IFU is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark, that specializes in providing equity, mezzanine financing, loans, and guarantees to projects in developing countries. Established in 1967, IFU focuses on creating and financing new businesses, joint ventures between Danish companies and local partners, and acquiring existing ventures. The firm primarily invests in sectors such as commercial services, biofuels, renewable energy, and irrigation systems, with a particular emphasis on climate and agribusiness. Investments are targeted at countries with a low gross national income per capita, as defined by specific criteria, and include regions across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. IFU typically invests between DKK 0.5 million and DKK 100 million and often seeks co-investment opportunities with Danish firms. The firm also supports small and medium-sized enterprises and provides advisory services for business investments in developing markets. With a preference for board membership, IFU aims to exit investments within five to seven years, ensuring a positive return for its stakeholders.

Al Mada Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 and based in Casablanca, Morocco. It focuses on technology-oriented startups and seeks investments across fintech, healthtech, logistics, edtech, and renewable energy.

Admaius Capital Partners is an impact investing firm headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda, founded in 2021. The firm focuses on making investments in companies across several sectors, including digital infrastructure, financial services, fast-moving consumer goods, healthcare, and education, with an emphasis on opportunities within Africa. Admaius Capital Partners aims to generate positive social and economic outcomes through its investment strategies.

Villgro Africa is an accelerator, incubator, and impact investor focused on supporting healthcare and life sciences startups across Africa. Founded in 2015 and based in Nairobi, Kenya, the organization seeks to invest in and nurture companies operating in Africa's health sector. It provides incubation and tailored support to help early-stage ventures scale their ideas, navigate the African startup ecosystem, and accelerate impact.

Novastar Ventures is a Kenya-headquartered venture capital firm focused on early to growth capital for businesses that serve Africa’s mass market. Founded in 2014, it operates from Nairobi with additional offices in Lagos and London, and partners with entrepreneurs to develop innovative business models that improve outcomes in healthcare, education, agriculture, energy, housing and sanitation, financial services, information technology, and consumer products. The firm concentrates on bottom-of-the-pyramid markets across East and West Africa and beyond, emphasizing solutions that drive value for the many rather than the few. It positions itself as a venture catalyst rather than a traditional fund manager, providing hands-on support to entrepreneurs to bring ideas to life and scale impact. Typical investments range from about $0.25 million up to $8 million, and the firm pursues investments that combine commercial returns with ESG and social impact.

Moxxie Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The team comprises former operators and founders with backgrounds in engineering, product, and marketing who back founders building companies across climate, financial technology, health technology, enterprise software and consumer sectors. The firm focuses on seed and early-stage investments and supports diverse entrepreneurship, including investments in minority and women-owned enterprises.

Ecosystem Integrity Fund is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that finances early-stage companies advancing environmental sustainability. The firm seeks to demonstrate that sustainable practices can coexist with solid financial returns and targets investments in sectors including energy, transportation, clean tech, climate resilience, agriculture and food, water, and waste management, with emphasis on resource efficiency, biodiversity, and environmental remediation. It pursues impact investments aligned with ESG goals and often supports companies across North America, with later vintages expanding to Canada and Europe. Investments typically occur at the early growth stage, with capital deployed to help portfolio companies scale solutions that reduce environmental impacts and strengthen ecosystem integrity.

TSVC is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 and based in Los Altos, California. It specializes in early-stage investments in deep technology startups across the United States, focusing on software as a service, artificial intelligence, fintech, biotechnology, blockchain, and semiconductors. TSVC operates as a seed and early-stage investor with a track record of backing a broad portfolio of startups and notable exits, including Zoom, and has supported companies in data economy and healthtech among others. The firm is described as a pioneer in Silicon Valley seed investing, partnering with founders to provide technical guidance and capital to turn ambitious ideas into practical, scalable solutions.

Trucks Venture Capital is a California‑based early‑stage venture capital firm focused on the transportation sector and related technologies. Based in San Francisco, the firm backs startups advancing the future of mobility, including autonomous, connected and shared vehicle solutions.

