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SVCA                                SVCA 20/20 Conference

Quarterly                           VCC Interview with MAS
                                    Reining in the Unicorns

Inaugural SVCA quarterly bulletin   In Conversation with Affirma
                                    Capital
Jan 2020, Issue 2
                                    Thoughts from the Industry: From
                                    2019 to 2020
                                    Secondaries Trending: NewQuest
                                    ASEAN Fundraising at a Glance
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Foreword
 I n the blink of the eye, the 2010s is now behind us, and what
   a decade it has been. 2017-2019 has also set new highs on
                                                                          Content
 fundraising,
   fundraising,deal
                dealvolume,
                       volume,and
                                andvaluations
                                     valuationsnot
                                                 not seen
                                                     seen since
                                                          since the
 global financial crisis, according to Preqin.
   global financial crisis, according to Preqin.
                                                                          SVCA 20/20 …………………..…3
 The 2010s will go down in history as the birth of unicorns in            VCC Interview with MAS …..…4
 Southeast Asia, which also blurred the lines between VCs and
    n the blink of the   eye, the 2010s  is now
                                             Thebehind
                                                   PE-VC us, and what
 PEs,  particularly  in later stage funding.             convergence      Reining in The Unicorns …..…6
 is a decade to
    expected   it has
                  growbeen.   2017-2019
                        with greater       has of
                                     numbers   also  set new
                                                  unicorns outhighs  on
                                                               raising.
 Butfundraising,
      2019 ended   deal
                      onvolume,
                          a somberandnote,
                                      valuations
                                           with thenot seen since
                                                     WeWork         the
                                                              debacle     In Conversation with Affirma
    global financial  crisis, according to Preqin.
 serving as a cautionary tale for aspiring unicorns and investors
 alike on a number of issues: valuations, governance, judgement,          Capital …………………………..…8
 and perhaps most importantly, values.

 We are entering the Year of the Rat, amid global uncertainties
                                                                                   W
                                                                          Thoughts from the Industry …10
 caused by US-China trade tensions many believe will persist
                                                                          Secondaries Trending:
 despite a pending ‘deal’. The US vs China ‘war’ has surfaced an
 underlying distrust between the two super powers; in fact, the           NewQuest ……………………..…12
 2010s will also be remembered as a decade of mistrust - even
 as technology made huge leaps transforming our daily lives –             Data Snapshot ………………..…13
 closing in 2019 with global protests.
                                                                          News in Brief ..………………..…14
 “Trust in either governments or markets to give people a fair
 chance in life has faded in many countries. Compounding this,                          0000
 a sense of togetherness amongst people has given way to one
                                                                          ASEAN Fundraising at a
 of ‘us versus them’.” Singapore’s Senior Minister Tharman                Glance ………..………………..…17
 Shanmugaratnam was quoted as saying in a speech he gave in
 the UK.

 We live in challenging times, but the events in the 2010s and
 lessons learned will hopefully guide us into the new decade
 starting from 2020. The theme of SVCA’s biennial PE and VC
 conference is: Developing Hindsight Vision. SVCA 20/20 will be
 hosted at Sofitel City Centre on 5th & 6th of May, 2020. This year,
 we hope to showcase more entrepreneurs, family businesses
 and family offices.

 Family businesses undergo succession issues which present
 opportunities for private equity. At the same time, the next
 generation of business owners are keen to adopt and/or invest
 in technology. SVCA 20/20 will provide the platform for
                                                                          This publication was made possible
 meaningful engagement and exchange of ideas.
                                                                          by:
 In addition to professional training and seminars, we also hope
                                                                          Contributor & Researcher:
 to add new social events in 2020 to foster greater community
                                                                          Dominic Hosea Tan, Research and
 togetherness and simply have fun. We hope this second issue
                                                                          Communications Executive, SVCA
 captures key headlines in 4Q. Do send your input for the next
 issue to sharon@svca.org.sg.
                                                                          Advisor
 Happy new year,                                                          Doris Yee, Director, SVCA
 Sharon Lim
 Director of Content

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Variable Capital Company (VCC) Interview with MAS
Briefly, what are the key benefits and features of the        Can you tell us how you promote VCC to LPs and whether
VCC?                                                          MAS is planning on further promotion efforts in 2020?
The VCC is a new corporate vehicle for use by                 The VCC has features that are on par with these flexible
investment funds. Incorporating features that are             corporate structures in international fund jurisdictions,
aligned with that of other fund jurisdictions, the VCC will   such as the ICAV in Ireland and SICAV in Luxembourg.
enhance Singapore’s value proposition as a fund               MAS’ objective is to engage fund houses and service
domicile hub.                                                 providers, as well as promote investor familiarity and
                                                              allow LPs to better understand the benefits when
Firstly, the VCC provides flexibility to structure
                                                              investment funds are structured as VCCs.
investment funds; open-ended and closed-end funds,
across different strategies. Shares can be issued and         We have conducted several roadshows to promote the
redeemed easily. It can also pay dividends using its          VCC framework to LPs and asset owners globally so that
capital.                                                      investors are familiar and fund managers can focus
                                                              their fundraising efforts on articulating the investment
Secondly, a VCC may be established as a standalone
                                                              thesis of the fund. We will continue to engage the
structure, or as an umbrella structure with multiple sub-
                                                              industry overseas after the VCC is launched. Local
funds with different investment objectives, investors as
                                                              industry engagement and partnership with industry
well as assets and liabilities. Sub-funds within a VCC can
                                                              associations like SVCA, is also important to educate
share a board of directors and service providers,
                                                              members of the new opportunities that the VCC
consolidate administrative functions and reduce cross-
                                                              framework brings to the industry.
border administrative and compliance costs. VCCs can
also make use of Singapore’s competitive tax regime.
The feedback from SVCA members on VCC has been
wide-ranging from “really useful” to “we’ll stick to
Cayman, or Luxembourg.” There is also the “wait-and-
see” camp. What feedback are you getting from GPs?
Over the past two years, we have been engaging both
Singapore-based and overseas GPs as well as service
providers to gather feedback on the VCC framework. In
general, the funds industry has been very receptive of
the new VCC framework. GPs have highlighted the
flexibility of the VCC structure, cost and tax                                                     Elean Chin
efficiencies of using a Singapore corporate structure                                              Head, Insurance,
                                                                                                   Funds and
as the key factors to consider using the VCC
                                                                                                   Infrastructure
framework. Singapore’s strong rule of law was also                                                 Finance Division, MAS
cited as a key factor providing greater certainty and
safeguard against any cross-cell contamination in the
event of insolvency.                                          Given that the VCC was created to        provide
                                                                                                   Elean  Chin a viable
                                                              alternative to fund structures from the  Cayman
                                                                                                   Head,         Islands,
                                                                                                          Insurance,
We are encouraged that some overseas-based fund               what advantages does the VCC haveFunds over and
                                                                                                          its Cayman or
managers and service providers in Europe and the US                                                Infrastructure
                                                              British Virgin Islands (BVI) counterparts?
are aware of the VCC. Some of these are planning to                                                Finance Division, MAS
anchor their investment activities in Singapore and           The VCC as a fund structure has features which are on
intending to use the VCC to tap into opportunities in Asia.   par with leading available fund structures globally. For
As for Singapore-based managers, the VCC pilot                fund managers already located in Singapore, the VCC
programme has received good interest from a variety of        will add co-location benefits and tax access to
fund managers, offering both regional and international       Singapore’s extensive DTA network. Co-locating the fund
strategies, to incorporate their investment funds, or         and fund manager in Singapore will also demonstrate
redomicile their existing funds.                              additional substance through investment activities
                                                              undertaken locally.

