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08 Oct 2026, 4:08 PM	Digital News Asia	4.5	MDI Ventures sharpens Southeast Asia thesis around AI and digital asset infrastructure MDI Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Indonesia's PT Telkom Indonesia, has widened its Southeast Asia thesis from enterprise AI to also cover AI infrastructure, governance software, real-world asset tokenisation, institutional custody and regulated digital asset infrastructure. Its sourcing starts in Singapore, with portfolio companies expected to scale into Indonesia through TelkomGroup's enterprise relationships and national infrastructure footprint. The piece cites AI taking 61% of global VC (US$260bn) in 2025, over US$2bn going into roughly 680-700 active Southeast Asian AI startups in the 12 months to June 2025 (~32% of regional private funding), even as total SEA private funding hit a six-year low of US$1.85bn across 229 deals in H1 2025. Why: If you are building AI infrastructure, compliance/governance tooling, tokenisation or custody products in Southeast Asia, this tells you the money is concentrated: Singapore took ~57% of regional AI funding (495 startups, US$1.31bn), so a Singapore entity plus an Indonesia go-to-market via a telco partner is the shape being funded. For everyone else, treat the headline AI number carefully - it sits on top of a six-year funding low, so 'AI is 32% of SEA private funding' means the non-AI pool shrank, not that capital got easier. The text says nothing about Malaysia, so do not read a Malaysian opportunity into it beyond the regional pattern. venture-capital southeast-asia ai-infrastructure digital-assets funding

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08 Oct 2026, 4:08 PM

Digital News Asia

4.5

MDI Ventures sharpens Southeast Asia thesis around AI and digital asset infrastructure

MDI Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Indonesia's PT Telkom Indonesia, has widened its Southeast Asia thesis from enterprise AI to also cover AI infrastructure, governance software, real-world asset tokenisation, institutional custody and regulated digital asset infrastructure. Its sourcing starts in Singapore, with portfolio companies expected to scale into Indonesia through TelkomGroup's enterprise relationships and national infrastructure footprint. The piece cites AI taking 61% of global VC (US$260bn) in 2025, over US$2bn going into roughly 680-700 active Southeast Asian AI startups in the 12 months to June 2025 (~32% of regional private funding), even as total SEA private funding hit a six-year low of US$1.85bn across 229 deals in H1 2025.

Why: If you are building AI infrastructure, compliance/governance tooling, tokenisation or custody products in Southeast Asia, this tells you the money is concentrated: Singapore took ~57% of regional AI funding (495 startups, US$1.31bn), so a Singapore entity plus an Indonesia go-to-market via a telco partner is the shape being funded. For everyone else, treat the headline AI number carefully - it sits on top of a six-year funding low, so 'AI is 32% of SEA private funding' means the non-AI pool shrank, not that capital got easier. The text says nothing about Malaysia, so do not read a Malaysian opportunity into it beyond the regional pattern.