Mohammad Ikhsan is a co-founder and chief product officer of Pahamify. He was in a doctoral program at the National University of Singapore while the idea took shape.
In 2016 he and Syarif Rousyan Fikri launched a science YouTube channel, Hujan Tanda Tanya. It won YouTube NextUp Indonesia in 2017. Its short animated films explained basic science to students.
Pahamify was founded in 2018 as a gamified learning app for high-school students, and the app launched in 2019. The founders had to persuade parents to pay for online tutoring.
In 2020 the company joined Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch. Its users grew about fiftyfold during pandemic remote learning, and in November 2020 it closed a Series A with Shunwei Capital, Insignia Venture Partners and Lien Family Office. The amount was not disclosed.