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Briefly, what are the key benefits and features of the
VCC?                                                          Can you tell us how you promote VCC to LPs and whether
                                                              MAS is planning on further promotion efforts in 2020?
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One of the VCC’s most touted features is the legal             MAS embarked on a pilot with several VCCs in 2019.
segregation of the sub-funds under the umbrella                What motivated this pilot programme?
structure. A general concern of LPs is that this
segregation may not be “water-tight” or respected in           We are encouraged by the overwhelming response from
other jurisdictions. Can you elaborate the steps has MAS       fund managers when we called for a VCC pilot in Q4 last
taken to address this concern?                                 year!

We have required the segregation of sub-funds under            The pilot programme was intended to allow fund
the Singapore law. Taking the example of two sub-funds         managers who are seeking to set up their new
under a single umbrella, in the event of sub-fund 1’s          investment funds as VCCs, or redomicile their existing
insolvency, it may be wound up as if it were a separate        funds into Singapore as VCCs, to kickstart the process
legal person. Sub-fund 1 will have no right over assets        early and time their incorporation of VCCs with the
in sub-fund 2, the VCC itself or any other sub-funds           incorporation of the framework. This will also allow MAS
under the VCC, as prescribed in the VCC Act. There are         and ACRA to work closely with the pilot managers on the
also penalties hardcoded into the law for breaches of          process and resolve any potential issues which may
the requirements to segregate assets and liabilities of        arise post implementation.
sub-funds. Also, where there is a breach, the relevant         Moving forward, are there further enhancements being
law enforcement agencies will take the necessary action        planned for the VCC?
to investigate and enforce this requirement.
                                                               The VCC framework is a continuous work-in-progress,
The VCC provides for inward domiciliation of foreign           and MAS will continue to solicit feedback to improve the
funds, what about the conversion of existing Singapore-        VCC framework for use by Singapore-based fund
domiciled fund structures to the VCC?                          managers and enhance Singapore’s status as a leading
We note that there is demand from Singapore-based              fund management and domiciliation hub. The industry
fund managers to convert their funds to the VCC.               can look forward to continued engagement and future
Following the implementation of the VCC framework,             updates from MAS.
MAS will consider the conversion of Singapore legal
entities such as investment holding companies to the
VCC.
Can the VCC be used as a master structure to allow for
the use of Cayman or Luxemburg structures to introduce
LPs to the VCC?
As long as the VCC is constituted as a Collective
Investment Scheme (CIS), managed by a permissible
fund manager and satisfies the relevant requirements,
there are no restrictions for use of VCC as master or
feeder funds.
How are economic commitments for the S13X incentive
computed for the VCC umbrella structure with sub-
funds?
For an umbrella VCC structure, economic commitments
required under the S13X tax incentive will be applied at
the umbrella level. Hence, for a VCC with multiple sub-           SVCA would be happy to connect interested
funds, it can make a single application for all the existing      parties to relevant contacts at MAS or service
sub-funds and only needs to fulfil a combined AUM of              providers who are advocates of VCC.
S$50 million and local business spending per year of
S$200,000. However, multiple fold requirements on                 Contact us at research@svca.org.sg (Dominic
trading entities such as Master-feeder SPVs and Master-           Tan)
SPVs will remain the same.
MAS embarked on a pilot with several VCCs in 2019.
What motivated this pilot programme?
We are encouraged by the overwhelming response from
fund managers
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year!
The pilot programme was intended to allow fund
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Reining in The Unicorns
F  irst Theranos. Then WeWork. The fallen darlings in
   the world of unicorn startups were founded by
charismatic, arguably
   charismatic,       inspiring
                arguably inspiringcult
                                   cultleader-types the
                                                             Fig 1. Post IPO performance of Unicorns from the Open Price of the first
                                                             day of trading to the Close Price of 27 November 2019
                                                                150.0%
media loved, people followed, and billionaires like Tim
Draper, Rupert Murdoch and the Waltons (owners of               100.0%
Walmart) to Masayoshi Son invested in.
                                                                 50.0%                                                               2019
Theranos turned out to be a “massive fraud” and                                                                                      2018
Elizabeth Holmes who founded the biotech unicorn will              0.0%
stand trial in August. WeWork’s valuations plummeted
                                                                -50.0%
84% from $47 billion to $7.5 billion after failing to IPO,
following which founder CEO Adam Neumann was                   -100.0%
forced to resign with a $1.7 billion pay-out. Masayoshi      1. List of 63 unicorns downloaded from Crunchbase, “Unicorn Startups that Exited in
regrets his misjudgement.                                    2019” and “Unicorn Startups that Exited in 2018”. Only IPOs on the HKSE, NYSE, and
                                                             NASDAQ are considered.
Governance Matters                                           Fig 2. Post IPO performance of non-Unicorns from Open Price of the first
                                                             day of trading to the Close Price of 27 November 2019
It is not fair to compare the two, a venture capitalist
                                                                700.00%
objected, clarifying: “Theranos is a fraud, WeWork is a
                                                                600.00%
case of bad governance.” Financing poor governance
can lead to fraudulent practices, and Softbank’s                500.00%
attempt to improve governance at WeWork suggests                400.00%
they understand the risks of poor governance. How                                                                                  2019
                                                                300.00%
WeWork goes about rectifying poor governance will be                                                                               2018
                                                                200.00%
closely monitored by many, and hopefully inspire some
                                                                100.00%
to adopt and implement good governance.
                                                                   0.00%
Startup Winter
                                                               -100.00%
Nonetheless, WeWork has arguably onset the winter for
                                                             2. IPOs between 2018 and November 2019 on the HKSE, NYSE, NASDAQ are
startups and VCs, and lowered tolerance toward cash-         considered. IPOs of Unicorns, detected secondary IPOs and IPOs with little data on
                                                             date of download are removed from the sample size.
burning startups and IPO stocks. "How investors see
companies to invest into is sometimes seasonal. Yes,           “Many unicorns have raised hundreds of millions if not
there is a season of 'winter' here right now," Andre           billions in multiple rounds of financing prior to IPO.
Soelistyo, co-CEO of Indonesia's largest unicorn, Gojek,       Although most are not yet profitable, they have all
was quoted as saying in late November, after the sharp         grown rapidly with significant operations and
valuation mark down of WeWork, and lacklustre public           manpower. Post IPO, there can be some pressure on
performance at Uber and Lyft in 2019.                          share prices as early investors pare down their stakes
Unicorn vs Non-Unicorns                                        to realise returns and founders/employees exercise
                                                               their stock options to gain liquidity," Doris Yee,
SVCA compared 631 unicorns that went public with 7092          Director at SVCA explained.
non-unicorn IPOs, from 2018 to November 2019, on the
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), NASDAQ, and the                Unicorns Going Public
Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE); we compared their             Most, if not all, unicorns aspire towards an IPO, but as
post IPO performance from the very first open price to         funds grow in size, and funding rounds rise with
the last close price on Nov 27 2019.                           greater amounts of capital going to unicorns, most are
                                                               expected to stay private for longer.
Here’s what we found: 28.6 % of unicorns traded above
their first-day open price compared to 38.5% of non-           The multiple funding rounds underscoring high private
unicorns. This could be a case of non-unicorns being           market valuations prior to an IPO could mean little
underinvested and thus being highly valued by public           further upside for retail investors by the time a unicorn
investors when they are made available to the public           goes public. This in part explains the widening private
markets.                                                       and public market disconnect, and lacklustre stock
                                                               performance of Uber and Lyft.

