Comment from Paulo Joquiño, editor, Insignia Business Review

Tan Yinglan, Insignia’s founding managing partner moderated a panel with Rakuten Ventures’ Saemin Ahn and SCB10x’s Pie Vichakul on the changing landscape of corporate venture capital (CVC) in Asia.

In recent years, we have seen many foreign companies double down on their corporate venture investments in Southeast Asia, with the likes of Facebook and Paypal recently investing into Gojek or Alibaba into Traveloka and Tokopedia earlier on. Through CVC, regional conglomerates and governments have also become active investors globally and…