As we all know: Kohler Capital invests in private equity in secondary markets around the world and manages approximately $8 billion in funds. The company obtains venture capital, M&A funds and mezzanine funds from financial institutions, enterprises, government agencies and family offices, as well as the investment portfolio of investment companies or their shares.
Coller International Partners V, a fund raised by Kohler Capital in April 2007, has received nearly 200 international institutional investors with a total of 4.8 billion US dollars of off-take capital. It is currently the world's largest secondary market fund. Coller Capital has a truly international investment team with offices in London, New York and Singapore.
In 2020, due to the impact of the global new crown virus, Kohler Capital has suspended almost all projects around the world.
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However, on October 1 this year, Kohler Capital’s spokesperson: Jeremy Kohler officially announced the first investment in 2021. His investment project is a part-time online technology platform under FIL HOLDINGS (UK) LIMITED ---FIL
So why did Kohler Capital choose a FIL technology network platform that has just started?
And invested 80 million US dollars in this C round of financing on the FIL platform
Let us understand how FIL got the favor of Kohler Capital this time
First of all, we need to understand the head office of FIL: FIL HOLDINGS (UK) LIMITED
Founded on October 30, 2008, FIL HOLDINGS (UK) LIMITED is headquartered at EC4M 5AB, 4 Cannon Street, London, England. It is an international financial services holding company with total assets of up to 1.05 billion pounds. The company's main business involves international funds. Management and other services, international securities investment management and consulting services, financial technology project research and development and related investments, corporate financial services have operations in more than 20 countries around the world including the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Sweden, China, India, Japan, Brazil, etc. contacts.
With the rapid growth of the emerging financial technology industry in London, about 40% of the people in the UK work in the financial and technology industries. In 2014, a total of US$1.5 billion was invested in financial technology in Europe. Among them, companies headquartered in London accounted for 559 million, and FIL HOLDINGS (UK) LIMITED is one of the main investors. It has a leading position in the R&D and investment of financial technology in the world. . The FIL platform is an intelligent network platform for financial technology services invested and developed by FIL HOLDINGS (UK) LIMITED. The advantage of FIL lies in relying on company group growth investment, fixed income investment, financial investment, financial portfolio management planning services and massive transaction data of global product users. We hope to use these huge multi-dimensional data to establish a knowledge map between enterprise-product-users, and use powerful cloud computing, transmission algorithms and other technologies to quantify the relationship between nodes in the network and shape the relationship between enterprises and individuals. Profitability, customer loyalty, future business capabilities of the company, and increase product sales, so that every customer can obtain stable returns in the challenging investment market.
Kohler Capital will conduct field inspections on the development of the FIL platform in 11 countries around the world in January 2021
Through the field investigation of the excellent evaluation team, they found that the FIL platform is a new type of online part-time financial technology platform. And in the past two years, the FIL platform has developed very rapidly around the world. The fundamental reason is that it has powerful cloud technology and e-commerce technology. The most important reason is that it has brought huge job opportunities for working from home to countries. Moreover, the FIL platform is very optimistic by Amazon Chairman Jeff Bezos and has signed a cooperation agreement. At the same time, FIL also cooperates with world-renowned e-commerce merchants such as Wal-Mart, EBay, Free Market, Tmall, Taobao, JD.com, etc.
These strong partners make Kohler Capital very optimistic about the future development of the FIL platform.
Jeremy. Kohler is very satisfied with the results of this inspection and is willing to invest 80 million US dollars in the FIL platform C round of financing. These capitals are mainly used to develop new markets and research and develop new fields. He is very optimistic about FIL's newly developed Brazilian market. Jeremy Kohler It is said that Brazil is not the most developed country in the world, but Brazil is the country with the most promising and potential market economy. He said that this investment hopes that FIL can have more branches all over the world, so that in the next few years, it can help countries around the world to solve the employment difficulties caused by the new crown virus and provide people from all over the world with opportunities to work at home. He very much hopes to help. People from all over the world have weathered the economic difficulties caused by this epidemic.
Therefore, Kohler Capital decided to make a capital investment of 80 million yuan on the FIL platform after conducting a professional evaluation of the survey results of the branch companies in 11 countries through a 10-month on-site inspection of the FIL platform. The FIL platform through the C round of financing, in addition to Kohler Capital’s 80 million US dollars, it also received an investment of 20 million US dollars from Amazon and Wal-Mart. This makes the FIL platform very promising in the next few years, so FIL has also become It has become a part-time technology platform that countries all over the world attach great importance to.