{"id":4714,"date":"2025-06-13T07:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T07:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/?page_id=4714"},"modified":"2025-06-13T07:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T07:56:33","slug":"report-se-asia-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/report-se-asia-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"SE Asia Deals Barometer: Startup funding jumps 92% MoM in May"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4714\" class=\"elementor elementor-4714\" 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>\/*! 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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>11 June, 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<p>Investment activity in Southeast Asia rebounded sharply in May as startup funding nearly doubled from the previous month, driven by a series of large private equity and corporate investments.<\/p><p>Startups in the region raised $656.3 million across 47 deals last month, show proprietary data compiled by DealStreetAsia, up 92% from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/se-asia-deal-review-april-2-441678\/\">$342.6 million in April<\/a>. The May total also outpaced the $537.2 million raised in May 2024, even as deal volume declined from 59 transactions a year earlier.<\/p><p>The rebound was driven by a handful of outsized cheques, data show.<\/p><p>Four private equity rounds raised $330.2 million, or half the region&#8217;s monthly haul.<\/p><p>The amount raised in May already surpassed the average monthly funding from January to December last year, which was around $380 million. During the said period, funding peaked in December at $629.7 million. For this year so far, May&#8217;s haul is the largest in terms of deal value and volume.<\/p><div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/23681832\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/23681832\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div><p>The higher month-on-month funding figures were also buoyed by a megadeal\u2014a transaction worth $100 million or more\u2014in Malaysia. During the month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/search\/page\/1?s=Ashita%20Group&amp;sort_by=recent\">Ashita Group<\/a>, a B2B2C, e-commerce, and social commerce player, announced a private equity investment of up to $155 million from CPFam-LDA Asia Growth Fund and AEI Capital Group ahead of its upcoming public listing.<\/p><p>Meanwhile, the second-highest funding, also a PE investment, went to Singapore-based healthcare and life sciences company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/search\/page\/1?s=AddVita&amp;sort_by=recent\">AddVita<\/a>. The company secured about $89 million in investment commitment from Temasek-backed investment firm SeaTown Holdings.<\/p><p>The investment, made through SeaTown Private Capital Master Fund, will back AddVita\u2019s \u2018buy-and-build\u2019 strategy to acquire niche distribution businesses across Asia, focusing on medical, laboratory, and pharmaceutical products and services.<\/p><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Top deals of May 2025<\/h3><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<table id=\"tablepress-148\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-148\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Name<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">HQ<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Amount Raised<\/th><th class=\"column-4\">Funding Type<\/th><th class=\"column-5\">Lead Investor\/s<\/th><th class=\"column-6\">Vertical<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AddVita<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Singapore<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">$89,000,000<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Private Equity<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">SeaTown Holdings<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">General trade<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Ashita Group<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Malaysia<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">$155,000,000<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Private Equity<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">AEI Capital Group<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">E-commerce<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">MariBank<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Singapore<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">$78,000,000<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Corporate Round<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Sea<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Digital bank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Meey Land Group Joint Stock Company<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Vietnam<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">$80,000,000<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Private Equity<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">The Global Emerging Markets Group<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Proptech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Whale<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Singapore<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">$60,000,000<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Series C<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Temasek Holdings<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Data analytics; AI\/ML<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-148 from cache --><\/p><p>Out of the 47 deals publicly announced in May, 16 did not disclose funding size. The average deal size, calculated based on transactions with disclosed figures, stood at $21.2 million, up from $15.6 million the previous month.<\/p><p>The tally includes venture capital, private equity, and corporate rounds, while debt deals were excluded from the monthly scorecard.<\/p><h3>Singapore continues lead<\/h3><p>Singapore retained its lead as the region\u2019s fundraising hub, accounting for $358.8 million across 23 deals, or over half of the month\u2019s total capital. In contrast, April witnessed $292.2 million from 19 transactions, accounting for 85% of the month&#8217;s total deal value in the city-state.