SAIF Partners (SoftBank Asia Infrastructure Funds)
ProjectThematic Investment Analytics in Dental with Policy Intelligence & Governance/Compliance Risk Gates
- Consolidated 2,000 funding cases and 200 regulatory items into a standardized dataset covering more than 600 Greater China dental deals and 120 to 150 actionable regulatory events
- The dataset became the backbone for systematic screening, thematic analysis, and follow-on financial modeling across the broader Greater China dental theme
- Used the database to test whether orthodontics was large enough, structurally attractive, and manageable from a policy-risk perspective, supporting a dedicated subsector focus
- Owned 4 public-data workstreams: funding flows, policy and regulation, industry structure, and competitive landscape across aligner brands, private chains, and dental digital and SaaS providers
- Partnered with the VP and team to translate findings into a deduplicated longlist of more than 100 orthodontics-related targets across brands, services, equipment, and software
- Ran a data pass mapping each target’s subsector tag, funding history, valuation range, and investor base, then assigned pass, watch, or exclude labels with concise risk notes
- Reduced the universe to more than 10 candidates by screening against SAIF exclusion lists and conduct codes for regulatory, reputational, shareholder, and single-supplier red flags
- Applied a governance-focused ESG gate anchored to MSCI ESG Key Issues, translating Corporate Governance and Corporate Behavior topics into 10 subcategories and 33 actionable checks
- Drafted pass, conditional, and deny memos that guided diligence depth and valuation discussions, highlighting ownership and control complexity, related-party exposure, disclosure gaps, audit-quality concerns, and business-ethics risks
- Presented governance and risk insights to partners via scenario-style memos, prompting 2 management meetings and additional auditor-tenure checks before advancing finalists to on-site due diligence
- Representative example: flagged accounting and related-party issues in 2 finalists; recommendations became management Q&A and auditor-tenure checks, reshaping site-visit diligence and serving as a representative example of similar work across categories and contexts
- Unified inputs from about 20 sources, including CVSource, industry news, and corporate registries; deduplicated rounds, standardized entities and subsector tags, and corrected errors in dates, rounds, and currencies