AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum 2023
Asia's premier private equity & venture event for the last 36 years
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Four Seasons Hotel, Hong Kong & Online
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KPMG
https://home.kpmg/cn/enKPMG is a global network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 147 countries and territories and have more than 219,000 people working in member firms around the world. KPMG’s Private Equity group in China provides end to end advisory and assurance services to private equity funds, venture capital funds, private credit funds, sovereign wealth and other direct investment managers. Moreover, to augment this, KPMG China and its member firms have established focused industry groups covering areas in which we have particular knowledge. Not exhaustive, but we have sector capabilities focused on Consumer Markets, Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, Industrials, Infrastructure, Logistics, Pharmaceuticals and TMT.
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Alois Ventures
http://www.alois.ventures/Alois Ventures is a Singapore based venture capital firm incorporated in 2019 by Louis Ryu, the founder/CEO. Louis Ryu founded Alois Ventures based on the 10 years of experience in global startup investment. He started his career starting from the field of M&A advisory in 2009 and had an opportunity to work at the venture capital firm in Korea. After, he moved to Korean government organization and led startup consulting and accelerating programs. In 2015, he founded an accelerator firm in Korea named Shift and led Korean startup industry as an expert of Southeast Asia market penetration. Based on the experience, Alois Ventures is taking a role as a fund manager of the funds investing in global startups, especially in Southeast Asian companies.
Currently, Alois Ventures is the co-GP of the Guardian Scaleup Fund I launched in 2020 and preparing for the next fund to launch at the end of November 2023. Both funds are led by a team of highly experienced investment professionals who are dedicated to identifying and investing in high-growth companies with the potential to generate significant returns for investors. Its team brings together a diverse set of skills and experiences, including extensive expertise in venture capital investing, investment analysis, portfolio management, and strategic planning.
Globis Capital Partners
http://www.globiscapital.co.jp/enGlobis Capital Partners is one of Japan's leading independent venture capital firm that primarily invests in Japanese startups from early stage to pre-IPO stage. Globis has managed seven funds totaling over JPY 180 billion, including latest Globis VII (final closed in March 2023 at JPY 72.7billion). All closed funds were ranked in the top quartile in global VC benchmarks in their respective vintage years, and it has multiple unicorn and unicorn potential startups in its current portfolio. About 90% of LPs are institutional investors both from and outside of Japan.
Globis almost always leads rounds and provides hands-on management support to its portfolio companies through board participation by its capitalists as well as tactical support by its value-add team GCP X. In addition, in April 2023 Globis opened a new office in San Francisco to strengthen support for the global expansion of its portfolio companies.
With its unique combination of western style investment expertise obtained through a joint venture with Apax Partners and Japan-local business expertise through Globis Group, which runs No.1 MBA program in Japan, Globis continues to lead the VC market in Japan.
GREE LP Fund
https://www.greelpfund.vcGREE LP Fund is a Venture Capital Fund of Funds headquartered in Tokyo and San Francisco. It invests in both prominent top-tier VC funds and promising emerging VC funds, including first-time managers, who are positioned to propel the next generation of innovation.
Over the past 13 years, it has made more than 80 investments, establishing its position as a leading fund of funds. By partnering with portfolio fund managers and its clients, it aims to continue accelerating innovation on a global scale.
HIKE Capital
http://www.hikecapital.comHIKE Capital, a Chinese founders fund, was established in Dec. 2015, co-founded by Mark Yang and Anna Xu.
Mark is also the founder of CARS Group and Ganji.com. Anna is the founder of NetEase News app.
As a founders fund, many of our venture partners and counselors are former founders with domain expertise. We consistently back visionary founders through all phases of growth and provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and sources they need in the technology ecosystem.
HIKE Capital manages three dual-currency funds, invests in consumption upgrade and technological innovation. As a unicorn hunter, HIKE Capital invested in Li Auto (NASDAQ:LI), RELX (NYSE: RLX), Guazi, Huohua, FlashEx, Megatronix, Yuanbao, Shimo and Halara.
MSA Capital
https://www.msacap.comMSA Capital is a global private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2014 that focuses on early and growth stage investments. The firm manages over USD 2 billion and invests in highly innovative and disruptive companies in the biotech, core tech, and consumer sectors. Notable portfolio companies include Meituan, Boss Zhipin, NIO, BGI, Yidu Cloud, Cloudr, Pyrotech, Cider, and Sironax. MSA’s LP base composed of regional and global institutional investors, as well as leading entrepreneurs from China.
