Asian Venture Capital Journal

What Asian Venture Capital Journal does

Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ) is a specialist business-to-business digital publication and data provider focused on private equity, venture capital, and M&A activity across Asian markets. Founded in 1987 and headquartered at 10 Queen Street Place, London, AVCJ operates as a business unit of Mergermarket Limited (part of Acuris Group under ION Analytics), registered in England as company number 03879547. The publication's core product is the AVCJ Database — a proprietary dataset covering more than 153,000 companies and almost 117,000 transactions in the Asian PE/VC/M&A space — which is sold alongside annual Regional Reports, the Asian Private Equity and Venture Capital Review (an annual industry review), and a Weekly Digest digital edition. AVCJ distributes a Chinese-language edition and the Asian Financial Newsletter as sub-brands.

AVCJ's primary customers are enterprise buyers across PE/VC fund managers, advisory and professional services firms (investment banks, law firms, consultancies), and technology service providers to the PE/VC industry, with secondary reach into corporate development and strategic investor teams. The platform is sold via annual subscription contracts with quote-based pricing, supplemented by event/conference revenue (including regional forums in Japan and Australia) and an ION Analytics community events platform. Coverage spans Southeast Asia, Greater China, North Asia, South Asia, Australasia, MENA, Europe, North America, and Central Asia, and AVCJ markets through its website, weekly email digests, a 199,000+ member LinkedIn group, Twitter, RSS, and the ION Analytics events ecosystem. AVCJ was recognized by Incisive Media as "Digital Publisher of the Year" in 2010 and 2013. In November 2023, managing editor Tim Burroughs announced that AVCJ is migrating its content and subscriber offering to the next-generation Mergermarket platform under ION Analytics, indicating consolidation of the publication within its parent group's flagship financial intelligence stack.

Name

Asian Venture Capital Journal

Legal name

Mergermarket Limited

Website

https://avcj.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1987

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AVCJ is a London-headquartered B2B digital publication and database providing news, analysis, and transaction data on private equity, venture capital, and M&A activity across Asian markets. It serves enterprise PE/VC professionals, advisory firms, and legal/technology service providers via subscription, events, and a proprietary 153,000+ company dataset.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Subscription Revenue: AVCJ operates on a subscription-based model providing access to in-depth analysis, real-time news and unique viewpoints from across regions and markets in Asia covering all facets of private equity activity. Free trials are available for potential subscribers.
2. Event Revenue: Revenue generated from industry events and conferences for the PE/VC community.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ) is a subscription-based business intelligence service delivering news, analysis, and proprietary data on private equity, venture capital, and M&A activity across Asian markets. Its flagship AVCJ Database tracks more than 153,000 companies and almost 117,000 transactions, complemented by regional reports, an annual industry review, and a Weekly Digest newsletter for PE/VC professionals and advisors.

Product overview

Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ) is a media and intelligence platform providing news, analysis, and data on private equity, venture capital, and M&A activities across Asia. The core product is the AVCJ Database containing company and transaction data, supplemented by the Asian Private Equity and Venture Capital Review (annual industry review), Regional Reports (region-specific annual reports), and the Weekly Digest (regular news publication). The platform covers multiple regional markets including Southeast Asia, Greater China, Australasia, South Asia, North Asia, MENA, Europe, North America, and Central Asia.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AVCJ Database A comprehensive proprietary database linking Asian dealmakers with advisory, financial, legal, and technological service providers to the PE/VC/M&A industries, containing facts and figures on more than 153,000 companies and almost 117,000 transactions. Targeted at fund managers, advisors, legal firms, and technology service providers serving the Asian PE/VC ecosystem.
• Regional Reports Annual reports reviewing private equity and venture capital activity by Asian region, filled with up-to-date data and intelligence on fundraising, investments, exits, and M&A, featuring information on key companies in each market. Targeted at PE/VC professionals and advisors seeking region-specific intelligence.
• Asian Private Equity and Venture Capital Review An independent annual overview of private equity, venture capital, and M&A activities across the Asia region, delivering insights on investments made, capital raised, and sector-specific figures. Targeted at PE/VC professionals, advisors, and corporate investors needing a comprehensive annual view of Asian markets.
• Weekly Digest A digital weekly edition providing news, analysis, and updates on Asian private equity and venture capital markets. Targeted at PE/VC professionals, advisors, and corporate investors who require ongoing weekly market intelligence.

Quantifiable outcome

• 153,000+ companies and 117,000+ transactions tracked in proprietary database

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• PEI Media (Private Equity International): Long-running subscription media, events, and research business serving global PE professionals. Highly analogous publication-driven subscription business model to AVCJ, though with global rather than Asian geographic remit.
• Crunchbase: Subscription-based company, funding-round, and investor database with strong VC/startup coverage. A comparable information-as-a-service product for VC dealmakers and a frequent lower-priced alternative to AVCJ Database.
• PitchBook Data: Subsidiary of Morningstar providing PE/VC data, research, and intelligence to dealmakers. The most direct comparable in terms of subscription-based database of companies, deals, investors, and LPs used by fund managers and advisors.
• Preqin (part of BlackRock): Alternative-asset data provider covering PE, VC, real estate, infrastructure, and credit — directly overlapping AVCJ's Asian PE/VC/intelligence subscription model and serving many of the same GP/LP/advisory buyers.

Broad incumbents

• PERE (Private Equity Real Estate): PEI Media's real estate PE title providing subscription news, research, and data for a sub-vertical of the PE world — comparable subscription media model and overlapping events monetization, illustrating competitive overlap on adjacent AVCJ beats (real estate, infrastructure).
• Infrastructure Investor: PEI Media's infrastructure PE title covering fundraising, deals and exits. Overlaps AVCJ's coverage of infrastructure as a fund category in Asia and competes for the same institutional LP/GP readers with a global vs. Asian remit.
• Mergermarket: AVCJ's own parent platform and the destination for AVCJ's 2023 migration; covers global M&A intelligence and deal origination across all regions — overlapping in function but broader in scope and more focused on M&A than PE/VC specifically.

Regional players

• DealStreetAsia: Asia-focused PE/VC/startup news and data platform explicitly covering deals and fundraising across SE Asia and Greater China — the closest regional, free-plus-paid comparator for AVCJ's core news + database offering.
• Venture Capital Journal (VCJ): Long-standing US-focused VC trade publication covering American VC activity and fundraises. Sister peer in trade-press format with comparable subscription news + database economics, but serving the US market rather than Asia.

Emerging players

• 36Kr: China-headquartered tech and startup media with VC/PE deal coverage in Greater China. Comparable as a regional VC/PE news and intelligence property serving a major AVCJ market, though with stronger consumer-tech and English-language news orientation.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/AVCJ
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/avcj

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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