Genping Liu

While the price of Bitcoin stagnated in 2025, the structure of the crypto ecosystem matured at a velocity that the charts ignore.
DUE DILIGENCE

2025 was not the year crypto died; it was the year crypto got a job

2026-01-18T08:30:43.000Z
Companies that can deliver reliable, cost-effective solutions with strong local support stand to grow rapidly, without having to fight head-on with TSMC or Samsung on leading-edge process nodes.
DUE DILIGENCE

Look beyond AI hype to find compelling semiconductor investments as supply chains shift

2025-07-20T23:00:00.000Z
When the noise of market exuberance subsides, founders and investors alike can focus on long-term vision rather than chase short-term wins.
DUE DILIGENCE

South-east Asia venture capital hitting the wall in 2024

2024-12-22T09:04:11.000Z
While Singapore is already considered a competitive market, the crowd outside the Chagee store in Singapore shows that even in the ultra-competitive tea industry there is still room to create a unique experience.
DUE DILIGENCE

South-east Asia’s evolving retail trends: upgrading, downgrading, or filling unmet needs?

2024-11-24T09:59:44.000Z
Vertex Ventures' AI model scans thousands of companies from LinkedIn and other sources, analysing their business potential to churn out a curated list of leads for evaluation.
DUE DILIGENCE

What does AI mean for us? A venture capital deal-sourcing case study

2024-10-13T21:00:00.000Z
The current shake up in the crypto markets is not merely a result of diversification away from this risky asset class in a high inflationary and possible recessionary environment. At its core, a fundamental deleveraging of the industry seems to be transpiring.
CRYPTO WATCH

Real world assets will be crypto’s anchor as bottom falls out of speculative leveraging

2022-07-10T21:50:00.000Z
Over US$50 billion was wiped out from Terra stablecoin's ecosystem last month, and over US$400 billion from the overall cryptocurrency market.
CRYPTO WATCH

The Big De-peg: If it looks like a Perpetual Motion Machine, run

2022-06-12T21:50:00.000Z
Bored Ape Yacht Club #4418, one of a set of 10,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) representing cartoon apes, made by the U.S.-based company Yuga Labs is seen in this image created in the digital space, May 1, 2021. Image created May 1, 2021. Property of Nexo/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT
CRYPTO WATCH

Do NFTs have any value at all?

2022-05-08T07:49:11.000Z