and key reforms are critically needed

Gibran Huzaifah's CEO pay for select months
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EFISHERY COLLAPSE

EFishery ex-CEO shows salary slips to refute claims of billion-rupiah salary

EFISHERY co-founder and ousted chief executive Gibran Huzaifah has denied media reports saying he received a gross monthly salary of 1.28 billion rupiah (US$77,000) in 2024. 

eFishery set out to revolutionise aquaculture by helping farmers boost production and scale efficiently.

eFishery founder, ex-CEO Gibran Huzaifah addresses fraud scandal for the first time

He believes that the current narrative about eFishery is one-sided, prompting him to speak up

The company, which deploys feeders to fish and shrimp farmers in Indonesia, incurred several hundred million dollars in losses between 2018 and 2024 and misrepresented its financial figures for years.

SoftBank, Temasek among eFishery investors facing near wipeout

The fallen startup had been a star of Indonesia’s startup scene