Investors in Family

We’re (not just) investors. We’re (more than) advisors. We’re (beyond) connectors. Ben Franklin Technology Partners combines the best practices of early stage investing with a higher purpose – to lead the region’s technology community to new heights, creating jobs and transforming lives. For over 30 years, Ben has been the leading seed stage capital provider for the region’s technology sectors, investing over $170 million in more than 1,750 regional technology companies, many of which have gone on to become industry leaders. Ben Franklin has also launched university/industry partnerships that accelerate scientific discoveries to commercialization, and has seeded regional initiatives that strengthen our entrepreneurial community.

Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments to enterprise cloud and smart data companies. The seed-stage venture firm focused primarily on enterprise IT, Ulu focuses on the market opportunity created by the Stanford and Silicon Valley communities. It seeks to generate financial results using a disciplined, repeatable decision-making process that analyzes risk-reward trade-offs. Ulu also follows the logical principles of portfolio construction. This approach makes the firm conventional in the world of institutional investors but contrarian as compared to other VCs. In 2018, Clint Korver and Miriam Rivera established the firm in Palo Alto, California.

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Founded in 2015, Panda Capital is a venture capital firm founded in China in 2015 by four partners Wen, Liang Weihong, Li Xinyi and Mao Shengbo. The firm is focused on venture investments in technology facing companies across China.

For more than 85 years, American Family Insurance has built its reputation on sound principles. We strive to provide you industry-leading service, exceptional claims experience and products that build long-term relationships. This is accomplished by treating policyholders fairly in a helpful and caring way and making it easy and convenient to work with us. We know our customers like family. American Family Insurance thrives by conducting its business in accordance with the highest ethical standards and the law at all times. Integrity is part of our culture and always has been. The reputation we enjoy and trust-based relationships we have built with our customers are determined by the example set by management and the character and good judgment exercised at all levels of our organization. It’s a way of doing business that our customers have come to expect from us and a standard that we continue to live up to.

Founded in 2012, Dao Family Office provides legal, HR, analytical, financial and project management support to institutions and families based in Lithuania.

Fontis Family Office GmbH is a family office based in Germany. The firm specialises in the area of asset structuring, asset controlling and inheritance tax planning.

The Groupe Chevrillon is a family ownership company with that invests in industrial and service companies, new or existing, with the aim of turning them into national, regional or European leaders. Cyrille Chevrillon, who created the group in 1992, pursued a part of his career in New York and London in large U.S. financial institutions such as JP Morgan and Salomon Brothers. The Groupe Chevrillon is equally owned by the Chevrillon family and the Besançon-Trébouta family – founder of Laboratoires Delagrange now incorporated into the Sanofi group, of which the family is a shareholder.

The Techstars Dubai Accelerator in partnership with GINCO is expanding Techstars’ presence in the Middle East. GINCO is a full service general contracting firm, covering the full lifecycle of the construction process from concept to execution and supervision. Dubai is known for their leadership in technology innovation. Pioneering entrepreneurs leading innovative companies solving challenges in transportation, construction, wellness, IoT, robotics, & beyond should apply, no matter your location.

Mindset Ventures is venture capital firm specializing in seed, startups and early stage investments in Fintech. The firm is sector Agnostic. The firm primarily invests in The firm typically invests in B2B SaaS, startups with strong technology applied to Agriculture, fintech, financial technology, AgTech, healthcare, education, and cyber security companies based in Brazil, United States, and Israel, Latin America and in companies that are interested in having relevant access to the Latin America market, particularly Brazil. The firm does not invests in PowerPoint companies. It is primarily focused on companies accelerated by Microsoft Accelerator that have potential to expand to the Brazilian market. The fund seeks to invest between USD200,000 and USD1 million per company. Mindset Ventures is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Mountain View, California, São Paulo, Brazil and Tel Aviv, Israel.