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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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Seed is booming. Not here.

Let me describe a company to you. Real revenue. Customers who pay every month, on time. A product that works and a team that ships. By every standard that mattered three years ago, this is a fundable company. Three years ago it raises a Ser...

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Twelve doors out: Southeast Asia's exits are back, and the buyers are flying in

There are two ways out of a company in Southeast Asia.

One of them is loud. On 20 October, GCash will ring the bell at the Philippine Stock Exchange in the biggest listing that country has ever done. Cornerstone investors with names like B...

12 days ago
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Count who gets paid: the least glamorous AI money in Southeast Asia

Somebody is going to stand on a stage in Singapore this month and tell you two things. Southeast Asia now has more than 60 profitable tech startups. And the region is in the middle of a $4 billion AI boom.

Both numbers are true. Both are a...

19 days ago
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Exposing the AI panic: who actually profits?

This week a guy who, as far as anyone can tell, had never posted anything in his life put up a thread about artificial intelligence and got 170 million eyeballs on it in five days.

A former Anthropic employee, or so the byline says. Within...

a month ago
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The tourists went home: who is actually left to fund Southeast Asia

Last week one of the firms that taught this region what seed capital even looks like quietly admitted that it will not raise another Southeast Asia fund.

500 Global showed up in KL, in Jakarta, in Bangkok more than a decade ago, when hones...

a month ago
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