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Southeast Asia has already shown it can produce breakthrough companies. The next challenge is producing companies that endure. By improving how ventures are designed, governed, and led, the region can build an innovation ecosystem that isn’t defined by cycles—but by resilience.

Animoca Brands, a Hong Kong-based digital assets firm, announced Tuesday that it has entered into a term sheet with GROW Investment Group (GROW), a China-based investment and asset management platform backed by Julius Baer.

Malaysia-based Capital A has announced the departure of Aireen Omar, marking the conclusion of her remarkable 20-year career driving innovation, growth and digital transformation across the group’s aviation and technology businesses.

Malaysia-based Yinson GreenTech has appointed Louisa Rachel Brady as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Yinson GreenTech, effective January 1, 2026.

Halogen Capital Sdn Bhd, a Malaysia-based licensed digital asset fund manager, announced Monday the successful completion of its $3.2 million funding round, with Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad, Malaysia’s independent investment bank, as the lead investor, alongside 500 Global, a global venture capital firm, and other investors.

Salesforce, the global artificial intelligence (AI) customer relationship management (CRM), announced Monday that University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) is adopting Agentforce, the digital labor platform that enables businesses to transform into Agentic Enterprises, to enhance student experience during the university applications process.

Vietnam's information technology (IT) services provider FPT has signed a memorandum of understanding with Mishima Kosan Co., Ltd., a Japanese manufacturer, to advance a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI)-powered manufacturing platform and strengthen digital innovation across the sector.

Malaysia’s communications regulator said on Monday it will deem internet messaging and social media service providers with eight million or more users in the country as registered licensees under its Applications Service Provider Class framework, easing formal licensing requirements under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.

Shizen Energy Inc. announced Monday that the project company SM 01 Sdn. Bhd. has achieved financial close for the 29.99 megawatt (MW) solar power project under Malaysia’s Corporate Green Power Program (CGPP) and signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google.

Vietnam, one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing digital markets, is seeing its e-commerce seller economy expand at breakneck speed, driven by a young, digitally fluent generation of entrepreneurs - but the ecosystem supporting them is struggling to keep pace, according to a new study by leading consumer research firm Milieu Insight.