Taiwan private capital investors: Shifting appetites and growing sophistication

Around 736 Southeast Asia-based LPs are captured on the Preqin Pro database. Of these, 143 LPs shared their private markets investment plans for the next 12 months, as of August 2025. This factsheet explores the headline data on the investment strategies and regions targeted by investors in Southeast Asia.

As the number of unicorns tracked by Preqin nears an important milestone, the private capital story of the era is taking shape. From 2005 to H1 2025 Preqin tracked nearly 2,000 global unicorns – private companies backed by venture capital (VC) that hit a valuation of over $1bn.

Current market conditions are making it hard for LPs to diversify their private market portfolios. But the proliferation of co-investment, open-ended, and secondaries funds offers new pathways