About

Gulf Capital International Acquisition Corp. (GCIAC)

Our management team’s significant operating and transaction experience and relationships provides us with a network of potential Target Businesses. We believe that the network of contacts and relationships of our management team and our board of directors will provide us with numerous investment opportunities. In addition, we anticipate that the potential Initial Business Combination candidates will be brought to our attention from various unaffiliated sources, including investment market participants, investment banks, private equity funds, large business enterprises seeking to divest non-core assets or divisions, entrepreneurs seeking growth capital and family businesses seeking liquidity and a listing to facilitate family succession issues. Gulf Capital has a long history of funding entrepreneurs and providing liquidity to family-owned businesses.

We intend to capitalize on the ability of our management team to identify and combine with a business or businesses that can benefit from our management team’s established global and regional relationships and operating experience. Our management team has extensive experience in identifying and executing strategic investments globally and has done so successfully in a number of sectors, including technology and fintech, healthcare, business services, consumer and sustainability. We believe our management team is well positioned to create value for our shareholders, and that our contacts and sources, ranging from owners of private and public companies, private equity funds, investment bankers, attorneys, accountants and business brokers in these sectors will allow us to generate attractive acquisition opportunities.

We seek to identify prevalent macrotrends across the target markets. Our management team has identified the following core macroeconomic themes which underpin our investment thesis:

  • digitization, the rise of the “New Economy”, and the exponential growth in ecommerce and digital payments;
  • innovation in healthcare provision, the growth of specialty medicine and digital health;
  • the globalization of Business Services and the growth of SaaS software services;
  • rising GDP per capita and growth in consumer spending; and
  • sustainability, increasing global demand for food, water and energy will drive the need for innovative solutions.

Our target markets also benefit from a comparatively attractive consumer and worker profile, with the median age in most Asian countries remaining under 30 . The number of 15–24-year-olds across MENA is forecasted to increase by over 30% over the next decade, the fastest growing youth population in the world. With over 820 million working age millennials, and approximately 2 billion under the age of 40, global growth will increasingly centre around the target markets, especially as aging trends in Europe and America accelerate. Moreover, rising income levels are creating a new more affluent and sophisticated consumer class. The trend of higher consumption and increased spending is expected to have a positive impact on corporate earnings fueling innovation.

While technology and tech-enabled businesses are fueling business activity, we also see significant opportunity in the sustainability space. As global governments and corporates lead the push into alternative energy, waste management and food innovation, our target market is poised to benefit from the significant government spending and private sector push into the new economy.