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Decoding Japanese Beauty Giant Shiseido’s Sustainability Strategy
Decoding Japanese Beauty Giant Shiseido’s Sustainability Strategy
Jul 25, 202410 min read


Mass Premiumisation Is The New Play In Consumption Category
Mass Premiumisation Is The New Play In Consumption Category
Jul 8, 20249 min read


Decoding Uniqlo’s Sustainability Strategy
How did Uniqlo rise to become one of the biggest fashion retailers, competing with the likes of H&M and Zara? Long years in operation did help, but the winning formula involves a combination of factors.
Jun 19, 202410 min read


The Era Of Building A Company Only Through Venture Capital Is Gone
In an interview with Hedwig by The Content House, Chalinda opened up about how he chooses founders to back, how founders can build a sustainable company, and how he deals with failure.
May 30, 20249 min read


Selling Everything to Everybody is A Recipe For Failure
You're too mature for incubators and early-stage investors, but you're not quite mature enough for the venture capital firms to invest in you. That's the gap in the market that Accelerating Asia fills.
May 9, 20247 min read


Japan Chases Chip Dream Again in the AI Age
Once a leader in the global semiconductor industry, Japan got lost somewhere in the last three decades. Now it wants to revive its semiconductor industry and climb to the top one more time.
Apr 23, 20245 min read


Startup Investing is Not Pure Science, A Lot of Art is Involved Too
Monk's Hill Ventures is an old hand in the early-stage startup investing in Southeast Asia. Over a decade-old VC fund, Monk’s Hill Ventures has backed 42 startups in Southeast Asia. It typically invests anywhere between USD 2 million to USD 10 million in pre-series A and series A rounds and is currently operating from its third fund. With offices in Singapore, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh, and an upcoming one in the Philippines, this VC keeps its finger on the pulse of the Southeas
Jan 30, 20248 min read


Tick tock, tick tock, we're on the clock
Welcome to this edition of Hedwig—a bimonthly newsletter that gives you a bird’s eye view of the Asian startup and investor community. Climate tech edition "The climate time bomb is ticking." It’s not like we haven’t heard this phrase before. But what’s different now is that we know when it will blast. And that's not so far away. What this means is Earth doesn't have as much time as we thought we had to prevent the catastrophic consequences of global warming. A major repo
Mar 29, 20236 min read


Putting things in perspective in the Indian startup ecosystem
Welcome to this edition of Hedwig—a newsletter that gives you a bird’s eye view of the Asian startup and investor community. In the final part of the VC edition of Hedwig, we will look at the Indian startup ecosystem—how it has fared and what to expect. Late last month, Zinnov and nasscom published the India Tech Startup Landscape report for 2022, with some very interesting findings India has 25,000-27,000 active tech startups—the ones that were founded between 2012
Mar 8, 20237 min read


Five insights from Southeast Asia and China on how their startup ecosystems are shaping up in 2023
In the second part of the Asian tech startup ecosystem overview, we look at what’s going on in Southeast Asia and China, in five points.
Feb 15, 20237 min read


How the Asian startup ecosystem is faring in 2023
Diving into what investors in Asia have been expecting this year, all things considered, and how that's turning out to be.
Feb 1, 20238 min read
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