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According to CNBC, when Adam Neumann took $3bn                Out with moat capital
from Softbank in November 2018, and $2bn in January           Grab’s and Gojek’s track record in capital raising
2019, WeWork’s value skyrocketed from $20 billion to          suggests the region’s small pool of unicorns have an
$47 billion. By comparison, Grab’s valuation increase,        easy time raising from venture investors and
after Softbank injected $1.4 billion, is a modest 27% at      corporations which have the capacity to write large
$14bn in March 2019. The Series H round was raised to         cheques. However, the “massive experiment in using
intensify its battle with Gojek to become the app for         capital as a moat to build startups into sustainable
everything including digital banking.                         businesses - as popularised by Uber and WeWork -
“With the amount of funding we have raised, and the           has failed, and many other experiments using this
support from strategic investors like SoftBank, we are so     model are failing, according to venture capitalist, Fred
well-funded to execute on our expansion and investment        Wilson on his blog.
plans, so there is really no need to IPO,” Grab’s CEO         “What was once a 'grow at all costs' mentality,
Anthony Tan told Reuters after the Softbank investment.       stretching not simply from the earliest stages but up
Gojek, valued at $10 billion, meanwhile, raised $920          to the billion-dollar cheque size, has correctly and
million in 2019 from investors which include Google,          helpfully shifted to a 'build great businesses' mindset,
Tencent and JD.com. It is nearing a deal to acquire a 5%      Oliver Rippel, Co-founder of Asia Partners shared.
stake in Indonesia’s top taxi company, Blue Bird, for a       Rippel added “We see a large number of
reported $30 million, valuing the listed taxi company at      entrepreneurs ready for, or about to be ready for,
$600 million, a fraction of Gojek’s valuation.                growth equity cheques between $20 and $100 million
“It is possible that established listed businesses could      in size, supporting clear-eyed, hard-nosed business
be valued lower than the unicorns. Public investors           plans that get to profitability in a fairly short and
(especially in the Asian markets) place a higher weight       predictable period of time. We call this next
on profitability and dividend paying capacity, while a        generation the 'Rhinos' -- companies that will soon
private investor in a unicorn will place a significant        become billion-dollar valued companies based on
weight on growth,” Srividya Gopal, Managing Director at       their net income and a P/E multiple, not simply on a
Duff & Phelps shared.                                         revenue multiple.”
                                                              Closing the Gaps
How are valuations derived for unicorns, and especially
after a late-stage round? Why are established listed          SVCA Southeast Asia PE & VC: Investment Activity May
businesses valued under these unicorns?                       2018 report found a gap for Series B while Asia
                                                              Partners founder Nick Nash sees “a deep shortage of
Gopal explained: "Considering that the investments in         equity capital supply in the 'Series C/D' gap in
unicorns typically come from private capital sources,         Southeast Asia, which corresponds to round sizes
their valuation is driven by growth in both non-financial     between $20 and $100 million.”
and financial parameters. While a key consideration for
the investor is the potential exit price, they also give      The elimination of funding gaps in earlier rounds
importance to other rights and preferences in their entry     could bring forth a greater number of great
price. Typically, these rights on not available to common     technologies and business plans. Closing the gaps,
shareholders in the same company and hence there              adopting Environment, Social and Governance (ESG)
could be a significant value difference between different     goals at the startup stages could mitigate the risks of
classes of shareholders and even different series of          fake unicorns emerging in Southeast Asia.
investors.”                                                   Let’s work together as a community to turn 2020s as
“The universe of publicly traded companies is shrinking       the ESG decade for VC and PE backed businesses.
almost everywhere, and this makes investing into
private equity and venture capital more compelling than
ever before. Given the paucity of quality assets,
valuations are going up globally across asset classes.
Growth is being rewarded, and since companies are
staying private longer, we see an increase in investors
making bets in venture, for example. Even mutual funds
are getting into late-stage or pre-IPO tech deals, which is
pushing up valuations overall.” Sunil Mishra, partner at
Adam Street Partners offered his view.

