FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. It is stage-agnostic, backing seed and Series A rounds, with an investment range of fifty thousand to five million dollars. Founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda, the firm leverages its network and experience in the marketplace sector to support founders aiming for rapid growth. The firm maintains a broad portfolio across e-commerce, on-demand services, fintech, and related technologies, with notable investments in Alibaba, Coupang, Delivery Hero, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest. FJ Labs emphasizes partnerships with visionary founders and uses its sector expertise to help portfolio companies scale and achieve expansion.

Citigroup is a global financial services holding company that provides a broad range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions. The company operates through two main segments: Global Consumer Banking, offering retail banking and Citi-branded cards and related services; and Institutional Clients Group, offering wholesale banking products and services including fixed-income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivatives, research, corporate lending, investment banking, and advisory services. Citigroup serves clients across North America, Latin America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The firm includes Citi Private Bank for private banking and Citi Community Capital as its community development lending arm, and the Citi Foundation funds social and economic progress initiatives. Citi emphasizes sustainability and social responsibility, supports affordable housing and economic development, and maintains a global footprint with offices in major cities and leadership in several markets.

Antler is a global venture capital firm and startup incubator based in Singapore that invests in early-stage technology companies and supports startups across sectors including healthcare, finance, consumer, and software. It builds a worldwide community of co-founders and provides access to talent, mentors, and expert advisors, along with expansion support and capital to help teams form, validate business models, and grow internationally. Antler emphasizes long-term partnerships with portfolio companies, continuing to back ventures through growth stages as they scale.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is an international financial institution that provides project financing for banks, industries, and businesses, supports new ventures and investments in existing companies, and collaborates with public authorities to privatize and restructure municipal services. It offers a range of banking products and services, including loans, equity and quasi-equity investments, guarantees, advisory services, trade finance, and loan syndication across sectors such as energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, agribusiness, finance, ICT, and services. Through policy reform dialogue and partnerships with private and public sector actors, it promotes market-oriented reforms and private sector development across Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Headquartered in London, it operates with a regional focus across Southeastern and Central Europe, the Baltics, Eastern Europe and beyond, supporting sustainable growth and environmental and governance standards.

Mubadala Capital is an asset management firm based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It operates as the financial investment arm of Mubadala Investment Company, a government-backed sovereign investor. Mubadala Capital manages investments across private equity, public equity, credit, and venture capital. It pursues opportunities across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa in sectors including enterprise software, cloud and digital infrastructure, logistics, mobility, tech-enabled healthcare, fintech, insurtech, consumer, and marketplaces.

Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with offices in New York, Boston, Menlo Park, Chicago, London, and Tokyo. It enables accredited investors, especially alumni networks, to access diversified venture opportunities by co-investing alongside leading venture capital firms. Through funds, syndicates, and investing clubs, it sources opportunities across stages and geographies, conducts rigorous due diligence, and aims for transparent, founder-friendly support. The firm backs a diversified portfolio of startups, including more than 1,600 companies, and has attracted substantial committed capital and a large community of individual investors, underscoring its mission to democratize access to venture capital while partnering with established VC firms.

HPS Investment Partners is a global investment firm focused on non-investment grade and alternative credit, delivering risk-adjusted returns for institutional clients through tailored solutions across the capital structure. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, it operates a worldwide platform with offices across multiple regions and manages a range of strategies from syndicated leveraged loans and high-yield debt to privately negotiated senior secured debt, mezzanine, asset-based lending, and select private equity opportunities. The firm serves pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, and financial advisors, emphasizing long-term relationships, rigorous credit analysis, and a diversified sourcing network to identify opportunities across various industries, including insurance, healthcare, media, retail, logistics, and marine.

