🎙EP4A: Funding’s Up, Startups Down? Southeast Asia’s Barbell Economy in 2025
🎧 Episode 4A: Funding’s Up, Startups Down? Southeast Asia’s Barbell Economy in 2025
Welcome to Part 1 of our two-part deep dive on the state of startup funding in Southeast Asia.One month into the SEA of Startups podcast, we’re marking the milestone with a special two-parter that cuts through the noise — and goes straight to where the money’s moving (or not moving).
In this episode, we unpack the hard numbers behind Southeast Asia’s $2B funding snapshot for H1 2025 — and what it reveals about the barbell effect:→ Fat late-stage rounds.→ Starved early-stage pipeline.→ Not much in between…
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