Newly formed companies are reaching the initial public offering stage far sooner than they used to, according to venture capitalist Jenny Lee. In the West, companies like to stay private a little longer, but Asian firms are leaning toward a more accelerated timeline, according to Lee, senior managing partner at Granite Asia and the first woman to break into the top 10 of the Forbes Global 100 VC Midas list. "On average the holding period before a company goes public is eight to 10 years," Lee said in an interview on the sidelines of the DBS Asia Future Forward Conference last week in Singapore. "But currently, the later stage companies we are seeing are actually preparing for IPOs when they are four to five years old.
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