IP Group is a London-based venture capital firm that focuses on commercialising intellectual property from research-intensive institutions. It creates value by identifying early-stage IP, developing it into commercially viable opportunities, and forming strategic partnerships to support portfolio companies. The firm provides capital, strategic guidance, and industry insight to science- and technology-based businesses, with emphasis on clean technology, life sciences, and deep tech. With more than twenty years of experience, IP Group supports the growth of science and technology companies from inception toward scale, helping translate research into market-ready products and accelerate their impact.

Animoca Brands is a global developer, publisher, and platform provider in the Web3, metaverse, and blockchain gaming space. It leverages gamification and blockchain to create and publish mobile games and IP-based products, including titles tied to well-known brands, while enabling digital property rights through non-fungible and fungible tokens. The company operates a platform that allows intellectual property holders to issue assets, monetize rights, and grow fan communities within Web3 ecosystems. It also supports a venture arm that finances and mentors creators and early-stage projects in blockchain, gaming, and related technologies. With regional initiatives to advance Web3 strategies for Japanese IP holders, Animoca Brands pursues global expansion of digital ownership, transparency, and new business models across gaming and branded content.

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.

Antler is a global venture capital firm based in Singapore that backs early-stage technology companies. It runs incubation programs and provides a global community of co-founders, access to talent, expert advisors, expansion support, and capital to help startups grow. The firm targets a broad range of sectors, including healthcare, finance, software, energy, consumer and B2B technologies, and operates through regional programs across Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and beyond.

KB Investment is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 1990 as the investment arm of KB Financial Group. It manages assets through a venture and growth platform and backs early-stage startups, select buyouts, spinouts, turnaround situations, and growth capital. The firm targets a broad range of sectors, including information technology, biotechnology and life sciences, healthcare, hardware and software, consumer products and services, and clean tech, with a primary focus on South Korea and selective international opportunities. It supports portfolio companies with hands-on guidance in strategy, operations and governance and leverages KB Financial Group’s network to aid growth and value creation. The firm is described as active in social ventures aligned with sustainable development goals, reflecting an emphasis on responsible investing alongside financial returns.

Outlier Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm established in 2014 that concentrates on early-stage investments in Web3, crypto, and decentralized technologies. It operates Base Camp, a multi-month accelerator program that attracts thousands of applications and provides incubation space, back-office support, and ecosystem partnerships to pre-seed and seed projects. The firm supports a diverse portfolio across DeFi, NFTs, and blockchain infrastructure, with emphasis on Metaverse use cases such as avatar marketplaces and play-to-earn gaming. Through collaborations with leading protocols and brands, including Aptos, Filecoin/IPFS, Polygon, and FARFETCH, Outlier Ventures expands its accelerator footprint and offers advisory services for later-stage teams under its Ascent program. Its approach remains blockchain-agnostic, aiming to accelerate a new web paradigm that prioritizes user sovereignty, data ownership, and digital wealth, while pursuing elevated deal activity and portfolio growth in the Web3 ecosystem.

Samsung Electronics is a global technology company based in South Korea that designs, manufactures, and sells a wide range of electronics and device solutions. Its portfolio spans consumer electronics (mobile devices, televisions, home appliances, cameras), information technology products (PCs, peripherals, printers), semiconductors, memory and storage, and display technologies. The company also provides telecommunications infrastructure and related services, and conducts extensive research and development to advance core technologies. With a global footprint across Korea, China, the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific, Samsung Electronics is a leading supplier of smartphones, memory chips, and displays, and it coordinates significant manufacturing and supply chain activities to support its varied product lines.

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors and venture capital firms that supports technology and healthcare startups across the United States, China, Israel, India and Southeast Asia. It partners with entrepreneurs by offering hands-on operating experience and broad access to capital, talent, partners and customers to help build global businesses. The firm focuses on early to growth-stage investments in software infrastructure, developer tools, data, security, vertical SaaS, enterprise software and healthcare technologies, drawing on a wide international footprint that includes the US, Israel, Singapore and China. Vertex Ventures emphasizes active portfolio involvement and leverages the broader Vertex network to create value for portfolio companies through strategic guidance and partnerships.

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.

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.

