Bridge Point Capital Team Helps Portfolio Companies Expand Globally in Asia
The team at Bridge Point Capital, led by Co-founder & CEO Mark Young, has just completed a trip to Asia, visiting the cities of Hong Kong, Dubai, and Singapore. The trip was aimed at helping its portfolio companies to expand their footprints globally, particularly in Asian markets.
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Bridge Point Capital Establishes Bridge Point Advisory LLC as a Standalone Entity
Manhattan, New York, April 5th, 2023 - Bridge Point Capital has announced the establishment of Bridge Point Advisory LLC as a standalone entity, managed solely by Mark Young. With over two decades of experience in investment and finance, Mr. Young brings a wealth of expertise to the new company.
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ETHDenver 2023: A Look into the Future of Crypto
ETHDenver (February 24 – March 5) is the largest Web3 #BUIDLathon in the world (fka hackathon) for Ethereum and other blockchain protocol enthusiasts, designers and developers. It was an exciting event that brought together some of the brightest minds in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. As a participant, Bridge Point Capital had the opportunity to witness some of the latest developments in this dynamic and fast-evolving space.
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Clerio Vision Is Launching $25 million Series E2 Round of Financing
Manhattan, New York, March 20th, 2023 - Bridge Point Capital, a leading private equity investment firm, is proud to announce that its portfolio company Clerio Vision is about to launch a $25 million Series E2 funding round. The funding will be led by Safar Partners and include participation from a top Pension Fund in Australia, Bridge Point Capital, and other prestigious investors.
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Andrew Yang Joins Bridge Point Capital as Managing Partner
Bridge Point Capital is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Yang as the new managing partner. With over 20 years of experience in financial engineering, management, strategy, M&A and business development, Andrew brings a wealth of expertise to his role. He has worked with start-ups and growing enterprises, helping them succeed through focused support covering financial and strategic planning, modeling and analytics, M&A and integration, financial marketing, risk management and international expansion strategies.
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New York, NY - Founding Partner of Bridge Point Capital, Nadia Tian, made a keynote speech at the 18th Annual Stern PE & VC Conference on Friday, February 24th, held at the New York Athletic Club. The theme of this year's conference was "Inflation & Valuation in Private Equity & Venture Capital - The Onset of New Risks in Alternative Investing," where experts explored the impact of new risks such as inflation, rising interest rates, geopolitical turmoil, and climate change on the alternative investing landscape.
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Understanding DeFi: the Future of an Alternative to Traditional Finance Episode 2: Key Features, Use Cases, and Opportunity
In this episode, we will continue to introduce decentralized finance, an innovative solution to our current financial system. In addition to reducing costs and improving efficiency, DeFi offers many other advantages that traditional finance does not:
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Market Outlook: China’s Concerning Macroeconomic State
Recently, China released its key economic data which showed a 3.9% YoY growth in its Q3 GDP and a 6.3% YoY growth in its Industrial output 6.3%, both beating their expectation of 3.3% and 4.8%, respectively. However, consumer spending only grew 2.5% YoY, missing the expectation of 3%.
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Understanding DeFi: the Future of An Alternative to Traditional Finance, Episode 1: Definition and Mechanism
The concept of DeFi, short for decentralized finance, has been around for years ever since the creation of Bitcoin in 2009. However, the term was previously referred to as "open finance” and was not coined until 2018 during a Telegram chat by a group of entrepreneurs and Ethereum developers. The emerging financial technology has attracted great attention within the cryptocurrency and Blockchain communities and stirred up a heated debate about its potential to disrupt the current financial system.
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Understanding The Metaverse Industry: Episode II – Opportunity, VC Activity and Industry Outlook
In this episode of Metaverse industry overview, we will continue to introduce this impactful concept and the underlying business opportunities. However, there are still a lot of misconceptions about the Metaverse and its related concepts like Web 3 or blockchain. Below is a graph showing what Metaverse isn’t, and if you would like to know more about its definition, please refer to episode I.
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Bridge Point Capital Co-founder Mark Young Invited to Attend the 2022 SAPA Annual Conference as Investor Advisor
From September 30th to October 1st, our Co-founder Mark Young joined the 2022 Annual Conference hosted by the Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association (SAPA) as an invited investment advisor. SAPA is one of the most active and well-recognized Chinese professional associations in the US with more than 6000 members who are primarily from large and mid-sized pharmaceutical and biotech companies, with areas of expertise covering all healthcare subsectors.
