Singapore & SEA Tech Startup Landscape

A TECH & STARTUP PREVIEW
BY JULIEN CONDAMINES

EXPERIENCE
Chief Business Oﬃcer, Startup-O Corporate Innovation
Founder & Managing Director, Co-Creation Lab
Co-President, Tech & Innovation Committee, French Chamber of Commerce in Singapore
Community Lead, French Tech Singapore
Mentor in Residence & Design Thinking Professor, ImpacTech
Consultant for the French Gov’t as an expert in Innovation & Technology
Former Product Marketing Manager at YouTube.
Former Account Executive at Google & Publicis Group
Former Chief Marketing Oﬃcer at Worldpackers, a brazilian travel startup.
Design Thinking professor at Polifonia & Miami AdSchool in Brazil
Co-creator of a Design Thinking curriculum for FIAP’s Project Management MBA
EDUCATION
Masters in Business Administration, Toulouse Business School, France
Bachelor in International Marketing, Paris XII university, France
Design Thinking & Innovation Immersion, THNK School of Creative Leadership
Leading for Creativity, IDEO
EXPERTISE
Innovation
Strategy
Design Thinking
Startups
Marketing
Community Building
julien@startup-o.com
+6587500317

Southeast Asia’s Largest Platform
for Startup Discovery, Assessment & Investment

EMPOWERING IMPACT-DRIVEN
TECHNOLOGIES
SINGAPORE & SOUTHEAST ASIA - A TECH & STARTUP PREVIEW BY JULIEN CONDAMINES

JAKARTA (31M)
MANILA (24M)
BANGKOK (17M)
HANOI (16M)
HO CHI MINH CITY (13.5M)
SURABAYA (13M)
BANDUNG (8M)
KUALA LUMPUR (7.2M)
YANGON (7M)
SINGAPORE (6.8M)
CAMBODIA
LAOS
MYANMAR
MALAYSIA
THAILAND
VIETNAM
INDONESIA
PHILIPPINES
BRUNEI
SINGAPORE
EAST TIMOR

SIZE & PENETRATION
ON 6 LARGER MARKETS:

Source Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India 2019 - OECD 2018

SINGAPORE
A HUB?

Mastercard
Innovation ShowcasePaypal Innovation Lab
KPMG Digital Village
Thomson Reuters Labs
Metlife LumenLab
Microsoft
Technology Centre

Bank of China’s Global Innovation Lab Deutsche Bank Innovation Labs
AXA Digital Hive
Standard Chartered

MAJOR
INTERNATIONAL
TECH COMPANIES
WITH OFFICES IN
SEA COUNTRIES
SINGAPORE & SOUTHEAST ASIA
A TECH & STARTUP PREVIEW
BY JULIEN CONDAMINES

Source: Enterprise Singapore, 2019

WHY SINGAPORE?
WHY SO MANY?

“Singapore is a perfect testing platform for fintech”
“To build a pipeline of talents and foster financial innovation
and research collaborations with partners such as fintech
firms, institutes of higher learning and the government. “
“To respond faster to market trends.”
“To help clients in APAC rapidly deploy
solutions that reinvent the legacy
systems & processes.”
“To collaborate with
customers, tech startups,
universities and the
Singapore government to
roll out products and
solutions for professional
markets in Asia Pacific.”
“Singapore has a
vibrant startup
ecosystem and is
well-connected with
other innovation
hubs in the region”

CHALLENGES TO EXPAND ABROAD
A POPULAR HOME BASE
SINGAPORE UPSIDES

INNOVATIVE
INNOVATORS

CASE: UNILEVER FOUNDRY
STARTUP HUB & ECOSYSTEM

CASE: DBS STARTUP XCHANGE
THE TINDER OF FINTECHS:
JIM: VIRTUAL RECRUITER

CASE: SCVENTURES FINTECH BRIDGE

CASE: ENGIE FACTORY
BUILD NEW STARTUPS
Co-creating new business models with
great founders and building companies
that matter
ACCELERATE STARTUP GROWTH
Supporting startups through ENGIE’s global
network and resources
SCALE STARTUP BUSINESSES
Matching startup solutions to business
opportunities within ENGIE to provide
opportunity for rapid scale
INVEST IN STARTUPS
Funding of high-potential, scalable startups
through ENGIE Ventures capital arm

CASE: SGINNOVATE
Focus on scientists to build Singapore best-in-class next-gen deep tech startups.
Provide the resources and remove frictions for success, with a long term investment strategy and many partners.

WHAT WORKS FOR THEM ?

THE STARTUP
LANDSCAPE

DO YOU KNOW THEM?