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According to CNBC, when Adam Neumann took $3bn
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In Conversation with Affirma Capital
                                                              infrastructure and other asset classes as the bank
                                                              attempted to grow its assets under management
                                                              (AUM). This started to reverse after the global financial
                                                              crisis.
                                                              “Post GFC, most banks globally were getting out of
                                                              proprietary investing at different stages. Standard
                                                              Chartered had built the AUM to $5b billion in 2013, and
                                                              started to take in third party capital.”
                                                              From 2013 to 2015, Standard Chartered was engaged
                                                              in a series of secondary transactions to reduce the
                                                              bank’s exposure to its balance sheet, and this was
                                          Nainesh Jaisingh    further accelerated in 2016 after CEO Bill Winters took
                                          Founding Partner,   over the bank. The change at the top of the bank
                                          Chief Executive     sparked the unwinding of the principal finance
                                          Officer,            business, with real estate business being sold to Actis,
                                          Affirma Capital     energy being shut down, and mezzanine being wound
                                                              down, and finally, the MBO of Affirma Capital, which is
Poised for debut fundraise in 2020
                                                              sticking to SCPE core strategy from the beginning.
2020 will usher the return to a midmarket strategy core
                                                              THE MBO
to Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE) when it made
its first investment in 2002, except SCPE is no more, and     “Taking us out of the bank was a joint decision. And it
in its place is Affirma Capital.                              was a three-party negotiation involving the team, the
                                                              bank and a third party, which was ICG. The key was to
Affirma Capital in 2019 spun out of leading emerging
                                                              ensure transparency which would then ensure that a
markets focused Standard Chartered Bank, going back
                                                              fair deal was achieved for all parties.”
full circle when it completed a management buyout that
some would say was on the cards in the aftermath of the       The total assets under management was $3.5 billion,
global financial crisis. Former head Karam Butalia exited     of which $2.4b was held by LPs, and $1.1b was held by
in 2008 and founded KV Asia Capital in 2010 with Vibhav       the bank. ICG bought over Standard Chartered’s share
Panandiker, a former SCPE director. Fast forward to           of the assets under management, injected a further
2019, Nainesh Jaisingh, who has been at SCPE since            $400 million in fresh capital into the newly formed
2002, will lead the new spinout with $700 million of dry      Affirma Capital, and $300 million came from other
powder from a management buyout (MBO) financed by             existing funds under management. The team also
Intermediate Capital Group (ICG).                             bought over the asset management business.
The spinout expects to raise its maiden fund for              The combined $700m of fresh capital will be deployed
Southeast Asia, China and India by the second half of         across three main geographical areas which SCPE has
2020. Going forward, Affirma intends to raise separate        traditionally invested into: emerging Asia, Middle East
fund vehicles for emerging Asia, South Korea, and Middle      & Africa, and South Korea. There are seven partners
East & Africa, Nainesh Jaisingh, Partner and CEO shares       across Singapore, China, South Korea, India, Africa and
with SVCA in an interview.                                    the Middle East.
From 2002 to MBO                                              Funding first generation business and premium assets
In 2002, SCPE made its debut investment in Natsteel,          Affirma is looking to back “first generation businesses,
which had been listed in Singapore. SCPE was part of a        to institutionalise entrepreneurs, and to propel these
consortium led by local hotel tycoon Ong Beng Seng and        mid-cap businesses forward.” Nainesh cites Crystal
backed by Temasek Holdings in a hotly contested take-         Jade, which has grown into a well-known Cantonese
private transaction initiated by the company. This deal       dining brand across the region from Singapore, Hong
laid the foundation for the mid-cap private equity investor   Kong and South China. “Crystal Jade is a brand you can
headquartered in Singapore to invest first in Asia, then      count on for consistency in the quality and experience.
Africa and Middle East, followed by real estate,
infrastructure and other asset classes as the bank
attempted
Page  8     to grow its assets under management (AUM).        estate, infrastructure and other assetSVCA
                                                                                                       classes   as the
                                                                                                             Quarterly
This started to reverse after the global financial crisis.    bank attempted to grow its assets under management
“Post GFC, most banks globally were getting out of            (AUM). This started to reverse after the global financial
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” The other investment in Singapore is Phoon Huat, a        “Until the tech boom, there was no big-ticket deal
 baking supplies business, which Nainesh shares “is very     around. You see even the bigger funds had shut their
 well known across the region. Since we invested, it has     offices in Southeast Asia. But the time has come for the
 gained great momentum with the new stores.”                 region, driven in part by technology taking off in
 For India, a market where even established managers         disparate economies, and many of the geographies
 face challenges with exits, Affirma has a “simple           having come of age, like Indonesia and Vietnam. For
 strategy.” Quality, he explained, is a premium, as there    Singapore, Nainesh expects more take-privates as
 are very few high quality assets in a very crowded          “mid-sized companies are neglected and undervalued.”
 market.                                                     Last year, Affirma partnered the CEO of Tat Hong, a
                                                             crane supplier, to take the Singapore-listed company
 “So we back a premium brand, or businesses that have        private.
 the potential to become quality assets. Here, we have
 historically ended up paying a premium of probably 20%      Beyond Tech
 versus other regions - which we would have more than
                                                             “Tech is clearly disrupting traditional businesses, and
 made up at exits due to the quality premium - giving us
                                                             VCs and PEs are overlapping a lot.” Particularly in
 a very good track record in India.” The investments in
                                                             financial services, travel and consumer products, tech
 India include Varun Beverages, which the fund has
                                                             is turbo-charging some sectors which we will focus on,
 made multiple particle exits from, to make 2.3 to 2.4X
                                                             for instance we invested in Momo, a fintech business in
 cash, or mid 20s IRR. In another investment, Sterlite
                                                             Vietnam. Nainesh is of the belief that despite the PE/VC
 Power, “we doubled our money in three years.”
                                                             overlap, “seasoned PE guys are going to back real
 While structurally, the India story is very strong, what    businesses more than creating unicorns, and all the
 happens in between cycles – political and economic – is     hype around unicorns.”
 what makes planning exits more challenging. In
                                                             The shakeout in the industry is still happening, which
 Southeast Asia, there are ten markets, five for private
                                                             has resulted in a surge in the secondaries market,
 equity, but all not very deep, and each unique in its own
                                                             Nainesh said, confident that the SCPE track record that
 way, and therefore you need coverage.
                                                             now resides in Affirma, 100 investments and 55 exits
                                                             in the last 17 years will stand the firm in good stead.

                                                                                                 The Affirma Team

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THOUGHTS FROM THE INDUSTRY                                                                     0

  THOUGHTS FROM THE INDUSTRY

                                                                                                          Attribution: pngtree.com

                         We are thankful to our investors, who led us to achieve a second close on our maiden fund in
                         2019, and look forward to our final close in 2020. In 2019, Altair also exited   frompngtree.com
                                                                                                   Attribution: our first
                         investment, which generated close to 50% IRR for our investors, and made our first Thai
                         investment.

