Jul.15 — Paul Santos, managing partner at Wavemaker Partners LLC, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on business-to-business startups, talks about the opportunities he sees in Southeast Asia. The Singapore-based firm has closed its third investment fund for the region at $111 million. Santos, who also discusses how the coronavirus crisis is affecting the island-state, speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.”
In This Story: Singapore
The country’s territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet, the combined area of which has increased by 25% since the country’s independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects. It has the second greatest population density in the world. The country has almost 5.7 million residents, 61% (3.4 million) of whom are Singaporean citizens. There are four official languages of Singapore: English, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil; with English being the lingua franca.