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Benjamin Cher

Benjamin Cher

CORRESPONDENT

Benjamin is a correspondent with BT’s Companies and Markets team. He covers the tech and venture capital ecosystem in Southeast Asia. He was previously with Garage, BT’s startup and venture capital portal, and The Edge Singapore.

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Monee runs the payment services and loans on Sea’s e-commerce platform Shopee and gaming platform Garena.
NEWS ANALYSIS

Sea’s financial services arm Monee should consider an IPO on SGX

2026-10-27T23:00:00.000Z
Stryv launched the Stryv Oasis massage chair in September, drawing on Sterra’s expertise in home care products.

Consumer electronics brand Stryv raises US$11.5 million Series B funding

2026-10-27T02:00:00.000Z
DPM Gan Kim Yong (centre, left) with representatives of the 24 companies that are part of the Champions of AI programme.

Singapore invests S$150 million in AI-driven materials discovery, launches business AI adoption support

2026-10-27T02:00:00.000Z
Simba says it intends to respond to the show cause notice, which has a deadline of Nov 16.

Simba at risk of losing operating licence over spectrum misuse

2026-10-26T10:04:04.000Z
Some startups say the deepened liquidity from the EQDP is a boon, but that expanded research coverage and a more diversified pool of investors are also on their wish list.

EQDP puts SGX listings back on the radar for Singapore startups

2026-10-25T23:00:00.000Z
The competition watchdog said the harm to competition from the proposed deal outweighed its overall economic benefits.

Taiwan’s competition watchdog quashes Grab’s acquisition of foodpanda in Taiwan

2026-10-21T10:29:06.000Z
Singapore leads South-east Asia in consumer tokens per GenAI user, weekly GenAI users and GenAI penetration.

South-east Asia digital economy to hit US$368 billion GMV in 2026, US$1.1 trillion in 2035: report

2026-10-21T05:17:29.000Z
Genie Health co-founder and CEO Hari Krishnan says health information needs to be democratised and made accessible.

PropertyGuru ex-CEO’s AI health startup Genie Health raises US$3 million in seed funding

2026-10-21T02:00:00.000Z
Mi Material CEO Kevin Tan (left) with the company’s executive director Heng Kok Lin.

Mi Material focusing on ‘things that we can control’ as it launches S$215 million SGX IPO

2026-10-19T13:56:37.000Z
Debt funding for startups in South-east Asia has jumped to US$6.1 billion in 2025, from US$487.8 million in 2023, according to data from Tracxn.

Debt funding for S-E Asia startups ticks up as it gets tough to raise money via exits, equity

2026-10-18T23:00:00.000Z
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