Shaw Soo Wei Joins Gobi Singapore Fund as Venture Partner
The China-Singapore venture fund Gobi Partners has announced the appointment of a new venture partner for the Gobi Singapore Fund in the form of Shaw Soo Wei (pictured right). Ms Shaw is an experienced media executive as well as someone who’s steeped in the Singaporean entrepreneurial scene, recently working as a consultant to businesses in the region and getting some of them into the mainland China market.
中国とシンガポールのベンチャーファンド Gobi Partners は、Gobi Singapore Fund の新たなベンチャーパートナーとしてShaw Soo Wei氏(写真右)個人を任命したことを発表した。Shaw氏は、経験豊かなメディア業界の実力者であるとともに、シンガポールの起業家シーンにも足を踏み入れており、最近では同地域の企業コンサルタントとして何社かの企業を中国市場に参入させている。
Revealed exclusively to Tech in Asia by Gobi Partners this morning, Shaw Soo Wei becomes the second such venture partner after Dextrys’ James Tong. Her knowledge of both her home country and the China market – in both the private and public sectors – will be put to use at Gobi helping startups to expand across the region. Gobi invests in early-stage IT and media startups and manages over US$300 million in potential funds.
Shaw, in a statement issued upon her appointment, described the Gobi Singapore Fund as “a leading investor in cross-border opportunities in China and Southeast Asia.” Outlining her role, she explained:
As Chinese and Southeast Asian media companies start to expand beyond their home markets, my focus will be identifying early-stage investment potential and key leaders in disruptive innovation.
Ku Kay Mok, a partner at Gobi Singapore, lauded the new venture partner by describing her as an “experienced executive with strong connections with the media sector.” Mok added:
As we continue to invest in consumer-oriented digital media startups, she will be instrumental in identifying media trends and opening doors towards business and market opportunities as these companies scale and work with existing content providers and other traditional media players.
「私達はこれからも消費者志向型のデジタルメディアのスタートアップに投資を行い、Shaw氏は、メディアのトレンドを見いだすことや、企業が成長して現存するコンテンツプロバイダーやその他従来型のメディア企業と協業するなかで、ビジネスチャンスやマーケットチャンスへの道を切り開く助けとなるだろう。」
「我々は一般消費者向けデジタルメディアの新興企業への投資を続けていくので、彼女には、メディアトレンドを見極めたり、こうした企業が拡大し既存のコンテンツプロバイダーやその他の伝統的なメディア企業と協業するようになるに伴い、新たな取引先へとつないだりチャンスを見つけたりといった場面で、活躍してもらえるだろう。」
The last time we saw Gobi Partners in action was just last month when a game studio that it had invested in was sold at a very tidy profit. That sale saw Gobi claim that it has now achieved 60 percent in internal rate of return (IRR), a quantitative measure of a fund’s profitability of investments.