Asia Capital Pioneers Group (ACPG) has selectively invested into high-growth industries and government-backed projects in the region.
ACPG’s Investments have been stringently screened and evaluated to maximize value for our clients, providing consistently robust returns over the past 10 years. Our investment portfolio currently focuses largely on two main sectors: Infrastructure / real estate and Fintech. Our notable investments include Songdo International Business District, Minterest, Aleta Planet and DiMuto, and we are constantly scanning the landscape for opportunities to enhance yield for clients.
The Songdo International Business District sits within Songdo, a sustainable smart city at the waterfront edge of Incheon, South Korea. Part of Incheon’s Free Economic Zone and with a land area of 5.8 million m2, it has attracted global biomedical firms, tech companies and international schools.
It was first conceptualised by South Korea’s city planners in 2001, to be an eco-friendly urban centre with sustainable residential environment. With state-of-the art recycling and waste disposal facilities and LEED-certified space, it offers a modern metropolis without the pollution.
ACPG is a majority shareholder (45.6%) in the Songdo International Business District development project, providing capital funding and project consultancy services. The other shareholders include POSCO E&C (29.9%) and Troika (24.5%).
Founded in 2014, Aleta Planet is at the forefront of facilitating cross-border payments with China. Its proprietary end-to-end technology solution gets businesses China-ready and enables merchants to accept payments or pay into China through UnionPay’s network.
Aleta Planet is a certified principal member of UnionPay International and JCB, offering cross-border, multi-currency transactions safely and securely. Aleta Planet is also WeChat Pay and PayNow enabled and a global acquirer for Discover and Diners Club. With this comprehensive offering, Aleta Planet seeks to accelerate networks beyond China to the rest of the world.
Through its special purpose vehicle, ACPG is the controlling shareholder of Aleta Planet.
DiMuto is a trade technology company that provides end-to-end supply chain visibility for global businesses. DiMuto uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain to ensure the traceability and trackability of business documents, goods and services.
This creates an ecosystem where fresh produce buyers and traders from all over the world can leverage on a single platform for an end-to-end experience including invoicing, logistics tracking, access to trade financing and cross-border payments.
ACPG was part of the first round of early investors into this rising fintech. ACPG will channel its resources and Aleta Planet’s account issuance capabilities to power DiMuto’s trade ecosystem.
The Bucheon Media Culture Complex is a large-scale development project that invests KRW 529 trillion in the 2 square meters of 38-2,743, Sang-dong
The video culture industrial complex will be built into a global video and cultural content hub complex’ with cultural contents, high-tech companies, and complex facilities.
Part of the GS E & C Consortium that was selected as a developer and plans to simultaneously create a hotel and convention at the 4-story landmark tower by the 1,900 Film Culture Convergence Center, the Film Contents Enterprise Complex. A site (approximately 2025㎡) has been secured for the National Film Museum.
The video culture industrial complex will be built into a global video and cultural content hub complex’ with cultural contents, high-tech companies, and complex facilities.
The Video Culture Convergence Center attracts 5 leading companies in domestic and overseas image culture contents such as Sony Pictures and EBS, and actively promotes virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) contents produced by companies.
Bucheon city represents Korea as a mecca for the film, cartoon, animation, film, and new content industries through the Korea Manga Film Agency, Webtoon Convergence Center, the National Film Museum, and the creation of a film culture industrial complex. The Korean government announced that it will spend an approx. of KRW 2022 trillion on realistic contents in VRs and ARs.
The Minterest Group is a Singapore-based online financial services solutions provider that connects borrowers with investors. Established in 2016, it is a leading non-bank fintech group with dual licences in Singapore enabling the group to facilitate, by leveraging on technology, corporate loans through marketplace lending and personal loans at customised interest rates. It has a cumulative deal origination volume of over S$162 million in Singapore.
Minterest is founded on the belief that everyone is entitled access to financial solutions to meet their corporate and individual requirements. Using the team’s deep financial experience and expertise, Minterest offers relevant financial and investment solutions to both borrowers and investors through the use of technology.
ACPG’s principals were founding shareholders of Minterest until 2020, when a majority stake was bought by ARA Asset Management.
SDAX is a globally connected, integrated digital financial services platform offering a comprehensive suite of investment opportunities for asset owners and investors to benefit from the world’s private markets. SDAX’s exchange platform offers opportunities to access exclusive investments from its ecosystem and secondary market trading via its digital asset exchange.
With SDAX, investors access curated investment opportunities across private equities, funds, real estate and alternatives which have passed SDAX’s rigorous due diligence process. SDAX connects markets through partnerships with participants in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe and the Asia Pacific region, delivering a seamless and efficient cross-border digital assets ecosystem for wealth creation.
