Annum Capital, Deane Consulting, and Turoid launch this practical guide
for Asian Family Offices on how to capture tech alpha via private markets
and manage complexity to secure allocation and returns.
HONG KONG, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking institutional report titled "Early Bird: A Practical Guide for Asian Family Offices Investing in Technology Through Private Markets" has been launched today.
Co-authored by Annum Capital, Deane Consulting, and Turoid, the report details a profound structural shift facing family offices and private investors in their quest to secure technology alpha.
Drawing on Annum Capital's private market expertise and integrating the insights of Schroders Capital, EQT, Hamilton Lane, Marex, Synpulse, Gateway, Carret Private and other institutions, this report analyzes the investable themes in the private AI stack, explains the main access routes, discusses the silent competition for allocation, and offers a practical framework for diligence and exit planning.
Interesting highlights of the report:
- Category-defining tech giants are staying private for 10 to 14+ years, whilst over 90% of their value compounding occurs behind closed doors. The traditional IPO has been reframed from a growth gateway into a late-stage liquidity event designed to provide exit routes for early stakeholders. Family offices have to be early birds to capture value.
- The best private tech deals are structurally supply constrained. Family offices and their clients must realize that "money alone is not enough". They need to deploy perpetual capital, leverage operational agility, and build deal reputation to stand out in the allocation hierarchy that traditionally favors existing shareholders, VC funds and strategic investors.
- Family offices must learn to handle information gaps and structural complexity. Rushed due diligence, multi-layered opacity, excessive fees, and lack of control over exit/distribution can erode net returns and create risks, and must be mitigated through effort and negotiation.
- Regulatory headwinds cannot be underrated. US and Mainland China rules are multiplying, impacting access, entry, and exit (sometimes retroactively) - as a recent landmark case laid bare. Meanwhile, Hong Kong SAR's supportive infrastructure and network can help family offices craft the right approach and execute the exit.
Click to download the Report:
https://www.annum.com.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Annum-Capital_Early-Bird_2026_FINAL.pdf
About Annum Capital
Annum Capital is a Hong Kong-based financial services group with market leadership in EAM, fund management, private markets, index investing, fiduciary services, and strategic advisory. www.annum.com.hk
About the Authors
Aaron Sung | Head of Asset Management | Annum Capital
Aaron leads the firm's award-winning fund management, private market, and custom index franchise. Aaron previously worked at Citi Private Bank and DBS Private Bank, with extensive experience across North Asia. He is a pioneer in unlocking AI for Hong Kong's family office sector and holds Vice Chair of the Hong Kong Limited Partnership Funds Association (HKLPFA).
www.annum.com.hk/
Andrew Deane | Founder | Deane Consulting
Andrew is the Founder of Deane Consulting and an established expert in the wealth management industry. Andrew specializes in strategic development and thought leadership, focusing on the global wealth trends, family offices and AI technology. He is an advisor to board level including foundations, asset managers and wealthtech.
andrew@deaneconsulting.net
Nick Wong | Founder & CEO | Turoid
Nick is an AI fintech entrepreneur operating at the intersection of private markets, asset management, and next-generation financial infrastructure. He is the founder of Turoid, an agentic AI company re-architecting how family offices and private wealth institutions operate, turning fragmented documents, data, and workflows into intelligent, decision-ready systems. He began his career at Macquarie Asset Management, one of the world's largest alternative asset managers.
www.turoid.ai/
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New Report "Early Bird" Maps Tech Investing for Asian Family Offices
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With Mino, Omni becomes the first AI-native HR and payroll platform built for multi-country teams in Asia.
SINGAPORE, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Omni HR today launched Mino, the first AI agent built on unified HR and payroll data for multi-country teams in Asia. Available now in early access to Omni customers, beginning with analytics and recruitment and rolling out across every stage of the employee lifecycle Omni manages.
Omni is the all-in-one HR and multi-country payroll platform for Asia, running hiring, people operations, performance, and payroll in one place. Most HR software in the region was built for a single country, a single function, and a previous generation of technology — leaving teams to stitch together systems and the data fragmented across all of them. Omni's own State of AI in HR report found that fragmented data, not AI capability, is what holds HR teams in Asia back. Because Omni stores employee data in one centralized system, Mino gets the full context of a business that most agents will never have access to.
