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 is a corporate venture arm and innovation hub connected to Telefónica, operating as a global accelerator and open-innovation platform that links startups and scaleups with the Telefónica group. With a presence in ten countries including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela, Wayra collaborates with entrepreneurs to identify and develop joint business opportunities. It serves as the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide, providing access to networks, capital, mentorship, and potential pilot deployments. Wayra runs accelerator programs and themed calls, such as the Wayra Call and the Health Hub with partners, to support tech startups across sectors like health tech, cybersecurity, smart city, and IT, aiming to scale startups through engagement with Telefónica's global assets and corporate partnerships.

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.

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.

Seaya Ventures is a Madrid-based European venture capital platform that invests in technology-enabled startups across Europe and Latin America. Since its inception in 2013, it has raised and manages a substantial capital base, with over €600 million across multiple early-stage funds, and backs founders building global technology companies. The firm supports portfolio companies through a global platform, an extensive network of founders, investors and multinational corporations, and its experience helping companies scale internationally. Seaya pursues opportunities across software, mobility, greentech, healthcare, energy, climate, circular economy, fintech, proptech and related sectors, emphasizing technology-driven growth and sustainable impact. It maintains a climate technology initiative alongside core tech investments, reflecting a commitment to applying technology to address climate challenges and accelerate the global adoption of climate solutions.

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.

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.

Convergence Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Founded in 2014, it backs internet and mobile-enabled startups by leveraging partner experience and regional networks. The firm seeks to invest in information technology and related sectors at early stages, supporting founders with hands-on guidance and access to resources. Led by Adrian Li and Donald Wihardja, whose operating experience in Internet businesses in emerging markets informs a practical approach, Convergence Ventures emphasizes building long-lasting and impactful businesses for Indonesia and the broader region. An advisory board and limited partners from the US, China and Indonesia contribute networks and resources to portfolio companies.

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.

Demeter Partners is a Paris‑based private equity and venture capital firm focused on the energy transition and environmental sustainability. Founded in 2005, it funds companies from seed through growth and infrastructure across Europe, with activity in select North American opportunities, and typically pursues minority stakes with board representation. The firm targets eco‑industries and climate technologies, including water, air and waste treatment, energy efficiency, renewable energy, green buildings, and related environmental services, as well as software, services, and industrials aligned with sustainable development.

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.

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.

Zero2IPO Group is a Beijing-based integrated service provider in China's venture capital and private equity ecosystem. It acts as an active investor through three investment subsidiaries—Zero2IPO Ventures, Zero2IPO Capital, and Zero2IPO Investment—each investing and managing funds independently. The group provides market research, surveys, investment forums, training programs, and investment advisory services to connect entrepreneurs with investors and to support portfolio companies, leveraging a broad China network to facilitate opportunities and value creation.

Hiway Capital is a venture capital firm based in Guangzhou, China. Established in 2007, it focuses on investments across manufacturing, healthcare, new materials and energy, agriculture, and enterprise services.

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm established in 1974 with additional offices in Osaka and Nagoya. It focuses on seed, development stage, and startup investments across healthcare, life sciences, biotechnology, information technology, electronics, artificial intelligence, fintech, SaaS, and other high-technology sectors, with an emphasis on the Japanese market and relevance to Japan. The firm also engages in investment syndication for Japanese opportunities.

Band of Angels is an angel investment group based in the San Francisco Bay Area that pools capital and expertise from former and current high-tech executives to back early-stage startups. Founded in 1994, it targets seed and early-stage high-tech companies in California, with emphasis on enterprise software, AI, medical devices, fintech, energy, agtech, hardware, and related sectors in Silicon Valley. Typical checks range from 300,000 to 750,000, and the group often leads or participates in larger syndications around 2-3 million, aiming for board seats and roughly one-third ownership for a 1 million investment. Members bring operating experience from firms such as Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Intuit, Symantec, Logitech, and National Semiconductor to help portfolio companies. Since inception, the group has seeded over 225 companies, with more than 50 profitable M&A exits and nine Nasdaq IPOs.

