Keio Innovation Initiative is a venture capital firm established by Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. It aims to advance society by investing in startups that leverage Keio’s research outcomes to create new industries and improve the efficiency of research and development investment. The firm focuses on backing companies in digital health, healthcare technology, software, artificial intelligence and machine learning, the Internet of Things, robotics and drones, and related technologies, helping translate university research into commercial ventures. By supporting entrepreneurship and innovative technologies, Keio Innovation Initiative seeks to contribute to Japan’s growth and create opportunities for transformative innovations.

Techstart Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Belfast, United Kingdom. It acts as a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities, focusing on backing early-stage companies at the pre-seed and seed stages.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm that supports early-stage startups through active, founder-first development programs. Its flagship initiatives HAX and IndieBio provide facilities, engineering resources, services, and laboratory equipment to accelerate product development and prepare companies for subsequent funding rounds. SOSV focuses on deep technology across health, environmental, and cross-border software sectors, aiming to solve human and planetary health challenges. In addition to providing capital, the firm emphasizes intensive programmatic support to help portfolio companies move quickly from seed toward growth, including customer acquisition and scale. The firm operates globally with a bias toward startups targeting rapid international expansion, especially in Asia, and tends to back a small cohort of high-potential companies to accelerate their progress and attract leading investors.

Founded in 2014, this venture capital firm focuses on early-stage investments in life innovation, green innovation, and platform technology. Based in Osaka, Japan.

Established in 2021, Golden Falcon Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. It specializes in investing in technology companies focused on SaaS, infrastructure software, security, fintech, insurtech, commerce, artificial intelligence, analytics, and consumer tech across the United States, Israel, and emerging markets.

Kyoto University Innovation Capital Co., Ltd. (Kyoto iCAP) is a venture capital firm established in December 2014, wholly funded by Kyoto University. Located in Kyoto, Japan, the firm focuses on providing investment and support to startups emerging from Kyoto University, with an emphasis on commercializing research outcomes and technologies developed by its researchers. Kyoto iCAP specializes in various sectors, including healthcare, medical devices, biotechnology, drug discovery, internet of things, artificial intelligence, machinery, clean technology, energy, new materials, food, and agriculture. The firm aims to bridge the gap between academic research and marketable innovations, fostering the growth of spin-off companies that leverage the university's intellectual assets.

Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd (SCGC) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by the Shenzhen Government. The company is dedicated to fostering national industries, developing national brands, and promoting economic transformation through investments in emerging sectors. SCGC primarily targets small to medium enterprises and innovative high-tech companies, focusing on those in various stages of growth, including startups and those undergoing transformation. Its investment portfolio spans industries that align with national policy support, such as information technology, internet services, new media, biopharmaceuticals, new energy, environmental protection, chemical engineering, and high-end equipment manufacturing. With a registered capital of 5.42 billion RMB and significant assets under management, SCGC has established itself as a leader in the venture capital landscape, having invested in numerous companies, many of which have achieved public listings across global capital markets.

Founded in 2014, eHealth Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It focuses on investing in early-stage digital health companies, particularly those specializing in digital therapeutics and diagnostics.

WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 with offices in San Francisco, Beijing, and Taipei. It focuses on early and early expansion investments across the United States, Greater China, and the Asia Pacific region, with emphasis on technology, healthcare, clean technology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, robotics, fintech, IoT, insurtech, blockchain, media, and wellness sectors. The firm supports startups from seed to later stages and has a track record of more than 300 investments with over 80 exits. It manages more than $1 billion in capital across multiple funds and maintains a team of investment professionals in its core hubs. WI Harper seeks opportunities that combine scientific or tech innovations with scalable business models, aiming to help companies grow internationally and leverage cross-border opportunities.

Hillfarrance is a venture capital investment firm founded in 2019 and based in Auckland, New Zealand. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in the information technology sector, specifically targeting areas such as machine learning, media, gaming, and solutions for climate challenges. Hillfarrance aims to support diverse entrepreneurs who are developing sustainable business models that leverage proprietary data and innovative technologies to gain competitive advantages. The firm is committed to providing honest advice, access to a global network, and fair investment capital to help turn ambitious visions into reality. Named after the founder's ancestral village, Hillfarrance embodies values of openness and community, ensuring that entrepreneurs feel welcomed and supported in their endeavors.

