FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. It specializes in marketplaces and consumer-facing startups and is stage-agnostic, making seed to Series A investments with typical checks ranging from 50,000 to 5,000,000. The firm backs founders pursuing network effects and scalable models across consumer internet, e-commerce, fintech, and related sectors, aiming to support transformative growth. Its portfolio includes companies such as Alibaba Group, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest, reflecting a broad approach to marketplaces and consumer ventures. FJ Labs emphasizes passion, execution, and tenacity in founders and actively seeks new opportunities to back impactful businesses.

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is the venture capital arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, investing in seed and development-stage startups across life sciences, information technology and high-technology sectors with a focus on the Japanese market. Based in Tokyo with offices in Osaka and Nagoya, it pursues a diversified investment program and supports portfolio companies through active collaboration to accelerate growth and readiness for IPOs. By leveraging MUFG’s global network, it seeks strategic partnerships and cross-border opportunities for portfolio companies, including sectors such as healthcare, biotechnology, AI, fintech, SaaS, electronics, and ICT.

Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire, that expands access to venture investing for accredited individuals by co-investing with leading venture capital firms and enabling participation through various structures such as funds, syndicates, and investment clubs. It collaborates with top firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, and Y Combinator and supports opportunities across pre-seed to growth stages, across multiple sectors and geographies. The firm emphasizes rigorous due diligence, transparency, and diversification, leveraging a broad network of alumni investors and partners to connect founders with strategic capital and resources. With a global footprint and active involvement in the venture ecosystem, Alumni Ventures aims to broaden participation in venture capital while maintaining disciplined, founder-friendly investing.

Kima Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris with an office in London that concentrates on early-stage investments, typically from seed to Series A. It often acts as lead investor and provides funding, a wide network, and hands-on support to help founders recruit teams, learn quickly, and execute toward growth. The firm emphasizes rapid decision-making to keep fundraising smooth and allow founders to focus on building the business, and it operates as a network of founders and experts sharing a pay-it-forward mindset. Founded in 2010 and backed by Xavier Niel, Kima Ventures has backed over 400 startups in 24 countries, reflecting its global reach.

Global Brain is a Tokyo-based independent venture capital firm founded in 1998 that invests in technology companies worldwide from seed to pre-IPO stages. It focuses on sectors such as advertising, agritech, foodtech, AI, blockchain, climate tech, cloud software-as-a-service, commerce, and cybersecurity, and provides hands-on support and resources to portfolio companies. The firm operates an accelerator program called GB Xlimit for pre-Series A startups and collaborates with corporate venture funds and large corporations to back strategic investments. With a global portfolio and a track record of exits through mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings, Global Brain manages flagship funds and maintains a broad network of operating and investment partners to foster new industry creation.

Mayfield Fund is a Menlo Park based venture capital firm founded in 1969. It invests in early-stage and growth-stage technology companies across information technology, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, consumer technology and semiconductors, providing long-term capital and strategic guidance to founders. The firm supports product strategy, scaling operations and market expansion and has backed more than 500 companies, resulting in approximately 117 IPOs and more than 200 mergers or acquisitions. With over $2.5 billion under management and a global reach, Mayfield backs cross-border opportunities while maintaining a strong presence in California, including operations in India. Since inception, it focuses on helping entrepreneurs grow and achieve scale.

Bossa Invest is a São Paulo-based venture capital investment firm that focuses on software as a service opportunities and provides asset management services to clients. It analyzes market trends to guide investment decisions and serves clients across sectors including finance, technology, and real estate. The firm supports startups with capital, mentorship, and access to a wide ecosystem of investors and strategic partners, and it engages in corporate venture activities that link startups with corporate partners. Headquartered in São Paulo, it is described as a leading Latin American VC with a broad portfolio and ecosystem, having invested in more than 1,500 startups and supported over 100 exits, reflecting an active role in scaling early-stage companies across the region.

Liquid 2 Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma. It funds technology startups across seed and early growth stages, often investing alongside other investors, and supports portfolio companies with strategic introductions, mentorship, and access to its operator network. The firm focuses on technology-enabled sectors and seeks long-term partnerships with founders to help scale businesses.