Slow Ventures is a generalist early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco with additional presence in Boston and New York. Founded in 2011, it invests in technology‑driven startups and ventures at the intersection of science, society, and culture, supporting companies across sectors such as software, fintech, cryptocurrency, e-commerce, mobile, consumer and commercial services, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. The firm emphasizes helping founders through capital, resources, and industry connections to build sustainable, scalable businesses. It operates as a registered investment adviser.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Adjuvo is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that invests in early-stage information technology companies. It connects high-growth opportunities with a network of top-tier investors and provides capital typically ranging from £1 million to £3 million for suitable opportunities.

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.

Shilling is an early-stage venture capital firm and angel group based in Lisbon, Portugal. Founded in 2011, it backs B2B and consumer startups at early stages and pursues a community-centric approach that provides more than capital through its Shilling Platform, offering access to experienced founders and executives to help validate and develop ventures and accelerate growth into global markets. The firm aims to foster sustainable economic growth across diverse industries and disruptive technologies, operating with a profit-sharing model that emphasizes collaboration among founders, investors, and ecosystem participants.

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 an integrated incubator that provides funding, mentorship, and a broad network to early-stage startups. It offers investments ranging from 500K to 2 million per startup with incubation support for 18-24 months. Founded in 2016, it has built a large network of 4500+ angel investors across 36 cities in six countries, with co-investments from notable global investors. The organization prioritizes developing the startup ecosystem in Tier II and III cities in India, operating incubation programs in cities such as Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Raipur, Surat, Nagpur, as well as Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata. It supports seed and Series A rounds, provides strategic guidance and business-lead generation through its network, and helps startups access education and opportunities for investor engagement. More than 10 incubatee companies have raised Series A in recent years, underscoring its role in early-stage investments and incubation leadership.

Qbic Fund is a venture capital firm based in Ghent, Belgium, focused on early-stage investments in life sciences, new materials and information technology. It supports spin-off companies from the Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp university associations and from VITO, using a close partnership with these institutions to gain early access to promising research projects. The firm conducts in-depth, independent review followed by hands-on involvement and strategic support for portfolio companies, targeting software, deeptech, biotech and medtech alongside broader healthcare and life science opportunities. With more than €30 million under management, it operates across multiple sectors and emphasizes collaboration with academia to nurture research-driven startups.

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.

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.

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 an Austin, Texas-based early-stage investment firm and accelerator platform that combines capital with education for startups. It provides syndicate funding and operates a suite of programs to support builders, including Founder University, the LAUNCH Accelerator, and Startup Tuneup, as well as events such as Remote Demo Day. The LAUNCH ecosystem pairs investment with structured training, community access, and practical guidance to help founders move from idea to growth. By coordinating funding and educational programs, LAUNCH aims to accelerate startup development and enable teams to scale.

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.

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.

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.

EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) that aims to transform urban mobility in Europe by supporting startups and scale-ups. It provides funding and support through its Impact Ventures division, including grants and equity investments, and delivers knowledge, training, and networking through partner-led programs. The initiative connects ventures with stakeholders in the public policy sector at regional, national, and European levels to scale solutions that improve livability and sustainability in cities. It seeks to become a leading European platform for impactful urban mobility, backed by co-funding from the EIT of up to €400 million for 2020-2026.

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.

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.

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 Tallinn-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage digital startups in the Baltic states, Scandinavia, and Central and Eastern Europe. It provides hands-on support, strategic guidance, and access to a global advisory network to help portfolio companies grow from pre-seed and seed stages toward exits. With regional presence in Estonia, Finland, and California, the firm assists portfolio companies in expanding into new markets such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and Asia. Tera Ventures focuses on software and information technology and typically invests in early rounds with potential for follow-on funding for select companies, while not taking controlling stakes to keep founders properly motivated.

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.

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.

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.

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.