Tenity is a global innovation ecosystem and early-stage investor dedicated to the future of fintech and related industries. The organization runs two core engines: Innovation Partnerships, which collaborates with corporations and governments to design and operate innovative programs, and Venture Capital, investing in early-stage startups. Through a network of hubs, Tenity connects people, capital, and ideas, delivering funding initiatives, hackathons, accelerators, and market activation programs to startups, corporates, governments, and investors across Europe, Asia, and beyond. Established as a spin-off from SIX in 2016, Tenity has expanded its global footprint and strengthened its presence in the UK through strategic acquisitions. It focuses on fintech, insurtech, Web3, and digital health, with activities spanning Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and APAC regions.

Portage Ventures is a Toronto-based global fintech-focused venture capital firm that makes early-stage investments in financial technology and related financial services companies with potential for global impact. As part of Portage, a broader investment platform established in 2016, the firm also supports later-stage growth through Portage Capital Solutions. Portage Ventures pursues a thesis-driven investment approach and leverages a global network of investors and experts to drive value creation for portfolio companies. It seeks opportunities worldwide, with a focus on helping Canadian fintechs scale internationally.

European Investment Fund is the EU's financing arm for small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-caps, providing financial instruments to improve access to affordable financing across businesses throughout their lifecycle. It focuses on supporting innovation, growth, competitiveness, social impact, and sustainability across the EU, including funding for infrastructure investments. By leveraging its capital base, the EIF fosters public-private partnerships to amplify investment and shares risk with banks, funds, and other partners to mobilize lending to SMEs and equity funding for startups through guarantees and equity instruments across EU member states, candidate countries, and EFTA states.

Andreessen Horowitz is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It funds technology startups across seed to late stages, with investments spanning software, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software and services, consumer internet, fintech, artificial intelligence, crypto, infrastructure, and biotechnology at the intersection of computer science and life sciences. The firm emphasizes supporting portfolio companies through growth and strategic partnerships and maintains a broad tech-focused investment approach, aiming to add value beyond capital.

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that funds early-stage and growth companies across sectors including consumer, enterprise software, fintech, crypto, and healthcare. Based in San Francisco with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and other locations, it provides capital and strategic guidance to help entrepreneurs build scalable, durable businesses. The firm emphasizes the use of technology, including artificial intelligence, to accelerate growth and drive meaningful impact. General Catalyst partners with management teams to support product development, go-to-market strategies, and organizational growth, aiming to back companies with potential for wide adoption and long-term value creation, rather than focusing solely on near-term exits.

Cerity Partners is a national independent financial advisory firm that provides investment advisory, wealth management, and comprehensive financial planning services to individuals, families, businesses, employees, and nonprofit organizations from offices across the United States. The firm offers retirement planning, estate and gift planning, tax planning and preparation, insurance planning and risk management, and business owner advisory and executive financial counseling. Cerity Partners emphasizes objective, client-centric guidance and leverages technology platforms, including Addepar and Orion, to enhance client service delivery.

FinTech Collective is a global early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 with offices in New York City and London. It backs entrepreneurs building new ways for money to move, investing across financial services and fintech sectors such as capital markets, wealth and asset management, banking, lending, payments, insurance, and decentralized finance. Backed by leading institutional investors, the firm has supported a broad portfolio of fintech companies and a track record of exits and growth, including MoneyLion, NYDIG, Ocrolus, and Quovo. It publishes a weekly fintech newsletter that provides news and analysis on global trends. FinTech Collective focuses on helping portfolio companies scale through strategic and operational guidance, with an emphasis on global reach and impact.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011. It focuses on software-as-a-service startups in Latin America, providing growth capital, mentorship, and access to a broad network of strategic partners and co-investors to help portfolio companies scale, and operates a corporate venture capital arm that collaborates with corporate partners through flexible operating models and end-to-end support.

Motive Partners is a sector-specialist investment platform and private equity firm focused exclusively on financial technology. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York with an office in London, it backs and builds fintech and financial services technology companies to transform markets and models. The firm manages capital across North America and Western Europe, pursuing opportunities in areas such as wealth and asset management technology, banking and payments, insurtech, capital markets, AI, data analytics, and vertical software. Motive Partners operates Motive Ventures, its early-stage investment arm, supporting pre-seed through Series A fintech companies in North America, Europe, and Israel, backed by experienced entrepreneurs, industry veterans, and leading institutions. The firm emphasizes active portfolio involvement and operational improvement to drive long-term value.

