新成立的公司达到首次公开发行阶段的速度远快于过去，风险投资人Jenny Lee如是称。
Newly formed companies are reaching the initial public offering stage far sooner than they used to, according to venture capitalist Jenny Lee.
在西方，公司倾向于私有化时间稍长一些，但亚洲公司则倾向于更快速的时间表，李女士如是说，她是Granite Asia的高级管理合伙人，也是首位进入福布斯全球100大风险投资Midas榜前十的女性。
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.
“平均而言，公司从成立到上市的持有期为八到十年，” Lee在上周于新加坡举行的DBS亚洲未来前进会议期间接受采访时表示。“但目前，我们看到的后期阶段公司实际上正在四到五年龄时准备IPO。” 投资平台Granite Asia从种子轮一直到上市全程支持初创企业，涉及股权和信贷两方面。Lee表示，该公司在过去两年内已进行超过40笔股权投资。
"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." Investment platform Granite Asia works with startups from their first round through public listings, and in both equity and credit. Lee said the firm has made more than 40 equity investments in the last two years.
“在非常早期阶段......我们确实看到更多的融资活动，” Lee说。她补充称，处于投资后期阶段的公司正在实现生产力提升并更快实现盈利。
"At the very early stage ... we do see a lot more funding activity," Lee said. She added that companies in later stages of investment are seeing productivity gains and getting profitable faster.
Granite Asia正专注于包括人工智能在科学领域的应用和机器人技术等领域，Lee表示。该公司还对亚洲亚文化相关概念感兴趣，例如专门吸引印度用户的应用程序，或有助于创作日本内容的AI工具。
Granite Asia is concentrating on areas including artificial intelligence for science, and robotics, Lee said. It is also interested in concepts around Asian subcultures such as apps that would appeal in India specifically, or AI tools that help create Japanese content.
此外，“我们也在关注具有能源相关技术的公司，比如储能技术，以帮助解决能源问题，”她说。“亚洲许多国家进口能源需求占比巨大，随着这些国家走上采用更多可再生能源的道路，储能技术变得尤为重要。”
Also, "we are looking at companies that have energy-related technology, say in storage, to help with the energy issue," she said. "Many of the countries in Asia import a huge percentage of their energy needs, and so as the countries grow onto a path to adopt more renewables, it's then important to have storage technology."