Private equity
Vietnamese edtechs attract international investor interest
Innovative educational technology companies (edtechs) in Vietnam are increasingly on the radar of international private equity firms as education gets more digitised not only...
Indonesia’s GoTo gets cash injection from Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund
Indonesian e-commerce giant GoTo will receive $400 million from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the sovereign wealth fund of the emirate of Abu...
Alibaba makes first investment in Vietnam, buys stake in retail chain
VinMart's 2,900 mini stores and 130 supermarkets will become pick-up joints for online shopper on Alibaba's Lazada
China’s...
Singapore startups bag $5.5 billion in funding in 2020 despite Covid-19
Startups in Singapore were able to raise funds totaling $5.5 billion last year even though the coronavirus...
Private equity investors set up association in Myanmar
A group of leading private equity firms in Myanmar launched the Myanmar Private Equity & Venture Capital...
Qatar sees the need for angel investment
Qatar's Ministry of Information and Communications Technology’s Digital Incubation Center (DIC) organised a training workshop on angel investment on April 22 as part of...
Silicon Valley venture fund seeks Middle East capital for startups
A new venture fund, the Fenox Global Fund IV, seeks to invest $100 million in seed, Series A and pre-IPO funding throughout the US,...
Singapore IPOs could raise $1.15b
An Indian construction firm and a Malaysian provider of offshore oil-and-gas services are gauging investor appetite for planned initial public offerings in Singapore that...
Mideast buyers drive European hotel transactions
European hotel transaction volume in 2013 reached a new peak since the onset of the global financial crisis, signaling a comeback of the hotel...
Vingroup bond prices capital fairly
Vingroup (ex-Vincom)’s dollar junk bond yielding 11.875 per cent on issuance late October 2013 illustrates a Vietnamese corporate paying a reasonable cost of capital....
Investment giant Blackstone opens office in Singapore
US-based Blackstone Group, the world’s biggest manager of alternative assets, will seek more investments in Southeast Asia following the opening of an office in...
KKR to buy stake in Malaysian helicopter firm
US-based private equity company KKR & Co will buy a minority stake in Weststar Aviation Services in a deal that gives KKR its first...
Northstar plans $1b Southeast Asia investment fund
Northstar Group, an Singapore-based private equity firm backed by US investment company TPG Capital, is seeking to raise around $1 billion in a new...
Investment giant KKR buys into Indonesia food maker
US-based private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) said on July 22 that it has sealed its first deal in Indonesia, buy purchasing a...
More private equity flows into Vietnam
Warburg Pincus, a New York-based private equity group, will lead a consortium to invest around $325 million in Vietnam’s Vingroup, a conglomerate owned by...
Crowdsourcing firm launches in the UAE
Eureeca, a crowd investing or crowd sourcing platform targeting growth companies and small & medium businesses to source funding from the crowd, announced its...
Silicon Valley firm eyes ASEAN start-ups
BootstrapAccelerator Asia, a newly launched company with backing from Silicon Valley investors, is eyeing to enter partnerships in Southeast Asia through mentoring and funding...
Private equity in love with Vietnam
Despite its strained economy, Vietnam has emerged as the new darling for private equity and venture capital firms in ASEAN as a primary investment...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...