Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm that broadens access to venture and private market investments for accredited investors, including alumni networks, by enabling co-investment alongside leading VC firms. It offers investment funds, investing clubs, portfolio opportunities, and educational resources through its AV Academy, and provides support to startup founders. The firm emphasizes transparency with access to due diligence materials and live discussions, and seeks to build a diversified portfolio through collaborative investing. Headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire, it operates with offices in New York, Boston, Menlo Park, Chicago, London and Tokyo to reach a broad investor base.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. It is stage-agnostic and focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups, with seed and Series A investments. The typical investment range is $50,000 to $5,000,000. The firm backs entrepreneurs pursuing network effects and transformative business models, and its portfolio includes notable companies such as Alibaba Group, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest.

RA Capital Management is a Boston-based investment firm focused on healthcare, life sciences, and planetary health. The firm pursues evidence-based investing across public and private markets and provides hands-on support to portfolio companies, including through its Raven healthcare incubator. It relies on deep research via its TechAtlas knowledge engine to identify opportunities and guide value creation from early-stage ideas to commercialization. Since its inception, the firm has deployed capital across multiple rounds and has built a portfolio of hundreds of companies, backed by an ongoing effort to advance drugs, medical devices, diagnostics, and biotech tools. RA Capital manages substantial assets and seeks to invest across stages—from seed to growth—often taking leading roles or co-investing and participating in governance to support management teams. The firm emphasizes impact in healthcare and planetary health, aiming to translate bold ideas into durable improvements in patient care and public health.

Global Brain is an independent venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1998. It invests in technology startups worldwide, with a focus on sectors such as artificial intelligence, cloud software, cybersecurity, fintech, advertising technology, agriculture technology, climate tech, and related fields. The firm targets seed to growth-stage opportunities and collaborates with corporate venture partners to provide hands-on support and resources to portfolio companies. It maintains flagship funds and ongoing investment programs and has backed numerous startups with several notable exits, reflecting an emphasis on global expansion and practical value creation for early-stage and growth companies.

True Global Ventures is a global venture capital firm that backs early-stage, AI-first technology companies, with emphasis on agentic AI and the future of work. Operating from a globally distributed network with offices in San Francisco, New York, Paris, London, Stockholm, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore, the firm provides hands-on support to portfolio companies through strategic partnerships, executive hiring, international expansion and follow-on financing. It typically makes very early to early-stage investments in internet, software and mobile applications, led by serial entrepreneurs, and leverages its international network to help portfolio companies acquire customers, form strategic partnerships, raise subsequent rounds and scale across borders.

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm that backs startups at seed and development stages in Japan, with a focus on life sciences, information technology, and high-technology sectors such as AI, SaaS, electronics, biotech, fintech, and healthcare. Founded in 1974, the firm pursues early-stage and growth opportunities through a diversified portfolio and active deal flow, often engaging in co-investments with other investors to build value for portfolio companies. It concentrates on opportunities that have relevance to the Japanese market and supports founders in fundraising, product development, and scaling strategy.

SignalFire is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage technology investments. It employs a data-driven approach, combining AI-enabled insights with advisory programs across sectors such as AI/ML, software, healthtech, fintech, cybersecurity, and enterprise software. The firm uses its Beacon AI Platform to monitor talent, market signals, and go-to-market indicators, and provides extensive portfolio support including recruiting, leadership development, fundraising, and business development. A distributed network coupled with centralized infrastructure connects entrepreneurs to top engineers, product leaders, and go-to-market experts, enabling faster hiring, customer acquisition, and strategic partnerships. Since its founding in 2013, SignalFire has built a substantial capital base and serves opportunities across the United States and the Americas.

SMBC Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, backed by the SMBC Group. It makes venture and growth-capital investments across information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing, supporting portfolio companies with strategic guidance, management assistance, and connections to auditors, securities firms, and other investors through the SMBC network. Established in 2005 and headquartered in Tokyo with an Osaka office, the firm prioritizes long-term partnerships with founders to help scale businesses and address societal challenges. Its portfolio exceeds 400 companies that have gone public, including listings on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market in 2026. The firm leverages SMBC's global capabilities to provide value through cross-industry collaboration, governance and growth-oriented capital deployment within Japan and beyond.