Mino, Omni's Super Agent for Work
Mino answers questions, analyzes data, and takes action in plain language, always scoped to the access each user already holds. Ask it to surface a candidate shortlist, turn headcount data into a dashboard, or pull an employee's job history — and it returns the answer or takes the action, without switching tools or chasing an admin. It is designed to reason across every module Omni runs, getting more capable as each additional module comes online, spanning people data, compensation, payroll, and performance. It is an intelligence layer across the whole platform, not a chatbot sitting beside it. As the modules connect, Mino coordinates specialized sub-agents that work across HR, payroll, IT, and beyond — giving teams an always-on capability that operates around the clock.
Built on Enterprise-Grade Security
Mino operates entirely within each company's existing role-based permissions. Every user sees only what they are already authorized to access, and every action Mino takes is logged. As new modules and sub-agents become available, the same permission model governs them. Access does not expand because the agent does. Mino is built to meet the security and compliance standards that enterprise teams are already held to.
"Every HR platform will eventually offer AI features and agentic workflows. What makes Mino different is that the data, the compliance logic, and the security model were purpose-built to support it, not adapted from a system designed for something else."
Brian Ip, CEO, Omni HR
Mino is available now in early access for Omni HR customers. To see it, book a demo at omnihr.co.
About Omni HR
Omni HR is the AI-native, all-in-one HR and payroll platform built for Asia. It runs hiring, people operations, performance, and payroll for multi-country teams across the region, with built-in compliance support for the regulatory complexity that comes with operating across borders in Asia. Learn more at omnihr.co.
With Mino, Omni becomes the first AI-native HR and payroll platform built for multi-country teams in Asia.
SINGAPORE, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Omni HR today launched Mino, the first AI agent built on unified HR and payroll data for multi-country teams in Asia. Available now in early access to Omni customers, beginning with analytics and recruitment and rolling out across every stage of the employee lifecycle Omni manages.
Omni is the all-in-one HR and multi-country payroll platform for Asia, running hiring, people operations, performance, and payroll in one place. Most HR software in the region was built for a single country, a single function, and a previous generation of technology — leaving teams to stitch together systems and the data fragmented across all of them. Omni's own State of AI in HR report found that fragmented data, not AI capability, is what holds HR teams in Asia back. Because Omni stores employee data in one centralized system, Mino gets the full context of a business that most agents will never have access to.
Mino, Omni's Super Agent for Work
Mino answers questions, analyzes data, and takes action in plain language, always scoped to the access each user already holds. Ask it to surface a candidate shortlist, turn headcount data into a dashboard, or pull an employee's job history — and it returns the answer or takes the action, without switching tools or chasing an admin. It is designed to reason across every module Omni runs, getting more capable as each additional module comes online, spanning people data, compensation, payroll, and performance. It is an intelligence layer across the whole platform, not a chatbot sitting beside it. As the modules connect, Mino coordinates specialized sub-agents that work across HR, payroll, IT, and beyond — giving teams an always-on capability that operates around the clock.
Built on Enterprise-Grade Security
Mino operates entirely within each company's existing role-based permissions. Every user sees only what they are already authorized to access, and every action Mino takes is logged. As new modules and sub-agents become available, the same permission model governs them. Access does not expand because the agent does. Mino is built to meet the security and compliance standards that enterprise teams are already held to.
"Every HR platform will eventually offer AI features and agentic workflows. What makes Mino different is that the data, the compliance logic, and the security model were purpose-built to support it, not adapted from a system designed for something else."
Brian Ip, CEO, Omni HR
Mino is available now in early access for Omni HR customers. To see it, book a demo at omnihr.co.
About Omni HR
Omni HR is the AI-native, all-in-one HR and payroll platform built for Asia. It runs hiring, people operations, performance, and payroll for multi-country teams across the region, with built-in compliance support for the regulatory complexity that comes with operating across borders in Asia. Learn more at omnihr.co.
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Omni HR Launches Mino, the First AI Agent Built on Unified APAC HR Data
