Venture Fund Returns in the 10% Range: ASEAN VC Highlights Risk Capital

At the 2026 Dong-A International Finance Forum held on May 14 at Lotte Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul, under the theme “The Age of Creative Destruction, the Path of Innovative Finance,” Victor Chua, founder of Malaysia’s Vynn Capital, said ASEAN venture capital is focusing investment on fintech, greentech and healthtech. Chua, who discovered and helped grow Carsome, Malaysia’s first unicorn, rejected the view that venture investment is speculation. He explained that in 2015, USD 2 billion in venture investment in ASEAN generated about USD 32 billion in revenue. At the forum, innovation finance experts from Korea and abroad presented ideas under the theme “The Meeting of K-Finance and Global Productive Finance.” Source: rss.donga.com