                         In 2020, we can expect valuations in the private markets to remain disconnected from the
                         public markets. Dispersion of valuations between large caps and small caps companies have
       Gary Ng
                         continued to widen, presenting privatization opportunities for Altair.
    Partner, Altair
       Capital

                         For 2019: It was a strong year of fundraising for many VC funds and the highlight for us was
                         increasing our exposure to the tech space in the region which is currently seeing a lot of
                         opportunities. The challenge is for the VC funds to prove their thesis and showcase exits - this
                         would need to be evaluated a few years down the road.
                         We are thankful to our investors, who led us to achieve a second close on our maiden fund in
                         2019,  andMany
                         For 2020:   look forward   to ourperforming
                                           of our strong   final closefund
                                                                       in 2020.  In 2019,
                                                                            managers         Altair also
                                                                                        will come   back exited fromnext
                                                                                                          to market   our year
                                                                                                                          first
                         investment,
                         and we expectwhich
                                        a biggenerated
                                               part of ourclose  to 50%
                                                           allocation     IRR
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  East Asia & Pacific,
    Private Equity       public markets. Dispersion of valuations between large caps and small caps companies have
      Funds, IFC         continued to widen, presenting privatization opportunities for Altair.

                         The highlight for Jungle is closing our fourth fund at US$240m.

                         I think the key market challenge is around the macro landscape, which creates uncertainty in
                         the capital markets (public & private), particularly for later stage investors. Investors will be
                         more heavily focused on margins in 2020 and not simply growth metrics, which may create
                         downward pressure on late stage private company valuations.

   David Gowdey
     Managing
   Partner, Jungle
      Ventures

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                     term volatility. While this volatility might have been
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SVCA Quarterly                                                                                                 Page 11
NewQuest launching in Singapore
                                                               name for ourselves in the market, and both GPs and
                                                               LPs have gotten to know us better.”
                                                               In the first two funds, NewQuest acquired stakes in
                                                               (portfolio) companies directly; for Fund III, which was
                                                               fully deployed by the end of 2019, the number of GP-
                                                               led fund restructurings had grown, and “roughly one
                                                               third of Fund III was deployed in fund solution
                                                               transactions -- where as we partner GPs to do
                                                               something transformational with their portfolios,”
                                                               Darren shared, citing Loyal Valley Capital (“LVC”) as a
                                                               case in point.
                                            Darren Massara
                                            Managing           LVC wanted to launch a USD fund, and considered
                                            Partner (Hong      restructuring its RMB fund to do that. But not every
                                            Kong), NewQuest    investment in the portfolio can be converted into a USD
                                            Capital Partners   deal, or transferred into a US dollar fund. NewQuest
                                                               came in, and the investments that could be
 NewQuest Capital Partners this year raised $1 billion in      restructured were restructured, Darren said.
 total commitments for its fourth dedicated Darren  Massera
                                               secondary
                                            Managing fund “RMB funds generally have a shorter duration. By
 fund, also the largest Asia-focused secondary
 raised to date. The final closing number Partner   (Hong
                                            surpassed    an restructuring investments into a USD fund, we were
 initial target of $850m and blew the hard cap of $950m. able to satisfy multiple stakeholders. We were able to
                                            Kong), NewQuest
                                            Capital Partners provide liquidity to the local LPs and the GP was able to
 The success of NewQuest’s fundraise comes at a time launch a meaningful USD business.”
 when a number of private equity funds across the region
 are facing pressures to restructure their portfolios GP-led transactions on the rise
 or/and funds, and a number of fund restructurings are As for overall secondary volume, Darren estimates that
 underway following the successful completions of high up to $100 billion will happen globally in 2019, almost
 profile fund restructurings including TPG Asia V and VI, double the forecast just three to four years ago. The
 SVCA understands from our conversations with the rapid growth in fund solution or GP-led transactions in
 industry.                                                   the last five years points to a continuous rise in
 NewQuest attributes this success to “a continued,             initiatives by GPs to provide liquidity options to their
 robust increase in demand for liquidity solutions for         LPs. Three years ago, GP-led deals made up some 20%
 private equity investments across Asia. In addition,          of the overall volume of transactions. In 2019, it is
 complex portfolio transactions, such as fund                  estimated that 40% of the total secondary volume were
 restructurings and spinouts, an area in which NewQuest        GP-led transactions.
 also specialises, have become more prominent in the           GP-led transactions will rise as funds raised are getting
 region.”                                                      larger and larger, Darren said, pointing to Ardian’s and
 Headquartered in Hong Kong, NewQuest has offices in           Lexington’s $9b and $10b funds in 2019. Last year,
 Beijing and Mumbai, and intends to set up a fourth in         Blackstone raised $26b for the largest ever private
 Singapore. Darren Massara, managing partner of                equity fund, and this year, KKR is looking to raise $15b
 NewQuest told SVCA in an interview that “the firm plans       just for Asia.
 to commence the licensing process to open an office (in       In Asia, secondaries is still in nascency, but all signs
 Singapore) this year.”                                        point to a surge in activity. According to Darren, for
 Secondaries trending                                          every $4 of principal invested, only $1 of principal is
                                                               returned, thus creating an overhang of unexited private
 Back when Darren Massara and his team started                 equity transactions that continues to grow each year.
 NewQuest in 2011, there was a negative perception of
 secondaries, and “we had to describe to people what we        As of 2019, Darren estimates that there is over $700b
 do, and how we do it,” NewQuest’s managing partner            of unexited PE principal overhang that needs to be
 told SVCA in an interview. “Over time, we developed a         returned to investors, and that presents an opportunity
 name for ourselves in the market, and both GPs and LPs        for the Asian secondary market. In China and India
 have12gotten to know us better.”
Page                                                           alone, Darren estimates that there are roughly   35,000
                                                                                                        SVCA Quarterly
                                                               un-exited deals, and this figure continues to grow each
 In the first two funds, NewQuest acquired stakes in           year.
 (portfolio) companies directly; for Fund III, which was
for the Asian secondary market. In China and India                  The evident rise in secondaries can be further
 alone, Darren estimates that there are roughly 35,000               supported by NewQuest almost doubling the size of its
 un-exited deals, and this figure continues to grow each             fourth fund to $1b from $540m for Fund III. “The
 year.                                                               increase in Fund IV is due to improved sentiment for
                                                                     secondary transactions overall, larger transaction sizes,
 In recent years, Warburg Pincus, TPG and Standard                   and increased percentage of fund solution
 Chartered have          completed    large   secondary              transactions.”
 transactions, and this has helped to change sentiments
 toward secondaries, which is emerging to be a highly                In the past, some 5-10% of NewQuest fund was
 sought after investment strategy, second after mid-                 allocated to Southeast Asia, but this may change when
 market buyouts , as it has the added advantage of                   NewQuest plants boots on the ground in Singapore.
 mitigating the J-curve compared to a primary fund
                                                                     Singapore is also the base for Foundation Private
 investment strategy. “And secondaries are especially
 popular among LPs that are just launching a PE                      Equity, a new fund being set up by secondaries veteran
 investment strategy as it allows them to create vintage             Jason Sambanju, former Paul Capital and Axiom Asia
 year diversification from day one,” Darren added.                   Private Capital

