Weekly SEA Fundraising Digest

SEA's infrastructure boom meets APAC's AI gold rush

Singapore's EDB just dropped S$32 million to turbocharge corporate venturing, while Globe Telecom pledged a staggering US$1 billion for AI and data centers in the Philippines by 2027 — and Infineon's new $1.4 billion Thai semiconductor plant shows hardware bets aren't slowing. Over in Japan, GMI Cloud vacuumed up $668 million from NVIDIA for GPU cloud services, a direct signal that APAC compute demand is exploding, and South Korea's Quantum AI inked an MOU to push enterprise AI into Southeast Asian markets. Vietnam is rewriting its Investment Law to welcome more foreign capital, just as Samsung's subsidiary pumps $1.85 billion into local semiconductor substrates. Globally, Anthropic's $42 billion chip loan from Broadcom hints at the scale of AI infrastructure spending, but for SEA founders, the real play is riding the regional supply chain and policy tailwinds.