CEO / Founder, Crea8

Kim-Hwa Lim

CEO / Founder

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Crea8

Crea8 blends AI-driven precision, big data scalability, and rigorous quantitative frameworks with seasoned human insight. By extracting actionable intelligence from vast global datasets, we eliminate emotional bias and deliver optimal risk-adjusted returns. Our hybrid approach uncovers hidden market efficiencies and ensures your capital is dynamically positioned across markets.

Cross Asset Strategy

<ul><li>The strategy seeks to invest in themes that are driving returns globally.</li><li>By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.</li><li>Previous portfolio returned -9.8% vs. MSCI World (-1.3%) – underperformed the benchmark by -8.5%.</li></ul>

The strategy seeks to invest in themes that are driving returns globally.By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.Previous portfolio returned -9.8% vs. MSCI World (-1.3%) – underperformed the benchmark by -8.5%.

Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

Baptista Research

Independent research on the U.S. markets

Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Fastly, an edge cloud platform company, reported strong financial results for the third quarter of 2025, marking a continuation of its upward trajectory in both revenue and profitability.</li>
<li>The company reported a record revenue of $158.2 million, a 15% year-over-year increase, which surpassed the high end of its guidance and reflected an acceleration in growth compared to the previous quarter.</li>
<li>The company’s gross margins improved significantly, reaching 62.8%, exceeding guidance by 330 basis points, largely driven by revenue upside and a moderation in pricing declines.</li>
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Fastly, an edge cloud platform company, reported strong financial results for the third quarter of 2025, marking a continuation of its upward trajectory in both revenue and profitability.
The company reported a record revenue of $158.2 million, a 15% year-over-year increase, which surpassed the high end of its guidance and reflected an acceleration in growth compared to the previous quarter.
The company’s gross margins improved significantly, reaching 62.8%, exceeding guidance by 330 basis points, largely driven by revenue upside and a moderation in pricing declines.


Fastly: How Is Its One-Stop Platform Strategy Turning Security Into a Powerful Moat?

<ul>
<li>The strategy seeks to invest in themes that are driving returns globally.</li>
<li>By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.</li>
<li>Previous portfolio returned 16.2% vs. MSCI World (4.2%) – outperformed the benchmark by 12%.</li>
</ul>


The strategy seeks to invest in themes that are driving returns globally.
By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.
Previous portfolio returned 16.2% vs. MSCI World (4.2%) – outperformed the benchmark by 12%.


Latest News from the World’s Leading Innovators

Granite Bay Capital

An innovation focussed investment company

Granite Bay Capital is an innovation focussed investment company with a deep focus on the companies at the leading edge of innovation across major themes such as AI, ubiquitous computing, sustainability, automation and longevity.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Headline developments are all up in the air this week, starting with United Airlines (UAL) who have signed an agreement with Boom Supersonic (private) to add 15 of their $200m jets to the fleet, with the option of adding an additional 35, after certain safety, sustainability and operating metrics are met.

Headline developments are all up in the air this week, starting with United Airlines (UAL) who have signed an agreement with Boom Supersonic (private) to add 15 of their $200m jets to the fleet, with the option of adding an additional 35, after certain safety, sustainability and operating metrics are met.

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

Amagi Media Labs / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/amagi-media-labs" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45644:1" rel="noopener">Amagi Media Labs (1232899D IN)</a> raised around US$189m in its India IPO. AML provides cloud-native software infrastructure for content owners, broadcasters, and streaming platforms.</li>
<li>AML enables its clients to manage, distribute, and monetize live, linear, and on-demand content seamlessly across traditional TV, Over-The-Top (OTT), and Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV (FAST) platforms.</li>
<li>We have looked at the past performance and valuations in our previous note. In this note, we talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
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Amagi Media Labs (1232899D IN) raised around US$189m in its India IPO. AML provides cloud-native software infrastructure for content owners, broadcasters, and streaming platforms.
AML enables its clients to manage, distribute, and monetize live, linear, and on-demand content seamlessly across traditional TV, Over-The-Top (OTT), and Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV (FAST) platforms.
We have looked at the past performance and valuations in our previous note. In this note, we talk about the trading dynamics.


Aequitas: Amagi Media Labs IPO Trading - Healthy Demand with Decent Anchor

United States

Fastly, Inc. provides infrastructure software. The Company offers cloud computing, image optimization, security, edge computer technology, and streaming solutions. Fastly serves customers in the United States.

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Fastly, an edge cloud platform company, reported strong financial results for the third quarter of 2025, marking a continuation of its upward...

Baptista Research

Global Thematic Portfolio (18-Aug-2026)

The strategy seeks to invest in themes that are driving returns globally. By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the...

Crea8

Weekly Innovation Review (WIRE) #35

Headline developments are all up in the air this week, starting with United Airlines (UAL) who have signed an agreement with Boom Supersonic

Granite Bay Capital

Aequitas: Amagi Media Labs IPO Trading - Healthy Demand with Decent Anchor

Amagi Media Labs (AML) raised around US$189m in its India IPO. In this note, we talk about the demand and the trading dynamics.

Akshat Shah

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