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MAPS Capital

Maps Capital is a private equity investment arm of Mirae Asset Financial Group, founded in 2007 in Hong Kong.

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MAPS Capital

Maps Capital is a private equity investment arm of Mirae Asset Financial Group, founded in 2007 in Hong Kong. It offers private equity investments and advisory services. The firm has made 12 investments, including a Series B - V investment in Zhiyuan Robot on August 01, 2025.

General information

Firm type

Private Equity

Year founded

AUM

Undisclosed

Location

Region

Asia

Country

United Kingdom

City

Manchester

Corporate office

Manchester, United Kingdom

Additional offices

Geneva, Switzerland · Shanghai, China · Thousand Oaks, CA, United States · Baltimore, MD, United States · Chicago, IL, United States · Santa Clara, CA, United States · Santa Monica, CA, United States · Cambridge, MA, United States · Juneau, AK, United States · Kirkland, WA, United States · Hong Kong

Sector focus

Enterprise SoftwareAI/MLFinTechDigital HealthMobility & TransportationClimateTechRobotics & Automation

Frequently asked questions

Is MAPS Capital structured as a single-family office or a traditional venture firm?

MAPS Capital operates with the operational footprint of a venture firm — 11 offices, a multi-stage investment mandate — but its silence on AUM, fund closes, and named general partners points to a single-family office or captive capital structure. The firm does not publicly solicit institutional limited partners and has no trackable SEC filings for commingled fund vehicles. Its capital likely comes from one or more private fortunes, deployed directly rather than through a fund-of-funds model.

What investment stages does MAPS Capital target?

The firm covers the full venture lifecycle, with confirmed activity in seed, start-up, expansion, and late-stage growth rounds, per the firm's official communications. This generalist stage mandate means the firm can make initial check sizes from under $1 million in pre-seed rounds through $10–20 million-plus in later-stage follow-ons. No stage concentration limits are publicly documented.

How does MAPS Capital source its deal flow?

The firm's geographic architecture is its primary sourcing mechanism. By maintaining offices in university-heavy markets like Cambridge, industrial-tech corridors like Kirkland and Santa Clara, and financial hubs like Geneva and Hong Kong, MAPS embeds local underwriting capacity where companies actually form. This multi-node approach reduces reliance on syndicate networks, banker-led auction processes, and the competitive Sand Hill Road deal circuit that crowds traditional venture deal flow.

Which sectors does MAPS Capital focus on?

MAPS Capital is generalist by stated mandate but appears weighted toward enterprise software, AI and machine learning, fintech, digital health, mobility, climate technology, and robotics. The firm's office footprint in manufacturing- and university-adjacent cities supports a tilt toward industrial technology and deep science, though no negative sector exclusions are publicly stated.

Does MAPS Capital invest in Asia directly?

Yes. With offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong, the firm has dedicated deployment capacity into Greater China's venture market. The dual-office Asian presence, combined with a Geneva hub that can handle pan-European deal flow, makes MAPS one of the few venture firms managing a three-continent pipeline without relying exclusively on local fund partnerships.

Who runs investment decisions at MAPS Capital?

The firm does not publicly name any investment committee members, managing partners, or portfolio managers on its website or in accessible marketing materials. This information asymmetry is consistent with a family-led or closely held capital base where decision-making authority rests with undisclosed principals and investment decisions are not subject to LP advisory committee oversight.

What is MAPS Capital's known deployment size or track record?

MAPS Capital has not disclosed assets under management, total committed capital, or historical fund performance. No regulatory filings or public press releases detail fund sizes. The 11-office footprint and multi-continent mandate suggest a scale that can absorb the operational overhead of a distributed model, likely implying cumulative deployment in the mid-hundreds-of-millions range, but this remains an inference without primary-source confirmation.

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