AlphaMundi is a Swiss-based impact investing company that provides debt and equity financing to profitable, scalable ventures across sectors such as fintech, rural microfinance, smallholder agriculture, renewable energy access, and affordable housing and education for low-income communities. It is exclusively dedicated to impact investing, seeking financial returns together with measurable social and environmental benefits. The firm supports development-focused ventures through dedicated investment programs and co-investments, aiming to broaden the integration of impact considerations into traditional investment portfolios. AlphaMundi also engages in education, publications, and industry initiatives to advance the field of impact investing and to promote sustainable development within financial markets.

Investisseurs & Partenaires is an impact investment firm focused on African small and medium enterprises. Founded in 2002, it provides capital, technical and strategic support to portfolio companies to foster growth, job creation, and local value, while pursuing social, environmental and governance impact. The organization supports a network of pan-African funds and sponsors several Africa-facing impact funds, including initiatives in electricity access, with a team of about 30–40 professionals based in Europe and Africa. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships and hands-on assistance to help entrepreneurs strengthen strategy, governance and operations across sectors such as health, transport and microfinance.

Beyond Capital Fund is an impact investment organization based in New York, established in 2009. It makes for-profit, early-stage investments in startups in East Africa and India, targeting health care access, sanitation, clean energy, agriculture and food security, and financial inclusion to improve the lives of people in low-income communities. The fund seeks market-rate returns but is structured as a nonprofit, which allows it to emphasize its social mission alongside its financial mandate.

Polychain Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2016, that invests in blockchain technologies, protocols, and companies to advance global adoption of cryptocurrencies. The firm supports the development of the blockchain ecosystem and provides capital to projects across the space. It operates as a registered investment adviser (RIA).

SBI Investment is the corporate venture capital arm of SBI Holdings, based in Tokyo, Japan. It specializes in venture capital and growth capital investments, supporting the development and growth of private companies through fund investments and management of venture funds. The firm targets technology-driven sectors including information technology, artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, security, e-commerce, biotechnology and healthcare, life sciences, environmental energy, and related areas, with selective cross-border opportunities in China and Southeast Asia. Since its founding in 1996, it has invested in hundreds of companies, and many investments have exited through IPOs or mergers and acquisitions. The firm seeks long-term value creation by partnering with entrepreneurs at various stages and by providing strategic and financial support to scale operations.

Incofin Investment Management is an impact investment manager focused on financial inclusion in developing countries. The firm manages funds that invest in microfinance institutions and aims to reach rural populations and smallholder farmers by providing access to credit, savings and insurance through MFIs and related financial services. It also invests in rural and agricultural SMEs, cooperatives and intermediaries servicing the agricultural value chain, using debt, guarantees and equity to support growth. Headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, with offices in Bogota, Chennai, Nairobi, Luxembourg and Phnom Penh, it seeks to deploy capital in regions including Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe, prioritizing rural and underserved markets. The firm partners with MFIs and other funds, sometimes taking board seats, to promote financial inclusion while maintaining a focus on sustainable development.

Liil Ventures is a Mexico City-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that invests in early-stage companies active in smart mobility, smart city initiatives, and the internet of things. It supports portfolio ventures beyond capital by providing strategic guidance and transportation intelligence to help startups grow faster and broaden their reach. The firm focuses on teams and ideas aimed at shaping the future of urban life, offering expertise that complements funding to accelerate development and deployment of innovative mobility and city-tech solutions.

GAIA Impact Fund is a venture capital firm that specializes in renewable energy and builds long-term partnerships with startups operating in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. It emphasizes environmental and social impact and backs businesses that enable sustainable and affordable energy provision to local communities. In regions with carbon-intensive energy mixes, the firm supports technological innovations and viable business models that enable cost-efficient, large-scale diffusion of renewable energy.

Third Prime is a New York-based venture capital firm, founded in 2016, focused on seed and early-stage investments in technology-enabled companies across sectors such as business services, financial services, IT services, software, healthcare, consumer products and services, and real estate services. It operates from a New York headquarters with an additional office in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and pursues opportunities in the United States and Canada, supporting startups with growth-stage capital and strategic guidance.