ParaFi Capital is an asset manager and technology-driven investment firm founded in 2018. It operates multi-strategy offerings focused on the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem, including public markets with tokens and related instruments and private markets targeting early- and growth-stage blockchain-native companies. The firm employs research-driven, engineering-led teams to support research, trading and portfolio management and builds technology infrastructure for investment workflows. ParaFi serves institutional clients globally and emphasizes idiosyncratic opportunities, disciplined risk management, and strong product-market fit. Headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with a collaborative hub in New York City, the firm has over $2.0 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2025.

Digital Currency Group is a corporate venture capital and investment firm based in Stamford, Connecticut, that builds and supports bitcoin and blockchain companies by providing insights, networks, and access to capital. The company operates core platform assets including CoinDesk, Genesis Trading, and Grayscale Investments, and pursues investments in fintech, bitcoin, web3 infrastructure, platforms, decentralized finance, data, metaverse, and other blockchain-related sectors.

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman that manages capital across public and private markets worldwide. The firm focuses on technology, internet, consumer, and financial services sectors, pursuing high-quality growth opportunities through both public equity and private investments. It maintains a research-driven, long-term approach and acts as a registered investment adviser, building partnerships with innovative companies across multiple regions and growth stages.

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in London with offices in San Francisco and Geneva. It partners with technology entrepreneurs across software, AI, fintech, healthcare, data, media, mobility and related sectors to provide early and growth-stage capital and strategic guidance. The firm supports portfolio companies through all development stages, including sourcing opportunities, due diligence, structuring financing, and ongoing advisory interactions, leveraging a global network of industry connections to help founders scale, enter new markets, attract customers and partners. Notable portfolio companies include Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King, Slack and Supercell. Index Ventures emphasizes backing exceptional teams with ambitious ideas and provides resources to help them execute growth plans, product development, and market expansion globally.

Polychain Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that invests in blockchain protocols and companies, with a focus on information technology, fintech, and blockchain sectors, aiming to advance global adoption of cryptocurrencies.

Constellation Wealth Capital is a Chicago-based private equity firm founded in 2023 that provides investments and advisory services to wealth management firms in the United States. It focuses on the wealth management sector, addressing capital needs within an $8 trillion assets under management market and more than 18,500 registered investment advisers. The firm differentiates itself by acting as an extension of partner firms, delivering flexible capital solutions to reduce leverage and foster compounding, along with strategic advisory across growth initiatives, business management, technology and operations, and investment platform expansion. The team emphasizes sector knowledge and data-driven insights to help partner firms achieve their strategic goals and improve profitability. Leadership includes Karl Heckenberg as President and Managing Partner, with other partners and advisory leaders guiding client engagements.

OMERS is one of Canada's largest defined benefit pension plans, serving municipal employees in Ontario. It administers retirement and related benefits for hundreds of thousands of members and oversees a diversified global investment portfolio. Through its investment divisions, OMERS allocates capital across public markets and private markets, including private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and credit, with a focus on long-term value creation and governance, environmental, social, and governance considerations. The organization supports pension stability by investing directly and through partnerships, emphasizing sustainability, stewardship, and prudent risk management.

Nyca Partners is a New York-based fintech-focused venture capital firm founded in 2014. It backs early-stage fintech and related financial technology ventures, often alongside financial institutions, technology partners, and a network of senior advisors. The firm emphasizes thematic investing across four verticals: payments and financial transactions, capital formation and risk, digital advice, and financial infrastructure, and provides both capital and active support to portfolio companies. Its approach leverages partnerships and a broad ecosystem to help founders accelerate growth, with approximately 87 active portfolio companies, including unicorns, and assets under management around $975 million. The focus spans the United States, aiming to modernize the financial system through strategic collaboration with founders.

Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm headquartered in Vienna that operates across six offices in Europe, the Middle East and beyond. It backs founders from pre-seed to growth through sector-focused investment teams and provides day-one access to a global network of corporate customers, experts and follow-on investors to help scale faster. The firm focuses on six verticals—AI and infrastructure, climate and industrial tech, deep tech, fintech and DeFi, health and bio, and marketplaces and consumer—and supports portfolio companies from initial funding through subsequent rounds. Speedinvest actively engages with its companies, leading a large share of initial investments and maintaining a high level of follow-on activity, with notable portfolio companies including Bitpanda, Moove, Tide, GoStudent and cylib. The firm operates across Europe and beyond, aiming to unlock momentum for builders through the power of more and to help them scale smarter and faster.

Goodwater Capital is a San Francisco Bay Area based consumer technology investment firm that backs early-stage startups worldwide, focusing on consumer technology and fintech. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, it supports ventures from Series A to IPO using software enabled, data driven approaches to help founders scale and reach millions of customers. It provides portfolio companies with detailed data, concierge services, startup curricula, and strategic advice to accelerate growth across housing, healthcare, food delivery, financial services, education, entertainment, and transportation. The portfolio targets consumer products and services, software, and related sectors, aiming to drive measurable social impact and substantial value for both entrepreneurs and investors.

MMC Ventures is a London-based European venture capital firm, founded in 2000, that concentrates on early-stage investments in AI and data-driven technology, and related sectors such as fintech, cloud, and health tech across Europe. The firm backs Seed and Series A startups, applying a research-led approach to understand each company’s technology and business model to help decisions and support growth. Its portfolio includes notable AI and data companies such as Synthesia, Albatross and Red Sift, among others, and the firm offers MMC CONNECT to provide sales introductions, coaching and talent resources to portfolio companies. MMC Ventures aims to partner with founders to help scale, with emphasis on software, data and intelligent systems.

Global Brain is an independent venture capital firm based in Tokyo, founded in 1998, that backs technology startups worldwide and provides hands-on support and open innovation with large corporate partners. The firm targets early to growth-stage opportunities across sectors such as artificial intelligence, space, education, HR tech, life sciences, enterprise software, and consumer tech, with a global footprint in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. It has managed over 2.7 billion in assets and invested more than 1.4 billion across more than 1,300 deals, supporting hundreds of active portfolio companies and achieving a track record of IPOs and M&A exits. Global Brain emphasizes transformative growth through active portfolio management, strategic resources, and collaborations with corporate partners and institutional investors. The firm operates flagship funds and co-investment programs, and maintains engagement with a broad ecosystem to accelerate innovation.

Maven 11 is a crypto-native venture capital firm focused on partnering with technically fluent founders who are challenging traditional ownership models. The firm concentrates on blockchain, cryptocurrency, distributed ledger technology, and related sectors, providing hands-on support to early-stage ventures. It operates with offices in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and the Cayman Islands, and emphasizes long-term partnerships to navigate evolving market dynamics. Founded in 2015, Maven 11 aims to back ambitious teams at the early stages, leveraging expertise in investment, trading, research, and product to help portfolio companies scale.

Outlier Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on Web3, crypto, and blockchain infrastructure, established in 2014. It operates Base Camp, a virtual accelerator launched in 2019, which has drawn thousands of applications and supports seed-stage startups. The firm has backed a portfolio of more than 220 projects and helped raise over $350 million in seed funding. Its investments span DeFi, NFTs, and blockchain infrastructure with an emphasis on emergent metaverse use cases, and it collaborates with leading protocols such as Aptos, Filecoin/IPFS, Polygon, and Polkadot, alongside advisory offerings for later-stage teams. Outlier Ventures promotes an open stack of technologies contributing to Web3 and envisions an Open Metaverse where user data and digital wealth are sovereign. It is recognized as one of the most active Web3 investors by deal volume.

Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that concentrates on financial services innovation and fintech. The firm backs early-stage and growth-oriented technology companies across insurance, payments, personal finance, lending, credit, asset management, and related financial ecosystems. It maintains a global reach across North America, Europe, and Latin America, and leverages its network of institutional investors, policymakers, and hedge fund managers to support portfolio companies. Clocktower emphasizes technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cloud computing to improve efficiency, accessibility, and outcomes in finance and adjacent sectors.

Global Founders Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital platform founded by Rocket Internet that invests in early-stage technology companies worldwide. It operates as a globally oriented, stage-agnostic investor, partnering with exceptional founders across sectors and providing support from the initial growth phase through scale. The firm targets high-potential, rapidly expanding ventures and emphasizes impact and feasibility in evaluating opportunities. It is led by investment partners Cedric Asselman, David Sainteff, and Fabricio Pettena.

ICONIQ Capital is a global multi-family office and investment firm based in San Francisco that provides financial advisory and family office services while managing direct investments across asset classes. The firm focuses on technology-driven opportunities, including enterprise software, fintech, information technology, artificial intelligence, and healthcare IT, and pursues growth equity, venture capital, middle-market buyouts, and real estate. It serves influential families and organizations, acting as a trusted advisor to facilitate strategic relationships, governance, and impact initiatives. ICONIQ operates with a network of offices in San Francisco, London, Palo Alto, Singapore, and New York, and maintains a registered investment adviser framework. Through growth platforms such as ICONIQ Growth, the firm supports early-stage to later-stage software and information technology companies, leveraging a broad ecosystem of leaders and founders to accelerate value creation. The company emphasizes a global reach and a disciplined, long-term investment approach.

SMBC Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, focusing on growth equity and buyouts across information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Tokyo with an office in Osaka, it leverages the SMBC network to connect portfolio companies with large corporates, talent, and specialists, providing stage-appropriate, coordinated support through its integrated team. The firm pursues a long-term, growth-focused approach and invests across industries and stages, aiming to back companies that improve lives and address social challenges. Its portfolio has included more than 400 companies that have achieved initial public offerings, reflecting its emphasis on value creation alongside entrepreneurs.

F-Prime Capital is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based venture capital firm with a longstanding history of backing early- and growth-stage companies across life sciences and technology. The firm focuses on healthcare including therapeutics, medtech, and healthtech, as well as technology sectors such as enterprise software, fintech, frontier tech, and crypto ventures. Its team combines scientists, engineers, physicians, operators, and investors to provide hands-on support and strategic guidance designed to accelerate scalable growth. With a global footprint, F-Prime engages with portfolio companies across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and maintains relationships with a wide network of industry experts to help startups advance from concept to market.

Ulu Ventures is a Palo Alto–based seed and early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology companies across enterprise software, B2B and B2C platforms, healthtech, sustainability, fintech, edtech, and blockchain. Founded in 2008, the firm pursues a disciplined, decision-science approach to investing, evaluating risk-reward trade-offs and reducing cognitive bias, often co-investing with other angels or VCs to deploy between $500k and $1M per opportunity. Ulu prioritizes diverse founder teams, including women, minority, URM, and immigrant founders, and supports bold ideas with strong growth potential from seed onward. Based in the Bay Area, it has backed a broad portfolio, including unicorns, reflecting a track record of helping startups scale. The firm emphasizes technology-enabled services and internet-centric opportunities.

BlackFin Capital Partners is a Paris-based European private equity firm that specializes in mid-market buyouts in financial services and fintech across Europe. The firm concentrates on asset-light businesses, pursuing bold operational improvements and growth through value creation, including buy-and-build strategies. With multiple funds, it has raised about 4 billion euros and completed numerous deals across continental Europe, maintaining a footprint in major European financial centers. BlackFin emphasizes responsible investing and ESG principles, aiming to transform complexity into stronger, scalable companies for the next stage of growth.

