Investors in Self-improvement

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.

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.

Lightspeed is a global venture capital firm investing in earliest stages companies. Since 1999, Lightspeed has backed more than 350 companies in the enterprise and consumer sectors—companies that have gone on to redefine the way we live and work. And many of them have chosen Lightspeed as a lead investor in their subsequent ventures.

DFJ began in 1985 with a focus on early-stage companies. Tim Draper, a third-generation VC with a passion for technology and unconventional thinking, teamed with John Fisher, a former colleague of Draper's, known for his deep enterprise and tech finance experience. Together they shaped the firm's foundational philosophy of investing in people first. One of their first recruits was co-founder Steve Jurvetson. Together they went on to invest in break out companies like Baidu, Hotmail, and Skype. A decade ago, they added their Growth team dedicated to late-stage investing. Today, they have two teams investing two funds. Their Venture team works with founders in the early phases of company building. Their Growth team partners with companies entering hyper-growth mode. DFJ has backed 27 companies that have each achieved more than $1 billion in realized value through an initial public offering or acquisition.

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.

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on early computer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries. Kleiner Perkins was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.

Expon Capital S.A.R.L. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments (pre-series A) and seed financing startups in the Fintech sector. The firm is sector agnostic but typically invests in private technology companies, digital technologies with a focus on cybersecurity, big data, digital health, telecommunications, satellite services, and Internet of things. It is a global investor with a strong focus on Europe and Luxembourg. Expon Capital S.A.R.L. was founded in 2015 and is based in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.

HealthCap is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage and mature companies. It provides financing from the seed stage through all stages of company evolution including startup, mid, early growth, emerging venture, and late ventures. The firm seeks to provide bridge financing and growth capital. It prefers to invest in companies engaged in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life science with a focus on therapeutic devices, life sciences tools and services, and healthcare technology. It focuses on diseases with high unmet medical needs and therapies that have the potential to be transformative and change medical practice and the lives of patients suffering these conditions. It prefers to invest globally. The firm seeks to be a lead investor in its transactions. It typically acquires minority stakes in its portfolio companies. The firm prefers to be a board member in its portfolio companies. It seeks to maintain a reserve for subsequent financing when first engaging in a company. HealthCap was founded in 1996 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden with an additional office in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Felix Capital is a venture firm for the creative class, at the intersection of technology and creativity, focused on opportunities in digital lifestyle. Felix Capital's mission is to support entrepreneurs with big ideas, to help them build strong brands that stand out and that move the world forward. We ambition to partner with the best entrepreneurs, the creative agents of change of digital lifestyle. The company is founded in 2014

Owl Ventures was founded by Andrew Birt and Julian Righetti to help new device manufacturers leverage their experience across product development, commercialisation, manufacturing, distribution and business development. They work on a project basis or partner with hardware startups if they believe there is a good fit and it makes sense to co-found, or co-invest.