Gousto provides you with all the ingredients in the right proportions to cook delicious meals at home. The produce is organic, fresh, and seasonal. Gousto’s recipes are developed by a team of passionate chefs and tested by all their friends and families first (very picky people). You get to choose the recipes online and every week the selection is updated to make sure there’re plenty of new recipes for you. The recipes are delivered right to your doorstep once a week so you decide when to cook. Whenever you’re on holiday or just don’t have time, simply place the subscription on hold – it’s easy. Gousto was started in 2011 by two friends who share a passion for food and cooking. In their previous lives, Timo and James loved cooking but didn’t have much time to go to various grocery shops. They found it difficult to cook recipes from online databases or follow cook-along TV shows. Ready-meals from supermarkets do the job but the quality isn’t great, they have lots of additives, and they get boring very easily. One day, James and Timo decided that there must be some way to make life easier and the idea for Gousto was born. The first recipes were offered at market stalls and from there the concept has grown into what you see today. Of course, all of Timo and James' friends are Gousto guinea pigs. Today, Gousto has a team of professional chefs and passionate amateurs (thanks mum), making sure that the recipes cover all cuisines and styles.
Asoview is an online booking website that provides booking services for tour, activities and attractions/experiences.
Grab Holdings Inc., based in Singapore, is a prominent mobile technology platform operating in Southeast Asia. Founded in 2012, the company offers a wide range of services, including ride-sharing through GrabTaxi and GrabCar, and food and grocery delivery. Grab also provides financial services, such as payments, consumer loans, and insurance, catering to both merchants and consumers. Its platform connects drivers and customers, generating revenue primarily through commissions from ride-sharing and food delivery services. Grab operates in eight countries, including Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia, where it holds a significant market share. The company has expanded its offerings to include various options for transportation and delivery, as well as a mobile wallet for seamless transactions. Grab continues to face competition from other regional players, such as Foodpanda and Gojek.
GoTo Group is an application used for ride-hailing, food delivery, and other services. GoTo Group is driving progress by providing technology infrastructure and solutions that enable everyone to participate in and thrive in the digital economy.
Private Equity Round in 2021
Established in September 2007, Spiber Inc. is a Japanese biotechnology startup utilizing cutting-edge synthetic biology, polymer, and material science for the development of its novel Brewed Protein™ materials. Produced through microbial fermentation and utilizing agricultural feedstocks as primary raw materials, Brewed Protein™ polymers are well-positioned to significantly contribute to animal- and plastic-free initiatives in various fields such as the apparel and automotive industries. Leveraging its R&D expertise, Spiber pursues its mission of positively contributing to sustainable human well-being. Operation of Spiber’s first mass production plant in Rayong Province, Thailand, is slated to commence within 2021. The company is also constructing a second mass production facility with partner ADM in Iowa, USA, which is scheduled to begin operating in 2023 at the earliest.
DriveWealth, the global fintech investment rail and pioneer of fractional equities trading, is a visionary technology company that empowers more than 100 partners around the world to engage their customers by placing the markets in the palm of their hands. We believe the future is fractional, transactional, and mobile. Every mobile device should be a gateway to accessing investing and savings products, services, advice, and assistance for global citizens of all ages, wealth stages, and levels of financial expertise. DriveWealth’s consultative support and cloud based, modern technology platform allow partners to seamlessly offer branded investing experiences to drive customer acquisition, loyalty, retention, and revenue growth.
Lyst is a global fashion search platform used by 70 million shoppers every year. Offering over 4 million fashion products from 11,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores, Lyst brings together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. The company has raised $60 million to date, and is backed by range of all-star investors including 14W (Moda Operandi, Reformation), Accel Partners (Facebook, Spotify), Balderton (Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Draper Esprit, part of the Draper Venture Network (Hotmail, Skype), and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Tory Burch.
Moneytree is a fintech data platform, with a mission to bring people and institutions closer together, help them find balance and discover new opportunities to grow personal wealth. Moneytree's first product, a personal finance app for iOS released in 2013, won the App Store’s “Best of” award for iPhone in Japan after only 8 months in market. It went on to win Best of 2014 for iPad, was one of 10 Apple Watch apps featured pre-launch and a featured iMessage app on the launch of iOS 10. Moneytree has over 1,300,000 users on iOS, Android and web. Our proprietary data aggregation platform, Moneytree LINK, has almost twenty enterprise clients, including Japan’s two largest accounting software vendors, an industry first inbound API with Mizuho Bank, an SDK integration SMBC (Mitsui Sumitomo) and multiple regional banks in Japan.
