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Sequoia says it is optimistic about Southeast Asia’s start-ups despite challenging market
Venture capital firm Sequoia is still “quite optimistic” about long-term prospects for start-ups, despite the recent market volatility. “This is a particularly challenging market for founders to get started,” Abheek Anand, managing director of Sequoia Southeast Asia, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Wednesday. When asked about the firm’s outlook for Southeast Asia’s start-ups, Anand […]
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Southeast Asia’s e-commerce market is still in its ‘opening act,’ says venture capital firm
Southeast Asia’s e-commerce ecosystem is still at a “very, very nascent stage” and many more business models and companies will be formed in the region, said the founding partner of a venture capital firm. “We’re talking about single-digit digital penetration, as compared to the overall commerce penetration,” Amit Anand of Jungle Ventures, a Southeast Asian […]
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