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Why Singapore’s Healthcare Start-ups Are the New Focus for Top Private Equity Firms?

Singapore has quickly gained recognition as a global innovation hub, particularly in the healthcare sector. The city-state’s strategic initiatives, robust infrastructure, and forward-looking policies have created fertile ground for healthcare start-ups. This has attracted private equity firms in Singapore eager to capitalize on the booming market. Below, we explore why top private equity firms are making significant investments in Singapore’s healthcare ecosystem.

1. A Gateway to Asia’s Expanding Healthcare Market

Singapore’s strategic location at the heart of Asia makes it a perfect launchpad for healthcare start-ups to access the region’s rapidly growing markets. Neighboring countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam are experiencing rising demand for healthcare services, driven by economic growth and population expansion. Private equity investment in Singapore-based start-ups offers a unique opportunity to tap into this growth while leveraging the city’s world-class infrastructure and connectivity.

2. Proactive Government Support

Singapore’s government plays a pivotal role in nurturing healthcare innovation. Programs like the Research, Innovation, and Enterprise (RIE) initiatives and support from the Economic Development Board (EDB) ensure healthcare start-ups have the resources they need to scale. The city’s regulatory framework, known for its transparency and efficiency, further instills confidence among private equity investors. For firms like Quadria Capital, this supportive environment makes Singapore an attractive and secure base for investment.

3. Pioneering Digital Health Advancements

In the era of digital transformation, Singapore’s healthcare sector is thriving through technological innovation. From AI-driven diagnostics to telemedicine platforms, start-ups in Singapore are pioneering solutions that redefine healthcare delivery. These innovations align perfectly with global trends, allowing private equity firms to achieve substantial returns while supporting the growth of transformative technologies. As Singapore moves closer to its Smart Nation vision, digital health remains a key area for private equity investment.

4. Meeting the Needs of an Aging Population

Singapore’s aging population is creating new challenges and opportunities in healthcare. Start-ups specializing in elder care, chronic disease management, and health-tech solutions for aging individuals are on the rise. Private equity firms recognize the long-term potential in these ventures, as the demand for senior healthcare services is set to grow steadily. By investing in innovative solutions for aging demographics, firms position themselves to capture sustained value while addressing a critical societal need.

5. Singapore’s Stable and Business-Friendly Climate

Singapore offers a politically stable, business-friendly environment with strong legal and financial systems. This stability is a magnet for private equity investment, offering predictable returns with minimal risk. The city’s reputation as a global financial hub further enhances its appeal to investors. Start-ups benefit from the business ecosystem, while private equity firms enjoy the assurance of operating in a highly regulated and supportive market.

6. Access to World-Class Talent and Research

Singapore’s commitment to research and education has cultivated a rich pool of skilled professionals in healthcare and technology. The city is home to leading research institutions that collaborate with start-ups to drive innovation. Top private equity firms, such as Quadria Capital, recognize the value of this ecosystem, which combines talent, cutting-edge research, and entrepreneurial energy. Start-ups benefit from these resources, while investors enjoy enhanced growth prospects through innovation-driven ventures.

Conclusion

Singapore’s healthcare start-ups are reshaping the future of healthcare delivery, fueled by innovation, government support, and access to cutting-edge technology. For private equity firms, the city-state offers a winning combination of growth opportunities, stability, and global market access.

Top private equity firms in Singapore, including Quadria Capital, are strategically investing in this thriving sector, not only for promising returns but also to play a role in advancing healthcare innovation across Asia and beyond. As this partnership flourishes, Singapore is well-positioned to remain at the forefront of global healthcare innovation, cementing its reputation as a leading destination for private equity investment.

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Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp

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A decade ago, a hedge fund had an improbable viral comedy hit: a 294-page slide deck explaining why Olive Garden was going out of business, blaming the failure on too many breadsticks and insufficiently salted pasta-water:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000092189514002031/ex991dfan14a06297125_091114.pdf

Everyone loved this story. As David Dayen wrote for Salon, it let readers "mock that silly chain restaurant they remember from their childhoods in the suburbs" and laugh at "the silly hedge fund that took the time to write the world’s worst review":

https://www.salon.com/2014/09/17/the_real_olive_garden_scandal_why_greedy_hedge_funders_suddenly_care_so_much_about_breadsticks/

But – as Dayen wrote at the time, the hedge fund that produced that slide deck, Starboard Value, was not motivated by dissatisfaction with bread-sticks. They were "activist investors" (finspeak for "rapacious assholes") with a giant stake in Darden Restaurants, Olive Garden's parent company. They wanted Darden to liquidate all of Olive Garden's real-estate holdings and declare a one-off dividend that would net investors a billion dollars, while literally yanking the floor out from beneath Olive Garden, converting it from owner to tenant, subject to rent-shocks and other nasty surprises.

