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Chasing liquidity and limelight

What lies beyond that door?

Nov 15, 2025
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Today’s late night post covers two Malaysian companies hunting for liquidity and a bit of limelight.

✨ I’ve added a little new section — called Backchannel — in the middle of the newsletter that might interest readers in the VC/PE space.

I’m planning to keep this as regular as possible as it could be a brilliant flywheel.

Lastly, I close off the newsletter with a little brief on the options for recycled politicians Khairy Jamaluddin and Tengku Zafrul Aziz.

Some ICYMIs below 👇🏾 including a founding members’ special. Quite the heavy week, I must say.

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Let’s begin with a bunch of names in the IPO grapevine.

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