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Building 1,000 SME companies in Malaysia to be Franchise Ready, IPO-Ready and Future Ready. MALAYSIA’S FIRST IPO-READY TRANSFORMATION PLATFORM

Empowering 1,000 Malaysian entrepreneurs to Formularise, Corporatise, Globalise their organisation. This is the ideal platform for all entrepreneurs, founders or CEOs who want to become IPO-ready, but do not know how.

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Most founders think the IPO journey is about the listing day.This Tuesday, the 10X Valley IPO-Ready Mastermind examines ...
25/05/2026

Most founders think the IPO journey is about the listing day.

This Tuesday, the 10X Valley IPO-Ready Mastermind examines what it is actually about.

Two speakers. Two perspectives that most founders only encounter after they needed them.

The first looks at what due diligence finds when it reaches inside a business. The tax structures, the documentation, the related-party arrangements, the compliance gaps that look manageable during growth and become significant once the public market is watching.

The second looks at what the journey actually feels like from the other side. A Group Managing Director of a publicly listed company, sharing the decisions, the transitions, and the discipline behind a business that made it across.

Ms. Dharshini Sharma, Senior Associate of RDS Advocates & Solicitors.

Datin Eloise, Group Managing Director of KHPT Holdings Bhd.

Two conversations we're excited to have.

Growth gets a business to the door.
Preparation is what gets it through.

One step closer to IPO-Ready. 💎

Many entrepreneurs dream about taking their company public.But few truly understand what happens between being a growing...
23/05/2026

Many entrepreneurs dream about taking their company public.

But few truly understand what happens between being a growing business
and becoming a listed company.

This Tuesday, we are honoured to have Datin Eloise, Group Managing Director of KHPT Holdings Bhd, joining us for a special Listed Co. CEO Dialogue session.

One thing makes this story especially meaningful:

KHPT did not begin as a giant listed corporation.

It began as an automotive parts manufacturer.
Building steadily, adapting through market changes, and growing through years of discipline, resilience, and strategic transformation.

Today, the company stands as a publicly listed organisation.

Behind every listed company,
there is always a journey most people never see.

The difficult decisions.
The pressure of scaling.
The transition from founder-driven operations to professional management.
The challenge of building systems, governance, and investor confidence.

Going public is not simply about achieving bigger revenue.
It is about transforming a business into a company the public market can trust.

Growth may build a business.
Structure, leadership, and consistency build longevity.

This session is more than a corporate success story.
It is an opportunity to understand the mindset, decisions, and transformation required to move from SME thinking into IPO-level thinking.

We look forward to hearing Datin Eloise's leadership journey and learning from the real experiences behind KHPT Holdings Bhd's transformation into a listed company.

At 10X Valley, we believe entrepreneurs must learn directly from leaders who have walked the path before them.

Exposure changes perspective.
Perspective changes how companies are built.

One step closer to IPO-Ready. 💎

Many founders work hard to grow their companies.But few realise:The bigger the company becomes,the more transparent it m...
23/05/2026

Many founders work hard to grow their companies.

But few realise:
The bigger the company becomes,
the more transparent it must be.

This Tuesday, Ms. Dharshini Sharma, Senior Associate of RDS Advocates & Solicitors, brings an important conversation many entrepreneurs overlook:

"The Tax Dimension of a Listing: Issues to Spot Before, During and After Going Public."

Many businesses look successful from the outside. Strong revenue, growing teams, expanding operations.

But when the IPO journey begins and due diligence opens,
small internal issues quickly become significant ones.

Things like:
•⁠ ⁠Unclear company structures
•⁠ ⁠Poor documentation
•⁠ ⁠Related-party transactions
•⁠ ⁠Tax compliance gaps

These may seem manageable during the growth stage.
But in the public market, they affect investor confidence, valuation, and trust.

That's when many founders realise:
Going public is not just about growing fast.
It is about building a company that can withstand scrutiny.

Growth attracts attention.
Structure builds confidence.

Most founders focus on sales, expansion, and opportunities.
But sustainable companies are built with discipline, governance, and long-term thinking.

Because public markets don't only evaluate profit.
They evaluate readiness.

We look forward to Ms. Dharshini Sharma's insights and for helping our community better understand the realities behind an IPO journey.

At 10X Valley, we believe entrepreneurs must go beyond business growth.
They must build companies that are structured, investable, and sustainable.

