{"id":4344,"date":"2025-01-21T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/?page_id=4344"},"modified":"2025-01-21T11:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:08:01","slug":"report-se-asia-dec-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/report-se-asia-dec-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"SE Asia Deals Barometer: Startup funding surges in Dec as megadeals resurface"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4344\" class=\"elementor elementor-4344\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3b5f848 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3b5f848\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d377be0\" data-id=\"d377be0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-e9804d9 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e9804d9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-2e6c818\" data-id=\"2e6c818\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a5ba58 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2a5ba58\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.18.0 - 20-12-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">SE Asia Deals Barometer Report: <span style=\"color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Montserrat, system-ui, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; font-size: 2.25rem; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">Startup funding surges in Dec as megadeals resurface<\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text );\"><\/span><br><\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-b7820ee\" data-id=\"b7820ee\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d42463d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d42463d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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Mosqueda Jr.<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43ae895 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"43ae895\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>January 13, 2025<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3312e6a elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"3312e6a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"card-footer bg-white div-social-icons d-print-none\">\r\n    <ul class=\"nav\">\r\n        <li>\r\n            <a class=\"nav-link\" href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa fa-facebook-f\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n        <\/li>\r\n        <li>\r\n            <a class=\"nav-link\" href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n        <\/li>\r\n\r\n        <li>\r\n            <a class=\"nav-link\" href=\"#\"><i class=\"fa fa-envelope\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n        <\/li>\r\n        <li>\r\n            <div class=\"dropdown-social\">\r\n                <a class=\"nav-link dropdown-toggle\" type=\"button\" id=\"dropdownMenuButton1\" data-bs-toggle=\"dropdown\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><i class=\"fa fa-share-alt\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n                <div class=\"dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-right\" aria-labelledby=\"dropdownMenuButton1\">\r\n                    <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa fa-reddit-alien fa-2x\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n                    <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa fa-linkedin fa-2x\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n                    <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" data-action=\"\/share\/whatsapp\/share\"><i class=\"fa fa-whatsapp fa-2x\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/li>\r\n\r\n    <\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-0c1e279 less-content\" data-id=\"0c1e279\" data-element_type=\"column\" id=\"showContent\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a38e8d5 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a38e8d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-table\" data-src=\"visualisation\/20701793\"><p>At the fag end of a grim year, startups in Southeast Asia raked in big moolah from investors in December, ending 2024 on an optimistic note.<\/p><p>They raised $692.2 million, marking over a 300% jump from November, buoyed by the resurfacing of megadeals, according to proprietary data compiled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/\">DealStreetAsia.<\/a><\/p><p>The last time the region saw transactions worth $100 million or more was in June 2024.<\/p><p>In terms of volume, as many as 31 transactions were clocked in December. In November, investors pumped $174 million\u00a0across 28 startup deals.<\/p><div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/21128178\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div><p>Even as December&#8217;s fundraising was the highest for the year, it remained below the $1 billion mark. To be sure, the funding amount was not disclosed in 11 transactions.<\/p><p>On a year-on-year basis, last month&#8217;s figure was down roughly 43% from the $1.22 billion raised in December 2023, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/alibaba-lazada-2-374654\/\">Alibaba&#8217;s $634 million injection into Lazada<\/a> boosted the region&#8217;s tally.<\/p><h3><strong>Rise in cheque sizes<\/strong><\/h3><p>In December 2024, the average deal size (based on transactions with disclosed funding amounts) stood at $34.6 million, recording a sharp rise from the average of $8.7 million invested in November.<\/p><p>The region saw three megadeals during the month, the biggest being the $250 million investment in Singapore-based digital banking group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/tyme-group-unicorn-423840\/\">Tyme<\/a>.