Hard Yaka is an investment firm based in Crystal Bay, Nevada. It engages in private equity and venture investments, focusing on technology and financial services sectors, including early-stage investments in exchange-related startups and opportunities in buyouts and distressed assets, often pursuing majority stakes.

Y&R Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm and high-tech incubator established in 2015 that concentrates on medical health, artificial intelligence and robotics, and intelligent manufacturing; it funds precision medicine initiatives and related technologies and also offers incubation and service management to portfolio companies.

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.

Wayra UK is the corporate venture arm and accelerator of Wayra, the global open-innovation program of Telefónica. It runs accelerator programs for early-stage technology startups across industries including health care, information technology, cybersecurity, smart transport and smart city, and 5G, providing investment and acceleration support. The unit connects startups with Telefónica’s networks and partners to enable collaboration and scale opportunities, aiming to generate joint business opportunities between innovators and Telefónica. As part of a worldwide network spanning multiple countries, Wayra UK positions itself as a bridge between entrepreneurs and corporate-scale opportunity, facilitating access to capital, mentorship, and business development.

Addor Capital is a growth-capital investment firm headquartered in Nanjing, China. Founded in 2014, it invests in seed-stage through growth-stage companies across sectors including clean technology, health, new materials, advanced manufacturing, consumer services, cultural industries, and TMT in China.

Seaya Ventures is a Madrid-based venture capital firm that invests in early and growth-stage technology-enabled companies in Spain and Latin America. It focuses on Internet and technology sectors, including mobility, greentech, healthcare, energy, decarbonization, circular economy, agtech, industry tech, fintech, proptech, content, sustainable food value chain, and climate initiatives. Seaya supports portfolio companies through a global platform and an extensive network of founders, investors, and multinational corporations to accelerate growth and international expansion.

SBI Investment is the corporate venture capital arm of SBI Holdings, based in Tokyo, Japan. It specializes in venture capital and growth capital investments, supporting the development and growth of private companies through fund investments and management of venture funds. The firm targets technology-driven sectors including information technology, artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, security, e-commerce, biotechnology and healthcare, life sciences, environmental energy, and related areas, with selective cross-border opportunities in China and Southeast Asia. Since its founding in 1996, it has invested in hundreds of companies, and many investments have exited through IPOs or mergers and acquisitions. The firm seeks long-term value creation by partnering with entrepreneurs at various stages and by providing strategic and financial support to scale operations.

WaVe-X is the independent venture builder and corporate venture capital arm of Walter Group AG, focused on creating and funding early-stage ventures in logistics, mobility, proptech, and construction tech. As a venture studio, WaVe-X builds startups from scratch with founder teams and makes early-stage investments from pre-seed to Series A, with tickets starting around €200,000. Based in Wiener Neudorf, Austria, WaVe-X was founded in 2022.

AC Ventures is a Southeast Asian venture capital firm founded in 2014 that backs early-stage startups across Indonesia and the ASEAN region. It has more than US$500 million in assets under management across five funds. The firm invests across a broad range of sectors including digital enablement, fintech, agriculture technology, logistics, e-commerce, consumer technology, MSME solutions, waste management, renewable energy, and sustainability.

Notation Capital is a Brooklyn-based venture capital firm that focuses on pre-seed and early-stage technology startups, often partnering with technically led founding teams in New York. It provides capital and hands-on support to help ventures go to market and scale, backing companies across software, AI, blockchain, cybersecurity, fintech, health tech, education technology, infrastructure, logistics, and climate tech. Initial checks commonly range from around $100,000 to $350,000, with total commitments typically in the low hundreds of thousands to a few hundred thousand dollars in US-based rounds. The firm emphasizes operational involvement to accelerate product development and market traction and concentrates its activity in the United States, particularly the New York region.

SMBC Venture Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Tokyo, with an office in Osaka, the firm invests in growth capital and buyouts across multiple sectors. It targets information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing, supporting portfolio companies with strategic value and access to SMBC's network and resources.

Wind Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Empresas COPEC, focusing on startups and scaleups in the energy, mobility, and retail sectors. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, it makes global investments with a preference for Latin America, leveraging COPEC's resources to accelerate growth. The firm targets ventures building next generation energy, mobility, and retail companies and seeks to develop a strategic portfolio that enhances COPEC's ability to explore and realize new growth opportunities in its ecosystems.

Founded in 2005, Demeter Partners is a Paris-based private equity firm specializing in investments that drive the ecological transition. It focuses on seed to late-stage companies and infrastructure projects across Europe, with a particular emphasis on France. The firm invests between €0.5 million and €30 million, typically taking minority stakes and seeking board seats.