Castle Island Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Boston that focuses on public blockchains, their infrastructure, and related applications. The firm backs companies creating infrastructure and application solutions to enable blockchain protocols to power scalable services for a broad user base.

Intercept Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm focused on investing in growth-stage technology companies in the United States, with emphasis on fintech, mobility, cloud technology, data, and cybersecurity sectors.

ValueStream Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm and accelerator founded in 2013. It focuses on early-stage investments in B2B platforms underpinned by high-value data, including B2B software, data analytics, enterprise data, SaaS, and fintech. The firm typically supports seed to early growth rounds, including Series A, pursuing opportunities where revenue and product/market fit exist but scale is still unfolding. Its thesis-driven approach combines disciplined deal sourcing with hands-on involvement, offering business development support and platform strategies powered by core data assets to accelerate growth. With a track record since 2013, the team emphasizes building defensible, data-centric products and scalable infrastructure, while helping portfolio companies access growth financing and strategic partnerships.

Uncovered Fund is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Tokyo, Japan. It targets early-stage startups and concentrates its investments in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, spanning sectors such as retail, fintech, health tech, logistics, mobility as a service, agritech, and smart city initiatives.

Launch Africa Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Ebene, Mauritius, founded in 2020. It invests in early-stage technology and platform-enabled businesses across Africa, with a focus on fintech, healthtech, climate tech, agritech, edtech, transportation, logistics, mobility, e-commerce, software as a service, artificial intelligence, big data, and analytics, spanning both business-to-business and business-to-consumer models.

AHL Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that provides growth capital through minority equity, quasi-equity, and debt investments in African companies. It focuses on energy access, financial inclusion, agriculture, climate, and food sectors, with activity across Eastern and Southern Africa and offices in Vancouver, Nairobi, Lusaka, and Accra. The firm emphasizes rapid decision making and ongoing business support, with locally grounded teams to assist portfolio companies as they scale.

Ground Squirrel Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 that focuses on early-stage opportunities addressing climate change. The firm prioritizes frontier-market investments and clean energy initiatives, seeking to fund companies that advance climate mitigation and sustainable development. Its activity spans regions including Africa, with additional investments in Haiti, Asia, and Latin America, reflecting a global approach to deploying capital where climate-related challenges and growth potential intersect. Ground Squirrel aims to support seed-stage ventures that can scale impact in frontier markets and contribute to energy transition and environmental sustainability.

Swedfund is a government development finance institution based in Stockholm, with an office in Nairobi, established in 1979. It mobilizes capital and expertise for investments in private markets across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, including direct investments and fund of funds activities. It finances a range of instruments, from equity to loans and other debt-like structures, and supports knowledge transfer and equipment upgrades, including depreciation loans to Swedish small and medium-sized enterprises. It pursues minority investments, typically in the range of 5 to 100 million SEK, with board seats and participation in investment committees, and aims for exits in five to ten years. It operates as a bilateral development financier within the European Development Finance Institutions network.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995, that focuses on seed to growth investments in deep technology across health, environmental tech, hardware, robotics, and cross border software, with a particular emphasis on Asia. The company runs accelerator style startup development programs, including HAX and IndieBio, which provide facilities, engineering resources, and lab equipment to help founders accelerate product development, acquire customers, and attract later stage funding. SOSV pursues a limited number of high potential startups, offering extensive hands on support to speed commercialization and scale, and aims to back innovations that improve human and planetary health.

Siparex Group is a Lyon, France based private equity firm founded in 1977 that engages in multi-sector investments across software, commercial products, business services, manufacturing, e-commerce, life sciences, educational technology, robotics and drones, fintech and healthcare services, targeting transactions in France and Western Europe as well as the United States; the firm has grown into an independent, international investor over more than three decades, leveraging its regional roots and diverse sector focus to support growth and operational improvement in portfolio companies.

VestedWorld is a Chicago-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in agribusinesses, consumer products and services, and technology-enabled businesses across Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2014, the firm targets emerging-market companies and supports them with capital, active involvement in governance, and strategic and operational assistance to foster growth and development in the markets it serves.

