Southeast Asia Venture Capital News

January 16, 2025

MAKA Motors Debuts the MAKA Cavalry: Designed by Indonesians, for Indonesians

MAKA Motors, Indonesia’s electric motorcycle company, has just launched its first locally built model, the MAKA Cavalry last week. Built specifically for Indonesian riders, the MAKA Cavalry redefines the riding experience by combining sustainability, performance, and style.

November 19, 2024

Openspace Announces Final Close of OSV IV

November 6, 2024

Ampd Energy Raises An Oversubscribed $27.3M Funding Co-Led by Openspace and Kibo Invest

Ampd Energy, an innovator and manufacturer of battery energy storage system (ESS) has closed an oversubscribed $27.3 million in Series B founding round to further expand its decarbonization efforts.

October 31, 2024

Fano Wins 2024 Emerging Enterprise Award by The Business Times and OCBC

Fano, formerly known as Fano Labs, has been awarded 2024 Emerging Enterprise Award jointly organzied by The Business Times and OCBC.

October 28, 2024

Openspace Wins APAC Industry DEI Award 2024 from 100 Women in Finance

Openspace is proud to announce that we have received the APAC Industry DEI Award from 100 Women in Finance, recognizing our effort to promoting diversity and building an inclusive environment.

October 21, 2024

CopilotIQ and Biofourmis Merge to Create the First End-to-End Platform for AI-driven In-Home Care

Merger establishes a category of one company that can deliver in-home care from pre-surgery, to acute, post-acute, and chronic care

October 7, 2024

Broom Raises US$25 in Series A+ Led by Openspace to Accelerate Indonesia’s Automotive Sector

Broom recently secured US$25 million in series A+ funding round led by Openspace to push forward its vision of modernizing the used car market in Indonesia.

September 19, 2024

Lista and TransUnion Partner: Making Credit Scoring More Accessible

Lista has partnered with TransUnion to make credit report more accessible for Filipinos.

April 11, 2022

Openspace congratulates Gojek (GoTo) on their successful IPO 🚀

Having led the Series A for Gojek back in 2014, we are so thrilled to see GoTo Group go public today, with a successful first day of trading. 🚀

March 16, 2022

Datature raises US$2.7m from Openspace, aims to become a leading end-to-end no-code MLOps platform

The fundraising follows impressive early traction as Datature quickly establishes itself as one of the most exciting new end-to-end no-code MLOps platforms. Designed from the ground up, Datature’s full suite of solutions provides teams with the ability to annotate, augment, train and deploy computer vision models all without a single line of code.

March 14, 2022

SariSuki raises from Openspace, expands into quick commerce

SariSuki, a fast growing social commerce startup, is expanding into quick commerce with a vision to build an end-to-end eGrocery platform in the Philippines.

March 11, 2022

Ocular by Openspace announces investment into STEPN, a move-to-earn NFT game

‍We are excited to announce that recently, Ocular, the new Web3 focused investment fund managed by Openspace made an investment into STEPN, a move-to-earn NFT game built on Solana.

January 21, 2022

Openspace welcomes Omesh Fabiani and Johan Batubara

Today, we have a big pair of announcements: welcome to Omesh Fabiani and also to Johan Batubara–our newest additions to the senior team. Omesh joins as our Chief Financial Officer, and Johan as Executive Director, Indonesia.

January 4, 2022

Philippines Rising: The New Startup Hotspot in 2022

Openspace recently spoke with The Ken about the opportunity we've long recognised in the Philippines, and how that led us to build on our portfolio in the country, and lead the Series A in Kumu, whose rapid growth has served as a signal to overseas investors that the country is full of entrepreneurial zest and emergent startups.

December 21, 2021

Jessica Huang Pouleur Announced as General Partner

We are thrilled to announce the promotion of Jessica Huang Pouleur to General Partner. She is the first to join co-founders Shane Chesson and Hian Goh, who have led the firm since 2014

November 30, 2021

Kumu: not content with just content

An article from our friends at The Ken on Kumu and its growth strategies.

March 8, 2024

Openspace and IWD 2024 - “Inspiring Inclusion”

Each year on the 8th of March, we see from around the world and within Southeast Asia, how we steadily close the gender gap in traditionally male-dominated fields

November 2, 2023

Meet the Team: Trang Vi

Meet Trang, our investment team member steering the ship through the dynamic waters of the Vietnamese market.

October 18, 2023

The Craft Revisited: Daniel Levin on Negotiation

Today, we are revisiting a previous episode of “The Craft” with Daniel Levin on Negotiation.

July 27, 2023

Recommendation: On Strategy Showcase Podcast (Liquid Death: the water brand that thinks like a beer)

June 29, 2023

Thought Leadership: Freddie at the Maker Lab Marketing Panel (The Art of Storytelling: How to Make Your Brand Stand Out?)

September 9, 2024

Openspace Sustainability Progress Report 2023

Awareness of ESG issues has grown significantly but translating this into real, deliberate action has been slow. To highlight how we are moving from awareness to action, we are pleased to release our 4th annual Sustainability Progress Report

October 3, 2023

Nano: How Earned Wage Access is Improving Employee Financial Wellbeing in Vietnam

The report was conducted in early 2023 by Center for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP), a non-profit centre established by Temasek Trust to advance the impact investing ecosystem in Asia

August 30, 2023

Reaping the Regional Dividend: The Southeast Asia Coalesce Index

Openspace and Stripe release Reaping the Regional Dividend: The Southeast Asia Coalesce Index, which studies the extent to which the region is growing closer together, and the upside opportunities that brings.

August 11, 2023

Openspace Releases Sustainability Progress Report 2022

We are pleased to be publishing our 2022 Sustainability Progress Report for the third year! In this report, we do a deep dive on ESG issues material to tech companies in Southeast Asia, focusing particularly on consumer protection principles, responsible AI, and cybersecurity and data governance.

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