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Food traceability app NutraSign will boost consumer confidence by giving real-time information about the origins of products.

A leader in autonomous vehicle tech, Veniam's Wi-Fi meshes support smart city connected vehicle networks and move terabytes of data between vehicles and the Cloud.

Factorial cuts time-consuming HR administration for over 60,000 SMEs in almost 100 countries allowing departments to focus on employee productivity and complex labor laws.

AI- and NLP-powered software accelerating clinical research by structuring relevant patient big data and facilitating clinical data searches, with dramatic improvements of up to 90%.

Myanmar’s first circular economy waste management and recycling marketplace is banking on blockchain and analytics to become a key player in Southeast Asia.

Natural Machines is launching the world’s first commercial 3D food printing and laser beam cooking machine for affordable, personalized meals, endorsed by Michelin-starred restaurants.

Computer vision-based SaaS platform auto reads, selects and converts relevant text, symbols and codes into big data to help digitize industries and supply chains.

The only diamond producer to be certified carbon-neutral, this unicorn makes high-carat, high-value lab-grown diamonds at scale that are jewelry-grade, ethical, environmentally sustainable and conflict-free.

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Xiamen, Fujian Province, Meitu is a public company traded at HK Stock Exchange.Its products include photo-editing and sharing software Meitu Xiuxiu(MeituPic), short video app Meipai, apps focusing on oversea users AirBrush and BeautyPlus, etc. (https://corp.meitu.com/news/news/110.html) It reported having a MAU of 3320 million adding up all its apps in 2018. (https://wallstreetcn.com/articles/3497467)It used to have a smartphone line but has announced to shut down the line. Meitu let Xiaomi handle its development and sale and it got a commission. 

Established in 2003, Indonusa Dwitama is a holding company that manages and develops a range of investment portfolios in Indonesia, including mining, financial services and information technology. In the mining industry, it has a portfolio of andesite and bauxite mines, and it also invested in an oil and gas mining company. As a tech investor, it is a relatively early investor in Tokopedia when it joined in 2016. It has also invested in VOSPAY, a digital payment intermediary, and cross-border money transfer company Wallex.

The investment arm of Yamaha Motor Group (Japan) was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It focuses on industrial automation and transportation technology, and on smart and automated solutions in particular. Recent investments include automated strawberry picker Advanced Farm Technologies' US$7.5m Series A round and drone and robotics startup Exyn Technology's US$16m Series A round.

Founded in 2018, Kale United is a Stockholm-based ethical investor with an overriding interest in plant-based technologies. It raises funds from crowd campaigns and currently has a portfolio of 30 companies, mostly Swedish alternative meat startups. It had crowdfunded €1.34m by April 2020 for its portfolio of companies from three separate campaigns. It also has a portfolio of plant-based public shares and features a team of vegan expert investors and business leaders. Its founder, Måns Ullerstam, owns a third of the company. He is also CEO of local vegetarian food producer startup Astrid och Aporna.

New York-based VC firm Union Square Ventures (USV) was established in 2004 and has invested in more than 100 companies to date. It manages US$1.7bn in assets across nine funds. The most recent, totaling US$450m in commitments, was launched in 2019. USV invests across multiple sectors and all stages of investment. Its specific interest, however, is in businesses derived from academic theses. USV is a prolific investor: recent investments include blockchain-based gaming company Dapper Labs' US$11m Series A round and B2B loan marketplace C2FO's US$200m Series G round.

The venture capital arm of Cisco was established in 1993 in San Francisco and currently has a US$2bn active portfolio. Each year, it invests between US$200-300m from Series A rounds to later investment stages. Cisco Investments has more than 120 companies in its portfolio. It has managed multiple exits and acquisitions, most recently by purchasing customer analytics technology CloudCherry for an undisclosed sum in August 2019. Cisco Investment's recent portfolio investments include healthcare platform Luma Health's US$16m Series B round and big data cybersecurity startup Exabeam's US$75m Series E round.

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of hedge fund Katana Capital and also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies, besides being a prolific angel investor having invested in more than 500 companies to date across sectors and geographies.  His most recent investments have included in the 2021 seed rounds of home-based eye medtech Quadrant Eye and in the $2m funding of Canadian small business logistics startup Tyltgo. Songhurst is a former general manager and former head of corporate strategy at Microsoft. He has a bachelor's in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University.

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