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Business NewsBuilt In Crisis: Why Some Companies Learn to Thrive In Uncertainty
While crises derail many established businesses, they can also teach young companies how to adapt and thrive. The real challenge is turning early survival lessons into a lasting advantage. -
Business NewsSingapore’s S$150 Mn AI Materials Bet Faces the Factory Test
MARVEL-AI can speed up some experiments by hundreds of times. Whether it creates commercially viable companies will depend on what happens after discovery in terms of ownership, validation and manufacturing. -
Business NewsAsian Achievers Awards winners in a glittering ceremony with business leaders and celebrities in London
Business leaders and celebrities gathered in London for the 24th Asian Achievers Awards, honouring British Asian achievement in business.
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Business NewsFingular Secures $20 Mn Private Credit Line as Malaysia Tightens Lending Rules
The Silverstreak facility takes financing secured for Fingular’s Malaysian lending operations beyond $50 Mn, as the fintech expands its consumer and SME loan book under a new regulatory framework. -
Business NewsEnterprise Singapore and Lenovo Back Deeptech Start-ups’ Journey From R&D to Revenue
The Singapore initiative will connect start-ups developing AI, robotics and advanced materials technologies with Lenovo’s global research teams and enterprise customers, offering a route from prototypes to commercial deployment. -
Business NewsEquinix Weighs Malaysia Fundraising as Johor Data Centre Investments Accelerate
The US-listed digital infrastructure operator is reportedly exploring a minority stake sale in its Johor facility as it expands its Malaysian footprint to serve growing cloud, AI and enterprise demand. -
Business NewsSingapore’s One Aged Care Expands Into Home Care as Asia’s Silver Economy Grows
As Singapore turns super-aged, TPG’s eldercare platform is betting that more of the region’s care will happen at home, not just in nursing homes. -
Business NewsStryv Raises $11.5 Mn to Build Consumer Brand Group Beyond Grooming
The ACV Capital-led Series B will fund expansion into Taiwan, growth in Malaysia and Hong Kong and further acquisitions as the Singapore company moves into home wellness. -
Business NewsInside Anthropic’s NASDAQ IPO as Revenue Soars and Compute Bills Stretch to 2045
The GenAI company’s landmark filing shows a 14-fold revenue surge and its first quarterly operating profit, set against an $80.75 Bn net loss driven mainly by valuation-linked accounting charges. The prospectus sets up a high-stakes test of whether volatile enterprise demand can sustain decades of infrastructure commitments at a company its founders control. -
Business NewsSoftBank Talks AI With Malaysia but Stops Short of $50 Bn Commitment
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says Masayoshi Son has identified Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia for major technology investments, but the Japanese group has yet to confirm the proposed amount or financing arrangements. -
Business NewsThe Takeover Twist: Warburg Pincus Sidelined, but a Rival A$2.2 Bn Bid Puts Ingenia’s Peet Deal at Risk
AVID Property Group’s higher cash offer bought it a six-week head start over Warburg Pincus, but Ingenia’s board must still decide whether a sale beats its A$992.5 Mn bet on Peet. -
Business NewsSingapore’s Ailytics Raises $7.4 Mn to Take CCTV Safety AI to Japan, the US and the Gulf
The Singapore start-up’s AI runs on cameras that industrial sites already have, cutting the need for new hardware. Its new Japanese investor, Safie, sells a version of that AI to construction and manufacturing sites in Japan. -
Business NewsHe Sold a Genetics Company. Now He Wants to Put a Skyscraper in Your Pocket.