K5 Global is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm and incubation studio founded in 2018 by Michael Kives and Bryan Baum. It invests across seed to growth stages in Enterprise SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and FinTech, and has deployed about $1 billion in capital as of March 31, 2024. The firm supports founders across the business lifecycle by expanding networks and positioning companies to achieve growth targets. In 2023, Keenan Rice and Daniel Marcotte joined the partner team, bringing experience from Tokyo Black Capital Advisors and the Looker founding team.

a16z crypto is the crypto-focused investment arm of Andreessen Horowitz, based in Menlo Park, California. It makes venture investments in cryptocurrency, blockchain, and related software infrastructure and protocols, supporting innovative companies building the crypto ecosystem.

Craft Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that focuses on early-stage and growth investments to help build innovative companies. The firm backs teams with strong leadership and scalable business models across sectors including software, e-commerce, consumer and enterprise technology, information technology, and fintech, with additional interest in cryptocurrency and blockchain ventures. It combines entrepreneurial experience with investment acumen to identify next generation world-changing companies and provides strategic guidance and operational support to help founders scale.

ID Ventures is the venture capital arm of Intellectual Discovery, based in Seoul, South Korea. It concentrates on investments anchored in intellectual property, including technology development and transfer, as well as commercialization of IP by startups and SMEs. The firm backs tech-based ventures with high IP value, including university IP commercialization, and supports projects in IP creation, purchase and utilization, along with IP services. Its focus areas include marine biotechnology, bio-energy, aquaculture, high value-added materials, and related industries. Founded in 2012, ID Ventures aims to advance innovative IP-driven businesses through early to emerging-growth investments.

Parkwalk Advisors is a London-based venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early-stage to growth-stage technology companies, with a particular emphasis on spin-outs derived from UK universities and research institutes. It targets UK-based, often unquoted companies across sectors such as artificial intelligence, big data, life sciences, materials, cleantech, future mobility, medical technology, quantum computing and related fields, and operates with a stage-agnostic approach from seed through later rounds. The firm leverages academic networks, technology transfer channels and venture networks to access deal flow and support portfolio companies. Founded in 2009, it has been aligned with IP Group as part of its corporate structure, reinforcing its focus on intellectual property-backed innovation. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm backs entrepreneurs with venture assistance, strategic guidance, and capital, focusing on bold, early-stage technology companies. It invests across sectors including AI, climate and sustainability, enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technologies. Based in Menlo Park, the firm manages several funds to support startups across stages, prioritizing ventures that address large markets and have potential for significant social and economic impact.

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.

The FSE Group is a UK-based not-for-profit investment group consisting of several subsidiaries that deliver funds and related services. Surpluses are reinvested to support its mission rather than being distributed to shareholders. The group provides funding through its subsidiary finance and fund management entities, including Finance East, which funds businesses in the East of England, and a regulated fund manager that delivers regulated activities. The organization focuses on early-stage and growth-stage ventures in renewables and social enterprise, aiming to support startups and growing businesses with regional and sector-specific funding.

Sofinnova Partners is an independent venture capital firm based in Paris, France, focusing on life sciences from seed to later-stage investments. It backs startups, early-stage companies, corporate spin-offs and occasionally turnaround situations in biopharmaceuticals/biotech, medical devices, and industrial biotechnology. The firm typically takes a lead or cornerstone role, often serving as the first institutional investor in Series A rounds, and actively supports portfolio companies through formation and beyond, including board participation. The firm manages more than €2 billion in life sciences assets.

Sfermion is a Chicago-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that focuses on technology investments with a special emphasis on metaverse-native and esoteric digital assets.

IQ Capital is a Cambridge and London based venture capital firm that backs early‑stage and growth technology companies in the United Kingdom and Europe, with a focus on deep tech capable of global leadership. The firm invests in seed and Series A rounds and can provide follow‑on capital through a Growth Fund, with initial checks typically in the hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of pounds. Its portfolio spans software, artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, health tech, advanced engineering, semiconductors, energy and cybersecurity. IQ Capital has a track record of more than 30 exits to major tech companies and takes a hands‑on approach, often supporting portfolio companies with governance and strategic guidance to scale internationally.

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.

