Branded Hospitality is a New York-based venture capital and media platform that supports growth in the hospitality, food service, and related technology sectors. Founded in 2017, it operates three core lines: venture investments in innovative brands and scalable technologies; advisory solutions that help improve operational efficiency, brand visibility, and market access for corporate partners; and media content, including a podcast and other channels, that engage decision-makers and industry leaders. By leveraging its deep industry network and insights, Branded Hospitality connects emerging brands, technology solutions, and capital to accelerate growth and drive transformation across restaurants, hotels, and leisure businesses.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. It is stage-agnostic, backing seed and Series A rounds, with an investment range of fifty thousand to five million dollars. Founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda, the firm leverages its network and experience in the marketplace sector to support founders aiming for rapid growth. The firm maintains a broad portfolio across e-commerce, on-demand services, fintech, and related technologies, with notable investments in Alibaba, Coupang, Delivery Hero, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest. FJ Labs emphasizes partnerships with visionary founders and uses its sector expertise to help portfolio companies scale and achieve expansion.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm that provides early-stage and seed investments alongside structured accelerator programs and deeply resourced facilities to accelerate product development. Focused on deep tech, human and planetary health, and cross-border software, SOSV backs startups from pre-seed onward and runs programs that accelerate technical development, regulatory strategy, and fundraising. The firm maintains labs and engineering spaces with specialist staff in multiple regions, including the United States and Asia, to support portfolio companies in biosafety, chemistry, mechatronics, analytics, and electrical engineering. Programs such as HAX and other live events offer founders access to prototyping, testing, and investor networks. Annually, SOSV makes around sixty pre-seed investments (up to roughly $550k each) and participates in numerous follow-on rounds, leveraging a global portfolio and extensive co-investor network to help deeply technical startups scale and reach markets.

Antler is a global venture capital firm and startup incubator based in Singapore that invests in early-stage technology companies and supports startups across sectors including healthcare, finance, consumer, and software. It builds a worldwide community of co-founders and provides access to talent, mentors, and expert advisors, along with expansion support and capital to help teams form, validate business models, and grow internationally. Antler emphasizes long-term partnerships with portfolio companies, continuing to back ventures through growth stages as they scale.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011. It focuses on software-as-a-service startups in Latin America, providing growth capital, mentorship, and access to a broad network of strategic partners and co-investors to help portfolio companies scale, and operates a corporate venture capital arm that collaborates with corporate partners through flexible operating models and end-to-end support.

Global Founders Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital platform founded by Rocket Internet that invests in early-stage technology companies worldwide. It operates as a globally oriented, stage-agnostic investor, partnering with exceptional founders across sectors and providing support from the initial growth phase through scale. The firm targets high-potential, rapidly expanding ventures and emphasizes impact and feasibility in evaluating opportunities. It is led by investment partners Cedric Asselman, David Sainteff, and Fabricio Pettena.

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman that manages capital across public and private markets worldwide. The firm focuses on technology, internet, consumer, and financial services sectors, pursuing high-quality growth opportunities through both public equity and private investments. It maintains a research-driven, long-term approach and acts as a registered investment adviser, building partnerships with innovative companies across multiple regions and growth stages.

Global Brain is an independent venture capital firm based in Tokyo, founded in 1998, that backs technology startups worldwide and provides hands-on support and open innovation with large corporate partners. The firm targets early to growth-stage opportunities across sectors such as artificial intelligence, space, education, HR tech, life sciences, enterprise software, and consumer tech, with a global footprint in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. It has managed over 2.7 billion in assets and invested more than 1.4 billion across more than 1,300 deals, supporting hundreds of active portfolio companies and achieving a track record of IPOs and M&A exits. Global Brain emphasizes transformative growth through active portfolio management, strategic resources, and collaborations with corporate partners and institutional investors. The firm operates flagship funds and co-investment programs, and maintains engagement with a broad ecosystem to accelerate innovation.

East Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 and based in Singapore, with activities across Southeast Asia. It provides multi-stage investments from seed to growth for technology companies and has backed more than 300 startups across the region. The firm pursues a platform approach that combines funding with operational support and ecosystem engagement, including initiatives such as climate impact and ESG-oriented programs. East Ventures operates primarily in Singapore, Indonesia and other Southeast Asian markets, and has established growth capital partnerships through EV Growth, a joint venture with SMDV and YJ Capital that focuses on scaling startups in Indonesia and the wider region.

