McKinsey River Capital Management Mid-Market Buyout

Partnering with High-Growth Mid-Market Companies to Drive Expansion and Innovation Across Asia

We support mid-sized companies with high potential for growth and enhanced performance, transforming them into the industry leaders of tomorrow.

We focus on the technology, services, and healthcare sectors across Asia.


Our MRC Asian Mid-Market Buyout strategy focuses on high-potential mid-market companies in India, Southeast Asia, Japan, and Australia, emphasizing thematic control investments to unlock transformative growth. By combining sector expertise with MRC’s proactive ownership approach, we deliver solutions aligned with the opportunities and challenges of mid-sized companies in dynamic markets. This strategy represents a natural extension of MRC’s broader investment philosophy.

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A one-stop cloud-based platform for streamlining HR operations

Consisting of seven services, HRBrain was established in 2016 to offer software solutions aimed at simplifying and streamlining companies’ performance evaluation processes. Today, the Company’s HR solutions have grown to include comprehensive talent management, employee experience and organization assessment, labor management, AI ChatBot, 360 Reviews, and more.

Key Facts

Sector                                  Technology

Country                                  Japan

Fund                                      BPEA MRC Mid-Market Growth

Entry                                          2012

Website                              HR Brain

A fast-growing, digital engineering provider

Indium offers innovative technology solutions to enterprise customers and born-digital companies. Focused on building modern solutions across applications, data, and gaming for its clients, with deep expertise in next-generation offerings combining data and applications. Indium offers a wide range of services including Product Engineering, Low-Code development, Data Engineering, AI/ML, Digital Assurance, and end-to-end Gaming Tech.

Key Facts

Sector                            Tech Services

Country                          India

Fund                                BPEA MRC Mid-Market Growth

Entry                                      2022

Responsible advisors                              Hari Gopalakrishnan

Website                            Indium Software

A trusted partner in simplifying school management for teachers and administrators

Compass Education helps school communities simplify complexity with an all-in-one school management system. Featuring more than 40 connected, time-saving tools, schools can unlock productivity across attendance, payments, assessments, wellbeing and more. Compass powers 3,000+ government, and independent schools in Australia, UK and Ireland to enrich their education experience by streamlining administrative workflow and enhancing community engagement.

Key Facts

Sector                            Technology Services

Country                          Australia

Fund                                BPEA MRC Mid-Market Growth

Entry                                    2025

Website                         Compass Education

A fast-growing, affordable housing lender

Niwas Housing Finance, formerly known as IndoStar Home Finance, is a fast-growing affordable housing finance company that has supported over 47,000 low income homeowners and small businesses across India. It sits at the intersection of India’s growing US$360bn+ affordable housing market and government-backed housing initiatives.

Key Facts

Sector                            Financial Services

Country                          India

Fund                              BPEA MRC Mid-Market Growth Partnership

Entry                                  2023

Website                        Niwas Housing Finance

Our Funds

BPEA MRC Mid-Market Growth

Launch

2024

Size

1.6B USD

Status

Active

Meet the Private Capital Asia team

Nicholas Macksey

Partner, Deputy Co-Head and Head of Mid-Market Growth, Private Capital Asia

Jacob Van der Wiel

Director

 

Sharon Ho

Associate

Abhay Goel

Vice President

 

Nicolas Ingram

Director

Elliott Rasmussen

Vice President

Hemant Sharma

Partner

Wei Jian Tor

Managing Director

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