Zero2IPO Group is an integrated service provider in China's venture capital and private equity sector. Headquartered in Beijing with offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Silicon Valley, it operates a network-focused platform that sources deals, conducts market research, and provides financial advisory services. Through its subsidiaries, including venture investment arms, the group invests and manages funds to back high-potential, high-growth Chinese enterprises, co-investing with active venture funds and leading or co-leading early-stage startups. Its services encompass investment forums, training programs, and advisory offerings that connect entrepreneurs with investors, helping portfolio companies scale across sectors such as Internet, mobile applications, digital media, healthcare, and green technologies. Zero2IPO Group positions itself as a value-add partner in the venture capital ecosystem, leveraging its extensive China network to identify opportunities and support value creation.

Third Sphere is a venture capital firm based in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2013. It concentrates on early-stage climate action investments, primarily pre-seed and seed rounds, and backs companies across energy, food, water, waste, transportation, healthcare, and government technology sectors. The firm pursues outsized impact through electrification and other decarbonization strategies by supporting startups that deliver better products and services. It emphasizes facilitating access to institutional funding and ownership opportunities for portfolio teams, drawing on a proprietary network to enable introductions and partnerships. With a track record of nurturing climate-focused startups, Third Sphere aims to accelerate scalable solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions while delivering returns.

Band of Angels is an angel investment group composed of former and current high-tech executives. Founded in 1994 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, it provides early-stage funding and advisory support to startups in high-technology sectors such as enterprise software, AI, medical devices, fintech, energy, hardware, internet services, life sciences, and communications. The group favors seed- and early-stage opportunities, often investing locally in California with a preference for Silicon Valley deals, while maintaining the capacity to participate in select non-local opportunities. Members bring operating experience from companies including Symantec, Logitech, National Semiconductor, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Intuit. Band of Angels typically invests modestly in initial rounds and may co-lead or syndicate larger rounds, aiming to secure board seats and an ownership stake that reflects its significant involvement in the company’s early development.

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.

Hiway Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2007 and based in Guangzhou, China. The firm specializes in investing in various sectors, including manufacturing, healthcare, new materials and energy, agriculture, and enterprise services. Through its targeted investment strategy, Hiway Capital aims to support the growth and development of innovative companies within these industries.

BayBG Venture Capital is a Munich-based venture capital firm that backs technology startups in Bavaria. Founded in 1972, it uses an evergreen investment approach that avoids traditional fund constraints. The firm primarily provides equity investments and can also offer venture debt to help maturing startups reach break-even while limiting founder dilution. As a private investment company, it can act as lead investor or co-investor and may serve as a private lead investor for other investors. The firm focuses on supporting growing Bavarian tech companies throughout their development.

Founded in 2011, Slow Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm. It invests in innovative companies operating at the intersection of technology, science, society, and culture across various sectors such as software, biotechnology, e-commerce, fintech, and more.

Precursor Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds in North America. It invests in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware across sectors including consumer, digital health, education, enterprise, fintech, marketplace, SaaS, information technology, media, and more. The firm tends to support companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Toronto, with activity in other U.S., Canada, and Mexico markets. Typical investments range from USD 0.1 million to 0.25 million per company. Founded in 2015, Precursor Ventures emphasizes investing in people and has adopted a Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

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.

Shilling Capital Partners, established in 2011 and headquartered in Lisboa, Portugal, is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments. It specializes in startups, angel, and growth capital, primarily in the technology and digital sectors within Portugal. The firm typically invests between €0.1 million to €1 million, aiming for a 60x multiple on follow-on investments. Shilling differentiates itself by offering more than just capital; it provides access to its Shilling Platform, which connects founders with successful entrepreneurs and executives, aiding in venture validation, development, and global market acceleration.

Founded in 2019, güil Mobility Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Kaufmann Group, based in Santiago, Chile. It focuses on investing in early-stage mobility tech startups globally, partnering with entrepreneurs to drive innovation and real-world impact in transportation.

Adjuvo is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2015, specializing in early-stage investments within the information technology sector. The firm connects high-growth business opportunities with a network of top-tier investors, facilitating investments typically ranging from £1.0 to £3.0 million. Adjuvo aims to support innovative companies by providing the necessary capital to help them scale and succeed in a competitive market.

HPS Investment Partners is a global investment firm focused on non-investment grade credit across the capital structure. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, it operates a worldwide network of offices. The firm originated as a unit of Highbridge Capital Management, a subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and was acquired by its principals in 2016 after Highbridge’s hedge fund strategies remained with J.P. Morgan. HPS manages a variety of strategies, including syndicated leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, privately negotiated senior secured debt, mezzanine, asset-based lending, and private equity, and serves clients across industries such as insurance, healthcare, media, retail, logistics, and marine.