Mizuho Capital is the venture capital arm of Mizuho Financial Group, based in Tokyo, Japan. It invests in innovative startups and growth-stage companies, leveraging the Mizuho ecosystem (including Mizuho Bank, Mizuho Securities, and Mizuho Trust & Banking) to support portfolio companies. The firm focuses on information technology and biotechnology, while also backing opportunities across internet-related services, healthcare, manufacturing, and services sectors. It originated in 2002 through the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment, and is part of a broader corporate group with ties to Mizuho Bank. The firm has a history of portfolio companies going public and maintains a recognized presence in Japan's venture capital landscape.

Goodwater Capital is a San Francisco Bay Area based consumer technology investment firm that backs early-stage startups worldwide, focusing on consumer technology and fintech. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, it supports ventures from Series A to IPO using software enabled, data driven approaches to help founders scale and reach millions of customers. It provides portfolio companies with detailed data, concierge services, startup curricula, and strategic advice to accelerate growth across housing, healthcare, food delivery, financial services, education, entertainment, and transportation. The portfolio targets consumer products and services, software, and related sectors, aiming to drive measurable social impact and substantial value for both entrepreneurs and investors.

Savory Fund is a growth equity firm based in Draper, Utah that invests in restaurant brands. The firm emphasizes operator expertise and collaboration, pursuing a partner-focused approach to help established concepts scale while preserving brand integrity. It provides operational, financial, and strategic support to portfolio companies and seeks opportunities in underserved segments of the food and beverage market. Its portfolio includes Swig, Mo’ Bettahs, Houston Hot Chicken, Hash Kitchen, and Via 313 Pizzeria, collectively employing more than 1,200 people across 96 corporate and franchise locations with 35 additional sites in development. Savory positions itself as people investors with roots as restaurant operators, leveraging a veteran team to assist partners in sustainable growth.

DoorDash is a San Francisco-based on-demand food delivery and logistics company that operates a marketplace connecting customers with local and national restaurants, and other merchants, enabling delivery or in-store pickup through a mobile app. It provides last-mile delivery infrastructure, merchant onboarding and marketing tools, payment processing, analytics, and customer support, and offers DoorDash Drive as a white-label logistics service. Following the acquisition of Wolt, the company expanded services to Europe and Asia and broadened into non-restaurant categories such as groceries, retail, and pet supplies, while pursuing drone delivery to improve speed and reliability. Headquartered in San Francisco, DoorDash focuses on helping merchants reach demand and optimize delivery efficiency across regions.

Cleveland Avenue is a Chicago-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that backs early- to growth-stage companies across lifestyle consumer brands, food and beverage, AgTech, and technology. It provides financial backing and strategic guidance to accelerate growth and maximize value in portfolio companies. Notable investments include Eliyan, a semiconductor chiplet interconnect innovator; Zerocater, offering personalized corporate catering; 86 Repairs, providing restaurant equipment maintenance; Sunda, a Southeast Asian restaurant concept; and Aigen, developing solar-powered crop monitoring robots. The firm seeks opportunities across Agritech, Food & Beverage, Restaurant & Food Tech, Robotics/AI, Software Services, and Consumer Goods & Services, focusing on ventures with strong revenue potential from pre-revenue to substantial annual revenues.

TenOneTen Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm established in 2011 and headquartered in Los Angeles. It provides early-stage funding to technology startups with a focus on software, information technology, B2B applications, and related areas such as virtual reality, augmented reality, gaming, and SaaS. The firm primarily targets opportunities in the United States, with activity across North America, and operates as a Registered Investment Adviser.

ICONIQ Capital is a global multi-family office and investment firm based in San Francisco that provides financial advisory and family office services while managing direct investments across asset classes. The firm focuses on technology-driven opportunities, including enterprise software, fintech, information technology, artificial intelligence, and healthcare IT, and pursues growth equity, venture capital, middle-market buyouts, and real estate. It serves influential families and organizations, acting as a trusted advisor to facilitate strategic relationships, governance, and impact initiatives. ICONIQ operates with a network of offices in San Francisco, London, Palo Alto, Singapore, and New York, and maintains a registered investment adviser framework. Through growth platforms such as ICONIQ Growth, the firm supports early-stage to later-stage software and information technology companies, leveraging a broad ecosystem of leaders and founders to accelerate value creation. The company emphasizes a global reach and a disciplined, long-term investment approach.

