Global Founders Capital is a Berlin, Germany-based venture capital firm with a global focus that invests across seed, early, and later-stage companies. It maintains a stage-agnostic approach, seeking innovative ideas with potential impact and feasibility in global markets.

Established in 2020, the European Innovation Council supports innovative startups and researchers with promising ideas, focusing on early-stage companies with positive environmental, social, or governance impacts. It co-invests alongside private investors.

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, making seed and Series A investments. Typical checks range from 50,000 to 5,000,000 dollars. The firm supports early-stage companies across sectors such as e-commerce, fintech, ad tech, mobile, and software-as-a-service, seeking opportunities with high growth potential in the United States and internationally. Its portfolio includes a mix of consumer brands and marketplace platforms, reflecting an emphasis on business models that connect buyers and sellers or enable direct consumer experiences. FJ Labs aims to back entrepreneurs building scalable, disruptively positioned products and services, often partnering with founders early in their development to help accelerate growth.

Soma Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that focuses on software-driven startups and seed-stage investments. It backs companies across B2B software, artificial intelligence, fintech, clean-tech, frontier-tech, prop-tech, cryptocurrency, health tech, and consumer sectors, with a global footprint spanning Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Asia. The firm has a track record of backing startups that grow into unicorns, reflecting an emphasis on founder-led software businesses with scalable models. Soma Capital operates as a registered investment adviser.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.

Xianghe Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on early and growth-stage investments in China’s TMT sector. Founded by Hesong Tang and Maggie Yang, former Baidu corporate development executives, the firm leverages strategic analysis and deep industry connections to identify and support transformative opportunities. The founders’ backgrounds include leadership in landmark deals in China’s internet landscape, such as iQiyi, Qunar, PPS and 91 Wireless, and experience across Baidu, other leading internet companies and VC funds.

Maersk is a Danish global shipping and logistics company that provides container shipping, container terminals, ports, logistics, warehousing, distribution, and integrated supply chain solutions, including cold chain services and 4PL capabilities.

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

TMV is a female-led venture capital firm that backs purpose-driven startups across sectors including the way we work, logistics and mobility, sustainable solutions, the care economy, and education technology. It builds a team of seasoned operators with a track record of spotting and scaling inventive early-stage companies and aims to fund ventures that reflect real-world needs rather than hype. The firm emphasizes inclusive investing, with about two-thirds of its portfolio comprising women- and minority-owned companies, and pledges to place capital with women and BIPOC founders to broaden access and drive systemic impact. TMV seeks sustainable growth alongside social value, partnering with founders to advance meaningful change in work, trade transparency, circular economy practices, care access, and education.

Liquid 2 Ventures is a San Francisco, California-based venture capital firm that provides seed-stage and early-stage investments to technology startups. Founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma, the firm focuses on technology companies across software, telecommunications, media, and other TMT sectors, offering early funding and strategic guidance to its portfolio companies.

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

Ironspring Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in Austin, Texas. It focuses on digital industrial innovation and early-stage investments across construction, manufacturing, transport and logistics, and energy and renewables. The firm leads and co-leads investments and partners with world-class founders aiming to redesign how products are designed, built, distributed, and operated within the industrial supply chain. Ironspring adds value through its network of premier industrial operating companies and subject matter experts and operates as a registered investment adviser.

Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, established in 2013. It targets individual accredited investors who previously had limited access to venture capital by enabling alumni from top entrepreneurial schools to invest together in ventures led by fellow alumni. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with sector expertise. It offers focused funds that provide accredited investors access to a diversified venture portfolio by type, sector, stage, and geography. The organization engages in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments across technology, consumer, financial services, health care, life sciences, and other sectors.

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

Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Vienna, with offices across Europe and in San Francisco. It specializes in early-stage investments in technology sectors including deep tech, fintech, health, industrial tech, marketplaces, software as a service and infrastructure, climate tech, crypto, and emerging markets. The firm runs specialized investment teams aligned to these industries and offers an in-house Platform+ team providing tailored operational support, such as growth marketing, human resources, US business development and networking assistance throughout the portfolio journey. Speedinvest seeks to be a hands-on partner, sometimes taking operational roles for a period to help portfolio companies scale, and emphasizes hands-on collaboration with founders to accelerate growth.

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm that concentrates on early-stage Internet investments, with a focus on software-as-a-service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile. It backs startups from their earliest stages and has supported notable companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio, Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk. The firm operates across Europe and North America, targeting SaaS, software, and related digital businesses, and seeks to help portfolio companies scale through critical growth phases.

