Complimentary Report: Dive into Southeast Asia’s Gender Funding Gap

By Team DealStreetAsia

March 26, 2024

Earlier this month, DealStreetAsia released its annual report on the gender funding gap in Southeast Asia. This crucial report tracks the percentage of funding directed towards startups with female founders or co-founders, providing vital data on the regional startup ecosystem’s progress towards inclusivity. Besides data, it features interviews with several entrepreneurs on their experiences of starting a business and raising capital from private investors.

The report’s findings include:

  • Startups with at least one female founder or co-founder bagged 18.2% of all equity funding bagged in 2023

  • All-women founding teams raised 6.6% of all funding last year

  • The average cheque sizes were highest for all-men founding teams during the year

In honor of Women’s Month and the importance of fostering conversations around equal opportunities and diversity, DealStreetAsia is offering this 42-page report free to all readers. We encourage you to read and share it within your network and provide us with your valuable feedback.

Thank you for your continued support, and we look forward to your insights on this critical issue.

Download the free report

Singapore Reporter/s

In Singapore, we are looking to double our reporting team by this year-end to comprehensively cover the fast-moving world of funded startups and VC, PE & M&A deals. We want reporters who can tell our readers what is really happening in these sectors and why it matters to markets, companies and consumers. The ability to write precisely and urgently is crucial for these roles. Ideal candidates must have to ability to work in a collaborative, dynamic, and fast-changing environment. We want our new hires to be digitally savvy and ready to experiment with new forms of storytelling. Most importantly, we are looking for hard-hitting reporters who work well in a team. Collaboration and collegiality are a must.

Following vacancies can be applied for (only in Singapore).

Following vacancies can be applied for (only in Singapore).   

  • A reporter to track companies/startups that have raised private capital, and have the potential to become unicorns. SEA currently has over 40 companies with a valuation of over $100 million and under $1 billion.
  • A reporter who can get behind the scenes and reveal how funding rounds are put together, or why they’ve failed to materialise. She/he in this role will largely focus on long-format stories. 
  • A journalist to track special situations funds, distressed debt and private credit (from the PE angle) across Asia.
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Singapore Reporter/s

In Singapore, we are looking to double our reporting team by this year-end to comprehensively cover the fast-moving world of funded startups and VC, PE & M&A deals. We want reporters who can tell our readers what is really happening in these sectors and why it matters to markets, companies and consumers. The ability to write precisely and urgently is crucial for these roles. Ideal candidates must have to ability to work in a collaborative, dynamic, and fast-changing environment. We want our new hires to be digitally savvy and ready to experiment with new forms of storytelling. Most importantly, we are looking for hard-hitting reporters who work well in a team. Collaboration and collegiality are a must.

Following vacancies can be applied for (only in Singapore).

Following vacancies can be applied for (only in Singapore).   

  • A reporter to track companies/startups that have raised private capital, and have the potential to become unicorns. SEA currently has over 40 companies with a valuation of over $100 million and under $1 billion.
  • A reporter who can get behind the scenes and reveal how funding rounds are put together, or why they’ve failed to materialise. She/he in this role will largely focus on long-format stories. 
  • A journalist to track special situations funds, distressed debt and private credit (from the PE angle) across Asia.
APPLY NOW