| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.05.2024 | Unearthing a Digital Solution: Doxa’s Quest to Transform Business Financing | In the heart of Southeast Asia’s bustling business landscape, Edmund Ng embarked on a journey to redefine how companies access crucial financing for growth. When he was a regional technical director at Nufin Data, a Singapore-based fintech ... |
| 08.03.2024 | Investing in Sirius Technologies: Empowering scalable enterprise architecture for financial institutions | Since the advent of fintech, the prevailing narrative has consistently pitted traditional banks against fintech startups.
Banks are often seen as dinosaurs, grappling to adapt to evolving consumer needs. In contrast, fintech players are reg... |
| 07.02.2024 | Our investment in Doxa: Unlocking new growth within the supply chain finance | Most of Southeast Asia’s economy is made up of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which account for nearly half of the region’s GDP. However, many SMEs are still playing catch-up when it comes to going digital.
The construction ind... |
| 28.12.2023 | Southeast Asia Tech Investment Report – 2023 H1 | For the first half of 2023, Southeast Asia saw a 54% year-on-year drop in investment volume to $3.1B, the lowest H1 investment since 2017.
The deal landscape appears to be reversing to levels seen before COVID – and quite possibly to pre-u... |
| 09.05.2023 | Southeast Asia Tech Investment Report – 2022 | Following up on our review of the Southeast Asia tech investment landscape in mid-2022, we’ve taken a look at how the whole year has turned out, based on our database of over 6,000 financing and liquidity events relevant to the region.
Aft... |
| 10.11.2022 | Our investment in FastCo – serving Southeast Asia’s 280 million non-executive workers | What’s the problem?
Job portals and digital employment agencies in Southeast Asia have long been building products and services that cater to executive and permanent contract jobs. On the other hand, non-executive workers still frequently ... |
| 01.11.2022 | Southeast Asia Tech Investment Report – 2022 H1 | The first half of 2022 was a vigorous opening to a tumultuous year in Southeast Asia. For this report, we analysed and verified over 5,500 financing and liquidity events relevant to the region. Total capital invested in 2022 H1 stood at $6.... |
| 26.04.2022 | Southeast Asia Tech Investment Report – 2021 | 2021 saw a record number of deals and the total amount invested. We tracked 942 investments across the region, exceeding the 700 recorded in 2020. Total capital invested, at $14.2B, increased by nearly 70% compared to 2020. A large contribu... |
| 22.03.2022 | iPrice Group Raises $5M From Japanese Conglomerates Itochu Corporation and KDDI Corporation | The capital was raised from Japan-based firms Itochu Corporation and the KDDI Open Innovation Fund III (operated by Global Brain Corporation).
The additional funding will bolster iPrice’s role in finding shoppers the best deals as Southeas... |
| 16.12.2021 | Digital Southeast Asia compared to Latin America Report | Following up on our overview of Southeast Asia tech investment in H1 2021, we teamed up with Momentum Works to take a look at how Southeast Asian digital ecosystem compares to other emerging regions globally, starting with Latin America cou... |
| 27.09.2021 | Southeast Asia Tech Investment Report – 2021 H1 | The first half of 2021 has been an exuberant period for many aspects of Southeast Asia tech investment. Even as COVID-19 cases reached a record high and many countries went into a prolonged economic lockdown, the region tech scene continued... |
| 26.03.2021 | Southeast Asia Tech Investment Report – 2020 | 2020 marked our memories with its extraordinary challenges for individuals, families, and organisations. Yet, it was also a year of fortitude and resilience. From data in the first half of the year, we had expected to see a slowdown in tech... |
| 22.03.2021 | How Did the Pandemic Affect Southeast Asia’s Online Shopping Behaviour in 2020? | Full Map of E-commerce Yearend Report 2020 available HERE
With the global pandemic that turbocharged the acceleration of digitalisation in Southeast Asia, the Southeast Asian e-commerce industry has been showing massive developments as a r... |
| 14.12.2020 | BRI Ventures’ VC fund leads series A round in 500 Startups-backed shoe brand | The VC vehicle was launched in June 2020 and focuses on investing in sectors across education, agro-maritime, retail, transportation, and healthcare.
Brodo, established in 2010, started its business with leather-based footwear and has expa... |
| 19.11.2020 | E-payment solutions might have more market share than Visa and MasterCard, Q&A with 2C2P founder | KrASIA (Kr): What are some new payment trends emerging from the pandemic?
