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The CÈ company index.
120 companies, 1024 mentions across the deal ticker, market intel and the essays — most covered first. Each page is the running file on one name.
Microsoft
Can a Manila call desk get live call transcripts for US$0.54 an hour from Microsoft?
Google
Picked one vendor and moved fast? Nadiem Makarim did too, and a court just gave him nine years
Alibaba
An hour of live interpretation for US$1.54: Alibaba's new translator lags 2.3 seconds behind the speaker
Anthropic
Still paying someone to click through portals and forms? OpenAI's new model does it for a fifth of the price
Nvidia
DeepSeek’s Huawei chip bet broke R2, so why did Liang Wenfeng just order 160,000 more Ascend chips?
OpenAI
Still paying someone to click through portals and forms? OpenAI's new model does it for a fifth of the price
Monetary Authority of Singapore
Regulatory clarity is the product now: BitGo's APAC client base tripled since its Singapore licence
Temasek
Vietnam's gene-testing lab gets Temasek money: Vertex said to lead US$40M for Gene Solutions
Meta
The clinic front desk goes to software: Singapore's Zeya Health buys WhatsApp booking startup ConnectLah
Bank Indonesia
Bank Indonesia zeroed the QR fee on sales under US$5.60, so which shops still pay 0.7%?
ByteDance
20 million followers, a US$96,000 course, a frozen bank account: the fall of China’s all-in guru
Tencent
20 million followers, a US$96,000 course, a frozen bank account: the fall of China’s all-in guru
Grab
Anthony Tan controls Grab on votes, not shares. He just spent US$1.49 billion buying Atome.
Hugging Face
Stop paying frontier prices to read a receipt: 100 GRPO steps fix a 350M model's JSON
Sea Ltd
Garena's profits built Shopee, so why is Shopee now the one funding Forrest Li's next bet?
Amazon
Amazon's US$6 billion Malaysia cloud plan gets its land: US$75M for a Sunsuria plot in Sepang
Ant Group
Ant International deepens its Indonesia bet: 300,000-merchant DOKU becomes 'DOKU by Antom'
Zhipu
MIT weights land half a point behind Claude Opus: GLM-5.3-Flash costs $0.15 per million tokens
DeepSeek
DeepSeek’s Huawei chip bet broke R2, so why did Liang Wenfeng just order 160,000 more Ascend chips?
Moonshot AI
Washington banned the chips. Chinese labs rent them in Thailand instead.
DayOne
A US$77 million half-year loss, so why does Singapore's DayOne file for Nasdaq now?
OCBC
Chinese firms entering ASEAN rose 50 percent: OCBC extends its Bank of Ningbo stake ten years
UOB
Compute is now financed like a power plant: Indonesia's Zankore raises $3.1B in bank debt
GoTo
Picked one vendor and moved fast? Nadiem Makarim did too, and a court just gave him nine years
DBS
Why is CapitaLand buying US$62 million of Singapore small-business loans from IFS Capital?
Huawei
DeepSeek’s Huawei chip bet broke R2, so why did Liang Wenfeng just order 160,000 more Ascend chips?
Salesforce
Two weeks to train a support hire, not four: Singlife's agent sorts the inbox first
Vingroup
A Jakarta driver rents the bike for US$2.40 a day: Vietnam's Green SM brings VinFast e-motorbikes
AMD
The AI chip bottleneck moves to Singapore: Powertech takes 30% of a $5.66B packaging venture
Apple
CATL spent US$6 billion on a nickel mine. Then 150,000 people ordered a BYD with no nickel.
Atlassian
Harry Stebbings turned 2,750 podcast interviews into a US$400m fund.
Danantara
Indonesia's sovereign fund would rather own the buses than subsidise them: Danantara offers VKTR Rp2 trillion
Indosat
Indosat and Arsari launched RAIA Grid on 26 August with a footprint Indosat already owned
Lazada
Garena's profits built Shopee, so why is Shopee now the one funding Forrest Li's next bet?
MiniMax
A five-minute song now costs a GPU, not a studio: MiniMax opens Music3's weights
Keppel
Singapore could drop to two big mobile networks: StarHub is in talks to buy M1 from Keppel
Maybank
Twenty-five years in, the foreign partner cashes out: Maybank pays Ageas US$1.3B for full control
BYD
Wang Chuanfu built BYD to make its own parts. Why did that habit cost a fifth of profit?
