Masterclass in PE & VC: The Art of Deal-Making in Vietnam
6 In-class Modules in Ho Chi Minh City
Graduation in NUS Singapore
What to Expect
Led by Industry Experts
From Leading Firms in Vietnam and the Region
Program Structure
Accredited by professors from NUS Enterprise and guided by a board of advisors from top universities and leading firms, this Masterclass delivers a panoramic view of Vietnam’s private equity and venture capital industry, from its early-stage foundations to the opportunities shaping its future. Participants will gain a structured understanding of the investment process and a nuanced perspective on the country’s fast-evolving market dynamics.
Introduction to PE&VC as Asset Class
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Develop a comprehensive understanding of the diverse strategies within the alternative assets universe and their influence on the Vietnamese economy.
The PE&VC Industry Ecosystem
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Discover the professional players involved in the industry,
their role and their impacts.
Investing in PE/VC in Vietnam: Perspective of International LPs
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Why international LPs can be interested in Vietnam and how Vietnam can stand out as one of Asia’s most dynamic markets for PE/VC deals.
Sharing Session: Insights from Leading Vietnamese GPs
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Open Panel Discussion
The Investment Decision for VC Professionals
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Explore the investment decision-making process of experienced VC investors, from initial deal screening to the final signing of the check.
The Investment Decision for VC Professionals (Continued)
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Understand the inner workings of investment approvals and how to build successful and impactful careers in the venture capital industry.
Sharing session with VC backed founder
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Introduction to Private Equity in Vietnam
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Discover the evolution of the PE industry in Vietnam and which are the trends shaping its future
Engineering a structure built to uphold the deal’s success
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Developing an investment structure aligned with the investment thesis is crucial for deal success. This involves establishing effective governance to enhance oversight and transparency.
The Art of Deal Sourcing
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Gain insight on how investment bankers source, structure, and execute deals, while understanding buy-side vs sell-side roles. They also gain insights into negotiation psychology and lessons on resilience, ethics, and soft skills.
Integrity Due Dilligence
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Understanding the integrity, connections, and compliance track record of the investment targets and their key principals as integral to overall assessment of investment risk.
Financial Due Dilligence
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Learn the best practices and pitfalls in financial due diligence and discover the common valuation approaches used during the investment life cycle.
Valuation Methodologies
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Understand the valuation methodologies to assess a company’s worth through financial models and market benchmarks. Builds the judgment to adapt methods and balance analysis with negotiation.
Legal & Tax Due Dilligence in PE Transactions
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Understand the valuation methodologies to assess a company’s worth through financial models and market benchmarks. Builds the judgment to adapt methods and balance analysis with negotiation.
Legal & Tax Due Dilligence in VC Deals
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
The session examines the key documents that govern venture capital investments and explains how they balance risk, control, and alignment between investors and founders.
Post-Investment Management in PE Firms
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Review post-investment management practices to ensure value creation through governance, alignment, monitoring, and strategic oversight in portfolio companies.
Monitoring and Valua Creation for VC Portfolio
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Explore how venture capital investors drive growth and safeguard their stakes through active portfolio management, governance, and strategic support.
Decoding the Undecodable: Deep Tech Due Diligence for Investors
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Deep tech due diligence challenges investors to evaluate technologies that are complex, unproven, and often ahead of their time. It requires blending scientific validation with market foresight to judge both feasibility and long-term commercial potential.
Deep Tech Investment: from Experience
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Deep tech in action highlights how breakthrough technologies move from labs into real-world applications that transform industries. It showcases the shift from theoretical innovation to scalable solutions with commercial and societal impact.
Exit Strategies
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Explore how investors realize returns through trade sales, secondary sales, IPOs, and continuation vehicles. This session breaks down how timing, valuation, and alignment shape each exit path and what makes one option more strategic than another.
Graduation Ceremony
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Deep tech in action highlights how breakthrough technologies move from labs into real-world applications that transform industries. It showcases the shift from theoretical innovation to scalable solutions with commercial and societal impact.
Graduation Party & Networking
As Vietnam enters its Era of National Rise, successful exits—through IPOs and M&As—will play a critical role in shaping the country’s investment landscape. This panel will explore the strategies, challenges, and opportunities for Vietnamese companies scaling towards global capital markets, with insights from corporate leaders, financial experts, and market operators.
Registration and Networking
Remarks: Vietnam’s Vision for Innovation and Investment
Overview of Vietnam’s strategy for fostering innovation, expanding private capital, and supporting economic growth through new policy directions.
Remarks: Korea’s Support for Vietnamese Startups and Innovation
Outlining Korea's strategies to strengthen collaboration between the Korean and Vietnamese startup ecosystems, focusing on innovation, market expansion, and fostering cross-border partnerships to accelerate growth in both countries.