They wanted to asset-strip the company, in other words ("asset strip" is what they call it in hedge-fund land; the mafia calls it a "bust-out," famous to anyone who watched the twenty-third episode of The Sopranos):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust_Out

Starboard didn't have enough money to force the sale, but they had recently engineered the CEO's ouster. The giant slide-deck making fun of Olive Garden's food was just a PR campaign to help it sell the bust-out by creating a narrative that they were being activists* to save this badly managed disaster of a restaurant chain.

*assholes

Starboard was bent on eviscerating Darden like a couple of entrail-maddened dogs in an elk carcass:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051220005944/http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~solan/dogsinelk/

They had forced Darden to sell off another of its holdings, Red Lobster, to a hedge-fund called Golden Gate Capital. Golden Gate flogged all of Red Lobster's real estate holdings for $2.1 billion the same day, then pissed it all away on dividends to its shareholders, including Starboard. The new landlords, a Real Estate Investment Trust, proceeded to charge so much for rent on those buildings Red Lobster just flogged that the company's net earnings immediately dropped by half.

Dayen ends his piece with these prophetic words:

Olive Garden and Red Lobster may not be destinations for hipster Internet journalists, and they have seen revenue declines amid stagnant middle-class wages and increased competition. But they are still profitable businesses. Thousands of Americans work there. Why should they be bled dry by predatory investors in the name of “shareholder value”? What of the value of worker productivity instead of the financial engineers?

Flash forward a decade. Today, Dayen is editor-in-chief of The American Prospect, one of the best sources of news about private equity looting in the world. Writing for the Prospect, Luke Goldstein picks up Dayen's story, ten years on:

https://prospect.org/economy/2024-05-22-raiding-red-lobster/

It's not pretty. Ten years of being bled out on rents and flipped from one hedge fund to another has killed Red Lobster. It just shuttered 50 restaurants and declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Ten years hasn't changed much; the same kind of snark that was deployed at the news of Olive Garden's imminent demise is now being hurled at Red Lobster.

Instead of dunking on free bread-sticks, Red Lobster's grave-dancers are jeering at "Endless Shrimp," a promotional deal that works exactly how it sounds like it would work. Endless Shrimp cost the chain $11m.

Which raises a question: why did Red Lobster make this money-losing offer? Are they just good-hearted slobs? Can't they do math?

Or, you know, was it another hedge-fund, bust-out scam?

Here's a hint. The supplier who provided Red Lobster with all that shrimp is Thai Union. Thai Union also owns Red Lobster. They bought the chain from Golden Gate Capital, last seen in 2014, holding a flash-sale on all of Red Lobster's buildings, pocketing billions, and cutting Red Lobster's earnings in half.

Red Lobster rose to success – 700 restaurants nationwide at its peak – by combining no-frills dining with powerful buying power, which it used to force discounts from seafood suppliers. In response, the seafood industry consolidated through a wave of mergers, turning into a cozy cartel that could resist the buyer power of Red Lobster and other major customers.

This was facilitated by conservation efforts that limited the total volume of biomass that fishers were allowed to extract, and allocated quotas to existing companies and individual fishermen. The costs of complying with this "catch management" system were high, punishingly so for small independents, bearably so for large conglomerates.

Competition from overseas fisheries drove consolidation further, as countries in the global south were blocked from implementing their own conservation efforts. US fisheries merged further, seeking economies of scale that would let them compete, largely by shafting fishermen and other suppliers. Today's Alaskan crab fishery is dominated by a four-company cartel; in the Pacific Northwest, most fish goes through a single intermediary, Pacific Seafood.

These dominant actors entered into illegal collusive arrangements with one another to rig their markets and further immiserate their suppliers, who filed antitrust suits accusing the companies of operating a monopsony (a market with a powerful buyer, akin to a monopoly, which is a market with a powerful seller):

https://www.classaction.org/news/pacific-seafood-under-fire-for-allegedly-fixing-prices-paid-to-dungeness-crabbers-in-pacific-northwest

Golden Gate bought Red Lobster in the midst of these fish wars, promising to right its ship. As Goldstein points out, that's the same promise they made when they bought Payless shoes, just before they destroyed the company and flogged it off to Alden Capital, the hedge fund that bought and destroyed dozens of America's most beloved newspapers:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/16/sociopathic-monsters/#all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print

Under Golden Gate's management, Red Lobster saw its staffing levels slashed, so diners endured longer wait times to be seated and served. Then, in 2020, they sold the company to Thai Union, the company's largest supplier (a transaction Goldstein likens to a Walmart buyout of Procter and Gamble).

