Vertical · US–ASEAN–China entrepreneurship
Southeast Asia is many markets, not one
This vertical covers founders, capital, and supply chains at the intersection of the United States, ASEAN, and China — diaspora and family-office funding, language and trust bridges, industrial policy, and market entry, treated country by country rather than as one regional story. Every published piece is grounded in primary sources, not conference-circuit narrative.
By Nicholas Garcia — Lecturer, NUS School of Computing · Deputy Director, NUS FinTech Lab
Published pieces
Public memo
7 min read
English-language startup coverage in Southeast Asia is good at pricing attention and capital. It is a thin gauge of who pays at checkout — Indonesia's constitution, digital penetration, and English-proficiency data, plus the GrabChat and Grab–Uber record, make the split concrete.
Reader decision
Which public is the growth review scoring — the one that funds the company, or the one that pays it?
More pieces are in the pipeline — diaspora capital, industrial policy, and market-entry sequencing are in active research. This vertical publishes only after sources clear the same bar as the piece above.