Presentation: Vietnam’s Innovation and Tech Investment Landscape
A detailed look at Vietnam's tech and innovation ecosystem, investment trends, and emerging opportunities for private capital.
Keynote: Korea’s Economic Miracle – The Power of Innovation and Lessons for Vietnam
Korea’s journey from poverty to economic powerhouse highlights the transformative power of innovation, strategic government support, and industry partnerships - offering Vietnam a roadmap to harness technology and public-private collaboration for its growth.
MOU Signing Ceremony: VPCA & KVCA Partnership
Formal signing of the MOU to enhance investment and collaboration between Vietnam and Korea.
Keynote: Case Study on Private Capital Success in AsiA
KIP is a subsidiary of Korea Investment Holdings (KIH), one of South Korea's largest financial services groups with a $235B AUM. Through 37 years of experience in the investment field, KIP is currently managing 58 funds with an AUM of US$4 billion. Since 2001, KIP has liquidated 18 funds with an average multiple of 2.0x and an IRR of 16.7%.
A case study on a high-impact private equity investment in Asia, discussing strategy, challenges, and success factors.
Panel Discussion 1: Navigating Emerging Investment Trends in Innovation and Sustainability Sectors
A detailed look at Vietnam's tech and innovation ecosystem, investment trends, and emerging opportunities for private capital.
Networking Lunch
Performance
Keynote: From Startup to Unicorn – Key Milestones and Strategies for Success
Sharing the critical milestones in building a unicorn, including funding strategies, scaling operations, navigating market challenges, and how Vietnamese startups can leverage these lessons to fuel their growth.
Panel Discussion 2: Scaling Growth-Stage Companies for Regional and Success
This session will explore how growth-stage companies are scaling beyond their domestic market, preparing for IPOs, and navigating the challenges of regional expansion. Panelists will discuss strategies for strengthening core operations, building resilience, and attracting international private equity to fuel growth.
Panel Discussion 3: Best Practices in Government-Backed Innovation Funds Across Asia
Exploration of successful innovation fund models across Asia and lessons that can inform new initiatives in Vietnam.How to foster regional partnerships in boosting economic growth and facilitating cross-border capital flows.
Panel Discussion 4: Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) and the Role of Corporates in Innovation
How CVCs support startup ecosystems, with case studies on successful corporate-startup collaborations in Vietnam/Southeast Asia.
Panel Discussion 5: Crafting Successful Exit Strategies
This panel will explore strategies and challenges in planning successful exits for Vietnamese companies, focusing on IPOs and M&As.
Closing Remarks
Summary of key takeaways and a forward-looking view of Vietnam’s role within the Asian private capital landscape.
VIP After Party
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Agenda
We offer a platform for you to connect, share valuable insights, and secure business opportunities with country decision-makers and industry leaders.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Lunch & Learn
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Company Visits
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Program Pricing
Program fees are charged per individual participant, with rates available for both VPCA members and non-members.
Not sure if you qualify for the member rate? Check our member directory
Travel & accommodation for the Singapore Graduation are not included in the program fee.
20.800.000 VND
31.200.000 VND
3.950.000VND
5.850.000 VND
Financial Aid
VPCA offers Partial Scholarships (from 50%) to Full Scholarships (100%) to highly motivated professionals with strong potential to create impact and multiply value in Vietnam’s investment ecosystem.
Selection is based on application responses and interviews.
- Application Open: 8-20/10//2025
- Shortlist Result: 22/10/2025
- Final Result: 28/10/2025
For any questions or inquiries, please contact: operations@vpca.vn
Frequently Asked Questions
Who should take this program?
Professionals with at least one year of experience in finance, investment, or related fields who want to strengthen their expertise in PE/VC and connect with peers in the industry.
How do I sign up?
You can register through our online application form. Once your application is reviewed, our team will confirm your spot and share next steps.
What financial aid does VPCA provide?
VPCA offers Partial Scholarships (from 50%) to Full Scholarships (100%) to highly motivated professionals with strong potential to create impact and multiply value in Vietnam’s investment ecosystem.Selection is based on application responses and interviews.
How long does the program take?
The program runs from November to December 2025, with six modules delivered in Ho Chi Minh City and a finale session in Singapore.
I need an invoice (individual/company) – what should I do?
Please reach out to VPCA Operations Team (operations@vpca.vn) with your registration details and billing information. We’ll prepare and send the invoice in your preferred format
About Us
VPCA
VPCA is launching its initial education program to address a critical gap in professional development and market positioning within the country’s growing private capital ecosystem. As Vietnam continues to attract global investor interest, the need to strengthen internal capabilities and signal market maturity becomes increasingly vital.
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