Investors in Investor Activism

Goldman Sachs is a global financial services firm that provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. The company offers financial advisory services, underwriting services, and client execution services in various markets. They also engage in securities services, financing, and investing activities across a range of asset classes. Additionally, Goldman Sachs manages investment portfolios and mutual funds for institutions and individuals globally. The firm operates various segments, including Investment Banking, Institutional Client Services, Investing & Lending, and Investment Management. Founded in 1869 and headquartered in New York, Goldman Sachs aims to drive technology-based disruption and invest in late-stage venture capital and growth equity transactions to build revolutionary businesses worldwide.

Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments to enterprise cloud and smart data companies. The seed-stage venture firm focused primarily on enterprise IT, Ulu focuses on the market opportunity created by the Stanford and Silicon Valley communities. It seeks to generate financial results using a disciplined, repeatable decision-making process that analyzes risk-reward trade-offs. Ulu also follows the logical principles of portfolio construction. This approach makes the firm conventional in the world of institutional investors but contrarian as compared to other VCs. In 2018, Clint Korver and Miriam Rivera established the firm in Palo Alto, California.

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.

Bridgepoint is a international private equity firm. For over 25 years they have been ambitious for the companies they have acquired, working with talented management teams across a range of industries to focus on long-term growth and success.

Seed stage & syndicated investing

The Morningside Group Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in early stage. It seeks to make investments in machinery manufacturing, high-tech, life science companies formed around new technologies, media, the Internet, biotechnology, telecommunication, life science, entertainment, consumer, education, and clean tech sectors. It seeks to invest in companies based in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, where its particular focus is on China. The Morningside Group Limited was founded in 1986 and is based Hong Kong with additional offices in Shanghai, China; Beijing, China; and Boston, United States.

Evonik Venture Capital is the corporate venture arm of Evonik Industries AG, one of the providers of specialty chemicals. Evonik Venture Capital invests in young companies with innovative technology and high growth potential with solutions to problems within the areas of focus of resource efficiency, specialty additives, health & care, nutrition.

Serra Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in technology companies in emerging Midwest technology centers and selected other geographies. Sectors we focus on include information technology, devices/instrumentation and agricultural technologies.

Draper Associates is a seed stage venture fund in Menlo Park, CA. We invest globally, in great teams of people creating revolutionary companies in new media, gaming, SaaS, cloud, new finance, IOT, and mobile. Our portfolio companies are disrupting markets in the tens of $billions and are on a clear path to later rounds of fundraising. Big companies. Big ideas. We're here to help. We typically invest in the earliest round, in syndicate with other sophisticated investors. We're comfortable leading in dollars and terms, or participating. We are venture advisers: help where and when asked to get our companies to the next stage of growth, otherwise stay out of the entrepreneurs' way. While each investment is unique, we often help our company's with business development, later stage capital raising, strategy, hiring, employee options, valuations, and M&A.

Established in 1995, Valor Equity Partners is a Chicago-based private equity firm that is focused on providing investments in consumer, infrastructure, industrial services and manufacturing sectors in the United States.