Helicap, a fintech private investment platform specialising in the alternative lending space in Southeast Asia, has raised US$5 million in a strategic funding round led by Temasek-backed Tikehau Capital and PhillipCapital.
The group CEO David Z Wang said: “Over the coming months, we will be expanding our suite of data-driven products and services to establish Helicap as the go-to private financing arranger in SEA. We will continue democratising access to private investments through a data-driven FinTech investment platform prioritising risk management.”
Helicap is a fintech-driven investment firm specialising in the alternative lending space in Southeast Asia and Australia. Since its founding, the group claims it has arranged US$150 million in volume in over 300 completed deals, working closely with leading alternative lending platforms and presenting investors with positive returns.
To achieve this consistent performance, Helicap has developed a proprietary technology that can crunch millions of loan data points to evaluate the creditworthiness of more than 500 digital lenders and businesses across SEA and Oceania.
The firm’s flagship private debt fund recently raised US$10 million from a regional bank-backed asset management firm.
With the global economic landscape expected to face higher and broader inflation in 2022, and public markets witnessing a correction since the beginning of the year, private markets can present a portfolio diversification opportunity for investors. Private debt markets have shown a low correlation to public markets and can provide consistent risk-adjusted returns when applying robust risk management frameworks.
Early this year, Helicap provided a debt facility of US$15 million to ErudiFi, a startup offering tech-enabled education financing solutions in Southeast Asia.
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