Convergence Ventures is an early-stage technology venture capital firm focused on Indonesia and Southeast Asia. It supports founders by applying the partners’ operating experience in Internet businesses in emerging markets and leveraging a broad network across the United States, China, and Indonesia. The firm aims to help founders build long-lasting, impactful technology companies in Indonesia and the wider Southeast Asia region, supported by an ecosystem of advisory input and partner resources drawn from media and related industries.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that targets early-stage, capital-efficient technology startups in the United States and Canada. The firm employs a data-driven, quantitative approach to investment decisions and aims for rapid yes-or-no conclusions, often within two weeks. Typical rounds encompass small checks in the low hundreds of thousands, with the potential for larger commitments in exceptional cases, and a portfolio-wide strategy that emphasizes diversification. Beyond capital, it provides hands-on mentorship in areas such as sales, marketing, and fundraising, leveraging a network of investors and seasoned operators to support portfolio companies after investment. The firm focuses on teams still refining product-market fit, including those outside traditional tech hubs, and seeks to help founders scale efficiently through structured operational support and transparent decision processes.

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in London with offices in San Francisco and Geneva. It partners with technology entrepreneurs across software, AI, fintech, healthcare, data, media, mobility and related sectors to provide early and growth-stage capital and strategic guidance. The firm supports portfolio companies through all development stages, including sourcing opportunities, due diligence, structuring financing, and ongoing advisory interactions, leveraging a global network of industry connections to help founders scale, enter new markets, attract customers and partners. Notable portfolio companies include Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King, Slack and Supercell. Index Ventures emphasizes backing exceptional teams with ambitious ideas and provides resources to help them execute growth plans, product development, and market expansion globally.

Wayra is Telefónica's corporate venture capital and global open innovation hub. It connects startups with Telefónica's business units through a venture-client model and open-innovation programs, enabling joint opportunities and faster scale. The group operates across 10 countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela, to engage ecosystems and bring together entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders. Wayra has invested in more than 1,200 startups with total funding exceeding €260 million, focusing on digital health, travel tech, and other technology-enabled sectors. Through collaborations with large organizations such as AstraZeneca and Kunsen, and partnerships like TUI Care Foundation and Target 8.9 for the TUI Futureshapers initiative, Wayra helps accelerate growth and drive impact for both startups and Telefónica's business units.

Enlightened Hospitality Investments is a growth equity firm affiliated with Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group. It partners with people-first organizations in hospitality and related technology sectors to drive long-term growth. The firm provides strategic direction, operational expertise, and access to a broad network and USHG resources, drawing on more than 30 years of industry experience. It seeks leadership-driven companies with aligned values, prioritizing employee well-being and outstanding customer experience. Through its investments, EHI aims to accelerate expansion in hospitality, technology, restaurants, hotels, and leisure, deploying growth capital to support scale and sustainable performance.

Soma Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that backs early-stage software companies. It emphasizes founder-led partnerships and seed investments across sectors such as B2B SaaS, AI, fintech, and other technology areas, with a focus on software-driven businesses poised to reshape industries. The firm has a notable portfolio of unicorns valued in the tens of billions, including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School, among others. By supporting founders with long-term partnerships and strategic guidance, Soma Capital aims to help portfolio companies scale globally.

White Star Capital is a global multi-stage technology investment firm and venture capital platform that backs ambitious technology startups across North America, Europe and Asia. It provides capital and hands-on support to founders to help them scale internationally from early stages. With offices in New York, London, Montreal, Toronto, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong, the firm partners with entrepreneurs to build globally scalable businesses across sectors, including fintech, food tech, digital manufacturing and e-commerce. White Star Capital emphasizes leveraging technology to create practical, inclusive solutions and works closely with portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle to accelerate growth, international expansion and value creation.

Indian Angel Network, based in New Delhi and founded in 2006, is India's largest early-stage investment platform that unites successful entrepreneurs and CEOs to invest in startup and early-stage ventures. It provides capital, mentorship, and market access, and leverages a broad network to support startups in strategy and execution. The network serves as a facilitator between investors and startups, connecting founders with investors, customers, and partners, and offering strategic guidance to foster long-term growth and mitigate risk. Over the years, it has invested approximately ₹1,150 crores in over 260 startups across sectors such as deep tech, fintech, software, and mobility.

PeakBridge is a venture capital firm focused on FoodTech and NutriTech, supporting early- to growth-stage companies across Europe, the United States, and Israel that develop scalable, climate- and health-oriented technologies to improve the global food system. As part of the Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity partnership, it provides capital and strategic guidance, drawing on a team with deep experience in food, agrifood, and finance to deliver comprehensive support. PeakBridge collaborates with corporates, investors, and knowledge institutes to help founders navigate supply chains, regulatory complexity, and market entry, and to accelerate routes to market. Its global network and multidisciplinary approach aim to create value for portfolio companies while driving positive impact in food, climate, and health tech.

