Investors in Big Data

Insight Partners is the most trusted scale-up firm in the software industry. Their team of industry-leading experts partner with companies to drive extraordinary success that is fueled by know-how, grit, and hands-on collaboration. Founded in 1995, Insight currently has over $20 billion of assets under management and has cumulatively invested in more than 300 companies worldwide. Across their people and their portfolio, they encourage a culture around a core belief: growth equals opportunity.

Sequoia Capital Global Equities extends Sequoia Capital’s technology investing efforts into the public markets. SCGE currently manages over $7 billion and invests in companies across the global technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sectors, primarily focusing on software, internet, financial technology, and technology-enabled consumer businesses. The firm’s portfolio consists of concentrated, long-term investments in leading companies across the world. While the majority of the portfolio is comprised of public companies, SCGE also partners with entrepreneurs through late-stage private crossover investments, often investing alongside Sequoia Growth funds. The firm’s private portfolio includes emerging leaders in the United States, China, India, Brazil, Korea, and Israel. As these private companies become public, SCGE grows the partnership with additional investments at the IPO and beyond.

Lightspeed is a global venture capital firm investing in earliest stages companies. Since 1999, Lightspeed has backed more than 350 companies in the enterprise and consumer sectors—companies that have gone on to redefine the way we live and work. And many of them have chosen Lightspeed as a lead investor in their subsequent ventures.

DFJ began in 1985 with a focus on early-stage companies. Tim Draper, a third-generation VC with a passion for technology and unconventional thinking, teamed with John Fisher, a former colleague of Draper's, known for his deep enterprise and tech finance experience. Together they shaped the firm's foundational philosophy of investing in people first. One of their first recruits was co-founder Steve Jurvetson. Together they went on to invest in break out companies like Baidu, Hotmail, and Skype. A decade ago, they added their Growth team dedicated to late-stage investing. Today, they have two teams investing two funds. Their Venture team works with founders in the early phases of company building. Their Growth team partners with companies entering hyper-growth mode. DFJ has backed 27 companies that have each achieved more than $1 billion in realized value through an initial public offering or acquisition.

Since 1986, Pelion Venture Partners has been helping entrepreneurs turn early-stage concepts into tomorrow's industry-leading companies. Pelion invests in early-stage B2B software across the US. With 7 investment team members, Pelion has deep and diverse industry and investment experience. They are hands-on in their approach and work collaboratively with each portfolio company.

New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions. For additional information, visit www.nea.com

The Techstars Dubai Accelerator in partnership with GINCO is expanding Techstars’ presence in the Middle East. GINCO is a full service general contracting firm, covering the full lifecycle of the construction process from concept to execution and supervision. Dubai is known for their leadership in technology innovation. Pioneering entrepreneurs leading innovative companies solving challenges in transportation, construction, wellness, IoT, robotics, & beyond should apply, no matter your location.

Andreessen Horowitz LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid stage, growth, and late stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data-storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Founded in 2010, Xiang He Capital is a Palo Alto-headquartered firm that targets early to growth-stage investments across the United States and China.

Battery Ventures is a private equity and venture capital investment firm specializing in seed, start-up, early and late stage ventures, leveraged buy-outs, acquisitions, growth equity, PIPES, spin-outs, roll-ups, later stage, take private transactions, mid-market buyouts, special situations, expansion deals, secondary transactions, and distressed situations. The firm seeks to invest in companies of all stages. The firm specializes in equity and debt investments in technology driven companies. It primarily invests in the following sectors: web infrastructure; e-commerce; internet; internet applications; digital marketing technologies; social applications; mobile applications and services; healthcare information technology; mobile development platforms; consumer internet; digital media; information and data services; software as a service; healthcare; content management and monetization; data collection and analysis technologies; enterprise software; enterprise IT; green IT; analytics; interactive multiplayer gaming; next generation financial products and transaction systems; IT infrastructure; online marketplaces, social media, network monitoring and management, mobile data, data centers, wired/wireless service providers, media, financial services and technologies; marketing services; technology enabled businesses and services; process control automation; specialty retail; media; education; clean technology; fintech, communications infrastructure; analytical instrumentation for laboratory applications; advanced technology; security; communication services; and infrastructure technologies focusing in the areas of big data, cloud computing infrastructure, open source, data center management, networking including networking for virtualized and cloud environment, virtualization, storage, disaster recovery, and semiconductors. For private equity investments, the firm focuses on companies operating in cleantech, software; financial services; technology enabled businesses; IT services and outsourcing; communications components, systems, and services; and industrial technology sectors. It also invests in, cable infrastructure; network and wireless infrastructure; security software and services; computing and storage infrastructure; application software; e-commerce products and services and retail; consumer technology; energy; and materials industries. The firm seeks to invest in companies globally and specifically based in United States; Canada; China; Europe; North America; India (focused on the, consumer finance; consumer internet; mobile; software; technology enabled services; BPO / ITES; components, infrastructure and communications services; and clean technology sectors); and Israel (focused on the, advanced materials and clean technology; communications services and infrastructure; financial services and technology enabled businesses; and semiconductors and components sectors). It seeks to make investments globally. It primarily invests between $5 million and $50 million over the life of the investment and has the ability to invest up to $100 million. The firm invests between $0.05 million and $50 million in seed and early stage investments or more in late stage or expansion investments. In case of private equity and buyout investments the firm can invest over $100 million equity in companies with revenues between $5 million and $200 million with an EBITDA from negative to $25 million. In case of investments in India, the firm invests $1 million to $10 million in early stage investments and between $20 million and $100 million in growth stage investments. It primarily acts as the lead institutional investor in its investments and also syndicates investments. The firm seeks to take board membership in its portfolio companies. It usually takes a minority or majority stake in its companies. It also invests private equity in undervalued companies. The firm invests about 20 percent of its funds to private equity. Battery Ventures was founded in 1983 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Boston, Menlo Park, California; Herzliya, Israel; London, United Kingdom; Mumbai, India; New York City, New York and San Francisco, California.