Fund focus: Southeast Asia piques Silicon Valley interest
Singapore’s Iterative is dazzling its entrepreneurial friends in the US with tales of seed-stage success in Southeast Asia and channelling that interest into a sophomore fund
Singapore-based accelerator and seed investor Iterative raised USD 10m for its debut fund in 2020, invested in 65 start-ups, and saw eight of them grow 50x or more. There was no money for follow-on rounds,...
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