                                                   Data Snapshot
                                   M&A slowdown not deterring 2020 fundraise
 Key 2019 Figures
 • In 2019, 1,316 private equity funds closed, securing •5,103 PE-backed buyouts with aggregate value of
 $595bn vsM&A
            a record $628bn
                slowdown     in deterring
                           not  2018               Data Snapshot
                                                        $393bn,
                                          2020 fundraise;        vs 6,481
                                                           deploying        deals worth
                                                                      dry powder         $493bn
                                                                                   but not       in 2018; “Sky-
                                                                                           overpaying
                                                        high valuations” driving up average buyout deal size to a
 • Dry powder reached $1.43tn as of December 2019, 10-year high of $490m, says Preqin.
 another record high, almost doubled $750bn at the
 end of 2015– a symptom of how much the industry has •14,599 venture capital deals worth a combined
 expanded in recent years.                              $224bn, vs 17,431 deals a value of $271bn in 2018
 “Make no mistake — deals are getting done, but the                 • As of Jan 2020, 3,524 funds are in market seeking a
 current slowdown is inevitable considering the                     total of $926bn as of Jan 2020, almost 3 times as many
 continuing uncertainty around trade and regulation.                funds that closed in 2019; that is equivalent of two years’
 We know that around the world, there are many                      supply at 2019 fundraising levels, suggesting some
 investors and companies with capital on the sidelines,             funds may struggle to complete their fundraising.
 waiting to move forward with domestic and cross-
 border deals.” said Wong Ai Ai, Chair of Baker
 McKenzie’s Global Transactional Group.

                        Excerpt from Preqin’s 2019 Private Equity & Venture Capital Fundraising & Deals Update

SVCA Quarterly                                                                                                          Page 13
News in Brief
Everstone Names New                         Gary Tiernan Joins Multi-                Alpha JWC Ventures
Chairman                                    Family Office                            Breaks $100m target for

E   verstone Group names Alok
    Oberoi, a long-time shareholder,
as Executive Chairman from
                                            Singapore-based multi-family office
                                            Golden Equator Wealth adds Gary
                                            Tiernan, as managing partner to
                                                                                     Fund II
                                                                                     Alpha JWC Ventures closes its
                                                                                     second fund at $123m, surpassing
January. Oberoi will transition from a      head its team of wealth managers         an initial $100m target. LPs include
non-executive role into a full-time         and drive expansion and growth.          the Tsao family office, Japan’s NS
    verstone
leadership       Group names Alok
            position.                       Tiernan      previously    headed

E
    Oberoi, a long-time shareholder,                                                 Solutions, and NH Absolute Return
                                            investments at CrossInvest Asia
                      A         former                                               Partners.
                                            where he managed asset allocation
                      Goldman               and security selection.
                      Sachs                                                          Vertex Raises $730m for
                      executive, he
                      was the Co-           Lockton hires from JLT in                Master Fund II
                      Founder and           Asia push                                Vertex has closed Vertex Master
                      Chairman        of                                             Fund II (VMF II) at $730m in
                      ACPI, a multi-                                                 December. VMF II will allocate
family      office    family
                       and        office
                                 wealth                                              capital directly to the Vertex network
management business   and based wealth in                                            funds such as Vertex Ventures
London which he has       since
                      management exited.                                             (China, Israel, Southeast Asia &
He will relocate to Singapore.
                      business                                                       India, and US), Vertex Ventures HC,
                      based           in                                             and Vertex Growth. LPs include the
Motoya Kitamura       London joins
                                 which      Global insurance and reinsurance         Development Bank of Japan,
                      he has since          brokerage Lockton has hired Will         Marubeni Corporation, Sumitomo
HQ Capital exited. He will                  Seccombe as business leader and          Mitsui Banking Corporation, and
                                            Mindy Ng as vice-president to            Temasek Holdings.
                      Relocate        to
                       HQ Capital has       launch new Asia transactional risk
                      Singapore
                       appointed            division. The duo joined Lockton         Jungle Ventures Closes
                       Motoya               from rival firm JLT. Seccombe was
                       Kitamura as a        most recently managing director of       Third Fund at $240m
                       new managing         JLT Mergers and Acquisitions Group
                                            in Asia.                                 Jungle Ventures has raised $240m
                       director       to                                             for Jungle Ventures III to make
                       expand        the                                             series A and B investments in
                       firm’s activities    Go-jek Co-Founder                        consumer       internet,   financial
in Asia with a focus   in Asia
                            on with
                                 Japan. a   Goes Political                           technology, and B2B digitalization
Kitamura joins from    focusAB Value  on                     Nadiem Makarim,         across Singapore, India, Indonesia,
Capital. Prior to AB Value,
                       Japan.Kitamura                        CEO and cofounder       Australia and other regions on an
was with ROC, Macquarie’s           Asia
                       Kitamura joins                        of        Indonesian    opportunistic basis.
fund-of-fund business     andABJapan’s
                       from       Value                      unicorn Gojek, has
Alternative Investment    Capital. Prior
                       Capital.                                                      LPs include DEG, IFC, Temasek
                                                             been       appointed
                       to AB Value                                                   Holdings, and Cisco Investments.
                                                             Indonesia’s
                                                             Minister           of
                                                             Education        and
                       HQ Capital has       Culture. With thisCulture.
                                                               political With
                                                                         move,this
                                                                               his
                       appointed            cofounder Kevinpolitical
                                                                Aluwi, move
                                                                        and group
                       Motoya               president Andre Soelistyo have
                       Kitamura as a        taken over as Co-CEOs.
                       new managing
                       director       to
                       expand       the
                       firm’s activities
                       in Asia with a
Page 14                focus          on    Gary Tiernan Joins Multi-                                   SVCA Quarterly
                       Japan.               Family Office
                       Kitamura joins
                                            Singapore-based multi-family office
Softbank     backs               EV     commitment of up to $800m.               Azalea raises $650m for
 Growth’s First Fund                     Gaw Capital partnered Allianz Real       inaugural fund-of-funds
 EV Growth, formed jointly by East       Estate to acquire Duo Complex in
                                         Singapore for $1.2bn. This marked        Azalea Investment Management, a
 Ventures, Yahoo Japan, and SMDV,
                                         a second transaction in Singapore        unit of Temasek Holdings, has
 raised $250m, surpassing $150m
 target. Targeting Indonesia and the     by Gaw who bought 77 Robinson            raised $650m for Altrium Private
 wider Southeast Asian region for        Road building in January last year.      Equity Fund I, an inaugural fund-of-
 startups in the Series B and C                                                   funds product that will be deployed
 stages, EV Growth has invested in       Navis bets on China’s                    in primary and secondary funds in
 57 deals since its inception in 2018.                                            US, Europe and Asia. The fund
 Temasek Holdings, Softbank, and
                                         durian craze                             exceeded target, and was raised in
 Pavilion Capital were among the LPs     Navis has invested in Malaysian          three months, according to the firm.
 who      supported     EV     maiden    durian exporter Hernan Corporation
 fundraise.                                                                       Prior to Altrium, Azalea launched in
                                         in a move to feed into China’s           2016 the Astrea platform of private
                                         growing appetite for the King of fruit   equity bonds to provide retail
                                         Malaysia and Thailand are best           investors with exposure to private
 L Catterton Asia                  III   known for cultivating. Navis is          equity.
 Raises $1.45b                           prepared to invest up to 400m
                                         Malaysian ringgit or $97.8m in           ClassPass       becomes
 L Catterton has closed its third fund   Hernan and associated upstream
 in October 2019 at $1.45 billion. L     and plantation assets to build the       2020’s first unicorn
 Catterton Asia 3 seeks healthcare       largest integrated industrialised
                                                                                  ClassPass has reportedly joined the
 and retail investments across Asia      player in Malaysia, and to
                                                                                  unicorn ranks following the close of
 and has invested in firms such as       professionalise sales in China and
                                                                                  a $285m Series E round led by L
 OWNDAYS, a manufacturer and             other overseas market. Navis is
                                                                                  Catterton and Apax Digital, with
 retailer of eyeglasses, and Welcome     looking to acquire and plant up to
                                                                                  additional     participation   from
 Fitness Management, an operator         10,000 acres of durian plantation
 of gyms in China.                                                                existing investor Temasek.
                                         initially in Pahang.
                                                                                  The fitness class aggregator is now
                                         China alone spent $1b in durian
 Apis Partners              Closes                                                valued at above $1 billion,
                                         imports in 2018, and this is
                                                                                  according to media reports.
 Fund II                                 expected to double in 2023,
                                         according to statistics from Navis.      The latest funding round comes
 Apis Partners has attracted IFC,        Malaysia’s Musang King durian            after an international expansion
 DEG, and TIAA to close Apis Growth      commands a premium price.                drive to 28 countries from 4
 Fund II at $563m. Apis, which has a                                              eighteen months ago, according to
 focus on financial services, has        Adams Street Partners                    Fritz Lanman, ClassPass CEO who
 made investments from Fund II into                                               added: "Our goal is to be the brand
 two deals so far, Coda Payments, a      raises $740m for 2019
                                                                                  of choice and clear leader in every
 mobile payment software solution        Global Fund                              country we enter. This investment
 startup in Singapore, and Tutuka, an
 independent issuer processor. It                                                 will allow us to expand more rapidly
                                         Adam Street Partners has raised
 has also committed to invest in L&T                                              within existing geographies, add
                                         $740m for its 2019 Partnership
 IDF, which focuses on infrastructure    Fund, a 10% decline from $824m           more countries to our network, and
 refinancing in India.                   raised for 2018 global fund.             scale our corporate program
                                                                                  globally. Temasek led the Series D
                                         The latest fund close follows the        round in July 2018 with $85m to
 Gaw Capital Raises                      final close of Adam Street global        bring the total amount of investment
 $2.2b Real Estate Fund                  secondary fund 6 in June on $1.05        to $255m at that time. With the
                                         billion, as well as an inaugural         latest round, ClassPass has raised a
 Gaw Capital raises $2.2bn for Asia      private credit programme which           total of $540m since it was founded
 real estate fund VI Gaw Capital has     drew $1.1b of investible capital         in 2013.
 attracted $2.2bn for Asia-focused       including leverage.
 Gateway Real Estate Fund VI. In
 addition, the fund is supplemented
 by a side car co-investment
 commitment of up to $800m.
SVCA Quarterly                                                                                                Page 15