Orbit Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on technology-enabled growth in emerging markets. Based in Singapore, it funds and supports startups that digitize traditional industries to raise living standards, with activity across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. The firm targets digitalization in e-commerce, fintech, media, healthcare, education, and logistics, and emphasizes hands-on, long-term partnerships, including business development, fundraising and growth support, alongside initial investments and follow-on funding. It operates accelerator programs and hosts events to connect founders with mentors and investors, and pursues nimble execution and operational excellence to drive rapid, sustainable growth in portfolio companies.

Mayfield Fund is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm founded in 1969 that provides capital and strategic guidance to technology startups across early- and growth-stage companies. The firm focuses on information technology sectors including artificial intelligence, enterprise software, data infrastructure, semiconductors, and consumer technology, aiming to back innovative business models and strong teams with long-term growth potential. It supports founders through the company lifecycle, assisting with product strategy, scaling operations, and market expansion, and pursues a global, long-term approach to value creation as it backs companies from concept to scale and generate enduring impact.

Vivo Capital is a global healthcare investment firm founded in 1996 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Asia. It operates a multi-strategy platform that encompasses growth equity, private equity including buyouts, venture capital, and public equity, and it has invested in over 290 public and private companies. The firm supports a broad range of healthcare sectors, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and healthcare services, with a focus on the largest healthcare markets. Its multidisciplinary team includes physicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, operating executives, and industry experts, who collaborate across strategies to build high-quality companies in the United States and China.

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator is a New York City-based technology accelerator and early-stage venture program. Since its launch in 2011, ERA has invested in more than 400 startups, with alumni companies collectively raising over $2 billion in capital and reaching a market capitalization well above $10 billion. The program provides seed capital, hands-on mentorship, and a coworking environment through a two-cohort-per-year structure. Each participating company receives $150,000 on a post-money SAFE in exchange for 6% equity. In addition to funding, ERA offers a mentor-driven curriculum and access to a broad network of mentors, partners, and services, including office space and cloud hosting credits. The accelerator emphasizes practical support across operations, finance, and go-to-market, helping startups scale. ERA has gained recognition in the startup community, including TIME’s ranking of America’s Best Accelerators for 2026.

Liquid 2 Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. It funds technology startups across early stages, including seed and Series B, and provides capital along with founder guidance, operational support, and access to a broad network of entrepreneurs, investors, and industry contacts. The firm adopts a network-driven approach to support portfolio companies from early funding through growth rounds, offering strategic introductions and mentorship to help founders scale their businesses.

Revo Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in Istanbul, Turkey. It focuses on backing early- to growth-stage technology startups, prioritizing Turkish-founded and Turkish R&D-driven companies while extending investments to opportunities in Eastern Europe and the Baltics. The firm places AI as a core driver of its strategy and invests across six verticals: B2B software as a service, FinTech, Cloud and Cybersecurity, HealthTech, EnergyTech, and Gaming. Revo Capital supports founders building globally competitive technology companies from Türkiye and the Turkish diaspora, combining capital with the network and growth capabilities needed to scale regionally and internationally.

ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm that funds seed and early-stage startups in the internet sector. The firm provides more than capital, offering value-added support such as engineering development consulting, sales assistance, and international marketing to help portfolio companies scale globally. It operates a community-driven platform that shares timely startup information and event updates to members, fostering engagement within the startup ecosystem.

DRG Fund is a Tokyo-based seed-stage venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs from the pre-foundation stage to conceive, launch, and scale new ventures, providing both investment and hands-on support to early-stage startups. The firm combines capital with strategic guidance to unlock latent potential and enable founders to challenge themselves in the startup world. It is led by General Partner Ryu Kusakabe, who has extensive experience in equity capital markets and startup-investor initiatives, and backs a diverse portfolio of early-stage ventures across sectors. DRG Fund also offers entrepreneur-oriented resources such as office hours and inquiry channels to connect founders with guidance and support throughout the venture journey.

Business Development Bank of Canada is a government-owned financial institution that supports Canadian entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises through financing, advisory services, and equity investments. Headquartered in Montreal with a nationwide network, it offers loans, lines of credit, subordinate financing, and strategic guidance in areas such as planning, human resources, and international expansion. The bank also operates venture and growth capital through its arms BDC Venture Capital and BDC Capital, investing in technology-driven and growth-stage Canadian companies across sectors including information technology, healthcare, cleantech, and industrials. Founded in 1944 as the Industrial Development Bank, it was created to promote economic growth and job creation and remains an instrument of the government to support Canadian business growth.

