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Established in 2013, Danhua Capital is one of the most influential venture capital funds in Silicon Valley. Founded by Chinese Americans, Danhua Capital invests primarily in early-stage and growth-stage startups with disruptive technologies or business models.Founder Zhang Shoucheng is a well-known physicist and a tenured professor at Stanford University.

US-based Sovereign's Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in early growth-stage companies in emerging markets. The company typically invests between US$250,000 and US$2 million.

Founded in 1999, Armilar Venture Partners, previously Espirito Santo Ventures (E.S. Ventures), has made over 40 investments and currently manages five funds valued over €200 million. It covers Europe and the United States.

Founded in 2014, Giant Innovation Capital is a venture capital fund by Giant Interactive Group, an online game developer and operator listed on the NYSE. It focuses on early stage investing in Internet startups.

Established in 2009, TCL Capital is the investment arm of TCL Corporation, which makes home appliances. TCL Capital has founded 12 venture capital funds in partnership with other stakeholders in China. Its assets under management are valued at billions of RMB. As of April 2017, it had invested in 76 startups, with an emphasis on display technology, high-end manufacturing, integrated circuits and high-end software services.

Avianta Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm helmed by Fernando Jamie-Fernández, who is also co-founder of the Madrid-based Bipi, a Spanish on-demand car rental app startup. Headquartered in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico, Avianta Capital also has a satellite office in Madrid to facilitate cross-border investments and operations between Spain and Latin America. 

Jeremy Scholz is CTO and co-founder at US-based unicorn Diamond Foundry, the first certified carbon-neutral lab-produced diamond manufacturer. He has worked there since 2012, leading up to the company’s official establishment. Prior to this, Scholz co-founded startup consultancy Alicanto in 2011 and briefly worked at startup YottaQ as director of engineering. From 2006–2011, Scholz worked as an engineer and manager at the $640m solar power startup Nanosolar. Silicon Valley's first solar power technology startup financed by American venture capital, the firm was the highest-valued firm in the industry at the time. When Nanosolar closed due to cheaper competition from China, much of its technical expertise and experience were diverted to set up Diamond Foundry. Scholz graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in mechanical engineering and started his career working at Boeing as a mechanical engineer from 2005–2006. 

Sky9 Capital is founded by the former co-founder and managing director of Lightspeed China Partners, Cao Darong. As an early-stage venture capital firm, it focuses on investing in TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications), especially Internet innovation and enterprise services. The company has a strong presence in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Silicon Valley in the US.

Social Capital is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm. Its stated mission is to "advance humanity by solving the world's hardest problems", with the firm investing in entrepreneurs who markedly improve their communities. Social Capital's diverse portfolio comprises healthcare companies, workplace productivity software Slack and SurveyMonkey and coworking space operator Rework (now GoWork).

Founded in 2012 in Washington DC, Accion Venture Lab is a seed-stage investor in fintech for the underserved. Venture Lab is part of Accion, a not-for-profit global organization that works with financial service providers to deliver affordable solutions for unbanked and underbanked communities worldwide.Its portfolio includes 44 startups from 17 countries, ranging from Chile to Indonesia. Seed-stage startups normally get $500,000 funding per company. Investments in December 2020 included participation in the $1.5m seed round of Argentinian software development tech Henry and a financing round for Indonesian micro-credit fintech Pintech.

ATM Capital is a China-based venture capital firm with a focus on Southeast Asia. In 2017, ATM Capital participated in the seed round of Indonesian coworking space operator Rework (now GoWork). Its its partners have invested in Go-Jek, Rocket Internet and several Chinese companies. It closed its US$200 million fund in January 2019. 

American financial services company Capital Group was established in 1931. As one of the world’s oldest investment management firms, it has over $2tn assets under management. Major known investments include arms and aerospace firm BAE Systems and British American Tobacco. In 1992, Capital Group established Capital Group Private Markets, which specializes in alternative private equity and venture capital investments. This organization has invested in companies like ride-hailing firms Gojek and Didi Chuxing, Philippines media conglomerate ABS-CBN, and more.

Best known for being the first to invest in social networking hit Momo, seed and early-stage venture capital firm Purplesky Capital, also known as Buttonwood Capital, was founded in 2011. Founded in 2011 by Zheng Gang (Scott Zheng), a successful serial entrepreneur. Brett Krause, former president of JPMorgan Chase China, is its managing partner. PurpleSky focuses on early-stage investments in China digital media and mobile internet companies.

Founded in 2015 by venture capitalists from renowned Chinese investment firms including Morningside, Qiming and Ceyuan, Panda Capital focuses on early-stage investment in the internet sectors of real estate, automobile, finance, corporate services, logistics and healthcare.

Founded in 2004 by one of China’s best-known venture capitalists Cao Guoxiong (Tony Cao), Puhua Capital currently has RMB 1 billion under management. It has invested about 300 startups, including 40+ that have gone public.

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