SMBC Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, focusing on growth capital and buyouts across information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing. A long-established domestic VC, it supports portfolio companies by leveraging the SMBC Group network to connect them with large corporations, talent, and experts, while providing stage-appropriate funding and strategic value. The firm pursues growth-oriented investments and seeks to address social issues through its portfolio, backed by a broad network including audit and securities firms and other investors. Since its founding in 2005 in Tokyo (with offices in Osaka), it has backed hundreds of companies, with a track record of more than 400 portfolio companies achieving IPOs, underscoring its ability to create value. SMBC Venture Capital aims to deliver comprehensive support by integrating investment, promotion, and strategy functions, benefiting from the group's global reach.

8VC is a San Francisco based technology investment firm that backs ambitious companies creating lasting economic and societal value by building technology platforms that deliver operational intelligence to complex industries. The firm invests across life sciences, healthcare, AI, financial services, IT infrastructure, logistics, defense, energy, enterprise software and government, and emphasizes a portfolio-support approach to help founders scale transformational technologies with practical operating insights. It pursues industry-wide impact by advancing platform-driven growth and real-world applications that map to business operations. In addition to traditional investments, 8VC runs programs such as the Fellowship and Build to support portfolio companies and create new ventures.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that targets early-stage, capital-efficient technology startups. Using a quantitative, data-driven approach, it makes rapid funding decisions for companies that are pre-product-market fit or early in their development, often with small rounds and modest valuations. The firm emphasizes speed and transparency, typically delivering a yes or no decision within weeks, and it seeks to build ultra-diversified portfolios across many portfolio companies. Beyond capital, it provides substantial post-investment mentorship and operational support, including guidance on sales and marketing and other growth functions, leveraging the founders' decades of tech experience and an expansive network. Investments span the United States and Canada, with activity focused on technology-enabled companies across these markets. Since its founding in 2012, Right Side Capital positions itself as funding startups that are underserved by traditional professional investors, operating like an operating company rather than a conventional VC and aiming to help founders accelerate fundraising and scale their ventures.

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It deploys capital across the full startup lifecycle, from seed to growth, and invests in a broad range of sectors including artificial intelligence, healthcare, consumer technology, fintech, cryptocurrency and blockchain, enterprise software, and infrastructure. The firm offers more than funding, providing an operating network that connects portfolio companies with technical advisors, executive talent, and industry operators to support growth and scale. Through its thought leadership and wide industry coverage, Andreessen Horowitz positions itself as a principal investor in technology-driven companies shaping software-enabled markets.

True Global Ventures is a global venture capital firm that backs early-stage, AI-first technology companies, with a focus on agentic AI and the future of work. It operates internationally with offices in major markets and provides hands-on support beyond capital, including strategic partnerships, executive recruitment, international expansion, and follow-on financing to help portfolio companies scale. The firm typically invests in late seed to Series A rounds and seeks startups with scalable software or internet platforms, often in fintech, AI, cybersecurity, and related sectors. Drawing on a network of experienced entrepreneur-investors, True Global Ventures combines funding with operational guidance and cross-border value creation to accelerate growth, while prioritizing scalable, software-driven businesses over hardware, cleantech, or medtech opportunities.

Flex Capital is a San Francisco–based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that backs early-stage founders at pre-seed and seed rounds. The firm focuses on artificial intelligence, B2B, and enterprise software, offering capital and hands-on operating support from experienced founders who have built and scaled companies. Flex emphasizes founder-friendly terms and aligned governance, pledging rapid decision-making—typically within a week—and active help with follow-on funding, customer introductions, and strategic partnerships. Its partners leverage a deep network of founders, investors, and venture partners to support portfolio companies on a long-term basis, with an emphasis on minimizing overhead and complexity for entrepreneurs. The approach combines capital with practical guidance and operational help to accelerate growth, with portfolio companies spanning AI, fintech, enterprise software, and consumer tech.

Soma Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco. It focuses on early-stage investments, with an emphasis on software and B2B SaaS, as well as fintech, artificial intelligence, clean-tech, frontier-tech, prop-tech, cryptocurrency, health tech, and consumer sectors globally. The firm aims to build close partnerships with founders from day one and supports portfolio companies through growth. Its track record includes seed investments in companies that have achieved substantial valuations, including several unicorns in its portfolio, reflecting a history of identifying high-potential startups.

Revo Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and headquartered in Istanbul, with offices in Tallinn and Amsterdam. It targets seed to growth-stage technology startups across Turkey, Eastern Europe and the Baltics, investing in sectors such as SaaS, fintech, cloud, healthtech, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, big data and marketing tech. The firm emphasizes leveraging its network and operational experience to help portfolio companies scale internationally and seize regional opportunities. Its investments include notable companies in the region, and it counts anchor investors such as the IFC, EBRD, EIF and DEG among its backers. Revo Capital maintains an active presence in industry events and partnerships to provide resources and connections for startups in its focus markets.

