{"id":635867,"date":"2026-10-20T02:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635867\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T02:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:58:17","slug":"southeast-asian-startups-run-into-structural-roadblocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635867\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Asian startups run into structural roadblocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/0.png\" alt=\"20261020 AM Southeast Asia startups analysis img\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleCaption_featureArticleCaption__eXLkj\" data-trackable=\"caption\" style=\"display:block\">Many Southeast Asian startups are struggling to attract capital and grow beyond regional markets. People in the ecosystem cite a failure to attract foreigners, opaque legal systems, a shortage of capital and an inability to appeal to global audiences as reasons for this. (Nikkei Asia illustration)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7 FeatureArticleTag_featureArticleTag__Icbk9\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/asean-money\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASEAN Money<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleSubhead_featureArticleSubhead__9P3Jq\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Lack of openness to foreign entrepreneurs, opaque bureaucracy, shortage of capital among issues cited<\/p>\n<p>JOSEPH RACHMAN<\/p>\n<p>October 20, 2026 06:00 JST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Southeast Asian startups are struggling to attract capital and grow beyond regional markets. People in the ecosystem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6213,138,219,111,139,69,163882,8145,29101,1046,85431],"class_list":["post-635867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asian","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-roadblocks","tag-run","tag-southeast","tag-startups","tag-structural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}