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.

Pix Vine Capital is a Singapore-based venture capital firm that concentrates on early-stage investments in information technology, MedTech, and fintech, with additional focus on eco-tech. The firm typically funds seed and follow-on rounds, with initial checks around USD 250,000 to 500,000 and supports rounds up to USD 1 million. It backs startups across Israel, India, Singapore, China, and Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Thailand. Its portfolio includes Calore, MoolahSense, WSC, ZAPR, and playbuzz. Pix Vine Capital emphasizes collaborative partnerships with other investors, incubators, accelerators, tertiary institutions, and research laboratories through co-investment and cross-pollination of ideas to help startups grow. Founded in 2007, it aims to bridge startup ecosystems worldwide by funding and guiding high-caliber teams.

Grab operates a mobile technology platform in Southeast Asia that integrates city transportation for driver-partners and customers, offering ride-hailing services and related mobility options, as well as food and grocery delivery, while also providing financial services such as payments, a mobile wallet, lending, and insurance and supporting merchants with a point-of-sale system. The platform serves customers in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar, with key markets contributing a substantial share of revenue. Founded in 2012 by Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Ling, Grab is headquartered in Singapore. It holds a leading market position in ride-hailing and delivery in the region and competes with Line Man and Goto.

The Osiris Group is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Hong Kong, focusing on growth equity and infrastructure investments in frontier markets across Emerging Asia. The firm engages in seed and incubation investments, primarily targeting sectors such as climate security, food and agriculture security, data security, healthcare, and financial inclusion. Its investment activities are concentrated in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka, with the goal of fostering transformative impact in these regions.

Fullerton Financial Holdings is a Singapore-based private equity investment company focused on financial services for the mass market and small- and medium-sized enterprises in Asia. It invests in and operates financial institutions across emerging markets, with nine entities in eight countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Dubai, Pakistan, China, India, Cambodia, and Myanmar. The group employs more than 80,000 people and serves over seven million customers. It operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, the Singapore-based investment company.

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors and venture capital firms that supports technology and healthcare startups across the United States, China, Israel, India and Southeast Asia. It partners with entrepreneurs by offering hands-on operating experience and broad access to capital, talent, partners and customers to help build global businesses. The firm focuses on early to growth-stage investments in software infrastructure, developer tools, data, security, vertical SaaS, enterprise software and healthcare technologies, drawing on a wide international footprint that includes the US, Israel, Singapore and China. Vertex Ventures emphasizes active portfolio involvement and leverages the broader Vertex network to create value for portfolio companies through strategic guidance and partnerships.

Third Point Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Third Point, a New York-based investment adviser. Founded in 2000, it engages in early-stage and growth equity investments and cross-over opportunities across technology sectors such as consumer, data and analytics, AI, software, cybersecurity, fintech, IT infrastructure, gaming and metaverse, mobility, and healthcare technology. The firm focuses on supporting portfolio companies from inception through scale and is led by veteran private equity and technology executive Robert Schwartz. It is affiliated with Third Point and forms part of its broader investment platform.

Struck Capital is a Santa Monica, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that emphasizes a founder-first approach to seed investing. It sources opportunities through a broad network and backs technology startups across sectors including software, fintech, agtech, cryptocurrency, SaaS, and TMT, aiming to support entrepreneurs from early traction toward growth.

GAWA Capital is an impact investment firm based in Madrid that supports social enterprises in underserved and low-income markets by providing debt and equity capital, with the aim of achieving financial returns for investors and measurable social development.

Softbank China & India Holdings is the venture capital arm of SoftBank that pursues early-stage and select pre-IPO investments in technology-enabled sectors across China, India, and Southeast Asia. The firm focuses on internet, software, telecom value-added services, media and entertainment, consumer-oriented services, healthcare, and financial services, seeking opportunities in companies that leverage technology. With headquarters in Hong Kong and additional offices in Shanghai and Mumbai, it targets regional growth by backing startups throughout the region.