Endeavor is a nonprofit organization that supports high‑impact entrepreneurs through a global network spanning nearly 40 countries. It backs more than 2,000 entrepreneurs whose companies generate over $28 billion in combined revenues, employ more than 3.9 million people, and attracted more than $4 billion in capital in 2020. The organization offers an entrepreneur‑first model that connects founders with mentors, peers, and opportunities to scale and pay it forward. Its global ecosystem includes affiliates such as Endeavor Miami, which focuses on early‑stage technology firms and reflects the network’s regional and sectoral reach.

Founders Factory builds and funds startups by pairing capital with hands-on support. Founded in 2015 in London, it operates as an accelerator and venture builder, investing in fintech, health, climate, and deeptech. The firm collaborates with entrepreneurs and leading corporate partners to develop ideas, technologies, and business models, providing capital and tailored operational support from a team of specialists and a broad network. It has backed hundreds of technology companies worldwide through its accelerator and venture-building programs.

Blume Ventures is a Mumbai-based venture capital firm that backs technology-driven startups in India at the seed to pre-Series A stage. It focuses on tech-enabled ventures across consumer internet, enterprise software, SaaS, and deep tech, among other areas, including fintech and healthcare. The firm typically serves as one of the first institutional investors in its portfolio companies, and it pursues a collaborative approach by co-investing with like-minded angels and seed funds. It provides follow-on capital to portfolio companies and offers mentoring and strategic support to help them scale, with an investment horizon of roughly 8-10 years.

Randon Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Randon Companies, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Caxias do Sul, Brazil. It pursues investments in startups across logistics technology, fintech, insurtech, autotech, industrial technology, deep tech, blockchain, environmental, social, governance, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and computer vision, aligning with Randon's industrial and technology focus.

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 and based in London with additional offices in San Francisco and Geneva, supporting entrepreneurs shaping technology-driven global businesses by investing across early and growth stages in software, TMT, and related sectors including artificial intelligence, data, fintech, healthcare, and mobility, and partnering with founders to scale companies globally.

Monashees is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, investing in technology-enabled companies across South America and Mexico. It backs founders from early stages and supports growth through expansion funding, guided by a human-values-first approach that aims to improve people’s lives through technology. The firm’s portfolio spans artificial intelligence, climate tech, consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, marketplaces, SaaS and services, reflecting activity in software, platforms and digital networks. The Monashees community includes more than 150 portfolio companies and 300 founders.

Proeza Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Monterrey, Mexico, with an additional presence in Houston, Texas. It focuses on early-stage investments in the mobility sector, targeting Seed and Series A rounds across the Americas and Western Europe. Typical initial checks are around 1.5 million USD, and the firm plans to back approximately 15 portfolio companies. Backed by Grupo Proeza, a corporate group with interests in mobility and agroindustry, Proeza Ventures supports startups developing industrial tech, smart components, new vehicles, mobility-as-a-service, and related digital data services.

Flat6Labs is a Cairo-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm and accelerator in the MENA region. Since 2011 it has built a network of startup programs that support entrepreneurs from pre-seed through pre-Series A, and operates offices across the region including Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Jeddah, Manama, and Tunis. The firm regularly funds more than 100 startups annually and provides a range of investment tickets from 50,000 to 500,000, supported by a broad investor network and extensive mentorship, investor, and corporate connections. Flat6Labs focuses on accelerating the growth of technology-driven startups by combining capital with mentorship, partnerships, and opportunities to scale regionally.

Delhivery is a supply chain services company providing transportation, warehousing, freight, and order fulfillment. It operates a logistics platform offering last-mile delivery, warehousing, reverse logistics, payment collection, and vendor-to-customer shipping, as well as on-demand, same-day/next-day, and time-defined delivery and returns management. The company also provides technology solutions such as real-time monitoring, fraud detection, inventory visibility, and channel management, along with cross-border express freight and international fulfilment. Serving primarily India, Delhivery focuses on multi-channel fulfilment and logistics optimization to accelerate delivery speed and reduce costs for e-commerce and enterprise customers.

Assembly Ventures is a Detroit, Michigan-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that invests in mobility companies across digital and physical mobility, goods, data, and energy. The firm supports entrepreneurs in the mobility ecosystem through early-stage investments and strategic guidance, aiming to accelerate innovations that move people and goods across the Western world.