Beisen is a Chinese talent management company that offers talent management and measurement solutions. The company provides recruitment management, talent appraisal, succession, development, 360-degree evaluation and feedback, performance management, and employee survey services for customers. Beisen’s Human Resource Service Platform is focused on the field of internet recruitment. The company's Business People Service Network provides information, trade, and recruitment services. Integrated with Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo, Beisen is a non-social recruitment platform.
StashAway is a wealth management platform design to build and protect your wealth. It personalizes financial planning and portfolio management for the vast range of needs of retail and accredited investors alike. Its risk-management investment strategy, ERAA® (Economic Regime-based Asset Allocation), is designed to maximize clients’ long-term returns while keeping each individual customer’s specific risk exposure constant through changing economic cycles.
Chime Biologics, is a world-class experienced Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), providing customer-centric and cost-effective services for timely premier-quality biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing. We provide a comprehensive solution supporting our customers from analytical and process transfer to early-stage biopharmaceutical development through late-stage clinical and commercial drug substance and drug product manufacturing for Global Supply.
Legal and General Investment Management Personal Investing
Acquisition in 2020
Legal and General Investment Management Personal Investing offers retail investments.
Hut 8 Corp. is a cryptocurrency mining and Blockchain infrastructure company established through an exclusive partnership with Bitfury, one of the world’s leading Blockchain technology companies. Hut 8 Corp. currently owns bitcoin mining data centers representing 24.2 MW and 165 PH/s that are in operation or under construction, with a pipeline of acquisition and development opportunities across North America. Hut 8 Corp. is led by a team of industry experts to provide investors with exposure to Blockchain processing infrastructure and technology along with underlying cryptocurrency rewards and revenue from transaction fees.
Moneytree is a fintech data platform, with a mission to bring people and institutions closer together, help them find balance and discover new opportunities to grow personal wealth. Moneytree's first product, a personal finance app for iOS released in 2013, won the App Store’s “Best of” award for iPhone in Japan after only 8 months in market. It went on to win Best of 2014 for iPad, was one of 10 Apple Watch apps featured pre-launch and a featured iMessage app on the launch of iOS 10. Moneytree has over 1,300,000 users on iOS, Android and web. Our proprietary data aggregation platform, Moneytree LINK, has almost twenty enterprise clients, including Japan’s two largest accounting software vendors, an industry first inbound API with Mizuho Bank, an SDK integration SMBC (Mitsui Sumitomo) and multiple regional banks in Japan.
Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform that enables people to buy and sell luxury, pre-owned fashion products. It curates and connects the desirable wardrobes and provides a trusted and sustainable new way of buying and selling pre-loved items. The company is focused on transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future by promoting the circular fashion movement as an alternative to overproduction and overconsumption and the wasteful practices of the fashion industry. It provides its ‘fashion activist’ community with inspiration, tools, and features to lead the change as they sell and buy unique pre-loved pieces from each other's wardrobes. The platform is unique thanks to its highly engaged activist community and its rare, desirable inventory of 3 million items that includes 140,000 new listings every week. It has over 7.5 million fashion savvy members in 50 countries worldwide. Every week, over 30,000 new items are submitted by its community of sellers, enabling buyers to access over 3,500 coveted and must-have fashion pieces a day. Vestiaire Collective is based in Paris, Ile-de-France with offices in London, New York, Milan, Berlin, and Hong Kong and was founded in 2009 by Alexandre Cognard, Christian Jorge, Fanny Moizant, Henrique Fernandes, Sebastien Fabre, and Sophie Hersan.
BC Group is a holding company that specializes in digital assets and blockchain platforms. BC Technology Group and OSL formed a partnership with Standard Chartered's SC Ventures to create a digital asset brokerage and exchange platform for institutional and corporate clients in the UK and Europe. Branding China Group (BC Group) is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 2012 (HKSE Stock Code: 0863). BC Group is a conglomerate with a diversified portfolio of businesses in marketing communications and technology solutions, where blockchain is incorporated into next-generation technology platforms.
