Covid
🪓☠️ Covid-19: Southeast Asia tech layoffs and shutdowns
Here’s a list, regularly updated, of tech startup layoffs and shutdowns amid the Covid–19 pandemic. It’s not an exhaustive list, and it doesn’t reflect other troubling trends such…
January 5, 2021
Venture Capital,News,Singapore
Velocity Ventures launches $20M fund for SEA startups in travel and hospitality industry
Acknowledging the expansive impact COVID-19 has brought upon Southeast Asia’s tourism sector, Velocity Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Singapore that specializes in the…
December 5, 2020
SuperSeed II Championship heats up as only 16 teams remain
In partnership with Sixteen Malaysian startups were chosen on Tuesday to go through to the next phase of the SuperSeed II Championship, a competition held for local early-stage…
August 26, 2020
Shopee is now an $8 billion juggernaut
Southeast Asian internet giant Sea—the company behind Shopee and Garena—has a lot of record highs in its latest financial report, which covers April to June and was released…
August 19, 2020
So Singapore is in recession. Here’s why startups shouldn’t despair
Singapore’s virus-hit economic slump is even worse than many feared, with new figures this morning confirming an historically massive 12.6% drop in gross domestic product (GDP).…
July 14, 2020
No more at-home massages for you as Gojek adapts to new normal
Southeast Asia's Gojek said in an internal memo today that it’s firing 430 people—about 9% of its total workforce—as it shutters two of its app-based services, according to…
June 24, 2020
Singapore invites startups to apply to $205m Covid crisis fund
The $205 million Covid–19 crisis fund for startups announced in Singapore’s May budget went into action over the weekend. It’s designed to bridge the financing gap they…
June 8, 2020
‘The show must go on’: Gobi launches online championship for Malaysia startups
Southeast Asia venture capital firm Gobi Partners is trying something new and somewhat unusual to ensure it can still discover fresh startups across Malaysia to invest in during…
May 15, 2020
Temasek participates in US’s EV battery maker ONE $300M funding
February 3, 2023
Grab appoints Adelene Foo as Managing Director of Grab Malaysia
February 3, 2023
Temasek participates in US’s EV battery maker ONE $300M funding
February 3, 2023
Grab appoints Adelene Foo as Managing Director of Grab Malaysia
February 3, 2023