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Founded in 1972, Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) is one of the world’s largest venture capital firms.The firm has raised $10bn through 20 venture funds and four growth funds and has invested in over 850 companies worldwide. Its China advisory team was founded in 2007 with a fund of $360m. It has invested in many of China’s star enterprises, including one of the country’s largest e-commerce platform JD.com.  

Founded in 2010, WestSummit Capital is a US-focused, growth-stage venture capital fund with a strong presence in Silicon Valley, Beijing, Hong Kong and Dublin. It has a total of over $400m under management, and invests in the mobile, internet, cloud computing, big data and IoT sectors. In 2013, it participated in a Series C $20m investment in Twitch, the world's leading video platform and community for gamers, which was acquired by Amazon in August 2014 for close to $1bn. 

Nickleby Capital is a London-based VC firm that focuses on three main areas: (1) investment capital for companies in the scale-up phase, Series A, Series B, and buyouts, (2) advisory services leveraging proprietary tech, researches and industry network, to accelerate PLCs and private companies' growth, and (3) real estate, advising on commercial and residential properties globally. The firm’s investors are mostly family offices and serial entrepreneurs that have built market-leading companies. The Nickleby Capital’s team is founded by a team of alumni from Goldman Sachs, Rothschild, BDO and Korn Ferry.

CareCapital, with offices in Hong Kong and Shangai, is a leading investor in the global oral and dental industry. The firm’s operations span clinical and education, consumers product, orthodontics, digital equipment, SaaS, distribution, and industry-specific services. Its team comprises industry experts such as dental entrepreneurs, managers, and practitioners, healthcare investors; the company’s portfolio includes companies based in North America with revenues of RMB 5bn, Europe RMB 1.5bn, and Asia RMB 3.5bn. In June 2020, the company signed strategic partnerships with SINOCERA and Hillhouse Capital to work closely in the development and growth of dental restoration.

Mark Goldstein is an angel investor, fundraiser and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Bad Ass Advisors, a matchmaking service for startups and advisors, and also started 12 companies, including back office solutions provider BackOps. Goldstein is best-known for being the private investment manager of Marc Benioff, the billionaire CEO, chairman and founder of Salesforce and owner of Time magazine. With his wife Kristen Koh Goldstein, he operates Marc Benioff's private investment vehicle Efficient Capacity, which invests in two to three early-stage startups a month. He is also an angel investor and participated in a funding round of Diamond Foundry, the first carbon-neutral producer of lab-grown diamonds.

Scottish Enterprise, a public arm of the Scottish Government, facilitates investments and economic growth of businesses in the eastern, central, and southern areas of Scotland. Led by Chairman Bob Keiller, Scottish Enterprise fulfills the objectives of the Scottish Government. It employs 1,100 staff across 14 offices in the UK and 33 overseas.Founded in 1975 as the Scottish Development Agency (SDA), it changed into Scottish Enterprise in 1991. Its operative structure was initially formed by Local Enterprise Companies (LECs) with boards led by local entrepreneurs. Since 2000, former limited companies have become wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Scottish Enterprise.Based on its performance report for 2017–2018, Scottish Enterprise has helped portfolio companies with £315m in R&D funds and secured capital investment of £215m.

Established in 1996, SBI Investment is a venture capital firm that focuses on growth sectors such as information technology, biotechnology, life science, mobile, environment and energy. The VC arm of the SBI Group is developed to quickly find new, emerging technologies and investing in those technologies to further the development of the group. SBI Group then introduces the new technologies to existing businesses in order to help them stay ahead in the market, as well as to revitalize local industries in Japan, particularly in the financial and banking sectors.

The late-stage venture capital and growth equity firm founded and led by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner manages about $10bn in assets. Among its well-known investments are Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, Xiaomi, JD.com, Spotify, Flipkart and AirBnB.DST Global was founded in 2009 as a means for Milner’s Mail.ru to continue investing at scale, by separately managing investment activities from the Mail.ru primary business. In 2012, Milner stepped down from Mail.ru to focus on DST Global, and DST Global eventually became fully independent from Mail.ru.

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.

Japan's largest financial institution, the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) runs the country's flagship MUFG Bank. As part of the Mitsubishi Group, MUFG also has subsidiaries specializing in finance, securities and investments. Its investment in Indonesia's fast-growing Gojek is part of MUFG's expansion plans to enter the financial services market in Southeast-Asia.

NGP Capital was founded in 2005 with Nokia and Bell Labs as its limited partners. It has investment teams in Asia (India and China), North America and Europe. It invests mainly in growth-stage companies with typical investments ranging from $8m–$12m.With more than $1.2bn under management, NGP Capital's portfolio includes Xiaomi, Deliveroo and UCweb. As of July 2019, NGP Capital had invested in more than 90 companies, including eight IPOs and 33 M&As. It focuses also on mobility and digital health sectors.

Crevisse Partners is a South Korean investor and venture builder with an impact focus. Its name stands for “Creative, Visionary and Social Entrepreneurs”. Originally incorporated in 2004, Crevisse claims to be the first impact investor in Korea, even before such terms became commonplace. The company strives to develop businesses in sectors “where the market principle wasn’t working”.Crevisse has internally incubated a number of companies in South Korea, such as reusable drinking cup company BringYourCup, sustainable forestry firm Forest Trust, and fundraising service DONUS. Crevisse Ventures is the company’s dedicated VC arm that manages a $20m fund and a number of blended finance funds through collaborations with government agencies and financial institutions. In particular, Crevisse Ventures focuses on startups that solve problems in four major areas: urban communities; climate and energy; education and welfare; as well as jobs and economic growth.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based VC set up in 2005 that currently has more than $3bn of assets under management. It invests across the tech, aerospace and biotechnology sectors and has been an early backer of some of the most impactful tech companies including Airbnb, Facebook, and SpaceX. It has a key interest in solving major problems such as the opioid crisis in the US.Its recent investments include in the June 2021 $85m Series C round of Portuguese home physiotherapy tech solution SWORD Health, the world’s fastest-growing musculoskeletal solution, and in the July 2021 $80m Series C round of residential real estate platform Sundae. The company has managed over 80 exits including Facebook and Spotify and has made over 500 investments, leading approximately one-third of these. 

Green Innovations is an impact fund that invests in large-scale projects addressing global sustainability challenges, focusing on the agriculture, biotechnology, education, energy, housing and water sectors. It is headed by Angola-based Portuguese businessman Jorge Marques, and linked to Israeli group Mitrelli. Green Innovations took control of Biocant, Portugal’s biggest biotech park, in a privatization move in 2017–2018. Green Innovations's stable of companies includes Green Biotech, created to invest in biotechnology in Portugal, and Green Services Innovations, linked to the exploration of phosphates in Congo.Its recent investments include in the June 2021 $85m Series C round and February 2021 $25m Series B of Portuguese home physiotherapy tech solution SWORD Health, the world’s fastest-growing musculoskeletal solution. 

The Woodford Patient Capital Trust is part of the larger group Woodford Funds. The company is based in Oxford and was formed in 2014, headed by veteran fund manager Neil Woodford. The Patient Capital Trust focuses on early- and early-growth-stage companies, with target returns of more than 10% yearly. The bulk of their portfolio comprises healthcare companies. 

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