The Future is Bright For Malaysian Startups

Dr Sivapalan Vivekarajah, Senior Partner & Co-Founder, ScaleUp Malaysia Accelerator | Jeffrey Seah, General Partner for the Asia Fund X, MSW Ventures

15-Sep-23 12:00

The Future is Bright For Malaysian Startups

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In the lead up to Malaysia Day, find out why Scale Up Malaysia’s Doc Siva is “very positive about the Malaysian startup ecosystem”.

In today’s episode of Enterprise Biz Bytes, we discuss the gap between Malaysia and Singapore’s startup ecosystems, what Malaysia can learn from Singapore, and what the future of Malaysia’s startup ecosystem looks like.

Helping us with this conversation is Dr. Sivapalan Vivekarajah, Senior Partner & Co-Founder of ScaleUp Malaysia Accelerator and Jeffrey Seah, General Partner for the Asia Fund X at MSW Ventures.

Produced by: Kishan Sivaswamy

Presented by: Roshan Kanesan, Richard Bradbury

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Categories: markets, economy, international, SME, entrepreneurs

Tags: global startup ecosystem, markets, startups, Malaysian startups,

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