Maverick Ventures Israel is a Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 that focuses on early-stage technology startups in Israel, with a particular emphasis on software sectors. It makes investments across the country, typically committing 1 to 3 million USD per deal to Israeli companies.

CLI Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2014 and based in Mountain View, California, with offices in Palo Alto, New York, Boston, San Diego, Beijing, and Shenzhen. The firm targets investments in healthcare, real estate, software, and services, and maintains a broad portfolio of more than 200 companies worldwide.

Mentors Fund is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2017. It invests in and mentors capital-efficient startups across diverse sectors, including business-to-business, media, financial services, healthcare, information technology, agriculture, advertising technology, big data, advanced manufacturing, infrastructure, pet technology, ride-sharing, and software as a service. The firm supports early-stage companies by providing capital and practical guidance to accelerate growth and improve operations.

Venture Catalysts is recognized as Asia's largest integrated incubator, established in 2016, which offers investments ranging from $500,000 to $2 million per startup, along with incubation support for 18 to 24 months. It has successfully incubated notable companies such as BharatPe, Fynd, and Innov8, which have emerged as leaders in their respective categories. With a robust network of over 4,500 angel investors across 36 cities in six countries, including India, Hong Kong, and the UAE, Venture Catalysts has attracted participation from prominent global investors like YCombinator and Greenoaks. The organization focuses on nurturing the startup ecosystem in Tier II and III cities in India, conducting incubation programs in locations such as Ahmedabad, Lucknow, and Surat, as well as major metros. In addition to providing seed and Series A funding, Venture Catalysts excels in startup development, strategic guidance, and investor education, ensuring substantial returns for its investors. Its leadership in the early-stage investment landscape is underscored by the successful fundraising of over ten incubatees in a challenging market environment, solidifying its reputation as a top early-stage investor in India.

AngelWise is a venture capital firm based in Hasselt, Belgium, founded in 2022. It concentrates on pre-seed and seed-stage investments in information and communication technology startups, aiming to help young companies navigate early growth through funding and advisory support.

Seeder Fund is a venture capital firm based in Brussels, Belgium, focused on digital startups. It provides early-stage financing and growth capital, including seed funding up to EUR 200,000 to validate value proposition and product-market fit, up to EUR 300,000 for startups preparing for Series A, and up to EUR 1,000,000 for scale-ups to support growth. It targets digital companies in Belgium and may invest in startups it has previously financed in the first round, while remaining open to new opportunities.

Qbic Fund is a Ghent-based venture capital firm that backs spin-off companies arising from the Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp university networks and affiliated research institutes, including VITO. It maintains strategic partnerships with these universities and VITO to gain early access to promising research and to support portfolio ventures from assessment to hands-on development. The firm focuses on life sciences, new materials, and information technology, with emphasis on software, deeptech, biotech and medtech opportunities. Through its university and research collaborations, Qbic Fund provides technical guidance and industry connections to help startups accelerate commercialization and growth.

Founded in 2019, Conexus Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Regina, Canada. It invests time, knowledge, and capital into high-growth tech startups operating primarily in the information technology sector, with a focus on ag-tech and food-tech sectors.

LAUNCH is a California-based organization that supports entrepreneurs and fosters innovation within the technology sector. Established in 2010, it encompasses multiple initiatives, including the LAUNCH Fund, which focuses on early-stage investments in technology-related companies. Additionally, LAUNCH operates an incubator designed to nurture startup development. Its flagship event, the LAUNCH Festival, attracts over 12,000 participants, including venture capitalists, angel investors, founders, and industry professionals, serving as a premier platform for startups to showcase their innovations. The organization also produces the podcast "This Week in Startups," which discusses trends and insights in the startup ecosystem. Through its various endeavors, LAUNCH aims to empower founders and promote the growth of emerging companies.

Lifetime Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2017. It concentrates on pre-seed and seed investments with the aim of building enduring businesses that will last for decades. The firm emphasizes backing talented founders and has a focus on healthcare and sustainability sectors.

AppWorks is a Taipei-based venture capital firm and startup accelerator that supports seed to early-stage technology companies across Taiwan and Southeast Asia. The organization provides seed funding through its accelerator and growth financing through its own funds, and operates AppWorks School to prepare engineers for tech careers. AppWorks focuses on sectors including artificial intelligence, machine learning, the internet of things, web3 and blockchain, while also backing fintech, consumer tech and logistics initiatives in the region.

