U.S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE CERTIFIED TRADE MISSION TO

Saudi Arabia

Join us on December 1-4, 2025

In Riyadh, Dhahran, or Jeddah

Register Here

Agenda

Monday, December 1

Riyadh - Marriott Riyadh Diplomatic Quarter

12:00 - 13:00 Registration & Networking lunch between the U.S. Fund Managers and Saudi investors

13:00 - 16:30 Members of the U.S. delegation will meet in one on one meetings with investment professionals from Riyadh's institutional investors and family offices

19:00-22:00 U.S. Embassy sponsored LP-GP Networking Reception

Wednesday, December 3

Dhahran - Kempinski Al Othman Hotel Al Khobar Al Qashlah, Al Khobar 31952, Saudi Arabia

12:00 - 13:00 Registration & Networking lunch between the U.S. Fund Managers and Saudi investors

13:00 - 16:30 Members of the U.S. delegation will meet in one on one meetings with investment professionals from Dhahran's institutional investors and family offices

17:00 - 19:00 U.S. Consulate sponsored LP-GP Networking Reception

Thursday, December 4

Jeddah Hilton Al Kurnaysh Br Rd, Ash Shati, Jeddah 21362, Saudi Arabia

12:00 - 13:00 Registration & Networking lunch between the U.S. Fund Managers and Saudi investors

13:00 - 16:30 Members of the U.S. delegation will meet in one on one meetings with investment professionals from Jeddah's institutional investors and family offices

16:30 - 18:30 U.S. Consulate sponsored LP-GP Networking Reception

Accomodations

TRADE MISSIONS
GP FUNDS
There will be a total of 12-15 US funds/companies. They will be registering over the next few months. Please check back for updates

Braveheart Capital

Real Estate

Braveheart Capital’s mission is to revive distressed and underperforming commercial campuses by reimagining their use, reinventing their operational models, and embedding new ecosystems of productivity and innovation. The firm does not simply lease space—it creates environments where businesses grow, jobs are created, and communities are revitalized.

Guideline.ai

At Guideline, we're defining the future of how the world buys and sells media. We combined the leading media planning and data companies to create the world’s most trusted set of solutions to help shape mission-critical advertising decisions. Though we already provide guidance to the world’s leading brands, agencies, and media owners; we are just getting started.

QHP Capital

Private Equity

Based in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina, QHP Capital invests in life sciences and pharma services companies with proven products, services, and enabling technologies, utilizing a strategic platform to source, diligence, and create value. Led by a senior team of investment, healthcare, and research professionals, and coming from the legacy of Quintiles (now IQVIA) and NovaQuest, QHP looks to partner with founders and management teams to create long-term value. QHP Capital is the management company for NovaQuest Private Equity.

Silicon Catalyst Ventures

Venture Capital

Silicon Catalyst Ventures was formed as an extension of Silicon Catalyst, the world’s only incubator + accelerator focused on semiconductor solutions, including Photonics, MEMS, sensors, IP, materials and Life Science. It was formed primarily, but not exclusively, to fund and foster Silicon Catalyst Portfolio Companies. This close association between the Venture Fund and the Silicon Catalyst incubator affords investors unique access to entrepreneurial teams whose technology and businesses are accelerated and de-risked throughout a rigorous screening process and two year incubation.

BITKRAFT Ventures

Venture Capital

Our perspective on the future of the industries in which we invest - gaming, AI, Web3, and immersive technology - is anchored around a thesis of Synthetic Reality: that the convergence of physical and digital worlds will continuously introduce new human experiences and create unprecedented social and economic opportunities. We currently serve a global portfolio of over 125 forward-thinking startups, each contributing to the construction of the virtual worlds and economies of tomorrow.

RETINA-AI Health, Inc.

Building Artificial Intelligence to Transform Healthcare

Norlantic Capital

Private Equity

Norlantic is a specialized cross-border private equity firm exclusively targeting the U.S. middle market. Norlantic seeks to provide a highly diversified and opportunistic exposure to one of the most dynamic, diversified, and growing private market segments. Our vision is to become the value-add, partner of choice to leading U.S. middle market GPs and the platform of choice for investors seeking a broadly diversified entry point to private equity investment.

True Ventures

Venture Capital

Founded in 2005, True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology startups. With more than $3.8 billion under management, True provides seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in some of today's fastest growing markets. Its more than 40 team members including special advisors, operations professionals, and founders-turned-investors represent one of the largest and most experienced teams dedicated to the early stage ecosystem.

Markin Asset Management

We offer portfolios to institutional and adviser clients seeking a lower risk path to above average long-term returns. Our strategies offer a liquid means of achieving diversified low-beta returns and low exposure to large equity drawdown cycles. They appeal to clients with dual capital preservation and wealth accumulation objectives.

FinStrat Management

Venture Capital

FinStrat Management provides accounting, finance, and reporting services for early-stage and other investor-backed companies, HNW individuals, family offices, angel investors, accelerators, studios and VCs.

TECHU Ventures

Venture Capital

TechU Ventures is a U.S.-based venture capital firm founded by Natanel Barookhian, investing in breakthrough “platform” technologies across deep tech, life sciences, and advanced engineering. The firm focuses on scientific and engineering-driven companies capable of transforming multiple industries and generating enduring economic impact. TechU has seeded and supported category-defining companies—now unicorns—including Ayar Labs (optical I/O for AI infrastructure) and Destinus (hypersonic aerospace), alongside high-growth ventures such as Naveris, Bevi, and Sydecar.

