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Tech news outlets in general love writing about funding news, and can you blame us?
Whether it’s the allure of big names putting large sums into smaller firms, or the type of change and growth that millions of dollars can enable for founders – both professionally and personally – funding usually indicates the potential of a compelling story.
But what about the investors themselves? Obviously, it’s not only the giant headline names who are doing the investing; there are a bunch more who prefer to work on a quieter basis, and doing so doesn’t diminish the impact that they can have.
Today’s premium article explores the active investors in Southeast Asia and India, shedding some light on the overall landscape.
Today we look at:
- A snapshot of the investors in Southeast Asia and India
- Vietnam-based Coc Coc enters the AI realm
- Other newsy highlights such as a crackdown on crypto in Bali and SoftBank’s generative AI push
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With all the attention on the startups, we sometimes tend to think of investors as just VCs and a few angel investors. But there’s much more to that side of the coin, including family offices and sovereign wealth funds.
As with just about any and every topic in life, the context and details matter. We would do well to remember that, even as we tend to generalize things in our busy everyday lives.
Anyway, read on to find out more about the investor landscape in Southeast Asia and India.
- Rankings: Tech in Asia’s data shows that the most active investors there are from Singapore, India, the US, and Indonesia.
- More and less: The number of individual investors investing in Southeast Asia and India has eclipsed the figure for institutional investors. That said, the latter accounts for a much larger amount of investment into startups in the region.
- Paying it forward: Our data also reveals that investors from the fintech and ecommerce sectors, which are relatively more mature verticals, contributed equally to Southeast Asia’s and India’s startup funding ecosystems.
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