Thai Union continued to bleed Red Lobster, imposing more cuts and loading it up with more debts financed by yet another private equity giant, Fortress Investment Group. That brings us to today, with Thai Union having moved a gigantic amount of its own product through a failing, debt-loaded subsidiary, even as it lobbies for deregulation of American fisheries, which would let it and its lobbying partners drain American waters of the last of its depleted fish stocks.

Dayen's 2020 must-read book Monopolized describes the way that monopolies proliferate, using the US health care industry as a case-study:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/29/fractal-bullshit/#dayenu

After deregulation allowed the pharma sector to consolidate, it acquired pricing power of hospitals, who found themselves gouged to the edge of bankruptcy on drug prices. Hospitals then merged into regional monopolies, which allowed them to resist pharma pricing power – and gouge health insurance companies, who saw the price of routine care explode. So the insurance companies gobbled each other up, too, leaving most of us with two or fewer choices for health insurance – even as insurance prices skyrocketed, and our benefits shrank.

Today, Americans pay more for worse healthcare, which is delivered by health workers who get paid less and work under worse conditions. That's because, lacking a regulator to consolidate patients' interests, and strong unions to consolidate workers' interests, patients and workers are easy pickings for those consolidated links in the health supply-chain.

That's a pretty good model for understanding what's happened to Red Lobster: monopoly power and monopsony power begat more monopolies and monoposonies in the supply chain. Everything that hasn't consolidated is defenseless: diners, restaurant workers, fishermen, and the environment. We're all fucked.

Decent, no-frills family restaurant are good. Great, even. I'm not the world's greatest fan of chain restaurants, but I'm also comfortably middle-class and not struggling to afford to give my family a nice night out at a place with good food, friendly staff and reasonable prices. These places are easy pickings for looters because the people who patronize them have little power in our society – and because those of us with more power are easily tricked into sneering at these places' failures as a kind of comeuppance that's all that's due to tacky joints that serve the working class.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/#invertebrates

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Unlocking Value Creation: How Private Equity Firms Benefit from Strategic Outsourcing 

Private equity firms prefer efficiency. That is why they adopt strategic outsourcing. Doing so ensures that private equity (PE) professionals have an advantageous position vital to unlocking value creation. In PE strategies, that value creation must encompass all portfolio companies. This post will explain how private equity firms benefit from strategic outsourcing. 

The improvement of operational efficiency translates to better profitability, and professional PE strategists recognize this. After all, similar enhancements boost the companies’ growth potential, making them attractive investments to future buyers. 

The Need for Private Equity Outsourcing 

PE firms can benefit from additional leverage and outsiders’ specialized expertise in investment research services. They can, for instance, successfully decrease costs while fostering more core competencies. Therefore, it is no wonder that faster business transformations powered by strategic outsourcing are popular. Eventually, portfolio firms will yield higher returns on investments, allowing for better exit options. 

How Can Strategic Outsourcing Benefit Private Equity Value Creation? 

1. Cost Efficiency and Operational Improvements 

One immediate advantage of embracing strategic outsourcing in PE activities is cost reduction. It not only saves tremendous expenses but also facilitates economies of scale. As a result, the efficiency of the processes skyrocketed. 

PE firms and strategists have been dealing with standardization challenges. However, professional private equity support teams sport some of the latest in tools and technology to address them. Similar to how an IT enterprise outsources operations to independent specialists, many cost overheads will undergo distribution between the private equity firms and their external associates.  

The sharing of liabilities may involve maintenance, tech upgrades, and cybersecurity considerations. That also entails more effective resource allocation to protect the interests of clients and support providers. 

Outsourcing further allows PE firms to initiate operational improvements rapidly. In this way, PE firms can leverage the expertise of third-party providers to acquire best practices or access the latest technology. 

2. Focus on Core Competencies 

In an industry with high competition, focusing on core competencies is critical for portfolio companies. Otherwise, they will struggle to grow and differentiate themselves. Strategic outsourcing gives a private equity company the ability to transfer some of the auxiliary tasks to others. Doing so helps secure more management bandwidth, which will be necessary to concentrate on integral business activities that deliver robust growth. 

This approach allows leadership teams to focus more time and effort on innovation. They can also enrich customer engagement and strategic initiatives by focusing more on process and vision alignment. Consequently, private equity firms will witness a faster business expansion trajectory. 

More agile business operations to become a stronger market player will further PE firms’ objectives, like seamlessly securing the most attractive acquisition deals. 

3. Quicker Workflow Transformations and Growth Initiatives 

PE firms want to take portfolio companies, focus on value creation, and exit the investments at better returns. In other words, rapid growth acceleration allows private equity firms to exit earlier or ensure better gains. Strategic outsourcing allows scaling capabilities and speeds up the changes, operational or structural, for agility. 