The EBRD is an international financial institution founded in 1990 and headquartered in London that provides project financing and advisory services to support private sector development and transformation in emerging markets. It finances banks, industries, and businesses, supports new ventures and investments in existing companies, and helps privatize and restructure municipal services in publicly owned entities. Through its banking and treasury activities, it offers loans, equity and quasi-equity investments, guarantees, and equity funds for smaller enterprises, along with trade finance and loan syndication. It works with commercial partners to invest in private enterprises across sectors including energy, manufacturing, ICT, infrastructure, agribusiness, and real estate, across Europe, the Middle East and beyond, including a significant footprint in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and the Caucasus. It provides policy reform dialogue and advisory services to support market modernization, governance, and reform. It has invested over €130 billion in more than 5,000 projects.

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

Established in 2023, Caret Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Gurugram, India. It focuses on investing in early and growth-stage startups operating within the supply chain, warehousing, and logistics sectors.

Incubate Fund is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2010 and based in Tokyo, Japan, with an office in Singapore, that backs technology startups across Asia and North America. It concentrates on providing initial capital to entrepreneurs building software, platforms and digital services in sectors such as media, entertainment, gaming, online commerce, logistics, medical, financial services, real estate and housing, with a preference for mobile, social and web-based offerings. The firm has built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia and has helped portfolio firms reach public markets or achieve exits through M&A since its inception, reflecting an active role in funding and supporting growth-oriented ventures. Through its international footprint and early-stage focus, it supports founders through initial rounds and strategic guidance to accelerate development and scale.

Motion Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2021 that catalyzes digital and energy transition across global supply chains. It draws on a network of corporate leaders, industry executives, and government partners to help founders navigate complexities and pursue scalable impact. Through a collaborative approach spanning the maritime sector and beyond, it seeks to drive transformative changes that reshape global supply chains.

NFX is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focusing on pre-seed and seed investments in technology startups. It positions itself as founder-centric, aiming to improve the early-stage experience through software-enabled processes and by applying growth techniques that leverage network effects. The firm describes its founders as entrepreneurs first and seeks to back the next generation of creators by aligning with their needs and the broader ecosystem. Its investment scope spans software, fintech, e-commerce, data products, marketplaces, and related tech sectors across regions, supported by multiple funds to back early-stage opportunities.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that invests in early-stage technology startups. It specializes in pre-seed and seed rounds for capital-efficient companies, with a focus on the United States and Canada and occasional activity in Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. The firm typically makes 75 to 100 investments per year, with round sizes from 50,000 to 500,000 and pre-money valuations ranging from 1,000,000 to 3,500,000. Portfolio companies are typically located outside the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and the firm aims to provide a clear yes or no on opportunities within about two weeks.

FUSE is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage software companies, primarily investing in Seattle-based seed and Series A rounds.

Zenda is a thesis-driven venture firm that invests in B2B technology companies in the United States and Latin America. Led by operators who invest their own capital, it partners with B2B founders from formation and supports them through early growth. It makes initial investments ranging from 250,000 to 1.5 million and sometimes participates as a co-founder. Founded in 2021 and based in Miami, the firm focuses on early-stage B2B tech ventures.

Cockpit Innovation is the corporate venture capital arm and open innovation hub of El Al Israel Airlines, based in Tel Aviv. It targets early-stage ventures and runs an accelerator program, focusing on technologies for airline operations and logistics, air cargo, cybersecurity, digital travel, and related sectors, including e-commerce and the digital customer journey. The organization seeks to connect startups with strategic opportunities and collaborators, leveraging a network across air travel and food tech and collaborating with industry partners such as Lufthansa, Boeing, JetBlue Technology Ventures, IATA, and gategroup to advance innovative solutions in global aviation and logistics.

MOL PLUS is the corporate venture capital arm of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, based in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 2021, it seeks strategic investments across energy, artificial intelligence, big data, augmented and virtual reality, health technology, new materials, space, robotics, food technology, mobility, metal-as-a-service, the internet of things, environment, and software as a service, prioritizing innovations that advance ocean shipping and logistics.

Deck Point Capital was a New York-based venture capital firm that invested in early-stage companies focused on transportation, logistics, supply chain, and storage.

Reflect Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 that backs early-stage companies. It focuses on logistics, supply chain distribution, transportation, and fintech rails, and targets seed and Series A/B+ rounds. With a global outlook, Reflect Ventures seeks opportunities across mature and emerging markets, supporting founders to scale innovative solutions in critical infrastructure and related financial technologies.

Established in 2018 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Karman Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in investments within the technology sector. The firm focuses on supporting early-stage startups with innovative technical solutions.

Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 2017. It operates as an early-stage investor backed by a network of over 420 Y Combinator alumni, and it seeks to back top YC startups. The firm maintains a broad sector scope, investing in consumer products and services, information technology, financial technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain, life sciences, healthcare technology, real estate technology, ride-sharing, and SaaS and supply chain technologies, among others. Pioneer Fund positions itself as a generalist, technology-focused investor with activity across consumer, enterprise and emerging tech sectors.

Northzone is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 and headquartered in London, with offices in New York, Oslo and Stockholm. The firm backs technology-focused companies across stages, prioritizing software, hardware, and AI-enabled businesses, along with sectors such as healthcare, semiconductors, blockchain, gaming, fintech, and marketplaces. Northzone seeks to help founders scale internationally by connecting portfolio companies with customers, partners and talent through its global network. The firm has built a track record of partnering with category-defining founders and has a Nordic to European footprint complemented by a U.S. presence to support cross-border growth. Northzone emphasizes technology-driven models with potential for rapid expansion and tends to invest in companies at early to growth stages, leveraging its multi-region reach to support portfolio companies in scaling globally.

Xplorer Capital is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, focused on early-stage investments in B2B companies that transform traditional industries on a global scale. It targets seed and early-stage startups across North America, spanning logistics, healthcare, industrials, agriculture technology, and broader technology sectors, seeking teams that leverage disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation, the Internet of Things, and enterprise software as a service data solutions.

Creandum is a European early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Stockholm with offices in London, Berlin, and San Francisco. It backs technology and consumer businesses across Europe and North America, providing capital as well as strategic and operational support to help portfolio companies scale from seed to exit. The firm leverages a broad network and hands-on involvement to help founders recruit, grow, and navigate international markets. Notable portfolio companies include Spotify, Klarna, Depop, Trade Republic, Pleo, and Neo4j.

Shenzhen Capital Group is a government-backed venture capital firm established by the Shenzhen Government in 1999. It focuses on cultivating national industries and brands, promoting economic transformation, and developing emerging sectors. The firm invests primarily in small to medium-sized enterprises and innovative high-tech companies across start-up, growth, and transformation stages, targeting industries aligned with national policies such as information technology, internet and new media, biopharma, new energy, environmental protection, chemical engineering, new materials, high-end equipment manufacturing, consumer goods, and modern services. Through its portfolio, it aims to build national champions and support industrial upgrading in China, leveraging its capital base to support long-term value creation.

Resolute Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 that backs early-stage technology companies across North America. It targets pre-seed to Series A opportunities and often acts as a lead investor, making initial investments typically from fifty thousand to seven hundred fifty thousand dollars and outlining a roadmap to a decision shortly after the first meeting. The firm focuses on sectors including consumer, data, developer tools, e-commerce, enterprise software and hardware, financial services, technology, and marketplaces, and operates as a registered investment adviser.

JetBlue Technology Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of JetBlue Airways, based in California. It invests in early-stage startups across travel, hospitality, transportation and technology, with a focus on airlines, airports and aerospace manufacturers. It also runs an accelerator program that invests about 0.05 million USD in each startup in exchange for equity. Founded in 2016, the firm supports startups aligned with JetBlue's strategic interests in travel and technology.

Merck Ventures is the strategic corporate venture capital arm of Merck. It invests in innovative technologies and products with the potential to significantly impact Merck’s core business areas, and takes an active role in portfolio companies by collaborating with entrepreneurs and co-investors to translate innovation into commercial success. Based in Amsterdam with offices in the United States and Israel, Merck Ventures pursues global, early-stage investing and company creation, including spin-offs that leverage Merck’s science and technology base.

Energy & Environment Investment is a Tokyo-based venture capital and impact investment firm focused on the environment and energy sectors, with a specialty in clean technology. Founded in 2006, it is noted as Japan's first venture capital dedicated to clean technology, and its core team brings hands-on experience in founding and managing venture companies, providing risk capital and strategic guidance to promising environmental and energy ventures.

European Investment Fund (EIF) is a public institution established in 1994 to improve access to finance for Europe's small and medium-sized businesses. It designs and develops venture capital and guarantee instruments to support SMEs and to catalyse private investment, aiming to build a robust European equity ecosystem. EIF engages in venture capital, growth capital, and guarantee operations, backing innovative entrepreneurs primarily in technology and life sciences, as well as across other sectors. Through cornerstone investments and fund participation, EIF seeks to crowd in private investors and stimulate venture activity across Europe. Its equity portfolio has grown substantially, with assets under management exceeding EUR 14 billion, reflecting its broad role in strengthening SME finance and supporting entrepreneurship and growth.