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Founded in Boston in 2015, Material Impact is a science-based investment fund backing products that make an impact on real-world problems. It currently has 10 companies in its portfolio, from seed to Series C investments. Its most recent investments have been in the $50m 2020 Series C round of SOURCE Global (formerly Zero Mass Water), the premier off-grid drinking water production tech using solar-powered panels, and in the 2020 $12m Series A round of  US electronics protective substance producer actnano.

Archipelago Next is an investor based in Spain’s Canary Islands and owned by prominent local companies. It has a non-sectorial focus on startups based in the archipelago and in Africa and is the Canary Islands’ only venture builder. It currently has 20 startups in its portfolio. Its most recent investments were €520,000 in a seed funding round in 2021 of Valencian accessibility hardware and app for the deaf, Visualfy and €260,000 in the 2021 seed round of AI-powered crop prediction agtech RawData. 

Amand Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2016. Based in Singapore, it has backed the payments startup Wallex and Indonesian online jewelry business Orori. 

GX Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on mid-stage investment in TMT, internet and healthcare companies. It has over RMB 3 billion of assets under management.

A private equity arm of China state-backed conglomerate Citic Group Corp., CITICPE is one of the largest PE investors in China, with RMB 9 billion under management.

STIC Investments is a South Korean private equity firm. It primarily invests in local companies and M&As, but has also branched overseas with its investment in EV Hive.

Mountain Partners is a global company builder that has managed more than 90 investments in IT-based startups. Mountain Partners supports companies from incubation to growth stages to go global.

Founder by Vipshop (a Chinese e-commerce company specializing in online discount sales) founding shareholder Wu Jiang in 2015, Daosheng Capital prioritizes technology startups in its investments.

Money Forward is a Japanese fintech startup that provides software for corporate accounting and personal finance management. The company has been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since late 2017.

Founded in 2014 by a group of former P&G consultants, Semilla Expiga usually co-invests with bigger VC funds in early-stage investment rounds.

Headquartered in Hong Kong, Valliance Asset Management is a hedge fund manager founded in May 2019.

Based in New York City, Lerer Hippeau mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups based in the US. Founded in 2010 by managing partners Kenneth Lerer, Ben Lerer and Eric Hippeau, the VC operates several funds offering initial investments of $1m per startup. Kenneth Lerer is the co-founder of Huffington Post and longtime chairman of BuzzFeed. Hippeau was the CEO of Huffington Post and ex-managing partner of Softbank Capital that invested in Huffington Post.Its 400+ startups also get support for business growth by tapping into tech ecosystems like New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Its 80+ exits include Giphy (GIF) that was acquired by Facebook and home-fitness studio Mirror acquired by Lululemon. However, the IPO by portfolio company Bed-in-a-box online retailer Casper was below market expectations. The loss-making e-commerce unicorn went public at $12 a share in February 2020, closing at $13.50 on its first day out, for a market capitalization of less than half the $1.1 billion Casper was valued at in a private funding round in 2019.

Founded under a different name in 2002, the company became UCAR in 2016. A comprehensive car services provider, it now operates in nearly 300 cities across China. It has served around 60 million Chinese users and manages a total of 400,000 vehicles. UCAR has four business units: car rental service provider zuche.com, chauffeured car service provider 10101111.com, auto e-commerce platform maimaiche.com and automotive financing service platform carbank.cn. It invests in automotive businesses and startups.

Axon Partners Group is an international investment, corporate development, alternative asset management and consulting firm. It was formed in 2012 as the result of bringing together two companies founded by Francisco Velázquez six years earlier: Axon Capital, a Spanish venture capital firm and SVP Advisors, a boutique consulting outfit that specialized in media and telecommunications. Axon Partners Group manages five funds across Southern Europe, Latin America and India and is in the midst of launching a multi-sectoral pan-European fund. 

Javier Llorente Moral has extensive experience in managing and investing in internet startups and currently manages an investment portfolio of over 30 startups through his own investment company, Valderaduey Investments. A graduate in clinical psychology from the University of Barcelona, and in management from IESE Business School, he was a founding partner of Grupo Intercom in 1995.Since 1999, he has been a prolific investor in some of Spain's most successful internet businesses after his 10-year investment in Infojobs, until its acquisition by Schibsted. His other exited companies include Softonic and Bodas.net. He is also an investor in other startups including Emagister, Verticales Intercom, Buy Yourself, Red Points, Mailtrack and Camaloon, as well as in the startup investment platform Startupxplore.

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