Headline is a San Francisco based venture capital firm founded in 1998 that operates globally with a presence in seven cities and leads rounds across stages. It maintains a multi fund approach, with Early Stage funds across the US, Europe, Asia and Brazil and a Growth Fund based in San Francisco that backs companies from Series B onward, enabling it to identify local trends and back scale across geographies. The firm backs a broad range of sectors including consumer, media, financial services, healthcare, information technology, SaaS, cybersecurity, e commerce, artificial intelligence and digital health, and has a notable portfolio featuring Sonos, The RealReal, Creditas, Sorare, Pismo, AppFolio, GoPuff, Acorns, Farfetch, Segment, Bumble and Yeahka. Headline also runs an Asia arm, Headline Asia, based in Tokyo, investing in East, South and Southeast Asia across B2B, media, fintech, healthcare, IT, e commerce, AI and other sectors, with activity including a 2020 vintage Asia IV fund focused on the region. Headline positions itself as a global, founder friendly investor that seeks to partner with ambitious entrepreneurs to build lasting companies.

Negev Capital is a venture capital firm based in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. It invests in healthcare, life sciences, and technology companies at early stages across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel, with a particular focus on psychedelic medical interventions and drug discovery programs that are in preclinical or Phase 1 development. The firm looks for strong management and science teams and robust intellectual property, and it provides capital to help early-stage companies advance therapies, promote thoughtful and therapeutic use of psychedelics, and address neuropsychiatric disorders.

New Enterprise Associates is a U.S.-based venture capital firm founded in 1977 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It invests in technology and healthcare companies across stages and geographies, supporting startups from seed to growth. The firm operates globally with investments in the United States, Asia, and Brazil among others, and has a long track record of portfolio IPOs and acquisitions. It has over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital.

Blockchain Founders Fund is a Singapore-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 that invests in blockchain and related technology startups globally, including Web3, metaverse, games, DeFi and NFTs. It offers a go-to-market oriented venture program and venture-building services to support early-stage founders across business functions, helping them accelerate growth. The firm targets opportunities in the United States, Canada and Europe and seeks to connect exceptional founders across the blockchain ecosystem.

UVA Licensing & Ventures Group is an investment firm focused on commercializing innovations developed at the University of Virginia. It plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between academia and the marketplace by identifying promising technologies and managing their licensing and commercialization. The organization supports faculty and researchers in bringing their inventions to market, fostering entrepreneurship, and promoting economic development. Through strategic partnerships and investment strategies, UVA Licensing & Ventures Group aims to enhance the university's impact on society while generating revenue from its intellectual property portfolio.

Korea Investment Partners is a Seoul-based venture capital and private equity firm with decades of experience in funding bold, innovative entrepreneurs. It operates globally with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale and manages multiple funds totaling several billions of dollars in assets under management. As the venture capital and private equity arm of Korea Investment Holdings, KIP backs a broad range of sectors including information technology, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, mobility and gaming, as it seeks to help companies scale and commercialize new technologies. The firm emphasizes long-term value creation and has built a diversified portfolio across Asia and beyond.

Armstrong Teasdale is a law firm established in 1901 and headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri. It provides a broad range of legal services, including litigation and dispute resolution, intellectual property, environmental law, corporate services, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, private equity and venture capital, and marijuana and hemp law. The firm serves clients across sectors such as aerospace and defense, technology, life sciences, healthcare, real estate, media, and financial services, delivering client-focused service and strong results in both the boardroom and the courtroom.

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 1972, the firm concentrates on early-stage, growth, and incubation investments, partnering with founders from inception through IPO and beyond. It backs ventures across technology-related sectors, including digital and information technology, life sciences, and healthcare, with a global reach that spans North America, Europe, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and Mainland China.

Alpha Edison is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California, with an office in Santa Monica. It focuses on technology-driven innovation and invests in early-stage and growth capital, including software, data, artificial intelligence and machine learning sectors. The firm partners with entrepreneurs to build industry-changing technology platforms, helping founders create new markets and unlock latent demand by sharing its research and expertise in business model innovation.

