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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 14, 2023

Halodoc Raises $100 Million Series D Funding Joined by Openspace

Indonesia's leading health-tech platform, Halodoc, recently secured $100 million in Series D funding with participation from Openspace.

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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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August 4, 2023

Beleaf Raises $6.8 Series A Round Joined by Openspace

Beleaf has announced a $6.8 million Series A on Tuesday. This round is led by Alpha JWC Ventures and joined by Openspace.

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July 27, 2023

Meet the Team: Kelvin Leung

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July 25, 2023

Ignite by Igloo Celebrates One-year Milestone with A New Branding

Celebrating its first anniversary, Ignite by Igloo is unveiling a new branding and introducing new features.

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July 21, 2023

Amy Zhao at IVS Crypto 2023 Kyoto

Amy Zhao, our Executive Director, had the privilege of taking part in a panel discussion that sparked inspiration and empowerment–"Rise of Women in Web3."

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July 19, 2023

Nicha at Startup Innovation Thailand EXPO 2023

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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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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.

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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.

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February 9, 2023

Capabilities Focus: Wenbo Zong on Tech & Engineering

We’re starting a new series called Capabilities Focus, which is highlighting members of our Portfolio Success team and the integral role they play at Openspace and for our portfolio companies.

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February 8, 2023

The Craft Revisited: Rory Sutherland on Alchemy

This week, we’re revisiting a previous episode of The Craft, where Hian, our General Partner, discusses behavioral psychology with Rory Sutherland - author of Alchemy and Vice Chairman of the Oglivy group. Here are 5 key takeaways we gained from their conversation:

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December 23, 2022

Happy Holidays, from us to you

From everyone at Openspace to everyone we have the heartfelt pleasure of knowing or working with.

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July 27, 2022

New Craft Episode 🔥: Nir Eyal On Habits

In this episode of The Craft, Jessica talks to Nir Eyal about habits. He's behavioural design consultant, investor, entrepreneur and author of the seminal book ‘Hooked’.

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June 14, 2022

New The Craft episode - Chris Lemons on Courage 💪

In this episode, Shane Chesson talks to Chris Lemons, a saturation diver and subject of the Netflix documentary, Last Breath.

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March 8, 2022

Stronger through diversity: Openspace on International Women’s Day 2022

At Openspace, we see diversity as both a social and business imperative. It’s because we believe that by valuing diversity, we will encourage more diverse idea exchange–a fundamental element of our firm’s Active Intelligence philosophy.

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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.

read more
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.

read more