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Pedro Luis Uriarte Santamarina was the CEO of Spanish multinational bank BBVA from 1994 to 2001. He was also the Regional Minister-Economy & Finance of the first autonomous government of the Basque Country region in Spain. After being one of the creators of the Basque Agency for Innovation, Uriarte became an early investor of Indexa Capital and Bewa7er, both of which are co-founded by Unai Asenjo Barra.

NUMA is a Paris-based innovation hub with offices in New York, Berlin, Moscow, Barcelona, Mexico City, Casablanca in Morocco and Bengalaru, India. Supported by its 130 staff members, the company runs training and startup acceleration programs globally. To date, 300 startups have participated in NUMA's acceleration program, which was developed in partnership with the City of Paris. To date, NUMA has seen 17 exits from its investments. 

The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board (SPRING Singapore) used to be a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore. It was also the national standards and conformance body, tasked with developing and promoting internationally-recognized standards and quality assurance infrastructure.In April 2018, SPRING Singapore and International Enterprise Singapore were merged to form a single agency, Enterprise Singapore, a government agency championing enterprise development.

Headquartered in Zhengzhou, China Reform TUS Fund is China's first capital management fund. Jointly backed by state-level venture capital funds, top Chinese universities and the provincial government, it invests primarily in new energy, healthcare and information technology.

New York-based Humboldt Fund invests in startups with the potential to solve critical issues of our time across the areas of food production, healthcare, energy, and construction and manufacturing materials. It currently has 14 companies in its portfolio.  Its most recent investments include in the March 2021 $48m Series A round of Dutch cell-based meat startup Meatable which leverages pluripotent stem cells for the first time in foodtech, and in the February 2021 $16m seed round of US biotech Cellino Biotech. 

Launched in 2018, Everbright New Economy USD Fund (New Economy Fund) is under the umbrella of China Everbright, a Hong Kong-listed financial conglomerate. The New Economy Fund started from an inaugural fund of US$483m, with US$150m from Bahrain-based asset manager Investcorp. It invests mainly in the e-commerce, smart retail and artificial intelligence sectors. In November 2019, China Everbright and Investcorp announced they will co-manage Investcorp New Economy Fund I and explore the opportunity to establish a successor private equity fund, jointly managed by the two parties, that will target China’s tech sector.

United Fund was founded in 2015 to provide Zhejiang's SME businesses with support in financing, business collaborations, operations and management. It now manages total of assets worth RMB 3bn.

Established in 2018, Jensen Group Investment Fund is the generalist investment fund of Danish entrepreneur Steen Ulf Jensen, founder of the Jensen Group, a global manufacturer of machines for the heavy-duty laundry industry based in Belgium. Jensen was also the CEO of Box TV and Digicel Cabel. The fund has so far invested in four startups with Jensen becoming board chairman at the investee companies. In 2020, the fund acquired stakes in the July €1.1m seed round of Danish alt-leather biotech Beyond Leather Materials and in the funding of Danish bike lock startup PentaLock earlier in March.

DX Ventures is the Berlin-based investment vehicle of on-demand app unicorn Delivery Hero. The VC currently has 12 startups in its portfolio including EU rival Glovo. It also invests in social commerce and on-demand delivery startups in Latin America like Facily and Rappi.Investments in September 2021 include participation in the $43m Series B round of British food-sharing app OLIO and $5m Series A funding round for Toku, a Singapore-based startup and Asia Pacific’s dedicated cloud communications provider. It also invested in Leipzig-based sustainable foodtech, the nu company, that produces vegan chocolates and organic proteins.

Kaesang Pangarep is a vlogger and serial entrepreneur who first became famous through his YouTube vlogs, which sometimes involved his father, Indonesian president Joko Widodo. Kaesang had previously run his own fried banana business, Sang Pisang, before establishing home chef meal service Madhang in 2017, where he is chief marketing officer. Kaesang is concurrently the CEO of SKI Capital Partners, which provides funding to F&B startups and is a fourth year marketing student at the Singapore University of Social Sciences.

Alberto González Muíño is co-founder and CTO of Alén Space, joining the company in 2017. He is responsible for systems design, integration, testing and operations, having led several nanosatellites missions himself. González studied telecommunications at Spain's Vigo University, joining its Aerospace Group upon graduation, where he worked for more than 11 years. He was previously also a project manager at the Aerospace Innovation Center in Galicia until July 2018.

Best known for being the first to invest in social networking hit Momo, seed and early-stage venture capital firm Purplesky Capital, also known as Buttonwood Capital, was founded in 2011. Founded in 2011 by Zheng Gang (Scott Zheng), a successful serial entrepreneur. Brett Krause, former president of JPMorgan Chase China, is its managing partner. PurpleSky focuses on early-stage investments in China digital media and mobile internet companies.

Taihecap is an investment bank established in 2012. As a financial advisor, it has served over 200 startups, including 40 unicorns, to raise more than $25bn in the primary market. Taihecap's long-term clients include the social commerce platform Pinduoduo, China’s largest used-car transaction platform Guazi.com, and the online K12 education platform Zuoyebang. Since 2019, Taihecap has started its overseas expansion into markets such as Southeast Asia and India.

Zhao graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. An award-winning product designer, he worked at VMware, LinkedIn and Totango from 2013 to 2015. Prior to joining Zaihui in 2015, Zhao ran a startup of his own on the social networking app Sobrr.

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