Entomal
Malaysian biotech Entomal scales Black Soldier Fly waste conversion, wins Petronas climate grants
GCash
Priced a third below its ceiling: GCash owner Mynt's US$840 million IPO opens to retail
ST Telemedia
Southeast Asia's compute landlord changes hands: KKR and Singtel close on STT GDC at $10.9B
Vertex Ventures
Vietnam's gene-testing lab gets Temasek money: Vertex said to lead US$40M for Gene Solutions
Arm Holdings
Betting the house again? Masayoshi Son borrowed US$11.87 billion this week to avoid selling a single OpenAI share
Baidu
Kling AI sits in Beijing. Its round is 68% of Southeast Asia's AI year.
Bank Negara Malaysia
Fed hike odds went 35 to 57 percent in an afternoon. Your loan still floats.
Economic Development Board
Selling to Asia now means hiring in Asia: Klaviyo staffs a Singapore HQ toward 175
Granite Asia
A port operator turns startup investor: PSA and Granite Asia launch a US$50M supply-chain fund
KKR
Refused a bigger stake, KKR sold all of it: US$410M ends six years in First Gen
Meituan
Indonesia will set food and courier delivery fees by decree in September.
Singtel
Data centres outran the cables: Gulf and Singtel commit to a three-country subsea link by 2030
SoftBank
Anthony Tan controls Grab on votes, not shares. He just spent US$1.49 billion buying Atome.
SpaceX
Vietnam's connectivity gap now has a price list: Starlink opens at $43 a month
Tokopedia
Garena's profits built Shopee, so why is Shopee now the one funding Forrest Li's next bet?
Unitree
Who actually buys a humanoid? China took 97% of H1 shipments, 19,100 units
Atome
Anthony Tan controls Grab on votes, not shares. He just spent US$1.49 billion buying Atome.
Bain Capital
Grade A warehouse rent in Ho Chi Minh City runs about US$5.30 a metre. One founder paid herself as if she already owed triple that.
Blackstone
Grade A warehouse rent in Ho Chi Minh City runs about US$5.30 a metre. One founder paid herself as if she already owed triple that.
ComfortDelGro
Singapore's ComfortDelGro wins a $2.7B contract to run the Copenhagen Metro
Khazanah
Khazanah pays up to 30% of a VC's raise: Jelawang backs Superscrypt and TNB Aura
Telkom Indonesia
Trusted the founder’s numbers? Four Jakarta venture executives went to prison for the US$25 million they never checked.
xAI
US$0.10 an hour: what it now costs to type out a day of customer calls
AirTrunk
Malaysia's data-centre boom needed lenders, not landlords: AirTrunk raises $2.33B for 420MW in Johor
Ajaib
Singapore fintech raised US$499 million in six months. One June round was two-thirds of it.
BeLive
BeLive’s founder on the pivot, the takeover, and the number he skipped
CapitaLand
Why is CapitaLand buying US$62 million of Singapore small-business loans from IFS Capital?
CATL
CATL spent US$6 billion on a nickel mine. Then 150,000 people ordered a BYD with no nickel.
Coinbase
Coinbase halves its AI bill by defaulting engineers to Chinese open models
Databricks
Betting Asia's AI moves past the pilot: Databricks puts US$350M into Singapore
East Ventures
New money has stopped pricing Indonesian logistics up: Waresix raises $27.4M below its last mark
Equinix
Twenty bidders, four winners: Singapore rations 200 MW of data-centre power on Jurong Island
foodpanda
Can a chatbot find a Singapore stall? foodpanda now serves live listings inside ChatGPT and Claude
Foxconn
Vietnam gets the packaging step now, not just the assembly: Foxconn's ShunSin adds $65M
Manus
Beijing can unwind a Singapore company's exit: Manus AI leaves Meta, $2B deal reversed
Mistral
Document intake shrinks to 4.6GB: Cohere's Parse 5 scores 79.2 against Mistral OCR 4's 74.5
OpenMinds
When to split co-founder equity: weeks in — not day one, not months
Oppstar
Assembly built the ringgit, but who designs the chip? Malaysia hands Arm tokens to five firms
Petronas
Malaysian biotech Entomal scales Black Soldier Fly waste conversion, wins Petronas climate grants
Sahabat-AI
Ooredoo bought 49 percent of Zankore for US$800 million. Indonesia supplies the power.
Sembcorp
Eighteen months of waiting, then nothing: Sembcorp walks from a US$82M Philippine solar farm
Souper Tang
Every rebrand has a physical floor. Souper Tang's is 2,500 sq ft.
Tesla
Entering VinFast's home market on US$3M: Tesla registers a Vietnam sales arm
Thinking Machines
Manila built the AI delivery bench Singapore needed: Temus takes a stake in Thinking Machines
TSMC
Beijing Will Not Wall Off Its AI (Even Now That It Leads)
Wavemaker
Backing startups is too slow for the climate clock: 100x100 raises $100M to build 50
Zankore
Compute is now financed like a power plant: Indonesia's Zankore raises $3.1B in bank debt
500 Global
The region stops being its own asset class: 500 Global will not raise another Southeast Asia fund
AirAsia
Vietjet's Thai flights still run 88% full, so why do fares cost up to 25% more?
Airwallex
One company took 70% of the money: SEA's 12 top payment firms raised $2.7 billion
Alphaswift
Assembly built the ringgit, but who designs the chip? Malaysia hands Arm tokens to five firms
ASML
The export ban has a shelf life: a Shanghai firm starts mass-producing immersion DUV tools
Ayala
Global infrastructure money is chasing Philippine cold chain: A.P. Moller takes 40% of Ayala's AC Logistics
Bank Rakyat Indonesia
Trusted the founder’s numbers? Four Jakarta venture executives went to prison for the US$25 million they never checked.
Canva
Harry Stebbings turned 2,750 podcast interviews into a US$400m fund.
Carousell
The region stops being its own asset class: 500 Global will not raise another Southeast Asia fund
CIMB
Malaysian banks are funding Singapore's compute overflow: STT GDC raises $1.37B for a 166MW Johor campus
Digital Realty
Twenty bidders, four winners: Singapore rations 200 MW of data-centre power on Jurong Island
EQT
Which Indonesian business is worth US$1 billion? A 58-year-old flavour ingredients supplier
FPT
The outsourcer became the acquirer: Vietnam's FPT takes over a Japanese carmaker's Polish engineering team
GDS
A US$77 million half-year loss, so why does Singapore's DayOne file for Nasdaq now?
GIC
Singapore's sovereign fund becomes an AI landlord: GIC and Macquarie build Theseus for Anthropic
Gobi Partners
Heat is what limits an AI chip: Malaysia's nanoSkunkWorkX raises $2M for graphene-copper films
Jollibee
Highlands Coffee's founder already owned 40%, so why pay US$88 million for 11% more?
Jungle Ventures
AI that stalls after the pilot is a business: Singapore's OneByZero raises a US$20M Series A
Lightspeed
AI was supposed to replace accountants; Singapore's Multiplier raises $35M to buy their firms instead
Nium
When does a business day end? Visa and Nium test seven-day stablecoin settlement under MAS BLOOM
Northstar
Indosat and Arsari launched RAIA Grid on 26 August with a footprint Indosat already owned
Novo Nordisk
Semaglutide slowed four epigenetic clocks in a randomised trial, and left a fifth unmoved
Openspace Ventures
Vietnam's café boom goes venture-scale: Every Half pours an $8M Series A from Openspace and DSG
Pertamina
Diesel rose Rp4,000 a litre on 1 September: Pertamina's Dexlite now costs Indonesian fleets Rp23,700
Samsung
Phones earned $67.8B and returned almost nothing: Samsung's chip division took 97% of the profit
Sequoia
Singapore's state investor went shopping one layer below the GPU: EDBI joins Lumilens' $700M round
SK Hynix
China just made a chipmaker its most valuable company. It is three years behind where the war is.
StarHub
StarHub paid US$82 million for MyRepublic's broadband, so why buy its mobile arm too?
Stripe
When the agent pays, whose rails clear it? DBS and Stripe build for $24T of Asian flows
Thunes
Singapore's Thunes goes where banks won't: payouts open to Syria, Lebanon, South Yemen and three more
VNG
A hyperscale plot becomes an e-sports campus: STT GDC exits Ho Chi Minh City for $18.3M
WeWork
Betting the house again? Masayoshi Son borrowed US$11.87 billion this week to avoid selling a single OpenAI share
Xendit
Two of SEA's payment gateways just became one: Indonesia's Xendit integrates the Philippines' Dragonpay
Xiaomi
Video editors got good, the scoring did not: Xiaomi opens PROVE and a 180-video benchmark
Zig
Gojek routes GoTaxi bookings onto ComfortDelGro's Zig fleet in Singapore