<\/p><p>The funding round, anchored by Brazilian neobank Nubank, which injected $150 million, minted Tyme as the only Southeast Asian startup to enter the unicorn club in 2024.<\/p><p>The deal also marked the first investment from M&amp;G\u2019s impact strategy Catalyst, which chipped in $50 million. Tyme\u2019s existing shareholders such as Tencent, Apis Partners, BII, and Blue Earth invested the rest of the capital.<\/p><p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/growtheum-mets-logistics-422631\/\">Mets Logistics<\/a>, a cold-chain solutions provider headquartered in the Philippines, also made it to the megadeal chart after it secured around $121 million from Singapore-based private equity firm Growtheum Capital Partners.<\/p><p>The third megadeal in December was inked by Singapore-based insurtech unicorn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/bolttech-funding-424349\/\">bolttech<\/a>, which raised over $100 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at $2.1 billion.<\/p><p>The Series C funding was anchored by Dragon Fund of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and insurtech direct lender Liquidity Group. Baillie Gifford, Generali\u2019s Lion River, and others also joined the round.<\/p><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Megadeals of December 2024<\/strong><\/h3><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<table id=\"tablepress-133\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-133\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Name<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Headquarters<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Amount Raised<\/th><th class=\"column-4\">Funding Stage<\/th><th class=\"column-5\">Lead Investor\/s<\/th><th class=\"column-6\">Other Investors<\/th><th class=\"column-7\">Vertical<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Tyme Group<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Singapore<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">$250,000,000<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Series D<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Nubank<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">M&amp;G\u2019s impact strategy Catalys, Tencent, Apis Partners, BII, and Blue Earth<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">Fintech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Mets Logistics<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Philippines<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">$121,000,000<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Private Equity<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Growtheum Capital Partners<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Growtheum Capital Partners<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">Logistics &amp; supply chain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">bolttech<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Singapore<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">$100,000,000<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Series C<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Dragon Fund<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Baillie Gifford, Dragon Fund<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">Fintech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-133 from cache --><\/p><h3><strong>Singapore accounts for 80% of SE Asia&#8217;s funding<\/strong><\/h3><p>Startups in Singapore continued to account for the bulk of the region&#8217;s funding. In December, startups in the city-state raised $555.4 million across 22 deals, accounting for about 80% of the month&#8217;s total.<\/p><p>In November, Singapore also reinforced its status as a premier regional hub for startups and investment, capturing approximately 76% of the total funds raised across Southeast Asia.<\/p><p>The top transaction in Singapore in December was the $250 million funding raised by Tyme Group in its Series D round. Meanwhile, bolttech, the insurtech firm that secured $100 million in its Series C round in December, is also based in Singapore.<\/p><p>Separately, CarDekho SEA added to Singapore&#8217;s haul after it secured $60 million from Navis Capital Partners and Dragon Fund.<\/p><div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/21128435\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div><p>While the Philippines only saw one deal, the amount raised was big enough to make it to the megadeals table. Mets Logistics, which raised $121 million in the country, said it will use the fresh funds to expand in the cold-storage logistics sector in the country.<\/p><p>In other nations, Thailand closed a lone transaction for $8 million and Vietnam secured $7.8 million from a single deal. Meanwhile, Malaysia completed three deals and Indonesia saw two, but the funding amounts for those were not disclosed.<\/p><p>Last month\u2019s overall fundraising only involved startups in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand. Myanmar did not witness any deals.<\/p><h3><strong>Fintech remains investors&#8217; choice<\/strong><\/h3><p>DealStreetAsia&#8217;s compilation showed that the financial technology (fintech) sector continued to evince significant investor interest in December, clocking as many as eight deals that raised a combined $387 million, or more than half of the total amount raised in the region.<\/p><p>Two of the three megadeals in the month &#8211; Tyme Group and bolttech &#8211; were in the fintech space.