GreenPoint Partners is a venture capital firm based in New York that invests in real assets, innovation, and technology companies across seed, early, later, and growth stages. It focuses on firms transforming industries and creating the places of tomorrow.

EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. It aims to transform urban mobility by supporting impact-driven startups and scale-ups, providing funding, knowledge, networking opportunities, and connections with public policy stakeholders.

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.

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.

Tera Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tallinn, Estonia. It backs ambitious founders from the Baltics, Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe working on digital technologies with global scaling ambitions. The firm supports portfolio companies with access to expertise and hands-on guidance to grow from pre-seed and seed stages toward exits, and maintains a non-controlling approach to align founder motivation with ownership. Tera operates with a regional footprint and connects to markets in the UK, the US and Asia, wired through a global advisory network. It maintains a presence in Estonia, Finland and California to help portfolio companies expand internationally. The firm focuses on software, information technology and related digital sectors, leveraging its networks to facilitate market entry and growth.

OCA Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm founded in 1999 that makes early-stage equity investments in technology-driven companies in the United States and Canada. The firm concentrates on software and information technology-enabled businesses, including consumer software, enterprise software, fintech, and digital health, with a preference for companies demonstrating dramatic growth potential and scalable models. By backing startups at seed to early-growth stages, OCA Ventures aims to support firms developing innovative software solutions and technology-enabled services across industries, including healthcare technology systems and financial services. The team seeks partnerships with entrepreneurs building scalable platforms and differentiated products, leveraging its regional presence and sector focus to add operational and strategic value.

Rebel Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that backs technology startups in the United States. It leverages a network of Y Combinator alumni and a proprietary machine learning model to assess startup potential, aiming to identify promising early-stage ventures with emphasis on education and training services, information technology, and healthcare.

Cactus is a Mumbai-based technology investment company with a corporate venture arm and venture funds focused on India. Through its corporate venture arm, Cactus Partners, it backs early-stage Indian startups in health technology, clean technology, climate technology, B2B, and software-as-a-service. It also manages a purpose-driven early-growth fund that provides active founder support, business-building practices, and access to its network, relationships and talent to help portfolio companies scale.

SGI Venture Capital, founded in 2007, is a Korean venture capital firm dedicated to the green growth sector, investing in renewable energy, green technology, and agricultural technology. The firm provides venture capital and private equity for mergers, acquisitions, and buyouts, and offers business and engineering consulting to portfolio and client companies. Its investment focus includes greentech commercialization, green infrastructure, agritech, and early‑stage project development. SGI employs a team of greentech specialists and maintains a broad domestic and international network to support deal sourcing, value creation, and exit management.

The Westly Group is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm focused on clean technology and digitization across energy, mobility, buildings and industrial sectors. It invests in seed, early and mid-stage startups developing technologies that advance sustainability and efficiency, including energy, water, transportation, manufacturing, digital infrastructure and related sectors such as cybersecurity. The firm supports entrepreneurs transforming traditional industries by accelerating innovations that enable the transition to more sustainable and connected systems.

Fontinalis Partners is a Detroit- and Boston-based venture capital and private equity firm focused on next-generation mobility and related technology sectors. The firm invests across the mobility ecosystem, including connected vehicles, data and analytics, intelligent infrastructure, location-based services, mobility transactions, and new mobility models such as car sharing and ride sharing, as well as software and cloud-based services. It operates on a stage-agnostic basis, backing early to growth-stage companies across the United States, and aims to leverage management experience, strategic relationships, and transportation innovation expertise to scale portfolio companies. The firm often takes board seats and maintains offices in Detroit and Boston; it is not affiliated with Ford Motor Company and was founded in 2009.

TB Innovations is a corporate venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2020. It invests in seed through late-stage startups across sectors including fundamental technology, next-generation energy and materials, artificial intelligence and signal processing, electronic devices, robotics, information technology, life sciences and bio healthcare, and agriculture.

Crescera Investimentos is a Brazilian alternative asset management firm formed by the merger of the Bozano Group with BR Investimentos, Mercatto Gestão de Recursos and Trapezus Asset Management, creating a platform for investors, clients and investees. Structured as a partnership, the firm combines a private equity business that targets privately held Brazilian growth companies with Mercatto’s fundamentals-driven public equities and fixed income portfolios and Trapezus’s high-alpha quantitative strategies. Based in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Crescera has a team of over 70 professionals including more than 40 partners, and traces its lineage to the Bozano Group’s long-standing investment banking heritage. The group aims to deliver long-term value through diversified products and disciplined investing, focusing on sectors such as education, consumer, retail, services, healthcare, logistics, innovation and technology, leveraging knowledge and trust in its client relationships.