Aung Kyaw Moe (AKM): As we all know, more and more people in Southeast Asia are forced to use technology to continue their jobs and connect virtually, digital paymen... |
| 11.09.2020 | 2020上半年东南亚风险投资报告 | Southeast Asia digital companies continue to attract investors and acquirers from a diverse set of countries in the face of Covid-19 pandemic. One of the countries that have been increasingly active in the region is none other than China. I... |
| 21.08.2020 | Southeast Asia Tech Investment – H1 2020 | With governments and companies in Southeast Asia responding and adapting to the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic for much of the first half of this year, the impact of the pandemic on the region’s technology investment and exit trends ine... |
| 03.03.2020 | Southeast Asia’s Map of E-commerce |
iPrice, Southeast Asia leading e-commerce aggregator and shopping destination, presents 2019 edition of ‘Southeast Asia’s Map of E-commerce’ in collaboration with Similarweb and App Annie. The report draws vital insights on the most popul... |
| 02.03.2020 | Malaysia’s iPrice Group raises $10m Series B led by ACA Investments | The Malaysian startup last raised an undisclosed round from Korean internet giant, Naver, in August 2018. Its other early investors include regional venture capital firms, Cento Ventures and Venturra Capital. iPrice Group seeks to expand be... |
| 02.02.2020 | Southeast Asia Tech Investment – 2019 | Investment Landscape
Some changes have been seen in landscape of technology investment in Southeast Asia in 2019. The total amount we have seen invested in tech companies in the region in 2019 totalled $7.7B. This is noticeably lower than ... |
| 15.11.2019 | The More Niche, the Better,’ Says This Asian VC | Cofounder of Cento Ventures, Dmitry Levit, is originally from Russia, and has lived in over seven cities around the world. His resume includes stints with L’Oreal, Proctor & Gamble, Yahoo!, and IDG Ventures, and at Cento Ventures, found... |
| 07.11.2019 | Pomelo is solving a problem that’s plaguing online shopping | The collapse of fast fashion chain Forever 21, which filed for bankruptcy in the US this September, shook up the retail industry worldwide. Stores have realized that today’s shoppers are of a different breed. Digitally savvy, highly discern... |
| 15.08.2019 | Vietnam Tech Investment – H1 2019 | The rise of Vietnam tech investment
In only 2 years, Vietnam jumped from the second least active startup ecosystem among the 6
largest ASEAN countries into no.3, trailing behind only Indonesia and Singapore. The amount of invested capital... |
| 15.08.2019 | Southeast Asia Tech Investment – H1 2019 | The headline story of Southeast Asia is the sustained investment in technology investment with increasing geography and sector diversification. Close to $6B was invested during the first half of 2019, lower than that of first half of 2018. ... |
| 09.04.2019 | Proptech is changing the face of real estate in Asia Pacific | According to JLL, a property brokerage and consultancy, the total value of investable global commercial real estate is estimated to reach US$65 trillion by the year 2020, with the Asia Pacific (APAC) accounting for over 30 per cent of it.
... |
| 24.01.2019 | Jirnexu raises $11m to be a one-stop shop for buying insurance and financial products | The company reported a 100 percent year-on-year revenue growth for 2017 and expects the same in 2018. Malaysia is the key driver of the company’s current growth, and that’s where most of its services are launched.
“As we scale and launch m... |
| 24.01.2019 | Southeast Asia Tech Investment – 2018 | The headline story of Southeast Asia is the continued growth in technology investment. A record amount of more than $11B was invested during 2018, almost doubling $5.8B invested in 2017. This suggests a healthy and growing interest in the p... |
| 07.05.2018 | Ecommerce aggregator iPrice scores fresh funding in Line-led round | Kuala Lumpur-based iPrice isn’t content with winning just some of that multi-billion-dollar opportunity. It wants every online shopper to pass through one of its price comparison sites before making a purchase.
“In the next few years, onli... |
| 28.11.2017 | Dmitry discussing Southeast Asian investment trends with the SVCA | Thank you for the award, and for recognising the outstanding performance of 2C2P, our portfolio company in question. Having operated in Southeast Asia for the past 6 years, we have given a fair bit of thought to the strategies that make dig... |
| 01.11.2017 | Start Today Ventures Investment in Pomelo – Building Southeast Asia’s leading fast fashion brand | Looking around the world, we observe the creation of new digital fashion retailers with annual revenues in excess of US$100M, e.g. ASOS and Boohoo from the UK, Everlane and Bonobos from the US. In contrast, fashion retail in Southeast Asia ... |
| 06.10.2017 | Announcing our new fund for online fashion startups | Fashion in Southeast Asia is a US$40 billion sector, which is growing rapidly in both the mass-market unbranded segment and higher-end branded segments. Home-grown fashion brands have started to emerge, boosting choice in the market and cre... |
| 06.10.2017 | Introducing Cento Ventures, the new name for Digital Media Partners (DMP) | Our search for a new name has produced ‘Cento Ventures’. ‘Cento’ means one hundred (in Italian), and is part of ‘percent’ (English / Latin). Percentages have great relevance to our day-to-day jobs since they serve as a way to measure growth... |
| 04.10.2017 | How do you raise a Series A from Cento Ventures? | As part of our evaluating any investment, we spend a considerable amount of time looking into:
Market and business model
Market potential is about more than academic approaches to sizing. Identifying a hypothetical need for a technology p... |
| 01.09.2017 | Southeast Asia Tech Investment – H1 2017 | We hope this helps establish a clearer picture of how Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is maturing, where investment is going, and where gaps still remain. We plan to update the report on a regular basis to show how the landscape is changing... |
| 04.06.2017 | Our investment in Jirnexu – solving the distribution of financial services in emerging markets | Across the region, a US$30B market opportunity exists in the distribution of banking and insurance products from traditional financial institutions. In the more developed and affluent parts of Southeast Asia, namely Singapore, Thailand, and... |