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Incentivizing Creativity or Exploiting Young Developers? The Roblox Game and Its Ecosystem
Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that allows users to program games and play games created by other users. The platform mainly targets the younger generation, with 67% of its users being under 16 and only 14% being over 25. Roblox allows its users, often children, to create their own avatars and jump into games designed by other players. But critics say the company doesn't adequately protect kids from harassment and abuse, and that it doesn't share enough of its income with the young developers who made the platform so successful.
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Understanding the Metaverse Industry: Episode I – Definition, Business Model, and Industry Drivers
The attention on Metaverse has grown tremendously since the launch of NFTs and Facebook's transition into Meta. However, Metaverse's idea may confuse many investors due to its evolving concept and involvement of advanced VR/AR technology. Thus, the Metaverse needs to be defined and contextualized to be understood appropriately.
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Event Recap: BPC Mastermind - Enabling Liquidity via Tokenization, A Case Study in Fine Art, 09/11/22
The art market has experienced a development in recent years, due to both the growth in demand and technological innovations. Investing in art, on the other hand, is potentially beneficial to include as part of a portfolio, due to its decorrelation from other asset classes as well as its low volatility. Currently, however, it is still the prerogative of a few UHNWIs. Tokenization and blockchain technology, promise a radical reduction of the limits and risks associated with investing in works of art, making the market accessible to a much wider audience.
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Event Recap: BPC Mastermind - PPLI Tax Efficient Alternative Investment Deal Structuring, 07/14/22
Private Placement Life Insurance (PPLI), is an established and internationally recognized tool for wealth preservation and transfer. It consists of a policyholder owning the policy and one or more lives assured together with appointed beneficiaries, who will receive the proceeds from the policy upon death of the last surviving life assured.
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Event Recap: BPC Mastermind - Is DeFi (Decentralized Finance) the Future of Finance? 07/28/22
You may have heard of DeFi repeatedly in the news recently, but what really is DeFi? What problems does it solve and is it better than CeFi (Centralized Finance)? Is it a threat or opportunity to the traditional banking system? Is it more efficient in serving the unbanked? Instead of relying on a centralized infrastructure, DeFi leverages the power of cryptography, decentralization and blockchain to provide access to almost all kinds of financial services such as payments, lending, borrowing and trading in a more efficient, fair and open way.
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Understanding Web3.0: the Future of the Internet that Works on Blockchain
In 2022, you almost can't escape the buzz surrounding NFTs, cryptocurrency and Web3. For those who have some experiences working with cryptocurrencies, the Ethereum (ETH)’s merge that help ETH transforming into PoS structure ignites the discussion of Web3 on social media again. But what does Web3 actually stand for? What distinguishes the Web3 from the internet that we currently use? In fact, it simply refers to the next iteration of the Internet that promotes decentralized protocols and how people interact with each other. It includes areas such as NFTs, cryptocurrencies, DAOs, and DeFi.
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Digital Therapeutics: A Ray of Sunshine in Women's Health Management
Sex and gender differences play a major role in mental health and mental illness nowadays:
12 million women in USA experience mental health-related condition every year
1 in 3 considered downshifting their career or leaving workforce (as compared to 1 in 4 before pandemic)
40% have considered leaving or switching their companies
Hence, solutions for women require a different approach and need to address their specific issues and contextualize for them.
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Asset Allocation in China: Crafting the Optimal Allocation Strategy, Episode IX
One of the great conveniences of simply allocating using the weights of the world market is that rebalancing is basically unnecessary. If a country's market performs especially well, the investor's allocation to that country will grow, but so will that country's weight in the world market, so the investor continues to maintain weights equal to, or at least very close to, those of the global market.
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Event Recap: Power Up Story-Telling Workshop 07/07/2022
How to elevate personal image has been a concern that many people encounter during their career. Bridge Point Capital and Elitelink Education co-hosted a workshop on July 7th to tackle this prevailing issue on the theme of “Elevate Personal Image: Storytelling skills from Broadway Stars & Communication Skills from Top Coaches”. The event was held at the 43rd floor of Carnegie Hall Tower with beautiful Manhattan Skyline and view of central park.
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