Investors in Laos

Leopard Capital LP is a private equity and a venture capital firm specializing in early stage venture, expansion, buy-out, and pre-IPO investments in middle market companies and small and medium enterprises in pre-emerging economies and overlooked frontiers. It also manages investment funds for its clients. The firm also invests in public equity markets across Asia. For its public equity investments, it seeks to invest in value and growth stocks of companies. For its direct investments, the firm invests in rural focused financial services, affordable housing, renewable energy, power, light manufacturing, retailing, energy and telecommunications infrastructure, agribusiness, food production, consumer goods, tourism, real estate, building materials, tree plantations, crop farms, specialty crops, mills, meat processing, fruit juices, dairy products, energy drinks, water, snack foods, mini-hydropower, biomass/biogas/biodiesel, wind and solar, and rural power grids, rural banking and micro finance, factory and construction, project development, and mortgage packages. It seeks to make investments in South East Asia with a focus on Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Haiti, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Colombia. The firm prefers to invest between $1 million and $5 million in its investee companies and may co-invest with other major international and/or local business groups. It makes controlling or minority investments in its portfolio company. The firm invests through equity, quasi equity, or debt instruments. It prefers to exit through self liquidating instruments, listing on Cambodia's upcoming stock exchange or on other Asian exchanges, or through private sales to strategic investors, co-investors, and other investment funds. Leopard Capital LP was founded in 2007 and is based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with additional offices in George Town, Cayman Islands and Pétion-Ville, Haiti.

Mekong Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in growth equity, financing expansions, and restructurings of existing businesses. It seeks to invest in early stage companies and may participate in management buyouts. The firm will not invest in property, hotels, banks, and start-ups. It invests in companies involved in the manufacturing sector, packaged consumer products, industrial products, distribution, retail, and may consider investments in agricultural and food processing; manufacturers of furniture, wood-products, and handicrafts; light manufacturing including garments, footwear, and plastics; manufacturers of industrial raw materials; companies focused on branding and distribution; producers of machinery and equipment; software outsourcing; and business process outsourcing. It invests in unlisted companies. It seeks to invest in companies that are owned by entrepreneurs or were formerly state-owned. The firm invests in private companies based in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. It invests between $1 million and $15 million. The firm typically invests in companies with annual revenues between $3 million and $10 million and annual net profit between $0.3 and $2 million in the year it makes the investment. It invests in new issuances of shares by existing companies. The firm prefers to take a seat on the board of directors of the company. The firm prefers to take minority stakes. It typically holds its investment for a period of five to eight years and seeks to exit through listing of shares or sale of shares to financial institution, strategic investor, or the company itself. The firm prefers to invest in companies that have at least one year of operations. Mekong Capital was founded in 2001 and is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with an additional office in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The Netherlands Development Finance Company (Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden NV - FMO) supports the private sector in developing countries and emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe through loans, equity and other investment activities. It was formed in 1970 through a partnership between the Netherlands government and the Dutch financial institutions, industry and trade unions.

Regal Funds Management aims to provide investors with absolute returns over the medium to long term, through a suite of investment products in both listed and unlisted equities. The Regal Emerging Companies Fund focuses on Pre-IPO, later stage VC, expansion capital and listed micro-cap opportunities.

Established in 2007, Creation Investments is a Chicago-based firm that specialises in mid-market and growth-oriented investments in financial services companies across North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe.