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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.

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 leaders and celebrities gathered in London for the 24th Asian Achievers Awards, honouring British Asian achievement in business.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The family behind Motortrade’s motorcycle loans is now backing a used-car lender built on CarDekho SEA’s marketplaces.

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.

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.

The Singapore investment group joins the European Commission and major institutional investors in financing technology companies seeking capital to expand without leaving Europe.

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.

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.

Blue Whale is betting that batteries at neighbouring businesses can free up grid capacity for Singapore’s data centres sooner than network upgrades can.

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.

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.

Established service businesses may have records worth assessing for AI data licensing, and their advisors can open the conversation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The state-backed investor is supporting two companies trying to shift where they make their profits.