Takwin is a venture capital firm and incubator based in Haifa, Israel, focused on early-stage investments in hi-tech sectors and on providing hands-on incubation and strategic support to Arab Israeli entrepreneurs, including guidance on business plans, product development, and growth strategy. It originated as a cooperative venture between Pitango and JVP to foster northern Israel startups and is recognized as the first venture capital presence in the region and the first venture infrastructure created for northern entrepreneurs.

Founded in 2014, Seven Seas Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It invests in early growth and growth-stage companies operating in consumer internet, SaaS, Internet of Things (IoT), enterprise cloud infrastructure, and services sectors across the United States and Mainland China.

Info Edge operates online job portals, including Naukri.com, and offers recruitment solutions, real estate services through 99acres.com, matrimonial services via BharatMatrimony, and education classifieds. Founded in 2016, it aims to address the Indian job market and has expanded its services to the Gulf region.

Gruhas is a venture capital firm established in 2021 and based in Bangalore, India. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage startups and teams that are driving advancements in technology and innovation. Gruhas targets a diverse range of sectors, including property technology, climate solutions, content creation, consumer products, clean technology, media, and entertainment. By partnering with founders in these fields, the firm aims to support the development of transformative ideas and businesses that can make a significant impact in their respective industries.

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.

Founded in 2001, Clarendon Fund Managers is a venture capital firm based in Belfast, Ireland. It specializes in investing in small and medium enterprises across various sectors, with a focus on Northern Ireland-based companies offering manufacturing or tradable services. The firm typically invests between £20,000 and £250,000 initially, with the potential for follow-on finance. Clarendon aims to exit its investments within five to seven years.

Founded in 2020, QantX is a venture capital firm headquartered in Bristol, UK. It focuses on investing in innovative startups across various sectors including healthcare, information technology, big data, clean technology, digital health, SaaS, artificial intelligence, climate tech, cybersecurity, HR tech, and IoT, primarily based in England.

Founded in 2022, Kickfund is a Swiss venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage deep-tech startups that have won the Venture Kick competition. Based in Luxembourg, it supports these startups through early equity rounds without taking a leading position, aiming to foster growth and global visibility for Swiss startups while generating strong financial returns.

Verge HealthTech Fund, established in 2018 and based in Singapore, is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in global healthcare technology companies. It targets innovative solutions that address disease prevention, management, and health system efficiency, with a particular relevance to emerging Asian markets. The firm seeks and supports visionary founders creating transformative healthtech companies, aiming to foster their growth and scale, regardless of their origin, from Dhaka's streets to Oxford's labs.

Ascension Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2012. It focuses on early-stage to growth investments in the United Kingdom, including SEIS and EIS eligible opportunities. The firm targets technology and media driven sectors such as digital media, creative industries, advertising technology, fintech, educational technology, health technology, and next generation platforms, as well as e-commerce, sustainability, energy, transport, and consumer goods. It supports seed to growth rounds and is open to co-investments with angels and other funds, aiming to exit investments in four to seven years. The firm emphasizes building practical partnerships with portfolio companies to foster scale and long-term value.

Founded in Tokyo in 1998, Global Brain is a venture capital firm focusing on seed to late-stage investments across various sectors globally. They have invested in over 300 startups, facilitating 25 IPOs and 61 M&As through hands-on support services.

Founded in Moscow, Russia in 2021, Voskhod Venture Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on investments in deep-tech companies across biotechnology & medicine, food & agricultural technology, microelectronics & optoelectronics, green technologies, robotics, and new mobility sectors.

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm based in Tokyo, with additional offices in Osaka and Nagoya, founded in 1974. It concentrates on seed to development stage and startup investments across healthcare, biotech, information technology, electronics, high technology, life sciences, fintech, ICT, SaaS, and AI sectors. The firm targets opportunities in Japan and with relevance to the Japanese market, and it participates in investment syndication for Japanese investments to support entrepreneurs and innovation within the domestic economy.

Ah! Ventures, established in 2009 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, is a prominent platform facilitating early-stage startup fundraising. It connects over 3000 investors, including angels and institutions, with a robust pipeline of 600+ business plans monthly.

Founded in Singapore in 2017, Antler is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests globally. It focuses on backing exceptional founders from day one, offering a global community network of co-founders, talent, advisors, expansion support, and capital across various sectors such as technology, healthcare, finance, consumer goods, and more.

