HUSAIN ALBAR

Husain Albar is the Director of Investments at U.S. venture capital firm 500 Global for its 500 Southeast Asia family of funds. He specializes in fund management, portfolio optimization, due diligence, research and growth-stage investments.

Since joining the company in 2018, he has led and supported over 110 investments in Southeast Asia startups, including Stockbit, eFishery, and Parcel Perform. Husain continues to strengthen the region’s innovation ecosystem through data, research & analytics, fundraising, investments, and portfolio management.

Prior to 500, Husain did mergers & acquisitions at Maybank Investment Bank where he spent over 6 years leading buy-side and sell-side M&As, IPOs and other fundraising exercises via debt & equity. He supported the IPO listing of TPI Polene Power Pcl in Thailand, IPO listing of Icon Offshore Bhd, demerger of Sime Darby Bhd, disposal of Konsortium Logistik Bhd by DRB-Hicom Bhd, privatization of Ingress Corporation Bhd, among other projects.

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