Polaris Capital Group Japan

Recruit Strategic Partners is the Silicon Valley-based venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings (a leading Japanese headquartered media company). We invest in world-class startups around the world. Our mission is to support our portfolio companies to expand their business in Japanese market and we offer our accumulated industry expertise and knowledge to achieve this. We frequently co-invest with leading venture capital funds in the United States. We invest at any stage from the seed round to the growth phase, and concentrate on the following sectors: Business Applications, AI/Internet of Things/Robotics, Blockhain, and Fintech.

Point72 is a global alternative investment manager with fundamental-equity, systematic, macro, private-credit and venture-capital strategies; its venture strategy is Point72 Ventures.

PAG is a Hong Kong-headquartered alternative/private asset manager focused on APAC, investing for institutional investors across three core strategies: Credit & Markets, Private Equity and Real Assets.

Golden Alpha is a family investment vehicle of the Sohmen family. Golden Alpha invests both directly and through external fund managers, in both private and public investments. The Sohmen family has an operating business, BW Group, which is a leading maritime group founded in 1995 and involved in oil and gas transportation, floating gas infrastructure, environmental technologies and deepwater production.

The Riverside Company is a global private equity firm focused exclusively on mid-market growth businesses valued at up to $400 million. Since its founding in 1988, Riverside has invested in more than 520 transactions. We bring strong operational and financial resources and pride ourselves on being a good partner. We prefer to partner with sellers seeking to remain involved in the company as we work together to enhance processes, expand product offerings and attract new customers. We move quickly for compelling opportunities, and can close transactions within 30 to 90 days.

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.

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.

Goldman Sachs is a diversified financial institution. Its Asset Management business provides investment and advisory services across public and private markets, including alternatives; in 2026, it acquired venture-capital platform Industry Ventures.

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.

IFM Investors is one of Australia's leading investors, with a strong track record of investment across four key asset classes: debt investments, listed equities, infrastructure and private equity. With respect to private equity, IFM looks for minority or majority investments in Australian and New Zealand mid-market ($50m to $300m valuation) growth companies. IFM is sector agnostic, however particularly likes healthcare, consumer brands, technology and business services. IFM Investors is owned by 27 Australian superannuation funds.

Ardian is one of Europe's largest private investment houses. We manage five separate strategies: Fund of Funds, where we invest in other funds (US$49bn under management), Direct Private Equity (US$15bn), Infrastructure (US$10bn), Private Debt (US$7bn) and Real Estats ($1bn). We invest globally, generally in developed markets, although each strategy differs in terms of geography. We have more than 550 employees based in Paris, London, Frankfurt, Milan, Madrid, Zurich, New York, San Francisco, Santiago, Beijing, Singapore, Tokyo, Jersey and Luxembourg. Ardian was founded under AXA, the insurance company, in 1996, and was spun off as a an independent company in 2013.