Investors in Semiconductor Equipment

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.

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.

Founded in 2009 by industry veterans. Collectively, the founding team has over 40 collective years of leading investments at top-tier, China-focused venture capital and private equity funds, including Intel Capital, Walden International, AIG, and First Eastern, invested and managed a portfolio of approximately US$1 billion and have over 70 exits ,including more than 40 IPOs in various stock exchanges around the world. FUEL Capital Fund 1 was established in May 2011 in Suzhou, building on the strength of the Principals’ prior investments and operational experience in technology, software, processes, devices, and company building, to invest in Chinese early-growth stage companies to enable advances in clean technology, health care, and other high growth areas. We believe both sectors can provide substantial return for investors if carefully picked sub-sectors and market entrance timing in next 10 years.

Innovation Industries invests in high technology companies that have the potential to grow rapidly into successful businesses. Our focus is on financing and spinning -off technologies developed at Dutch universities and other centers of scientific excellence. Nevertheless we don't rule out later stage companies.

Founded in 1993, WI Harper Group is an investment firm based in Beijing. The firm invests in start-up companies.

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.

Capital-E is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed/start-ups and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in micro and nano electronics, nanotechnology, and advanced materials with a focus on image sensors, machine learning, artificial intelligence, industry 4.0, medical and diagnostics, semicon processing and metrology, communications and networking, green energy, and consumer electronics and multimedia. Within communication, the firm focuses on analogue and mixed signal chip solutions, RF technologies and components for communication and sensor networks, solutions with significantly higher integration/performance/power efficiency benchmarks for existing and emerging markets and also seeks to invest in novel concepts and components as well as system level solutions for both wired as well as wireless applications and defensible proprietary technology and innovative business models to compete. Within semicon processing and metrology, it focuses on equipment and materials technologies for the fabrication, process control or inspection of (un) patterned wafers compatible with standard CMOS integrated circuits aiming for unparalleled device performance and yield. Within consumer electronics and multimedia, it seeks to invest in large area of applications, ranging from subsystems, devices and networks, facilitating new functionality, analogue and mixed signal chip technologies for ambient, slimmer, less power hungry, better performing electronic devices. Within multimedia, it prefers to invest in innovative technology approaches in chips, modules, and embedded software / signal processing to deliver the next generation of multimedia applications. Within green energy, it invests in novel tools, materials, systems, processes and device structures for power generation and control, energy scavenging and storage with emphasis on power density, efficiency and lower cost; functional coatings or conductive polymers enabling renewable energies, tiny-tech filter or purification materials, structural composites, sustainable catalysis or simply the recovery of high value materials; and future mobility solutions (components) with electric vehicles as an integral part of intelligent power networks, smart grids, and the corresponding infrastructure. It also invests in processing, test and metrology equipment, sensors, memories and intra/interchip optical communication. The firm primarily focuses on Western Europe with a specific focus on the Benelux, Netherlands, Flanders, and Luxembourg. It also pursues co-investments in the United Kingdom, Benelux, Ireland, France, and Germany. It seeks to invest between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) to €1 million ($1.29 million) scaling to € 7.5 million ($9.81 million) per company over multiple rounds. The firm seeks to be an active board member on its portfolio companies. It prefers to lead deals and co-invest in subsequent rounds of financing. Capital-E was founded in January 2006 and is based in Antwerp, Belgium.

Foresight Group is an alternative asset manager with a strong 30-year track record and specific expertise in environmental and solar infrastructure and private equity. Foresight Group is a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing investment funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for 30 years. With current assets under management of over £2.2 billion, raised from the UK and international private and high-net-worth individuals, family offices, pension funds and other institutional investors, Foresight strives to generate increasing dividends and capital appreciation for its investors over the long term. Foresight has offices in UK, USA, Italy, and Australia.

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

The primary responsibilities of the group are to source, qualify, and invest in technology related companies. Our major investment areas include semiconductors, materials, mobile service, internet, software, security, enterprise solutions, bio engineering & medical, while potential investment subjects range from early-stage startups to pre-IPO companies. Currently, the group has over $1.8B under management and invests $250M annually. Samsung Ventures was founded on October 8, 1999, and is based in Seoul, South Korea.