Second Century Ventures (SCV) is a venture capital fund focused on promoting innovation in the real estate industry and helping to enable the entrepreneurial spirit of real estate thrive. SCV has been fully capitalized by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (NAR). With over 1.4 million members, NAR is the largest trade association in the country. NAR can provide immediate strategic value to SCV portfolio companies by allowing them access to the vast resources of a 300-person organization with expertise, influence and power that comes only by being ingrained in an industry for over 100 years.
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.
Founded in 2009, Founder Collective is a venture capital firm headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and San Francisco, California. The firm specializes in seed-stage and early-stage investments, primarily targeting technology-related companies across various sectors, including e-commerce, healthcare, advertising, mobile, and the Internet of Things. With approximately $50 million under management, Founder Collective focuses on East Coast investments while maintaining a global reach. The firm is built by a network of successful entrepreneurs and is industry agnostic, though it prefers companies with a strong information technology component.
Global Founders Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on empowering entrepreneurs globally. The firm is stage agnostic, investing in companies across various sectors, including internet, software, fintech, e-commerce, and telecommunications. Global Founders Capital typically invests in the equity of young technology companies, with a preference for startups located in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Vietnam, Colombia, Europe, the United States, and China. Investment amounts range from €0.01 million to €10 million, with specific allocations varying by stage: seed investments typically between €0.1 million and €1 million, early-stage investments between €1 million and €3 million, and growth-stage investments between €3 million and €8 million. The firm often seeks to be the lead investor and aims to secure board representation in its portfolio companies.
Brick & Mortar Ventures is an investment firm based in San Francisco, California, specializing in venture capital opportunities within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sectors, as well as technology for the built world. The firm focuses on identifying, backing, and supporting emerging companies that develop innovative software and hardware solutions for real estate, hospitality, and construction industries. By maintaining a concentrated investment strategy, Brick & Mortar Ventures fosters industry expertise and builds strong relationships across these sectors. The firm takes an active role in its investments, working closely with portfolio companies to enhance their value and drive growth in the rapidly evolving market.
Torch Capital is a brand-focused investment firm built to shepherd the next generation of industry-changing mission-driven consumer companies. The firm invests in consumer platforms, products, and services from healthcare, FinTech, and food and beverage, to digital media, e-commerce, and marketplaces. Torch Capital was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York.
Colliers International Group is a global leader in real estate services, with a network of 502 offices and over 16,300 employees worldwide. Founded in 1976 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Seattle, Washington, the firm offers a comprehensive range of services, including brokerage and agency representation, corporate solutions, investment services, project management, and real estate management. Colliers manages approximately 1.46 billion square feet of office, industrial, and retail properties and reported revenue of $2.1 billion, with $75 billion in transaction value. The company emphasizes a culture of service excellence and collaboration among real estate specialists, enhancing the success of its partners. Colliers has consistently been recognized among the top outsourcing firms in the real estate sector, reflecting its commitment to delivering high-quality services across various markets and property types.
Over ten years, Brand Capital has partnered in the building of over 850+ indigenous brands. It has enabled the introduction of new concepts of print advertising in the form of jackets, panorama adverts and flaps, emulated across other print media. Since its inception, Brand capital has helped build several iconic brands and create immense enterprise value. But most of all, Brand Capital has enabled the discovery of ‘Brand value’. Different from an archetypal Private Equity player, we succeed in contributing ‘Intellectual Capital’, thus supporting the creation of a brand strategy and planning media-spread to optimize value. We now have investments across sectors as wide as – Retail, FMCG, Consumer Durables, Realty, Digital and Mobile, E-Retail, Health & Wellness, Financial Services, Consumer Services and several more. Our invested value today stands at USD 2.5 Billion, driven by our disruptive innovation and the power of the media properties across "The Times Group". - See more at: http://brandcapital.co.in/#sthash.YJ6lB0CB.dpuf
Brookfield Asset Management Inc. is a prominent global alternative asset manager specializing in high-quality investments across real estate, renewable energy, infrastructure, and private equity. Established in 1899, the firm manages approximately $225 billion in assets and has a century-long history of owning and operating real assets. Headquartered in Toronto and New York, Brookfield employs over 700 investment professionals and approximately 30,000 operating employees across 20 countries. The company offers a diverse range of public and private investment products and services that capitalize on its extensive expertise and experience in the asset management sector.