Pierrick Bouffaron

Frontier SG tech: what’s next?

With a unique economic development model—an open economy framework combined with a decisive state intervention—Singapore has demonstrated remarkable economic success. With its highly developed costs, the country now needs to compete close to the frontier of the global knowledge economy, as opposed to the earlier, more straightforward task of technological catch-up. Read on Medium (September 2023, 🇬🇧)

Fundraising: frontier tech or frontier finance?

Fundraising for frontier tech entrepreneurs is still incredibly challenging. Investors naturally gravitate to sectors where the cost of experimentation is low, independent of the sectors with the greatest need for innovation, or even where the supply of innovative ideas is the greatest. Most financiers’ struggle to balance the potential of frontier tech with the complexity of execution.

Can Southeast Asian VCs nurture frontier tech unicorns?

In frontier tech, market fundamentals, playbooks, and growth metrics are specific to the field, and meteoric growth (and valuation increases) is very rarely seen during the maturation stage. Most Southeast Asian investors still hesitate to embrace these new investment models, wary of technology risk, their unfamiliarity with the required execution, as well as the expected time to exit.