Funds forsake the females 


THE numbers are in. South-East Asia’s venture markets are bouncing back. Female founders, not so much. And now a war nobody planned for is about to make things harder.

There is a particular kind of progress that looks good on paper until you read it carefully. The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2025 offers one such moment.

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