Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is a sovereign wealth fund of The Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and alternative investments markets across the globe. For its equity investments, it seeks to invest in stocks of small cap companies. The firm’s alternative investments include managed futures, commodities, and hedge funds diversified across long/short, macro, relative-value, event-driven and market-neutral equity strategies. For the fixed income investments, it invests in a combination of global government bonds, global inflation-linked bonds, emerging market bonds, and global investment-grade credit. For private equity investments, the firm seeks to invest in primary funds, secondary funds, credit products, and direct co-investments in private companies in financial services, healthcare, industrials, technology and consumer sectors, typically alongside external partners. It invests in primary funds across North America, Europe, and emerging markets and globally in secondary funds and co-investments. While venture capital, private credit and distressed credit divisions invest with a global mandate. For real estate investments, the firm invests in real estate assets, both through direct investments and the use of external funds. For infrastructure investments, it invests in utilities, such as water, gas, and electricity distribution and transmission companies, as well as transport infrastructure, such as toll roads, ports, airports, and freight railroads. The firm seeks to invest in North America, Europe, developed Asia, and emerging markets. It does not invest in the United Arab Emirates and in the Gulf region except in instances where such investments constitute part of an index. In infrastructure investments, the firm prefers to take minority stake and does not seek to control or operate the assets in which it invests. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority was founded in 1976 and is based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with an additional office in Hong Kong.
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Christophe Florin

MD and Head of Emerging Markets Fund Investments

42 past transactions

Bandhan Bank Limited

Private Equity Round in 2018
Bandhan Bank Limited is a commercial bank focused on micro banking and general banking services. Bandhan Bank has a license to provide banking services pan-India across customer segments. Bank offer a variety of asset and liability products and services designed for micro banking and general banking, as well as other banking products and services to generate non-interest income.

Dedalus Group

Secondary Market in 2021
Established in Florence in 1990, Dedalus Spa is today at the head of a leading national healthcare software industrial Group, with many important roles in all public and private health market segments, a sector that is of strategic importance for the national economy. Since 2006 Dedalus has been pursuing a project for bringing together the best companies of the Italian healthcare ICT: Avelco, Ingenius, Intema Sanità, Metafora Informatica, Millennium, Radiosity, Sicilia Sistemi Tecnologie, Sago Informatica Sanitaria, Synapsis and Eurosoft Informatica Medica, and the 7 companies connected to the same. This process was carried out with the objective of overcoming the existing market fragmentation, and becoming an important reference point of excellence, with important research and development investment capabilities: an information technology company focused on healthcare, but also capable of competing on the international markets. Since 2009, Dedalus began the international penetration based on the best strategic product (Interoperability and Cooperation Platform), named X1.V1. With over 200 products installed in Italy and abroad, Dedalus designs solutions for the image diagnostic sector, and has an important role also in Hospital-Territory integration systems, with a presence in almost all the Regions implementing important projects of interoperability and cooperation among the various healthcare establishments, such as hospitals, general practitioners and ASL units. Dedalus is capable of consistently strengthening its position in each of these segments thanks to its innovative approach, based on the development of software aimed at ensuring interoperability and cooperation among general medicine systems and hospital systems, facilitating the optimisation of administrative management, as well as the provision of the best healthcare, thanks to a constant real time exchange of fundamental patient data, during all the stages of their life: from birth, to the growing up stage, to maturity and old age.Dedalus Group is a Italian healthcare IT systems company.

Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited

Private Equity Round in 2020
Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited provides insurance underwriting and reinsurance services. The company provides catastrophe reinsurance, property, specialty reinsurance, and specialty insurance services. It provides reinsurance services to the aviation and aerospace, energy, marine, and property sectors. Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Pembroke, Bermuda with offices in London, United Kingdom.
Lenskart Solutions Private Limited owns and operates an online shopping portal for men and women eyewear in India. It provides goggles, contact lenses, and sunglasses, as well as frames and sunglasses for kids. The company also owns and operates eyewear retail stores in India; and provides home eye check-up services in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad, and Ghaziabad. Lenskart Solutions Private Limited was formerly known as Valyoo Technologies Private Limited and changed its name to Lenskart Solutions Private Limited in May 2015. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in New Delhi, India with retail stores in Delhi, Agartala, Nagpur, Ahmadabad, Mangalore, Kolhapur, Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Sangli, Mumbai, Pune, Bhubaneshawar, Siliguri, Haridwar, Lucknow, Faridabad, Meerut, Erode, Ludhiana, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Varanasi, Trivandrum, Kochi, Chennai, Tirupati, Raipur, Surat, Ranchi, Cuttack, Kannur, Dhanabad, Indore, and Madurai, India; and Goa.

SpaceX, Inc.

