Fintech Perspectives 2021 was another breakout year for venture in Southeast Asia with over $25 billion in funding deployed. The region is now well established as a startup destination, with Indonesia its crown. Whilst it is right to celebrate Indonesia’s startup success, 2021 has also been the break-out year for…

Year 2022 kicks off with investors focusing on inflation, interest rates, geopolitical risks and the tapering of QE. Many investors have been cracking their heads on how their portfolio allocation should change — from a tactical asset allocation perspective, many analysts have called for a rotation from growth to value…

We have written extensively about our thesis on employer-led financial services and digital health. In earlier posts we have written about partnering with employers to help employees avoid becoming chronic care patients, the importance of supporting employees to become asset owners, and the importance of employee access to earned wages. …

This is the third installment of our new Why We Invested series, where we’ll go into every investment we make from Fund II and talk about the problems that our portfolio companies are addressing, and what they’re doing about it. (You can find installment one, about Wagely, and installment two…

Introducing behavioral health — shifting the focus from cure to prevention. Managing chronic conditions in a prescription drug abundant world might seem like a straightforward task of diagnosis and treatment. That if patients receive the right medication and therapies, their health outcomes will improve. While the above holds some truth…

Earned Wage Access Here’s a thought experiment. You’re a blue-collar worker working the assembly line of a large well-established company. Money is tight but you’re getting by, as long as the leaky roof of your house holds up and your sputtering motorcycle doesn’t break down. You certainly wouldn’t be able…

At Integra Partners, we believe that becoming an asset owner is key to economic empowerment. Naval Ravikant, the founder of Angel.co, aptly describes in this podcast: “wealth is assets that earn while you sleep”, meaning that the only way to grow wealth is to have other people work for you…

In this Wednesday’s feature on #WinWithWomen, we switch the conversation to mental health. We speak to Dr. Tiffanie Ong who is the Chief Operating Officer at Naluri, a digital healthcare start-up that combines support for physical and mental health to address multiple chronic health conditions and delivers quantifiable health outcomes…

Southeast Asia’s financial institutions are discovering new digital-first commercial models. Digitization is blurring the boundaries of finance and disrupting the core business model of banks. Open finance — as an extension of open banking permissioned data-sharing — allows for a wider range of financial products and services to be created…