Adriel Yong

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BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English) · AI Workforce Compression, SGX Liquidity Gaps & Singapore’s Startup Reckoning with Adriel Yong – E673 · 25 Feb 2026 podcast

Deal, Shudejo, one of the tech media outlets talked about how there was actually a strong recovery in like growth stage financing, but your early stage financing has weakened much more.

So you see almost like an inverted funnel now.

So we definitely pay more attention to that.

I think like you know, if you look at what Singapore did like 10 years ago to kickstart the whole ecosystem, we had the early stage venture fund program, ESVS.

Which was administered by the National Research Foundation, right?

That seeded a whole bunch of venture funds like Wave Maker, I think Mung Sheo, I think Golden Gate as well, you know, all have become reputable, large names that have gone on to raise like way more institutional, like you know, US capital, manage hundreds of millions.

Mm.

The problem with that is that they might have previously started out deploying, call it

500k, one mil checks, maybe much earlier stage.

But then now when you're managing like a couple hundred million dollars, you want to deploy like millions at one goal and not like all the small checks.

So you then have that, I guess, much less capital accessibility.

On the angel investor side, I think you know we have had angel investor networks for the longest time, like XE Network, Angel Central, Ascend Angels, but how many of them must you activate?

today.

And you know, obviously we know San Angels fairly well, right?

We know deal activity is like much lower on early stage side.

Pre-IB was like booming, right?

And then I mean I think Der Zheng and Shao Nang at Angel Central have continuously talk have written quite publicly about how you know Angel Central's deal activity is also not as high as before.

Because so much capital is locked up for angels and so much capital is not written or have been written.

So I think there's some level of feeling burned.

So yeah.

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