Real estate is worth $393 trillion — more than every share, bond and bar of gold on earth combined — and almost no one is allowed to buy it in pieces. Entrepreneur-investor Avi Itzcovich, who built and sold a genetic-testing company and backed an artificial-intelligence business through to exit, believes blockchain tokenisation will finally break the world’s largest asset class into units anyone can own. He is building the venture to prove it. -
Business NewsCarro Sets Up S$450 Mn Securitisation Facility, Turning Car Loans into Institutional Capital
The digital marketplace is turning its car loans into a bankable asset, giving its lending arm a funding line that does not depend on new equity as it weighs a public listing. -
Business NewsThailand’s Betagro Takes Majority Stake in Freshket to Expand Food Distribution and Enter New Segments
Betagro is taking control of a loss-making platform with THB 2.3 Bn in sales, betting its supply and logistics can make Freshket’s ingredient deliveries pay. -
Business NewsCarDekho SEA’s Finsso Secures TENCO Investment to Expand Philippine Auto Lending
The family behind Motortrade’s motorcycle loans is now backing a used-car lender built on CarDekho SEA’s marketplaces. -
Business NewsAI Bubble Fears Mount as DayOne Weighs IPO Cut, Firmus Turns to Nvidia
Singapore’s DayOne is weighing a smaller or deferred U.S. listing, and Australia’s Firmus is in talks with Nvidia for fresh funding after pulling its IPO. A rout in data-centre stocks is testing how far investors will finance AI’s infrastructure ambitions. -
Business NewsGCash Parent Mynt Edges Below IPO Price after a Record $967 Mn Listing
Mynt’s shares slipped below their offer price on the second day of trading, while a brokerage urged investors to wait for fresh earnings before backing the Philippines’ largest-ever IPO at a $7 Bn valuation. -
Business NewsTemasek Backs EQT’s European Tech Fund as Commitments Cross €3 Bn
The Singapore investment group joins the European Commission and major institutional investors in financing technology companies seeking capital to expand without leaving Europe. -
Business NewsPhilippine Fintech Salmon Secures $140 Mn to Expand Lending, Six Months After a $100 Mn Round
The latest financing combines $90 Mn in investor commitments with $50 Mn in bond proceeds as Salmon prepares to introduce motorcycle and small-business loans nationwide. -
Business NewsIngenia Extends Warburg’s Takeover Talks to October 23, Opens Books for Due Diligence
The Australian property group has given the U.S. buyout firm broader access to its records but has not declared its A$2.14 Bn proposal superior to the planned Peet acquisition. -
Business NewsSingapore’s Blue Whale Energy Raises $4 Mn to Ease Grid Constraints on Data Centre Growth
Blue Whale is betting that batteries at neighbouring businesses can free up grid capacity for Singapore’s data centres sooner than network upgrades can. -
Business NewsSea Ltd Plans Monee IPO as Its Fintech Loan Book Reaches $11.1 Bn
Monee now earns nearly a third of Sea’s adjusted EBITDA, and a listing would let investors value the fast-growing lender on its own. -
Business NewsMi Material’s S$215 Mn Singapore IPO Tests the Value of the Malaysian Semiconductor Spin-Off
The SGX listing values Mi Technovation’s materials business at S$891 Mn after profits surged, but investors must weigh its advanced packaging ambitions against customer concentration, capital spending and semiconductor cycles. -
Business NewsAsia Pacific Service Firms Have an AI Opportunity in Their Operating History
Established service businesses may have records worth assessing for AI data licensing, and their advisors can open the conversation. -
Business NewsThe Buyout Battle: Warburg Asks Ingenia to Judge Its A$2.14 Bn Bid Against the Peet Deal
With the price capped, Warburg wants Ingenia’s board to weigh a potential cash exit against the Peet acquisition whose land-lease conversion earnings are not expected until FY29 or FY30. -
Business NewsParallel Loop Raises $6.6 Mn to Help Companies Move Past Off-the-Shelf AI
With close to nine in 10 AI-using Singapore firms still relying on off-the-shelf tools, investors are backing a startup that embeds engineers inside companies, provided the model can scale like software. -
Business NewsAntares Raises Over $50 Mn as Family Offices Back Deeptech Fund
The Singapore VC has deployed about $27 Mn across nine companies as it raises its first institutional fund towards a $100 Mn target, giving family offices access to energy, infrastructure and industrial technologies through a specialist manager. -
Business NewsBig Caring’s Planned $600 Mn Float Will Test Malaysia’s Pharmacy Consolidation Boom
PE firm Creador is starting to monetise a pharmacy bet that grew from 12 stores into Malaysia’s market leader. Big Caring must now show that organic growth and stronger margins can carry the business after years of acquisition-led expansion. -
Business NewsMalaysia’s VentureTECH Backs Hanan’s Move into Biosimilar Insulin, AgriData’s Smallholder Bet
The state-backed investor is supporting two companies trying to shift where they make their profits. -
Business NewsBeyond Wealth Preservation: Why Family Offices Must Rethink Governance and Succession
Managing investments is only half the battle. As wealth transitions between generations, its long-term continuity depends on whether successors are prepared, decision-making responsibilities are clear, and the knowledge behind the family’s success is carried forward. -
Business NewsVertex Backs Drylab AI’s $3 Mn Push to Take Agents Deeper into Scientific Research
The Singapore startup is betting that the next valuable AI agent will not simply assist scientists but will execute larger parts of computational research while keeping sensitive data inside an organisation’s infrastructure. -
Business NewsNEU Raises $7.6 Mn to Make Lithium Battery Recycling Pay
The Singapore cleantech company has opened a 1,300-tonne-a-year recycling plant as it attempts to solve a cost problem that has made one of the world’s fastest-growing battery technologies difficult to recycle profitably. -
Business NewsJoin Once, Stay for a Decade: Inside Singapore’s Best Workplace in Executive Recruitment — The Firm That Puts People First
In 23 years, through every downturn, it has never retrenched a consultant. This is the story of how one idea — Returning the Human to Resourcing — built the firm the region’s best recruiters choose, and keep choosing. -
Business NewsDayOne’s $3.7 Bn Johor Loan Puts Its AI Expansion Economics to the Test
DayOne doubles its Johor financing to $7.3 Bn ahead of a US IPO, as heavy spending and customer concentration put its growth model to the test. -
Business NewsTemasek’s Seviora Bet: Can Scale Win the Private Capital Race?
