CapitalSG is a specialised Investment & Advisory Firm. We focus on businesses that drive Impact and Inclusion for the billions of emerging consumers. We believe that this is a more sustainable way to generate substantial value creation for all stakeholders. We are primarily focused on Innovative Companies, where we see opportunities for High Growth and Social Impact.
Examples of typical investments (past and current)
Milvik BIMA (“BIMA”)
BIMA is a leader in providing insurance via mobile phone technology to low-income consumers across the globe. BIMA’s mission has been to reach underserved consumers, both in the developing and developed world, with 93% of their global customer base living on less than $10/day and 75% accessing insurance for the first time. BIMA is dedicated to providing Equal Opportunity for all customers to access Life & Health insurance coverage.
NIUM (formerly Instarem)
Nium is a multi-jurisdiction, licenced financial services and global infrastructure platform facilitating cross-border payments in over 100 countries. The Nium platform connects businesses to the world’s payment infrastructure through one API, allowing businesses around the world to unlock new revenue opportunities and improve cash flow economics.
Validus Group
Validus is an AI-driven SME-financing platform. It has disbursed more than USD 2 billion in loans to businesses across Asia. In Singapore, it focuses on a full-suite business finance offering including loans, business accounts, corporate cards, payments, and expense management. Validus is growing rapidly across its four markets – Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam and uses data analytics to drive growth financing to underserved SME sectors. Validus holds a full Capital Markets Services License holder under the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and is licensed by Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK) in Indonesia and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Thailand.
Innoviti Technology
Innoviti is India’s largest provider of integrated payments technology to leading enterprise brands. It is India’s first enterprise grade SaaS platform to enable offline Credit Card Transactions on UPI. Company specializes in developing payments processing, credit distribution, and installment management software.
New Crossroads Asia
New Crossroads Asia is a boutique financial advisory and consultancy firm. It advises growth companies on strategic growth and corporate development initiatives. It also helps under-performing companies restore their financial health by optimizing or raising capital resources. New Crossroads Asia acts as the close partner of companies, discretely working with CEOs and Finance Teams. It also advises on club-deals that bring exclusive and curated direct investment and co-investment opportunities to accredited equity and debt investors.
Banking solutions company
Bank-Genie is an award winning banking solutions company enabling End-to-End Digitisation for Banks, NeoBanks, Fintechs, Micro-Finance and Credit Unions. Bank-Genie’s banking solutions have been implemented in over 30 financial institutions across West Africa, East Africa, South East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and Russia. With over 25 resellers across the world, Bank-Genie is one of the fastest-growing banking transformation technology company in Asia.
Stock trading platforms
AssetGro is an Indian Fintech that runs StockGro – India’s largest virtual stock trading platforms that allows users to buy and sell virtual securities with virtual money and win prizes, enabling users to learn trading without spending actual money.
Selling tea DTC globally online
TeaBox is a Singapore-based startups that pioneered the concept of selling tea DTC globally online. Teabox is using technology to create a more efficient supply chain for the tea industry reducing it from five stages to two.
A leading online pre-school
Raising Superstars is a leading online pre-school education company focused on kids in the 0-6 years age. The company has developed the proprietary Prodigy Framework™, for the development of all-round abilities in babies, toddlers and young kids.
We focus on early-stage, pre-revenue, world-changing startups by Visionary Founders. CapitalSG uses a "permanent capital vehicle", meaning we are able to back our winners for longer. This allows us to reinvest up to two times in our selected startups. Target Size: $50k-250k
We will invest into risk-taker founders who develop startups which 'dare to disrupt and challenge the norms' and leverage technology to change the way the world works. We seek to partner with extraordinary founders who aim to build a business that brings change and makes life better for emerging-consumers. We typically invest either directly or participate in an ongoing-round. Target Size: $250k-5M
We seek to deploy fast-paced capital across a broad range of controlled-transactions in all types of distressed companies undergoing transformational change. Target Ventures must be an Institutional Investor-Backed Company with declining financials. Target Size: $1-10M
We participate in non-distressed companies with structured equity solutions at the operating asset level and/or holding company level to unlock debt capacity and/or support growth initiatives. Examples include: Secured debt, preferred/common equity, warrants, secondaries. Target Size: $5-10M
New Crossroads Asia, a Sister Company of CapitalSG, provides corporate financial advisory services to corporates, distressed companies, family offices, and startups companies, Please visit the New Crossroads Asia page for more details. Target Size: $10-150M
Key members of our team
Michelle Duan has 13 years of extensive experience in Corporate Finance and M&A Advisory from China, Canada and Singapore. In her earlier career, Michelle worked with several MNCs and publicly traded companies. She was part of the new corporate finance team of Canadian Pacific Railway between 2013 and 2016, witnessed and participated in CP Rail’s famous turnaround, maneuvered by Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square. After moving to Singapore since 2018, Michelle has become increasingly more passionate about helping ambitious and inspirational entrepreneurs with their capital raising and corporate advisory work for fast-growing companies. She is also involved in several other financial activities for the portfolio companies of CapitalSG and associated companies. Michelle is a Canadian CPA and Associate Member of Singapore’s ISCA, and holds an MBA from Queen’s University, Canada.
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