Where we raise capital

Kazakhstan is Central Asia's largest economy — a mining and energy heavyweight with a modernising financial centre in Astana — yet boutique corporate finance capability remains scarce and most mid-market raises still depend on bank debt or state programmes.

Uzbekistan is the fastest-opening economy in Central Asia — privatisations, a young consumer market of 37 million and reform momentum — but its corporate finance infrastructure is a decade behind its ambition.

Azerbaijan is deploying energy wealth into diversification — Baku's port, the middle corridor, agriculture and tourism — while its non-oil mid-market remains under-served by formal capital.

Georgia is the Caucasus's open economy — low-friction business environment, a strategic Black Sea position on the middle corridor, and strong tourism and re-export sectors — but a small domestic capital pool.

Australia's mid-market — miners, energy-transition developers, agri and technology businesses — operates in a sophisticated but concentrated capital market where mandates below institutional scale are chronically under-served.

Malaysia pairs a deep Islamic-finance ecosystem with a strong industrial base — and its mid-market businesses sit naturally on the GCC capital corridor, where Shariah-compliant structures travel without translation.

Indonesia is Southeast Asia's giant — 280 million consumers, the world's nickel supply and an infrastructure super-cycle — with a mid-market whose capital demand vastly exceeds domestic supply.

Vietnam is the biggest winner of global supply-chain relocation — export manufacturing compounding at double digits — while its domestic capital market remains young and bank-heavy.

The Philippines runs on family conglomerates and a world-leading services sector, yet businesses outside the conglomerate ecosystem face one of Asia's widest mid-market funding gaps.

South Africa has Africa's deepest capital markets yet its mid-market still struggles for growth capital, squeezed between conservative banks and PE funds chasing larger tickets.

Nigeria is Africa's largest economy and its most demanding capital market — world-class entrepreneurial businesses navigating FX volatility and scarce domestic term funding.

Kenya is East Africa's commercial hub — the region's fintech capital and its gateway market — with a mid-market well-practised at raising from DFIs and impact investors but under-served for conventional growth capital.

Ghana is anglophone West Africa's most stable gateway — gold, cocoa and a maturing consumer market — rebuilding investor confidence after its debt restructuring.

Morocco has quietly become Africa's manufacturing success — automotive and aerospace exports to Europe, world-scale renewables and the Tangier-Med logistics platform — with Casablanca as an established regional financial centre.

Canada's mid-market — especially in mining, critical minerals and energy — raises in a market dominated by large pension capital that rarely writes mid-market cheques.

Mexico is the great nearshoring winner — manufacturing investment relocating to North America's doorstep faster than local banks and funds can finance it.

Brazil is a continental economy with world-leading agribusiness and renewables — and a structurally expensive local capital market that makes international funding transformative for mid-market businesses.

Paris hosts Europe's most sophisticated family-holding ecosystem and a resurgent technology scene — but mid-market raises still funnel through a narrow domestic club.

Amsterdam is the Benelux gateway — a technology and trading hub with an established energy-transition ecosystem.

Zurich concentrates more investable private wealth than almost any city on earth — family offices, private banks and industrial holdings — making it as much a capital source as a market.

Geneva is the quiet capital of family wealth and commodity trade finance — a city where the right introduction outweighs any process.

Milan is the financial face of Italy's family-business economy — fashion, design, food and precision industrials with established international operations.

Madrid is Iberia's capital hub and Europe's renewables powerhouse — solar and infrastructure pipelines that outrun domestic funding capacity, plus a resurgent consumer and tourism economy.

Dublin is Europe's Atlantic hub — the EU home of global technology and pharma, and the world capital of aviation finance — with an indigenous mid-market that raises in the shadow of the multinationals.

Luxembourg is Europe's fund capital — the domicile of choice for the vehicles that hold the continent's private capital — and Matchpoint works with it constantly: structuring raises through Luxembourg vehicles and placing funds domiciled there.

Brussels pairs the EU institutional economy with Belgium's understated industrial and pharma strength — a mid-market that rarely markets itself and is under-covered by growth capital as a result.

Vienna is Western capital's gateway to Central and Eastern Europe — the headquarters city for banks and corporates operating across the CEE growth belt.

Stockholm produces more billion-dollar technology companies per capita than anywhere outside Silicon Valley, and its industrial and climate-tech base is just as strong — but growth-stage capital still skews to a handful of domestic funds.

Lisbon has become Europe's Atlantic startup and lifestyle capital — an established technology cluster layered on strong tourism, real-estate and renewables fundamentals, with domestic capital that remains thin.