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Paris-based micro VC Kima Ventures was founded in 2010 by French tech billionaire Xavier Niel and French-Israeli angel investor/entrepreneur Jeremie Berrebi. They invest in early-stage companies in any sector, regardless of geography, and invest in 2–3 companies on a weekly basis. As of end-2016, Kima had a portfolio of more than 450 companies in 30 countries worldwide.

Plato’s portal targets startups and SMEs looking for an affordable way to manage their basic corporate legal needs.  

Medigo simplifies digitization for hospitals, meeting their operational and business needs; brings patients closer to their healthcare providers, with easy access to medical, insurance records.

Homegrown developer appears on track to build a multimedia franchise following its successful DreadOut game about Indonesian folklore ghosts, the DreadOut movie and merchandise lines. 

Multimedia and telecoms postgrad Carlos Blanco Vázquez is a serial entrepreneur, business angel and VC managing partner. He had worked in IT until 1996 when he founded OACE Servicios Informaticos SL. A sports fanatic, he also became a football talent scout (u15-u17) for RCD Espanyol de Barcelona S.A.D.His most profitable venture is his social gaming platform Akamon Entertainment that was sold for € 23.7 million to Imperus in 2015. He co-founded Nuclio Venture Builder to manage all his business interests, while VC firm Encomenda Smart Capital manages an investment fund of €20 million.

Well-known for co-founding JobsCentral in Singapore, Lim Der Shing has been an angel investor since 2009. JobsCentral was acquired by CareerBuilder USA in 2011 and Der Shing became its Asia-Pacific MD. He left the new role after six months in 2014 to become a full-time investor and partner at Singapore-based VC Jungle Ventures. The electrical and electronic engineer graduated in 1999 with a Summa cum Laude from the University of Michigan, USA. As a scholar, he returned to work at Sembcorp before co-founding JobsCentral’s predecessor JobsFactory in 2000 with co-founder and wife Huang Shao-Ning.

A serial entrepreneur, Lu is the founder of car rental company CAR Inc. He is also chairman and founding CEO of car services provider UCAR. In 2003, he founded Beijing Huaxia United Technology Co Ltd, a company that now controls around 67% of China Telecom’s VOIP business in Beijing. In 1995, Lu founded DITEL Technology, a trading company for telecom equipment and supplier of system integration services. He received his bachelor's degree in Industrial Electric Automation from the University of Science & Technology of Beijing and his EMBA from Peking University.

Abanlex is a Spanish law firm specialized in data protection and innovation technology. The firm has a team of cybersecurity consultants, technology lawyers, university professors and marketing specialists. Abanlex is well-known for its 2014 victory over Google in the 'Right to be forgotten' case, in which the European Court of Justice established the legal basis of responsibility of search engines concerning data and links appearing when searching for a specific name.Since 2011, Abanlex has been dedicated to defending blockchain project at national and European level, and has provided legal representation to companies in the legal-tech sector. 

GF Qianhe is an equity investment company launched by GF Securities in May 2012. Incorporated as Guangfa Qianhe Investments Co Ltd, with a registered capital of RMB 500m, the company was one of the earliest alternative investment companies to gain approval from the Securities Commission of China. As of late 2018, GF Qianhe has invested in 86 equity-related projects, among which four have gone public. By the end of 2014, its total investment value reached almost RMB 2bn and revenues of over RMB 340m.

Laura González- Estéfani is best known as the co-founder of Venture City. Established in 2017, the tech accelerator has offices in Miami in the US and Madrid in Spain. The director of one of Spain’s largest banks CaixaBank is also a board member of the European Commission’s Innovation Council. She has also worked for Facebook as a country manager for Spain and Portugal.González- Estéfani has also been a prolific private investor and business angel since 2016. She invests across ecosystems and market verticals, including success stories like Cabify and Spotahome. In 2020, she participated in the seed round of Spanish femtech WOOM.

Susquehanna International Group is a privately held global investment, trading and technology firm servicing securities markets worldwide.

French investment firm Eurazeo was established in 2001 and has a portfolio of €5 billion in assets.

Cathay Integrity Holding Limited participated in Mars Rabbit's Series A+ financing round in July 2018.

Grocery delivery app lets you shop from your phone, including from multiple stores in a single order, and enjoy speedy, free delivery at no markup.

Hangzhou Bin Chuang Investment is a wholly owned unit of Hangzhou Binjiang Real Estate Group.

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