venture capital (VC)

Venture capital firms, incubators and accelerators are seeking new ways to attract start-ups

The Singapore-based firm exceeded its initial target of US$100 million, drawing new investor Concentric Equity Partners along with existing backers including Temasek Holdings Pte, Pavilion Capital, International Finance Corp. and Vulcan Capital.

Startups are finding funding more difficult to come by amid Covid-19, but should they be receiving funds in the first place?

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 funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate and infr

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, did not last long. A week after Beijing and Washington ag

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 before. Even so, industry players are observing a trend of “f

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 exchange in Singapore.

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 from 26 deals worth US$687 million a year ago.