IMM Investment Corp. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in mezzanine investments. It focuses on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investing, corporate restructuring, private equity investing, industry consolidation, management buyouts, spin-offs, recapitalizations, and cross-border investments. Within mergers and acquisitions, the firm invests in strategic mergers, growth through acquisitions, going public via a reverse merger, and strategic divestures. For recapitalizations, it targets family owned enterprise considering whole or partial exit and balance sheet restructuring. The firm also co-invests in buyout transactions. For its growth stage investments, it allocates 20 percent to startups, 40 percent to expansion, and 40 percent to mezzanine. The firm targets companies operating in information technology infrastructure, wireless communications entertainment and contents, franchising, cement, software, electricity, food and beverage, machinery, game software, chemical, paper manufacture, and automobile parts industries. For industries concentration, it sets 40 percent to information technology infrastructure focusing on security, application service provider, and e-commerce solutions; 30 percent to contents, focusing on education, game, and animation; and 30 percent to digital hardware focusing on network and communications equipment, semiconductor, parts and others. The firm also invests in infrastructure, environment, manufacturing, enzyme, biotechnology, and healthcare sectors. It also makes secondary investments. The firm primarily invests in South Korean medium-sized companies located in Seoul, Gyeonggi, Daegu, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and Chungcheongbuk-do. It prefers to take an active role in management. IMM Investment Corp. was founded in July 1999 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) is engaged in the manufacture and sale of chemicals, plastic materials, agricultural and services, and other specialized products and services. It delivers a range of products and services to customers in approximately 160 countries to growth sectors such as electronics, water, energy, coatings and agriculture. The Company operated 214 manufacturing sites in 37 countries. Dow operates in eight business segments: Electronic and Specialty materials, Coatings and Infrastructure, Health and Agricultural sciences, Performance systems, Performance products, Basic plastics, Basic chemicals, and Hydrocarbons and Energy. The Company is also engaged in the property and casualty insurance and reinsurance business primarily through its Liana Limited subsidiaries. In May 2010, OMNOVA Solutions Inc. acquired The Dow Chemical Company's hollow sphere plastic pigment (HPP) product line and terminated the RohmNova paper coatings joint venture.

We’re (not just) investors. We’re (more than) advisors. We’re (beyond) connectors. Ben Franklin Technology Partners combines the best practices of early stage investing with a higher purpose – to lead the region’s technology community to new heights, creating jobs and transforming lives. For over 30 years, Ben has been the leading seed stage capital provider for the region’s technology sectors, investing over $170 million in more than 1,750 regional technology companies, many of which have gone on to become industry leaders. Ben Franklin has also launched university/industry partnerships that accelerate scientific discoveries to commercialization, and has seeded regional initiatives that strengthen our entrepreneurial community.

JamJar Investments is a venture capital firm focused on investing in high-growth consumer brand businesses in digital and non-tech sectors. With expertise gained from taking innocent from inception to acquisition by Coca Cola for over half a billion pounds, the company understands the journey of entrepreneurs and provides solutions to their challenges. Founded by the innocent drinks founders, JamJar invests in European businesses, particularly in consumer services, products, technology, and food and drink sectors. The firm typically invests between £0.15 million and £1 million in initial rounds, with a willingness to continue investing in subsequent rounds. Based in London, United Kingdom, JamJar Investments leverages its operational, commercial, and brand experience to support entrepreneurs through the highs and lows of business growth.

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.

A Plus Finance, which is headquartered in Paris (France), is an independent trust company specialising in the management of Common Investment Funds for Innovation (FCPI) and Proximity Investment Funds (FIP). A Plus Finance is involved in all innovative sectors, particularly in the IT, media and security fields. The A Plus Finance team includes financiers and entrepreneurs, thus providing companies with both an awareness of the daily constraints of management and a long-term perspective on the development of their business. Managing funds amounting to nearly €220m, A Plus Finance invests between €1 million and €4 million per project.per

MASSACHUSETTS CAPITAL RESOURCE COMPANY was established in 1977 as a limited partnership privately owned and funded by Massachusetts-based life insurance companies. The Company’s mission was to create a source of risk capital to fill the senior debt to equity funding “gap” experienced by growing companies. Their investment activity complements, rather than competes with, the financing provided by senior lenders and equity investors. Mass. Capital provides higher risk growth and acquisition capital to manufacturing, distribution, service and technology companies. They focus on emerging growth and middle market companies with operations in Massachusetts. Their investments are structured to fit the specific needs of portfolio companies and to complement funding available from senior lenders and equity investors.

New Alliance is a private equity and venture capital firm established in 2008, with headquarters in Shanghai, China. The firm focuses on early, growth-stage, and pre-IPO investments across various sectors, including high-end manufacturing, technology, advanced agriculture, consumer goods, information, media, energy, recycling, environmental protection, and modern services. New Alliance typically invests between $4.71 million and $31.41 million in its portfolio companies, aiming to support their development and expansion in competitive markets.

Wellington Management Company is a Boston based institutional investment advisor firm. The firm invests in global equity, fixed income, currency and commodity markets, multi-strategy, specialty and alternative investments. The firm offers separate accounts and a wide range of commingled vehicles that include both US and non-US domiciled portfolios. The company was founded in 1928.

3M is a diversified technology company that operates in various sectors including industrial, transportation, healthcare, safety, security, consumer, office, display, graphics, and electronics. With a global presence in over 65 countries, 3M manufactures a wide range of products such as adhesives, abrasives, dental products, electronic materials, and medical supplies. The company serves markets like automotive, electronics, healthcare, and consumer goods. Additionally, 3M has a venture arm, 3M New Ventures, that focuses on investing in disruptive early and mid-stage companies in various sectors such as utilities, consumer staples, healthcare, and information technology. Founded in 1902 and headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, 3M aims to stay at the forefront of global innovation by investing in new technologies and services that align with its long-term strategic goals.