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

I guess it's not really a big issue for MES to like look into and all that.

But I think it's necessary.

If you want to seriously grow the angel investing like industry or vertical sector to like have clear policies that are not ridiculously a burden on you know angel investor networks.

And it also gives confidence and trust to individual angel investors about okay, I can go with the syndicate network to like you know deploy checks, especially if you're not from startups or tech and you just want to like you know do some activity there.

And then the other

part is just like I would say grants and subsidies to make S V V cheaper if you truly want more syndication happening, you know, to support early stage financing, right?

So yeah.

I mean I think the other issue here is that, you know, unlike the US, which has a massive high, you know, income, personal income tax rate, Singapore's income tax rates is like great.

Well low sta tax rates here.

Which becomes a challenge when it comes to more like risky financial choices or like generous financial choices, right?

So philanthropy, for instance, in Singapore is you don't see this uh the sort of numbers you see in the US because the tax benefits net of

everything is just not that substantial that moves the needle.

So I think even if you think about it from an angel investing perspective, it's like the tax benefits would only be cute, but it wouldn't be as strong as a motivator or as key of a consideration for I think people in the US.

But

So I think that's one thing to also contemplate, right?

How do you actually incentivize that early stage financing behavior more?

I'll just pick on the last part which is providing six months of free access to premium versions of AI tools.

I personally feel like it should be way more aggressive and you should just do a like national world.

You know, I think at the grassroots level there were was it like I can't remember, some digital champions where, you know, you help your elderly with like basic tech skills and all that.

I think like you should be aggressive and do like grassroots promotion and education.

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