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🎙️ EP 14: Heat, Hype & Hard Truths: Why Climate Tech Keeps Failing in Southeast Asia’s Torture Chamber (And How Founders Can Survive It)

Your battery just died. Not your phone—your entire business model. This week on Sea of Startups, we're diving into why most climate tech fails within months in Southeast Asia, how tropical conditions are a torture chamber for hardware, and why the smartest founders are turning brutal constraints into billion-dollar competitive advantages. Plus: Why Chinese AV companies are playing a completely different game in Singapore, and fresh Series A data that might make you cry into your pitch deck (but also why this might be the best time to build).

What You'll Learn:

Why 90% of battery technologies…

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