IFU is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark, that specializes in providing equity, mezzanine financing, loans, and guarantees to projects in developing countries. Established in 1967, IFU focuses on creating and financing new businesses, joint ventures between Danish companies and local partners, and acquiring existing ventures. The firm primarily invests in sectors such as commercial services, biofuels, renewable energy, and irrigation systems, with a particular emphasis on climate and agribusiness. Investments are targeted at countries with a low gross national income per capita, as defined by specific criteria, and include regions across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. IFU typically invests between DKK 0.5 million and DKK 100 million and often seeks co-investment opportunities with Danish firms. The firm also supports small and medium-sized enterprises and provides advisory services for business investments in developing markets. With a preference for board membership, IFU aims to exit investments within five to seven years, ensuring a positive return for its stakeholders.

Lattice Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that invests in early-stage cryptocurrency and web3 sectors.

Maven 11 Capital is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2015. The firm concentrates on blockchain and distributed ledger technology, including cryptocurrency and digital assets, and invests in ventures that utilize these technologies.

Takeda is a global pharmaceutical company, and Japan's largest drug maker, focused on researching, developing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing prescription medicines and related therapies. Its core therapeutic areas include oncology, gastroenterology, neuroscience, rare diseases, and plasma-derived therapies, which together account for the majority of revenue. The company operates globally with a diversified geographic mix, deriving more than half of sales from the United States, about 20% from Japan, and about 20% from Europe and Canada. Takeda pursues innovation across drug discovery and development, maintains a portfolio spanning pharmaceuticals and biologics, and emphasizes patient-centric care and collaboration with researchers to advance clinical proof concepts and address unmet medical needs.

Platform Investment Partners is an investment firm focused on telecoms and technology, with roots in Johannesburg, South Africa and Charlotte, North Carolina. Established in 2016, the firm pursues greenfield opportunities and growth equity investments in the telecoms and technology sectors, delivering capital and strategic support to portfolio companies.

Qbic Fund is a venture capital firm based in Ghent, Belgium, focused on early-stage investments in life sciences, new materials and information technology. It supports spin-off companies from the Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp university associations and from VITO, using a close partnership with these institutions to gain early access to promising research projects. The firm conducts in-depth, independent review followed by hands-on involvement and strategic support for portfolio companies, targeting software, deeptech, biotech and medtech alongside broader healthcare and life science opportunities. With more than €30 million under management, it operates across multiple sectors and emphasizes collaboration with academia to nurture research-driven startups.

DST Global is a venture capital firm focusing on late-stage investments in the internet sector and related technology fields, including information technology, mobile, software and e-commerce. It pursues global opportunities and maintains offices in key markets such as Silicon Valley, New York, London, Beijing and Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner, Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta and Tom Stafford.

GSR Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, with an active presence in China through Beijing offices and RMB funds. The firm focuses on early-stage technology companies developing AI-enabled enterprise software, consumer platforms, and healthcare technology. It backs entrepreneurs pursuing disruptive businesses with the potential to dominate large markets and supports portfolio companies through its globally oriented funds. GSR Ventures manages multiple funds totaling several billions of dollars and seeks opportunities in the United States and China across software, AI, and TMT sectors.

Matrix Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1977 that backs technology companies from idea through Series A and beyond. The firm focuses on software, AI, B2B, consumer, fintech, health tech, infrastructure, and related sectors, with a global footprint in the United States, India, and China. Its team comprises former founders and operators who work closely with portfolio companies and often join boards to support growth. Matrix Partners has backed a broad slate of successful companies in its decades-long history, including Apple, FedEx, Oculus, Zendesk, HubSpot, Canva, and Postmates, illustrating a pattern of helping developers and builders scale toward IPO or strategic exits. The firm's China arm extends its early-stage and growth investments in the Chinese market, reinforcing its international reach.

Flourish Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage global venture capital firm that backs fintech-enabled entrepreneurs focused on financial health and prosperity for individuals and small businesses. The firm pursues patient, long-term investments and manages around $850 million. It backs founders across the United States and global markets, including Asia, Africa and Latin America, and concentrates on sectors such as big data analytics, challenger banks, consumer and SME lending, digitizing money, fintech, insurtech, regtech and financial infrastructure. Since its founding in 2019, Flourish maintains partnerships with more than 70 global fintech founders and 18 ecosystem partners, including researchers, policymakers and regulators, to foster a fairer, more inclusive economy.

Omidyar Network is an impact investing firm founded in 2004 by Pierre and Pam Omidyar. It supports social entrepreneurs through both investments and grants, aiming to improve lives and communities by funding organizations that harness technology and innovation. The firm operates as a philanthropic investment organization, focusing on catalyzing social impact across areas such as access to capital, media, markets and transparency, governance, citizen engagement, and information access. It backs both for profit and non-profit ventures, spanning seed to growth stages, and emphasizes responsible tech, digital inclusion, and strengthening institutions and democratic processes. The organization seeks to empower individuals and communities through investments that promote better governance, informed citizenship, and thriving communities worldwide.

