“Should you accept an investment offer from a non-accredited angel investor in Malaysia?” “Do you need to get accredited as an angel investor?” “What if the angel who invested in my startup wasn’t an accredited investor? Will I get into…

Capital Markets Malaysia (CM), a capital market promotional entity under the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has launched  a corporate venture capital (CVC) programme to get more companies, especially local public listed companies, to invest in startups and small…

Any sensible investor would want to minimise their downside risks when making an investment especially in a risky asset class portfolio such as when investing in an early stage startup. The common way on how this may be achieved is…

Starting a new company can be stressful and confusing especially for a first time founder. So I’m excited to hear recently that the Founder Institute Malaysia 2023 programme is finally going live again this year.

Founder Institute prefaces itself as…

There are several things that founders should know before raising funds for their startup.

1. Understand the different types of funding available. Selling your company’s shares in exchange for money is just one usual way of raising funds. There are…

It was reported last year that they are two regulated equity crowdfunding (ECF) platforms, namely pitchIN, and MyStartr that have applied to offer the secondary market feature. It was reported that pitchIN has received their in-principle approval and may…

Whether your startup skips an accelerator or joins one or more, the real milestone investment is in the seed round.

But in a fast-moving high paced startup world, the clear line between the seed round and a Series A round…