Diana Teoh
Co-General Partner of NextBlaze Ventures
Diana Teoh is a consultant, startup ecosystem builder, and capital strategist. Her work focuses on empowering women-led ventures, unlocking capital for underserved communities, and catalyzing local innovations at the intersection of capacity building, youth, gender and green growth.
Dec 15, 2025
For decades, Western multinationals and tech firms built Malaysia’s export base while China financed its railways, ports, and industrial zones -- a balance Kuala Lumpur managed with unusual ease. Now, rare-earth ambitions are pulling that equilibrium in new directions, intensifying debates at home over control, national interest, and how far neutrality can stretch.