Second Century Ventures

Real Estate

Second Century Ventures (SCV), the strategic investment arm of the National Association of REALTORS®, is the most active global real estate technology fund. SCV helps scale its portfolio companies across the world's largest industries including real estate, financial services, banking, home services, and insurance, and operates the award-winning global REACH technology scale-up program.

Victory Venture Capital

Venture Capital

Victory Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that is made up of a collective of accomplished business leaders, pop-culture influencers, and current/former professional athletes. We invest across sports, media, entertainment, and consumer industries, using our unique perspective and experience in engaging emerging generations - millennials and Gen-Zers - to capitalize on what’s new and what’s next. We are active, hands-on investors providing strategic guidance, relationships, and resources to create value and drive growth.

ALLIANCE PE

Private Equity

Founded in 2001, we are a large and experienced global private equity firm. We have established a globally integrated team of more than 20 investment professionals, focused on buyouts and growth equity investments in two core sectors. Since initiating our private equity strategy in 2001, we have invested $2 billion in over 50 private equity investments across 7 countries. Today, as we did more than 19 years ago, we seek to invest in well-positioned companies and partner with management teams to create value through sustained revenue and earnings growth.

Event Co-Chairs

 Rajiv Kochhar

Rajiv Kochhar

Founder & CEO at Avista Advisory Partners Pte Ltd

Rajiv Kochhar is a Financial Services professional with over 35 years of experience and an Entrepreneur for the past two decades with interests across Investment Banking & Asset Management.

Post a decade of experience with various organisations including the Tata Group , Rajiv founded Avista Advisory as his first entrepreneurial initiative in India in the year 2000 as a Mid-Market Investment bank focused on the high growth mid-tier corporates who had growing needs of capital raising, M&A advisory and financial restructuring . In line with the vision and growth plans of building an international platform, Avista moved its headquarters to Singapore in 2008 & based on the reputation built up by Avista in the Asian region, the company received a strategic investment in 2010 from Houlihan Lokey (NYSE: HLI) (“HL”), the prestigious U.S. based investment bank to grow the business across Asia. The partnership with HL helped Avista build internal systems and processes to look, feel and operate like a global investment bank which combined with the existing expertise, knowledge, experience and understanding of the Asian business culture.

Over the past 25 years, Rajiv has grown Avista into a Pan-Asian financial services group with expertise across Investment banking & Asset management. The firm currently has a strong presence in Singapore & India. The past decade has been a game changer as Avista has grown into a significantly larger organisation with deeper knowledge of the markets, with experienced professionals and strong execution capabilities across products and markets.

Having built the foundation of a robust Investment banking business, Rajiv key objective now is to grow the footprint of Avista both in terms of markets served and also product offering across all the businesses and create an Institution which spells quality and service across the Asian region.

His dream is to be the first real Pan Asian investment bank similar to the likes of several US Mid-Market banks to cater to the growing needs of Asian entrepreneurs & Financial Sponsors who need the expertise of experienced Investment banks with local knowledge of the Asian markets, He feels the “Time is now “ and the next 5 years is the “ high growth period “ for Avista to dig its heels & build a High Quality Institution which Asia needs .

As a respected professional Rajiv has been invited to be part of various forums including Co-Chair of US Trade Mission to Singapore, he has also served on the panel for Hong Kong and Tokiyo. Member of the Asia Milken Summit Management Committee and G1 Summit. He is a member of various committees of the International Trade Council including -- Banking & Trade Finance. As a member of the ASEAN CEO Club he has contributed ideas and his network towards growing investment in the ASEAN region. Rajiv has been a regular participant at the Horasis Conferences in Vietnam since 2018. Rajiv, through Avista has co- sponsored the Morrison Global Conference for “Building Global Markets Community and Access Capital” in Singapore December 2024.

Rajiv is currently also collaborating with Singapore Management University (SMU) to develop a Co-Branded Masters Program in Investment Management & Banking for mid career professionals.

Rajiv graduated with a degree in Commerce from the University of Mumbai, combined with a professional degree in Accounting. In addition, Rajiv has an MBA in Finance from SP Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai and has also attended the prestigious Owner President Management Program at the Harvard Business School.

He currently resides in Singapore with Monica, his wife and business partner. They have two sons Aditya & Karan who are Finance professionals , having graduated from prestigious US Universities and gained valuable experience at US Investment banks , VC funds , Credit funds & Fintech groups, and now part of the Avista team and are very focused and eager to carry on the legacy of Avista as Next- Gen Entrepreneurs & bring new thoughts to take the business to the next level .
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Peter Sexton

Peter Sexton

Director, Global Financial Services Team Senior International Trade Specialist U.S. Commercial Service

Brian N. Beams

Brian N. Beams

Deputy Director, Global Financial Services Team U.S. Commercial Service

Carla Menéndez

Carla Menéndez

Deputy Senior Commercial Officer

Kerry LePain

Kerry LePain

Commercial Officer

ANDREW BILLARD

ANDREW BILLARD

COUNSELOR FOR COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS

TESTIMONIAL

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– Maxx Bricklin, Principal, Bold Capital Partners, LP

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