Background
Will Klippgen is Partner Emeritus at Cocoon Capital, a Singapore-based Venture Capital firm focused on seed-stage enterprise and deep tech startups across Southeast Asia. He plays a key role in strategic decision-making, overseeing fundraising activities and supporting portfolio companies through critical growth stages.
The Challenge
Visibility is hard to come by in the fragmented Southeast Asian venture landscape. Information on investor behavior, funding rounds and comparative fund performance is often limited, inconsistent or siloed. Most of the other available platforms did not provide the level of granularity or comprehensiveness that Will required for Southeast Asian markets.
Will needed a solution that would provide accurate, timely and comprehensive data on venture funding and market intelligence within the region to inform his investment thesis and identify new opportunities.
How Alternatives.pe Helped
Since using Alternatives.pe, the platform has become central to how Will evaluates funding rounds, benchmarks fund performance and identifies relevant investor profiles. It plays a vital role in:
Due diligence: Validating market position and conducting competitor analyses with Alternative.pe’s comprehensive startup and private company profiles, that include full financials, funding rounds, cap tables and valuations.
Fund performance: VC Fund Performance data assists in benchmarking fund performance against peers to inform strategic decision-making.
Investment strategy: Access to granular data points provide insight into market dynamics, sector attractiveness and emerging trends, which influence broader investment strategy.
LP Development: Detailed investor profiles enable him to strategically identify and approach Limited Partners and follow co-investors for portfolio companies.
Recently, Alternatives.pe significantly impacted Will’s decision-making during a pre-Series A investment in a promising technology startup. By leveraging Alternatives.pe’s detailed funding round and investor profiles, Will identified potential Series A investors early and proactively engaged them, laying the groundwork for future fundraising rounds.
This proactive approach, informed by precise investor data, streamlined internal processes and facilitated smoother investment execution and improved positioning for the portfolio company.
Key Takeaways
Through the use of Alternatives.pe, Will has seen the following benefits:
Reduced time spent on investor outreach: Measurable time savings by using investor profiles to tailor his outreach more precisely.
Better fund positioning: Access to fund performance benchmarking tools help him add clarity to internal strategy and LP conversations.
Faster funding outcomes: By identifying and approaching follow-on investors earlier, Will has helped portfolio companies achieve better deal outcomes and close subsequent rounds faster.
Better investment decisions: With visibility and access to more complete information, Will is in a better position to make informed investment decisions, backed by data.