New Members 2021

Corporate Full Members

• APlus Partners Management Co., Limited
  
  APlus Partners is a leading alternative investment management firm headquartered in Hong Kong, with a primary focus on private equity and credit opportunity in Greater-China region.
   
• Epson Hong Kong Limited
   
• GCCVest
  
  We are a cross-border hybrid Growth/VC fund with LPs from Middle East to invest in technology in China. Our fund invests in emerging connectivity and promotes value creation between China and the Middle East.
   
• Grosvenor Asia Strategic Adjacencies Limited
  
  Grosvenor is one of the world’s largest privately owned international property business with a track record of over 340 years. We develop, manage and invest with a purpose of improving property and places to deliver leading commercial and social benefit. Grosvenor Asia Strategic Adjacencies Limited is a newly set-up division of Grosvenor Asia with a specific purpose to invest into emerging technology and strategic adjacencies around our core industry. It has a strategic intent to supplement and inform our core business such that we are on the “inside” of the development of the future of our industry.
   
• HashKey Group
  
  HashKey Group is a leader in digital asset management and blockchain solutions. The Group provides a complete ecosystem across the entire digital asset landscape, ranging from capital, to custody, to technologies, trading, and exchange. HashKey’s senior team has deep investment, governance, and technology expertise gained at tier-one banks, regulators, and fintech ventures. HashKey identifies high potential opportunities and deliver end-to-end solutions that operate within regulatory frameworks with high compliance standards. The Group has operations in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan, and extensive partnerships with fintech and blockchain solutions providers, academic institutions, and associations.
   
• Hel Ved Capital Management Limited
  
  Hel Ved Capital Management Limited is an asset management firm established in 2019 to focus on Asia Driven Technology, Media, Communications and Consumer Discretionary (TMT) Long Short Equities. We invest with patience and believe that history rhymes. Hel Ved Capital is headquartered in Hong Kong and regulated by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong.
   
• IMS Digital Ventures
  
  IMS Digital Ventures is the venture building arm of IMS, Hong Kong’s leading Digital Transformation Agency with over 300 employees in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Singapore. At IMS Digital Ventures, we build revolutionary new ventures with Asia's most influential corporations and disruptive entrepreneurs.
   
• MCM Investment Partners Limited
  
  MCM Investment Partners Limited is the investment arm of MCM group companies, with main focus in identifying, evaluating and investing into potential investment opportunities ranges from Series B to pre-IPO in the Private Sector.
   
• Mercer
  
  Mercer Alternatives is a global specialist for alternatives investments, offering advisory services, customized and pooled investment solutions for some of the world’s largest institutional investors around the world. Mercer’s flexibility to service its clients in a way that best fits their requirements is based on a modular service concept that reflects our heritage as a trusted advisor to our clients. With an operating history dating back over 25 years, Mercer Alternatives today oversees programs with an AUM of USD 22bn, and provides advice on a further USD 179bn. More than 200 professionals operate out of 25 offices across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific and provide deep expertise, resources, and research capabilities covering all major sub-asset classes within private markets.
   
• Mindworks Capital Limited
   
• NL Capital Advisers, Ltd
  
  NL Capital Advisers, an investment and advisory firm headquartered in Hong Kong with operations in the United States, is a global investment firm with strong conviction in the power of innovation coupled with the dynamic intersection of the US, China, and Korea with equal and balanced interest in every country.
   
• Oakwise Capital Management Limited
  
  Oakwise Capital Management Ltd. is an asset management company registered with the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC). Holding the Type 4 and Type 9 licenses issued by SFC, Oakwise Capital Management provides a series of products and services which focus on investing in Greater China, including fund, separated managed account, family office and other services. The investors include renowned state-owned enterprises, city investment enterprises, financial institutions, listed companies, family offices and high net worth individuals.
   
• Sterling Private Management Limited
   
• Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited
  
  Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited (SEHK: 86) is a leader in alternative investing headquartered in Hong Kong. Since its establishment in 1969, the Group has owned and operated market-leading platforms in Financial Services. The Group invests across public markets, alternatives and real assets and has an established track record of generating long-term risk adjusted returns for its shareholders. Most recently, it has extended its strategy to incubate, accelerate and support emerging asset managers in the Asian region. It is also the major shareholder of a leading Consumer Finance firm, United Asia Finance Limited. The Group currently holds about HK$44 billion in total assets as at 31 December 2020.
   