IDG Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1993 and headquartered in Hong Kong. It operates across multiple markets with a broad international footprint and manages investments in technology, consumer, healthcare, and finance sectors, supporting companies through venture, growth, buyouts, and secondary investments. The firm emphasizes long-term value creation by combining global resources with local market insight to help founders scale, pursue geographic expansion, and form strategic partnerships, with a history of cross-border activity and exits in China and beyond.

Inflection Point Ventures is India's leading angel network that invests in early- to mid-stage startups. It mobilizes a broad community of CXOs, professionals, high-net-worth individuals and family offices to provide capital, mentorship, and access to markets and customers. The firm emphasizes democratizing angel investing through a low membership fee, small investment tickets, a transparent investment process, and comprehensive upfront due diligence led by industry experts. It operates across industries, focusing on committed and competent founders who can scale, and leverages its ecosystem to offer strategic guidance, networks, and validation to portfolio companies.

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park. It provides venture assistance, strategic advice, and capital to entrepreneurs and invests across stages in technology-driven sectors, including artificial intelligence, healthcare, sustainability, digital health, consumer technology, and related deep-tech fields. The firm seeks to back bold ideas with a long-term perspective, often partnering with founders to help scale innovative products and business models. It emphasizes support beyond funding, offering strategic guidance to build companies with durable value and focusing on transformative technologies that address large markets.

Emergent Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 and based in San Mateo, California. It concentrates on seed-stage investments in enterprise software and artificial intelligence, with emphasis on intelligent software and cloud-related areas such as enterprise automation, AI-driven analytics, DevOps tools, and data-oriented platforms. The firm seeks to back ambitious founders early, helping them achieve product-market fit and develop go-to-market strategies through hands-on support and practical, contextual guidance. Its portfolio includes Observe.ai, Acceldata, and Prezent.ai, reflecting a focus on AI-powered contact centers, data observability, and productivity tools. Emergent Ventures aims to identify opportunities ahead of broader market trends and provide resources to help portfolio companies scale to category leadership.

BDC is a government-owned financial institution in Canada that supports small and medium-sized enterprises with financing, consulting, and investment services. It provides business loans, working capital, equipment and real estate financing, asset-backed and syndicated financing, subordinate financing, and growth investments through its investment arm. It also offers strategic planning, human resource management, and international expansion assistance. Operating nationwide with offices in both official languages, BDC focuses on helping SMEs grow, innovate, and create jobs across industries.

Mucker Capital is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 that focuses on seed and Series A investments in Internet software and services, with emphasis on enterprise, fintech, B2B and consumer products. It targets startups outside Silicon Valley and operates the Mucker Lab accelerator to support early-stage companies.

Inovia Capital is a Montreal-based venture capital firm founded in 2007 that invests across stages—from pre-seed to growth—in technology companies globally, with a focus on software, artificial intelligence, digital health, security, and enterprise platforms. The firm supports founders with capital, mentorship, and access to a worldwide network, applying an operator mindset and building ecosystems in Canada, the United States, and Europe. It emphasizes its Canadian roots while maintaining a global footprint and pursues initiatives such as collaborations with Mila and research efforts to advance the software and tech ecosystem.

DBJ Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of the Development Bank of Japan, based in Tokyo. It focuses on frontier technologies, information technology services, biotechnology, healthcare, and related industrial sectors, investing across seed to growth stages and leveraging the DBJ Group's networks to tailor investment solutions. The firm supports portfolio companies beyond funding, offering hands-on value enhancement to commercialize intellectual property and technologies from firms, research labs, and universities. By mobilizing the broader DBJ Group, it provides follow-on financing and strategic partnerships to accelerate scale and global competitiveness. Through active collaboration with entrepreneurs, DBJ Capital aims to foster innovation and contribute to Japan's economic revival by helping startups grow and create new industries.

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs seed to early-stage technology startups across the United States. Founded in 1992, the firm emphasizes software-focused and technology-enabled companies, including AI and TMT, and provides more than capital by offering business development, strategic advice, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and introductions through a broad network to help founders navigate fundraising, partnerships, and growth. SV Angel emphasizes long-term partnerships with founders, supporting companies through critical inflection points and helping them scale from early stages toward sustainable expansion.

Greycroft is a venture capital firm that concentrates on technology start-ups and investments in the internet and mobile markets. With offices in New York and Los Angeles, Greycroft leverages its media and technology industry networks to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, forge strategic relationships, bring products to market, and build successful businesses. The firm manages over $1 billion and has made more than 200 investments in companies including Acorns, Venmo, HuffPost, Scopely, Shipt, Thrive Market, Boxed, and The RealReal. Greycroft has also adopted a diversity term sheet rider.

Bonfire Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Los Angeles that concentrates on AI-native B2B software. It leads about 95% of its rounds and takes board seats, working closely with founders on product, go-to-market, and AI-driven strategy from seed through Series A. The firm emphasizes defensibility, data-driven decision making, and hands-on partnerships, leveraging pattern recognition and portfolio context. Its portfolio has generated over $18 billion in exit value, including notable exits such as The Trade Desk and TaxJar.

Oriental Fortune Capital is a Shenzhen-based venture capital firm that invests across seed to Pre-IPO and growth stages, including mezzanine and new third board opportunities. It backs sectors such as information technology, semiconductors, big data, telecommunications, media, healthcare and life sciences, green technology, energy, new materials, advanced manufacturing, consumer goods, and entertainment. The firm pursues investments in China with a focus on major cities—Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, and Wuhu—and regional clusters in the Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta, and Circum-Bohai-Sea. It follows a staged allocation approach, typically dedicating about 20% of its portfolio to early-stage, 40% to expansion, and 40% to Pre-IPO opportunities. The company maintains offices in Shanghai, Beijing, and Wuhu and has a history dating back to 2006–2007.

RA Capital Management is a Boston-based investment firm that pursues evidence-based investing across public and private healthcare, life sciences, and planetary health sectors. The firm supports the growth of innovative companies from seed to later-stage financings, focusing on drugs, medical devices, diagnostics, biotech services, and research tools. RA Capital combines a data-driven research platform, TechAtlas, with a collaborative investment approach and a healthcare incubator, Raven, to help management teams advance ideas from inception through development and commercialization. It frequently co-invests, takes board seats, and participates in follow-on financings, aiming to back ventures that improve patient outcomes and reduce costs. The firm emphasizes US and European opportunities, maintains a multi-stage investment scope, and is headquartered in Boston.

NFX is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups at pre-seed and seed, investing across software, data products, AI, bio, gaming, and related technology sectors in the United States, Israel, Latin America, and Europe. The firm maintains a founder-centric approach, aiming to improve the startup experience with software-powered processes, and to share growth techniques that leverage network effects. It has backed numerous companies with significant exits, reflecting its experience as entrepreneurs themselves. NFX also runs a founder community and resources such as a weekly newsletter and a Masterclass on network effects, supported by the NFX Guild.

IMM Investment is a Seoul-based asset manager and private equity/venture capital firm that engages in multi-asset investments across venture capital, growth equity, mezzanine, and infrastructure. The firm targets information technology, healthcare/biotech, manufacturing, and related high-growth sectors, and often takes an active management role to support portfolio companies. With offices in Seoul, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, it serves institutional investors and partners with innovative entrepreneurs through a diversified platform and cross-border strategies.

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 spanning venture capital, private equity including buyouts, growth equity, and public equity, and invests across biopharmaceuticals, specialty pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, and healthcare services. The firm backs hundreds of companies worldwide, with a focus on the United States and China, and maintains a track record of portfolio exits through initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Its team comprises physicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, operating executives, and industry experts who collaborate to build high-quality healthcare companies and advance patient outcomes. Reported assets under management are approximately six billion dollars.

Stage 2 Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage investments in B2B software and related technology. The firm combines traditional VC expertise with a large network of go-to-market professionals who participate in portfolio companies as executives, board members, or advisers to accelerate product-market fit and revenue growth. It employs data-driven methodologies and hands-on support to help founders scale, leveraging GTM insights across sectors including fintech, vertical software, AI, data and infrastructure, marketplaces, collaboration and productivity tools, development tools, healthcare IT, and finance and legal operations. The firm emphasizes integrating its GTM network into portfolio companies and draws on its experience across multiple sectors to back ambitious software startups from New York.

GTMfund is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage B2B software and AI companies, primarily at Pre-Seed and Seed rounds. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, the firm emphasizes go-to-market strategy and leverages a network of experienced operators to provide GTM guidance, hiring support, and introductions to customers, partners, and investors. The portfolio covers AI, FinTech, Health Care, vertical SaaS, GovTech, and other tech sectors, and the firm aims to help portfolio companies achieve rapid growth and widespread market adoption.

The Invention Lab is a Seoul-based venture studio and open-innovation advisory that partners with startups and corporates to design, validate, and scale new ventures. Drawing on eight years of experience, it offers end-to-end capabilities across new business design, venture scale-up and management, and strategic partnerships, supported by an in-house platform and ecosystem that enables rapid validation, funding, and cross-border expansion. It has evolved into an AI-driven venture studio model that aligns market insights with viable business designs and sustainable growth, including early-stage investment, acceleration, and corporate spin-offs. The company tackles global expansion and Southeast Asia projects across sectors such as food and beverage local expansion, mobility/autotech/fintech, and B2B/SaaS, with concrete examples including a Vietnamese marketplace for used and electric motorcycles and Blurmi, a real-time AI software as a service. Founded in 2017, it operates from Seoul and focuses on turning ideas into scalable growth opportunities for startups and large enterprises.

Venrock is a venture capital firm founded in 1969 as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family. It concentrates on technology and healthcare, investing in seed and early-stage companies as well as growth opportunities, and has backed influential firms such as Apple Computer, Intel, Illumina, Nest, and SlideShare. The firm supports portfolio companies across information technology, life sciences, software, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies, pursuing disruptive innovations and long-term growth through partnerships with entrepreneurs to build enduring companies.

Turkey Development Fund is an economic development agency based in Istanbul, established in 2019. It aims to advance Turkey’s sustainable development by investing in companies and funds that support strategic sectors and cultivate the early-stage venture capital ecosystem, including through sub-funds. The organization seeks to develop the enterprise landscape by backing new generation startups. Assets are managed by a board of directors.

Team Ignite Ventures is a Northern California-based venture capital firm, founded in 2020, that backs early-stage B2B SaaS, marketplaces, fintech and AI startups. The firm emphasizes a collaborative, hands-on approach, co-investing early and often with leading partners and drawing on a network of operators, mentors and LPs to support portfolio companies across product development, growth and go-to-market strategies. Its team leverages operating experience from large tech companies such as Microsoft, AWS and LinkedIn to help startups scale, with an emphasis on partnering closely through the entire lifecycle from initial development to scaling.

Service Provider Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Colorado. It specializes in co-investments in Seed and Series A rounds led by institutional venture funds, and operates multiple regional funds with a portfolio of 600+ companies and connections to over 400 strategic investors. The firm leverages its extensive networks of limited partners and CEOs to connect portfolio companies with potential investors, customers, and partners, while providing access to expertise and resources without imposing restrictive terms or seeking special rights. It supports portfolio companies with prompt assistance and covers its own legal fees, and operates independently of certain listed firms to focus on portfolio company growth.

Alchemist Accelerator is a seed-stage enterprise accelerator that supports B2B startups through a six-month program offering mentorship and seed funding. It targets technically skilled founders building enterprise-focused solutions and aims to accelerate traction, fundraising, and go-to-market capabilities. The program typically provides seed funding in the range of $36,000 to $40,000 in notes. Backers include Cisco Systems, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Khosla Ventures, SAP Ventures, GE, next47, US Venture Partners, and other corporate and venture investors. Based in San Francisco, California, Alchemist connects founders with mentors and a broad venture ecosystem to help scale to commercialization.

Pear VC is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson. It concentrates on early-stage investments, primarily pre-seed and seed rounds, across technology sectors including artificial intelligence, software as a service, enterprise technology, healthcare, fintech, climate technology, biotechnology, and consumer markets. The firm supports portfolio companies beyond capital by offering help with talent recruitment, go-to-market strategy, fundraising, and other resources drawn from its network and experience. It positions itself as a hands-on partner, providing playbooks, coaching, and introductions to investors, and fostering a community through initiatives like Pear Garage and founder circles. Pear has backed numerous startups in their early rounds, aiming to help exceptional founders build enduring companies by combining selective investment with operational support.

SignalFire is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 that backs seed and early-stage technology companies. It emphasizes data-driven insights and a tech-enabled approach, leveraging its Beacon AI platform and a distributed network of entrepreneurs, product and engineering leaders to support portfolio companies beyond fundraising. The firm focuses on sectors including artificial intelligence, machine learning, software-as-a-service, cybersecurity, fintech, health tech, and consumer technologies, and provides services such as talent sourcing, competitive intelligence, and go-to-market support, often pairing portfolio founders with engineers, data scientists, product professionals, and advisors. SignalFire operates with a modern, founder-friendly model that aims to accelerate growth through an integrated infrastructure for recruiting, business development, customer acquisition, and community-building. Based in San Francisco, it pursues seed to early-stage investments across North America, seeking to help disruptive startups scale.

Village Global is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm and accelerator founded in 2017 that supports early-stage technology startups through funding and a global network. It focuses on pre-seed and seed rounds across sectors such as fintech, healthcare technology, information technology, SaaS, artificial intelligence, and mobility, emphasizing a founder-driven approach. Beyond capital, Village Global provides mentorship, access to a broad community of founders, operator angels, and experienced LPs, as well as programs and events designed to facilitate knowledge sharing, collaboration, and growth. The firm operates as a platform that connects early-stage companies with resources, strategic partners, and potential investors, helping startups scale while maintaining a global outlook.

Commodore Capital is a New York City-based venture capital firm focused on biopharmaceuticals. Founded in 2019, it seeks to invest in innovative companies developing new medicines and to support them through the early stages of a major innovation cycle in biopharmaceuticals. The firm emphasizes backing ventures driven by genetic and cellular therapy advances from smaller firms, aiming to help bring treatments to patients worldwide. It operates as a registered investment adviser and acts as a collaborative partner to portfolio companies throughout development and commercialization.

LvlUp Ventures is a Los Angeles, California based multi-stage venture capital firm that invests across industries from pre-seed to Series B and backs founders worldwide, supporting hundreds of startups annually. The firm provides more than capital through an extended-team ecosystem, deep corporate partnerships, accelerators, and a VC-in-Residence program, offering hands-on growth and fundraising guidance. It combines equity with non-dilutive financing options and leverages a technology backbone and broad partner network to create opportunities for portfolio companies to scale, aiming to unlock synergies across its ecosystem.

Global From Day One is an Auckland-based venture capital firm that backs globally ambitious New Zealand companies across technology sectors from seed to scale. The firm combines capital with hands-on operating support in product, growth, and human resources, and runs programs to connect portfolio companies with in-market expertise and international opportunities. It follows a generalist approach, investing in information technology, software and other tech-enabled sectors such as health tech, energy, and financial services, with a focus on helping companies expand beyond New Zealand into global markets. The firm emphasizes ESG considerations and supports portfolio growth through direct guidance, strategic connections, and international market-entry capabilities.

CyberAgent Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of CyberAgent, headquartered in Tokyo. It invests in seed- and early-stage internet and information technology startups across Asia-Pacific and the United States, leveraging CyberAgent's global network and resources to help portfolio companies scale and reach international markets.

The Ukrainian Startup Fund is a state-backed organization under the Ministry of Digital Transformation in Ukraine, established in 2018 to develop and scale early-stage startups nationwide. It supports entrepreneurship through programs such as Startup Edge (grants for Deep Tech, Green Tech and EdTech), Sandbox for AI and blockchain solutions, Tech Missions with international delegations, a National Startup Schools network, Seeds of Bravery granting up to 60,000 euros to Ukrainian tech SMEs and startups, and Corporate Innovations to help integrate startup products with large Ukrainian corporations. The fund has supported hundreds of startup teams, organized numerous events, engaged hundreds of pro bono experts, and helped participants attract significant private investment; it also serves as a leading local investor with thousands of applications and a growing startup database. The organization aims to invest, train, promote, and represent Ukraine’s innovation ecosystem, connecting founders with mentors, partners, and capital to accelerate growth.

South Carolina Research Authority is a public, nonprofit corporation established in 1983 to foster innovation and economic growth in South Carolina. It advances applied research, product development and commercialization by connecting researchers, universities and industry with funding, facilities and expertise. Through its initiatives, including cybersecurity and research security centers and industry partnership funds, SCRA supports startups and academic research, and accelerates technology advancement across sectors. It administers the SC Launch program, a network that provides incubator space, mentorship and access to grants and financing to South Carolina technology and life sciences companies, often in collaboration with the state's university research foundations. SCRA offers grants such as the Tech Catalyst Fund and SBIR/STTR-related resources, and maintains partnerships with Clemson University, the University of South Carolina and the Medical University of South Carolina. The organization also promotes regional innovation by offering resources, programming and member benefits to companies seeking to grow, while prioritizing high-wage job creation and rural health innovation.

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.