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For this edition, we cover:
- A tracker of Southeast Asia’s most prolific angels
- K-beauty’s fight for relevance in India
- Massive tech job cuts at Citigroup in China
Hello reader,
It’s easy to find free investor lists on LinkedIn today. And AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity make it feel like everything is just a prompt away.
But after compiling today’s Big Story on Southeast Asia’s top angel investors, I can say this: Most of the lists you can readily find are far from complete.
Unlike VC deals, which often make headlines, angel investments rarely show up in media reports. I only discovered many of these by digging through Singapore’s company registry – case by case.
Many argue that founders may no longer need endless funding rounds from VCs. With AI, they can raise seed capital, build lean teams and sustainable businesses, and bootstrap the rest. That might make founders seek out angel investors more than ever.
I hope this list, which we’ll keep updating, helps founders connect to potential angels. We’ve also included their full portfolio companies to give you a sense of their investment theses.
Duc Tran, data journalist
Top Stories
1️⃣ Meet Southeast Asia’s top angel investors
Image credit: Timmy Loen
Angel investments are the region’s most opaque funding source. By surfacing the people writing pre-product checks, this list fills an information gap and can help founders zero in on mentors who’ve already built and bet on what comes next.
2️⃣ Glow global, think local: K-beauty’s reality check in India
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