MH Ventures is a London-based, globally oriented early-stage venture capital firm focused on Web3 and open infrastructure. Founded in 2021, it invests across B2B, B2C, energy, financial services, information technology, blockchain, fintech, and software-as-a-service sectors, with a founder-focused approach that supports the growth of the Web3 ecosystem. The firm backs projects and protocols redefining value creation, coordination, and trust through decentralized networks and blockchain infrastructure. It emphasizes insights into evolving on-chain trends and adjacent fields such as DePIN, prediction markets, and crypto-energy convergence, reflecting a commitment to cryptography, composability, and community-owned networks. By prioritizing technically rigorous teams and early-stage opportunities, MH Ventures aims to accelerate adoption of open infrastructure and decentralized technologies worldwide.

SNZ Holding is a crypto-native, research-driven investment and incubation company with a global portfolio spanning infrastructure and middleware, fintech, and application and content, including blockchain-enabled applications. The firm has been an early backer of Ethereum and a strategic partner for projects such as Chainlink, and in 2026 launched Ethereum Hong Kong Hub with support from the Ethereum Foundation to bridge East and West and connect Web2 and Web3 ecosystems. Its investment thesis focuses on identifying and advancing early-stage opportunities in digital assets and blockchain, while maintaining a long-term view to create network effects and provide founders with expertise, connections and resources from the outset. Beyond funding, SNZ Holding cultivates education and ecosystem development through events and programs like blockchain industry trend initiatives and university roadshows in Asia. The company is described by sources as founded by engineers and blockchain evangelists and is based in Beijing, investing across seed to later-stage opportunities in crypto and blockchain sectors.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that targets early-stage, capital-efficient technology startups in the United States and Canada. The firm employs a data-driven, quantitative approach to investment decisions and aims for rapid yes-or-no conclusions, often within two weeks. Typical rounds encompass small checks in the low hundreds of thousands, with the potential for larger commitments in exceptional cases, and a portfolio-wide strategy that emphasizes diversification. Beyond capital, it provides hands-on mentorship in areas such as sales, marketing, and fundraising, leveraging a network of investors and seasoned operators to support portfolio companies after investment. The firm focuses on teams still refining product-market fit, including those outside traditional tech hubs, and seeks to help founders scale efficiently through structured operational support and transparent decision processes.

QED Investors is a fintech-focused venture capital firm based in Alexandria, Virginia, founded in 2007. The firm backs companies across the financial services lifecycle from pre-seed to IPO and provides hands-on guidance drawn from deep operating experience to help founders optimize unit economics, compliance, growth, and partnerships. It maintains a global footprint with investments across the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia, and has built a portfolio of more than 250 companies in 27 countries, including 31 unicorns, with billions of dollars of assets under management.

High-Tech Gründerfonds is a Germany-based venture capital firm established in 2005 that funds early-stage technology startups in Germany. Based in Bonn with an office in Berlin, it supports companies across software, information technology, digital and industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, IoT, energy, and related fields by providing initial capital and subsequent funding, complemented by active guidance from investment managers. The firm typically acts as a lead investor and cooperates with other investors to help portfolio companies advance from concept to market, with a focus on startups that have begun commercial operations. By combining financing with hands-on support, HTGF aims to help high-potential founders develop their technology, validate products, and scale within the German market.

Kima Ventures is a Paris-based venture capital firm and one of the world's most active early-stage investors. It backs startups worldwide, typically at seed to Series A, often as lead investor but also alongside other investors. The firm provides funding, a broad network, and hands-on support to help founders recruit teams, learn rapidly, and focus on growth. It emphasizes a pay-it-forward mindset and aims to streamline fundraising so entrepreneurs can return to building their business. Founded in 2010 and backed by Xavier Niel, Kima Ventures has its headquarters in Paris and a London office, and has invested in over 400 startups across 24 countries. Its portfolio spans technology sectors in Europe and beyond, and it often takes a significant minority stake while co-investing with angels and other funds.

