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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Industry | Impact Investing |
| Founder | Johan Rozali-Wathooth |
| Headquarters | , |
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| Services | Investments |
| Website | bintangcapitalpartners |
Bintang Capital Partners Berhad, also known as Bintang is a Malaysian impact investment firm headquartered in Kuala Lumpur.
Bintang was founded in 2018 by Johan Rozali-Wathooth as a subsidiary of AHAM Asset Management, a leading Malaysian asset management company.
The firm successfully made several special purpose vehicle investments between 2017-2021 prior to launching its maiden blind pool fund, BCP Asia Fund I which was anchored by Penjana Kapital (now part of Jelawang Capital, a subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional [1] ) under the Ministry of Finance Malaysia in 2020. [2]
In 2024, the firm launched its sequel blind pool funds: general impact fund BCP Asia Fund II [3] and gender lens focused Bintang Semiconductor Impact Fund I. [4] Bintang's sequel funds have secured a "Gold" rating under leading global provider of impact intelligence and independent verification Bluemark's FundID rating system.
Since its founding, Bintang has achieved several milestones as an impact investor including becoming one of the earliest private sector signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment in 2021, [5] the first Malaysian signatory to the Global Impact Investing Network's Operating Principles for Impact Management in 2022, [6] and it became the first Southeast Asian private equity firm to secure B Corp Certification in 2023. [7]
Bintang's maiden fund made several notable investments within the environmental and social themes, which included deployments into leading Malaysian elder care specialist Care Concierge, [8] Singaporean-headquartered waste management firm Blue Planet, [9] ASEAN digital marketing technology company Involve Asia, [10] and Malaysian-Singaporean wellness chain Flow Studio. [11]
Several Bintang portfolio companies have also secured B Corp certification including Involve Asia [12] and Care Concierge. [13] A key aspect of Bintang's impact investment Theory of Change is the propagation of B Corp companies within its geographic mandate.
Bintang has been the recipient of numerous international awards for its work in impact investing.
In 2023, Bintang secured the Innovative Investment Prize at the ASEAN Business Advisory Council awards [14] as well as the Global SME of the Year prize at the Environmental Finance Sustainable Companies Awards. [15]
In 2024, the firm became the first Southeast Asian firm to win the Private Markets special award at the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment 2024 Awards [16] and also won the 2024 Malaysian United Nations Women's Empowerment Principles' award for Innovative Financing for Gender Equality.
In 2025, Bintang became the first Malaysian firm to win the Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ) Responsible Investment award for its investment into Care Concierge. [17]
