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American investment capital firm Farallon Capital Management was established in 1986. The company manages equity capital for institutions, including college endowments, charitable foundations and pension plans, and funds for high net worth individuals. While most of its investments are in risk arbitrage and debt restructuring, it has also invested in startups across different verticals, such as Indonesian ride-hailing firm Gojek and a host of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medical technology companies.Farallon’s history with Indonesia began long before Gojek came into existence. In 2002, Farallon bought a controlling stake in Bank Central Asia (BCA), an Indonesian bank, during a time when investors avoided Indonesian banks that had been saddled with bad debt. With the controlling stake, Farallon installed a new bank chairman and reformed BCA. Over the next four years Farallon slowly divested in BCA and finally sold the remaining 4% stake in 2006 to earn a profit.

Silicon Valley Future Capital is a venture capital firm that invests primarily in early stage and growth stage companies with disruptive technologies or innovative business models. Founding partner Dr. Hong Miao used to be managing partner of CLI Ventures, senior VP of CheerLand Investment Group, executive president of the CL Institute of Innovation, and chairman of Zen Water Capital in Silicon Valley. The firm invests primarily in innovations in high-tech, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, cloud computing, robotics, life science, biotech, precision medicine and other disruptive technologies.

González-Montejano is the Spanish CEO and co-founder of AI-enhanced insurtech SingularCover, where he has worked since 2018. Prior to this, he briefly worked as CMO at the US-based Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, an exchange program, and at Madrid-based automotive marketplace startup Autingo. He previously spent five years as Senior Vice-President for Southern Europe of Affinion, a global leader in loyalty and engagement solutions and a provider of insurance to large multinationals. Before that, he had spent almost two decades working in the US, the UK, Spain and Southern Europe in a range of executive posts in large multinationals, incuding Citigroup and BNP Paribas. He holds an MBA in Finance from Carroll School of Management, Boston College, and a Business Administration degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as a professional qualification as a licensed insurance broker in Spain. González-Montejano volunteers frequently for organizations helping the elderly. 

Francis Obirikorang completed a bachelor’s degree in materials engineering in 2006 at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana.In 2008, Obirikorang started work as a technical writer at Esoko, a Ghanaian digital development agency in Accra, where he met web developer Michael Ocansey. Obirikorang left Esoko in 2010 and became lead technical writer for Corenett, a transactions processing management company. In 2013, he worked at digital advertising agency TXT Ghana as a business analyst until 2015.In January 2015, Obirikorang and Ocansey established their first startup Swappaholics Holdings in the British Virgin Islands. In 2016, the two friends also co-founded AgroCenta (Holdings) Limited in Mauritius with Obirikorang as CEO and Ocansey as CTO. Ocansey left the Swappaholics in 2016 to focus on building AgroCenta.Obirikorang still runs both companies as CEO and joined the global entrepreneur community Startup Grind in 2016 as chapter director of Kumasi, Ghana’s second-largest city.

Cambrian Venture Capital was founded in Shanghai in 2016 and focuses on early-stage investments. It has invested in over 80 startups in edtech, B2B, internet and consumer sectors.

Trax Center’s user-friendly smartphone vehicle app solves security and maintenance issues by providing real time GPS tracking, anti-theft measures and critical vehicle status updates.

Besides helping medics around the world to diagnose Covid-19 infections, WeDoctor has launched China's first Internet hospitals to provide quality healthcare on-demand.

GGV Capital manages $3.8 billion across eight funds, making multi-stage investments in companies from mobile internet, hardware, cloud technology and SaaS sectors. Among them, 27 GGV-invested companies have completed IPOs in the last 10 years. Its portfolio features a wide range of companies, such as Alibaba, AirBnb, Qunar, YY, Didi, Soundcloud, slack, Youku Tudou and more. Founded in 2000, the firm deploys a single team operating in both China and the US.

Zheng Weihe (Alex Zheng) and his wife Li Huang started Cowin Capital, one of China's earliest private equity funds, in 2000 with RMB 80 million of their own money, investing in six companies within a year. Today, it has more than RMB 10 billion in assets under management, across six PE funds. It has invested in over 150 companies to date, with 57 successful exits, including 27 IPOs – earning Zheng the moniker "The Marksman".

Founded in 2019, Wens Capital is an independent business unit responsible for investment and M&A under Guangdong Wens Food Group which went public on Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2015. Through two subsidiaries Wens Investment and Wens Equity Investment, it currently manages about RMB 10bn worth of assets and has invested in more than 50 companies. It mainly invests in military projects and companies from sectors of environmental protection, healthcare and TMT. 

Established in Shanghai in 2014, Wuqiong Venture Capital is an early-stage investment firm, having backed more than 10 startups in China including Beautysite, CeCelife and Orange-social.

Leaguer Venture Capital was founded by Leaguer Group in 1999 as a wholly-owned subsidiary, responsible for incubating and investing in high-tech startups. It mainly invests in early- and mid-stage tech startups. 

Founded in 2012, BAIC Capital is the investment arm of China's state-owned carmaker, BAIC Group. Headquartered in Beijing, it has branches in six cities across China and has two subsidiaries in Frankfurt and Silicon Valley. It currently manages over 40 funds, worth RMB 30bn. With a focus on connected cars and mobility services, it has invested in more than 100 companies including EV manufacturer BAIC BJEV, battery manufacturer and technology company CATL and ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing.

Changsha Lugu Venture Capital was founded in December 2007. The VC manages total assets worth RMB 300m and mainly invests in the internet and technology sectors. As a state-owned company, Changsha Lugu Venture Capital also provides free office facilities and funding of RMB200,000 for talented startups in Changsha.

IRDI Capital Investissement supports innovative startups and local SMEs in southwest France, with offices in Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Montpellier. Over its 40-year history, the company has invested some €800m in more than 1,400 companies. 

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