Quona Capital is a venture capital firm focused on financial technology companies that promote financial inclusion in emerging markets. Founded in 2014, it backs startups developing innovative financial products and services beyond microcredit, including alternative lending, remittances, insurance, prepaid services, payments, and related software that expands access to banking and payments in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia (notably India and Southeast Asia), and Latin America. The firm invests across stages from seed to growth, typically in the range of one to ten million dollars, and supports ventures creating digital lending, SME lending, wealthtech, and adjacent sectors such as agriculture, health, education, commerce, and mobility finance. Quona maintains headquarters in Washington, DC, with additional offices in Bengaluru, Lima, Cape Town, and Mexico City, and it aims to scale inclusive financial services by leveraging technology to improve quality, access, and affordability for underserved consumers and businesses.

Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen, established in 1995 and based in Brussels, Belgium, is a government organization focused on investing in startup and growth-stage companies. The organization targets diverse sectors including media, software, retail, infrastructure, energy, and real estate. Its investment portfolio is structured with a significant allocation towards financial fixed assets and receivables, reflecting its commitment to supporting emerging businesses. Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen plays a crucial role in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in Belgium by providing essential financial backing to projects at various stages of development.

Pearl Capital Partners is a venture capital firm investing in small and medium-sized agribusinesses in East Africa, with a focus on Uganda. Founded in 2005, the company invests between $0.25 million to $2.5 million per company using a combination of equity, quasi-equity, equity-related, and debt investments.

Tianhe Capital is a venture capital firm and fund investment management company headquartered in Lanzhou, China, founded in 2019.

Atomico is an international venture capital firm headquartered in London that backs disruptive technology companies and helps them scale globally. It partners with technology founders from seed to growth stages, leveraging hands-on operational experience to accelerate expansion, hiring, and marketing. With offices in major European cities, the firm supports companies across Europe, North America, and beyond, investing in information technology, software, and other technology-enabled industries and focusing on long-term partnerships and practical operational guidance to navigate global markets.

Vision Plus Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in Hangzhou, China, with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. The firm concentrates on early-stage investments in information technology, internet services, healthcare, digital health, AI, fintech, enterprise software, industrial internet, SaaS, e-commerce and consumer services, aiming to back startups with scalable digital and technology-driven business models. It supports portfolio companies with practical guidance, talent introduction, strategic planning, operational improvements and financing strategy. The firm targets opportunities across China and seeks to combine domestic expertise with cross-border insights to accelerate growth in technology and healthcare sectors.

Shunwei Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 that focuses on early to growth-stage investments in China's internet and information technology sectors. It seeks opportunities in technology, media, telecommunications, high technology, new media, games, internet services, and rural internet, with an emphasis on internet-enabled businesses and related IT applications. The firm concentrates on Chinese startups while pursuing selective cross-border opportunities in East Asia, and it supports incubation and scaling through multiple funds. Its investors include sovereign wealth funds, fund of funds, university endowments, and family offices, reflecting a diversified capital base to back ambitious entrepreneurs in the digital economy.

4Di Capital is a Cape Town based venture capital firm that funds seed to early-stage technology startups in Southern Africa. It combines capital with mentorship, networks, and collaboration to help portfolio companies reach scale, reflecting an entrepreneur-friendly, hands-on approach. The firm targets high-growth opportunities in mobile, enterprise software, web, fintech, healthtech, cloud technology and related sectors, favoring founder teams with deep domain expertise and a clear view of large market problems. By applying international venture capital best practices in a local context, 4Di Capital supports companies through early development and growth stages to build lasting value in Africa's technology ecosystem.

Fledge is an international network of accelerator programs and an early-stage investment firm based in Seattle. Founded in 2012, it operates accelerator programs worldwide for mission-driven for-profit startups that tackle social and environmental challenges such as poverty, sustainability, green energy, and inequality. The organization runs a ten-week accelerator and provides seed-stage funding, typically investing about $15,000 to $20,000 for equity in technology-savvy ventures. It maintains a global footprint with offices in Seattle, Lima, and Barcelona and supports thematic initiatives and relocation-oriented programs such as The Land Accelerator and the Impact Startup Visa, as well as cooperative ventures through Start.coop. By combining hands-on acceleration with early funding, Fledge aims to help scalable, impact-driven businesses grow and address real-world problems.

ZhenFund is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Bob Xu and Victor Wang in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. Headquartered in Beijing, it focuses on seed and early-stage investments, supporting entrepreneurs with mentorship, resources, and a large network. The firm has a portfolio of more than 800 companies, including numerous unicorns in China, and offers services such as biannual demo days, ZhenHR, marketing and PR consulting, and fundraising assistance. Its extensive CEO network enhances collaboration among entrepreneurs, notably through its WeChat platform. ZhenFund has earned recognition as a leading early-stage investor for multiple years, and its founders and partners have frequently appeared on prestigious lists such as the Midas List, reflecting its prominence in China’s startup ecosystem.

AHL Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that provides growth capital through minority equity, quasi-equity, and debt investments in African companies. It focuses on energy access, financial inclusion, agriculture, climate, and food sectors, with activity across Eastern and Southern Africa and offices in Vancouver, Nairobi, Lusaka, and Accra. The firm emphasizes rapid decision making and ongoing business support, with locally grounded teams to assist portfolio companies as they scale.