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India’s jewellery market, traditionally dominated by unorganised local jewellers that have served generations of loyal customers, is now embracing a new wave of innovation. Enter digital-first, D2C jewellery brands. These disruptors, reshaping how Indians buy and perceive jewellery, is not only winning over consumers but also catching the eye of investors. Vibhuti Sharma's analysis:

China endured another year of headwinds and the cloudiness over investor sentiment has not completely cleared. Simran Vaswani examines what the Chinese private equity landscape may look like in 2025:

Vietnamese AI-driven knowledge discovery platform AI Hay, which is backed by Square Peg, is understood to be in talks with investors to raise a new funding round. Breaking news by Quynh Nguyen for DealStreetAsia.

The turmoil at aquatech unicorn eFishery, first reported by DealStreetAsia on Sunday, is forcing a deep rethink of the governance practices, or a lack thereof, at Indonesian startups. ESG principles — particularly corporate governance — are key criteria for venture investors. Our Jakarta team examines the possible fallout of the lapses at eFishery on startup funding in Indonesia.

This report from DealStreetAsia – 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗔 𝗩𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘 examines the state of private funding for Southeast Asia’s climate tech startups. Worryingly, the number of deals and the funds raised by startups in the sector contracted for the first time in nine years in the first 11 months of 2024. Download 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗘 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 report to understand the latest trends in climate financing:

India witnessed a spurt in big-ticket PE-VC transactions in 2024 as investors rushed to join the captable of fast-growing quick commerce startups such as Zepto and Swiggy. Zepto raised more than $1.35 billion in back-to-back funding rounds this year, while Swiggy raised around $605 million from over 75 anchor investors ahead of its IPO in November. PRAMUGDHA MAMGAIN explains the trends in megadeals in the country through charts:

Ngoc Nguyen recaps the several initiatives that have made Malaysia a new hub for private capital. Government-linked investment companies have a war chest of billions of Malaysian ringgits for both fund-of-funds and direct investment strategies.

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DEG, the investment arm of German state-owned development bank KfW, has committed to invest about $15 million in the second India fund of private equity firm Amicus Capital Partners . Mars Mosqueda Jr.'s report:

In 2021, logistics startups in SE Asia accounted for 24% of the region’s overall startup funding. In Jan-Sept 2024, the share of logistics funding plummeted to 3%. Nevertheless, the $96 million in deal value this year is still up 83.4% from 2023. Abhishek Chatterjee traces the surge, slump and rebound in the sector through charts: