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Redpoint China Ventures focuses on early-stage TMT startups in the consumer services, transaction platforms, social networking, video entertainment, digital advertisement, big data, cloud technology, SaaS, information security and artificial intelligence sectors, among others. It has invested in more than 50 domestic consumer internet and enterprise IT companies. It has been the first institutional investor or founding investor in 80% of its investments.

Unreasonable Capital is a US-based venture capital firm. It focuses on early to mid-stage startups in emerging markets that address social and environmental challenges. The firm does not lead investments on its own, participating only when a local entity participates in financing. Its portfolio includes Nigerian fintech firm Paga, Indonesian automated fish feeder maker eFishery and solar power system producer BuffaloGrid.

A serial entrepreneur since 2009, Guo Wei graduated from the Central University of Finance and Economics and founded Jinyuan Group, the company behind HR services and social insurance management SaaS startup Joyowo, in 2014.He is currently the CEO of Jinyuan Group and Joyowo.

GWC Innovator Fund was established by GWC, which hosts the annual Global Mobile Internet Conference and the invite-only G-Network. The fund aims to brings Silicon Valley investment into the wider world, reaching startups like India’s women-focused platform POPxo, Chinese AI chatbot TravelFlan and Indonesian restaurant review site Qraved.

Nauta Capital is one of the oldest VC funds in Spain with offices in London, Munich and Barcelona. It focusses its investment on SaaS companies in Europe and the US east-coast, but the firm’s portfolio includes startups specialized in cyber security, retail, HR, marketplace and platform, marketing and social intelligence as well as big data and analytics.The firm usually participates in Series A rounds from €500,000 to €7 million with an average ticket for first investments of between €1 million and €3 million. Nauta Capital occasionally invests in late-seed and Series B rounds.

Pau Ramon is a co-founder and the CTO of Spanish human resource startup Factorial. For five years, he was the CTO of Redbooth (formerly Teambox), a cloud-based SaaS project management tool that facilitates collaboration and communication within teams. Ramon had fortuitously met the Redbooth team when trying to secure funding and partners for zspeakers.com, a social media influencer monetizing platform he had earlier established. Ramon has a BSc in Multimedia and another in Software Engineering. 

Maylis Chevalier is an executive director, mentor and angel investor in Spanish tech startups. She’s currently the Director of Innovation and Digital Product at Vocento, a Madrid-based media broadcaster.She was the Spanish country manager for Ligatus, a programmatic marketing solutions company. She was also an executive in the editorial and business development departments of media companies such as Gruner + Jahr GmbH and Axel Springer SE.

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.

SoftBank announced its second Vision Fund of about $108bn in July 2019 to invest in technology startups across the world. SoftBank had originally planned to contribute $38bn to the new fund. However, its Vision Fund I was badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and losses resulting in lower valuations of its investments in Uber and WeWork.In February 2020, the Japanese conglomerate decided to inject more money into the Vision Fund II before raising new funds from other LPs. With $10bn committed to the second fund by the SoftBank Group, the new fund has now invested in 13 portfolio companies including co-leading the Series C round for XAG in November 2020.

The SBI-Xueda Education Fund is an education investment fund jointly set up by Japan-based SBI Holdings and China-based Xueda Education Group in 2018.

João Abiul Menano holds a master’s degree in Strategy from Nova School of Business and Economics. As an undergraduate at Nova University of Lisbon, Menano and fellow CrowdProcess co-founder Pedro Fonseca started the largest university-level Entrepreneurship Society in Lisbon, with financial support from the American Embassy. While co-founding CrowdProcess, Menano also worked at CaixaSeguros, focusing on client innovation and distribution channel optimization. He is Portuguese.

Chunyu Yisheng co-founder and Renmin University graduate. Liu was also vice-president (product and marketing) at Chunyu Yisheng, a popular doctor consultation app. Another earlier startup of Liu’s was a social community for patients with rare diseases (inspired by Patientslikeme.com), which fell through because of its uncertain business model.

Kukuh Budi Santoso graduated from Indonesia’s Universitas Brawijaya with a degree in Agriculture. While at university, he was an active in student organizations such as the IAAS (an international organization of agriculture students) and founded social enterprises. Prior to co-founding agri-investment platform Tanijoy, Kukuh ran Escape.id, a community-based tourism business.

Yudha Kartohadiprodjo formerly worked as an editor and publisher at Femina Group, one of Indonesia’s leading magazine and media groups. In 2016, he joined forces with agritech veteran Alihan Tjohjono to establish Karsa, a social platform for farmers and agricultural stakeholders.

National University of Singapore graduate Danny Widodo is a veteran in the entertainment industry. Besides working at JP Morgan as a credit risk analyst, he also had extracurricular interests at Give.sg and the National Arts Council. He left JP Morgan in 2011 to work as a production manager at Resorts World Sentosa for three years. Danny also co-founded an indie music production firm iamLOCALIZED in 2012 that was funded by the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre Innovation/Entrepreneurship Practicum Grant. In 2015, Danny returned to Indonesia and established a concert crowdfunding platform Konsaato that was transformed into Konserku in 2017.

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