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26 May, 23

Strait Up: The consequences of being late 😫🏃🏾‍♂️⌚

Katrina Cuaresma

19 May, 23

Strait Up: Boom and bust in Southeast Asia’s renewable energy market 🎉 📉

rahuls

12 May, 23

Strait Up: Indonesian moviegoers gave MVP’s IPO a pop 🍿

Nadine Freischlad

05 May, 23

Strait Up: Mobile World Group’s underwhelming Indonesia foray📱 💻

isabelmartinez

28 Apr, 23

Strait Up: Airasia’s succession plan ✈️ 👑

Katrina Cuaresma

21 Apr, 23

Strait Up: Old banks struggle to fund new energy businesses 💸

rahuls

14 Apr, 23

Strait Up: Real estate poker and QR code grifts 🎭

Nadine Freischlad

07 Apr, 23

Strait Up: Goto and Proton’s wobbly strategies 🌀🌀🌀

Katrina Cuaresma

31 Mar, 23

ABS-CBN finds a market for its shows in India 🎬

Nadine Freischlad

24 Mar, 23

Taking a new path to solve old problems 🛣️

rahuls

The biggest SPAC

From an upstart startup to a global powerhouse, Grab became public at a whopping $40 billion valuation.

03 Dec, 2021

Strait Up: Grab goes public! 🔔

Ka Kay Lum, Jon Russell, Xinyi Liang-Pholsena, Nadine Freischlad, Sheila Chiang

A one-stop hub for IPOs, big and small

Singapore is positioning itself to be the best place for a business to go public.

29 Oct, 2021

Singapore’s upping its IPO game

Ka Kay Lum, Nadine Freischlad, Yunindita Prasidya

The most ambitious VCs in the world

Why does it sometimes help to have your own portfolio companies acquire each other?

28 Jan, 2021

Strait Up: A new media house in the Philippines? 📺

Isabel Martinez, Yunindita Prasidya, Sheila Chiang, Nadine Freischlad, Ka Kay Lum

Multiple experts. One newsletter.

Written by experienced local journalists spread across Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore, Strait Up uncovers the stories that matter.

21 Jan, 2021

Strait Up: Inside Akulaku’s rush to IPO🏃

Ka Kay Lum, Xinyi Liang-Pholsena, Yunindita Prasidya, Isabel Martinez, Nadine Freischlad

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About the writers

Ka Kay Lum

Based in Kuala Lumpur, Ka Kay covers investment activities, aka follows the money, across Southeast Asia, and in-depth stories on the often-overlooked Malaysian startup ecosystem. She was previously a regional writer for Nikkei-owned DealStreetAsia.

Nadine Freischlad

Nadine is based in Indonesia. She covers Southeast Asia's super apps, the changing nature of work and employment, and other structural shifts happening as a result of digital disruption.