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By Team DealStreetAsia

May 21, 2025

We have compiled the top themes we will cover under the Venture Capital and Founders Summit track as we gather top speakers and curate the most contextual and comprehensive agenda for the Asia PE-VC Summit 2025.

The VC-focused summit track will focus on deployment strategies, fundraising and exits, business pivots and profitability metrics, and more. The track will feature early to growth-stage venture capital firms along with founders and startup leaders.

 

In the Venture Capital and Founders Summit track this year, we intend to decode some of the following themes:

  1. Fundamentals over Fireworks: SE Asian VCs and startups in reset mode

  2. The Illusion of dry powder: Why capital isn’t flowing despite record fundraising

  3. New financing models at play as equity tap runs dry

  4. Family offices & CVCs: The quiet power brokers of Southeast Asia’s next wave

  5. Sector Focus: Is credit access the next frontier for Fintech in SE Asia?

  6. Sector Focus: Asia at the crux of Deep Tech & AI breakthroughs: Are investors ready?

  7. Founders’ Corner: Of balancing runway, bottom line and ambitions

  8. Governance concerns: Are startups and VCs willing to address ‘the elephant in the room’

  9.  Exit strategies: Is the time ripe for VC secondaries?

  10. China: VCs need to rewrite playbook to adapt to new landscape

  11. LPs bullish on India story, but will VCs deliver?

  12. Sovereign-backed Innovation: Is Southeast Asia entering its strategic capital era

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Singapore Reporter/s

In Singapore, we are looking to double our reporting team by this year-end to comprehensively cover the fast-moving world of funded startups and VC, PE & M&A deals. We want reporters who can tell our readers what is really happening in these sectors and why it matters to markets, companies and consumers. The ability to write precisely and urgently is crucial for these roles. Ideal candidates must have to ability to work in a collaborative, dynamic, and fast-changing environment. We want our new hires to be digitally savvy and ready to experiment with new forms of storytelling. Most importantly, we are looking for hard-hitting reporters who work well in a team. Collaboration and collegiality are a must.

Following vacancies can be applied for (only in Singapore).

Following vacancies can be applied for (only in Singapore).   

  • A reporter to track companies/startups that have raised private capital, and have the potential to become unicorns. SEA currently has over 40 companies with a valuation of over $100 million and under $1 billion.
  • A reporter who can get behind the scenes and reveal how funding rounds are put together, or why they’ve failed to materialise. She/he in this role will largely focus on long-format stories. 
  • A journalist to track special situations funds, distressed debt and private credit (from the PE angle) across Asia.
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Singapore Reporter/s

In Singapore, we are looking to double our reporting team by this year-end to comprehensively cover the fast-moving world of funded startups and VC, PE & M&A deals. We want reporters who can tell our readers what is really happening in these sectors and why it matters to markets, companies and consumers. The ability to write precisely and urgently is crucial for these roles. Ideal candidates must have to ability to work in a collaborative, dynamic, and fast-changing environment. We want our new hires to be digitally savvy and ready to experiment with new forms of storytelling. Most importantly, we are looking for hard-hitting reporters who work well in a team. Collaboration and collegiality are a must.

Following vacancies can be applied for (only in Singapore).

Following vacancies can be applied for (only in Singapore).   

  • A reporter to track companies/startups that have raised private capital, and have the potential to become unicorns. SEA currently has over 40 companies with a valuation of over $100 million and under $1 billion.
  • A reporter who can get behind the scenes and reveal how funding rounds are put together, or why they’ve failed to materialise. She/he in this role will largely focus on long-format stories. 
  • A journalist to track special situations funds, distressed debt and private credit (from the PE angle) across Asia.
APPLY NOW