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Profile: Venturra’s John Riady

A millennial member of one of Indonesia’s most prominent family business groups, John Riady became a VC investor in 2011. He has witnessed a nascent digital economy begin to fulfil its promise

  • Southeast Asia
  • 27 September 2023
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Novo Tellus hits $375m first close on third Indo-Pacific fund

Novo Tellus Capital Partners, an investor in industrial technology assets across the Indo-Pacific region, has reached a first close of approximately USD 375m on its third fund – matching the overall target for the vehicle.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 26 September 2023
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Leapfrog invests $50m in Singapore's Bolttech

LeapFrog Investments has invested USD 50m in Singapore’s Bolttech, the insurance technology business of Pacific Century Group.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 22 September 2023
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Family offices: A role for Hong Kong?

Hong Kong’s package of incentives for family offices is intended to redress a balance that has swung in favour of Singapore. Geopolitics is dampening its competitive advantages

  • LPs
  • 20 September 2023
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Cybersecurity: PE urged to go post-quantum

Private equity firms with masses of information, long histories, and long futures will be vulnerable to code-cracking quantum computers perceived as lurking on an inevitable near-term horizon

  • Southeast Asia
  • 20 September 2023
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Fund focus: Vertex emphasizes realisations

Growth rounds for cashflow positive companies have facilitated most of Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India’s exits – and laid the ground for its recent USD 541m fundraise

  • South Asia
  • 20 September 2023
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Growtheum backs Indonesia's Kin Dairy

Southeast Asia-focused Growtheum Capital Partners has announced its second dairy deal in five months, with an investment in Indonesia-based ABC Kogen Dairy, commonly known as Kin Dairy.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 19 September 2023
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KKR buys stake in Singtel's Asia data centre business

KKR has agreed to acquire a 20% stake in Singtel’s Asia data centre business for SGD 1.1bn (USD 800m) via its infrastructure strategy.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 18 September 2023
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Lion X, Vickers lead Series B for Singapore's Awak

Lion X Ventures and Vickers Venture Partners have led a Series B round of approximately USD 20m for Awak Technologies, a Singaporean start-up that makes wearable dialysis treatment devices.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 15 September 2023
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MDI merges SE Asia programmes, launches $200m fund

MDI Ventures, an investment firm supported by Telkom Indonesia, has merged two existing programmes to form Ascent Venture Group, which is looking to raise USD 200m for deployment in Southeast Asia.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 14 September 2023
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Jungle, Openspace back Singapore e-commerce services player

Singapore-based e-commerce services provider Amp, which was founded by the team behind inventory and order management platform TradeGecko, has raised USD 18.5m in Series A funding.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 14 September 2023
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Japanese insurer ups stake in PE-backed Singapore Life

Sumitomo Life will become the largest shareholder in Singapore Life (Singlife) – an insurer also backed by TPG Capital – having agreed to acquire Aviva’s 25.9% stake in the business for GBP 800m (USD 999m).

  • Southeast Asia
  • 14 September 2023
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Vertex raises $541m for Southeast Asia, India

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (VVSEAI), an early-stage investor affiliated with Temasek Holdings-owned Vertex Holdings, has closed its fifth fund with USD 541m in commitments.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 13 September 2023
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Fund focus: 500 Global scales up in Southeast Asia

By investing early and building a diversified portfolio, 500 Global emerged from the technology valuation corrections somewhat unscathed. This gave the firm impetus when raising its third Southeast Asia fund

  • Southeast Asia
  • 13 September 2023
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Deal focus: ShawKwei delivers US deal flow

ShawKwei & Partners found its niche in Asia-based industrials businesses with relative cost advantages. Thanks to geopolitics and shifting growth patterns, the GP is now targeting assets in North America

  • North America
  • 12 September 2023
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Singapore student-run VC programme launches new fund

Protégé Ventures (PV), a student-run venture fund programme set up by the Singapore Management University Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SMU IIE) has launched a second fund of SGD 500,000 (USD 367,000).

  • Southeast Asia
  • 12 September 2023
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ShawKwei completes duo of US acquisitions

Asia-focused industrials specialist ShawKwei & Partners has completed two investments in the US spanning packaging manufacturing and environmental chemicals.

  • North America
  • 08 September 2023
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GP profile: Quona Capital

Financial innovation-focused Quona Capital operates across global developing markets with a compact team and a strict returns-focused impact agenda. Asia dominates the growth narrative

  • South Asia
  • 06 September 2023
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500 Global raises $143m for Southeast Asia

500 Global has raised USD 100m for its third Southeast Asia-focused early-stage fund and USD 43m for a vehicle that will target growth-stage start-ups in the region.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 06 September 2023
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CP Group, LDA Capital launch $2b Southeast Asia fund

Thailand-based conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group (CP Group) has launched a USD 2bn fund that will focus on high-growth middle-market companies in Southeast Asia.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 06 September 2023
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Indonesia VC: Institutional upgrade?

Having won early support from as assortment of local conglomerates, Indonesian venture capital firms must now demonstrate their independence when pitching international LPs

  • Southeast Asia
  • 06 September 2023
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Templewater buys Singapore precision engineering player

Templewater, a Hong Kong-headquartered investment firm that spun out from Investec Group’s principal investments division, has acquired Singapore-based precision engineering business Knight Auto Precision Engineering.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 01 September 2023
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Dymon exits Singapore's AMES via trade sale

Dymon Asia Private Equity has sold 100% of Singapore-based biohazardous waste disposal business Asia Medical Enviro Services (AMES) to Indonesia-listed coal miner TBS Energi Utama.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 29 August 2023
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Indonesia's Venturra teams up with Dasym for next fundraise

Indonesian venture capital firm Venturra has teamed up with Netherlands-based investment group Dasym to institutionalise operations ahead of the launch of its next fund.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 28 August 2023
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