Top Startup Exits in South East Asia for 2025

In South East Asia, we rank 43 startup exits based on an algorithm that considers factors such as total investment, quarterly employee count, and website traffic. Startup exits in South East Asia are falling behind the performance of their global counterparts.

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Top Startup Exits in South East Asia for 2025

Grab Financial Group provides financial services across payments, rewards, lending, and insurance. A seamless point-of-sale (POS) system for merchants and a trusted mobile wallet of choice in Southeast Asia for payments such as in-store purchases, Grab transactions, and fund transfers.

Industry:
Fintech
Subindustry:
Financial Services

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Best Fintech Startup Exits in South East Asia for 2025

South East Asia exits in the Fintech industry are overperforming their global industry peers. The top three Fintech exits in South East Asia have raised more than USD 2.72B, an amount that is higher than the global industry average.

Grab Financial Group provides financial services across payments, rewards, lending, and insurance. A seamless point-of-sale (POS) system for merchants and a trusted mobile wallet of choice in Southeast Asia for payments such as in-store purchases, Grab transactions, and fund transfers.

Industry:
Fintech
Subindustry:
Financial Services

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Coins.ph is a Blockchain-backed platform that provides consumers with direct access to banking and digital payment services, local and international remittances, bill payments, game credits, and online shopping.

Industry:
Fintech
Subindustry:
Blockchain

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Zipmex is a developer of a platform for exchanging digital assets that enables institutional and ordinary investors to participate in cryptocurrencies. The company's vision to achieve this is by curating investment opportunities including asset and security-backed digital assets such as gold and real estate, and “blue-chip” crypto-currencies that have the highest wealth generation potential. Zipmex not only adheres to the highest security standards, but also employs institutional custody of digital assets for its customers, insured up to US$100M. Zipmex is currently licensed in Thailand and Australia, and is in the process of applying to licenses in Indonesia and Singapore. Zipmex was established in August 2018 by Akalarp Yimwilai and Marcus Lim in Singapore, Central Region.

Industry:
Fintech
Subindustry:
Financial Services

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Largest Startup Exits in South East Asia by Funding

The top three largest startup exits in South East Asia have raised total funding of more than USD 143M. Among the top three funded exits, the most popular industry, based on total funding, is Edtech.

Grab Financial Group provides financial services across payments, rewards, lending, and insurance. A seamless point-of-sale (POS) system for merchants and a trusted mobile wallet of choice in Southeast Asia for payments such as in-store purchases, Grab transactions, and fund transfers.

Industry:
Fintech
Subindustry:
Financial Services

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Sea, formerly Garena, a leading internet platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan.

Industry:
Software & Data
Subindustry:
Comtech

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Singapore Life provides digital life insurance services. Singapore Life offers high net worth universal life solutions for those that prefer Singapore and the Singapore regulatory environment as a destination for their wealth and protection needs. It also offers protection solutions made available both digitally and through financial advisers to the retail segment, revolutionising how easy insurance can be. The Company incorporates multiple InsurTech solutions to improve the customer experience. Singapore Life represents the next generation of life insurance where customers are empowered through a simplified insurance purchase process.

Industry:
Fintech
Subindustry:
Financial Services

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Total amount:43

Top Hiring Startup Exits in South East Asia by Employee Size

The top three hiring startup exits in South East Asia have an average employee size that is larger than to the global average. Among these, the Transportation industry features the startup exit with the largest workforce.

Grab Financial Group provides financial services across payments, rewards, lending, and insurance. A seamless point-of-sale (POS) system for merchants and a trusted mobile wallet of choice in Southeast Asia for payments such as in-store purchases, Grab transactions, and fund transfers.

Industry:
Fintech
Subindustry:
Financial Services

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Sea
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Sea, formerly Garena, a leading internet platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan.

Industry:
Software & Data
Subindustry:
Comtech

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Total amount:43

Best Countries for Startups

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United States
215.001
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United Kingdom
55.995
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Israel
51.557
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Canada
38.254
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Singapore
37.736
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Sweden
27.024
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Germany
25.830
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France
24.894
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The Netherlands
24.462
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Switzerland
24.081
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