One step closer to IPO-Ready.

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." — Warren BuffettThis week, a Penang chip-design business priced its IPO ...
23/05/2026

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." — Warren Buffett

This week, a Penang chip-design business priced its IPO at 88 sen. The market opened it at RM3.50. Oversubscribed 95 times.

The market did not discover value on listing day. It recognized value that had been built years before the prospectus was filed. The price reflected what the preparation had already earned.

Most founders spend years managing the price. The founders who list well spend years building the value.

Which one has your next three years been organized around?

88 sen at IPO. RM3.50 at open. RM352 million raised. Oversubscribed 95 times.SkyeChip Berhad debuted on Bursa Malaysia's...
22/05/2026

88 sen at IPO. RM3.50 at open. RM352 million raised. Oversubscribed 95 times.

SkyeChip Berhad debuted on Bursa Malaysia's Main Market on Tuesday. A Penang chip-design business that opened at nearly four times its IPO price, with retail demand at 95 times the shares available.

The headline is the surge. The story is the readiness it took for the market to price the business this way. Years of building the financial architecture investors needed to see. Years of building the institutional brand that exists independently of any single founder. Years of building the corporate governance that makes a public company believable to the institutions backing it.

Main Market pricing on a chip-design business at this scale, with 95-times oversubscription, is what institutional preparation eventually pays out as. The capital was not the point. The credibility that came with it was.

What would it take for your business to be priced at the next market up from where it sits today?

The Minister has asked Bursa for larger IPOs.Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan has publicly called for m...
21/05/2026

The Minister has asked Bursa for larger IPOs.

Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan has publicly called for more large-cap listings in 2026, to deepen Main Market depth.

That is a policy moment. It is also a strategic question for every Malaysian SME founder reading it.

Main Market and ACE Market are not just two listing options. They are two different institutional standards. Two different sizes of company. Two different operating systems being run underneath.

Which Malaysian SMEs can credibly aim for Main Market scale, and which are quietly pricing themselves into ACE by the way they are being run?

Which market is your business preparing itself for?

If you stepped away for six months, what would investors find?
20/05/2026

If you stepped away for six months, what would investors find?

The board is not the only thing in the room.Governance, in practice, is the moment the founder is no longer the only per...
19/05/2026

The board is not the only thing in the room.

Governance, in practice, is the moment the founder is no longer the only person who can answer the hard question. The board on paper is easy. The board that functions when the founder is travelling is the work.

Three founder-facing realities sit underneath it.

An independent functioning board, where the directors arrive prepared and have authority to decline a proposal.

An audit committee that operates between meetings, not just inside them, with a real chair and a real cadence.

A succession plan readable in one sitting, that names people the institution would actually accept on the day it had to.

Which of those three is the part of your business that still depends on the founder to answer?

15/05/2026

A single wrong call inside a listing journey can stall a company for ten years. Most of those calls feel right at the time.

This is why we built the IPO-Ready Scorecard. Two hundred checkpoints across the disciplines an underwriter will examine, scored against a defined standard, with the evidence required to support each one. The output is a measured view of where the business actually stands today, and what closes the gap to listable.

Moving forward and feeling like you are moving forward are different things. Only one of them is measurable.

13/05/2026

Less than 0.1% of Malaysian businesses ever list on Bursa.

The math is the obstacle every founder sees. The frame is the obstacle most founders miss.

A founder who builds toward the IPO is preparing for a milestone. A founder who builds toward institutional readiness is preparing for what the company becomes the day after the milestone. The first is a date. The second is an architecture.

The architecture is what the business needs. The listing is what the architecture earns.

Which one are you building toward?

RM15M to RM111M, in three years.Then a Bursa ACE listing.That is the Verdant Solar arc, in three lines. The revenue lift...
12/05/2026

RM15M to RM111M, in three years.

Then a Bursa ACE listing.

That is the Verdant Solar arc, in three lines. The revenue lift is the part everyone reads first. It is also the easier story to tell.

The harder story is what the business became while the revenue was lifting. The structure that had to be built. The roles that had to be filled by people other than the founder. The reporting rhythm that had to start running on its own.

The gap between "we are growing" and "we are listable" is rarely about revenue. It is about whether the company looks the same on the inside as the founder describes it on the outside.

Where on that gap is your business sitting right now?

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