Temasek merges Azalea, SeaTown and Seviora Capital into one platform from January 2027 to win outside capital in a tough fundraising market. -
Business NewsWhere the Buck Stops: Singapore Holds Financial Firms Accountable for the AI They Build & Buy
Unlike the latest model-risk guidance from U.S. bank regulators, MAS’s rules cover GenAI and AI agents and make boards answer for systems their own staff didn’t design. -
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Mynt’s $844 Mn IPO Puts ASEAN’s Fintech Exit Market to the Test
With nearly 80% of the offer comprising existing shares, GCash’s parent is delivering a major liquidity event while raising fresh capital for lending. Its $7 Bn valuation will test whether public investors are ready to pay for the next phase of digital finance. -
Business NewsManus Raises Over $500 Mn After Meta Split, Tests $4 Bn Valuation Ambitions
The Singapore-based AI agent developer secured institutional backing from Boyu, IDG, Tencent and others to fund its independent roadmap after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its acquisition. -
Business NewsThe AI Reality Check: What APAC Founders Can Learn from Firmus Grid’s Aborted $5 Bn IPO
The aborted IPO exposes the widening gap between AI infrastructure ambitions and public market expectations, providing APAC founders with insights into valuations, execution risks and the cost of capital. -
Business NewsEndeavor Catalyst Closes $320 Mn Fund V, Steps Up Asia Investment Focus
The oversubscribed fund brings assets under management above $850 Mn as the global VC investor expands its reach into emerging startup markets, with Singapore anchoring its regional operations. -
Business NewsPE-Backed V-Key Takes Majority Stake in CloudsineAI to Expand Agentic AI Security
The acquisition extends the Singapore firm’s digital identity business into cybersecurity for autonomous AI systems as enterprises confront new risks from machine-led transactions. -
Business NewsMacquarie Capital Invests in Singapore’s Zerra DC to Back Its 2 GW APAC Expansion
The corporate advisory and principal investment arm of Australia’s Macquarie Group has acquired an equity stake in the Singapore-headquartered developer, targeting surging demand for AI and cloud computing infrastructure across major APAC markets. -
Business NewsWinning at Home is Not Enough in Southeast Asia
In this conversation with Entrepreneur APAC, Golden Gate Ventures founding partner Vincent Lauria shares what works for cross-border fintechs in Southeast Asia. A Silicon Valley entrepreneur-turned-VC with global exposure, he says the harder reality is that capital often does not travel across regions, even when companies do. -
Business NewsCapital Vs Code: HSBC Puts $13.6 Bn in Hong Kong; Global AI Hub Goes to Singapore
HSBC has doubled down on Hong Kong with a $13.6 Bn Hang Seng commitment, while assigning Singapore a global AI mandate spanning wealth, treasury and payments, underscoring how the bank is dividing capital and future-facing capabilities between its two key Asian hubs. -
Business NewsGIC Tests Next Leg of Japan Software Bet as WHI Owners Explore $3.2 Bn Exit
The Singapore sovereign investor took joint control of WHI with Bain in 2023, betting that cloud migration could extend the growth of an already established HR software leader. -
Business NewsFirmus Tests IPO Investors With a $30.6 Bn Bet on ASEAN AI Demand
OpenAI and Meta contracts anchor Australia’s second-largest listing, but execution risks loom as five of the infrastructure provider’s seven “AI factories” remain under development. -
Business NewsSingapore’s DayOne Heads for NASDAQ as Malaysia Drives 87% of Its Revenue
The data centre operator’s first public filing shows explosive growth, improving adjusted EBITDA margins and a business increasingly built around Malaysia, along with $4.9 Bn of debt and heavy reliance on one customer. -
Business NewsJULO Raises Fresh Funding as Indonesia’s Digital Lending Risk Climbs
An investment arm of Saratoga and returning backers are adding capital as the industry’s 90-day default rate rises to 4.73%, sharpening the test of JULO’s underwriting-led growth. -
Business NewsA Malaysian Auto-Parts Maker Tests a Blueprint to Back a Profit-First Debut Venture Fund
New Hoong Fatt proceeds without state co-investment to anchor Cypress Asia’s profit-driven fund, with an effective committee veto to check investment decisions. -
Business NewsOneByZero Raises $20 Mn as Enterprise AI Moves From Pilots to Production
Its first external round, led by Jungle Ventures, puts more than twice the region’s median Series A behind the difficult business of making AI work inside large enterprises. -
Business NewsKV Asia Sells Indonesia’s Victoria Care Stake Back to Founding Family in $70 Mn Exit
The controlling shareholder paid about twice KV Asia’s 2021 price to reclaim the stake, backing a premium push even as profits fell. -
Business NewsMeta Names Dhruv Vohra to Lead Southeast Asia Business After Devanathan’s Exit
The Singapore-based executive will lead Meta’s advertising teams in six ASEAN markets as the company bets on AI and messaging for growth, weeks after its India and Southeast Asia chief left for OpenAI