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Ardent Capital is a Thai venture capital fund focusing on e-commerce and fulfilment services. It ran a subsidiary company named Ardent Ventures. In 2016, Ardent Capital merged with Wavemaker Partners. Ardent Capital maintains its portfolio, including Moxy (now Orami) and Snapcart. Ardent Ventures companies include SaleStock that is now managed by Wavemaker.
Ardent Capital is a Thai venture capital fund focusing on e-commerce and fulfilment services. It ran a subsidiary company named Ardent Ventures. In 2016, Ardent Capital merged with Wavemaker Partners. Ardent Capital maintains its portfolio, including Moxy (now Orami) and Snapcart. Ardent Ventures companies include SaleStock that is now managed by Wavemaker.
Telstra is a corporate venture capitalist headquartered in Sydney, Australia. It has significant investments in Asia, USA and Europe. It typically invests from US$5 million to US$50 million in established businesses that generate millions of dollars in existing revenue.
Telstra is a corporate venture capitalist headquartered in Sydney, Australia. It has significant investments in Asia, USA and Europe. It typically invests from US$5 million to US$50 million in established businesses that generate millions of dollars in existing revenue.
Chu Ge is a founding partner of Happy Together (Chunguangli), a startup incubator and venture capital firm focusing on internet projects. Formerly creative director at Bates and Ogilvy, he was also a guest lecturer at Communication University of China. He has been listed as one of China’s 50 most influential creators.
Chu Ge is a founding partner of Happy Together (Chunguangli), a startup incubator and venture capital firm focusing on internet projects. Formerly creative director at Bates and Ogilvy, he was also a guest lecturer at Communication University of China. He has been listed as one of China’s 50 most influential creators.
Founded by Matt Cheng, a leading angel investor, serial entrepreneur and top-ranked ITF world junior tennis player, in 2010, Cherubic Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with coverage across Silicon Valley and Greater China. With US$120 million of assets under management, it has invested in 100+ companies.
Founded by Matt Cheng, a leading angel investor, serial entrepreneur and top-ranked ITF world junior tennis player, in 2010, Cherubic Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with coverage across Silicon Valley and Greater China. With US$120 million of assets under management, it has invested in 100+ companies.
Based in London, CPT Capital is the venture arm of private equity pioneer Jeremy Coller's private family office. Coller is the founder of Europe’s first private equity for secondaries in 1990. The British philanthropist has also established several business schools and the Jeremy Coller Foundation that aims to eliminate factory farming. In 2017, CPT Capital was founded to disrupt the food industry with investments in the alt-protein sector to create the “future of food and materials” like plant-based, recombinant and cell-cultured proteins.
Based in London, CPT Capital is the venture arm of private equity pioneer Jeremy Coller's private family office. Coller is the founder of Europe’s first private equity for secondaries in 1990. The British philanthropist has also established several business schools and the Jeremy Coller Foundation that aims to eliminate factory farming. In 2017, CPT Capital was founded to disrupt the food industry with investments in the alt-protein sector to create the “future of food and materials” like plant-based, recombinant and cell-cultured proteins.
The Chinese affiliate of top Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital was founded in 2005 by Neil Shen (Shen Nanpeng), a co-founder of Ctrip, China's largest travel booking site. With more than US$6 billion under management in 2015, the firm has invested in more than 300 startups in China, including some of the country's biggest brands: Alibaba, JD.com, Didi, DJI, Sina and Qihoo 360. Sequoia, together with China Broadband Capital, also helped to bring to China LinkedIn and AirBnB, companies that both have invested in.
The Chinese affiliate of top Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital was founded in 2005 by Neil Shen (Shen Nanpeng), a co-founder of Ctrip, China's largest travel booking site. With more than US$6 billion under management in 2015, the firm has invested in more than 300 startups in China, including some of the country's biggest brands: Alibaba, JD.com, Didi, DJI, Sina and Qihoo 360. Sequoia, together with China Broadband Capital, also helped to bring to China LinkedIn and AirBnB, companies that both have invested in.
Headquartered in Madrid with satellite offices in Barcelona, London, Seattle and New York, Alma Mundi is a venture fund that aims to connect Spanish and Latin American entrepreneurs. Alma Mundi’s investments range between €500,000 and €5 million.Alma Mundi offers its investee companies direct access to a global network of investors and industry experts in leading technology ecosystems. Called the Mundi Club, the group comprises over 700 members from 41 cities worldwide. The group’s board members include advisers and executives from Merck, Havas, PepsiCo, Carrefour, Nestlé and HP.