                                                                                  Azalea raises $650m for
E-scooter startup from                   SIG invests in financial 21 bids vying for 5 digital
 Singapore gets Series A                  compliance               bank licenses
 funding                                  SIG Asia Investments has joined         The Monetary Authority of Singapore
                                          Israel-based Viola Fintech to invest    said it has received seven bids for
 Singapore’s Neuron Mobility has          $11.7m      in     Singapore-based      digital full bank licences, and 14
 secured $18.5m in Series A funding       Tookitaki Holdings, a financial         bids wholesale (non-retail) bank
 to scale its e-scooter startup outside   compliance technology.                  licences.
 Singapore. Neuron halted the rental
 services after the country banned e-
 scooters on footpaths. GSR               Tiger Global leads Series               A consortium led by Osim’s Ron
                                                                                  Sim’s V3 Group and EZ-Link, which
 Ventures, Square Peg Capital,            A Round                                 includes        Heliconia      Capital,
 SeedPlus and SEEDS Capital, the
                                                                                  Singapore Business Federation and
 investment arm of Enterprise             Tiger Global has led a Series A round   Far East Organisation, has applied
 Singapore.                               to invest $25m in Vietnam’s B2B         for a digital full bank license.
                                          commerce platform Telio. Joining
 KKR wins Philippines                     Tiger are GGV Capital, Sequoia          The other bids were submitted by
                                          Capital India and RTP Global. Telio,    Grab-Singtel, Jack Ma’s Ant
 healthcare deal                          founded in November 2018, was           Financial, gaming company, Razer-
                                          one of 17 companies in the              consortium which includes Carro, an
 KKR and existing shareholder, GIC        inaugural cohort of Surge, an
 beat a CVC-Temasek consortium                                                    automotive     marketplace,    and
                                          accelerator programme by Sequoia        Insignia Ventures.
 grouping in auction to invest $685m      Capital for startups in India and
 in Philippines’ largest hospital         Southeast Asia.
 group. Metro Pacific Hospital                                                    The Singapore government is set to
 Holdings operates 14 hospitals and                                               announce in mid-2020 results of
 3,200 beds in the Philippines.           Indonesian       fintech                the bid for up to two full digital bank
                                                                                  licenses, and up to three wholesale
 Under the agreement, the KKR-led         startup secures $90m in                 digital bank licenses.
 consortium will subscribe to $100m
 for a 6.25% share of the company,        new funding
 and $580m for exchangeable bond                                                  Vickers co-invests                  in
 to be converted into shares in 10        FinAccel has secured $90m in one
 years, or upon an IPO, whichever is      of the largest funding rounds for a     kidney treatment
 sooner. The investment will fund         fintech startup in Southeast Asia,      Vickers Venture Partners has co-led
 expansion plans to grow the number       valueing the company at $500m.
                                                                                  in a US$40 million round into AWAK
 of hospitals to 30, and beds to          FinAccel extends credit to online
 5,000, and reduce Metro Pacific’s        shoppers in Indonesia under             Technologies to ready its wearable
 debt.                                    Kredivo brand.                          and      ultra-portable     Peritoneal
                                                                                  Dialysis device for late stage clinical
                                          The Series C funding round for the      studies, and to accelerate its
 Cento    leads    $52m                                                           commercialisation. This funding
                                          three-and-a-half-year-old    startup
 funding round in 2C2P                    was jointly led by Asia Growth Fund     round brings the total sum raised by
                                          — a JV between Mirae Asset and          AWAK to more than $60m since
 Payments platform 2C2P which             Naver — and Square Peg.                 inception in 2007.
 helps merchants handle payments
 from customers in Southeast Asia,        Singtel Innov8, TMI (Telkomsel
 has raised $52 million from Cento        Indonesia), Cathay Innovation,
 Ventures, IFC and Arbor Ventures to      Kejora-InterVest,    Mirae     Asset
 fund expansion.                          Securities, Reinventure and DST
                                          Partners participated in the
                                          financing round, the startup said.