IDG Capital is a global venture capital firm founded in 1993 and headquartered in Hong Kong, with offices across multiple continents and a team of hundreds of professionals. It invests across venture, growth, and secondary markets, backing founders in technology, healthcare, consumer, media, and related sectors, with a strong emphasis on China and broader Asia. The firm leverages a global network to support portfolio companies through various stages and geographies, helping with geographic expansion, partnerships, and strategic growth. IDG Capital has backed more than 1,800 companies across 10+ markets and 600+ exits, reflecting a long-term, value-driven approach and a track record of helping entrepreneurs scale internationally.

Greycroft is a venture capital firm that focuses on technology startups in the Internet and mobile markets. It operates from offices in New York and Los Angeles and partners with entrepreneurs to gain visibility, build strategic relationships, and bring products to market. The firm leverages a broad network of media and tech connections to support portfolio companies and drive growth. Greycroft manages over $1 billion in assets and has backed a diverse range of companies, including Acorns, Venmo, Shipt, Huffington Post, Scopely, Thrive Market, Boxed, Braintree, JW Player and The RealReal. Through its early- and later-stage funds, Greycroft supports founders across consumer internet, fintech, healthcare, and enterprise software, emphasizing practical guidance and collaborative partnerships.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania is a non-profit organization founded in 1982 that promotes technology development in the Philadelphia region. It acts as a capital provider, advisor, and connector to early-stage and growth-stage technology companies across Southeastern Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, Bucks, Delaware, Chester, and Montgomery counties. The organization has provided more than $170 million in capital to over 1,750 regional technology companies and supports the commercialization of scientific discoveries through university-industry partnerships. It focuses on information technology, health, and physical sciences sectors, and aims to strengthen the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem through mentorship, resources, and connections.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. Established in 2011, it concentrates on software as a service investments and aims to back startups across Latin America. The firm supports portfolio companies with strategic guidance, industry connections, and market access, helping them scale and reach customers. In addition to traditional VC activity, Bossa Invest offers corporate venture capital partnerships to help corporations innovate through startup collaboration. Through its ecosystem, the firm has built a network of partners and co-investors to broaden opportunities for growth and exits across diverse sectors.

Sumisho Venture Partners is the corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Corporation, established in 2022 and based in Tokyo, Japan. It invests in startups across sectors including energy, social infrastructure, retail, consumer, healthcare, and agriculture, typically at Series A and later stages. The firm leverages Sumitomo Corporation's assets, resources, and global network to support portfolio companies, including market expansion and co-creation of new businesses aligned with Sumitomo's SHIFT 2023 plan. It operates comprehensive CVC activity across five locations worldwide, with a notable presence in Silicon Valley, China, Israel, the United Kingdom, and Tokyo. The team combines venture capital, business development, and industry expertise to help startups grow, and has engaged in early backing of several portfolio companies as part of its strategy to foster growth aligned with Sumitomo's strategic priorities.

Soma Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that backs early-stage technology companies, with a focus on software and related sectors such as B2B software, artificial intelligence, fintech, clean-tech, and other tech-enabled fields. The firm emphasizes close collaboration with founders, investing across seed to later stages, and maintains a global portfolio that includes notable companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks.

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, that funds and supports technology companies across stages and sectors, including artificial intelligence, healthcare, climate tech, digital health, and consumer technology. It provides capital and strategic guidance to help startups develop innovative products, scale operations, and build enduring businesses, with an emphasis on science-driven, high-impact ventures and unconventional ideas. Founded by Vinod Khosla, the firm seeks to back companies addressing large, underserved markets and to contribute hands-on support beyond funding.

Flex Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, investing at the pre-seed and seed stages in AI, B2B, and enterprise-focused companies, among others. The firm provides initial investments and ongoing strategic and operational support drawn from a team of founders who previously led and built successful companies. Flex emphasizes founder-aligned governance by pledging voting shares back to the founders and maintains rapid decision-making. It assists portfolio companies in raising follow-on capital, securing customers, and leveraging a broad network of founders, strategic LPs, venture partners, and angels for introductions and opportunities. The approach combines capital with hands-on guidance and long-term commitment to helping founders scale their businesses.

Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation is a not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Richmond, Virginia. It promotes early commercialization and finance for Virginia technologies, entrepreneurs, companies, and market development projects, focusing on the early commercialization and seed finance stages to help innovators launch and grow new businesses, create high-paying employment, and accelerate economic growth across the state. As the nonprofit operations arm of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority, VIPC provides resources, mentorship, and partnership opportunities to accelerate growth and help Virginia firms access funding and support their commercialization efforts.

GTMfund is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage B2B software and AI companies and provides go-to-market support through a network of GTM leaders. Founded in 2020 and based in Scottsdale, Arizona, the firm targets Pre-Seed and Seed rounds with an emphasis on helping portfolio companies accelerate market entry and growth through GTM strategy, hiring, and execution. Its portfolio spans enterprise AI, automated compliance, AI contract review, agentic workflow automation, computer vision, and AI scheduling. The firm distinguishes itself by combining financial investment with hands-on GTM guidance from experienced operators, drawing on a network of hundreds of GTM executives who have scaled fast-growing startups.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage, capital-efficient technology companies in the United States and Canada. It employs a quantitative, data-driven approach to identify opportunities, enabling fast, transparent funding decisions. The firm typically writes small checks in the range of 50,000 to 500,000 and provides founders with mentorship, operational guidance, and access to later-stage investors. Focusing on startups outside major hubs, it emphasizes revenue-generating models with scalable potential and aims to build a diversified portfolio while delivering practical post-investment support.

The Invention Lab is a Seoul-based venture studio and open-innovation advisor serving startups and corporates in Korea and Southeast Asia. It offers end-to-end capabilities across New Business Design, Venture Scale-up and Management, and Strategic Partnerships, leveraging data insights and AI to move from insight to validated concepts and scalable growth. The Studio Core Platform provides a structured process, capital and blended financing, talent and operator pools, and infrastructure validation to support execution. The firm sources deals and connects ventures with external ecosystems to drive market expansion, including overseas expansion for selected ventures. Founded in 2017, it focuses on consumer tech, digital health, vertical O2O, commerce and SaaS, with notable engagements across F&B, mobility/autotech/fintech platforms in Vietnam, and B2B/SaaS AI applications.

Inflection Point Ventures is an Indian early-stage angel investment platform and network based in Gurgaon. Founded in 2018, it connects startups with a community of professionals, CXOs, HNIs and family offices, providing capital as well as mentorship, market access and strategic guidance through its extensive investor network. The firm emphasizes democratizing angel investing with low membership fees, small investment ticket sizes, a transparent process and rigorous upfront due diligence led by industry experts. It operates across sectors including healthcare, software, clean technology, deep tech, e-commerce, edtech, fintech, gaming and social platforms, focusing on committed and capable founders rather than a specific industry.

Alchemist Accelerator is a six-month program that accelerates seed- and early-stage enterprise startups, prioritizing ventures that monetize from business customers. It provides seed funding in the tens of thousands of dollars, along with mentorship, structured milestones, and access to a global network of operators, investors, and corporate partners. The program emphasizes distinctive technical founders, rigorous customer discovery, and disciplined fundraising to help teams gain traction. Backers include notable technology firms and venture investors, and alumni have achieved significant funding and growth through the program.

Mizuho Capital is the venture capital arm of Mizuho Financial Group, based in Tokyo. It invests in innovative startups across information technology, internet-related services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other sectors, supporting portfolio companies toward growth and successful public listings. Operating within the Mizuho ecosystem alongside Mizuho Bank, Mizuho Securities, and Mizuho Trust Bank, it leverages the group’s resources to help portfolio companies scale and pursue IPOs, while maintaining a disciplined approach to governance and investor protection. Its origins lie in the consolidation of several specialized venture units, reflecting a long-standing focus on identifying high-potential ventures.

Team Ignite Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2020 and based in Northern California. It focuses on early-stage technology companies, particularly in business-to-business software, fintech, and artificial intelligence. The firm adopts a network-first approach, aiming to unlock access to capital and strategic opportunities through a broad global investor syndicate, enabling participation in rounds often unavailable to others. It provides founders with capital, connections, and operational support, seeking outliers with velocity and vision. By combining active participation, collaboration with founders and partners, and a global reach, Team Ignite positions itself as a proactive partner for ambitious startups in the seed and pre-seed landscape.