Headquartered in Madrid with satellite offices in Barcelona, London, Seattle and New York, Alma Mundi is a venture fund that aims to connect Spanish and Latin American entrepreneurs. Alma Mundi’s investments range between €500,000 and €5 million.Alma Mundi offers its investee companies direct access to a global network of investors and industry experts in leading technology ecosystems. Called the Mundi Club, the group comprises over 700 members from 41 cities worldwide. The group’s board members include advisers and executives from Merck, Havas, PepsiCo, Carrefour, Nestlé and HP.
Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd
Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd is a state-owned company founded in September 1994 under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Shanghai. It mainly engages in equity investment in hi-tech and modern services industry.It has invested over RMB 10bn in diverse sectors including information technology, biomedicine, new energy, environmental protection, new materials and financial services. In 2004, the company and Microsoft set up the joint venture Shanghai MSN Network Communications Technology Co Ltd that operates MSN China's website: msn.com.cn.
Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd is a state-owned company founded in September 1994 under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Shanghai. It mainly engages in equity investment in hi-tech and modern services industry.It has invested over RMB 10bn in diverse sectors including information technology, biomedicine, new energy, environmental protection, new materials and financial services. In 2004, the company and Microsoft set up the joint venture Shanghai MSN Network Communications Technology Co Ltd that operates MSN China's website: msn.com.cn.
Founded in 2005, Fortune Link focuses on private equity investment. Its founder, Kan Zhidong was also the founder of Shenzhen Capital Group, one of the first few venture capitalists in China. As at March 2018, it had set up a number of funds and managed over 20 investment teams.With over RMB 30bn worth of assets under its management, Fortune Link mainly invests in sectors including TMT, environmental protection, advanced material, healthcare, high tech industries, culture and media.
Founded in 2005, Fortune Link focuses on private equity investment. Its founder, Kan Zhidong was also the founder of Shenzhen Capital Group, one of the first few venture capitalists in China. As at March 2018, it had set up a number of funds and managed over 20 investment teams.With over RMB 30bn worth of assets under its management, Fortune Link mainly invests in sectors including TMT, environmental protection, advanced material, healthcare, high tech industries, culture and media.
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.
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 2010, WestSummit Capital is a US-focused, growth-stage venture capital fund with a strong presence in Silicon Valley, Beijing, Hong Kong and Dublin. It has a total of over $400m under management, and invests in the mobile, internet, cloud computing, big data and IoT sectors. In 2013, it participated in a Series C $20m investment in Twitch, the world's leading video platform and community for gamers, which was acquired by Amazon in August 2014 for close to $1bn.
Founded in 2010, WestSummit Capital is a US-focused, growth-stage venture capital fund with a strong presence in Silicon Valley, Beijing, Hong Kong and Dublin. It has a total of over $400m under management, and invests in the mobile, internet, cloud computing, big data and IoT sectors. In 2013, it participated in a Series C $20m investment in Twitch, the world's leading video platform and community for gamers, which was acquired by Amazon in August 2014 for close to $1bn.
Spiral Ventures (IMJ Investment Partners)
Founded in 2012 in Japan, IMJ Investment Partners was a Singapore-based venture capital firm focusing on startups based in Southeast Asia and Japan. It had raised US$52 million in funding as a company under IMJ Corporation, one of the biggest digital agencies in Japan. A new VC company Spiral Ventures Pte Ltd was established to takeover IMJ-IP after a successful management buyout led by IMJ-IP Managing Partner Yuji Horiguchi in 2017.
Founded in 2012 in Japan, IMJ Investment Partners was a Singapore-based venture capital firm focusing on startups based in Southeast Asia and Japan. It had raised US$52 million in funding as a company under IMJ Corporation, one of the biggest digital agencies in Japan. A new VC company Spiral Ventures Pte Ltd was established to takeover IMJ-IP after a successful management buyout led by IMJ-IP Managing Partner Yuji Horiguchi in 2017.
Grand China Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm. It invests mainly in media, entertainment, sports, tourism, and smart manufacturing sectors. It provides businesses with services such as financial investment, strategic consulting and data-based marketing. Grand China Capital co-launched a RMB 2 billion fund with Japan's SBI Group (previously known as Softbank Investment Co., Ltd) in September 2018 to drive tech development in the Asia Pacific region.
Grand China Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm. It invests mainly in media, entertainment, sports, tourism, and smart manufacturing sectors. It provides businesses with services such as financial investment, strategic consulting and data-based marketing. Grand China Capital co-launched a RMB 2 billion fund with Japan's SBI Group (previously known as Softbank Investment Co., Ltd) in September 2018 to drive tech development in the Asia Pacific region.
