Venture capital network Β· Singapore
Vertex Ventures
About
Vertex Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds backed by Temasek, with sister funds investing across Southeast Asia, the US, China, and Israel.
APAC secondaries activity
Vertex's Southeast Asia fund is one of the region's most active early- and growth-stage investors, giving it a front-row seat β and often a stake to eventually sell β in the startups that later generate secondary demand.
What a transaction here looks like
A venture network operating separate funds by geography meets secondaries mainly through portfolio companies that have stayed private longer than the funds backing them anticipated. Employee tender offers and investor-to-investor transfers in those companies are the practical liquidity mechanisms, and the manager's role is usually to facilitate or participate rather than to run a formal process.
Who sits on the other side
Counterparties are later-stage investors buying into companies before an eventual listing, and employees selling in company-run tenders. This is the layer of the market where most Southeast Asian secondary activity actually happens β smaller than the headline deals, and much more frequent.