SOUTHEAST ASIA 9 STARTUP UNICORNS

$11B$10B$1B
$7B$2B
$10B
$1B
$15B
public public
$4B
exit
SEA UNICORNS VALUATIONS
($4.4B) ($4.9B)

2018 REMARKABLE EVENTS

TRENDS

E27-SOUTHEAST-ASIA-STARTUP-ECOSYSTEM-REPORT-2018 SINGAPORE & SOUTHEAST ASIA - A TECH & STARTUP PREVIEW BY JULIEN CONDAMINES

TECH INVESTMENTS
2.5X YoY
2X AT ALL STAGES
37% H1’2018
75%
10X YoY TO $0.5B

‘NASCENT’ SECTORS
4X YoY

SINGAPORE & SOUTHEAST ASIA - A TECH & STARTUP PREVIEW BY JULIEN CONDAMINESSource Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India 2019 - OECD 2018 SINGAPORE & SOUTHEAST ASIA - A TECH & STARTUP PREVIEW BY JULIEN CONDAMINES

‘PAST’ ROADBLOCKS

FINANCIAL
INCLUSION

Financial Inclusion: e-commerce logistics, online transport,
and food delivery have enrolled over 4M partners

Account Ownership: 235M+ unbanked adults live in SEA,
that’s 15% of the global unbanked population
235M ADULTS

Financial Inclusion: examples of growing transactions
that may never go through a bank thanks to startups
Remittances
Self-employed salaries
Payments in AgricultureUtility bills

CHINA’S STAKES
IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

CHINESE TECH &
INVESTMENTS
SPREADING IN
SOUTHEAST ASIA
IS A SIGN OF BOTH
MATURITY &
INCREASED
COMPETITION.
IT’S ALSO ORGANIC.
LEE KAI-FU
CEO of Sinovation Ventures
Ex-VP of Google China
Author of 'AI Superpowers'

ALIBABA vs TENCENT
THE CLASH

ALIBABA vs TENCENT
TAKING THE FIGHT TO SOUTHEAST ASIA

ALIBABA vs TENCENT
TAKING THE CLASH TO SOUTHEAST ASIA
ALIBABA TENCENT

As a VC, Startup-O has developed a platform and community to take the subjectivity out of its
investment in tech startups.
Launched by a group of corporate dropouts who once worked in companies like
Google, P&G, GSK & Deutsche Bank, but also founded or funded startups and mentored many more,
our team now leverages its extensive experience and a tech-platform to provide
a human-centered, systematic & transparent approach to open innovation.
You lead innovation at your company, or you need support on the topic?
Get in touch.
julien@startup-o.com
+6587500317
OPEN INNOVATION

BIBLIOGRAPHY & CONTRIBUTORS
Google/Temasek - e-Conomy SEA 2018: Southeast Asia's internet economy hits an inﬂection point - gg.gg/dk7zm
Slush - State of Southeast Asian Tech Report 2018 - gg.gg/dkb45
e27 - Southeast Asia Startup Ecosystem Report 2018 - gg.gg/dk7ib
Bangkok Post - In search of unicorns - gg.gg/dk7hw
EDB - edb.gov.sg
OECD - Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India 2019 - gg.gg/dk886
The World Bank - Global Findex database 2017 - gg.gg/dk8e3
Fortune - Alibaba v. Tencent: Taking the Fight to Southeast Asia - gg.gg/dk8fq
Nikkei Asian Review - How Singapore is going from trade hub to innovation hub - gg.gg/dkaxn
Temasek - Not Your Average Gig: How the Sharing Economy Builds Bridges - gg.gg/dkb3i
Special thanks for their inputs:
Greg Experton - APAC Innovation Manager, UPS & Founder, Tennis Bot
Julien Mialaret - Partner Asia, IDInvest

SOUTHEAST ASIA 9 STARTUP UNICORNS

$11B$10B$1B
$7B$2B
$10B
$1B
$15B
public public
$3B
exit
SEA UNICORNS VALUATIONS
($4.4B) ($4.9B)

The underwriters of the oﬀering have
also fully exercised their option to purchase an
additional 9,000,000 ADSs.
US$1.5B+ IPO

$1B

$1B
$300M SERIES D IN FEBRUARY 2019

Chief Business Oﬃcer, Startup-O Open Innovation
Founder & Managing Director, Co-Creation Lab
Co-President, Tech & Innovation Committee, French Chamber of Commerce
Community Lead, French Tech Singapore
Startup Mentor in Residence & Design Thinking Professor, ImpacTech
Consultant for the French Gov’t as an expert in Innovation & Technology
12 years of practice in Design Thinking & Corporate Innovation
Ex-Google, Ex-YouTube, Ex-Startup
EXPERTISE
Innovation
Strategy
Design Thinking
Startups
Marketing
Community Building julien@startup-o.com
+6587500317

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