Motier Ventures is a Paris-based family office and early-stage tech investor associated with the Galeries Lafayette Group owners. It operates as a value-added angel investor, providing agile and patient capital to startups in the early days and following on in subsequent rounds. The firm focuses on future of commerce, fintech, creative technologies, consumer and gaming, cybersecurity, and related areas such as infrastructure, tooling, the future of work, blockchain and artificial intelligence. Motier leverages the owners' networks across Galeries Lafayette brands and affiliated businesses to support portfolio companies with strategic connections and scale. Investment ranges include up to €300k at seed and up to €3m in later rounds.

Lanza Tech Ventures is a Palo Alto, California-based venture capital firm, founded in 2001, that invests in early-stage startups.

Square Enix is a Japanese video game publisher and entertainment company formed in 2003 through the merger of Square and Enix. It develops, publishes, distributes, and licenses gaming entertainment and related content through a global network of studios, and is known for franchises such as Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts, and Nier; it also operates publishing, merchandising, and amusement businesses.

Imperial Innovations is the technology-transfer office of Imperial College, dedicated to commercialising leading UK academic research from the Cambridge, Oxford, and London region. It integrates technology transfer, intellectual property protection, licensing, and company incubation to bring promising research in therapeutics, medtech, engineering, materials, and information communication technology to market.

Morningstar Ventures is a Dubai-based venture capital firm that invests in digital assets, blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, and related gaming initiatives. Led by founder and chief investment officer Danilo S. Carlucci, the firm pursues early-stage investments in token and equity opportunities and supports projects within the Elrond ecosystem. It has launched initiatives such as the Elrond Dubai incubator to foster development using Elrond technology.

The London Fund is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2003 that specializes in IP-rich, high-growth technology companies. It focuses on early-stage and growth capital for B2C and emerging technologies, often supporting companies as they pursue inorganic growth, M&A, debt and equity financing, and IP strategy to defend and extend their technology positions. The firm typically provides capital across the spectrum from seed to Series A and beyond, including bridge funding to connect incubators with later rounds. It emphasizes close collaboration with founders to identify and exploit intellectual property assets and to help portfolio businesses navigate IPO readiness and strategic growth opportunities.

Precede Technologies is a venture capital firm based in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, focused on identifying and developing commercially promising intellectual property. The firm partners with inventors, researchers, and early-stage ventures to transform innovative ideas into high-growth businesses. Precede specializes in IP-intensive technologies across various sectors, including clean technology. By offering financial backing, managerial support, and entrepreneurial resources, the firm aims to nurture early-stage ventures and facilitate their growth in competitive markets.

ID Capital is a venture capital management firm based in Montreal, Canada, founded in 2006. The firm focuses on investing in innovative start-up businesses located in Quebec, specifically targeting companies that have developed unique technologies or products with strong intellectual property. ID Capital seeks to support enterprises that address specific needs in large potential markets, emphasizing early-stage and growth capital investments.

Intellectual Ventures is a Bellevue, Washington-based company established in 2000 that concentrates on invention, incubation, and the commercialization of novel ideas. It partners with world-renowned inventors to develop and bring to market groundbreaking technologies, and has established more than a dozen affiliated firms to pursue opportunities across industries. The company engages in the licensing, acquisition, and monetization of intellectual property, working across sectors such as communications, computer hardware, consumer electronics, software, IT and datacenters, materials and chemistry, healthcare and life sciences, energy, and financial services. It collaborates with inventors, government entities, private foundations, and NGOs through programs that sponsor inventions, involve inventors in participation initiatives, and provide strategic IP buying and counter-assertions. Headquartered in Bellevue, Intellectual Ventures operates globally to push innovation and deliver IP-driven solutions to global markets.

IP Group Australia is a venture capital investment firm and operating subsidiary of IP Group plc, focused on early-stage, science-based businesses in Australia and New Zealand. Based in Melbourne with an additional office in Eveleigh, it builds and supports intellectual property–driven companies and pursues investments in life sciences, physical sciences and cleantech aligned with government initiatives in science and innovation. The firm targets opportunities that leverage strong research foundations and helps develop them from concept to market.

Kapstone Medical is a full‑service provider that partners with physician inventors and manufacturers of all sizes to develop and commercialize new medical devices. It offers design, prototyping, patenting, quality systems, and regulatory approvals, as well as product development, quality management, and project management solutions. Its services cover engineering, intellectual property protection, quality assurance, and supply chain management. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, the company was founded in 2007 by John Kapitan.

