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Diego Ballesteros is one of Spain's most prominent serial entrepreneurs and business angels, backing some of the most successful acquisitions in Spain and Latin America. He made his first disclosed investment in 2016, as an angel investor of Spanish femtech WOOM’s pre-seed and seed funding rounds. He is currently the sole founder of Bewe SaaS for beauty and wellness professionals.Ballesteros started his first enterprise in 1997, an online classified ads platform Ocioteca.com and also MundoSalud that was acquired by Sanitas of Bupa Group.  Cabify and co-investments with Seaya Ventures also form part of his investment portfolio. One of his biggest successes is on-demand food delivery platform SinDelantal with operations in Spain and Mexico. In 2013, the Spanish delivery company was acquired by Just Eat that later also bought the Mexican company in 2015.

The Boston-based Grantham Environmental Trust is part of the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment. The philanthropic organization was founded in 1997 by entrepreneurs Jeremy Grantham and his wife Hannelore as a private foundation controlled by family members. Grantham is chairman and co-founder of investment management firm GMO. The charitable trust has independent trustees like the CEOs of World Wildlife Fund US and the Rocky Mountain Institute. The trust’s Neglected Climate Opportunities LLC invests in little-funded yet promising climate change prevention technologies. Recent investments include the $12m Series A round of Vence, a US-based producer of a virtual fencing wearable for livestock management in May 2021 and the January 2021 investment round of US sustainable electrofuels producer Infinium.

Portuguese state investment company PME Investimentos is the country's most prolific tech investor. Founded in 1989 as a joint stock company, SULPEDIP was under the supervision of the Bank of Portugal and changed its name to PME in 1998. The main aim is to help local SMEs to access funding and financial management services to develop and expand internationally. PME has invested in hundreds of startups, both tech and non-tech focused, across market verticals. It also manages several funds, including 200M that was launched in 2016 to focus on investments in Portugal-based startups. The co-investment fund of €200m prioritizes startups based in the Northern, Central, Alentejo, Lisbon and Algarve regions. The fund matches up to 100% of the private investors’ commitment, subject to a minimum investment of €500,000 and a maximum of €5m. Recent investments include petfood e-commerce Barkyn's €1.1m seed round, €4.2m Series A of made-to-order designer Platforme and a €650,000 contribution in the second phase of healthy food service EatTasty's €1.75m seed round. 

Founded in 1998, Asiaec Partnership is one of the earliest venture capital firms in China, with about 20 funds under management. It has invested in 100+ companies, of which about one-third have gone public, with an IRR of over 35%.

Shenzhen-listed Oceanwide Holdings is part of the China Oceanwide empire founded and controlled by Lu Zhiqiang, one of China’s wealthiest billionaires. Oceanwide is also the founding and controlling shareholder of Minsheng Bank, the first private sector-backed commercial bank in China, and the third-largest shareholder of Legend Holdings, the investment group behind Lenovo. Its interests span globally across financial services, energy, culture and media, and real estate. 

SeedRocket is one of the biggest networks of mentors and industry experts in Spain. Founded by Jesus Monleon and Vicente Arias, the firm offers mentorship, acceleration and seed funding programs of up to €150,000 per startup. SeedRocket is headquartered in Barcelona with a branch office in the Google Campus Madrid. SeedRocket has backed 160 startups with a total capital investment of €55 million, including five exits.

Established in Shenzhen in 2007, Share Capital has invested in over 100 companies. Some of its portfolio companies – e.g., NavInfo, Perfect World and BGI – have gone public. Its investment team of nearly 50 members manages more than RMB 6 billion worth of assets. Share Capital has set up a healthcare fund of RMB 1.5 billion and invested in over 70 health-related projects.

Xiaomi is one of the biggest mobile manufacturers in China and also actively invests in emerging startups. It had backed more than 300 companies as of March 2021, totaling RMB 32.3Bn in book value. Through such investments, the company has already built an ecosystem of the internet of things.

Dayli Partners is a VC company in South Korea that specializes in biotech and healthcare investments. It is a partner of Korea's TIPS (Tech Incubator Program for Startups) initiative, which aims to find the best startups in the country and help them develop their potential. As of December 2019, it has an AUM total of $170.7m and aims to manage $350m in assets by the end of 2020.

Boc&Utrust Private Equity Fund Management (Guangdong) Co., Ltd., was co-founded by Bank of China Group Investment Ltd., a subsidiary of the Bank of China, and Guangdong Yuecai Investment Co., Ltd., which is authorized by the Guangdong government to manage state-owned capital.

Established in Shanghai in 2013, Galileo Venture focuses on the application of new technologies - e.g., mobile internet, artificial intelligence and big data - in the fields of education, healthcare, agriculture and consumer products. It has invested in dozens of early-stage startups.

Carlos Pierre is the co-founder and CEO of Spanish online room rental platform Badi that was established in 2015 and secured Series B investment of US$30m in 2019. Pierre's first investment is the seed funding of household bill manager Polaroo in 2019.

Sequis Life is an insurance company in Indonesia. Originally named PT Universal Life Indonesia, it was established in 1984 as part of the Gunung Sewu conglomerate group of companies. As of 2018, it manages over IDR 14.8t in assets and more than 400,000 policies.

SoftBank Ventures Asia, founded in 2000, is a subsidiary of SoftBank Korea and part of the SoftBank Group. It is SoftBank’s early stage venture arm, with a geographical focus in Asia, the US, Europe and Israel. It was previously known as SoftBank Ventures Korea.SoftBank Ventures Asia links early-stage startups with SoftBank’s wider network of partners and businesses, which include Yahoo Japan and Alibaba (both of which SoftBank has stakes in), components manufacturers ARM and nVidia, and Indonesian e-commerce platform Tokopedia, which SoftBank has invested in. Outside of its focus areas of AI, robotics and IoT, SoftBank Ventures has invested in companies like sports analytics company bepro11, telehealth service Alodokter, and property rental management Mamikos.

China- and Asia Pacific-focused SAIF Partners is one of China's largest homegrown PE firms, managing about $4 billion in capital. Led by former World Bank economist Andy Yan, it has invested in more than 200 companies. Taking a value-based investment approach, it says: "We generally make individual equity investments of between $10 million and $100 million, in one or more rounds of financing, and generally seek to obtain a significant minority equity ownership position in the range of 15% to 40% of a portfolio company." SAIF also has a strong presence in India.

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