Pegasus Tech Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that backs emerging technology companies worldwide. The firm employs a multidisciplinary team of over 100 professionals with offices in seven countries, providing capital and strategic guidance to startups. It targets opportunities across information technology, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, robotics, fintech, health IT, and related areas, as well as consumer electronics, automotive, enterprise software, gaming, hardware, and other technology sectors. Pegasus Tech Ventures supports entrepreneurs aiming to scale internationally, leveraging its global reach to assist expansion into North America, Asia, and Europe, backed by deep domain expertise and a broad network to accelerate growth and innovation.

Orbit Ventures is an emerging markets venture capital firm that invests in technology companies aiming to digitize traditional industries and improve living standards in a sustainable way. The firm supports portfolio companies through a comprehensive, long-term program that includes partnerships, business development, fundraising and growth assistance, along with initial investment and subsequent follow-on funding. Its investment focus spans digitalization across e-commerce, fintech, media, healthcare, education, and logistics.

TRIREC is a Singapore-based investment company focused on decarbonization, renewable energy, and clean technology. Founded in 2015, it pursues investments across sectors including food, agriculture, mobility, buildings, industries, and energy to advance sustainable and low-carbon solutions.

Cocoon Capital is a Singapore-based venture capital firm established in 2016 that backs early-stage enterprise technology companies across Southeast Asia. The firm focuses on B2B software, deep tech, healthcare, and financial services, with activity in Singapore and India, and supports portfolio companies through to the Series A stage by combining capital with hands-on guidance.

VNV Global is a Stockholm, Sweden–based investment company focusing on growth capital, venture investments, and select buyouts in unlisted online marketplaces, as well as consumer-focused and business-to-business companies. It targets ventures with strong network effects and potential for value creation, investing across incubation, seed and startup phases through late-stage venture and growth opportunities. The firm seeks significant minority or majority stakes and actively manages its portfolio through board representation, pursuing global opportunities (excluding China).

GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that, as of March 2024, operates as two separate brands: Granite Asia, based in Singapore, which invests across the Asia-Pacific region including Southeast Asia, Japan, China, India, and Australia; and Notable Capital, based in Silicon Valley with offices in San Francisco and New York, which invests in the United States, Israel, Europe, and Latin America. Founded in 2000, the firm has a long track record of providing expansion and early-stage capital to technology companies in the United States and China, and it supports portfolio companies across software, IT, cloud, and related technology sectors.

Alium Capital Management is a principal investment firm based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2016, specializing in technology investments across private, secondary and public markets in Australia, and employing a multi-strategy approach to pursue mid-market opportunities.

Finvolve is a venture capital investment firm based in Gurugram, India, founded in 2022 as a joint venture between India Accelerator and Finolutions. The firm seeks to invest in the business-to-business sector, operating as a bridge between traditional wealth management and the startup ecosystem.

BEENEXT is a Singapore-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that backs early-stage technology startups. It focuses on seed and Series A rounds across the United States, Southeast Asia, Japan and India, with emphasis on information technology, enterprise software as a service, fintech and other tech-enabled sectors. The firm supports founders with operating experience, network and capital, and aims to build a platform of founders by founders for founders worldwide. Since inception, BEENEXT has invested in hundreds of companies globally, spanning domains such as AI, analytics, agritech, cloud infrastructure, cloud kitchen, e-commerce, edtech, health tech, insurtech, mobility and proptech.

K3 Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm that invests in technology startups in Southeast Asia. Founded in 2015, it focuses on ambitious founders and aims to accelerate growth by connecting startups with incumbent businesses through a bamboo network, enabling strategic pilots and broader adoption of innovative solutions, and by fostering collaboration that helps create new market leaders in Southeast Asia's digital economy.

Arbor Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm that backs technology-driven financial services and related sectors across Asia and beyond. Founded in 2013, the firm focuses on fintech, payments, big data, cyber security, regtech, capital markets, blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, insurance, marketplaces and digital commerce, seeking to accelerate growth through sector expertise and a broad strategic network. Arbor emphasizes a global perspective, leveraging its relationships to recruit world-class board members, investors and strategic partners to support portfolio companies as they scale. The firm invests in technology-enabled financial services and platforms that broaden access, improve efficiency and transform how financial services are served and consumed.