<\/p><p>Addvita&#8217;s $89 million private equity funding was the largest in the city-state in May. This was followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/search\/page\/1?s=MariBank&amp;sort_by=recent\">MariBank<\/a>, which raised $78 million from its parent firm, Sea Ltd, to scale up operations and strengthen its position in the region\u2019s digital banking landscape.<\/p><p>Startups in Malaysia raised $184.3 million from seven deals, propelled by outsized investments in the digital banking and property technology sectors, led by Ashita Group&#8217;s $155-million investment from AEI Capital.<\/p><div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/23681828\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/23681828\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div><p>In Indonesia, startups were involved in 10 transactions during the month but attracted just $28.2 million. The largest funding in the archipelago was the $10 million Series A round in construction materials and solutions startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/brik-series-a-442488\">BRIK<\/a>, DealStreetAsia&#8217;s compilations show.<\/p><p>Vietnam raised $85.1 million, largely lifted by the $80 million investment in proptech startup Meey Group by Global Emerging Markets, a $3.4 billion alternative investment group headquartered in the US.<\/p><p>The Philippines and Thailand each registered one deal with no disclosed funding value.<\/p><h3>E-commerce tops funding<\/h3><p>E-commerce was the biggest winner in May, sector-wise, as startups in this space raised $165 million in funding from just two deals, anchored by Ashita&#8217;s $155 million fundraising.<\/p><p>In terms of value, proptech followed with $89.2 million. Digital banking also raised $78 million while data analytics \/ AI secured $60 million during the month.<\/p><div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/23681953\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/23681953\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div><p>Green tech emerged as the most active segment with nine deals but pulled in only $40.2 million, indicating continued fragmentation and early-stage risk aversion in the climate vertical.<\/p><p>Overall, investors backed companies in 18 distinct verticals, but 8 of those sectors disclosed less than $10\u202fmillion each, underlining selective risk appetite. Transactions in the consumer products, telecommunications, and regtech sectors did not disclose the amount raised.<\/p><h3>Funding stages<\/h3><p>Private equity funding accounted for the bulk of the money raised by startups during the month at $330.2 million from four transactions. Besides Ashita and AddVita, Meey Land Group Joint Stock Company and Blue Planet Environmental Solution sealed PE deals worth $80 million and $6.2 million, respectively.<\/p><p>In addition, two corporate rounds contributed $80.2 million.<\/p><p>A single Series C deal brought in another $60 million. This was raised by Singapore-based enterprise AI firm Whale. The investors include Temasek Holdings, Linear Capital, BOSCH Ventures, Singtel Innov8, MDI Ventures, MTR Lab, and Gentree Fund.<\/p><div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/23681970\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/23681970\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div><p>Early-stage funding remained subdued, with pre-seed and seed rounds totaling only $22.4 million across 14 transactions. Fourteen deals, which raised $75.4 million in total, did not disclose their funding stages.<\/p><h3>Debt rounds<\/h3><p>Among notable debt deals in the region in May, Indonesian P2P lending platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/amartha-loans-441976\">Amartha secured a $55-million loan<\/a> from three European development finance institutions as part of a larger $199-million syndicated facility led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).<\/p><p>Vietnamese private equity-backed financial services firm F88 also secured a $30-million loan from London-based international financial organisation Lendable.<\/p><p>The fresh loan from Lendable will be used to drive business growth, expand operations, and achieve a revenue growth target of 30%, as well as increase the total number of customers by 30% this year.<\/p><p>EasyCash, an Indonesian fintech lending startup, also secured $15.3 million in debt financing from CTBC Bank.<\/p><p>[Note: <em>Debt deals are not 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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-may-2025\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1789\" height=\"982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-13-142651.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-4717\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-13-142651.png 1789w, https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-13-142651-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-13-142651-1024x562.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-13-142651-768x422.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-13-142651-1536x843.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1789px) 100vw, 1789px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/report-china-may-2025\/\">Greater China Deals Barometer Report: Startup funding suffers steep 50% decline in May<\/a><\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">China\u2019s startup funding market hit a rough patch in May when the total deal value plunged by almost 50% compared to the previous month of April. <\/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 elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-3a38c60\" 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Report: Startup funding edges up in May but still below year-ago levels<\/a><\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Startup fundraising in India picked up in May from the previous month\u2019s 14-month low but remained well below year-ago levels, underscoring continued investor caution despite the green shoots of recovery.<\/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 jumps 92% MoM in May By Mars W. Mosqueda Jr. 11 June, 2025 Investment activity in Southeast Asia rebounded sharply in May as startup funding nearly doubled from the previous month, driven by a series of large private equity and corporate investments. 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