THE venture capital industry in Malaysia is reaching an inflection point, says Singapore-based private-equity firm CMIA Capital Partners and Malaysia-based Bintang Capital Partners Bhd.
They see a great deal of activity in terms of demand for capital. “The challenge now is to identify suitable sources of funding for these innovative ideas and shape them into a business that can achieve significant scale and impact in the country,” they said in a joint reply to The Edge.
Pandu Sjahrir, founding partner at AC Ventures an early-stage technology venture fund that focuses on investing in Indonesia’s digital disruptors concurs, noting that the local venture capital market has roughly doubled in size in the last decade in terms of capital inflows to just over US$2 billion (RM8 billion), with about half of this amount disbursed to investments.