Southeast Asia Startup Funding Hits $7.25B in H1 2026

Southeast Asian startups raised $7.25 billion across 217 deals in the first half of 2026, the strongest equity funding total since H1 2022. But deal volume fell to its lowest since at least 2018, and DayOne's $4.5 billion Series C alone lifted the total, leaving the market above the trough but not in broad recovery.