What’s better than deal scoops?

The DealStreetAsia team celebrates after the closing of our flagship Asia PE-VC Summit 2019 in Singapore. Photo: DealStreetAsia

As DealStreetAsia hits five years and running, we are levelling up our editorial team to bring you even more quality stories.

Over the last few months, we’ve brought on five journalists in three different markets –  Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia – as we move towards bringing you more deep-dive content covering Southeast Asia.



For instance, our biggest investigative report so far this year, on the Philippines’ first, and truly elusive, unicorn Revolution Precrafted, was helmed by our reporter Kristie Neo. But she also had the support of our Philippines-based journalist Mars Mosqueda Jr, as well as Andi Haswidi, our new Head of ASEAN research, and Kenneth Lim, our Features Editor.

Kenneth joined us in February from The Business Times in Singapore, where he oversaw the business daily’s coverage on start-ups and venture capital. He will guide reporters on the longer-form reads that we are putting out more of, along the lines of the analysis piece he did on the the future of ridehailing giants Grab and Gojek. 

Andi is key to beefing up our data and research-based content. Based in Jakarta, he joined us in January from FT Confidential Research, where he was Head of ASEAN Research. Already, Andi has been instrumental in putting out our report on the VC fundraising landscape in Southeast Asia

Working with him on research and data-driven stories is Siew Mung Tan. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Siew Mung joined us also from FT Confidential Research. She has been dissecting regional trends, such as on whether the co-working and co-living business models are going pan out, as well as adding much needed analysis on Malaysia-specific stories.



Meanwhile, adding to our team of reporters in Singapore is Leslie Shaffer, an experienced business reporter who has been crafting profiles of the more interesting start-ups that are headquartered in the city-state. Her piece on AWAK Technologies takes a hard look at the challenge of kidney dialysis the start-up is aiming to alleviate.

Rounding out the team in Singapore is Michelle Teo, who joined us in December from The Edge Singapore, where she was Chief Editor overseeing the publication’s operations in the city-state. As DealStreetAsia’s Managing Editor, she oversees the Southeast Asia team, while keeping an eye on developments in the private equity sector.

Here are some of the stories done by our newest team members: