We're bullish on investing in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore: Vishal Harnal, 500 Startups

We're bullish on investing in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore: Vishal Harnal, 500 Startups

A fun image of the 500 Startups team featuring (from left) the 500 Startups team of Christine Tsai, Dave McClure, Vishal Harnal, .Vishal Harnal and Khailee Ng. Photo extracted from Facebook.

With the launch of 500 Startups‘ second fund – 500 Durians II – that has a corpus of $50 million and a mandate to invest in about 200 seed-stage companies in the region, the US-headquartered venture capital firm will be deepening its exposure to Southeast Asia’s regional startup ecosystem, Vishal Harnala partner at the fund in Singapore said in an interaction.

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