Nissay Capital is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm founded in 1991 that provides growth capital and hands-on management support to innovative Japanese companies across technology, healthcare, and services, as well as IT, manufacturing, distribution, and retail. Aligned with Nippon Life Insurance, it follows responsible investment practices including a human rights policy and anti-social forces policy. The firm supports portfolio companies through multiple growth stages, aiming to help them scale and reach public listing.

Prosus is a global consumer internet group and technology investor that builds, scales and acquires internet platforms across online marketplaces, classifieds, payments and fintech, food delivery, travel and education. It pursues growth through strategic equity investments, acquisitions and operating capabilities, leveraging a global footprint in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The company operates many leading internet platforms and supports its portfolio with ventures, capital markets activity and emphasis on AI initiatives. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Prosus is the international internet assets division of Naspers and focuses on value creation through technology-enabled platforms and ecosystems.

Source Code Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that invests across seed, early, and growth stages in China’s technology sectors, with a focus on Internet+, AI+, and Global+ opportunities. The firm backs a wide range of sectors including media and entertainment, consumer services, enterprise, finance, retail, transportation, housing, education, and healthcare, and has backed notable Chinese tech companies such as ByteDance, Meituan, Beike, and Li Auto. It operates a portfolio-wide platform named Code Hub to facilitate collaboration, mentorship, and resource sharing among founders and portfolio companies, leveraging its research-driven approach to support companies through growth and international expansion. The firm emphasizes macro, meso, and micro perspectives, data and technology-driven value creation, and practical support to founders.

Alpha JWC Ventures is a Jakarta- and Singapore-based Southeast Asia-focused venture capital firm founded in 2015 that backs seed to Series B rounds in technology, financial technology, consumer technology, software, and related sectors across Indonesia and the broader region. It emphasizes long-term value creation through active portfolio management and hands-on support, leveraging partnerships with institutional investors, strategic partners, and family offices to help founders scale. With deep local experience and a regional footprint, Alpha JWC Ventures seeks to enable disruptive startups to achieve sustainable growth in Southeast Asia.

Feenix Venture Partners is a New York-based investment firm founded in 2017 that provides growth capital to small and medium-sized consumer-facing and related businesses, primarily through direct lending and venture lending strategies. The firm pursues early- to mid-stage opportunities and engages with portfolio companies, offering strategic guidance and operational support. Its target sectors include specialty retail, food and beverage, education, health and wellness, lifestyle brands, and business services.

Sauce.vc is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in New Delhi, India. It invests in consumer-focused startups operating in food and beverages, personal care, apparel, and lifestyle sectors, supporting early-stage companies with a high-engagement model. The firm leverages a deep service partner network across India to assist portfolio brands in scaling, product development, go-to-market, and distribution.

Celtic House Venture Partners is an independent Canadian venture capital firm focused on technology and innovation. Founded in 1994 and based in Ottawa and Toronto, the firm conducts investments across Canada and the United States, with activity in the United Kingdom. It targets software, digital media, communications, wireless, networking, application and information technology sectors, including connectivity products, automation and network management software. Celtic House backs early to growth-stage companies by partnering with management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to help build technology businesses, occasionally leveraging partnerships with Celtic House Asia Partners. The firm manages multiple venture funds to support portfolio companies and has historically raised capital to back its investments.

Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm and seed investor based in San Carlos, California, founded in 2017. The firm focuses on early‑stage technology startups, with a portfolio spanning software, business‑to‑business, fintech, digital health, information technology, healthcare, financial services, SaaS, and blockchain. It supports pre‑seed and growth‑stage opportunities and pursues global exposure, including activity in Asia and markets in the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia. Hustle Fund emphasizes rapid decision‑making, founder education, and a broad network of venture capitalists and angels through initiatives such as Angel Squad and related events, aiming to provide founders with capital as well as mentorship, resources, and connections to accelerate growth. The organization manages a family of funds and operates as a venture capital firm focused on technology‑driven startups.

Headline is a global venture capital firm with a footprint in seven cities worldwide, investing across geographies and leading rounds at multiple stages. Its Early Stage Funds are based in the US, Europe, Asia, and Brazil to support local deal flow, while a San Francisco–based Growth Fund leads Series B and later rounds from a global perspective. The firm operates Headline Asia, the Tokyo-based Asia arm formerly Infinity Ventures, which backs companies across East, South, and Southeast Asia in sectors including business software, fintech, healthcare, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and cloud technologies. Its portfolio includes notable names such as Sonos, The RealReal, Farfetch, Bumble, Acorns, and Sorare. Headline Asia IV, a 2020 vintage fund based in Tokyo, pursues minority investments across East, South, and Southeast Asia.

Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with offices in New York, Boston, Menlo Park, Chicago, London, and Tokyo. It enables accredited investors, especially alumni networks, to access diversified venture opportunities by co-investing alongside leading venture capital firms. Through funds, syndicates, and investing clubs, it sources opportunities across stages and geographies, conducts rigorous due diligence, and aims for transparent, founder-friendly support. The firm backs a diversified portfolio of startups, including more than 1,600 companies, and has attracted substantial committed capital and a large community of individual investors, underscoring its mission to democratize access to venture capital while partnering with established VC firms.

RiverPark Ventures is a New York-based early-stage, industry-agnostic venture capital firm that backs innovative companies at the intersection of enterprise technology and evolving consumer behavior. It emphasizes leadership, clear market need, and disruptive models that shorten value chains, with a preference for recurring revenue and capital-efficient, milestone-driven growth. The firm combines capital with hands-on guidance and strategic support, leveraging an operator-centric approach and research capabilities to help portfolio companies scale from initial investments through growth rounds.

Collide Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups in enterprise SaaS, sustainable supply chain, and Gen-Z consumer technology across the United States. Founded in 2021 by Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels, the firm emphasizes diversity, with over 80% of portfolio founders from underrepresented groups and operates as a 100% Black-owned organization. It provides founders with capital, knowledge networks, and operational support to reach exits, focusing on pre-seed to Series A rounds. The firm has closed Fund II and reports total assets under management around $170 million, with a portfolio of more than 75 companies. Its approach is described as community-driven, directing resources to the most deserving teams to help founders scale and achieve successful exits.

BEENEXT is a Singapore-based global venture capital firm, founded in 2015, that backs early-stage startups (seed to Series A) across information technology, fintech, healthtech, e-commerce, AI, and related sectors. The firm manages multiple funds, including BEENEXT 1, BEENEXT 2, and BEENEXT Opportunity Fund, investing in the United States, Southeast Asia, Japan, and India. It emphasizes a community-driven approach, providing founders access to a global network, mentorship, knowledge exchange, and collaboration to help scale operations.

AppWorks is a Taipei-based venture capital platform, startup accelerator, and founder-support organization focused on technology-driven companies in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. It operates structured accelerator programs that provide mentorship, resources, workshops, and access to investors for early and growth-stage startups, while also managing funds that invest across seed to growth rounds to help companies scale products, teams, and market presence. The firm concentrates on sectors such as artificial intelligence, internet of things, blockchain and related technologies, including web3, and supports entrepreneurship through Aiworks by AppWorks School, a program launched to develop AI skills. AppWorks maintains a large network of startups and founders in the region, offering tailored support and education to build software engineering and applied AI capabilities. The company emphasizes founder-first guidance, enabling portfolio companies to raise capital and scale regionally in Greater Southeast Asia.

MATH Venture Partners is a Chicago-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that backs early to middle-stage technology companies in the United States and Canada. The firm takes a hands-on, partnership-oriented approach, with operators and experienced investors providing strategic guidance across customer acquisition, marketing, sales, finance, and team scaling. It invests across sectors including e-commerce, software as a service, hardware-enabled software, marketplaces, IT services, ad tech, and related technology-enabled businesses, typically supporting growth with capital-efficient strategies and operating leverage. The team seeks coachable founders and partners closely to accelerate growth and improve outcomes, aiming to help portfolio companies reach substantial scale and potential exits. The firm emphasizes practical, results-focused support and a collaborative approach to building durable technology businesses.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. The firm provides capital and strategic guidance to early-stage and growth-stage technology companies, often entering at the idea or formation stage and maintaining involvement as companies scale. It concentrates on a limited number of portfolio companies at a time and emphasizes long-term partnerships, collaboration among its internal teams and founders, and support in areas such as product development, company building, and market expansion. Its sector focus includes information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, mobile, nanotechnology, financial services, internet, energy, media and retail, with a global reach across the technology ecosystem.

