{"id":5328,"date":"2026-02-26T08:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/?page_id=5328"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:45:21","slug":"report-se-asia-jan-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/report-se-asia-jan-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"SE Asia Deals Barometer: Single megadeal propels startup funding to $2.2b in Jan"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5328\" class=\"elementor elementor-5328\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3b5f848 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3b5f848\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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Jan<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-b7820ee\" data-id=\"b7820ee\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d42463d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d42463d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.18.0 - 20-12-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1171\" height=\"738\" 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Mosqueda Jr.<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43ae895 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"43ae895\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>16 February, 2026<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3312e6a elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"3312e6a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"card-footer bg-white div-social-icons d-print-none\">\r\n    <ul class=\"nav\">\r\n        <li>\r\n            <a class=\"nav-link\" href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa fa-facebook-f\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n        <\/li>\r\n        <li>\r\n            <a class=\"nav-link\" href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n        <\/li>\r\n\r\n        <li>\r\n            <a class=\"nav-link\" href=\"#\"><i class=\"fa fa-envelope\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n        <\/li>\r\n        <li>\r\n            <div class=\"dropdown-social\">\r\n                <a class=\"nav-link dropdown-toggle\" type=\"button\" id=\"dropdownMenuButton1\" data-bs-toggle=\"dropdown\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><i class=\"fa fa-share-alt\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n                <div class=\"dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-right\" aria-labelledby=\"dropdownMenuButton1\">\r\n                    <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa fa-reddit-alien fa-2x\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n                    <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa fa-linkedin fa-2x\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n                    <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" data-action=\"\/share\/whatsapp\/share\"><i class=\"fa fa-whatsapp fa-2x\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/li>\r\n\r\n    <\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-0c1e279 less-content\" data-id=\"0c1e279\" data-element_type=\"column\" id=\"showContent\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a38e8d5 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a38e8d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Startup funding in Southeast Asia opened 2026 with a surge in deal value, powered entirely by a single $2-billion megadeal in the data centre space, even as overall deal activity remained subdued.<\/p><p>Startups in the region raised $2.18 billion across 25 equity deals in January, up 438.8% in value from $405.1 million raised through 41 deals in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/se-asia-deal-review-december-2025-468816\/\">December 2025<\/a>, show data compiled by DealStreetAsia.<\/p><p>Strip out the $2 billion Series C round raised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/dayone-data-centers-series-c-468329\/\">DayOne Data Centers<\/a>, however, and the picture looks far from rosy\u2014total fundraising would have shrunk 55% month-on-month to just $182.6 million.<\/p><p>Deal count in January was down 39% month-on-month to the lowest on record, in another sign of the oversized role of DayOne Data Centers&#8217; round rather than a broad-based pickup in fundraising.<\/p><p>On a year-on-year basis, total funding jumped 865.1% from $226.2 million across 40 deals in January 2025, even as deal volume declined 37.5%, highlighting a market increasingly shaped by concentrated capital flows.<\/p><div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/27616476\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/27616476\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div><p>DealStreetAsia\u2019s January dataset includes venture capital and corporate equity rounds, and excludes debt deals in line with our monthly scorecard methodology. Three transactions in the month did not disclose the amount raised.<\/p><h3>The lone megadeal that dominated January<\/h3><p>Singapore-headquartered DayOne was the only startup that sealed a megadeal, i.e a financing round worth at least $100 million, in January. That transaction\u2014led by existing investor Coatue, with participation from new backers including the Indonesia Investment Authority (INA)\u2014alone made up roughly 92% of January\u2019s $2.18 billion total.<\/p><p>The latest raise comes after DayOne secured a combined $1.9 billion across its Series A and B rounds in 2024, and lined up as much as 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in mezzanine financing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/sgs-dayone-secures-mezzanine-loan-from-brookfield-for-finnish-data-centres-465524\/?preview_id=465524&amp;preview_nonce=05556a1a9a&amp;_thumbnail_id=151955&amp;preview=true\">from Brookfield<\/a>\u00a0and a sovereign investor in 2025.<\/p><p>The second-largest disclosed deal was far smaller. Malaysia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/capital-a-teleport-funding-321395\/\">Teleport<\/a>, the logistics arm of Capital A Berhad, raised $50 million in a private equity round from funds managed by HPS Investment Partners.<\/p><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Top five deals of January 2026<\/h3><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<table id=\"tablepress-164\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-164\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Company Name<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Headquarters<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Vertical<\/th><th class=\"column-4\">Funding Type<\/th><th class=\"column-5\">Value (in USD)<\/th><th class=\"column-6\">Lead Investors<\/th><th class=\"column-7\">Investor Names<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">DayOne<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Singapore<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Data centre<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Series C<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">$2,000,000,000<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Coatue<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">Coatue, Indonesia Investment authority<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Teleport<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Malaysia<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Logistics &amp; supply chain<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Private Equity<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">$50,000,000<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">HPS Investment Partners<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">HPS Investment Partners<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">SCI Ecommerce<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Singapore<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">E-commerce<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Venture &#8211; Unclassified<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">$31,870,000<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Asia Partners Fund Management<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">Asia Partners Fund Management, EDBI, George Raymond Zage, Sentient Enablers Holdings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Startale Group<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Singapore<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Software &amp; IT<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Series A<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">$13,000,000<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Sony Innovation Fund<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">Sony Innovation Fund<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">HeyMax<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Singapore<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">E-commerce<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Series A<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">$11,000,000<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Peak XV Partners<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">Betatron Venture Group, David Lee, January Capital, Peak XV Partners, Rob Rosenstein, Tenity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-164 from cache --><\/p><p>Based on deals with disclosed amounts, the average deal size in January surged to $99.2 million, from $12.6 million in the previous month. Without the DayOne round, the average deal size would have shrunk to $8.7 million.<\/p><p>For the full year 2025, startups in Southeast Asia raised $5.37 billion across 461 equity deals, according to a joint report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/southeast-asia-startup-funding-report-2025-summary-470663\">DealStreetAsia and Kickstart Ventures<\/a>, underscoring a venture market still operating below prior-cycle highs and heavily dependent on sporadic large rounds for monthly uplifts.<\/p><p>Startup funding in the region stabilised in the second half of 2025 after hitting a cyclical low earlier in the year, with equity dealmaking ticking up modestly and signalling an end to the prolonged contraction in activity.<\/p><p>Deal volume edged up in H2 2025, with 233 equity transactions, compared with 228 deals in H1 2025. Quarterly data also point to stabilisation, with deal counts holding broadly steady over the past five quarters, reinforcing the view that activity has found a functional floor, said the report titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/reports\/southeast-asia-startup-funding-report-2025\">&#8216;Southeast Asia Startup Funding Report: Full Year 2025&#8217;<\/a> released to coincide with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/section\/indonesia-pe-vc-summit-2026\">Indonesia PE-VC Summit 2026<\/a>.<\/p><h3>Singapore continues lead<\/h3><p>Fundraising remained heavily concentrated in Singapore, where startups raised about $2.11 billion across 19 deals, accounting for roughly 96.6% of Southeast Asia\u2019s total deal value for the month.<\/p><p>The city-state\u2019s largest transaction was DayOne\u2019s $2 billion-plus Series C round, followed by SCI Ecommerce, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/sci-ecommerce-asia-partners-468770\">raised $31.87 million<\/a> in fresh funding led by Asia Partners as it reportedly plans an initial public offering.<\/p><div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/27616518\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/27616518\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div><p>Malaysia ranked a distant second with $50 million from a single deal\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/capital-a-teleport-funding-321395\">Teleport\u2019s private equity round<\/a>, equivalent to about 2.3% of January\u2019s total.<\/p><p>Indonesia recorded $18.6 million across three deals (about 0.9% of regional funding). The country\u2019s largest transaction was secured by Green Rebel Foods, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/stories\/green-rebel-foods-funding-469744\">raised about $10.5 million<\/a> through a new preference share issuance alongside secondary share transfers among existing shareholders.<\/p><p>Green Rebel Foods and Singapore&#8217;s August Energy were the only two climate tech startups among the fundraisers in January. August Energy did not disclose the size of, nor the investors in, its financing round.<\/p><p>Vietnam logged two deals totalling $5.5 million (about 0.3% of the regional total). The largest was artificial intelligence startup Nami Technology (NamiTech), which raised $4 million from Japan\u2019s Toho Gas and existing investor Thien Viet Securities (TVS), making it also the largest seed round in the month.<\/p><h3>Data centres drive sector totals<\/h3><p>By vertical, data centres dominated January\u2019s funding landscape, pulling in over $2 billion from the megadeal transaction of DayOne and accounting for more than 90% of total capital deployed.<\/p><p>Outside the megadeal, funding was spread across a fragmented long tail. Logistics and supply chain raised $50 million, driven by Teleport\u2019s private equity round. E-commerce attracted $42.9 million across two deals, including SCI Ecommerce\u2019s round.<\/p><div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/27616751\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/27616751\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div><p>Fintech\u2014the top sector by deal value and volume in full-year 2025\u2014secured $18.2 million across three deals in January, while data analytics and AI raised about $14 million across four transactions, reflecting continued appetite for AI-adjacent models even as investors remained selective on cheque size.<\/p><p>Other sectors that saw activity included software and IT, foodtech, edtech, cybersecurity, and smaller rounds across consumer products, gaming, healthtech, and telecommunications.<\/p><h3>Seed stage busiest by count<\/h3><p>By stage, seed rounds were the busiest, accounting for seven deals, signalling that early-stage activity remained resilient by volume even as a single late-stage cheque dominated totals.<\/p><p>Series A followed with five deals totaling about $40.4 million, while venture rounds with undisclosed series accounted for four transactions raising nearly $50 million.<\/p><div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/27616573\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/27616573\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div><p>The remainder of January\u2019s activity was spread across two pre-seed deals, two corporate rounds, and single transactions in Series B, private equity, and Series C, the last dominated by DayOne\u2019s $2 billion-plus financing.<\/p><h3>Debt deals<\/h3><p>DealStreetAsia\u2019s monthly scorecard excludes 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solid footing as investors expedited deal closures ahead of the over-a-week-long Chinese New Year holiday between February 15-23.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-3a38c60\" data-id=\"3a38c60\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0312bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f0312bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Venture Capital<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7ed5ef elementor-position-left related-box elementor-vertical-align-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"b7ed5ef\" 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DealStreetAsia.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SE Asia Deals Barometer Report: Single megadeal propels startup funding to $2.2b in Jan By Mars W. 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