Southeast Asia Venture Capital News

June 21, 2023

Meet The Team: Kelvin

Meet The Team: Kelvin Goh

June 20, 2023

Pluang+ Inspire: Empowering Financial Literacy through Inspirational Contents

Pluang, the leading all-in-one investment app in Indonesia, has launched a new segment on YouTube called Pluang+ Inspire. Pluang+ Inspire offers simplified and engaging financial and investment content featuring trusted speakers, including Gita Wirjawan, a former Trade Minister during President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's era.

June 15, 2023

Thought Leadership: Shane’s Takeaways at SVCA Conference 2023

Shane Chesson was given the privilege to be one of the keynote speakers at SVCA Conference 2023 - Asia and the World: Inside The Dynamics of a Changing Relationship. Shane provided a deeper understanding of market dynamics, enhanced diligence practices, and the future of exit strategies during the VC Panel.

June 13, 2023

GoTo Announces Patrick Sugito Walujo as New CEO, Shaping a Promising Future

GoTo has recently unveiled its plan to appoint Patrick Sugito Walujo as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This exciting turn of event marks a significant transition for GoTo and sets the stage for a promising future gearing toward profitability.

June 7, 2023

Meet the Team: Jonathan Chandra

In this week's edition of Meet The Team, we learn a little more about Jonathan, our Senior Analyst (OSV+), who sources, assesses and manages a number of the fund's portfolio companies.

June 6, 2023

Sarisuki: new brand, super Fiesta

Sarisuki, one of our portfolio companies based in the Philippines, has been dedicated to enriching the lives of communities by providing a platform for self-empowerment through a Community Buying Model.

June 1, 2023

Thought Leadership: Amy Zhao at the ORIGIN Conference

Amy Zhao, our Executive Director and Ocular Fund Lead, stood out with her participation as a speaker at the prestigious ORIGIN Conference along with the other esteemed panelists

May 25, 2023

The Craft: Andy Walshe on Human Performance

In our newest episode of The Craft, Hian speaks to Andy Walsh on the topics of improving human performance, handling pressure and collecting data on human performance.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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:

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.

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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