Are search funds the new path for aspiring founders? | 5 Questions With Goh Aik Chuan

An entrepreneur investment model that started as an idea in the Stanford Graduate School of Business is now taking the founder scene by storm. What are search funds, and how are they outperforming private equity and venture capital firms? In this edition of 5 Questions With, BT’s Suhaana Khanna speaks to Goh Aik Chuan about the fast-growing model in the entrepreneurship-through-acquisition path, and how Asia is emerging as a promising investment hotspot. Aik Chuan is founder and managing partner of Garlic Equity Capital, Singapore’s first traditional search fund. After raising search capital of S$500,000 from 19 institutional and private investors in April 2024, he is now searching for a local SME to acquire. 0:22 Introduction 0:38 What are search funds? 2:18 What was your pitch to investors? 5:15 What are the differences between traditional search funds and the self-funded search model? 7:05 Can Asia succeed in the international search fund world? 9:47 What can be done to grow the ETA ecosystem? Read more: https://bt.sg/gXUn Support us: https://subscribe.sph.com.sg/publicat... Follow us on: Website: https://businesstimes.com.sg/ Facebook:   / thebusinesstimes   Twitter:   / businesstimes   Instagram:   / businesstimessg   Linkedin:   / the-business-times