FountainVest Partners

Vertex Holdings is a global network of venture capital funds, comprising Vertex Ventures, Vertex Ventures HC and Vertex Growth. Vertex Holdings is an anchor investor in each of these funds. Vertex Holdings is owned by Temasek, a Singapore sovereign wealth fund. Vertex Ventures is based in California and invests in early stage technology companies. Vertex Ventures looks for founders tackling fundamental challenges. We look for people who want to make a dent in the wold while growing a multi-billion dollar business. Vertex HC invests in healthcare opportunities. We invest in and work with high-growth medical device, biotech, and digital health companies, at all stages, worldwide. Our portfolio includes companies at all stages of development, from early-stage companies testing transformative technologies to commercial-stage companies seeking additional growth. The Vertex Growth Fund provides later stage expansion capital to companies on the cusp of creating a category champion that is enduring and transformational.

Affinity Equity Partners is a leading Asia-Pacific private equity firm focused on buyout and control-oriented investments.

CDH Investments is a diversified alternative asset manager with private-equity, venture-and-growth, private-credit, public-equity, and real-asset activities; VGC is its venture-and-growth unit.

Actis is a leading private equity investor in high growth markets across Africa, Asia and Latin America. We invest in private equity buyouts and grwoth capital, energy, infrastructure and real estate. We have >120 investment professionals across 16 global offices. In every market we invest in, we nurture close local relationships, providing us with excellent competitive intelligence and access to opportunities. We match this local insight with a global sector approach, which helps us deliver great results. A particular strength lies in helping families and founders of local businesses to institutionalise. We take successful local brands and help them to grow; to attract the best talent; to compete with multinational corporations and to prepare for IPOs. Consequently many business founders seek to work with Actis, resulting in unique proprietary deal flow.

Granite Asia is a multi-asset investment platform investing in equity from founders’ first rounds through public listings, alongside private credit and public capital.

Terra Firma is one of the leading private equity investors in Europe. We invest in asset-rich businesses in essential industries (energy and utilities, infrastructure, affordable housing, leisure/hospitality, agriculture, healthcare and asset leasing) that require fundamental change. We have a long-term investment approach and specialize in five areas - Transformational Private Equity, Support Capital, Operational Secondaries, Operational Real Estate and Infrastructure Plus.

Blackstone is a global alternative asset manager investing across private equity, real estate, credit and insurance, multi-asset, secondaries, tactical opportunities, infrastructure, life sciences, growth and energy transition strategies.

The Carlyle Group is a global private equity and alternative asset manager headquartered in Washington DC, USA. Carlyle was founded in 1987 and has grown to become one of the largest, most well known and most respected private equity managers globally. Carlyle operates across four principal strategies: Corporate Private Equity ($75bn AUM), Real Estate and Infrastructure ($44bn AUM), Global Credit ($34bn) and Fund of Funds / Investment Solutions ($34bn AUM). Carlyle was founded in 1987, originally as an investment banking boutique, by five founders: William Conway, Stephen Norris, David Rubenstein, Daniel D'Aniello and Greg Rosenbaum. Carlyle went public through a NASDAQ listing in May 2012.

GIC is a sovereign wealth fund of Singapore. GIC manages most of the Singapore Government's assets, with a mandate to invest for the long term across all asset classes in order to generate sustainable returns. GIC invests both directly and through other fund managers, and invests globally. Our portfolio is spread across six core asset classes: developed market equities, emerging market equities, bonds and cash, real estate and private equity.

EQT Partners is a global alternative investment firm with strategies across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, growth equity, and public value.

Oaktree Capital is one of the world's leading alternative investment managers. Oaktree has its original roots in high yielding and distressed credit/debt, although today invests across the spectrum from equity to debt. There are four primary strategies: credit, private equity, real assets, and listed equities. Credit comprises approximately 70% of the portfolio, with private equity and real assets comprising most of the remainder. Oaktree has a strong culture and investment philosophy focused on risk control, consistency, market inefficiency, specialisation, bottom-up analysis and disavowal of market timing.

Advent International is a global private equity firm focusing on buyouts and growth equity investments across five core sectors: business and financial services, healthcare, industrial, technology, and retail/consumer.