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Kevin Brockland CFA

Real, raw, relatable takes on Southeast Asian startups. One investor, the week's news, no script.

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There is a company in Singapore that has raised close to half a billion US dollars and has never sold a single thing. Not a small amount of revenue. None.

It has a chip. It has a box. It has a founder story, a serious set of engineers, and...

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A salary is not ownership

In 2022, at the Vietnam Venture Summit, forty one funds stood up and pledged one and a half billion dollars for Vietnamese startups. The pledge covered the three years from 2023 to 2025.

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Malaysia does not have a money problem

On the twenty seventh of July, in a bank tower in Petaling Jaya, the Malaysian government announced more than five billion ringgit of financing for Malaysian startups.

It has been a week. I still cannot tell you who is giving it.

Not beca...

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When the bust ends in a courtroom

For a decade, Indonesia was not a story about Southeast Asia. It was the story. Two hundred and eighty million people, most of them young, most of them coming online for the first time with a phone in their hand. Gojek, Tokopedia, a parade...

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Just passing through: how Malaysia keeps funding the people who leave

Over the past few weeks, three Malaysia stories hit the news that, on the surface, have nothing to do with each other. A government pension fund answered in Parliament for nearly RM200 million lost in a fish farming startup that turned out...

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