MALAYSIAN STARTUP LIFE IN 10
SLIDES By Khailee Ng

HI. I’M KHAILEE. SAYS.com (Merged:
Catcha Media) GroupsMore (Acquired: Groupon) Angel Investor US (4) MY (3) Venture Partner, 500 Startups TIME TO GROWTH-HACK THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN STARTUP ECOSYSTEM!

GLOBAL SEED FUND Invested in
475 companies 1/3 of them outside of the US CollecOvely raised over $1B Fund I, 21 exits, to Google, LinkedIn, TwiXer etc

ACCELERATOR IN SILICON VALLEY

GLOBAL NETWORK OF 800 FOUNDERS
+ 300 MENTORS

"Malaysians Spend the Most
Time, Have the Most Friends on Social Networks” SOURCE: h*p://readwrite.com/ 2010/10/11/ study_of_global_online_behavior_fin ds_emerging_mar 17.5M Internet Users 14M on Facebook MY HAS THE WORLD’S MOST SOCIAL CONSUMERS

65% INTERNET PENETRATION 124% MOBILE
PENETRATION 27% ON SMARTPHONES

LOW ONLINE CUSTOMER ACQUISITION COSTS
(ALMOST 1/10 VS USA) AS LOW AS $0.02 FOR A TRUE VIEW AS LOW AS $0.07 FOR A MOBILE CPI

In 2013 alone… •
1337 Accelerator $10M (Angel, Seed) • Catcha Group $50M + $100M (A,B,C,D) • TheStar launches accelerator + $6.5M Fund (Angel, Seed) • SEA Eagle (MY based) $10M (Angel, Seed) • Asia Venture Group $5M (Angel, Seed) • 500 Durians $10M (Angel, Seed) INFLUX OF INVESTMENT IN ANGEL, SEED, SERIES ABCD

GLOBAL + LOCAL TALENT HUB
• WORK PERMIT FOR FOREIGNERS IN TECH (UNLIMITED) IN 2 WEEKS • COSTS 3X CHEAPER THAN SINGAPORE • TAP INTO INDONESIAN, VIETNAMESE, PHILIPPINO, INDIAN TALENT • LOCAL TALENT SPEAKS ENGLISH

GLOBAL TECH GIANTS GROWING DIRECT
ACTIVITY IN MALAYSIA PARTNERSHIPS WITH LOCAL TELCO TO GIVE FREE WIRELESS INTERNET TO SCHOOLS DIRECT LOCAL STARTUP SUPPORT LOCAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE IN MALAYSIA, LOCAL ACQUISITIONS

LIFESTYLE KINDA ROCKS WORK-­‐LIFE
AWESOMENESS • EVERY WEEKEND IS A VACATION : AIRASIA YOURSELF TO WORLD’S TOP VACATION DESTINATIONS IN 3 HOURS • AFFORDABLE COSTS OF LIVING (LONGER RUNWAY) GOOD BALANCE OF ASIA • NOT AS ‘CHAOTIC’ AS MANILA OR JAKARTA • NOT AS ‘STERILE’ VS SINGAPORE • LOCALS SPEAK ENGLISH

10 YEARS NO TAX FOR
TECH STARTUPS + (ANGEL INVESTING TAX EXEMPT)

M&A ACTIVITY PICKING UP •
Ocision (The Star, 2013) • SAYS (Catcha, 2013) • Slashes & Dots (iJoomla, 2013) • Catcha Digital Asia (OPT, 2013) • LivingSocial (Everyday, 2012) • Groupon (GroupsMore, 2011) • Facebook (Octazen, 2010)

4/5 LARGEST SOUTHEASTASIAN TECH IPO
COMPANIES ARE FOUNDED + HQ IN MALAYSIA Table 1: Top 5 publicly listed ASEAN companies (online sector) by market capitaliza_on at 18 March 2013. Source: Catcha Group

1. Uber Social Consumers
2. High Internet & Mobile Penetra_on 3. Low Adver_sing Costs 4. Influx of investment 5. Global + Local Talent Hub 6. Global Tech Giants Growing Ac_vity 7. Lifestyle Rocks 8. 10 Years No Tax 9. M&A Increasing 10. Proven Regional IPO hub MALAYSIAN STARTUP LIFE FAST START SUSTAINABLE GROWTH PROVEN EXIT POTENTIAL

HERE TO GROW THE NEXT
GENERATION OF SUCCESSFUL SEA STARTUPS khailee@500.co