The Invention Lab is a Seoul-based venture studio and open-innovation advisor serving startups and corporates in Korea and Southeast Asia. With eight years of experience, it supports opportunity discovery through PoC, investment linkage, and scale, delivering its model via a Studio Core Platform and blended capital financing, backed by a Talent Operator Pool, Infra Validation System, and a global network to enable cross-border growth. It translates market opportunities into validated ventures using data-driven research and an internal AI agent, aligning new ventures with corporate ecosystems to accelerate execution. The firm focuses on New Business Design, venture scale-up and management, and strategic partnerships, and has showcased projects in food and beverage with overseas expansion, mobility and autotech/fintech, and B2B/SaaS. Founded in 2017, The Invention Lab operates from Seoul and engages across Korea and Southeast Asia.

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate focused on supporting LGBTQ founders and inclusive leadership by investing across stages and partnering with other venture firms to back diverse, high-potential companies. It maintains a global portfolio of 130+ companies and has deployed tens of millions in capital to date. The organization actively helps portfolio companies identify and recruit diverse talent for C-suite and board roles and cultivates a worldwide network of investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a commitment to positive social change through business.

Zigg Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm focused on real estate technology and proptech, with investments spanning information technology, business and consumer products, and services. Founded in 2018, it backs real estate technology startups across stages, supporting portfolio companies with strategic guidance, governance involvement, and market positioning to drive growth. The firm emphasizes accelerating innovation at the intersection of real estate and technology and has a global reach across the real estate tech ecosystem, including sectors such as mortgage technology, jobsite management, data analytics, construction software, and related services.

Nine Rivers Capital is an independent, Mumbai-based asset management and financial advisory firm. It serves high-net-worth individuals and family offices by providing investment management and advisory services, applying private-equity rigor to public markets through a curated set of SEBI-registered portfolio management strategies and alternate investment funds. The firm emphasizes deep research, disciplined processes, governance, and long-term value creation, operating in an owner-managed structure led by founder and chief investment officer Sandeep Daga. Its sector focus includes information technology, e-commerce, cloud, artificial intelligence, chemicals, foods, healthcare, and retail, and it combines investment activity with corporate advisory services to support growth-oriented businesses from its Mumbai base.

Reflex Capital is a Prague-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that focuses on seed and early-stage investments. It invests its own money, enabling fast decision-making and a founder-friendly approach. The firm supports portfolio companies with partner-led guidance through both growth and challenges, emphasizing founder personalities and instincts alongside business models. Reflex Capital maintains offices in Prague and San Francisco and backs startups across various sectors in Europe and the United States. Notable investments include Product Fruits, Keboola, Productboard, VOS.health, signageOS, and Spaceti. Its team includes experienced partners such as Ondrej Fryc, Josef Chvojka, and Eduard Mika.

Keen Venture Partners is a European venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Amsterdam with operations across Europe, including an office in London. It backs fast-growing technology companies at Series A and B stages, with a focus on technology solutions for SMEs, especially AI, and on defense and security sectors. The firm emphasizes a human-centered approach and a fast, transparent investment process, guided by a thesis sprint methodology to understand emerging technologies. Typical investments range around €5–€10 million per company.

Palm Drive Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that funds early-stage and growth companies across the United States. The firm prefers investments in fintech, e-commerce, digital health, and enterprise software while maintaining a broader focus on retail and Internet of Things. It emphasizes conviction-driven investing and acts as a strategic partner, providing proactive support beyond capital, including introductions to customers and talent and hands-on guidance to help founders scale. Palm Drive Capital operates with a national footprint and has offices in New York and Miami, reflecting its reach across major U.S. tech centers. The firm is registered as an investment adviser.

Flat6Labs is an accelerator firm and entrepreneurship platform operating in emerging markets. Founded in 2011 and based in Cairo, it supports founders to build, launch, and grow transformative startups through acceleration programs, ecosystem development, and tailored innovation services. The firm has expanded across the Middle East and Africa with offices in Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Jeddah, Manama, and Tunis, and it runs regionally focused programs such as StartMashreq and Nawah Pre-Accelerator, along with sector initiatives in FinTech and PropTech. Flat6Labs collaborates with international partners and government initiatives to accelerate scale and regional impact, and it maintains programs and partnerships across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, and Pakistan. The company aims to strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems and bridge local startups to global markets.

Hyundai Venture Investment Corporation is a Seoul-based venture capital firm established in 1997 that targets small and mid-sized technology companies in South Korea, with an investment scope extending across Asia. It partners with technology-driven startups and provides portfolio support, including management oversight, technology consulting, and financial assistance to help firms scale. The firm backs a broad range of sectors such as consumer products and services, information technology, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, e-commerce, oncology, TMT, mobile commerce, and ad tech.