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Online retail revenue across Southeast Asia rose 21% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2025, driven by higher conversion rates rather than website traffic gains.

Saemin Ahn, managing partner for international investment at Rakuten Capital, expects Southeast Asia to struggle for investor attention for two to four years, citing the region’s company-building path and public-market results.

Saemin Ahn made his name betting on Southeast Asia. Now, as the region starts to pull itself out of a years-long venture funding slump, he’s not sure the old model works for the region anymore.

Generative artificial intelligence reached 243 million users across Southeast Asia in less than three years, representing 58 per cent of the region’s working population. Direct software subscriptions capture only 1 to 2 per cent of those consumers, shifting the financial return to e-commerce and marketing channels.

According to the Xendit Ecommerce Payments Momentum Report 2026, Southeast Asia’s e-commerce market reached US$197 billion in 2025 and is on track to approach US$400 billion by 2031. Businesses are chasing that growth across more channels and markets at once, from marketplaces and social commerce to brand.com and cross-border sales. Shoppers have moved with them,…

E-commerce will contribute the bulk of the growth, with AI improving product discovery and recommendations

NEW ALBANY, Ind. — IU Southeast is launching IU Innovates Hands-On Entrepreneurship workshop series at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Add preferred source South Korean startups participating in the Changgu Immersion Trip held at Google Singapore have significantly revised their Southeast Asia market entry strategies after on-the-ground validation. TeamLimited abandoned its initial plan to prioritize Indonesia, pivoting instead to Singapore as its primary base due to the city-state’s robust data infrastructure. Nuttycode adjusted its app’s…

According to research by the UNESCO International Centre for Higher Education Innovation (UNESCO-ICHEI) earlier this year, Southeast Asia is serving as a home to now more than 7,000 higher education institutions and roughly 12 million students. Few regions in the world are adding students, campuses, and cross-border partnerships.

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