<article>Hong Kong-based private equity firm <a style="color: #000080;" href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/tag/caldera-pacific/">Caldera Pacific</a> is seeking to raise its debut $200-million fund dedicated to Southeast Asia.</article>

Hong Kong-based private equity firm <a style="color: #000080;" href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/tag/caldera-pacific/">Caldera Pacific</a> is seeking to raise its debut $200-million fund dedicated to Southeast Asia.
The development was first reported by AVCJ. A Caldera Pacific executive confirmed the firm&#8217;s fundraising plans to DEALSTREETASIA.
The fund is targeting its first close in the first half of 2019, said Caldera managing partner Raphael Gaglio.
Betting on the rapid growth in the consumer sector across Southeast Asia, the fund manager seeks to pick significant minority stakes in small and medium companies by investing between $10-20 million.
Gaglio said the firm was looking to raise its inaugural fund from a diversified LP base ranging from government institutions to family offices across Asia, Europe and the US.
Caldera Pacific has so far been investing on a deal-by-deal basis.
&#8220;There are significant challenges with investing on a deal-by-deal basis, particularly in association with the funding of transactions. If you control a pool of capital, you have more flexibility and manage the timeline more efficiently,&#8221; said Gaglio.
While the firm has not publicly disclosed any investments, it is learnt to have backed Hong Kong’s logistics solutions provider <a style="color: #000080;" href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/41924-41924/">OpenPort </a>and Vietnam’s asset management firm Dragon Capital and e-commerce company Leflair.
This portal exclusively reported a $1-million financing round for <a style="color: #000080;" href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/exclusive-500-startups-backed-e-commerce-startup-leflair-receives-1m-funding-62804/">Leflair</a> led by Caldera Pacific last year, which was confirmed by the e-commerce startup’s founder. Later in the year, the private equity firm was said to have invested in <a style="color: #000080;" href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/tag/dragon-capital/">Dragon Capital</a> along with <a style="color: #000080;" href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/tag/samsung-securities/">Samsung Securities</a>.
Subsequent to the funding, Gaglio had joined Dragon Capital as a non-executive director.
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The fund manager seeks to pick significant minority stakes in small and medium companies by investing between $10-20 million.

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