Flourish Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage global venture capital firm that backs fintech-enabled entrepreneurs focused on financial health and prosperity for individuals and small businesses. The firm pursues patient, long-term investments and manages around $850 million. It backs founders across the United States and global markets, including Asia, Africa and Latin America, and concentrates on sectors such as big data analytics, challenger banks, consumer and SME lending, digitizing money, fintech, insurtech, regtech and financial infrastructure. Since its founding in 2019, Flourish maintains partnerships with more than 70 global fintech founders and 18 ecosystem partners, including researchers, policymakers and regulators, to foster a fairer, more inclusive economy.

Giant Leap is a venture capital investment firm based in Richmond, Australia. The firm pursues impact-oriented investments across sectors such as cleantech, waste reduction, water, sustainable agriculture, healthcare and wellness, medtech, education, social equity, and diversity and inclusion. Founded in 2016, Giant Leap aims to back founders who reimagine industries and use business as a force for social and environmental benefits. In 2021, the firm spun out from IIG into an independent entity focused on impact venture capital, extending its commitment to supporting scalable ventures that deliver measurable returns alongside positive outcomes. Giant Leap emphasizes blending financial performance with social value and collaborates with entrepreneurs to drive systemic change through innovative solutions.

STIC Investments is a Seoul-based private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1999 that operates across Asia. The firm focuses on mid-market companies in sectors including industrials, business services, information and communication technology, healthcare, biology, consumer and technology-enabled industries, with activity in South Korea and the wider Asia Pacific region. It pursues growth capital, buyouts, restructurings and turnarounds, and also engages in secondary investments and cross-border transactions. STIC prefers non-leveraged management buyouts in sectors aligned with Korean policy objectives, and it targets investments in late-stage mid-market companies with capital needs ranging from tens to hundreds of millions of dollars depending on strategy. The company maintains offices in Asia and North America and seeks exits through initial public offerings or trade sales to support growth and prosperity in Asian economies through its investments.

Perle Ventures is a Sydney-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 that invests in technology companies, including venture and growth-stage businesses, and supports entrepreneurs with innovative ideas.

MUFG Innovation Partners is the corporate venture capital arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, based in Tokyo, Japan. Established in 2019, it invests in early to growth stage startups across lending, payments, wealth and asset management, capital markets, banking software, vertical software, sustainability, and discovery sectors, aiming to accelerate open innovation and strengthen partnerships with fintech startups.

Founded in 2016, KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm based in San Diego, California. It focuses on investments in emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, internet of things, robotics, and aerospace.

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman. It allocates capital across public and private markets worldwide, with a focus on technology-enabled growth opportunities. The firm pursues public equity strategies, including long/short and growth investments, and private equity across early- to late-stage companies in multiple industries, seeking high-quality growth opportunities and guiding portfolio companies through their lifecycle.

Vulcan Capital is the private equity and venture capital arm of Vulcan, a global technology and investment organization founded by Paul G. Allen. It engages in investments across all stages of corporate development, including leveraged buyouts, growth and early-stage ventures, distressed/turnaround opportunities, and select public market strategies. The firm targets sectors such as healthcare, software, media and entertainment, Internet services, mobile, telecommunications, energy, data intelligence, and infrastructure, with a global reach focused on the United States, Europe, and Asia. Typical deal sizes range from about $10 million to $100 million, and investments can be held for up to a decade. Vulcan Capital is headquartered in Seattle, with an additional office in Palo Alto.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Israel. The firm backs early and growth stage start-ups across sectors such as enterprise software, consumer technology, fintech, healthtech, cleantech, and information technology, and pursues opportunities in the United States, Asia, and Israel. It funds a broad range of rounds, including seed, early, later, and expansion, and also provides debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed focuses on helping entrepreneurs scale through capital, strategic guidance, and operational support, and maintains a diversified portfolio across enterprise, consumer, big data, mobile, and internet-enabled sectors.

Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru that backs early-stage technology companies in the United States and India. The firm partners with founders from inception through seed and Series A, taking an active, hands-on approach to product development and growth. Its investment focus spans enterprise software, consumer products and services, fintech and payments, e-commerce, big data, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and machine learning, SaaS, and related technology sectors. Nexus supports companies as they scale, leveraging a global footprint and operators' experience from its team of ex-entrepreneurs to provide practical guidance and operating insight. It maintains substantial capital to support product-led businesses with international potential.

