Kopi Kenangan is profitable now, but its CEO thinks his pitfall was ‘too much funding’ at the start

Kopi Kenangan, one of Indonesia’s largest and fastest-growing coffee chains, clocked a milestone recently: its first full-year profit, for the year ended Dec 31, 2025.

“The biggest problem in South-east Asia startups is that founders are over-resourced, not under-resourced,” says Kopi Kenangan co-founder and CEO Edward Tirtanata.

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