Bloomberg: The $290 Billion Fund Helping Make Tiny Singapore an Agricultural Powerhouse
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The Business Times: The Philippines could be South-east Asia’s startup dark horse
Read news: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/asean/philippines-could-be-south-east-asias-startup-dark-horse
Tech in Asia: EFishery could be Indonesia’s next unicorn
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FinanceAsia: Searching for the next big climate tech start-up
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DealStreetAsia: Southeast Asia’s deep techs can hold their own against Silicon Valley firms: Wavemaker Partners
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Conviction & Momentum
“In building a great company or social sector enterprise, there is no single defining action, no grand program, no one killer innovation, no solitary lucky break, no miracle moment. Rather, the process resembles relentlessly pushing a giant, heavy flywheel, turn upon turn, building momentum until a point of breakthrough, and beyond.” – Jim Collins Jim […]
Tech in Asia: From WTF to FTW: Wavemaker on making mistakes and producing exits
Read News: wavemaker-partners-leap-making-mistakes-producing-exits Media, events, and jobs platform for Asia’s tech communities Tech in Asia published a paywalled story on Wavemaker Partners. Here are some highlights from the article: – Wavemaker now has over a hundred investments (and counting!), and seven exits under its belt in Southeast Asia – four of which were made this […]
Q&A on Wavemaker Partners’ third fund with our Managing Partner
In this interview, Managing Partner Paul Santos shares more details about Wavemaker Partners’ third fund and the Southeast Asian market. Wavemaker Partners in SEA primarily invests in B2B and deep tech startups. Wavemaker counts prominent names, such as Pavilion Capital, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Temasek, family offices of the Co-founders of Microsoft (Vulcan) and […]
Lessons from 100 B2B investments: Malaysia and Singapore
Our mission is to create value for our investors by investing in high-potential technology companies and helping them realize their potential. The challenge is that the early-stage companies we invest in are still more potential than reality. We get these questions often: – How does a founder get noticed by and invested in by a […]