• Vectr Fintech Partners
  
  Our mission is to support amazing Founder’s that are shaping the future of financial technology and services. We have a specialised Fintech venture fund that covers infrastructure, private capital markets and deep tech across Asia and North America.
   
• Vista Equity Partners Management, LLC
  
  Vista Equity Partners is a U.S.-based investment firm with offices in Austin, Chicago, New York, Oakland, and San Francisco and more than $73 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2020. We focus exclusively on the large and growing enterprise software market across our private equity, permanent capital, credit and public equity investment strategies. We are a value-added investor, contributing professional expertise and multi-level support to help companies realize their full potential. Our sizable long-term capital base, experience in structuring technology-oriented transactions, and proven management techniques yield flexibility and opportunity for our companies. At Vista, our people enable our pursuit of excellence. We are technologists and engineers at our core, translating ideas into actions and embracing innovation. Our team’s extensive transaction, operating, and strategic expertise propels our companies forward and advances the global technology ecosystem.
  
   

Corporate Associate Members

• AlixPartners Hong Kong Limited
  
  AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses successfully address their most complex and critical challenges. Our clients include companies, corporate boards, law firms, investment banks, private equity firms, and others. Founded in 1981, AlixPartners is headquartered in New York, and has offices in more than 20 cities around the world.
   
• Ankura Consulting
  
  Ankura is a business advisory and expert services firm defined by HOW we solve challenges. Whether a client is facing an immediate business challenge, trying to increase the value of their company or protect against future risks, Ankura designs, develops, and executes tailored solutions by assembling the right combination of expertise. We build on this experience with every case, client, and situation, collaborating to create innovative, customised solutions, and strategies designed for today’s ever-changing business environment. This gives our clients unparalleled insight and experience across a wide range of economic, governance, and regulatory challenges. At Ankura, we know that collaboration drives results.
   
• Cooley LLP
  
  Cooley LLP is an international law firm representing clients in a wide range of industries from our offices in Asia, Europe and the United States.  Cooley has more than 1200 lawyers across 17 offices in Asia, Europe and the United States. The firm represents 6,000+ high-growth new economy companies, 500+ venture fund families and closes over 2,000 venture and growth investments per year. In Asia, Cooley has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. Cooley is broadly recognized for its powerhouse technology, life sciences and venture capital practices. We represent some of Asia’s most innovative and dynamic companies and leading investors, advising on their financings, M&As and joint ventures, IPOs and other strategic transactions at all stages of their growth. 
   
• Globalization Partners Limited
  
  Globalization Partners enables companies to quickly and easily expand internationally across six continents and 187 countries. Our Global Employer of Record (EOR) model allows companies to hire employees in as little as 12 hours without having to navigate complex international legal, tax, and HR issues. When companies find top talent, that team member is put on our locally compliant payroll. We have teams and offices worldwide with global headquarters located in Boston and California and regional headquarters in London, Ireland, Singapore and Dubai. Globalization partners is Privacy Shield certified for HR Data, and has consistently attained 97% customer satisfaction ratings by making it easy for companies to go global.
   
• IHS Markit
  
  IHS Markit is a leading global provider of financial services technology, data and analytical services, supporting all participants in the capital-raising process, including sell-side professionals, finance officers at private and public companies, institutional investors and asset managers. The Private Markets division of IHS Markit serves over 700 LP & GP clients globally, and offers software & services around data collection, portfolio monitoring, valuations and investor reporting. IHS Markit solutions for private markets are the premier industry choice to address growing pressures for transparency and regulatory compliance.
   
• InCloudCounsel
  
  InCloudCounsel is a legal technology company that combines highly experienced corporate attorneys with cloud-based software to offer a scalable, end-to-end solution for negotiating and managing routine legal work. We help many of the world’s leading companies effectively streamline their contract processes, free up resources, and achieve substantial cost savings. Our global network of highly experienced attorneys are specialists in specific document types in asset management, investment banking, real estate, and healthcare. The InCloudCounsel software platform is designed to maximize organization, efficiency, and insight by providing a robust set of document management and data reporting capabilities.
   
