Section
Founders
Long, unhurried profiles of the operators shaping the region's next decade.
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Founders Essay
Late-stage SEA funding is up 140 percent in 2026. Seed is down 50.
Late-stage funding in Southeast Asia surged 140 percent in 2026; seed-stage funding fell by half over the same period. The two figures describe one ecosystem, and the description is unkind.
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Founders Essay
The most-funded founders are not the most-watched ones.
Funding measures one thing about a company. Whether the company is worth studying is a different question. The answers have stopped overlapping in Southeast Asia.
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Founders Essay
Singapore now funds 92 percent of regional startups.
The number reads like a triumph for Singapore's industrial policy. Read more closely, it is the visible measurement of a regional ecosystem that has narrowed under pressure, with Jakarta dropping to eight percent.