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Weekly digest - March 08 2023

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08 March 2023
HONG KONG: ACTION ON INNOVATION
COVER STORY
Investors and start-up founders believe Hong Kong has many of the ingredients of a technology ecosystem, but the recipe can be flawed or ignored.
Q&A
DAMIEN WEBB OF AWARE SUPER
DAMIEN WEBB OF AWARE SUPERDamien Webb, deputy CIO and head of international at Australia’s Aware Super, on opening offices overseas, internalising asset management, and opportunities at the nexus of PE and infrastructure.
DEAL FOCUS
QIMING BACKS CHINESE GPT PIONEER
QIMING BACKS CHINESE GPT PIONEERFrontis.ai is a Chinese start-up founded by local entrepreneur who helped laid the groundwork for ChatGPT in the US. Qiming Venture Partners was won over by its product conception capabilities.
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DIGITAL MARKETING PIGGYBACKS E-COMMERCE BOOM
DIGITAL MARKETING PIGGYBACKS E-COMMERCE BOOMMalaysian digital marketing specialist Involve Asia is making hay as regional e-commerce shows no signs of slowing. Fresh VC support will guide inorganic expansion amidst erratically trendy user behaviour.
DEAL FOCUS
TIANMAT INNOVATES AROUND WORDS AND PICTURES
TIANMAT INNOVATES AROUND WORDS AND PICTURESTiamat originated from a Chinese college student’s experimentation with nascent text-to-image artificial intelligence technology. DCM China and VitalBridge Capital believe it will cut through the industry hype.
AVCJ AWARDS 2022
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT: KOK PENG TEH
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT: KOK PENG TEHKok Peng Teh spent most of his career at GIC, helping build out what has become one of the world’s largest private equity programmes and nurturing the careers of numerous industry participants.
AVCJ AWARDS 2022
EXIT OF THE YEAR - SMALL CAP: COSMO LIFE
EXIT OF THE YEAR - SMALL CAP: COSMO LIFEWhen selling CosmoLife, Advantage Partners prioritised strategics with existing customer bases that could help the Japanese drinking water company in its next chapter. This coincided with a healthy valuation.
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