• Innovative Directions Inc.
  
  We are a business turn-around and senior advisory firm focused on helping family offices and private equity funds regain profitability and attain exit for Asia based assets. We generally do 1-2 turn-arounds at a time and 3-4 board and operations advisory. We serve on multiple boards of directors and offer full-service business management, governance, human development.
   
• PitchBook
  
  PitchBook is a financial technology company that provides data on the capital markets to help professionals discover and execute opportunities with confidence and efficiency. We collect and analyze detailed data on the entire venture capital, private equity and M&A landscape—including public and private companies, investors, funds, investments, exits and people. Our data and analysis are available through our suite of products (the PitchBook Platform), industry news and in-depth reports.
   
• PJT Partners (HK) Limited
  
  PJT Partners is a premier global advisory-focused investment bank. Our team of senior professionals delivers a wide array of strategic advisory, shareholder advisory, restructuring and special situations and private fund advisory and fundraising services to corporations, financial sponsors, institutional investors and governments around the world. We offer a unique portfolio of advisory services designed to help our clients achieve their strategic objectives. We also provide, through PJT Park Hill, private fund advisory and fundraising services for alternative investment managers, including private equity funds, real estate funds and hedge funds.
   
• TMF Hong Kong Limited
  
  TMF Hong Kong Limited is a fund service group providing fund administration, investor KYC, trustee, management and company secretary services along with other specialised services.
  
   

Overseas Full Members

• AlleyCorp
   
• Anxa Holding Pte. Ltd.
  
  Anxa Holding Pte Ltd is an investment holding company based in Singapore focusing on early-stage venture capital investments.
   
• Guangzhou Sino-israel Biotechnology Fund (GIBF)
  
  The Guangzhou Sino-Israel Biotech Investment Fund (GIBF) is established in March 2016, focusing on life science investment with initial size of 600 million RMB. The Guangzhou Elim Biotech Industry Venture Capital Management Company, controlled by a group of prominent Israel professionals, is the management company of the Fund. It has currently operational offices both in Guangzhou, China and Tele Aviv, Israel. This is the first ever and very bold approach taken by a major Chinese municipal government in many aspects to let a foreign group mainly manage this fund sponsored by governments. The purpose of GIBF is to bring world class Israel biotech into China to be commercialized and industrialized locally and build up a competitive and comprehensive life science industry in Guangzhou.
   
• Nuance Capital Limited
  
  Nuance Connected Capital is an early-stage New Zealand VC fund focusing on deep tech, science and innovation that either helps the planet or improves people’s lives. In addition to bringing founder-friendly, on-shore follow-on capital to Kiwi entrepreneurs, all our LPs are large family offices/ business owners across the globe which gives Nuance access to deep international industry networks to help our portfolio companies scale up and drive exits.
   
• NZVC
  
  In today's borderless world and remote working economy the best founders will work from anywhere. New Zealand is synonymous with a competent and effective government, honest institutions and unrivaled natural beauty. NZVC partners and supports with the best founders building global ventures from New Zealand. We're New Zealand's first operator run fund aiming to provide more than just capital. We draw from a network of 100+ domain experts and advisors to help companies at all stages of their lifecycle to find Product Market fit, Scale, Grow and Exit.
   
• United X Capital
   
• Waypoint Capital
  
  With offices in Geneva, London, Jersey, Boston and Luxembourg, Waypoint has two principal areas of focus: 1. Healthcare, building on the Bertarelli family's long involvement in biotechnology and life sciences; 2. Asset Management, where Waypoint uses its expertise to develop interests in areas such as hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate and fund of fund investments. Waypoint’s professionals provide expert advice, support and execution capabilities to the companies and investments associated with it. These span legal support, financial accounting, internal audit, management reporting, tax support, operational due diligence, communications, human resources and technical infrastructure.
  
   

Overseas Associate Member

• Kasikorn Vision Limited Company
  
  Kasikorn Vision Company Limited (“KVision”) is an investment holding company initiated under the mandate to source new value-enhancing capabilities for KASIKORNBANK Public Company Limited (“KBank”) and our respective clients. It is our mission to scout innovative firms and tech talents with flexible collaborative models including hiring, co-creating solutions, forming partnerships, offering subscription, forming joint ventures and making direct investments (M&A).