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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.

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow. We want to become the closest partner of our portfolio companies by working together on key strategic decisions and operative challenges. As a privately financed venture capital investor with long-term and flexible capital we are looking for exceptional founders who are committed to building category leaders throughout the next 5-10+ years. We invest in early-stage technology ventures with a focus on Real Estate, Finance & Insurance, Human Resources, Renewable Energy, Mobility, and Health. Picus makes initial investments in pre-seed, seed and series A ventures thereby starting to work together with entrepreneurs in various stages of their companies ranging from ideation phase to initial traction. We follow a very long-term investment approach investing significant amounts throughout the lifecycle of the companies. We have invested in over 50 companies to date. At Picus we work in a culture combining the discipline of a financial investor with the creativity and pragmatism of an entrepreneur. We follow a comprehensive and well-structured investment approach in order to identify the most attractive and ambitious investment opportunities in our target industries and geographies. Within our core investment team every member has a distinctive industry competence and a functional or geographic focus. We are working closely together with our portfolio companies to develop large and successful market leaders. This comprises in particular leveraging our marketing & sales expertise and our global market perspective to provide strategic advice, providing HR management to grant access to top talent, connecting our portfolio companies with our broad B2B & investor network as well as supporting the fundraising process.

Lee Equity Partners, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in acquisitions, growth capital financing, and control buyouts of middle market companies. It focuses on investing in the business services, consumer and retail, distribution and logistics, financial services, healthcare services and media sectors. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in the United States. The firm invests in companies with enterprise values TO_DELETE. It prefers to take a majority stake. Lee Equity Partners, LLC was founded in 2006 and is based in New York, New York.

The SoftBank Group is a global technology player that aspires to drive the Information Revolution. The SoftBank Group is comprised of the holding company SoftBank Group Corp. and its global portfolio of companies, which includes advanced telecommunications, internet services, AI, smart robotics, IoT and clean energy technology providers. In September 2016, Arm Holdings plc, the world's leading semiconductor IP company, joined the SoftBank Group. In May 2017, the SoftBank Vision Fund, which invests globally in the businesses and technologies that will enable the next stage of the Information Revolution, had its first major close with over USD 93 billion in committed capital.

Founded in 1992, Advantage Capital Partners is a venture capital firm specialised in equity and debt investments. The firm has worked with state and federal economic organisations to invest in small businesses and in low income areas.

MassMutual Ventures (MMV) is a return-focused venture capital firm, investing in early to growth stage companies across North America, Europe, Israel and Southeast Asia. Key areas of investment focus include financial technology, digital health, data analytics, cyber-security and enterprise software.

Synova is an award-winning investor into fast growing businesses across the UK and Ireland. Their single focus is on partnering with talented managers in businesses valued between £10m and £100m in order to help them achieve their full potential. They are supportive investment partners who work closely with people at the heart of a business. They don’t just provide funding, they share their vision, expertise and network in order to provide support at every level. Synova backs growing companies by injecting capital, advice and enthusiasm to guide them through a sustained period of rapid growth. They pride ourselves on being team players.

Hellman & Friedman LLC is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged recapitalizations, acquisitions, buys and builds, traditional buyouts, financial restructurings, growth investments, and numerous types of minority investments. It invests in public and private companies. The firm makes investments in financial services including asset management, insurance, financial technology, and related sub-sectors as financial advisors and distribution, payments, securities services and other business; retail and consumer; energy and industrials; healthcare; companies running clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies and life sciences tools and services; vertical software; business and information services industries with an emphasis on marketing, information, and professional services; data services; Internet and digital media. In case of energy and industrials sector the firm generally looks to avoid businesses with significant macroeconomic and/or commodity exposure. It targets investments in companies based in North America with a focus on the United States, Europe with a focus on Western Europe, and Australia. The firm seeks to make equity investments between $50 million and $1200 million in its portfolio companies. It may act as a controlling shareholder and as an influential minority investor. It also seeks to take majority stakes. The firm prefers to invest alongside management in companies going through transitions including private or closely held businesses looking to institutionalize, to go public, to de-mutualize, or to undertake public to private transactions. Hellman & Friedman LLC was founded in 1984 and is based in San Francisco, California with offices in New York, New York and London, United Kingdom.

Founded 2006, Obvious Corporation is an incubator founded by Biz Stone, Ev Williams and early Twitter employee Jason Goldman. Initially, Twitter grew within the startup incubator called Obvious Corp. before the service was spun off. The Obvious Corporation is dedicated to developing systems that help people work together to improve the world. Obvious Ventures is a principal investment firm specializing in startups and growth capital. Obvious Ventures has a goal to bring experience, capital, and focus to companies combining profit and purpose for a better world.

Speedinvest is a European venture capital fund for tech start-ups. The company collaborates with entrepreneurs in achieving their goal of building great companies. It is involved in early stage investments and specializes in operational support. Speedinvest partners with a global network, that includes operations in Silicon Valley, to become a key investment and development hub for Europe’s start-up community.