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An active and well-known angel investor in Spain and the US, Iñaki Berenguer was also co-founder and CEO at Klink (acquired by Thinkingphones) and Pixable (acquired by SingTel). He previously worked for MNCs like Hewlett Packard, STMicroelectronics, Pentium group of Intel and NEC Laboratories America. He spent two years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and as a manager in the Corporate Strategy Group of Microsoft.Originally from Valencia, but now based in New York, Berenguer is currently co-founder and CEO of Coverwallet.

China Literature was founded in March 2015 by merging Tencent Literature and Shanda Literature. It went public on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong in November 2017. It owns online reading brand Qidian.com and acquired film and television production company New Classic Media in August 2018. It focuses on building a premium e-reading platform at home and abroad while seeking business opportunities in the adaptation of its copyrighted literary works into film and television productions, comics and animation and video games. As at late June 2019, there are over 11.7m pieces of literary works in its online library.

US-French private equity company L Catterton is based in Greenwich, USA, with 17 offices around the world and over $28bn of equity capital. It mostly invests in the consumer industry as well as real estate and technology startups.Founded in 1989 and currently led by co-CEOs Michael Chu and Scott Dahnke, in 2016, L Catterton partnered with the LVMH Group and Groupe Arnault combining Catterton's operations with LVMH and Groupe Arnault's real estate and private equity operations across Europe Asia, and North America. The partnership formed the largest global consumer-focused private equity firm yet the 31st largest private equity firm in the world. L Catterton holds majority stakes in companies like Birkenstock, Crystal Jade, Bliss, John Hardy amongst others; it also invests in technology startups in their growth and hyper-growth phases. Most notable investments include Aleph Farms, ClassPass, and more recently the plant-based products manufacturer NotCo. Its latest growth fund, L Catterton Growth IV, targets an investment range of $10m–$75m in North America and Europe.

Founded in 1907 and currently headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, US, United Parcel Service (UPS) is the world's largest package and document delivery company in revenue and volume. It is also a global provider of specialized transportation and logistics services. UPS serves more than 220 countries and territories worldwide. In 2018, the company generated US$71.8bn in revenue and had a net income of about US$4.8bn with 481,000 employees. It invests in transportation-related companies.

Simone Investment Managers specializes in real estate and alternative assets management. It has property investments in South Korea and abroad in USA and Europe.

As part of Vertex Ventures Holdings, a member of Temasek Holdings and Singapore's oldest and largest venture capital firm, Vertex Ventures China focuses on investment in high-growth internet and technology startups across mainland China. Vertex Ventures Holdings has a capital of US$600 million. It also has offices in Singapore, the US and Israel; and investments in these regions as well as Asia.

Based in Singapore, Golden Equator Capital manages investment funds in real estate, currency and technology businesses. Its Technology and Innovation Fund has backed various up-and-coming Southeast Asian startups, such as the internship job board Glints, dating app Paktor and affordable fashion marketplace Sale Stock. Golden Equator also provides industry expertise, mentoring and other supporting services to the companies in its investment portfolio.

Orza focuses on direct investments in Basque startups looking to expand and internationalize.  It is part of the Elkarkidetza and Geroa pension fund system and typically takes minority stakes, forking out between €1.5 million and €8 million per investment. It actively manages its investee companies while offering them access to its network of local and international contacts.  

Singtel Innov8 is the venture arm of Singapore-based telecommunications company Singtel. It invests in companies that can potentially bolster Singtel's own capabilities in communications technologies, media services and customer experience. Innov8 has invested in companies at home and abroad, including in Indonesia, China, the USA and Israel. It has made exits through the sale of its portfolio companies (Viki and Tempo.AI) and via IPOs.

Onroad Capital was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Shenzhen. It invests in TMT and focuses on cloud computing, big data, IoT, artificial intelligence, SaaS and consumption.

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.

Focus Technology was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Nanjing, following a state policy to strengthen and develop the industrialization and digitalization of China. In 2013, the company expanded to the US and started its cross-border e-commerce business.Focus is mainly involved in Internet Plus, bringing digitalization to overseas trading, insurance, business procurement, education and medical services. Made-in-China.com, Abiz.com and xyz.cn are the main e-commerce platforms of Focus.

Enagás Emprende, part of the Spanish Transmission System Operator (TS)  Enagás, is an investment venture backing and accelerating technology-based startups in their scale-up phase. Its portfolio investment mainly includes companies providing renewable gases, green hydrogen, and biomethane, but also sustainable mobility and energy efficiency. With 50 years of experience in energy infrastructures across Spain, the US, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Albania, Greece and Italy, Enagás provides its portfolio startups with mentoring and expertise acting as investors, clients and industry partners.

Founded in 2005, NLVC focuses on early and early-growth stage Chinese companies in the TMT, cleantech, healthcare and consumer sectors. It has invested in over 180 companies and manages more than US$1.7 billion spread across four USD-denominated funds and four RMB ones.

Wang Gang is an angel investor and a former senior director at Alibaba. His investments are concentrated in the internet, mobile internet and e-commerce sectors, in over 70 companies to date in both China and the US; including Didi, Uucars (formerly Uuzuche), ofo and Huajuan.

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