IPD Capital is a venture capital investor that brings intellectual property expertise to its investments. It is stage agnostic, backing companies from seed stages to firms with substantial revenue, and focuses on technology sectors excluding biotech and pharma. The firm leverages IPD Analytics and a team of more than 50 professionals with backgrounds in IP, science, and engineering to support portfolio companies. It does not lead rounds or take a board seat, and it does not encumber its portfolio companies’ IP. Based in Aventura, Florida, IPD Capital seeks opportunities across technology, manufacturing, software, medical devices, and healthcare services.

Sussex Place Ventures is a London-based early-stage venture capital investor focused on B2B enterprise software and patent-protectable deep technology. Founded in 1998, the firm operates independently within the London Business School ecosystem and backs seed and Series A rounds for software and digital companies across Western Europe. It targets opportunities in technology sectors with strong intellectual property, supporting entrepreneurs building scalable businesses with defensible technology.

British Design Fund is a London-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage, well-designed product companies in the United Kingdom. The firm focuses on IP-backed hardware innovations that can positively impact society and the environment, supporting entrepreneurs with scalable products to accelerate growth and create long-term value. By backing innovative designers and engineers, British Design Fund aims to nurture stand-out businesses across the UK, providing strategic capital and guidance to help them reach commercialization and scale while reinforcing responsible design and sustainability.

Elm Street Ventures is a New Haven, Connecticut-based venture capital firm that concentrates on seed and early-stage investments in life sciences, healthcare, and related technology. It typically backs companies founded on intellectual property from Yale University and regional research institutions, with a focus on therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, laboratory tools, materials, and healthcare services, as well as software, clean technology, and information technology. The firm seeks opportunities near New Haven but is not limited to it, and provides more than capital, including strategic guidance and operational support through experienced partners who may take interim CEO or operating chair roles. Initial investments range from several hundred thousand dollars to over a million, with potential for follow-ons. Elm Street Ventures emphasizes attractive markets, strong patent protection, defensible market position, and a world-class management team.

Global Communication Semiconductors designs, manufactures, and sells compound semiconductor wafers and foundry services, while also licensing intellectual property. The company focuses on optoelectronics technology, producing radio frequency integrated circuits, millimeter‑wave integrated circuits for wireless markets, power devices for power electronics, and photodetectors and lasers for optical communications. Its revenue is primarily generated in China, with additional sales in the United States, Taiwan, and other regions.

Ideaship is a venture capital investment firm based in Portland, Oregon, founded in 2018. It concentrates on early-stage US startups with novel inventions, anchoring investments in comprehensive patent strategy and patent filing. The firm provides initial funding through deep patent strategy support, with potential for follow-on investments as portfolio companies progress. By prioritizing intellectual property and well-curated patent portfolios, Ideaship aims to help companies command higher valuations in later funding rounds and exits, acting as a strategic investor that blends IP guidance with capital to accelerate the development of breakthrough technologies for founder-inventors.

Powerhouse Ventures is a New Zealand-based intellectual property commercialization and early-stage venture investment firm that develops spin-out companies from research partners such as universities and Crown Research Institutes using private and public funding. It focuses on seed-stage investments in the earliest stages of high-value technology development, rigorously screening opportunities to identify strong IP value and the potential to gain a competitive edge in global markets, and backing these ventures through an annual seed fund and co-investments. The firm concentrates on engineering and clean technology, biotechnology and agri-science, health and medical devices, food, and information technology, software and electronics, and it also pursues investments in intellectual property and research. Based in Christchurch with offices in Wellington, Dunedin and Auckland, it typically targets rounds not exceeding NZD 5 million. It also runs an innovation education programme for students and organisations.

Imprimatur Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2003 that focuses on early-stage investments in technology-driven companies built on strong intellectual property. It backs opportunities across the Internet of Things, cybersecurity, big data, gaming technology, digital health, robotics and simulation, as well as energy technologies including energy efficiency, energy storage and renewable materials. The firm operates internationally, with activity in Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America and Latin America, seeking startups with scalable growth, proven teams and international potential, and it may take board seats to support governance and scale.