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TNGlobal Tracker: Southeast Asia (SEA) monthly funding snapshot – September 2025
The SEA Monthly Funding Tracker for September 2025 reflected a sharp rebound in funding across the region. Total funding for the month stood at $230.6 million across 10 rounds, marking a 125.64 percent increase month-on-month (August 2025: $102.2 million) and a 58.72 percent rise year-on-year compared to September 2024 ($145.3 million).
Malaysia’s KWAP launches Malaysia’s first climate-focused investment fund with target deployment of $470M
Malaysia's Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan) [KWAP] has officially launched Dana Iklim+, Malaysia’s first climate-focused investment fund with a target deployment of MYR 2 billion ($470 million), marking a significant step forward in advancing the nation’s sustainable finance agenda。
Southeast Asia FinTech startups funding falls 39 percent on year in first nine months – Tracxn
Southeast Asia’s FinTech sector raised a total of $839 million in the first nine months of 2025, marking a 39 percent decline compared to $1.4 billion a year ago and a 56 percent drop compared to $1.9 billion in nine months period of 2023, Tracxn said Thursday.
Singlife partners Salesforce to launch AI agent for customer service executives
Singapore homegrown financial services company Singlife announced Tuesday its collaboration with Salesforce, the world’s artificial intelligence (AI) customer relationship management (CRM) platform, to launch an AI agent for Singlife’s customer service executives.
AI agents are gaining momentum in Singapore, but employees want clear boundaries – Workday
Workday, Inc., the global artificial intelligence (AI) platform, has on Wednesday released new global research that shows that while AI agents are gaining ground in the workplace in Singapore, employees still want clear boundaries.
AMD unveils rack-scale platform based on ORW introduced by Meta
American technology firm AMD has showcased a static display of its “Helios”, a rack scale platform which is developed based on the new Open Rack Wide (ORW) specification, introduced by Meta.
Maxis partners Google Cloud for gen AI-powered conversational in-app assistant
Malaysian telecommunication firm Maxis has on Wednesday introduced Miya (Maxis Intelligence, Your Assistant), making it the first telco in Malaysia to launch a generative artificial intelligence (gen AI)-powered conversational in-app assistant in collaboration with Google Cloud.
Vietnam’s e-commerce sector shows highest optimism in SEA despite facing region’s toughest regulatory hurdles – Blackbox
Vietnam’s e-commerce market is demonstrating the highest growth optimism in Southeast Asia, even as it navigates the region's most significant regulatory challenges, a new report by Blackbox Research revealed on Wednesday.
MRC and MGTC seal strategic partnership to accelerate net zero transition in Malaysia’s rubber industry
The Malaysian Rubber Council (MRC) and the Malaysian Green Technology and Climate Change Corporation (MGTC) have on Wednesday formalized a strategic partnership through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate net zero transition in Malaysia's rubber industry.
Oracle and AMD expand partnership to help customers achieve next-generation AI scale
US's technology firms Oracle and AMD have announced a major expansion of their long-standing, multi-generation collaboration to help customers significantly scale their AI capabilities and initiatives.
