by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Tech Unicorns & Platform Giants
⚡ TL;DRSea and Grab are Southeast Asia’s two largest consumer internet companies, both headquartered in Singapore, both listed in New York, both burned enormous capital and both reached profitability after the 2022 reset. They compete directly in food...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Tech Unicorns & Platform Giants
⚡ TL;DRSingapore hosts a dense cluster of financial technology companies that reached billion-dollar valuations, spanning cross-border payments, digital goods payments, buy-now-pay-later lending, insurance technology and business banking. Most serve regional or...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Tech Unicorns & Platform Giants
⚡ TL;DRRazer was founded in 2005 to make gaming peripherals for serious players, built a global brand around a distinctive design language and community, listed in Hong Kong in 2017, and was taken private in 2022 by its founder with private equity backing after...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Tech Unicorns & Platform Giants
⚡ TL;DRGrab started in 2012 as a Malaysian taxi-booking app, moved its headquarters to Singapore, absorbed Uber’s Southeast Asian business in 2018, and listed through the largest SPAC merger ever completed. It now operates mobility, deliveries and...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Tech Unicorns & Platform Giants
⚡ TL;DRSea Limited began in 2009 as Garena, a game distributor, and became Southeast Asia’s largest internet company by adding Shopee in e-commerce and a digital financial services arm. Its share price rose spectacularly, collapsed almost as fast in 2022,...