TH Capital
http://www.thcapital.com.cnTH Capital was founded in 2007 as part of Tsinghua University ecosystem in Beijing. Owned and managed by the founding partners, the company has become a leading GP in China, investing growth capital in China’s most innovative and advanced high-tech companies. To date, TH Capital has invested minority shares in over 100 rapidly growing and highly profitable hard-tech companies across China, financing their development in their home market and beyond.
Based on 15 years of track record as an investor in industrial high-tech, our investment focus and ability are aligned with China’s top-level development goals, concentrating on Advanced Manufacturing, Next-Generation Technologies, Decarbonization and Frontier Technologies.
Investors in TH Capital’s funds include leading private market asset managers and financial institutions from China and abroad. Our 50 investment and research professionals execute our investment model based on proprietary in-house top-down industry research and unique resources of the Tsinghua ecosystem. With China Roots and a global vision, we have built strong value-add capabilities in China and abroad, supporting portfolio companies from offices in Beijing, Shenzhen and Zurich. Understanding the regulatory impact and strategic direction of China, TH Capital has developed an investment model investing across China’s strategic high-tech industries and exits its investment through IPOs on the stock exchanges in China.
With AUM exceeding RMB 20bn across 5 funds raised, TH Capital is raising its first USD fund in 2023 to provide international investors with unique access to the biggest growth investment opportunities across China’s high-tech industries.
True Global Ventures (TGV)
https://www.tgv4plus.comTrue Global Ventures (TGV) is a global technology venture capital firm licensed by the Monetary Authorities of Singapore. We are currently deploying mainly in Series B companies onwards with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. Our GPs are highly aligned with our LPs, in the latest Opportunity Fund with an AUM of 146M USD, 40% (62M USD) is coming from the GPs. We invest across North America, Europe and Asia, primarily in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Stockholm, London, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore. TGV is built by a group of serial entrepreneurs with a solid track record of investing their own money together with its Limited Partners in companies built by serial entrepreneurs.
Ventech China
https://www.ventechchina.comVentech China was founded in China in 2006 by Eric Huet, co-founder of Ventech Capital. Ventech China is a leading investment firm currently managing 4 USD funds and 2 RMB funds focusing on developing extraordinary opportunities in Digital Consumption, Big data, Intelligent Innovation and Hard Technology. Ventech China's portfolio includes Jumei, Secoo, AIG, Keep, Blued, WonderFul, Super Monkey, Deeproute, DFWY, Summer Farm, Switchbot, etc.
Since 1998 when Ventech Capital was founded in France, it has enjoyed the reputation of ‘Best Venture Capital in France’.
Cooley
http://www.cooley.comCooley LLP is an international law firm representing clients in a wide range of industries. Cooley has more than 1,500 lawyers across 17 offices in Asia, Europe and the United States. The firm represents 6,000+ high-growth new economy companies, 500+ venture fund families and closes over 2,000 venture and growth investments per year.
In Asia, Cooley has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. Cooley is broadly recognized for its powerhouse technology, life sciences and venture capital practices. We represent some of Asia’s most innovative and dynamic companies and leading investors, advising on their financings, M&As and joint ventures, IPOs and other strategic transactions at all stages of their growth.
Our dedication to Asia's fund industry is unparalleled and unrivaled by any other law firm. Cooley has been advising on Asia-related matters over three decades, dating back to 1989, when the firm advised on the formation of the first institutional venture capital fund investing in China. Today, we are counsel to more than 500 private investment fund organizations worldwide, including more than 90 fund managers with their primary operations in China and other Asia countries and numerous other managers outside of the region making investments in portfolio companies in Asia. We form considerably more dollar-denominated Asia venture capital and growth equity funds in dollar terms than any other law firm worldwide. We have a team of more than 40 specialist fund formation lawyers and dozens of other practitioners dedicated to serving our clients headquartered and doing business in Asia. Multiple members of our team are Mandarin-speaking, Chinese native fund formation specialists who assist our China funds clients and their investors in both USD and RMB fund formation matters.
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