Dragonfly Capital is a venture capital firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in New York City and Singapore. Founded in 2018, it focuses on cryptocurrency and blockchain, investing in protocols, decentralized finance, exchanges, infrastructure, and digital asset ventures across stages from seed to later rounds. The firm emphasizes a team of technical crypto-natives and a globally dispersed investment approach, supporting founders with strategic assistance and operator-level expertise. Dragonfly has pursued a global research agenda, examining trends and solutions such as airdrops, token compensation, and stablecoin payments to address data gaps. Its portfolio spans diverse crypto projects and applications, reflecting an emphasis on teams tackling meaningful challenges in the crypto ecosystem. The group has engaged in notable activities such as the acquisition of Metastable, and it recruits world-class operators to connect with promising teams, underscoring a hands-on, value-added approach to backing crypto builders.

Hard Yaka is a venture capital firm based in Crystal Bay, Nevada, established in the early 2010s. It focuses on technology investments and aims to drive universal access to fundamental services such as payments, digital identity, and communications. The firm backs early-stage technology companies, including those building payments platforms, digital identity solutions, and related financial infrastructure, as part of a broader interest in digital transformation and regulatory tech. Through its portfolio, Hard Yaka has supported numerous startups across payments, digital identity, and banking sectors.

Kudu Investment Management is a New York-based investment firm formed in 2015 that provides capital to asset management and wealth management firms pursuing ownership transfers, partner liquidity, management buyouts, or acquisition and growth financing. It focuses on minority-stake investments and risk-sharing arrangements intended to help managers maintain independence and principal control while pursuing growth. Positioned as a long-term partner, the firm emphasizes alignment with principals and continuity of operations, delivering value-added support without dictating liquidity decisions.

Anthemis Group is an independent London-headquartered investment firm focused on financial technology and insurance technology companies in the United States and Europe. It backs startups from pre-seed through Series A and beyond, providing capital and strategic guidance across fintech, insurtech and related sectors. The firm aims to drive change in finance by supporting ventures that improve resiliency, transparency, access and equity in the financial system, and it collaborates with a diverse set of founders to accelerate growth across North America and Europe.

Desjardins Group is the largest cooperative financial institution in North America, with a nationwide presence across Canada since 1900. It provides a broad suite of financial services to individuals and businesses, including accounts, cash management, financing and loans, mortgages, credit and prepaid cards, insurance, retirement and wealth management, investments and securities, and international banking. It also offers corporate and employer solutions, fiduciary services, and advisory capabilities, supported by integrated online and mobile platforms. Desjardins emphasizes social responsibility and local economic development, reflecting its cooperative model that gives members voting rights and potential rebates. The group serves diverse sectors through a network of member organizations and subsidiaries, delivering accessible financial products while focusing on sustainable, community-oriented growth.

Valor Capital Group is a venture capital firm that focuses on cross-border fintech and enterprise software opportunities, bridging the US, Latin America, and global technology markets. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the firm backs seed through growth-stage companies operating in software, technology, fintech, e-commerce, and related sectors in the United States and Brazil. Valor emphasizes partnerships between founders in Latin America and the US to scale their businesses globally and has facilitated over $13 billion in follow-on capital for its portfolio. Notable investments and outcomes include Pipefy, which democratizes business process management; CloudWalk, a payments innovator in Brazil; and Advolve, acquired by iFood to accelerate retail media strategies. The firm seeks category-defining companies with long-term potential and supports portfolio companies with strategic value creation across cross-border markets.

Hashed is a venture capital firm and accelerator focused on blockchain and Web3 startups. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Seoul, it has a global footprint with offices in Singapore, Bengaluru, Silicon Valley, and Abu Dhabi. It invests in early-stage blockchain ventures across sectors such as finance, gaming, and entertainment, and has backed notable companies including Aptos and Republic. Beyond capital, Hashed acts as an ecosystem builder, supporting portfolio companies and fostering collaboration through programs and events. The firm operates a range of initiatives and subsidiaries to accelerate adoption, including incubation platforms, emerging markets investing, research, fintech and crypto analytics, institutional custody, and regulatory studies. It also runs community and media initiatives and hosts major events such as Korea Blockchain Week. Through its global presence and hands-on support, Hashed aims to grow decentralized Web3 ecosystems and empower founders worldwide.