Founded in 2021, Ultratech Capital Partners is a venture capital firm based in Alexandria, Virginia. It invests in early to growth-stage technology companies focusing on artificial intelligence, data and network security, semiconductors, energy generation and storage, advanced materials, and quantum technology sectors.

Founded in 2021, Pace Ventures is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focusing on investments in climate-tech and health-tech sectors.

Founded in Estonia in 2011, Metaplanet is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments across diverse sectors. They prioritize innovative and evidence-based ideas with the potential for significant returns.

Founded in 2023, Empirical Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Bristol, UK. It focuses on investing in innovative life sciences, advanced materials, deep technology, robotics, and automation sectors.

Founders, Inc. is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 2020. It focuses on early-stage and seed investments in emerging technologies, including web3, cryptocurrency, decentralized finance, hardware, virtual and augmented reality, real-time video, computer vision, robotics, drones, and autonomous machines. In addition to funding, the company incubates technology ventures, supporting founders through early development and market entry.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania is a technology-focused capital provider based in Philadelphia, founded in 1982 to advance the region's technology community. The organization funds and supports technology companies across Pennsylvania, especially in information technology, health, and physical sciences, investing substantial capital in early-stage and established ventures. It has invested over 170 million dollars in more than 1,750 regional technology companies and has launched university-industry partnerships to translate scientific discoveries into commercial products, while seeding regional initiatives that strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem and create jobs.

Established in 2005, SMBC Venture Capital is a Tokyo-based corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. It invests primarily in early-stage companies operating within the information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing sectors.

Founded in 2017, Village Global is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments. It targets technology and software startups, with a particular interest in fin-tech and healthcare-related technologies.

Embark Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital investment firm founded in 2017 that focuses on early-stage funding, particularly pre-seed and seed rounds, for deep tech startups. It seeks teams with breakthrough proprietary technology that provides a defensible competitive advantage across large, multi-billion dollar industries. The firm targets investments in software, bio-healthcare, material science, robotics and automation, semiconductors, and manufacturing.

Founded in 2014, LDV Partners is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm invests in early-stage companies operating in robotics & automation, biotech, artificial intelligence & data securitization, and advanced industrials sectors.

E14 Fund is a venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that focuses on seed-stage investments in deep technology companies. It emphasizes commercializing MIT-originated ideas by providing capital, strategic guidance, and access to a broad network of advisors, including investors, industry experts, and entrepreneurs, to move technologies from lab to market and scale them for impact. The firm backs a diverse range of sectors, including biotechnology, smart cities, consumer electronics, and manufacturing, and seeks to connect founders with the resources needed to raise subsequent rounds and accelerate growth. Through its ecosystem, E14 Fund aims to bridge academia and industry, supporting entrepreneurs who leverage research and innovation to create scalable solutions.

Desjardins Capital is the private equity and venture capital arm of Mouvement des caisses Desjardins, based in Quebec, Canada. It provides growth capital, mezzanine, and select debt financing to early-stage through mature companies across industrial, manufacturing, technology, and service sectors, with emphasis on health care, life sciences, and biotechnology. The firm also supports cooperatives, including worker-owned and housing cooperatives, and network cooperatives, financing development, acquisitions, expansions, and succession plans. It primarily invests in Quebec and surrounding regions, and can finance growth, acquisitions, management buyouts, and modernization. Investments may be equity or debt, including unsecured loans, with instruments ranging from senior debt to equity, and tenures typically five to eight years for equity and three to five years for debt. The firm often takes minority stakes with board participation. It does not invest in natural resource exploration or financial services. Desjardins Capital traces its roots to 1974 and operates within the Desjardins Group.

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm based in Edinburgh. It focuses on investing in early-stage, high-growth technology companies across Northern England, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.

Holland Capital, established in 1981, is a Dutch private equity firm headquartered in Amsterdam. It specializes in early-stage investments, primarily in the healthcare and technology sectors. The firm manages two active funds: one dedicated to supporting the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Netherlands, and another focused on innovative healthcare businesses. Since its inception, Holland Capital has successfully realized over 115 investments.

Furthr VC is the venture capital arm of Furthr, based in Dublin, Ireland. It focuses on early-stage investments in Irish companies that develop B2B software products and medical devices, spanning Seed to Series A rounds, with capital reserved for follow-on investments. The firm emphasizes relationship-driven, founder-centric partnerships and provides hands-on support across strategic areas to accelerate growth, backing born-global Irish software and medtech firms as they scale and pursue subsequent funding rounds.

