INVESTMENTS

OUR INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY

Our Three Investment Styles

Long-term minority investments represent the main part of CHU group’s activities. CHU invests in healthy and closely-held companies with sustainable growth alongside a family or an entrepreneur with meaningful skin in the game. CHU invests in companies on a long term growth path; we strive for seamless alignment with our partner shareholders oftentimes involved in the management of the company. Our long-term view, our strategic and sector experience, financial wherewithal, further enhanced by CHU’s broad and global network are the contribution we bring to our portfolio companies’ growth projects.

We are active and constructive members of the company’s board and are involved in the development of strategic initiatives. Our large capital base affords us patience and the ability to support our companies’ growth through capital expenditures or acquisitions. Our approach is flexible and next to growth initiatives, we are also able to provide liquidity to existing shareholders or support with other like-minded and aligned partners sponsor-less buy outs.

Supporting founders and entrepreneurs is part of CHU’s DNA. This is also done through its investments in top-tier investment funds with a strong bias towards venture and growth strategies. The key regions of the portfolio include Asia Pacific (APAC), South East Asia (SEA) and Australia. Due to the high quality of the fund managers we invest in, the fund investment activity functions as an important deal flow feeder for CHU Growth.
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As a long-term minded, evergreen investment holding, CHU has been building relationships with General Partners (GPs) over decades, supporting them across fundraising cycles. In addition, our ability to introduce portfolio companies to relevant relationships within our large network, across different industries and geographies, makes CHU a valuable partner. Finally, through our CHU Growth strategy, we can support these GPs’ portfolio companies financially by investing in late-stage rounds.

CHU Growth invests globally in fast-growing companies which are less mature than the long-term minority investments and have a higher risk-return profile. The portfolio has a global footprint (Asia, Europe, US). We invest in Asia (India, China and South-East Asia) and Australia. CHU has developed a rapid decision-making process to assess potential new investments opportunities within this investment style. We focus on situations where we can provide capital to companies in late venture/early growth funding rounds. Our holding periods would typically be tied to those of the other investors, but given the evergreen nature of our capital, CHU is able to be present in the cap table and reinvest successive round after successive round.

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Furthermore, CHU’s added value includes the ability for its partners to tap into its vast network of portfolio companies, investors and other relations globally. CHU focuses on rapidly growing companies with prospects of attaining profitability in the near future. These companies are generally in a development phase, where technology risk and product-market fit risk have been substantially reduced. CHU Growth typically invests alongside well-aligned and trusted partners, frequently one of our reputable investors. Target companies are privately-owned with a concentrated shareholder base and a founding team who continues to play a significant role in the company’s ownership and management.