110 investors in 274 investments worth $2.2b in total Below are some snapshots from my research on the State of South East Asia (SEA) Technology Startup Ecosystem 2016 publish on 7 Feb 2017. The full insights is available on Slideshare here. In one section of this research, we dived deep…

Since I came back to Malaysia, I have had the privilege to speak to many different people in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. Startup founders, startup employees, incubator/accelerator CEO, aspiring entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone who cared to discuss with me about venture funding in the SEA startup scene. I learnt a great…

I crunched some data from Pitchbook and Crunchbase on the SEA funding. Only startups that have been backed by angels, seed fund, incubators/accelerators and venture capital are included in my analysis. The following are my findings and views on the landscape in 2016: Number of deals in SEA dropped by…

In an effort to understand the SEA startup funding ecosystem in 2016, I crunched though some data today and below are two slides of my findings: Where the money comes from: Most active investors in 2016 are still mostly non-SEA based fund Increase in number of early stage funding in B2C FinTech solutions and AI/ML…

I have been spending some time reading about the technology ecosystem in Malaysia from many different aspects. It’s fair to say Malaysian tech entrepreneurship ecosystem is still quite nascent compared to other countries. Historically, we can broadly bucket most of the successful Malaysian entrepreneurs into two categories. First group of…

In the past, my personal growth came from two different phases: high school and college & university. The former cemented my mental strength to deal with various emotions and the latter opened up my mind with many thought-provoking perspectives and experiences. As I stepped into, what I believe will be…