Startup entity
Khazanah Nasional Bhd is the most frequent co-covered peer, appearing in 2 of the 2 tracked stories. Across an 18-day span, the pace is roughly 0.8 stories per week. Coverage clusters in accelerator, which accounts for 1 of those 2, with the remainder spread across 1 other category.
Last mentioned: Aug 8, 2026
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Coverage balance Positive coverage leads. Positive coverage exceeds negative coverage by 50 percentage points.
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Khazanah Nasional Bhd is the most frequent co-covered peer, appearing in 2 of the 2 tracked stories. Across an 18-day span, the pace is roughly 0.8 stories per week. Coverage clusters in accelerator, which accounts for 1 of those 2, with the remainder spread across 1 other category. Their average consequence score of 5.5 runs below the beat's 5.8 for that window. Each story carries 2 original sources on average, compared with 2.3 for the broader beat in this window. This profile follows 2 Startup stories mentioning Dana Impak across the period from August 8, 2026 to August 25, 2026.
Computed from the 2 stories linked to this entity, with beat comparisons drawn from all 99 Startup stories published in the same date window. Shares are omitted below five stories and comparisons below a twenty-story baseline.
Coverage cohort
Other entities that clear the same relevance threshold in stories also covering Dana Impak. Shared-story counts are live from our verified record — not editorial picks.
GEAR-uP Progress Report released
Ministry of Finance publishes the report detailing the achievements and structure of the venture funding programs.
RM588 million deployed
Jelawang Capital and Dana Perintis channel RM588 million into consumer, digital, agritech, and edtech startups.
Jelawang Capital launched
Khazanah launches Jelawang Capital as Malaysia's national fund-of-funds with an initial RM1 billion allocation (2024–2028) under Dana Impak.
Consolidation of VC entities
Khazanah merges MAVCAP and Penjana Kapital to form a combined venture vehicle.
Dana Perintis introduced
KWAP launches Dana Perintis, a RM500 million early-stage fund (2024–2028) to provide growth capital to startups.
After SkyeChip's 95x oversubscribed IPO, Khazanah Nasional aims to replicate the startup-to-scale path through its Dana Impak programme. Malaysian founders now have a clearer blueprint: secure VC backing, then leverage sovereign and institutional capital for growth.
Over 130 Malaysian startups, including nearly 30 Bumiputera-founded ventures, have been supported by Jelawang Capital and Dana Perintis since 2020, with RM588 million deployed in 2025 alone. The fund-of-funds approach gives founders access to follow-on capital and a wider network of domestic and regional investors.
Dana Impak is linked from 2 stories on this site, each scored at or above our 35% relevance threshold — see how these pages are built.
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