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India is the corporate venture capital arm of Vertex Holdings, based in Singapore. The firm focuses on early-stage and growth startups across Southeast Asia and India, with emphasis on technology sectors such as mobile internet, enterprise technology, fintech, consumer internet, consumer mobile, and healthcare. It pursues Series A and Series B rounds and co-investments, typically investing around US$2-5 million, with potential up to US$10-12 million per portfolio. The firm collaborates with a global network of venture funds in the United States, China, and Israel under Vertex Holdings to combine local market knowledge with a broader perspective. It operates from Singapore with additional offices in Bengaluru, India; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Taiwan, reflecting a regional focus and international reach.

Yamaguchi Capital serves as the corporate venture arm of Yamaguchi Financial Group. Established in 1996 and based in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, it pursues investments in Japan-based early-stage companies across sectors including consumer, healthcare, information technology, LOHAS, and wellness.

Mubadala Investment Company is a sovereign wealth fund owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi that manages a diversified, global portfolio across industries including technology, aerospace, energy, real estate, healthcare, agribusiness, and financial assets. Created in 2017 from the merger of Abu Dhabi investment entities, it pursues long-term value and economic growth for Abu Dhabi by investing domestically and internationally. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the company operates with a worldwide presence, maintaining offices in major markets such as Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, New York, and San Francisco, and a joint venture in Hong Kong. It focuses on strategic, value-driven investments spanning multiple sectors and asset classes to support diversification of the emirate’s economy and generate sustainable returns over time.

responsAbility Investments is a leading impact asset manager based in Zurich, Switzerland. It manages about USD 3 to 3.5 billion in assets invested in around 450 ESG-managed high-impact companies across 90 emerging economies. Since its inception in 2003, responsAbility has directed more than USD 10 billion into private debt and private equity in financial inclusion, sustainable food and climate finance sectors whose business models directly support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The firm operates globally with offices in Bangkok, Lima, Mumbai, Nairobi, Oslo, Paris and Tbilisi, and is owned by Swiss and international financial institutions, private investors and its employees. It is registered with the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority.

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.

Notable Capital is a U.S. venture capital firm that invests in early‑to‑growth stage companies in cloud infrastructure and business and consumer applications across the United States, Israel, Europe, Latin America, and select global opportunities. The firm partners with founders who pursue innovative ideas and champion causes, building remarkable companies. Its portfolio includes companies such as Airbnb, Block, HashiCorp, Slack, and Zendesk, among others.

Signite Partners is the corporate venture capital arm of Shinsegae Group, based in Seoul, South Korea. It targets investments in companies across B2B software, SaaS, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, data analytics, healthcare, education, retail, and entertainment.

BRI Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Bank BRI, headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. The firm concentrates on growth and late-stage investments, primarily in fintech, with additional focus on retail, education, and healthcare. Backed by Bank BRI’s extensive financial sector network and expertise, BRI Ventures supports entrepreneurs to accelerate Indonesia’s financial inclusion and digital economy, aiming to become a leading regional venture capital player in financial technology.

Mayfield Fund is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 1969. It concentrates on early-stage technology companies across enterprise software, information technology, consumer tech, semiconductors, and health tech fields, including human and planetary health. The firm partners with founders from inception to help build iconic companies, drawing on extensive operational experience and a broad network. Mayfield has backed hundreds of companies, resulting in numerous IPOs and mergers and acquisitions, and maintains a global investment footprint with a focus on scalable technology businesses.

Creation Investments Capital Management is a private equity and impact investment firm focused on financial services in emerging markets. Founded in 2007 and based in Chicago, it has offices in Dallas, Mexico City, and Bangalore. The firm makes growth equity, private equity, and private credit investments in microfinance institutions, SME lenders, emerging-market banks, and BOP financial service providers, as well as related areas such as leasing, factoring, insurance, payments, and mobile money. Its investment approach seeks to build diversified portfolios that deliver financial returns while expanding access to finance for the unbanked and underbanked in the developing world. The firm pursues opportunities across venture to mature stage companies, often taking majority stakes, and targets a broad set of financial services and social ventures, including fintech, housing, healthcare, agriculture, renewable energy, and technology-enabled services, across regions including North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and Central and Eastern Europe.

Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation is an economic development agency and investment organization based in Helsinki, Finland, established in 1980. It finances private sector projects in developing countries and, where relevant, via Finnish-linked ventures, with a focus on sectors such as renewable energy, sustainable forestry and agriculture, financial institutions, and digital infrastructure. The organization seeks minority equity and debt solutions, typically investing EUR 1 million to 10 million per project and often taking up to 30 percent of a company's capital. It structures investments as equity, mezzanine financing, investment loans, or combinations thereof, and frequently co-invests with other development finance institutions. It also finances microfinance and infrastructure ventures and supports initiatives that use Finnish technology. The aim is to generate environmental or social benefit and to contribute to sustainable development in developing countries and transition economies, including Russia, with an annual deployment target in the low hundreds of millions of euros across multiple companies.

Blue Wire Capital is a venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom, focused on helping early-stage startups. It targets pre-seed and seed investments across a broad range of sectors including business products and services, consumer products and services, information technology, financial services, SaaS, mobile, big data, and other technology-enabled areas. The firm provides fast and flexible access to capital, strategic guidance, and a wide professional network to support founders as they build scalable businesses.

Krungsri Finnovate is the corporate venture capital arm of Krungsri, a Bangkok-based bank. Founded in 2017, it focuses on strategic investments and partnerships to help startups achieve sustainable growth by collaborating with relevant bank business units and the broader ecosystem. It manages a venture capital fund of about USD 150 million to support startups domestically and internationally, targeting fintech and information technology sectors. The firm backs startups developing innovative financial solutions and aims to guide them toward unicorn status through collaboration across divisions and ecosystem partners. Its investment focus covers e-commerce, logistics, fulfillment, supply chain, digital wallets and payments, blockchain, lending, robo-advisory, insurtech, AI and machine learning, cross-border remittance, cybersecurity, and related fintech and tech areas. Krungsri Finnovate seeks to build practical, scalable solutions that align with the bank's businesses and customer needs, fostering sustainable growth for portfolio companies.

ADB Ventures is the venture platform and investment arm of the Asian Development Bank, focused on supporting seed and early-stage startups that develop impact technology solutions addressing sustainable development goals in Asia and the Pacific. Founded in 2020 and based in Manila, it targets technologies in clean energy and industry, sustainable mobility and supply chains, agriculture and food, circular economy and green materials, green finance and data, and inclusive and resilient communities.

Mizuho Capital is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm affiliated with Mizuho Bank, Japan’s second-largest bank by assets. It manages about ¥49.6 billion and focuses on information technology and biotechnology investments, while also backing internet-related services, healthcare, medical, manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors. The firm traces its origins to a 2002 merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment, and its predecessors were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan. It is regarded as one of Japan’s leading venture capital firms, with more than 600 Mizuho companies having gone public.

Catcha Group is a venture capital firm based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, focused on backing disruptive technology companies. It has a track record of investing in small- to medium-sized businesses to achieve rapid growth, profitability, and potentially an IPO, by taking sizeable stakes and mentoring portfolio companies to unlock their potential. The firm emphasizes supporting its portfolio teams through challenges and helping them become leaders in their fields, with a hands-on approach to value creation.

Founded in 2017, Beacon VC is a venture capital fund focused on strategic investments in early to growth-stage tech startups. With an initial fund of $30 million, it expanded to $135 million in 2018. The fund invests primarily in Southeast Asian companies operating in fintech, consumer internet, and enterprise technology sectors such as AI.

All-Stars Investment is a venture capital firm based in Central, Hong Kong, founded in 2014. It concentrates on investing in internet and consumer-brand companies in Greater China, aiming to back category-leading and disruptive players with durable competitive moats and help them scale across the region.

Baidu Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Baidu that backs technology startups primarily in artificial intelligence and related fields. It pursues opportunities in AI, autonomous driving, robotics, big data, life sciences, and other technology sectors, supporting entrepreneurs from its offices in Beijing and San Francisco. The firm aims to help portfolio companies accelerate development and scale by leveraging Baidu's technical expertise and industry resources, reflecting Baidu's interest in advancing the next generation of AI-enabled products and services.