INNOPHYS is developing, designing, manufacturing, consulting and distributing robotics equipment for various industries. Their flagship product, Muscle Suit® is a wearable robot supported by artificial muscle technology, well known for its high quality and reasonable price compared with the same kind of support exoskeletons. The company is planning to expand its business to Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America.
iflix is the world’s leading entertainment service for emerging markets, offering users unlimited access to thousands of TV shows, movies and more. With a vast selection everyone’s favourite comedies, drama, K-drama, Turkish drama, Bollywood, Nollywood, cartoons, movies and more from Hollywood, The UK, Asia, The Middle East and Africa, iflix places the entertainment people want at their fingertips to either stream or download. For one low monthly fee, iflix subscribers can watch on their mobile phone, laptop, tablet, TV… wherever, whenever.
Coconala operates a website to buy and sell knowledge, skills and, experience from users who are willing to teach. It provides a broad range of services for sellers including fortune-telling, relieving mental anguish, illustration, design, consultation for hobbies, and travel destinations. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Japan.
Hivemind helps to bring control and efficiency to their data processing, making it auditable and more accurate. It is a data science company that specialises in the application of human and machine intelligence to unstructured data problems.
Caplin Point was established in 1990 to manufacture a range of ointments, creams and other external applications. The Company was listed in 1994 following its IPO which was oversubscribed 117 times, the proceeds of which were deployed in setting up a manufacturing facility at Pondicherry. Thereafter, the Company expanded its product range and increased its production capacity. The Company focused on the emerging markets of Latin America, Caribbean, Francophone and Southern Africa and is today one of the leading suppliers of Pharmaceuticals in these regions, with over 2000 product licenses across the globe. The Company is entering into the Regulated Markets for Injectables through its state of the art manufacturing plant, capable of handling Liquid Injectables in Vials, Ampoules, Lyophilized Vials and Ophthalmic dosages. The facility is approved by US FDA, EU-GMP, ANVISA-Brazil and INVIMA-Colombia.
SenseTime is a leading AI software company focused on creating a better AI-empowered future through innovation. Upholding a vision of advancing the interconnection of physical and digital worlds with AI, driving sustainable productivity growth and seamless interactive experiences, SenseTime is committed to advancing AI research, developing scalable and affordable AI software platforms that benefit businesses, people, and society, as well as attract and nurture top talents to shape the future together. With their roots in the academic world, we invest in original and cutting-edge research that allows them to offer and continuously improve industry-leading, full-stack AI capabilities, covering key fields across perception intelligence, decision intelligence, AI-enabled content generation, and AI-enabled content enhancement, as well as key capabilities in AI chips, sensors and computing infrastructure. Their proprietary AI infrastructure, SenseCore, allows us to develop powerful and efficient AI software platforms that are scalable and adaptable for a wide range of applications. Their technologies are trusted by customers and partners in many industry verticals including Smart Business, Smart City, Smart Life, and Smart Auto. SenseTime has been actively involved in the development of national and international industry standards on data security, privacy protection, ethical and sustainable AI. As of June 30, 2021, SenseTime has participated in the formulation of over 80 national or international industry standards, working closely with multiple domestic and multilateral institutions on ethical and sustainable AI development. SenseTime was the only AI company in Asia to have its Code of Ethics for AI Sustainable Development selected by the United Nations as one of the key publication references in the United Nations Resource Guide on AI Strategies published in June 2021. They have offices in markets including Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, among others, as well as a presence in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Cynata Therapeutics Limited is an Australian stem cell and regenerative medicine company that is developing a therapeutic stem cell platform technology, Cymerus™, using discoveries made at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM). UWM is a world-renowned leader in stem cell research, in particular for the work by Professor James Thomson's group, which included the first successful isolation of human embryonic stem cells in 1998, and the derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from human adult cells in 2007. Professor Igor Slukvin, a co-founder of Cynata, was also a member of the team that conducted UWM's pioneering iPSC research. Cynata's Cymerus™ platform stem cell technology is based upon extremely important and versatile stem cells known as mesenchymoangioblasts (MCAs). MCAs are a precursor of mesenchymal stem (or stromal) cells (MSCs) which are at the forefront of a new generation of treatments being investigated for such devastating diseases as osteoarthritis, Crohn’s disease and heart disease. Cynata’s proprietary technology utilizes iPSCs originating from an adult donor as the starting material for generating MCAs and in turn for manufacturing the MSC therapeutic product. Cynata will use the proprietary Cymerus™ technology to address a critical shortcoming in existing methods of production of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for therapeutic use, which is the ability to achieve economic manufacture at commercial scale. This opens up a wide range of therapeutic and manufacturing possibilities for the Company. The Cymerus™ technology has several characteristics which makes it ideal for the development of cell-based therapeutics. Most critically, the Cymerus™ manufacturing process ensures that cells for therapeutic use can be produced in virtually limitless quantities. This means that Cynata will not have to constantly seek out fresh stem cell donors to fuel its manufacturing demands. This has the potential to create a new standard in the emergent arena of regenerative medicine and stem cell therapeutics and provides Cynata with both a unique differentiator and an important competitive position.