Therefore, if the firm wants to enter new geographies or experiment with alternative trade channels, PE outsourcing service providers could help. They will optimize the capital needed to conduct deal operations while supply chain and leadership evaluation become straightforward. 

Conclusion 

Modern private equity firms use strategic outsourcing as the most effective pathway for value creation across their portfolios. They have acknowledged that outsourcing can help reduce costs, create operational efficiency, and prioritize core practices. 

Besides, screening companies, entering deals, and exiting the market becomes easier as the related sharing of liabilities accelerates growth and resell strategy implementations. Given the hurdles in finding the best talent to plan, lead, and execute private equity transactions, the worth of strategic outsourcing can only be appreciated. 

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I actually want to sit down and do the math on just how much money stewy made on the gojo deal, like it has to be insane?

update: stewy bought four billion dollars worth of waystar stock at ~ 129 a share in lifeboats (about 31 million shares); in the finale, matsson buys the company out for 192 per share, leaving stewy with a whole $5,953,488,372.09, so he made about two billion on that deal. which isn't half bad considering kendall, shiv, and roman combined were going to make ten billion.

extra update: I hate that this made its way to twitter when I was so wrong 😭 kendall says in the munsters that they would make three billion on the gojo sale, not ten; they were going to partner up to get the rest of the money to buy pierce. so! knowing that! I was able to do more math. if they were going to make three billion at 144 a share, the final sale at 192 gave them four billion dollars even, or about 1.3 each.

stewy hosseini, you officially made more money than kendall roy. what a guy.

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Transaction Type | Credit/Debit | Account | To/From Who | Comment

Private Equity Investment | -$200,000,00.00 | Axe Capital LLC | Genometech Atlas | Series E Investment. See docs

Pay | -$22,372.57 | Axe Capital Expenses | Claspan Electric | Electric

Capital Gain | $10,450,000.00 | Axe Capital LLC | Chital Group

Vendor | -$34,911.38 | Axe Capital Expenses | One Nova Technologies | Annual audit

Pay | -$16,398.98 | Axe Capital Expenses | McClure and McLeary Foods | Catering

Capital Gain | $2,698,445.89 | Axe Capital Offshore | Hoffman and Hoffman Bank

Private Equity Investment | -$17,000,000.00 | Axe Capital LLC | Gulcan Wind | Contract (Link)

Capital Gain | $362,892,081.15 | Axe Capital LLC | Pillar Coral International

Redemption | -$1,500,000,000.00 | Axe Capital Grigor | Andolov Industries LLC

Private Equity Investment | $13,000,000.00 | Axe Capital LLC | One Beta Sciences

Pay | -$82,234,000.00 | Axe Capital LLC | Francis Powell Motors

Settlement | $240,000.00 | Axe Capital LLC | Hoffman and Hoffman Bank

Capital Gain | $120,319,021.26 | Axe Capital LLC | White Summit Air

Pay | -$23,234.22 | Axe Capital LLC | Kassia Industries

Private Investment in Public Equity | -$8,500,000.00 | Axe Capital LLC | Epsilon Space | Contract (Link)

[Capital Gain | $3,?00,000,]000.00 | Axe Capital Grigor | Andolov Industries LLC | Cap Raise

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An open letter to the U.S. Congress

Pass the Stop Wall Street Landlords Act

15 so far! Help us get to 25 signers!

The housing crisis in our nation is reaching unprecedented levels, making homeownership increasingly out of reach for many hardworking individuals and families. A major contributor to this crisis is the unchecked activity of Wall Street firms and institutional investors who are treating homes as mere speculative assets, driving up prices and pricing out potential homebuyers. We cannot stand idly by as private equity giants and corporate landlords continue to exploit the housing market for their own profit, at the expense of our communities. The Stop Wall Street Landlords Act seeks to put an end to this predatory behavior by implementing sensible regulations and disincentives for large investors to hoard single-family homes. This legislation represents a critical step towards restoring balance and fairness to the housing market, ensuring that homes are available and affordable for those who need them most. I strongly urge you to support this bill and prioritize the needs of everyday Americans over the greed of wealthy investors. Our constituents deserve the opportunity to build equity and achieve the dream of homeownership without being priced out by exploitative corporate tactics. Together, we can take meaningful action to address this crisis and make housing more accessible for all.

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Private Equity Investment is a popular form of investment in companies and business ventures that are not publicly traded. These private equity investment opportunities tend to offer high returns and are less correlated to public markets. Investors in private equity funds raise money from limited partners and then use it to invest in other companies. They often participate in leveraged buyouts, which involve purchasing a company and then turning it around to make it more profitable.