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Established in 2012, Mountain Nazca is a Latin American VC with offices in Mexico, Chile and Colombia. Its operations are centered in México City, Santiago, Buenos Aires, and Bogotá to back startups willing to consolidate their market positions in Latin American countries. The firm also facilitates cross-border investments between Europe, Latin America and the US. It has managed two exits to date, Petsy and Nubelo, and was the lead investor in 35 of its more than 60 investments. Its recent investments include Destacame's US$3 million Series A funding round, and the Series A funding rounds of Albo and Crehana.

PowerCloud Venture Capital was founded in 2014 by UAV manufacturer PowerVision Group, Innovation Angel Funds and Beijing Jiaxun Feihong Electrical Co., Ltd. It invests mainly in early-stage startups in the robotics, drone, artificial intelligence and big data sectors.

Founded in 2011 by Cyril Ebersweiler, partner of the venture capital firm SOSV,  HAX has grown into the world’s first and largest hardware accelerator. It currently operates in Shenzhen and San Francisco. Funded by SOSV, HAX selects teams with hardware prototypes and turns them into functional, sustainable companies. In this way, HAX has brought 65 products to the market in the last three years.

Founded in 2004, Active Venture Partners is based in Barcelona and has two VC funds totaling €74 million. The company has made 40 investments and managed nine exits, including cloud-based reservation platform Restaurants.com, business intelligence tool for hotels ReviewPro and ticket marketplace Ticketbis. The VC was the lead investor in 18 funding rounds to date, with the most recent being a €1-million round for sales and marketing platform Whisbi.

Headquartered in London, Apax Partners was founded in 1969. It is one of the biggest private equity funds in Europe. Apax Partners has offices in New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Tel Aviv, Munich and Shanghai. The Shanghai office opened in 2008. Apax Partners currently manages over US$50 billion in assets and invests mainly in the sectors of technology & telecommunications, healthcare and consumer products.

Founded in 2007 by Soichiro Swimmy Minami, BizReach is a Tokyo-based recruitment firm that operates a full service headhunting and talent search platform. Its hallmark feature is an AI-powered software for shortlisting job applicants. Outside of Japan, the company also has a presence in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. BizReach raised funding through a Series A round in 2016. 

Proxima Ventures was founded in 2016 in Shanghai. It manages both RMB and US dollar funds, worth around US$150m in total. The firm invests mainly in early-stage startups in the healthcare sector. It has invested in 18 companies and established six innovation centers to incubate medtech startups. 

Formerly known as hoopCHINA.com, Hupu is a sports news portal founded by Yang Bing and Cheng Hang at the end of 2003. Its business has expanded to include social networking, e-commerce and sports marketing. In June 2019, Hupu raised RMB1.26 billion in its pre-IPO funding round from ByteDance, TikTok's parent company. Hupu has incubated e-marketplace for trending sports gears Shihuo and sneakers resale platform Poizon. The latter became an independent business as a spin-off from Hupu in 2018. Poizon became a unicorn when its valuation exceeded US$1 billion in April 2019 due to a Series A funding round led by DST Global. 

Tongdaoo Capital was founded in October 2014, with headquarters in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province. The VC specializes in private equity funds.

Guojin Capital was established in Shenzhen in December 2013. It invests mainly in early- and mid-stage internet startups and projects. Guojin Capital has invested in over 100 startups whose total market value exceeds RMB 20bn. It currently manages 12 RMB funds worth around RMB 3bn in total.

Established in 2016, Roaming Capital invests mainly in early-stage startups in the sectors of mobile internet, new media, sharing economy, AR/VR, artificial intelligence, etc. The equity funds and digital assets under its management are worth over RMB 2bn. 

Silicon Valley-based Bessemer Venture Partners is one of the largest startup investors in the world, with US$5.4bn invested across five funds, the most recent raised in August 2018. Founded in 1911, the VC has five US offices as well as premises in India and Israel. It invests starting from seed and Series A level, sticking with portfolio companies through later-stage investments. Bessemer Venture Partners has invested in over 880 startups and managed more than 120 exits to date. Recent investments include Korean fintech Toss's US$64m Series F, US accounting unicorn ScaleFactor's US$60m Series C and fintech Mambu's Series C.

Greycroft is a New York-based VC, established in 2006, that currently has 113 companies in its portfolio. It has interests in multiple sectors but a preference for A.I. and Big Data technologies underpinning them.  It has managed 35 exits to date including Farfetch and Huffington Post. Its recent investments include in the US$60m Series C financing round of multilingual AI-driven translation platform Unbabel and in the US$22m Series A round of Kheiron, a breast cancer-detecting health tech. 

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.

Shangshi Capital was founded and headquartered in Beijing in 2014. It has branch offices in Shenzhen and San Francisco. The firm manages two US dollar funds and three RMB funds, totaling over RMB 1.5bn. It has invested in over 60 startups at home and abroad, mainly in digital healthcare, consumer goods, IoT and enterprise tech.

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