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

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ifbh-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45067:1" rel="noopener">IFBH (6603 HK)</a> raised US$169m (including over-allocation) from its Hong Kong IPO in June 2025. The lockup on its cornerstone, pre-IPO investors and controlling shareholders is set to expire soon.</li>
<li>IFBH specializes in ready-to-consume beverages and food, with a focus on coconut water and plant-based products. </li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics and possible placement.</li>
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IFBH (6603 HK) raised US$169m (including over-allocation) from its Hong Kong IPO in June 2025. The lockup on its cornerstone, pre-IPO investors and controlling shareholders is set to expire soon.
IFBH specializes in ready-to-consume beverages and food, with a focus on coconut water and plant-based products. 
In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics and possible placement.


IFBH IPO Lockup - US$262m Lockup Release but the Stock Has Nosedived

HK/China Healthcare Analyst (ex-Fosun Pharma)

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

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<li>We have always been concerned about QuantumPharm’s business model. It is relatively difficult for a service provider like QuantumPharm to scale up revenue by just relying on charging service fees.</li>
<li>For AI pharmaceutical companies, how to make money is a pain point for entire industry. Just focusing on preclinical stages would limit profitability.We haven’t seen any certainty of achieving breakeven.</li>
<li>Increasing competition would bring more challenges for QuantumPharm. Post-investment valuation in 2021 was too expensive.If its future performance falls short of expectations, then sooner or later the valuation will collapse. </li>
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We have always been concerned about QuantumPharm’s business model. It is relatively difficult for a service provider like QuantumPharm to scale up revenue by just relying on charging service fees.
For AI pharmaceutical companies, how to make money is a pain point for entire industry. Just focusing on preclinical stages would limit profitability.We haven’t seen any certainty of achieving breakeven.
Increasing competition would bring more challenges for QuantumPharm. Post-investment valuation in 2021 was too expensive.If its future performance falls short of expectations, then sooner or later the valuation will collapse. 


Pre-IPO QuantumPharm (PHIP Updates) - Some Points Worth the Attention

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<li>The essential difference between QuantumPharm and InSilico in terms of business models is that InSilico is an end-to-end generative AI-driven biotech but QuantumPharm is more of a platform-based service provider.</li>
<li>It’s difficult for QuantumPharm to achieve significant increase in revenue scale in short time,because the service fee amount is usually not large, and it takes time to accumulate order volume.</li>
<li>If there is no substantial performance contribution, these good stories would not bring about a sustained leap in valuation. QuantumPharm’s valuation in last funding round before IPO is too expensive. </li>
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The essential difference between QuantumPharm and InSilico in terms of business models is that InSilico is an end-to-end generative AI-driven biotech but QuantumPharm is more of a platform-based service provider.
It’s difficult for QuantumPharm to achieve significant increase in revenue scale in short time,because the service fee amount is usually not large, and it takes time to accumulate order volume.
If there is no substantial performance contribution, these good stories would not bring about a sustained leap in valuation. QuantumPharm’s valuation in last funding round before IPO is too expensive. 


Pre-IPO QuantumPharm - Good Stories May Not Be Backed up by Performance

Insilico Medicine / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/insilico-medicine-cayman-topco" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39890:1" rel="noopener">InSilico </a>’s business model is more of AI-CXO + AI-SaaS, but hasn't reached the stage of AI-biotech, considering its current revenue streams, which may lead to InSilico ultimately changing its positioning.</li>
<li>The significance of pipeline lies in the need for InSilico to verify the effectiveness of AI platforms/algorithms/technology through successful product launch. However, valuation of InSilico could be different from biotech.</li>
<li>AI pharmaceutical industry is at its infancy, which is a far cry from current levels of investment and expectations in the sector.We advise investors to be rational about this field.</li>
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InSilico ’s business model is more of AI-CXO + AI-SaaS, but hasn't reached the stage of AI-biotech, considering its current revenue streams, which may lead to InSilico ultimately changing its positioning.
The significance of pipeline lies in the need for InSilico to verify the effectiveness of AI platforms/algorithms/technology through successful product launch. However, valuation of InSilico could be different from biotech.
AI pharmaceutical industry is at its infancy, which is a far cry from current levels of investment and expectations in the sector.We advise investors to be rational about this field.


Pre-IPO InSilico Medicine - AI Pharmaceutical Is Immature; Valuation Expansion Relies on Imagination

Hong Kong

Insilico Medicine is an artificial intelligence (AI)-based biotechnology company that applies AI solutions to drug discovery and development, leveraging its proprietary Pharma.AI platform to identify and design early-stage drug candidates. The company develops novel drugs for various diseases, including cancer, fibrosis, immunity, and central nervous system disorders, and predicts clinical trial outcomes. Insilico Medicine was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New Territories, Hong Kong.

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Insilico Medicine (3696 HK)

IFBH IPO Lockup - US$262m Lockup Release but the Stock Has Nosedived

IFBH Ltd raised around US$169m from its Hong Kong IPO in June 2025. The lockup on its cornerstone and pre-IPO investors is set to expire soon.

Akshat Shah

Pre-IPO QuantumPharm (PHIP Updates) - Some Points Worth the Attention

QuantumPharm's business model struggle to scale revenue solely through service fees. Profitability is a pain point for AI pharmaceutical companies....

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Pre-IPO QuantumPharm - Good Stories May Not Be Backed up by Performance

It's hard for QuantumPharm to general large revenue scale in a short time due to the weakness in business model. So, high valuation is...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Pre-IPO InSilico Medicine - AI Pharmaceutical Is Immature; Valuation Expansion Relies on Imagination

AI can help with the efficiency problem, but it cannot subvert the basic outline of drug R&D process, which is very difficult, as at critical...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

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