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April 22, 2021

Indonesian health tech startup halodoc nets USD 80 million from Astra, Temasek

Health tech platform Halodoc said on Wednesday that it raised USD 80 million in its Series C round led by Indonesian conglomerate Astra.

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March 22, 2021

Indonesian savings and investment pp Pluang gets $20m in Pre-Series B funding

Indonesia-based fintech Pluang announced today it has raised $20 million in a pre-Series B round led by Openspace Ventures, with participation from Go Ventures and other returning investors.

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March 12, 2021

Openspace Ventures closes third fund at hard cap of US$200m

Openspace Ventures is pleased to announce the final close of Openspace Ventures III, L.P. on 26 Feb 2021, with total subscriptions accepted at US$200 million.

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March 9, 2021

Nutrition Technologies raises US$5m, opens insect protein factory in Malaysia

SINGAPORE-BASED agrifoodtech startup Nutrition Technologies has raised US$5 million in a pre-Series B funding led by Hera Capital, with participation from existing investors Openspace Ventures and SEEDS Capital, the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore.

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January 5, 2021

Indonesian EdTech Zenius nabs funding from Openspace

Indonesia-based EdTech startup Zenius on Tuesday announced that it closed a pre-Series B funding round for an undisclosed amount. In the round, new investors Alpha JWC Ventures and Openspace Ventures joined existing investors such as Northstar, Kinesys, and BeeNext who had injected money in Zenius’ Series A round in February 2020.

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November 10, 2020

Indonesia’s iSeller bags series a round from Openspace Ventures, Mandiri capital

Indonesia-based iSeller, an omnichannel sales software-as-a-service player, announced that it has secured an undisclosed amount in its series A round of funding led by Singapore-based VC firm Openspace Ventures and Mandiri Capital, the VC arm of Bank Mandiri in Indonesia.

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October 28, 2020

Reaping the Regional Dividend: 2020 Edition

We are very pleased to introduce Openspace Ventures’ inaugural edition of Reaping the Regional Dividend.

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September 8, 2020

Freshket lands $3 million series a led by Openspace to streamline Thailand's food supply chain

Based in Bangkok, Freshket simplifies the process of getting fresh produce from farms to tables. Launched in 2017, the startup has now raised a $3 million Series A, led by Openspace Ventures.

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April 4, 2023

Portfolio Company Feature: cheak

We're shining a spotlight on women's activewear brand cheak, which was acquired in 2022 by our portfolio company, Love Bonito. cheak has acquired notable success and recognition as a homegrown brand focusing on inclusivity and instilling confidence in women through activewear. As such, we decided to find out more about what's behind the brand's success by asking co-founder Tiffany Chng several questions on her journey of building cheak.

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March 30, 2023

The Craft Revisited: Chris Lemons on Courage

In this week’s edition of The Craft Revisited, our Founding Partner Shane Chesson discusses courage with Chris Lemons. Chris is a saturation diver, and subject of the Netflix documentary, Last Breath. He talks about his near-death experience diving when he was left stranded 100m under the North Sea, alone and in the pitch dark, with only 6 minutes of oxygen left.

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March 29, 2023

Meet The Team: Zhe Hao

In today's edition of Meet The Team, we get to know Zhe Hao a little better. He's a Senior Data Analyst here at Openspace, and today, he shares more about his pizza-making skills and other memorable experiences at the office.

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March 23, 2023

Capabilities Focus: Emma Payne on Change Management

Change management is a crucial process in any organization that involves making modifications to processes and operations. We've asked Emma Payne, our new VP of People & Culture, to share her valuable insights on the subject. Emma has extensive experience in talent management and change leadership, with her career spanning across the UK and Asia Pacific. Here's what she had to say: 

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March 20, 2023

The Craft: Roger Martin on Strategy

In this week’s episode of The Craft, Professor Roger Martin discusses with Openspace’s CFO, Omesh Fabiani, on strategy and what it takes to be a good strategic thinker. Roger was named the world’s Number One Management Thinker by Thinker’s 50. Here are several key takeaways from their conversation.

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March 15, 2023

Meet The Team: JQ

In today's edition of Meet The Team, we get to know Jess, aka JQ, a little better. She's an analyst on our Investments team and today, she shares more about her love for sweets and her experiences here at Openspace.

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March 10, 2023

OpenHours Mentee Experience: Stella

Stella Wang is an alumni of our OpenHours program, where she was Freddie's, our VP for brand and marketing, mentee. We asked her about her thoughts on the OpenHours program, and here's what she had to say: 

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March 9, 2023

Diversity: Omesh Fabiani on Work-Life Flexibility

In line with our guiding principles committing to gender diversity at Openspace, we decided to ask our CFO, Omesh Fabiani, on how he achieves work-life flexibility.

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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

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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.

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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.

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July 27, 2023

Meet the Team: Kelvin Leung

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July 19, 2023

Nicha at Startup Innovation Thailand EXPO 2023

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July 5, 2023

Meet the Team: Pareen

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June 30, 2023

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

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June 29, 2023

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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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