Wood Waste Turns Profit! UNM Student Startup Secures P2MW 2026 Funding

A team of students from the Digital Business programme at Universitas Nusa Mandiri (UNM), a Digital Business Campus, has successfully secured funding from the Student Entrepreneur Development Programme (P2MW) for 2026 with their venture, Artholic Studio. The team is led by Syafa Nabila Puteri Syam, with members Haibatus Shonya, Mela Octaviani, Kencana Eka Nayla, and Muhammad Syah Reza, under the guidance of lecturer Johan Hendri Prasetyo.

Artholic Studio operates in the creative industry, focusing on custom home decor made from waste wood and Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF) that is reprocessed into high-value decorative products. Their offerings include custom graduation frames, wall art, door decorations, and various personalised decor items tailored to customer needs. Embracing an upcycling concept, the studio transforms underutilised residual materials into aesthetic, functional, and emotionally valuable products, supporting environmental preservation while opening opportunities for sustainable creative economy development.

Fitra Septia Nugraha, Head of the Nusa Mandiri Entrepreneur Center (NEC), praised the team’s national-level achievement. He stated that this success demonstrates the sustainability of the university’s coaching, mentoring, and entrepreneurial ecosystem, which consistently produces innovative and adaptive students ready to create business opportunities in the digital era. He added that the students are increasingly able to identify business opportunities that are not only profit-oriented but also add value for the environment and society, and expressed hope that Artholic Studio’s funding will inspire other students to develop competitive businesses.