Investment Summary

KKR and Tencent Holdings Invest In Maya Innovations

On October 4, 2018, private equity firm KKR and Tencent Holdings invested in information technology company Maya Innovations

Investment Highlights
  • This is KKR’s 11th and Tencent Holdings’ 1st transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is KKR’s 1st and Tencent Holdings’ 1st transaction in Philippines.

Investment Summary

Date 2018-10-04
Target Maya Innovations
Sector Information Technology
Investor(s) KKR
Tencent Holdings
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Maya Innovations

Manila, Philippines
Maya Innovations is a technology company focused on developing customer-centric emerging market platforms in the areas of digital payments, digital finance, and marketing technologies. Maya Innovations was founded in 2013 and is based in Manila, Phillippines.

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Investor(S) 2

Investor

KKR

New York, New York, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1976
PE ASSETS 267.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
KKR's office in Menlo Park, California.
KKR's office in Menlo Park, California.

KKR is a global investment firm founded by Jerome Kohlberg, Henry Kravis, and George Roberts. The Firm is separated into several business segments including private markets, public markets, capital markets, and other principal activities. KKR's private equity practice invests in management buyouts, take privates, corporate divestitures, industry consolidations, and partnerships with family-owned companies. KKR will invest in a broad range of industries and companies and will consider businesses throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand. Sectors of interest include chemicals, consumer products, energy and natural resources, financial services, healthcare, industrial, media/communications, retail, and technology. In addition to its traditional principal investment activity business, KKR also invests in infrastructure assets. KKR was formed in 1976 and is based in New York, New York.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 288 of 499
Sector: Information Technology M&A 11 of 27
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 45 of 81
Country: Philippines M&A 1 of 4
Year: 2018 M&A 27 of 35
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-09-27 United Group

Hoofddorp, Netherlands

United Group is a media and communication services provider. United Group providing customers with a full range of telecommunications services. United Group was founded in 2007 and is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-10-11 SkinSpirit

Palo Alto, California, United States

SkinSpirit is a provider of aesthetic skin and body care services with multiple locations in California and Washington. SkinSpirit was formed in 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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Investor

Tencent Holdings

Shenzhen, China

Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Internet Software and Services
Employees111,221
Revenue 660.3B CNY (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Tencent is a provider of a comprehensive range of Internet and wireless value-added services. Through its various online platforms, including Instant Messaging QQ, web portal QQ.com, the QQ Game platform under Tencent Games, multi-media social networking service Qzone and wireless portal, Tencent services the largest online community in China and fulfills the user's needs for communication, information, entertainment and e-Commerce on the Internet. Tencent has three main streams of revenues: Internet value-added services, mobile and telecommunications value-added services and online advertising. Tencent Holdings was founded in 1998 and is based in Shenzhen, China.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 10 of 15
Sector: Information Technology M&A 1 of 1
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 2 of 2
Country: Philippines M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2018 M&A 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-05-28 Voodoo

Paris, France

Voodoo is a mobile video game manufacturer. Voodoo was founded in 2013 and is based in Paris, France.

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Santa Monica, California, United States

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