CE-Invests to spend AED 1 bn across the GCC, India, and Southeast Asia

CE-Invests to deploy AED 1 bn across GCC, India, and Southeast Asia: Crescent Enterprises’ strategic investments platform CE-Invests plans to invest AED 1 bn over the next three years across India, Southeast Asia, and the GCC, according to a press release. The plan, which includes both direct investments and fund allocations, targets four key sectors: consumer, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing.

The investment outfit is looking to acquire “significant” minority stakes and will write AED 75-200 mn tickets, the statement added.

Why those markets? “Large, youthful populations with rising incomes and investor‑friendly policies make our target markets ideal for scaling businesses and compounding returns,” Senior VP at CE‑Invests Ghada Abdelkader said.

We recently spoke with Abdelkader about the company’s investment strategy and the firm’s interest in acquiring minority stakes of mid-market companies that require capital to scale. The investment firm recently participated in Indian interior design and build firm Flipspaces’ expanded series C funding round. The firm raised USD 50 mn, up from an initial USD 35 mn, with Singapore’s Panthera Growth Partners and Japan’s SMBC Asia Rising Fund also taking part.