DFX Intelligence
Private Equity Intelligence
Firms, funds, people, portfolio companies and transactions from sworn filings and cited announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Reported gross assets are never fund size, regulatory AUM is never dry powder, and a deal value prints only when someone disclosed it.
Firms / Creador
Creador
Classification
- Class
- Buyout firmprobable, confidence 80%
- Basis
- own website statement
- Size band
- Middle marketdefined by: proxy: $1.70bn Private Equity Fund GAV on the Form ADV filed 2024-06-06
Classification history (2)
- Sep 15, 2026Buyout firm (probable, 80%, cls-pe-2)own website statement“Creador is a leading private equity firm in South and Southeast Asia, focused on investing in growth companies”creador.com
- Sep 13, 2026Buyout firm (confirmed, 85%, cls-pe-1)R6: 7 of 7 distinct vehicles are sworn Private Equity Funds; 4 reported gross assets on a filing in 2022 or later
Regulatory footprint (Form ADV)
- Adviser type
- exempt reporting adviser
- Form ADV filings
- Feb 18, 2014 to Jun 6, 2024
- RAUM
- unknownregulatory assets under management of the adviser; not dry powder, not a fund size
- PE funds, latest filing
- 5
- PE fund GAV, latest filing
- $1.7Breported gross assets (Form ADV), not fund size
- All private fund GAV
- $1.7Bevery private fund type, latest filing
- 2024 PE fund GAV
- $1.7Bsum over funds typed Private Equity Fund with a 2024 or later as-of date
- PE share of funds, lifetime
- 100%
- Fund type mix
- filed 2024-06-06, latest gav Private Equity Fund $1.7B, latest counts Private Equity Fund 5, lifetime distinct Private Equity Fund 7
- Employees
- unknown
- Headquarters
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Office address
- LOT 8.02B (EAST WING), 8TH FLOOR, MENARA BRDB, 285, JALAN MA'AROF, Kuala Lumpur, 59000
- Business phone
- +60 (3) 2182 6888
Stated criteria beside observed behaviour
16 observed deals
Stated by the firm
- Sectors
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- Southeast, Asia
- Revenue
- not stated or not yet read
- EBITDA
- not stated or not yet read
- Enterprise value
- not stated or not yet read
- Equity check
- not stated or not yet read
- Control
- minority
- Thesis
- We succeed when every decision is based on a detailed understanding and rigorous analysis of the market spaces in which we invest.
Observed from deals on record
- roles
- unknown 24
- period
- to unknown, from unknown, undated holdings 24, dated observations 0
- window
- last unknown, first unknown
- control
- unknown 24
- companies
- 16
- geography
- investments
- 24
- seller kinds
- transactions
- 0
- cadence by year
- platform add on
- add ons 0, platforms 0, add ons per platform unknown
- sector known for
- 0
- disclosed value usd
- n 0
- sector distribution
- holding period years
- n 0
- repeat counterparties
- subsector distribution
16 companies on the graph (0 transactions); no dated observations
Funds
6 on record
| Fund | Vehicle | Vintage | Reported gross assets (Form ADV), not fund size | GAV by year | Form D sold | Lifecycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creador V L.P. ADV: Private Equity Fund | buyout or unlabelled | 2022 first reported on Form ADV | $302M as of Jun 6, 2024 | no Form D | Early deployment | |
| Creador IV L.P. ADV: Private Equity Fund | buyout or unlabelled | 2019 first reported on Form ADV | $899M as of Jun 6, 2024 | no Form D | Active deployment | |
| Creador III L.P. ADV: Private Equity Fund | buyout or unlabelled | 2015 first reported on Form ADV | $475M as of Jun 6, 2024 | no Form D | Mature | |
| Creador I, LLC ADV: Private Equity Fund | buyout or unlabelled | unknown | $33.5M as of May 31, 2021 | no Form D | Wound down | |
| Creador II, LLC ADV: Private Equity Fund | buyout or unlabelled | unknown | $1.2M as of Jun 6, 2024 | no Form D | Harvest | |
| Tristania Ltd ADV: Private Equity Fund | buyout or unlabelled | unknown | $963,882 as of Jul 16, 2019 | no Form D | Wound down |
Team
1 current, 1 former
Partner (1)
- Brahmal Vasudevan · Shareholder · since Dec 1, 2023 SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B, 1.I websites)
1 former (kept with end dates)
- Shanthi Kandiah · Shareholder · Dec 1, 2016 to Mar 28, 2019 Inference
Portfolio
24 relationships, 0 platforms, 0 add-ons
Transactions
0 on record
No transaction naming this firm has been collected yet. The deal tape is read from SEC filings and cited announcements.
Placement agents, lenders, advisers and co-investors
3 relationships
Placement agents (3)
- Mvision Private Equity Advisers Asia Limited 1 shared · one time · last Jan 1, 2022
- Argenthal Private Capital 1 shared · one time · last Jan 1, 2015
- Mvision Private Equity Advisers USA LLC 1 shared · one time · last Jan 1, 2019
LP commitments
0 disclosed
No LP commitment collected yet. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote, such as a pension plan’s report or an announcement naming the LP.
Events
3 most recent
- Jun 4, 2026Creador: Private Equity Funds on Form ADV 5 (2024 extract) -> 4 (roster 2026-09-01)
- Oct 28, 2025Creador appoints Dato’ Syed Yasir Arafat as Senior Advisor Date Author October 28, 2025 Creador Creador appoints Dato’ Syed Yasir Arafat as Senior Advisor
- Feb 18, 2014Creador first filed Form ADV in the extract (ERA)
Across the graphs
Creador is the same institution as 1 record in Venture Capital.
Venture Capital1
Which record it is in each graph, what it is called there, and what the two were joined on. The Data Factory holds all nine graphs and the identity layer between them.
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