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ASEAN Fundraising at a Glance
             Largest ASEAN-Based Private Equity & Venture Capital Funds Closed in H2 2019 (As at January 2020)
                                                                                                                                Fund Size
 Fund                                                           Firm                     Headquarters       Fund Type                          Final Close Date
                                                                                                                                  (mn)
          Altrium Private Equity Fund I               Azalea Asset Management              Singapore       Fund of Funds        650 USD                Dec-19

     Vertex Ventures SEA & India Fund IV        Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India     Singapore         Early Stage        305 USD                Sep-19
               Vertex Growth Fund                           Vertex Growth                  Singapore    Expansion/Late Stage    290 USD                Sep-19
                 ABC World Asia                            ABC World Asia                  Singapore          Balanced          385 SGD                Oct-19
                 EV Growth Fund                             East Ventures                  Singapore    Early Stage: Start-up   250 USD                Dec-19
               Jungle Ventures III                         Jungle Ventures                 Singapore         Early Stage        240 USD                Oct-19

        Insignia Ventures Partners Fund II            Insignia Ventures Partners           Singapore         Early Stage        200 USD                Oct-19

              Alpha JWC Ventures II                      Alpha JWC Ventures                Indonesia         Early Stage        123 USD                Sep-19

          Monk's Hill Ventures Fund II                   Monk's Hill Ventures              Singapore      Early Stage: Seed     120 USD                Oct-19

              BlueRed Capital Fund                        BlueRed Partners                 Singapore     Venture (General)      110 SGD                Dec-19

                                     Largest ASEAN-Based Private Equity Funds in Market (As at January 2020)
 Fund                                                           Firm                     Headquarters       Fund Type                 Target Size (mn)
   Sino-Singapore (Chongqing) Connectivity
                                                      UOB Venture Management               Singapore           Growth                     20,000 RMB
             Private Equity Fund
             Navis Asia Fund VIII                       Navis Capital Partners             Malaysia            Buyout                       1,750 USD
           Northstar Equity Partners V                     Northstar Group                 Singapore           Buyout                       800 USD

            Makara Innovation Fund                     Makara Capital Partners             Singapore           Growth                       700 USD
                   Creador IV                      Creador Management Company              Malaysia            Growth                       550 USD
                                                     Quadria Capital Investment
             Quadria Capital Fund III                                                      Singapore           Growth                       400 USD
                                                           Management
         Foundation Private Equity Fund               Foundation Private Equity            Singapore        Secondaries                     300 USD
         Jasmine Private Market Fund I                    JI Capital Partners              Singapore           Growth                       300 USD

             KV Asia Capital Fund II                       KV Asia Capital                 Singapore           Buyout                       300 USD

          Tembusu Guizhou Baijiu Fund                     Tembusu Partners                 Singapore           Growth                       2,000 RMB
           Mekong Enterprise Fund IV                       Mekong Capital                  Vietnam             Growth                       250 USD

               Arthit Capital Fund                   Arthit Capital Management             Singapore           Growth                       150 USD

           Capsquare Asia Partners II                  Capsquare Asia Partners             Indonesia           Buyout                       150 USD
             Proventeus Fund II                              Proventeus                    Malaysia            Buyout                       150 USD
 Templeton Strategic Emerging Markets Fund
                                                    Templeton Asset Management             Singapore           Growth                       150 USD
                  Shariah

                                   Largest ASEAN-Based Venture Capital Funds in Market (As at January 2020)
 Fund                                                           Firm                     Headquarters       Fund Type                 Target Size (mn)
               Asia AgriTech Fund                       Vanda Global Capital               Singapore     Venture (General)                  1,500 USD

             Vickers Venture Fund VI                  Vickers Venture Partners             Singapore     Venture (General)                  500 USD

            Provident Growth Fund II                  Provident Capital Partners           Singapore     Venture (General)                  250 USD
             Asian GreenTech Fund               Malaysia Venture Capital Management        Malaysia      Venture (General)                  200 USD
           Golden Gate Growth Fund I                    Golden Gate Ventures               Singapore    Early Stage: Start-up               200 USD
           Socialpreneur Growth Fund                       Gomif Partners                  Singapore         Early Stage                    200 USD
     Insignia Ventures Partners Strategic
                                                      Insignia Ventures Partners           Singapore         Early Stage                    150 USD
              Opportunities Fund
                  Ocean Fund                               Circulate Capital               Singapore      Early Stage: Seed                 150 USD

             Visvires New Protein II                     New Protein Capital               Singapore         Early Stage                    150 USD

               Hatcher+ H2 Fund                               Hatcher+                     Singapore      Early Stage: Seed                 125 USD

               Sistema Asia Fund                         Sistema Asia Capital              Singapore    Early Stage: Start-up               120 USD

           Based on Blockchain Fund                          Life.SREDA                    Singapore         Early Stage                     100 EUR

            BEENEXT Emerging Asia                             BEENEXT                      Singapore         Early Stage                    100 USD

 Credera Myanmar Frontier Opportunity Fund               The Credera Group                 Myanmar        Early Stage: Seed                 100 USD

                 Qualgro Fund II                               Qualgro                     Singapore         Early Stage                    100 USD

                 Tin Men Fund I                            Tin Men Capital                 Singapore         Early Stage                    100 USD

             iGlobe Platinum Fund III                      iGlobe Partners                 Singapore         Early Stage                    100 USD

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