<\/p><div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/21128463\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div><p>Singapore-based fintech player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/funding-societies-cool-japan-fund-424187\/\">Funding Societies<\/a>, known as Modalku in Indonesia, also raised $25 million in equity investment from Cool Japan Fund, Japan&#8217;s sovereign wealth fund.<\/p><p>Fintech was followed by Software &amp; IT and e-commerce, at four deals each, while agritech booked three. The remainder was spread across various industries, each seeing one deal.<\/p><h3><strong>Early-stage funding gains steam<\/strong><\/h3><p>Pre-seed and seed funding rounds were the dominant stages in Southeast Asia&#8217;s fundraising scene in December, with a combined 8 deals under these stages, DealStreetAsia&#8217;s compilations show.<\/p><p>The largest pre-seed funding last month went to Earos, a Singapore-based Web3 initiative that combines AI agent with blockchain. The startup raised $10 million from Lemon Capital.<\/p><p>Web3 startup DuckChain raised $5 million from a host of investors, including Dao5, Tandem by Offchain Labs, Kenetic Capital, DWF Ventures, and others, to become the largest deal in the Seed stage.<\/p><p>There were 4 Seed deals, 4 pre-seed, 3 private equity transactions, 2 Series B, 1 Series A, 1 Series C, 1 Series D, a secondary market transaction, and 1 corporate round. Thirteen transactions did not disclose their funding stages.<\/p><div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/21128454\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div><h3><strong>Notable debt rounds<\/strong><\/h3><p>There were also some notable debt deals in the region in December, which were not included in the above analysis. Indonesian fintech startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/accial-capital-awantunai-423080\/\">Awantunai<\/a>, for instance, raised $60 million in a syndicated debt financing round led by US-based, impact-focussed investor Accial Capital.<\/p><p>The debt financing will help AwanTunai expedite its plans to scale up operations, expand its lending portfolio and increase loan disbursements and enhance access to financing for small businesses.<\/p><p>In another debt financing deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/fairbanc-bahana-artha-ventura-424154\/\">Fairbanc<\/a>, a Singapore- and Silicon Valley-based B2B embedded finance startup operating in Indonesia, also announced securing about $3 million from Indonesia&#8217;s state-owned venture capital Bahana Artha Ventura.<\/p><p>Fairbanc, which was piloted in Bangladesh with Unilever before it was rolled out in Indonesia in 2021, enables MSMEs to purchase inventory on BNPL credit in partnership with 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a{color:inherit}.elementor-widget-image-box .elementor-image-box-wrapper{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image-box .elementor-image-box-description{margin:0}<\/style><div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/report-china-dec-2024\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2176\" height=\"1446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/China-DB-dec-1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-4349\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/China-DB-dec-1.png 2176w, https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/China-DB-dec-1-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/China-DB-dec-1-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/China-DB-dec-1-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/China-DB-dec-1-1536x1021.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/China-DB-dec-1-2048x1361.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2176px) 100vw, 2176px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/report-china-dec-2024\/\">Greater China Deals Barometer Report: EV frenzy drums up Dec funding activity<\/a><\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Private equity and venture capital investors raced to wrap up 2024 with more signed term sheets, as dealmaking activity rebounded to record highs in December. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column 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href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/report-india-dec-2024\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1360\" height=\"834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/India-DB-dec-1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-4350\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/India-DB-dec-1.png 1360w, https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/India-DB-dec-1-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/India-DB-dec-1-1024x628.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/India-DB-dec-1-768x471.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1360px) 100vw, 1360px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/report-india-dec-2024\/\">India Deals Barometer Report: Startup fundraising plunges 17% MoM to $1.4b in Dec<\/a><\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Indian startups ended the year with funding proceeds worth $1.38 billion in December, down 17% from $1.66 billion in November, according to proprietary data compiled by DealStreetAsia. At 98, however, the volume of venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) transactions was up 19% from November\u2019s tally of 91 deals.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SE Asia Deals Barometer Report: Startup funding surges in Dec as megadeals resurface By Mars W. Mosqueda Jr. January 13, 2025 At the fag end of a grim year, startups in Southeast Asia raked in big moolah from investors in December, ending 2024 on an optimistic note. 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