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Rolf Schrömgens is best known as the CEO and co-founder of travel marketplace Trivago, where he has worked since 2006. The German entrepreneur is also a prolific early-stage investor.His most recent investments include participation in the €1.15m seed round of fintech StudentFinance and €8m Series A funding for German biotech innes.

Headquartered in Beijing and set up in 2006, China Growth Capital invests in early-stage internet startups in China and the US. As of May 2016, it has two USD-denominated funds and three RMB-denominated funds, valued around RMB 4 billion in total.

Led by China's largest software developer platform CSDN founder Jiang Tao and mobile games maker Linekong founder Wang Feng, GeekFounders was founded by a group of entrepreneurs in 2011. It focuses on early-stage investments in mobile gaming and entertainment, mobile vertical community, mobile SaaS, cloud technology and smart hardware. It has invested in more than 80 mobile internet startups.

Aavishkaar (‘invention’ in Hindi) was founded in 2001 as an early stage investor to help build sustainable enterprises in India’s underserved regions. Its VC portfolio, valued at over US$ 155 million, covers key industry sectors including sanitation, healthcare, agriculture and technology. Its Aavishkaar Frontier Fund was created in 2015 to invest in South and Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Established in 2013, Danhua Capital is one of the most influential venture capital funds in Silicon Valley. Founded by Chinese Americans, Danhua Capital invests primarily in early-stage and growth-stage startups with disruptive technologies or business models.Founder Zhang Shoucheng is a well-known physicist and a tenured professor at Stanford University.

Founded in 2017 by Li Li, a former partner at K2VC, Next Capital invests mainly in early-stage startups. Next Capital manages around RMB 400 million. Investments range in value from RMB 3-30 million. In just its first year, Next Capital invested in more than 10 startups. It finances mainly Chinese internet innovations, especially in Fintech and new retail.

XVC was founded in 2016 by Hu Boyu, a former entrepreneur and ex-partner at Blue Lake Capital. Hu has a “sniper” investment style. Aiming at only a few targets, he invested in multiple early-stage companies that became unicorns: Meicai, Youxinpai, Kuaishou, 51talk and Wandoujia (now owned by Alibaba). XVC is primarily interested in big opportunities in the TMT sector.

Capitana Venture Partners is a venture fund headquartered in Madrid with a presence across Spain, Germany, Italy and UK.  The firm backs technology startups at their seed and early stage phase, investing between €200,000 and €500,000. Capitana's team comprises eight business angels and advisors with experience in corporate finance, investment banking and capital market financing.

Founded in 2010, People.cn Co., Ltd., publishes online news in China and abroad. Its information exchange platform People.cn is the online portal of the People's Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper. It was listed on China's A-share market in 2012. The company makes investments in early-stage media startups.

Hike Capital was founded in December 2015 by Mark Yang, the founder of Ganji.com and Guazi.com, and Anna Xu, former general manager of the mobile internet department at NetEase and founder of the NetEase News app. The firm invests mainly in early-stage startups in the technological innovation, transaction platform, entertainment and lifestyle fields.

Suzhou Industrial Park Bioventure Investment Management Limited (Bioventure) was established in September 2013. It has invested in 50 companies and manages RMB2bn worth of total assets. Bioventure invests mostly in the life sciences and bio-pharmaceutical industries, seeking early-stage startups with high growth potential. Bioventure provides post-investment support and services including funding, business operations and management.

Headquartered in Washington DC, IDB Lab is the innovation arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB) Group . Its investment vehicle, IDB Invest, aims to finance projects that foster innovation and inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean area. .  IDB Invest provides many types of financial support. It operates through blended finance to mobilize capital flows into emerging markets or provides loans to test new business models or injects equity into business ventures.

Lever VC was founded in 2018 by Nick Cooney, an early investor of Beyond Meat and Memphis Meats. He is also the co-founder of Good Food Institute. Lever has currently invested in 14 startups from the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America.Focused on investments in early-stage alternative protein companies, the firm announced the first close of its Lever VC Fund I in August 2020, with its fourth close at $46m in April 2021. The final close will be completed by June 2021. Investors in the fund include NFL and NBA athletes, British nobility, food businesses, alt-protein companies and family offices as limited partners.In June 2020, Lever launched a $28m joint investment fund and accelerator to invest in Chinese plant-based and cell-cultivated meat and dairy companies. The Lever China Alternative Protein Fund will invest RMB 40m in alt-protein companies in mainland China over the next four years.

Led by Wang Mengqiu, a former technology VP at Baidu, this early stage TMT-focused venture capital fund was founded in 2012; and counts PP Zuche, Blued, Beequick, and 51Credit among its notable investments. Its self-professed investing style is "conservative," with just 10 investments in the year 2015. Preferred market segments in 2016 include children's, men's, fintech, sports and fitness.fintech, sports and fitness.

The independent VC arm of Legend Holdings, Legend Capital currently manages several USD funds and RMB funds with over RMB 26 billion in assets under management. It focuses on early- and expansion-stage investment and has invested in over 300 companies as of 2016, of which more than 40 were exited via IPO, and around 40 were exits through M&A.

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