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Jaume Gomà is the CEO and co-founder of Ulabox, one of the first online supermarkets in Spain. He has been involved in various internet businesses since the late 90s. Gomà has worked in business strategy and managerial roles in telecommunication companies like France Telecom and Orange Spain. In 2008, he became a director at Segundamano, that has now transformed into Vibbo, the leading portal for second-hand goods trading in Spain and Latin America. Gomà is a leading mentor, advisor and business angel within the Spanish ecosystem.

Ibersol is a Portuguese restaurant sector investor established in 1994. It holds the franchises of several of Spain and Portugal's top-selling fast-food chains including Burger King in both nations, Pans & Company in Spain and KFC in Portugal and Angola.To date, it has invested in one startup, the Portuguese healthy food service EatTasty, with undisclosed investment in the company's seed stage, phase one, that raised €1.1m. It also acquired one food sector entity, the Spanish restaurant group, Eat Out Group, for an undisclosed sum in 2016.

The Rise Fund is a $2bn impact investing fund co-founded by U2 front man Bono, Bill McGlashan and Jeff Skoll. The fund has partnered with nonprofit consultancy The Bridgespan Group to develop an evidence-based model for quantifying the impact of the firm’s investments.The global impact investment vehicle is managed by TPGGrowth, part of the multibillion-dollar investment firm TPG that focuses on growth equity investments and mid-market buyouts. As of December 2019, the fund has deployed $1.4bn across its investment portfolio.

Bright Success Capital Ltd is a Hong Kong-based family office founded by Hilton Tam who has previously worked at Seagate Technology and Cisco Systems. He specializes in R&D, supply chain processes and consumer electronics manufacturing. Successful investments include Flixibus and N26. The VC manages a portfolio of companies involved in manufacturing and supply chains specifically for hardware components, medical devices, drones and consumer robotics. Its investment focus covers diverse sectors like robotics, fintech, healthcare, enterprise software and deep tech.

FSI is an independent private equity firm based in Milan. It currently manages the mid-market Fund FSI I. Before its launch in 2017, the FSI investment team had already made PE investments in the Italian mid-market for several years at Fondo Strategico Italiano.The FSI investors include some of Italy’s largest institutional investors, primary sovereign funds from the Middle East, Far East and Central Asia. The firm also has a network of asset managers, insurance companies, European banks, family offices and foundations.

Nigerian investment bank and investor CardinalStone Partners was founded in 2008. It invests in enterprises with the potential to transform diverse sectors deemed to be strategic to the development of the economies in Nigeria, Ghana and other West African countries.The VC also reviews potential investments in relation to their ESG impact. CardinalStone currently has six companies in its portfolio including Nigerian gym chain i-Fitness and Nigerian fintech Appzone. In 2020, it raised $50m for a new private equity fund, CardinalStone Capital Advisers Growth Fund. 

Jeffrey Leiden is a physician and scientist of more than 40 years, who is currently the executive chairman of US-based multinational biotech company Vertex Pharmaceuticals.  Leiden is also the chairman of Casana, a remote healthcare platform and the chairman of Tmunity, a biotech dedicated to T-cell research. In March 2021, he participated as an angel investor in the $48m Series A round of Dutch cell-based meat startup Meatable which leverages pluripotent stem cells for the first time in foodtech. 

The late-stage venture capital and growth equity firm founded and led by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner manages about $10bn in assets. Among its well-known investments are Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, Xiaomi, JD.com, Spotify, Flipkart and AirBnB.DST Global was founded in 2009 as a means for Milner’s Mail.ru to continue investing at scale, by separately managing investment activities from the Mail.ru primary business. In 2012, Milner stepped down from Mail.ru to focus on DST Global, and DST Global eventually became fully independent from Mail.ru.

Established in Shanghai in 1992, Greenland Holding Group, also known as Greenland Group, is a state-owned real estate developer. It manages projects in over 100 cities in nine countries, including the US, Australia, Canada, the UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia. It holds assets worth nearly $120bn, and has ranked among Fortune Global 500 for nine consecutive years. The company went public in Shanghai in 2015. Beyond real estate, Greenland has diversified its portfolio by expanding into related sectors, such as retail and transportation.

With currently over $21bn of AUM, Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) was started in Hong Kong in 1997 by Jean Eric Salata, as the regional Asian PE investment arm of UK-based Baring Private Equity Partners. With $300m in its first fund, it focused on riding China’s economic rise spurred by the country’s market liberalization. In 2000, Salata led a management buyout of BPEA and continues to head the firm today as CEO and Founding Partner. BPEA has invested in more than 100 companies, across healthcare, logistics, IT services, media, education, financial services and retail. It is one of the largest independent PE firms in Asia and has eight offices across the continent.With offices in China, India, Japan, Australia, and Singapore, it currently has around 43 portfolio companies, almost all Asia-based, across multiple business segments in tech and non-tech startups, especially in bricks-and-mortar education establishments. It also makes acquisitions, including most recently of US outsourcing services company Virtusa in February 2021.Other recent investments include in the June 2021 $85m Series C round of Portuguese home physiotherapy tech solution SWORD Health, the world’s fastest-growing musculoskeletal solution, and in the November 2020 $198m Series D round of Chinese computer coding for kids edtech Codemao. 

Headquartered in Beijing and set up in 2006, China Growth Capital invests in early-stage internet startups in China and the US. As of May 2016, it has two USD-denominated funds and three RMB-denominated funds, valued around RMB 4 billion in total.

Led by China's largest software developer platform CSDN founder Jiang Tao and mobile games maker Linekong founder Wang Feng, GeekFounders was founded by a group of entrepreneurs in 2011. It focuses on early-stage investments in mobile gaming and entertainment, mobile vertical community, mobile SaaS, cloud technology and smart hardware. It has invested in more than 80 mobile internet startups.

Pearson Affordable Learning Fund (PALF) is the venture capital arm of Pearson, the world’s largest education company. With investments in 10 education startups and a total of 350,000 learners,PALF is expanding its range of affordable education solutions in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Indonesia’s online learning provider HarukaEdu is the 11th addition.It is PALF’s first foray into the online higher education market.

PT Prasetia Dwidharma is a telecommunications infrastructure contractor that focuses on base transceiver station (BTS) construction projects. The company was founded in 2008 by Budi Setiadharma, the chairman of the board of Indonesian conglomerate PT Astra Internasional. Besides its contractor business, the company has also invested in notable startups such as Indonesia’s smart city app Qlue and online language course site SquLine.com.

Founded in 2008, KIZOO Technology Ventures is a seed and early-stage VC. Current CEO Michael Greve, who founded Flug.de and Web.de, has many years of experience in the German-speaking Internet industry. KIZOO generally focuses on SaaS, Internet and mobile startups, although it has recently ventured into rejuvenation biotech, investing in companies such as CellAge and LysoClear.

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