Founded in 2009, Block is a technology company specializing in financial services. It offers payment services to merchants and operates Cash App, a person-to-person payment network.

Future Africa is a Lagos, Nigeria-based venture capital firm and collective of mission-driven founders and funders dedicated to supporting Africa’s startups. The organization invests across a broad range of sectors including technology, software, data and artificial intelligence, agriculture and environment, e-commerce and consumer goods, education, finance and blockchain, health and wellness, mobility and logistics, media and entertainment, real estate, food and hospitality, and infrastructure. It seeks to build unicorns and advance purpose-driven prosperity across the continent, aiming to solve Africa’s biggest challenges by backing innovative ventures with strong growth potential. Through its network and capital, Future Africa supports entrepreneurs at various stages, fostering scalable businesses that can contribute to economic development and job creation.

Costanoa Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Greg Sands. It focuses on early-stage technology companies, investing primarily in seed and Series A rounds across B2B sectors, including enterprise software, data and analytics, developer infrastructure, fintech, cybersecurity, and national security. The firm positions itself as a long-term partner to entrepreneurs, helping portfolio companies with go-to-market strategy, product-market fit, and growth. It supports startups aiming to build durable, data-driven businesses and strives to back companies that transform how enterprises operate.

CIBC is a Canadian multinational bank offering a full range of financial services to individuals, small businesses, corporations, and institutions. Its activities span commercial banking, wealth management, asset management, and investment banking, including corporate and investment banking, equity and debt financing, advisory services, and cross-border banking. The organization operates through divisions such as CIBC Bank (providing retail and commercial banking), CIBC Bank USA (Americas-based commercial banking), CIBC World Markets and CIBC Capital Markets (investment banking and capital markets), and asset management units including CIBC Asset Management and CIBC Global Asset Management. CIBC serves clients across North America with offices in Toronto, Chicago and other international locations, and focuses on serving mid-market companies, high net worth individuals, pension plans, and financial institutions. The bank emphasizes long-standing client relationships, community investment, and a broad geographic footprint in Canada and the United States.

Lattice Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that invests in early-stage cryptocurrency and web3 sectors.

Maven 11 Capital is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2015. The firm concentrates on blockchain and distributed ledger technology, including cryptocurrency and digital assets, and invests in ventures that utilize these technologies.

Seedstars is a Geneva-based venture capital and accelerator firm focused on emerging and frontier markets. It funds and accelerates high-growth technology ventures at the pre-seed and seed stages and operates programs to support entrepreneurship across regions including Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. The firm targets sectors such as financial services, healthcare, education, energy, information technology, and other technology-enabled solutions, and it runs initiatives and events to help startups scale, create impact, and access global networks.

Climate Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 that backs companies spanning adaptation, alternative proteins, agriculture, carbon-related initiatives, energy, web3, transportation, and real estate, with a focus on supporting enterprises that directly or indirectly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Winklevoss Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York with an additional office in Wilmington, Delaware, that makes early-stage investments in technology companies. The firm focuses on software, financial technology and other tech-enabled sectors such as retail and commercial services, adopting a selective portfolio approach and providing a full-service effort to help portfolio companies scale. Founded in 2012, the firm emphasizes cloud computing and financial technology as core areas of interest.

Hutt Capital is a venture capital firm based in Portland, Oregon, focused on blockchain and cryptocurrency investments. Founded in 2018, the firm pursues a long-term, diversified approach and collaborates with other blockchain venture capital partners to back innovative ventures across the sector. The firm emphasizes token-agnostic exposure and seeks to offer institutional investors access with lower risk and volatility than more concentrated crypto strategies, while supporting disruptive developments in financial services, social platforms and technology enabled by blockchain.

