VinaCapital was founded in 2003 by Don Lam and
Horst Geicke, who served as executive chairman until 2012. The company developed a diversified portfolio including several funds and also founded the VinaCapital Foundation, a public charitable organization to empower children and youth in Vietnam such as financing of cardiac surgery. In 2003, the firm launched the
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund, a closed-end fund now trading on the
London Stock Exchange’s Main Market. In 2006, VinaCapital and
Draper Fisher Jurvetson launched DFJVinaCapital, a venture capital fund to invest in technology companies and privatised telecommunications companies. In August 2018, VinaCapital launched VinaCapital Ventures, a technology investment platform. In June 2019, the company announced that it had formed a strategic partnership with the Mirae Asset - Naver Asia Growth Fund. In July 2019, VinaCapital acquired Smartly Pte Ltd., a Singapore-based robo-advisory investment platform, which it wound down in March 2020 due to "intense competition". VinaCapital was awarded "Best Fund House - Vietnam" by Asia Asset Management magazine in 2018, 2019 and 2020. In March 2021, the company announced that it would jointly invest with
GS Energy to develop a 3,000MW LNG power plant in
Long An province. In October 2021, VinaCapital announced that
EDF Renewables had made a "significant investment" in its rooftop solar subsidiary, SkyX. In May 2023, VinaCapital announced that it had formed an infrastructure and logistics investment platform with the fund manager,
A.P. Moller Capital. == Management ==