Venture capital

Singapore remains Asia’s private-markets hub, but regional rivals are catching up: panellists

2026-09-28T10:29:49.000Z
Asia-Pacific venture capital returned 6.7% in Q2, making it the region’s best-performing private-capital strategy in MSCI’s quarterly snapshot.

Venture capital leads Asia-Pacific private-market returns in Q2: MSCI

2026-09-28T01:00:00.000Z
Traditional giants in consulting services, such as Accenture, are losing ground to AI pilots; but how the AI is deployed will be key.
DUE DILIGENCE

Who gets ahead in the enterprise consulting business with AI now in the game?

2026-09-21T09:12:34.000Z
Polymarket plans to raise US$1 billion, including around US$300 million from 1789 Capital, Donald Trump Jr’s venture capital firm.

Donald Trump Jr’s venture capital firm leads US$1 billion funding round for Polymarket

2026-09-01T01:49:29.000Z
Singapore-based Beam Mobility tops the list, having raised about US$135 million since it was founded in 2018. It merged with Neuron Mobility in Sep 2025 to form one of the region’s top shared e-scooter operators.

South-east Asia’s top EV startups draw US$622 million in funding since 2016: report

2026-08-24T08:42:54.000Z
The overall volume of Asia-Pacific mergers and acquisitions rose 33% year on year to cross US$1 trillion in 2025, according to Mergermarket.

Asia is becoming a self-supporting AI ecosystem. Western firms are missing out

2026-08-03T23:00:00.000Z
Funding for consumer startups has dropped from a high of US$6 billion in 2022 to US$580 million as of the first half of 2026.

AI fever leaves South-east Asia’s consumer startups fighting for attention

2026-07-31T07:24:28.000Z
Geopolitics weigh heavily on the minds of Apac investors, with 47% saying it affects their private markets allocation decisions.

Apac investors cool on venture capital despite returns topping global private markets in 2025

2026-07-12T23:00:00.000Z
Singapore remains attractive to top research and entrepreneurial talent, says DPM Gan.

EDB Global Founder Programme raises over US$2 billion in VC funding

2026-07-08T03:12:07.000Z
Koh Boon Hwee says humans have accepted that robots can take over the most repetitive, manual tasks, but are nervous about AI, which can also think.

With AI, it’s not about coding better; workers need to think better: Koh Boon Hwee

2026-06-29T07:45:00.000Z