Blockchain Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, specializing in blockchain and crypto-enabled technologies. The firm backs entrepreneurs across multiple stages, providing capital as well as domain expertise, partnerships, recruiting, and strategic guidance to help build blockchain-focused companies. It pursues investments in both equity and tokens and has financed more than 170 companies and projects since its inception. The firm emphasizes its focus on the Bitcoin and broader blockchain economy, and has positioned itself as one of the first dedicated VC funds to support blockchain ecosystems, including accepting capital calls in Bitcoin. With a global outlook, Blockchain Capital backs companies across the crypto and blockchain technology sectors while offering venture-building services to help portfolio companies grow and scale.

Polaris Partners is a Boston-based venture capital firm with offices in Boston and San Francisco that backs technology and life sciences companies across the United States and Europe. Founded in 1996, the firm partners with repeat entrepreneurs to support companies through multiple stages, from inception to growth, with a focus on software, healthcare information technology, digital health, life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, genomics, and related sectors. Its investments span the business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets, software as a service, and other technology-enabled solutions, aiming to build durable platform companies and address significant needs in healthcare and technology.

Founded in 2020, Five35 Ventures is a South Africa-based venture capital firm dedicated to investing in early-stage African technology startups with a focus on female-led businesses.

Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm founded in 2010 and based in Cape Town, South Africa, with an office in London. It accelerates the international expansion of African innovation-driven businesses that have achieved product-market fit by leveraging knowledge, networks, and capital. The firm targets investments across software, fintech, health tech, healthcare, financial services, commercial services, and information technology, aiming for approximately 10 to 12 investments. Knife Capital partners with funding networks and family offices to support portfolio companies. It has facilitated exits of local technology businesses to global buyers such as General Electric, Visa, Garmin, and Uber.

Factor[e] Ventures is an impact venture builder and investment firm that supports early-stage companies in mobility, agriculture, energy and water. Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, it operates across emerging and frontier markets with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, backing market-driven solutions that advance sustainable development. The organization connects philanthropic and commercial investors pursuing decarbonized growth, aiming to turn disruptive ideas into scalable businesses addressing energy, agriculture, mobility and waste challenges in fast-growing regions.

Janngo is a startup studio and investment company focused on Africa, headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, with an additional office in Paris. Founded in 2018, it builds and funds ventures that leverage technology to deliver essential services to African consumers, accelerate growth of African SMEs, and create jobs, with emphasis on women and youth. It engages in seed through growth capital and seeks opportunities in sectors such as fashion, agriculture, media, education, finance, technology, and healthcare within the African digital ecosystem.

Story Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that backs early-stage technology companies. The firm focuses on investments in sectors including sensory systems, data infrastructure, and intelligent software, supporting entrepreneurs who leverage technology and data to transform how people interact with the world.

Oxford Capital Partners is a United Kingdom based venture capital firm established in 1999 that concentrates on early-stage technology companies. It operates in Oxford and London and seeks to back a diversified portfolio of high-potential technology and technology-enabled start-up businesses across mobility, fintech, insurtech, retail, digital marketplaces, digital health, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Breyer Capital is a global venture capital and private equity investor founded by Jim Breyer in 2006. The firm pursues long-term, idea-driven strategic investments across core technology sectors, including social media, entertainment and media, digital health, and financial technologies, with broader interest in quantum, artificial intelligence, health tech, consumer software, media and gaming, enterprise data, security, and climate-related opportunities. It partners with early-stage startups, fast-growing companies, and established corporations to catalyze high-impact entrepreneurship in the United States and China and beyond. The team draws on a network of investors and founder/operator insights to frame investments and believes advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality will transform technology and investment opportunities globally.

Canaan Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1987 that operates globally with offices in Israel and India. It focuses on early-stage investments in technology and healthcare, including software, fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, digital health, biopharma, and medtech, and it has a history of backing startups that achieve exits.

Slow Ventures is a generalist early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco with additional presence in Boston and New York. Founded in 2011, it invests in technology‑driven startups and ventures at the intersection of science, society, and culture, supporting companies across sectors such as software, fintech, cryptocurrency, e-commerce, mobile, consumer and commercial services, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. The firm emphasizes helping founders through capital, resources, and industry connections to build sustainable, scalable businesses. It operates as a registered investment adviser.