Grant in 2023
Space Exploration Technologies is a space-transportation startup company founded by Elon Musk. SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX develops crew and cargo capsules, engines, cryogenic tank structures, avionics, equipment, guidance, and control software. The company is developing the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. Founded in 2002, Space Exploration Technologies is headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
Okadoc Technologies FZ-LLC designs and develops healthcare application software. Its application helps to find nearby doctors, book doctor's appointments online, and doctors’ schedules. Okadoc Technologies FZ-LLC was founded in 2017 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Greenko Group

Debt Financing in 2019
Greenko Group is one of India's fastest growing Independent Power Producers, focusing on developing clean energy assets in India to meet Indian's ever increasing demand for power. The group is listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM), having its asset base in India. Currently has over 120 MW of contracted capacity including 6 hydro & 6 biomass plants and nearly 350 MW of licenses under development.

The CrownX

Private Equity Round in 2021
The Crown X is an integrated consumer-retail platform.

DealShare

Series E in 2022
DealShare is a Social Commerce Startup. The company, DealShare, focuses on middle and lower income population in mid-tier cities

MobiKwik

Series G in 2021
MobiKwik is India’s leading fintech platform, operating businesses in consumer payments, payment gateway, and financial services. MobiKwik’s payments network is one of the largest in India with 120 million users, 3 million merchants, and 300+ billers. The vision of the company is to build accessible, and affordable digital financial services for a Billion Indians. Founded in 2009 by Bipin Preet Singh and Upasana Taku, the company has raised over $100M in funding from marquee investors. With 60% Indian ownership, MobiKwik is the Truly Indian Payments App. Having grown from its strength in payments, the company has transformed into a full-stack fintech platform offering financial products. Since 2018, MobiKwik has disbursed 19 lakh loans via its Digital Credit Line, which disburses money instantly to the user’s wallet. The company ventured into the mutual fund space with the acquisition of Mumbai-based Clearfunds.

SellerX

Venture Round in 2021
SellerX buys and builds promising smaller businesses that sell via Amazon’s platform. The company's goal is to make the acquisition experience as efficient as possible. Transactions are usually completed 30-45 days after signing a letter of intent. SellerX is backed by leading venture capital funds and has a wealth of experience purchasing businesses all over the world. It is based in Berlin and was founded in 2020.

Generate Biomedicines

Series B in 2021
Generate Biomedicines, Inc. develops a platform to invent novel antibodies, peptides, enzymes, receptors, and other therapeutic proteins. It offers Generative Biology, a machine learning based solution that learns from all known proteins in order to encode and apply the fundamental principles of how genetic sequences lead to protein structure and function for creating novel protein sequences with optimized therapeutic potential. Its Generative Biology is applied to all protein modalities and generate novel proteins with desired functions and solutions that interact potently and specifically with therapeutic targets. Generate Biomedicines, Inc. was formerly known as Generate Biologics, Inc. and changed its name to Generate Biomedicines, Inc. in March 2020. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Alight Inc.

Post in 2021
Alight Solutions is a provider of benefits administration and cloud-based HR and financial solutions, they enhance work and life through our service, technology, and data. Their 15,000 colleagues across 14 global centers deliver an unrivaled consumer experience for its clients and their people. It unlocks enterprise growth for the world’s most influential companies with future-ready human capital and business solutions. Alight Solutions' interconnected, purpose-built solutions help clients operationalize people centricity to build and sustain long-term competitive advantage. Connect disparate data sources to obtain and act on real-time insights. Alight Solutions was launched in June 2017 as a result of Blackstone's acquisition of Aon Hewitt's benefits and human resources platform.

GoTo Group

Funding Round in 2021
GoTo Group is the technology group formed by merging Gojek and Tokopedia.

Greenko Group

Private Equity Round in 2018
Greenko Group is one of India's fastest growing Independent Power Producers, focusing on developing clean energy assets in India to meet Indian's ever increasing demand for power. The group is listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM), having its asset base in India. Currently has over 120 MW of contracted capacity including 6 hydro & 6 biomass plants and nearly 350 MW of licenses under development.

The Ardonagh Group Limited

Private Equity Round in 2021
The Ardonagh Group brings together leading businesses in their fields to create a smart new vision for the insurance industry.

Moderna Therapeutics

Series G in 2018
Moderna Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops messenger RNA therapeutics. Every cell in the body uses mRNA to provide real-time instructions to make the proteins necessary to drive all aspects of biology, including in human health and disease. It provides in vivo drug modality that produces human proteins or antibodies inside patient cells. Moderna Therapeutics also develops various patent applications with various claims ranging from novel nucleotide chemistries to specific drug compositions. It focuses on disease areas, such as inherited genetic disorders, hemophilia, and blood factors, and oncology. Moderna Therapeutics in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge in Massachusetts. It has strategic option agreements with AstraZeneca and Alexion Pharmaceuticals and strategic collaborations with Karolinska Institutet, Institut Pasteur, Karolinska University Hospital, and Merck.
Indiabulls Housing Finance Limited, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a housing finance company. The company offers secured mortgage-backed housing loans to salaried and self-employed individuals; and loans against property. It also provides NRI home, home renovation and extension, and rural loans; and insurance products. The company serves finance and lending services to co-operative society, association of persons, individuals, companies, institutions, firms, builders, developers, contractors, tenants, and others. It operates approximately 141 branches. Indiabulls Housing Finance Limited was founded in 2000 and is based in Gurugram, India.

