venture capital (VC)

(July 15): Wavemaker Partners LLC, an early-stage venture capital firm, has closed its third investment fund for Southeast Asia at US$111 million ($154.6 million).

SINGAPORE (May 22): Big-name start-ups such as Grab and Uber have been forced to cut jobs as they come under strain following the Covid-19 outbreak.

SINGAPORE (Dec 9): Traditionally conservative institutional investors such as pension funds are now exploring allocating a larger portion of their assets to alternative investments such as hedge fu

SINGAPORE (Oct 21): The euphoria surrounding the so-called Phase 1 of what promises to be a long-drawn-out multi-pronged trade deal between two of the world’s largest economies, the US and China, d

SINGAPORE (Sept 30): Amid frothy valuations for start-ups and scepticism about their profit and growth projections, venture capital (VC) deal flows in Southeast Asia have slowed from the year befor

SINGAPORE (Aug 19): Days after a survey by the World Economic Forum suggests that scarcely any youthful Singaporean wants to be an entrepreneur, another study seems to suggest otherwise.

SINGAPORE (July 11): The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is working with the financial industry to create a healthy investment ecosystem and achieve three objectives.

DUBAI (Oct 23): Vertex Ventures, the venture capital arm of Temasek Holdings Pte, said it made an investment in digital asset trading platform operator Binance to develop a fiat-to-cryptocurrency e

SINGAPORE (July 9): Total private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) deal value in Southeast Asia hit a historic high of US$21.9 billion ($29.7 billion) over 19 deals in 1Q18, significantly up fr

SINGAPORE (June 5): Singapore stands poised to connect global investors to the region, as Asia’s dynamism and growth look set to be the defining investment theme over the next decade, says Ravi Men