Venture debt surges in SE Asia as companies weather funding winter

Venture debt surges in SE Asia as companies weather funding winter

[From left to right] DealStreetAsia's Pimfha Chan; OCBC Ventura managing director Darryl Ratulangi; Qverse CEO and co-founder Gena Bijaksana; and InnoVen Capital SEA partner Paul Ong.

Startups and SMEs with strong financials are turning to non-dilutive funding at a time when recent company valuations are tilting against them amid the prolonged funding winter, according to venture debt experts speaking during a panel discussion at DealStreetAsia’s Indonesia PE-VC Summit 2025.

Edited by: Padma Priya

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