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Founded in 2004 by Liu Qiangdong (Richard Liu) with about 30 staff, JD.com (JD stands for Jingdong) has grown to become Alibaba's biggest rival and is backed by Tencent. Similar to Amazon, the NASDAQ-listed JD.com builds and controls its own distribution/logistics network, giving it an advantage in a country used to poor package delivery services. It is an investor in Indonesian ride-hailing company Gojek, and also operates an Indonesian version of its e-commerce platform, JD.id.

American private equity firm Warburg Pincus was established in 1966 and has since invested more than $55bn in more than 750 companies in more than 40 countries around the world. So far, the company has raised 19 private equity funds with over $90bn in assets under management. Its investment portfolio can be divided geographically into Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Its Asian portfolio includes tech companies, real estate, healthcare and more verticals, with many Chinese companies featured on the list.

BayWa Venture GmbH is a subsidiary company of BayWa AG, the German agriculture, energy and construction conglomerate.Putting digitalization at the core of its agriculture strategy, the company is looking to expand its core business into digital services within the existing businesses. It is investigating new digital business models and stand-alone concepts through collaboration with emerging startups focusing on cutting-edge technologies in the agrifood tech space.BayWa started to invest in startups in 2012 mainly focused on online customer management, services and sales platforms. In 2015, the company purchased Farm Facts, a German farm management SaaS and in 2017 invested in Abundant Robotics, a US-based automated harvest company. One of the firms’ most recent investments has been Evja, an Italian startup developing precision farming hardware based on advanced agronomic models and machine learning technology.

Founded in 2009, Andreessen Horowitz is based in Menlo Park in California. The numeronym is the first and last letter of the firm’s brand with the characters count in-between. Starting with initial capital of $300m, the VC quickly raised a second venture fund of $650m in 2010 and another worth $1.5bn in 2014. In 2019, a new office was set up in San Francisco.Founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the firm has invested in tech pioneers like Skype, Facebook, Groupon and Twitter. Andreessen is the software engineer who pioneered web browser Mosaic and co-founded Netscape. In 1995, Horowitz joined Andreessen as product manager at Netscape that was sold to AOL for $4.2bn in 2016. He also co-founded Opsware (Loudcloud), an automation software company that was sold to Hewlett Packard for $1.6bn in 2007.

Silicon Valley-based investor Sapphire Ventures was formerly known as SAP Ventures, the investment arm of the software giant SAP SE, until 2011. It typically invests in mid-stage startups with at least $5–10m in annual revenue across market verticals, geographies and technologies. It typically invests $10–50m (with the flexibility to invest less or up to $100m) as part of its initial investment. With approximately $4bn in assets under active management and more than 50 startups in its portfolio at present, Sapphire has also managed more than 35 exits and 20 IPOs.  Its most recent investments include co-leading the $153m Series D round of workplace skills training platform Degreed in April 2021, and, in March 2021, it invested in two new unicorns. Sapphire contributed to US digital home workout tech Tonal’s $250m Series E round and to the $200m Series D round of Portugal’s Feedzai, the world’s market-leading solution in fighting online fraud.

Owen van Natta was formerly COO of Facebook and CEO of MySpace, and also previously held senior positions in Amazon and Zynga. He is an angel investor, founder of 415 LLC as well as a founding partner of tech-focused VC firm Prefix Capital, and has invested in a number of startups to date. His disclosed investments include participation in the March 2017 $800,000 seed round of Irish water regulatory platform SwiftComply and the November 2015 undisclosed funding round of US-based unicorn Diamond Foundry, the first certified carbon-neutral lab-produced diamond manufacturer. No pic on SM

Silicon Valley-based Almaz Capital was co-founded in 2008 as a bridge VC fund by Alexander Galitsky, a serial techpreneur and former senior executive at the Soviet Space Agency and Defense Industry. Almaz also has an office in Berlin and partners with interests in the UK, Poland and Ukraine. The global fund has invested in over 30 startups and managed 15 exits within its portfolio.Recent investments in 2021 include co-leading the $54m Series B round of Refurbed with Evli Growth Partners in August. Almaz was also the lead investor for the $6m funding round for US-based precision audio software Sonarworks in July.

Marinya Capital is the family office ofJohn B Fairfax from the Australian Fairfax family, who originally established Fairfax Media, a large media company. Marinya largely invests in property and agricultural businesses but has also made at least two investments in tech startups and in an Australian VC. Its most recent disclosed investments were in the $4.7m July 2021 seed funding round of NovoNutrients, the US-based biotech producer of alt-protein using fermentation and CO2 and other emissions,  and in the $55m Series B round of Australia’s premier plant-based brand v2food in 2020.

Founded in Amsterdam in 2011, Rockstart is a global accelerator-VC focusing on sustainability startups across market segments. Rockstart also runs specialist programs like agrifood in Copenhagen, healthcare in the Dutch town of Nijmegen and also in emerging tech in Bogota, Colombia. It specializes in developing business relationships for portfolio startups with global corporates such as Maersk, Shell and the Dutch Ministry of Health. Rockstart has invested in more than 250 startups, valued at €750m in total.Launched in 2019, Rockstart’s €22m agrifood fund secured investment partners including Vaekstfonden’s Green Future Fund and global dairy cooperative Arla Foods. It has invested in 20 food enterprises like Swiss zero-waste supermarket Lyfa and Danish alt-leather startup Beyond Leather Materials in 2021. Rockstart’s energy fund recently invested in the €730,000 pre-seed round of Danish carbon sequestration corporate marketplace, Klimate, in September 2021. Exits include Wercker, iClinic, Brincr and 3D Hubs.

Antonius Stefanus is the founder and CEO of Neetip, a peer-to-peer shopping and courier platform. He took part in the Jakarta Founder Institute idea accelerator programme in 2016 and visited Silicon Valley with fellow Founder Institute graduates.

Before joining Blackfish as co-founder and CMO in 2017, Chen was CMO and one of the key founding members of NASDAQ-listed online travel site Tuniu, where was responsible for branding, marketing and PR. 

Co-founder and Vice President of Tiger Brokers. She used to work for Baidu and Tencent.

A graduate of University of Science & Technology of China and Cranfield University (UK), Jiang Xinlian’s work experience spans eight years in overseas sales support and product planning at Huawei and ZTE. He was born in the 1970s.

Software engineer Jaime Jorge holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico. Before co-founding Codacy, Jorge was a research associate at INESC-ID and a software engineer at Instituto Superior Técnico.

A licensed pharmacist, Carolina Relvas graduated from the University of Lisbon and has an MBA from the University of Cambridge, UK. She started her career at GSK and is currently a manager at ZS Associates, a pharmaceutical and healthcare consultancy.Relvas co-founded medical consultation app Knokcare, previously known as Knok Healthcare. She was the CMO of Knokcare from 2015 until late 2018.

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