ReNew Power

Funding Round in 2019
ReNew Power Private Limited operates as a renewable energy independent power producer in India. It operates through Wind Power and Solar Power segments. The company develops, builds, owns, and operates utility scale wind and solar energy, as well as distributed solar energy projects that generate energy for commercial and industrial customers. As of July 16, 2020, it generated 5.4 GW of energy through solar and wind assets; and had 4.6 GW under various stages of development. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in New Delhi, India.

China Biologic Products Holdings, Inc.

Private Equity Round in 2022
China Biologic Products Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBPO), is a leading fully integrated plasma-based biopharmaceutical company in China. Their core capabilities include plasma collection, research and development, manufacturing, and commercialization of human plasma-based biopharmaceutical products. Their company was founded in 2002 and was listed on NASDAQ in 2009. Their products are used as critical therapies during medical emergencies and for the prevention and treatment of life-threatening diseases and immune-deficiency related diseases. Backed by robust research and development capabilities, they aim to capture substantially all of the value along the plasma products value chain, and to develop their technology to enhance life quality and create value for more patients. They have expanded their product portfolio to eight categories of plasma-based products, including human albumin, immunoglobulin for intravenous injection and coagulation factor products, as well as other biopharmaceutical products, and they continue to make progress on new pipeline products.

Constellation Automotive Group

Private Equity Round in 2021
Constellation Automotive Group is the largest vertically integrated digital used car marketplace in Europe, combining the digital brands across the segments of the consumer to business, business to business, and business to consumer.
Gokaldas Exports Limited designs, manufactures, and sells a range of garments and related products in India and internationally. Its products include outerwear, active-wear, and fashionwear for men, women, and children. The company serves international fashion brands and retailers. It also exports its products to the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan, Russia, the Middle East, South Africa, and South America. The company was founded in 1979 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Charter NEX Films, Inc.

Private Equity Round in 2021
Charter NEX Films, Inc. manufactures polythene films. The company engages in engineering, extruding, and manufacturing monolayer, coextruded, and barrier blown films for packaging applications. Its blown film products are used in food and beverage, agricultural/lawn and garden, general purpose, graphics/labels, health and beauty, surface protection, and healthcare markets. Charter NEX Films, Inc. was formerly known as NEX Performance Films, Inc. and changed its name to Charter NEX Films, Inc. in December 2012. The company was founded in 1989 and is based in Milton, Wisconsin with manufacturing facilities in Superior, Rhinelander, and Milton, Wisconsin; and Turners Falls, Massachusetts. As of May 16, 2019, Charter NEX Films, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Next Generation Films, Inc.

Pension Insurance

Private Equity Round in 2018
Pension Insurance Corporation plc provides tailored pension insurance to the trustees and sponsors of defined benefit pension funds in the United Kingdom.

Amber Group

Private Equity Round in 2018
Amber Enterprises India Ltd is a prominent solution provider for Air conditioner OEM/ODM Industry in India. It has a dominant presence in RACs complete unit and deals in major RAC components with 10 manufacturing facilities across India focusing in on different product segments.

Domestic & General

Private Equity Round in 2019
Domestic & General became the first company to protect TV cathode ray tubes in the early 1950s, followed by kitchens and central heating in the 1970s. Now they look after over 600 different types of electrical items for 16 million customers in 15 countries around the world. Last year, they got over 2 million broken products up and running again for their customers. Putting brilliant service at the heart of what they do is why we're still around a hundred years later, and why major brands throughout Europe now rely on us to look after their customers.

Citigroup Inc.

Post in 2007
Citigroup Inc., a diversified financial services holding company, provides various financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions in North America, Latin America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates in two segments, Global Consumer Banking (GCB) and Institutional Clients Group (ICG). The GCB segment offers traditional banking services to retail customers through retail banking, Citi-branded cards, and Citi retail services. It also provides various banking, credit card lending, and investment services through a network of local branches, offices, and electronic delivery systems. The ICG segment offers wholesale banking products and services, including fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivative services, equity and fixed income research, corporate lending, investment banking and advisory services, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services to corporate, institutional, public sector, and high-net-worth clients. As of December 31, 2019, it operated 2,348 branches primarily in the United States, Mexico, and Asia. Citigroup Inc. was founded in 1812 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Alkem Laboratories

Venture Round in 2015
Alkem Laboratories is a manufactures and sells pharmaceutical generics, formulations and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) primarily in India and also in United States, Australia, UK. Alkem has been among the top ten pharmaceutical companies in India for the past 12 years.

