# Affirma Capital

> Affirma Capital is a VC fund in London backing Manufacturing and Finance. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 60%
- Fund size: $364k
- Last fund: Oct 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.affirmacapital.com/

Affirma Capital is a VC fund in London focused on Manufacturing and Finance. Affirma Capital, the newly-created GP spinout of Standard Chartered Private Equity.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 17% |
| Finance | 4 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 13% |
| FinTech | 3 | 10% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 10% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 13 | 43% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 7% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 2 | 7% |
| Series A | 1 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 8 | 27% |
| South Korea | 6 | 20% |
| China | 5 | 17% |
| Vietnam | 2 | 7% |
| Japan | 1 | 3% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nainesh Jaisingh | Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nainesh-jaisingh |
| Taimoor Labib | Founding Partner at Affirma Capital, Head of MENA & Chairman of Africa | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taimoor-labib |
| Tariq Baareh | Executive Director - Private Equity | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tariq-baareh |
| Ivo Philipps | Co-Founding Partner & Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivo-philipps |
| Kim Tae-yeop | CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kim-tae-yeop |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RMSI | RMSI is a global IT company providing geospatial and software solutions for risk, flood, food security, telecom, climate change, utilities, sustainability, reduction, disaster, and an earthquake. It also provides solutions across the entire geospatial value chain from conversion, modeling, consulting, data creation, analytics, and enhancement tosoftware development.RMSI offers services including imagery services, big data, GIS data management, and risk modeling and analysis. The company also offers its specialized services in the following sectors of e-governance, land policy & reforms, wireline communications, navigation & mapping, gas - utilities, agriculture, forestry, electricity - utilities, wireless communications, mineral exploration, water resources, and smart cities.RMSI won the Best Workplace at the Best Companies to Work for Study 2015 conducted by the Great Place to Work Institute India and was named 2011 Technology Initiative of the Year for PIER by Asia Insurance Review at the 15th Asia Insurance Industry Awards.RMSI was founded in 1992 and is based in Noida, Pradesh, India. | $56M | Private Equity | Oct 30, 2025 |  |
| RMSI | RMSI is a global IT company providing geospatial and software solutions for risk, flood, food security, telecom, climate change, utilities, sustainability, reduction, disaster, and an earthquake. It also provides solutions across the entire geospatial value chain from conversion, modeling, consulting, data creation, analytics, and enhancement tosoftware development.RMSI offers services including imagery services, big data, GIS data management, and risk modeling and analysis. The company also offers its specialized services in the following sectors of e-governance, land policy & reforms, wireline communications, navigation & mapping, gas - utilities, agriculture, forestry, electricity - utilities, wireless communications, mineral exploration, water resources, and smart cities.RMSI won the Best Workplace at the Best Companies to Work for Study 2015 conducted by the Great Place to Work Institute India and was named 2011 Technology Initiative of the Year for PIER by Asia Insurance Review at the 15th Asia Insurance Industry Awards.RMSI was founded in 1992 and is based in Noida, Pradesh, India. | $56M | Private Equity | Oct 30, 2025 |  |
| Neolix | Neolix is a technologically innovative company that specializes in the production of physical and sports scenes. Neolithic Century Technology is an innovative design team. Committed to design research, industrial design, structural engineering, product customization, providing customers with creative value enhancement services. Service customersinclude Lenovo, Siemens, Midea, GE, State Grid, CSIC, Honeywell, Bank of China, Agricultural Bank, etc. |  | Series C | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| Kwangjin Chemical | Kwangjin Chemical develops and manufactures general chemical and refined chemical products with a focus on eco-friendly business practices. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 01, 2023 |  |
| COFCO | COFCO is the largest supplier of diversified products and services in the agricultural products and food industry in China. It is devoted to utilizing renewable natural resources to provide healthy and nutritious food, high quality lifestyle and services, as well as contributing to improve people’s living standards, social prosperity and stability.COFCO plays a pivotal role as a bridge in the markets of edible oils and foodstuff between China and the world, and serves as the main importing and exporting channel for bulk agricultural products such as wheat, corn, rice and sugar. As an investment holding company specialized in trade and processing of oil and foodstuff as well as other businesses, COFCO continuously strives to upgrade its oil and foodstuff chains, which include those of oils and oilseeds, corn, wheat, rice, wine, tomatoes, dairy products, meat, barley, tea, chocolate and various other products. In light of China's economic growth, return on shareholders’ value and available business resources, COFCO is also involved in the development of real estate, hotels, non-grain bio-energy, packaging, finance and other industries. | $3.1B | Post-IPO Equity | Feb 02, 2023 |  |
| COFCO Fortune | COFCO Fortune provides high-quality food to customers through a fully integrated value chain with many well-known retailers and other state-owned enterprises. | $3.1B | Private Equity | Jan 16, 2023 |  |
| JTC | JTC is a tax-free retail chain operator. | $38.3M | Post-IPO Equity | Dec 09, 2022 |  |
| Craftsman Automation | Craftsman Automation is a manufacturer of high-quality complex precision engineered machined components ,industrial gear boxes, sheet metal parts and assemblies for automotive and industrial customers worldwide. The company has manufacturing facilities in Coimbatore, Pune, Sriperumbudur (near Chennai), Bangalore, Faridabad, Jamshedpur andPithampur. Its customer base includes companies such as General Electric, Daimler, Mitsubishi, Caterpillar, Siemens, Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), Tata Cummins, and Tata Motors. |  | Post-IPO Secondary | Dec 06, 2022 |  |
| ePack Durables Solutions | ePack Durables Solutions is the management of the second-largest contract manufacturer of room air conditioners. | $40M | Private Equity | Sep 12, 2022 |  |
| ePack Durables Solutions | ePack Durables Solutions is the management of the second-largest contract manufacturer of room air conditioners. | $40M | Private Equity | Sep 12, 2022 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Altos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altos-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [China Investment Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/china-investment-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [China Structural Reform Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/china-structural-reform-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hana-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hanwha Life](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hanwha-life-1ba3) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Affirma Capital invest in?

Affirma Capital invests primarily in Manufacturing, Finance and Information Technology startups, most often at Private Equity and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Affirma Capital?

The team at Affirma Capital includes Nainesh Jaisingh (Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer), Taimoor Labib (Founding Partner at Affirma Capital, Head of MENA & Chairman of Africa) and Tariq Baareh (Executive Director - Private Equity), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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