Page 180 - SC Annual Report 2018 (ENG)

Securities
Commission
Malaysia
ANNUAL
REPORT
2018

Table 3
Investments during 2018

New investments Percentage of all
Business stage (RM’000) investment No. of companies
Seed - - -
Start-up 4,920.77 0.80% 5
Early stage 285,030.30 46.48% 35

Growth 247,963.88 40.43% 61
Bridge/mezzanine/pre-IPO 4,135.99 0.67% 3
Turnaround/Restructuring 6,182.11 1.01% 6
Others 65,044.29 10.61% 7
All investments 613,277.34 100.00% 117

Investee companies at the early and growth stages Chart 3
received the bulk of the funding in 2018 where 96 Investments during year, percentage by sectors
investee companies received funding amounting to 2018
RM533 million, representing 86.9% of total 2017
investments made during the year (Table 3).
IT and 22.73%
Communications 14.03%
Investments into start-up stage stood at 0.8% of
total investments made during the year, where the
investments were channeled into 5 investee Manufacturing 5.85%
companies. 24.62%

Investments towards the life sciences sector
accounted for 49.6% of investments during the Life sciences 49.63%
year. These investments were primarily channeled 52.70%
towards medical devices, pharmaceutical and
environmental biotechnology. IT and
communications saw an increase in share of Others 21.79%
investments to 22.7% while manufacturing share 8.65%
decreased to 5.9% (Chart 3).

Other sectors recorded a share of 21.8%. These Divestments in 2018 were mainly in investee
sectors included investments in wholesale and companies in the growth stage amounting to
retail trading, creative media, logistics, education approximately RM95 million, representing 59% of
and financial services. total divestments during the year. (Table 4)

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