Ant Capital Partners
Ant Capital Partners Co., Ltd. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in emerging growth, growth capital, buyout, recapitalization, turnaround, and public equity. It seeks to invest in mid-sized companies. It also makes secondary private equity investments. It primarily invests in the internet business (mobile and content), the electronic business (semiconductors and communications), the bio-healthcare business (new drug development), and the new service business (financial-related and environment-related services) sectors. The firm primarily invests in companies based in Japan, China, and other East Asian countries. It seeks to carry out small-cap buyouts of mature companies in the range of $50 million to $150 million. The firm prefers to have majority stakes in its portfolio companies. Ant Capital Partners Co., Ltd. was founded in October 2000 and is based in Tokyo, Japan with an additional office in Hong Kong.