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Southeast Asia VC: Drought survivors

As weaker sentiment for technology risk cools venture capital markets globally, Southeast Asia is lagging in limbo. Investors remain bullish but continue to hold their fire amidst questions around valuations

  • Southeast Asia
  • 22 March 2023
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China IPOs: Back to New York

With regulatory challenges receding, Chinese companies are once again targeting US listings. But the journey to New York – in terms of approvals, locations, and valuations – isn’t necessarily smooth

  • Greater China
  • 15 March 2023
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Hong Kong: Action on innovation

Efforts to turn Hong Kong into a technology ecosystem are still at an early stage. Investors and start-up founders believe many of the ingredients are there, but the recipe can be flawed or ignored

  • Greater China
  • 08 March 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Special Achievement – Kok Peng Teh

Kok 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

  • Southeast Asia
  • 07 March 2023
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AVCJ Australia & New Zealand Forum 2023 special issue

  • Australasia
  • 06 March 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Exit of the Year – Small Cap: CosmoLife

When 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

  • North Asia
  • 02 March 2023
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GP profile: Yunqi Partners

It took seven years for Yunqi Partners' 2B investment thesis to be proven with the emergence of a swath of unicorns. The Chinese VC firm expects much more from the space – at rational valuations

  • Greater China
  • 01 March 2023
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Asia co-investment: Gun-shy LPs?

Overallocation, risk aversion, and troubleshooting existing deals have prompted some LPs to pull back from co-investment in Asia. Others are willing to step in, but the market is selective

  • Australasia
  • 01 March 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Deal of the Year – Mid Cap: Honour Line Shipping

Nexus Point Capital secured the acquisition of Honour Line Shipping despite higher offers from rival bidders because it did its homework on the industry and established good relations with the founders

  • Greater China
  • 27 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Fundraising of the Year – Mid Cap: Potentia Capital

For Australia’s Potentia Capital, the beauty of its sophomore fundraise was not that it took four months, but that it took two years. Putting out feelers well before the official launch created buzz

  • Australasia
  • 24 February 2023
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Data sovereignty: Compliance complex

Deglobalisation is broadening the concept of cyber risk management from simply preventing attacks to navigating a minefield of data regulations. The pressure on PE spans investment, operations, and exits

  • Regulation
  • 21 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Operational Value Add: Sona Comstar

The Blackstone Group built a leader in India’s electric vehicle components space by combining – and then re-orienting – two traditional automotive players. Not even COVID-19 could stymie its progress

  • South Asia
  • 21 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Firm of the Year – Mid Cap: Pacific Equity Partners

Reflecting on a 12-month period characterised by a string of bumper exits, Australia’s Pacific Equity Partners sees a clear connection between performance and well-established team and culture

  • Australasia
  • 17 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Operational Value-add: Owndays

L Catterton’s investment in Japanese eyewear brand Owndays demonstrated a hands-on approach to sharing commercial networks, expertise in omnichannel scaling, and operating capabilities

  • North Asia
  • 16 February 2023
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Portfolio: KKR and NVC China

KKR is targeting the short-video generation in the traditionally middle-aged world of home lighting fixtures with NVC China. But that hasn’t stopped the brick-and-mortar footprint from mushrooming

  • Greater China
  • 15 February 2023
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Value in adversity: Australia’s operational challenge

With Australia poised for a rarely-seen period of economic difficulty, the operational capabilities developed by domestic private equity firms will be put to the test

  • Australasia
  • 15 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Exit of the Year – Mid Cap: Probe CX

Five V Capital identified an opportunity in Australia-based outsourced business services and brought in Quadrant Private Equity to help scale the concept. A USD 792m exit to KKR was their reward

  • Australasia
  • 13 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Deal of the Year – Small Cap: Well-Link

By taking computing to the cloud, graphics-as-a-service player Well-Link Technologies is looking to broaden access to video games and help power the metaverse. VC investors are keen to get involved

  • Greater China
  • 09 February 2023
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AI: Asia awakens to ChatGPT

ChatGPT has sent shockwaves through the technology sector globally. Asia is no exception as investors look for ways to leverage the platform and China contemplates a standard of its own

  • North America
  • 08 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Exit of the Year – IPO: GoTo

GoTo’s rocky start on the Indonesia Stock Exchange betrays the pioneering nature of the listing and cements a legacy as an ecosystem lynchpin. Long-time backer Openspace Ventures reflects

  • Southeast Asia
  • 08 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Deal of the Year – Large Cap: Crown Resorts

Crown Resorts represented a daunting target, given its size and pandemic and regulatory-related challenges. The Blackstone Group drew on its global know-how to make the USD 8.1bn deal work

  • Australasia
  • 07 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Responsible Investment: Sido Muncul

Affinity Equity Partners leveraged a minority position to exert significant influence on the growth of Sido Mucul, an Indonesian herbal wellness brand with a complex, fragmented operating model

  • Southeast Asia
  • 06 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022 special issue available for download

A special issue of AVCJ profiling the winners of the 2022 AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards is now available for download.

  • Performance
  • 03 February 2023
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India exits: Sustainable trend?

GPs saw abundant exits in India in 2021 and the flow continued last year even as other markets stumbled. Investors must assess the merits of various contributing cyclical and structural factors

  • South Asia
  • 01 February 2023
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