GetSwift is a smart delivery platform that allows you to manage drivers, dispatch tasks, and track goods delivery all in real-time.
Jiguang provides its clients with user activity analysis, precision marketing, financial risk control and location-based analysis. One of its core products, a third-party push notification services for mobile apps, targets precision marketing managers by analyzing user activities and locations. Aurora is a mobile big data solutions platform in China, pioneered in providing mobile developer services such as push notification, instant messaging, analytics, sharing and short message service (SMS). Aurora has served approximately 344 thousand mobile app developers and approximately 888 thousand mobile applications, accumulated data from nearly 15 billion installations of the Company’s software development kits (SDKs), with monthly unique active device base of nearly 1 billion, as of June 2018. Based on Aurora’s vast data coverage and insights garnered, the Company has expanded its offerings into big data solutions, including targeted marketing, financial risk management, market intelligence and location-based intelligence.
Zhejiang Boner Medical Investment Management Co., Ltd. is a well-known professional hospital investment operator in the Yangtze River Delta, featuring major orthopaedics and rehabilitation.
Eywa Pharma, a global generic pharmaceutical company, has been founded by a group of seasoned professionals with extensive experience in the global pharmaceutical industry with proven ability in creating successful, profitable entities across multiple business verticals.
Amantys Ltd was established in 2010 to bring power electronics technology developed at Cambridge University to market. The company is developing power electronics products that have a high level of programmability, enabling new and exciting possibilities in the field of power electronics design.
Manthan is a leading cloud analytics company for consumer facing businesses. We excel in the application of decision sciences, advanced math and artificial intelligence and have a restless ability to invent and bring ideas to life. Manthan’s analytics solutions are powered by AI, cloud and prescriptive capabilities. They are unique in their ability to use machine intelligence to process every decision context and respond automatically with actions and recommendations to manage every aspect of a consumer business, whether its marketing, merchandising, channel/store, demand or supply. Manthan’s inventions aim to bring a new paradigm of context-aware, automated and algorithmic business decisions and actions, executed at scale.
Netmagic Solutions is India's leading Managed IT Hosting Services Provider, specializing in Internet Data Center & Managed Hosting, Infrastructure Management, Managed Security, Cloud Computing, Application Hosting, Messaging & Collaboration and DR. Netmagic Solutions is ISO 27001 and ISO 9001:2008 certified and its processes are designed as per ITIL framework. Combining world class Internet Data Centers with advanced technology and professional service capabilities, Netmagic Solutions delivers mission critical hosted applications for over 1000 of the world's best-known enterprises from multiple locations in a secure and seamless manner. Netmagic's Chennai Datacenter is the only Gold LEED certified datacenter by the USGBC in India. Netmagic has 6 carrier neutral Tier III + datacenters located in Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi and Chennai as well as a virtual data center in the United States with over 1,75,000 sq. ft. floor space. These are equipped with best-in-class infrastructure, world-class services, tools and skilled personnel, giving its customers the option to host their applications in any of these centers. The company is backed by the best-known names in the internet world. B V Jagadeesh - President & CEO, Virtela and Venture Capitalists including FIL Capital Advisors (India) Pvt. Ltd., Nexus Venture Partners and more recently Cisco Systems and Nokia Growth Partners Advisors India.