Total funding into Southeast Asia (SEA) tech startups fell 71% to US$2.3 billion in the first half of 2023, from US$8 billion a year ago, said Tracxn Technologies Ltd in its SEA Tech Semi-Annual Funding report. The total funding in the first half is 45% lower than US$4.3 billion raised in the second half of 2022. The decline was largely driven by a plunge in late-stage investments in the first half, which fell 54% and 72% when compared with the second half of 2022 and first half of 2022 respectively.

This is one of the lowest capital raising periods for Latin American startups in the last five years, according to a study by Endeavor. Latin American companies only raised US$406 million in the first quarter of 2023, according to the Venture Capital and Growth Equity Ecosystem 2023 study. The study also revealed that the number of investments is 40% above the first quarter of 2021.