Project A Ventures is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 that funds seed and Series A technology companies across Europe. The firm combines capital with extensive operational support, deploying a team of more than 100 experts in software engineering, data analytics, marketing, and recruiting to help portfolio companies scale. Its investments span sectors such as consumer tech, fintech, digital health, e-commerce, ad tech, cybersecurity, and enterprise software, with a pan-European approach and involvement in incubation and acceleration activities. Notable portfolio companies include Trade Republic and sennder. Project A emphasizes long-term founder partnerships and typically makes initial investments in the lower mid single-digit millions, with scope for follow-on rounds.

Venrock is a venture capital firm founded in 1969 as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family. It concentrates on seed and early-stage investments across technology and healthcare, with interest in AI, biotechnology, fintech, data analytics, cybersecurity, cloud and software, and related life sciences sectors. The firm supports startups in the United States, with a strong presence in Silicon Valley and New York, and has a history of backing notable technology and healthcare companies such as Apple Computer, Intel, Illumina, Athenahealth, Gilead Sciences, DoubleClick, Endeca, Nest, SlideShare and Tudou. Venrock pursues exits through acquisitions and IPOs and partners with entrepreneurs to build enduring companies.

Village Global is an early-stage venture capital firm and accelerator based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2017, it backs pre-seed and seed startups across sectors such as financial services, healthcare, information technology, mobile, SaaS, artificial intelligence, supply chain, B2B and B2C. The firm is supported by prominent entrepreneurs and operates a founder-centric network that provides mentorship, events, and access to a community of hundreds of founders, operator angels, and experienced investors. Village Global emphasizes a generalist approach, helping founders navigate fundraising, partnerships, and growth through practical guidance and connections to a broad ecosystem of capital and expertise. It seeks to help early-stage companies scale globally by leveraging its network rather than solely providing capital.

Rebel Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that invests in early-stage technology startups, with a focus on big data, SaaS, software, AI, information technology and related TMT sectors. It operates with a data-driven approach, leveraging a proprietary machine learning model and a network of Y Combinator alumni to evaluate founder outcomes and predict startup success. The firm concentrates on high-potential YC graduates and has invested in over 300 startups, aiming to build statistically powered portfolios through rigorous trend analysis and performance data.

SV Angel is a San Francisco–based venture capital and angel investment firm that backs seed to early-stage technology companies across the United States. It focuses on sectors such as enterprise software, consumer technology, fintech, AI, and information technology, offering business development, financing, M&A guidance, and strategic introductions through its extensive network to help founders navigate fundraising, growth, and key hires. The firm emphasizes a founder-friendly, long-term mentorship approach grounded in execution, advocacy, and ethical conduct, with an emphasis on supporting the founder’s well-being and building a strong ecosystem by reducing friction and connecting entrepreneurs with capital, customers, and partners.

Turkey Development Fund is an economic development agency based in Istanbul, established in 2019. It invests in startups and funds that support Turkey's sustainable development, with a focus on strengthening strategically important economic sectors and developing the nascent venture capital ecosystem. Assets are managed by a board of directors, providing governance for investment decisions.

NFX is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed and seed-stage investments. The firm backs founders across sectors including software, data products, biotech, gaming, generative AI, space and proptech, with a founder-first approach designed to improve the startup experience through software-enabled processes and founder support. NFX emphasizes network effects and growth as core levers, aiming to reveal and apply the proven methods behind high-growth technology companies. The firm combines hands-on backing with a community for founders, offering resources and programs that help entrepreneurs raise capital, scale operations, and navigate early-stage challenges. NFX has backed startups with substantial exits and maintains an ecosystem focus across the United States and international markets.

DBJ Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of the Development Bank of Japan, based in Tokyo. It focuses on frontier technology, information technology services, biotechnology and healthcare, and other industries, funding innovative firms across growth stages. By mobilizing the DBJ Group, DBJ Capital structures investment solutions ranging from growth equity to financing schemes backed by DBJ's networks. It also assists venture startups through a value enhancement team that helps commercialize intellectual property and technologies developed by firms, research labs, and universities, helping them carve out a market presence. The firm pursues a long-term, value-creating approach, leveraging DBJ's sector knowledge, industry connections, and regional-to-global partnerships to help startups accelerate growth. The objective is to contribute to Japan's economic revival by supporting high-potential ventures from investment to scale.

