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Antai Venture Builder is co-founded by Miguel Vicente, named “the magician of startups” by the El País newspaper. Its other co-founder is also a well-known serial entrepreneur and publicist Gerard Olivé who has interests focusing on digital businesses. He is one of the most iconic names in the Barcelona startup ecosystem.

Beenext is a new venture fund started by Beenos founder and former CEO Teruhide “Teru” Sato. The fund describes itself as a “partnership of the founders, by the founders, for the founders”; bringing their wealth of global experience and capital backing to support promising entrepreneurs. Beenext has invested in nine countries, including India, Singapore and Indonesia.

The Gassó family is a Spanish entreprenurial family known for its GAES auditive solutions and centers for the hearing-impaired, in existence since 1949. Though the family has many charitable interests, it had not disclosed any investments in tech startups until leading the 2019 seed round of biotech startup VEnvirotech, which produces bioplastics from corporates’ organic waste.

The GlassWall Syndicate is a US investment group comprising venture capitalists, foundations, trusts, non-profits and individual investors. The VC members include Blue Horizon, Veg Invest and New Crop Capital.The syndicate funds are mostly invested in foodtech companies like Mosa Meat and Beyond Meat that are currently disrupting the traditional global food industry.

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.

Co-founder of Cambricon Technologies. Chen Yunji is the elder brother of co-founder Chen Tianshi. Admitted to the Special Class for the Gifted Young of the University of Science and Technology of China at the age of 14, he received his PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences at age 24. At age 33, he won the Science and Technology Award for Chinese Youth and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Young Scientists Award.

Daniel Surya has almost 20 years of experience in the branding industry, having worked at agencies like Addison, Landor Associates and The Brand Union. He started AR&Co in 2009. The augmented reality branding startup was later renamed Slingshot.Daniel decided to invest in more ventures including DAV Global under the banner of the WIR Group. He is currently the CEO of WIR and the chairman of the Slingshot group that launched Mindstores.

Dharmash Mistry is non-executive director of the British Business Bank and the BBC. He is also a partner at LGT Lightstone, Balderton Capital and Lakestar. As an experienced venture capitalist and entrepreneur Mistry has raised and managed investment funds totaling $1bn. He is a board member and one of the early investors of unicorns like Revolut and Glovo.Mistry is the former MD of Ascential plc, formerly EMAP, B2B media business specializing in exhibitions and information services and listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). He was also the chair and co-founder of Blow Ltd, an on-demand beauty services provider in the UK. Mistry also previously held non-executive director roles in companies like Dixons Retail and Hargreaves Lansdown.

Chinese rock musician and composer Wang Feng was the founder and lead vocals of the rock band No. 43 Baojia Street. In 2015, Wang invested in Yemalive and officially released the FIIL headset brand.

The VC arm of Tsinghua University, THG Ventures was founded in 2015. It is managed by the investment team from the state-owned Tsinghua Holdings Ltd., which has specialized in venture capital investments since 1999 and is one of the first China teams focused on RMB investment. The team also founded TusPark Incubator and TusPark Ventures.  

A member of the family that founded the Zamora Company (which owns Spanish liquor brands Martin Miller, Ramón Bilbao and Licor 43), Ángel Zamora is currently an active entrepreneur, investor and strategy consultant for several European MNCs. He has explored investment opportunities within the Spanish technology ecosystem, backing startups with global ambitions and supporting them in their overseas expansion, especially to Latin American countries. Zamora is an MBA graduate from the Darden Business School in the US. 

bp ventures is an investment arm of the energy group BP with an annual venture investment budget between $150m and $200m. The group invests in new energy solutions, with over 30 startups’ investments in its portfolio supporting BP’s core business in oil and gas.bp ventures has increasingly invested over the past years in carbon-management technologies, low-carbon products, and advanced mobility through EV charging companies like the Chinese Shanghai PowerShare Tech and the California-based FreeWire Technologies.

SyndicateRoom is a Cambridge-based VC authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), founded in 2013 by Gonçalo de Vasconcelos and Tom Britton, after studying together at the University of Cambridge. The company was initially started as an equity crowdfunding platform allowing its members to co-invest with experienced angel investors and high-net-worth individuals. Each investor is offered the same investment opportunities as lead investors, with the same share class and price per share.In July 2019, Gonçalo de Vasconcelos stepped down as CEO and was replaced by Graham Schwikkard. Soon afterward, the company announced a pivot of its investment model, becoming a VC fund that no longer offers individual crowdfunding investment opportunities. In the same year, SyndicateRoom launched Access EIS, the first data-driven Enterprise Investment Scheme fund.

Founder and CEO of Cambricon Technologies. Chen, who has more than 10 years of experience in the field of artificial intelligence, is a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the Special Class for the Gifted Young of the University of Science and Technology of China, a program that selects and nurtures the most intelligent Chinese students. Chen has received financial support from the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, which was launched by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Bamboo Capital Partners is an impact investment company that focuses on supporting energy access, finance and healthcare-related ventures in developing countries. The company manages 10 investment funds across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with companies in Indonesia, India, Kyrgyz Republic, and Brazil having received investments from this company.  Bamboo Capital Partners states that their portfolio healthcare companies have served 3.4m patients, and 9.68m metric tons of CO2 emissions have been avoided through the use of solar panels and green energy championed by their startups.Bamboo Capital Partners have worked with governments and major investment groups to support the fulfillment of SDG goals through startup investing. In 2020, Bamboo Capital Partners was appointed by the government of Madagascar and the World Bank as the fund manager for the $40m Off-Grid Market Development Fund. Bamboo is also a partner of the Palladium Group, which owns a minority stake in the VC.

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