Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund, built by a collection of successful entrepreneurs. The firm is headquartered in New York City and Cambridge, but makes investments all over the world. With $50M under management, the fund is focused on East coast investments. Founder Collective is industry agnostic, but the firm prefers companies that have an information technology component.
Battery Ventures is a technology-focused private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1983, with offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, and Israel. The firm specializes in investing in cutting-edge businesses across various sectors such as application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies. Battery Ventures seeks to invest in companies of all stages, from seed to late stage, and focuses on technology-driven companies globally. The firm typically invests between $5 million and $50 million over the life of the investment, with the ability to invest up to $100 million. Battery Ventures takes on board memberships in its portfolio companies and can act as a lead institutional investor, either taking a minority or majority stake in the companies.
Boldstart Ventures, founded in 2010, is a New York-based private equity firm specializing in early-stage investments in technology companies across the United States. Serving as a day one partner and advocate for enterprise infrastructure and SaaS founders, Boldstart works closely with technical founders from company formation to accelerate their path to product-market fit. With a focus on areas such as developer-first, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and SaaS, Boldstart has made notable first-check investments in companies like Snyk, BigID, Kustomer, Superhuman, Front, and Security Scorecard. Led by founding partner Ed Sim, who brings over 24 years of experience as a first-round investor in successful companies, Boldstart Ventures is committed to supporting and partnering with innovative startups in the technology sector.
Global Founders Capital Management GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early, growth, emerging growth, mid venture and late ventures. The firm focuses on investing in the equity of young technology companies. It prefers to invest in internet, software, Fintech, e-commerce and wireless projects. The firm invests globally with a focus on Southeast Asia, Middle East, North Africa, Vietnam, Colombia, Europe, the United States, and China. The firm prefers to invest between €0.01 million ($0.01 million) and €10 million ($12.9 million). The firm invests between €0.1 million ($0.137 million) and €1 million ($1.38 million) during the seed stage, €1 million ($1.38 million) and €3 million ($4.14 million) during the early stage, and €3 million ($4.14 million) and €8 million ($11.03 million) during the growth stage. It prefers to be the lead investor and have a board seat in its portfolio companies. Global Founders Capital Management GmbH was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. It operates as a subsidiary of Rocket Internet AG.
Advantage Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1992, specializing in growth equity, lending, and mezzanine debt investments in companies at various stages of development, excluding seed stage. The firm focuses on small businesses and invests in low-income communities, both urban and rural, to support state and local economic development efforts. Advantage Capital seeks to invest in companies that develop or apply proprietary technologies primarily in industries such as communication, information technology, business services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences, and energy. Additionally, the firm provides debt and equity capital to real estate development firms and projects. It primarily invests in underserved states and communities in the United States, with an initial investment range between $0.5 million and $10 million. Advantage Capital partners with other investment firms and government agencies to support bank lending and economic initiatives, aiming to bring businesses, technologies, and jobs to communities in need.
Since 1999, Redpoint has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones. We invest in startups across seed, early and growth phases and we’re proud to have backed over 465 companies with 140 IPOs and M+As, including 2U, HomeAway, Heroku, Netflix, PureStorage, Twilio and Zendesk. In total, Redpoint manages $4 billion across multiple funds.
Founded in 2009, East Ventures is a Tokyo-headquartered investment firm with an office in Singapore and Indonesia, targeting early-stage technology companies.
EV Growth is a joint venture between East Ventures, SMDV and YJ Capital that focuses on providing growth capital to startups in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia with an industry agnostic focus. The joint venture was started in March 2018.
Convergys Corporation, a subsidiary of Concentrix, is a global company founded in 1998, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It provides customer management services across various industries including communications, technology, financial services, healthcare, and more. The company offers solutions throughout the customer lifecycle such as sales, customer service, technical support, and collection, as well as contact center technology and analytics. With operations in 140 contact centers worldwide, Convergys focuses on providing security, compliance, and fraud solutions, as well as personalized care and agent productivity to enhance customer experience and retention in today's competitive markets.
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.