Setting sights on Southeast Asia

Global investors have always been drawn to Southeast Asia’s growth story, as one of the world’s fastest developing economies and home to a relatively youthful population of 600 million.

This year’s Asean Summit chair, Indonesia, pitched that the region would continue its role as an epicentre for expansion. Even amid the backdrop of a challenging external environment from the Russia-Ukraine war, to rising inflation and interest rate escalation there is still substance behind the Southeast Asian story.

East Ventures, a venture capital VC firm based in the region, raised a total of $835 million in the past year across various strategies, achieving in May the first...