There is a factory in the outskirts of Surabaya that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, burning natural gas to heat ceramic kilns to 1,200 degrees Celsius. It has been doing this since 1987. It will keep doing this until someone brings...
Seventy-nine years after independence, India stands at an inflection point that has no historical parallel: the world’s most populous country, with the world’s third-largest economy, is attempting to decarbonise at a speed and scale that no nation has previously attempted.The Viksit Bharat 2047 framework —...
The Phone Call Nobody Returns Mira had spent four years building a biochar carbon removal system for smallholder farms in Central Java. By 2025, her technology worked. Not in a lab — in the field, across 14 farming cooperatives, with independently verified carbon sequestration data...
Getting to a term sheet is hard. Getting through due diligence is where most deals die — not because founders can’t answer the questions, but because they didn’t know the questions were coming. This isn’t a problem of competence. Most Southeast Asian founders who lose...
Cap table management doesn’t get discussed nearly enough in Southeast Asia’s founder community — until it starts killing rounds. We’ve sat across the table from founders raising Series A and B who had done everything right in their business but had cap tables that made...
Most founders prepare a deck. Few prepare what matters before the deck opens. You spent three weeks on your pitch deck. You rehearsed the delivery. You got the intro. Here’s what we did before your calendar invite even landed: we Googled you. Then we looked...
The smartest LPs you’ve never heard of trimmed their China exposure in late 2024. They didn’t tell anyone. By Q2 2025, three Singapore family offices we work with had quietly re-weighted around 18% of their Asia VC allocation toward what we call the Singapore-India...
Valuation of startups is likely the most significant and yet least recognized aspect of the startup process. Either as an investor looking to invest capital in future companies or as a founder looking to figure out the right price for your business, it’s essential to...
Investing in early-stage companies is a very rewarding but risky endeavor. The prospect of high returns is what lures investors to start-up firms, but this possibility is also accompanied by the risk of loss. The stakes are high, and investors have to be clever, careful,...
With a continually restless market nowadays, small, medium, and large-scale firms alike face their share of threats that strain their financial health and growth potential. Financial crises, market volatility, and economic volatility pose gigantic challenges to newcomers, investors, and veterans alike. Inflation, changing interest rates,...
