Venture -Capital -Fundraising in Southeast Asia has be keen In recent years when some investors wonder when the “winter” will be over. Venture financing in Southeast Asian technology companies fell by 79%between 2022 and 2024. According to CNBC Citing Tracxn data.
Helen Wong, managing partner of AC Ventures, said that Green Shootings can be seen and that “the best companies on Tuesday in a panel at the Fortune Brainstorm Ai Singapore Conference can record in a panel on a panel.
However, the discussion showed an underlying feeling of urgency that the region remains and the mature markets had to obtain.
“There is an enormous opportunity for a lot of much more specific, highly differentiated visions that could possibly be billion dollar companies,” said Matthew Graham, managing partner Ryze Labs, but you have to be “about the 19th LLM”.
Jixun Foo, Senior Managing Partner at Granite Asia, said that Southeast Asia had remained in the introduction of new technology, but Deepseek democratized access to AI and enables further applications to be built up. Nevertheless, Granite Asia is waiting to “see the confluence of talents and market campaigns, and then we will start investing”.
Foo also fears that companies will be retained by their own legacies and risk disorders by AI inhabitants. “The technology companies are becoming more traditional in view of the AI,” he said.
Ren Yeong SNG, Managing Director, Strategy for Artificial Intelligence and Solutions at Temasek, said it was important to “invest in the bottlenecks” that become more cheaper as a technology. For example, the agents -KI containerization, persistent memory and persistent identity needs to be able to work. “Whenever startups come to us with such problems, you will talk about a bottleneck that we believe that it will be very unique,” he said. “We have to look at that,” he added.
According to Graham, the founders in Southeast Asia should concentrate on their “superfans” who need their product. He said many companies “try to find their first 1 million users before finding their first three”.