Founded in 2004, Atlantic Bridge is a growth equity firm headquartered in Dublin with offices across Europe and the US. It invests in early-stage technology companies, focusing on deep tech sectors such as cybersecurity, cloud computing, AI, and healthtech. The firm's strategy involves helping portfolio companies expand internationally through its global platform.

LUMO Labs is an impact-driven venture capital firm and venture builder based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, with an office in Los Angeles. Founded in 2020, it backs early to growth-stage ventures through a multi-stage investment approach and operates a two-year growth program to accelerate founding teams. It emphasizes technologies such as AI, data, software, hardware, blockchain, robotics, drones, IoT, VR/AR and security, and focuses its portfolio on ventures aiming to solve social challenges. The firm prioritizes sectors including sustainable cities and communities, health and wellbeing, and quality education, offering startups access to capital, expertise, and an expansive network to help scale. By combining investment with hands-on support and collaboration, LUMO Labs seeks to advance startups that deliver measurable social and technological impact.

SIG China operates through SIG Asia Investments, a wholly foreign-owned enterprise based in Shanghai with an office in Beijing. The firm focuses on venture capital and private equity investments within China, aiming to deploy proprietary capital in companies operating in the region. As part of the larger Susquehanna International Group, which has over two decades of experience in financial services, SIG China benefits from a robust foundation in trading, market making, and institutional research. The team emphasizes an entrepreneurial approach, leveraging advanced technology and quantitative research to identify and develop investment opportunities. With a commitment to expanding its business in China, SIG Asia Investments plays a pivotal role in fostering growth within the local investment landscape.

Established in 2001, Bullnet Capital is a Madrid-based independent venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in technology-oriented projects across Spain. It focuses on software, hardware, and high-value-added services, typically investing between €1 million to €2.5 million per company.

Established in 2015, Sunstone Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Irvine, California. It focuses on investing in early-stage tech companies within the United States.

Founded in 2020, re.Mind Capital is a venture capital firm based in Sliema, Malta. It invests in companies developing innovative solutions to address global mental health crises, with a focus on neuroscience and life sciences sectors.

ShangBay Capital is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Palo Alto. It focuses on early-stage investments in United States healthcare technology sectors, including life sciences, medical devices, biotechnology, and mobile health. The firm seeks to back companies developing innovative medical technologies and digital health solutions, providing capital and strategic support to help accelerate product development, regulatory pathways, and commercial deployment. By concentrating on early-stage opportunities in health tech, ShangBay Capital aims to partner with founders to advance next-generation healthcare capabilities.

Presight Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in West Hollywood, California. It focuses on investing in ambitious founders across various sectors, including biotechnology, consumer technology, fintech, deep tech, food tech, cryptocurrency, and healthcare. The firm adopts a global investment approach, targeting seed, early, and later-stage companies. Presight Capital is supported by Apeiron, the family office of Christian Angermayer, and a network of prominent investors, including leading figures from finance and entrepreneurship. The firm is also a Registered Investment Adviser, emphasizing its commitment to nurturing innovative ventures.

Artesian VC is an alternative investment management company that specializes in early-stage venture capital, particularly in the clean energy sector. Established in 2004 after spinning out from ANZ Banking Group, the company has evolved to manage a range of specialized funds, with a focus on seed and follow-on investments in startups sourced from approved accelerators, incubators, and academic programs. Artesian's investment strategy emphasizes partnerships with leading organizations in the startup ecosystem, enabling it to identify and support high-potential ventures. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Shanghai, New York, London, and Singapore, the company has built a global presence and has successfully raised over AUD 255 million for its various funds. Additionally, Artesian has expanded its reach through initiatives like its China VC Fund and plans for a Southeast Asia VC Fund, underscoring its commitment to fostering innovation in diverse markets.

Matrix is a San Francisco based venture capital firm founded in 1977 that backs early-stage companies across AI, B2B, consumer, fintech, health tech, and infrastructure. It works with product teams from idea through Series A, offering hands-on support and strategic guidance to help portfolio companies reach scale. The team comprises former founders and operators who bring practical insight to building startups. Matrix operates globally, including Matrix Partners China, which builds long-term relationships with entrepreneurs in China and abroad and invests across sectors and stages. Over its history, Matrix has backed companies that progressed to IPOs or acquisitions, reflecting a focus on durable growth and long-term value creation through close founder collaboration and a global network.