Founded in 2013, Telstra’s muru-D accelerator has so far worked with 44 startups, with total revenue generated of over AUD 7.8 million. Telstra also has another venture capital arm that connects with technology businesses at a much later stage in their life cycles and looks to build strategic alliances. muru-D companies receive AUD 20,000 at the start of the program and if they achieve specific milestones by the midpoint of the program they unlock a further AUD 20,000. The accelerator has also dropped the requirement that companies raise AUD15,000 from mentors and investors.
Founded in 2013, Telstra’s muru-D accelerator has so far worked with 44 startups, with total revenue generated of over AUD 7.8 million. Telstra also has another venture capital arm that connects with technology businesses at a much later stage in their life cycles and looks to build strategic alliances. muru-D companies receive AUD 20,000 at the start of the program and if they achieve specific milestones by the midpoint of the program they unlock a further AUD 20,000. The accelerator has also dropped the requirement that companies raise AUD15,000 from mentors and investors.
Ventek Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, USA. It focuses on tech investments, particularly in USA, China and Southeast Asia. Seekmi, its first foray in Southeast Asia, joins Ventek’s existing stable of East Asian investments including coding for kids codeSpark, crowdfunding academy ganfund, restaurant cloud services provider Foodomo and mobile creative suite Kdan.
Ventek Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, USA. It focuses on tech investments, particularly in USA, China and Southeast Asia. Seekmi, its first foray in Southeast Asia, joins Ventek’s existing stable of East Asian investments including coding for kids codeSpark, crowdfunding academy ganfund, restaurant cloud services provider Foodomo and mobile creative suite Kdan.
Swanlaab Venture Factory: €40 million funding chest to give power to the people
The female co-founder of Swanlaab Venture Factory believes that diversity enriches decision-making and drives performance. CompassList recently caught up with Verónica Trapa Díaz-Obregón to find out what's in store for Spain's first Israeli-backed VC fund
Turning Singapore into an Edible Garden City
Urban agriculture startup Edible Garden City embraces new tech for intensive, space-saving farming while staying true to its community-driven values
Faraday Venture Partners’ MP Gonzalo Tradacete: “We are actively looking for startups”
Amid the Covid-19 slump, Faraday Venture Partners' CIO and MP shares his expectations for startup investments and favored sectors, the measures his firm has taken so far to help investees ride out the crisis, and more.
Jakarta Smart City seeks startup solutions for life in post-Covid “new normal”
From collaborative working to cyberbullying, these startups will soon work with Indonesia’s first smart city agency
Zhongzheng Information: Big data and fully integrated services for smart office buildings
Joining the Microsoft for Startups program will boost Zhongzheng's R&D and business expansion in China
Beyond ride-hailing: Gojek, Grab and all their friends
Now that Grab and Go-Jek are in a faceoff on a regional scale, here's a look at how Southeast Asia's two biggest unicorns – and their investors – could be shaping the local digital economies and startup ecosystems
Interview with Qlue CEO: "We didn't know what a smart city should look like"
Co-founder and CEO of Qlue, Indonesia's largest "smart city" company, Rama Raditya explains how citizen involvement – not high-tech – is the true innovation of smart cities and the agent for change; plus how his startup has grown from partnering governments to businesses, and more
EXCLUSIVE: Qlue raising Series B funding, "confident" of turning profitable in 2020
Qlue is also targeting more enterprise clients as it expands overseas and improved accountability and management practices
EXCLUSIVE: Mexico’s Trendier invests in Chicfy as part of €1 million deal
Spain's most popular secondhand fashion marketplace and media darling gets lifeline as it struggles financially to stay afloat
Indonesian smart city tech leader Qlue thrives amid Covid-19 with thermal scanner and B2G refocus
Plans to tilt its client portfolio toward B2B work are delayed as Qlue returns to its B2G roots
Haoqipei: Connecting China's vast B2B auto parts market
Haoqipei not only connects buyers and sellers with a B2B trading platform, it also uses big data to build trust and relationships in a highly fragmented market
As Veniam’s “Internet of Moving Things” keeps growing, autonomous vehicles are next
The Portuguese startup is going places with its mesh networking technology, but that’s “just the beginning”, says Veniam founder and CEO João Barros. He talks to CompassList about partnering automakers to design self-driving cars, raising a new round of funding in 2018, and more
TheVentures founders launch Singapore VC to drive deals in Southeast Asia
The Korean Viki co-founders return to Singapore as venture builders and investors, offering South Korean partnerships and “CTO-as-a-service” in Southeast Asia
4YFN: Investment booms across Europe during pandemic
Speaking at the recent 4YFN conference, prolific European startup investor Mattias Ljungman provided a highly optimistic assessment of the continent's current ecosystem strength and climate for seed funding
For equality in education, Odilo brings books in the cloud free to millions worldwide
The "Amazon for digital content" Spanish edtech startup delivers virtual libraries and classrooms to kids and adults worldwide
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