Kili Capital Delivers Global Investment Management and Advisory Services Backed by Strong Fundamentals

The venture capital and investment management world is quite volatile, with investors facing a wide variety of risks. Venture capital investments can either succeed spectacularly or fail dramatically. Kili Capital, an investment management and advisory firm based in Adelaide, Australia, navigates this volatile environment with a hybrid private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) model. This model relies on sound investment fundamentals to locate the value-based middle ground between the discipline and rigor of Private Equity and the creativity, innovation, and ingenuity of Venture Capital.

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According to Kili Capital Founder and Managing Partner Erick Maleko, the company takes a holistic and balanced approach to investment. It emphasizes the importance of fundamentals, looking beyond short-term price fluctuations and focusing instead on the underlying factors that drive a business's operations and long-term performance.

Aside from being active across the private capital spectrum, Kili Capital also has its own in-house start-up incubator and accelerator program. Its portfolio centers on e-commerce and tech-enabled businesses, particularly telecommunications and media technology, as well as consumer services. Since its establishment in 2018, Kili Capital's key markets are Asia-Pacific countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. With an office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Kili Capital is active in various Sub-Saharan African countries, with a rapidly growing combined population of 750 million.

Kili Capital's venture capital arm manages its portfolio companies throughout their life cycle, from incubation to growth, expansion, and exit/hold. These companies are in industries with high potential, such as information services, online-offline (O2O)/omnichannel model, tech-enabled services, peer-to-peer rentals, shared mobility, data & analytics, and agricultural technology. Most of these companies are in what are considered global growth markets, with rapidly expanding economies, maximizing the potential for returns.

The company also provides corporate advisory services which include best-in-class private market opportunities in North America, Asia-Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa, giving clients access to high-quality deal flow across buy-outs and growth equity.

With sustainability becoming an increasingly important issue in the financial and investment industry, Kili Capital is committed to the principles of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and impact investing, fulfilling its duties as a responsible corporate citizen. It incorporates ESG factors in all investments, striving to create sustainable value and positive impact in its portfolio companies and the communities they operate in. Kili Capital places importance on diversity and inclusion within the company and the businesses in its portfolio, fostering inclusive corporate cultures that drive innovation and performance. It also focuses on making investments that generate measurable social and environmental impact alongside financial returns and supporting initiatives that contribute to sustainable development and positive societal change.

In recent years, Kili Capital has seen the investment potential of a mature market such as North America, leading to its decision to expand into the continent. It is currently involved in direct and co-investment in the North American Lower Middle Market across industry verticals such as food and beverage manufacturing and tech-enabled services.

"We've observed that herd mentality is quite common in the investment industry, with investors flocking to areas such as AI and blockchain, which, in many cases, don't work out," Maleko says. "We have a proprietary system that allows us to determine the opportunities on a market that are best in class, based on value and liquidity, especially with most institutional capital having trouble with liquidity. We believe that, when entering an investment, it's very important to have these fundamentals in place, ensuring that the investment provides value and that there is liquidity when investors exit."

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Name: Don Carson

Email: info@kilicapital.com.au