Funding Winter: What VCs Are Looking For In Startups Now

Sai Kit Ng, Director, Artem | Angel Low, Principal, The Hive Southeast Asia

02-Oct-23 12:00

Funding Winter: What VCs Are Looking For In Startups Now

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As a preview to Enterprise Breakaway happening on Thursday October 19th, today on Biz Bytes we explored one of the key topics of the event - the “death of cheap money” and how to navigate the funding winter.

Joining us on this discussion were Ng Sai Kit, Director at Artem and Chairman of Malaysia Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, and Angel Low, Managing Partner at Growth Charger and Principal at The Hive Southeast Asia

Produced by: Kishan Sivaswamy

Presented by: Richard Bradbury, Roshan Kanesan

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Categories: Corporates, entrepreneurs, SME, personal development, young finance

Tags: funding winter, funding startups, funding, vcs, angel investors,

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