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Asia exits: Pass the parcel
Allegro Funds has completed three exits this year – favorable outcomes involving retail businesses the Australian private equity firm had turned around, but in each case the inability...
China IPOs: Offshore angst
The path connecting Beijing and Shanghai with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ is well-trod. More than 200 private equity-backed companies have completed the journey since...
Asia agglomeration: Strength in numbers?
Of the nearly 25 brands acquired to date by Singapore-based agglomeration platform Una Brands, Bellaforte might have the most compelling origin story. The founder, Australian Sam Richards,...
China VC: Funding puzzles
Sequoia Capital China has achieved a scale unmatched by any other US dollar-denominated VC firm in the country. Its most recent fundraising effort in 2020 saw USD 180m accumulated for...
Flexibility first: Investing in the future of work
Apis Partners invested in Giift on the back of growth in a global loyalty program market that is becoming increasingly personalised. Rather than simply award points for every dollar...
Leveraged finance: ESG sells
The USD 3.2bn loan issued to Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) last October, which includes interest rate breaks for the achievement of decarbonisation and diversity targets across...
BNPL: Voodoo economics?
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a fundamentally different proposition in developing markets versus developed markets. Where traditional credit availability is low, BNPL is not just a...
China guidance funds: Money monsters
... back into local businesses can be a challenge. The standard arrangement is that for every $1 raised from the fund, $1.50 must be deployed in the target area. However, Yong Zhang ... minimum local investment for every $1 from its guidance fund from $2 to $1.10. In August, Zhuhai’s Hengqin New District went as low as $1. Dalian typically asks portfolio GPs ...
Southeast Asia's shadow capital: Out of the darkness
Reeling from a COVID-19-driven collapse in travel, Indonesian online travel services business Traveloka saw revenue hit zero in March and April of last year. Three months later, Qatar...
China regulation: Taming the giants
Ant Group presented the Beijing-based chip design company with a potentially transformative proposal. It would lead a Series A round and use the company’s technology in an instant-claim...
China university start-ups: Campus creativity
One otherwise lazy weekend morning, several main roads at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) are blocked off so a self-driving car can do test runs. Meanwhile ... incubation phase focused on business model validation. Teams get angel funding of up to HK$1 million each. Once the start-ups are ready to launch, external funding of up to HK ...
Myanmar: Asia’s anguish
... no-go if the government is involved in management or ownership in any way. Some might say 5% is okay.” There are a few key factors that further complicate this due diligence ... managing the risk by writing small checks. The standout investment, Nexlabs, raised about $1 million in total across several rounds. Nexlabs was a local leader in online ...
Japan fundraising: Middle-market machine
... Japanese manager in 2013, when fundraising recovered to $1.7 billion after four years of sub-$1 billion totals. Yar-Ping Soo, a partner at Adams Street, describes a market ... think they should get some exposure to the middle market as well.” For sub-$1 billion funds, these tend to be endowments and foundations, insurance companies, family offices ...
L Catterton Asia: Unhappy families?
Four-and-a-half years on from the merger of Catterton and L Capital, the firm now known as L Catterton would rather talk about the future than the past. “I hear ... messages rather than a unified narrative. Nevertheless, a couple of closes with around $1 billion in commitments – against an overall target of $1.25 billion – came in 2018 ...
China autonomous driving: Dimension jump
Cixin Liu, a best-selling Chinese science fiction writer, describes in “Three Body” an attack by a four-dimensional civilization on a three-dimensional counterpart ... every day by shadowing drivers of its electric vehicles (EVs). In China, there are fewer than 1,000 L4-enabled cars nationwide. Tesla delivered more than 88,000 of its EVs ...
Blockchain: Going mainstream
... reduces merchant fees from 3% to 1%. Chai was spun off as an independent in 2020 and has already received two investments this year: a $25 million commitment from crypto specialists Galaxy Digital, Coinbase Ventures, and Pantera Capital; and a $60 million Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia. Already used by 5% of Koreans, the company is building ...
Corporate VC: Appetite for disruption
Assembly Payments was an early mover in the payments space, launching its plug-in technology for online marketplaces in 2014. Reinventure – an Australia-based VC firm that is aligned...
China SaaS: Path to profitability
Investors are wary of China’s technology sector. What began with Ant Group’s aborted IPO last November has escalated into anti-monopoly investigations targeting top domestic ... widespread in China’s e-commerce industry, with Meituan is currently facing a potential $1 billion fine for the same offense. “A small merchant can now sell on multiple ...
China biotech: Going global
... 2020, more than the previous two years combined. Commitments to biotech rose 3.5-fold to $5 billion, while pharmaceuticals more than doubled to $8.5 billion. In 2021 to date ... China. This makes it very difficult to support a biotech company at a valuation above $1 billion if the lead asset is only developed for the local market.” ... A gradual shift ...
Private wealth: Talent war
Markus Egloff joined KKR last year with a brief to build out the firm’s coverage of Asia’s private wealth segment. He has assembled a team of nine so far in Hong Kong, Singapore,...