Face++

Series D in 2019
Incorporated in 2011, Megvii is committed to make greatest value for customers and the whole society with extraordinary technology. Megvii is an Artificial Intelligence company specialized in providing enterprises and developers with intelligent solutions and data services, and is dedicated to the mission of “Create machines that can see and think”. Based on its original deep learning system Brain++, Megvii seeks to build AI Engine, a core fundamental technology powering various AI application. It is leveraging on recognition, control, optimization and other algorithms to connect individuals, objects and scenarios, building a product platform of IoT OS. It is connecting standardized hardware like sensors, robots and personal devices with AI+IoT (AIoT), thus commercializing three application-oriented IoT brains on a large scale, namely, city brain, supply chain brain, and personal life brain. Megvii is building an operation system for the era of AIoT. Megvii is an AIoT solutions expert.

JIO

Private Equity Round in 2020
Reliance Jio Infocomm is a company providing wireless telecom products and services. The Company offers voice, data, and messaging services, as well as distributes smartphones and hotspot devices. Its areas of research, development and new service deployment include blockchain, artificial intelligence, open source platforms, IOT, data analytics, and next-gen cloud services.

ReNew Power

Private Equity Round in 2015
ReNew Power Private Limited operates as a renewable energy independent power producer in India. It operates through Wind Power and Solar Power segments. The company develops, builds, owns, and operates utility scale wind and solar energy, as well as distributed solar energy projects that generate energy for commercial and industrial customers. As of July 16, 2020, it generated 5.4 GW of energy through solar and wind assets; and had 4.6 GW under various stages of development. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in New Delhi, India.

Reliance Industries Limited

Private Equity Round in 2020
Since its inception in 2006, Reliance Retail Limited (RRL) has grown into an organisation that caters to millions of customers, thousands of farmers and vendors. Based on its core growth strategy of backward integration, RRL has made rapid progress towards building an entire value chain starting from the farmers to the end consumers. Reliance Retail continued to expand presence of its value and specialty formats. During the year, Reliance Retail opened 90 new stores spanning across 'value' and 'specialty' segments. In-store initiatives, wider product choice and value merchandising enabled the business to achieve robust growth during this period.

Kaleido BioSciences

Series C in 2018
Kaleido Biosciences is a clinical-stage healthcare company with a differentiated, chemistry-driven approach to leveraging the potential of the microbiome organ to treat disease and improve human health. The Company has built a human-centric proprietary product platform to enable the rapid and cost-efficient discovery and development of novel Microbiome Metabolic Therapies (MMT™). MMTs are designed to modulate the metabolic output and profile of the microbiome by driving the function and distribution of the organ’s existing microbes. Kaleido is advancing a broad pipeline of MMT candidates with the potential to address a variety of diseases and conditions with significant unmet patient needs.

Greenko Group

Private Equity Round in 2016
Greenko Group is one of India's fastest growing Independent Power Producers, focusing on developing clean energy assets in India to meet Indian's ever increasing demand for power. The group is listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM), having its asset base in India. Currently has over 120 MW of contracted capacity including 6 hydro & 6 biomass plants and nearly 350 MW of licenses under development.

Greenko Group

Private Equity Round in 2019
Greenko Group is one of India's fastest growing Independent Power Producers, focusing on developing clean energy assets in India to meet Indian's ever increasing demand for power. The group is listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM), having its asset base in India. Currently has over 120 MW of contracted capacity including 6 hydro & 6 biomass plants and nearly 350 MW of licenses under development.

Greenko Group

Private Equity Round in 2019
Greenko Group is one of India's fastest growing Independent Power Producers, focusing on developing clean energy assets in India to meet Indian's ever increasing demand for power. The group is listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM), having its asset base in India. Currently has over 120 MW of contracted capacity including 6 hydro & 6 biomass plants and nearly 350 MW of licenses under development.

Gossamer Bio, Inc.

Series B in 2018
Gossamer Bio is a San Diego-based company focused on the discovery and development of novel and differentiated therapeutic products, to address high unmet needs amongst various targeted patient populations. Founded by the former Receptos executive team, Gossamer Bio’s strategy will be to leverage an asset-rich in-licensing environment, with a focus on areas of high unmet need, utilizing a team with a strong track record of execution in immunology, inflammation, fibrosis and oncology.
Nippon Life Asset Management Limited is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm launches and manages equity and fixed income mutual funds for its clients. It also manages exchange traded funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income and commodity markets. Nippon Life Asset Management Limited was previously known as Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management Limited. Nippon Life Asset Management Limited was founded on February 24, 1995 and is based in Mumbai, India.