Sea of Startups
Kevin Brockland CFASea of Startups is a podcast uncovering the real stories behind building, funding, and navigating startup life in Southeast Asia—exploring the messy middle between pitch decks and polished headlines through unfiltered conversations
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 87 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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Ep. 30 - We Called It a Funding Winter. I Think We Built for an Exit That Was Never There.
Singapore just released its report on venture funding for 2025, and almost every write-up reads the same way. Funding winter. Capital’s gone quiet. Hold the line, it’ll come back.
I think that’s the wrong story.
I’ve been sitting with the...
EP 29 - Chatbots to Agents and where Liability Lands
I hopped into a taxi in Bangkok last week and the driver, a man north of fifty, spent the ride telling me what he was building with AI.
Not complaining about the economy. Not asking where I was from. Telling me about his project.
I’ve bee...
Ep. 28 - The Philippines Just Drew a Line With Washington. Malaysia Just Rewrote Its IPO Rules. And the Whole Region Is Doing Something Nobody Is Tracking as One Story.
There’s a version of this week that looks like two unrelated news stories from two different countries.
The Philippines hosted a US Undersecretary of State for a site unveiling. Malaysia’s securities regulator released a public consultatio...
Ep. 27 - Strip Out One Deal and SEA Raised $800M. A Chip Stock Just Got 95x Oversubscribed. And OpenAI Spent $4 Billion Admitting AI Is Hard to Deploy.
There’s a version of this week that looks like a good week for Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem.
The Q1 2026 funding report shows the highest quarterly capital raised since late 2022. Malaysia’s hottest IPO in sixteen years prices and li...
Four Stories That Explain Southeast Asia Right Now
This week’s episode is a news episode. No guests. Just four stories that I think every founder, investor, and operator in Southeast Asia should be paying attention to right now.
Here’s what we cover, and why each one matters.
1...
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Managing Partner at Indelible Ventures, based in Malaysia. Atypical investor more comfortable on the frontier
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