Global From Day One is an operator-led venture capital firm based in Auckland, New Zealand, backing early-stage technology companies with globally ambitious solutions. It provides hands-on support to founders as operating partners, including expertise in product, growth, and HR, and makes initial investments at pre-seed, leads rounds at Series A, and participates in follow-on rounds through Series B. The firm focuses on category-defining businesses across sectors such as frontier energy and industrials, the new space economy, human health, next-generation AI software, and financial infrastructure, aiming to help companies scale internationally from a New Zealand base. It leverages in-market connections and advisory support, runs a Build program to assist portfolio companies, and emphasizes ESG and global growth.

CyberAgent Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of CyberAgent, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It focuses on seed to early-stage investments in internet and information technology startups across Asia, providing capital as well as strategic guidance, partnerships, and access to a global network to accelerate growth. The firm operates as an innovation engine that supports portfolio companies through hands-on support and collaboration opportunities, enabling scale and impact in the rapidly evolving digital economy.

Mercia Ventures is an early‑stage to scale‑up investment firm that provides growth capital to ambitious UK businesses. With a national presence, it offers tailored support and expertise to help companies expand and achieve their strategic objectives.

Presidio Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Corporation, focused on investing in and supporting the global adoption of innovative technologies. It backs startups across enterprise information technology, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, digital media, mobility, the Internet of Things, fintech, and robotics, offering financial backing and business development expertise to help companies move from early-stage investment to IPO. Founded in 1998 and based in Santa Clara, California, Presidio leverages Sumitomo's worldwide network to tailor support through its affiliates, with a presence in major U.S. tech hubs to accelerate market entry and scale. The firm seeks partnerships with entrepreneurs shaping key industries to advance technology across sectors.

Nissay Capital is the investment arm of Nippon Life Insurance Company and a Tokyo-based venture capital firm established in 1991. It focuses on technology-driven opportunities across information technology, manufacturing, medical, distribution, and retail sectors, targeting seed through growth-stage investments. The firm emphasizes a disciplined investment policy, active management support for portfolio companies, and transparent investment processes with a strong commitment to responsible investment and human rights principles. It manages multiple funds and maintains a growing portfolio of technology and growth-stage companies. Notable activity includes recent investments in Eight Not Co., PayTone, OptQC, STYZ, ElevationSpace, MENOU, Movus Technologies, and Fogg, as well as support for KOMPEITO Growth market IPO. Nissay Capital aims to accelerate portfolio-company growth and deliver sustainable value to Nippon Life and other stakeholders.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm that backs deep-tech startups through multi-stage investments and hands-on programs. It focuses on pre-seed and early-stage funding across healthcare, AI, robotics, hardware, and cross-border software, and supports founders with intensive mentorship, prototyping facilities, and access to a broad investor network to accelerate product development and fundraising toward Series B. The firm operates dedicated deep-tech facilities, including IndieBio, renamed SOSV SF & NY, and HAX in Newark, providing laboratory and engineering space, and maintains a global footprint with offices in New York, Newark, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Pune, Shenzhen, and Tokyo. SOSV emphasizes long-term founder relationships and program-driven growth, backed by a substantial portfolio and capital deployed across multiple regions.

Pareto Holdings is a New York–founded early-stage venture capital firm and venture studio that invests its own capital in pre-seed and early-stage startups across industries worldwide. With a small, globally distributed team, it emphasizes independent funding and hands-on company building, backing hundreds of ventures to date. The firm operates Pareto House and Pareto Fellowship to foster a community around its investment philosophy and entrepreneurship. It is industry and geography agnostic, focusing on exceptional founders and scalable ideas, and supports portfolio companies through capital and operational guidance as part of its venture studio approach.

Kima Ventures is a Paris-based venture capital firm with a London office that backs early-stage startups worldwide, investing from seed to Series A, often as lead investor but also alongside co-investors, and taking a hands-on approach that pairs funding with mentorship, a broad founder network, and rapid decision-making to reduce fundraising friction. The firm focuses on technology companies and supports ambitious founders in building strong teams, learning quickly, and executing toward growth. It operates globally, having invested in over 400 startups across 24 countries in recent years, highlighting its active and scalable model. The firm was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, a notable entrepreneur and investor in the tech ecosystem, and positions itself as a network of founders and experts sharing a pay-it-forward mindset.

Northstar Ventures is a Newcastle-based venture capital firm in the United Kingdom that invests in early and later-stage technology companies, with a focus on climate technology and healthy ageing, primarily in the United Kingdom and North East England. It supports portfolio companies with capital, strategic guidance, and access to a network including university partners, funders, non-executive directors, and talent, aiming to create jobs and growth in the region and beyond.