CPI Card Group is a global provider of payment solutions specializing in card production, personalization, mobile technologies, and fulfillment services. The company focuses on delivering a range of financial payment card solutions, including credit, debit, and prepaid cards. Its operations are divided into two primary segments: Debit and Credit, which cater to card-issuing banks in the United States, and Prepaid Debit, which serves prepaid debit card program managers. Known for its commitment to product consistency, quality, and customer service, CPI Card Group has established itself as a leader in the payment technology sector, with a significant portion of its revenue generated from the Debit and Credit segment.
Founded in Boston in 2013, Indicator Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in exceptional founders developing technology that simplifies work, life, and wealth building. They focus on software infrastructure companies removing everyday friction points and those ensuring user accessibility in large industries.
Seedcamp is a London-based venture capital firm and seed platform that backs early-stage startups across Europe and globally, with a focus on fintech, healthcare and technology. It identifies world-class founders addressing large, global markets and provides immediate access to smart capital, mentorship, and a lifelong, global community built on more than a decade of experience backing exceptional talent. Through its broad network of partners and mentors, Seedcamp helps portfolio companies scale, access strategic resources, and navigate early growth, with a geographic reach that spans North America, Asia, Europe and Africa.
Northzone is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 and based in London, with offices in New York, Oslo, and Stockholm. It invests in technology-enabled companies across healthcare, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, blockchain, and gaming, spanning early-stage and multi-stage opportunities. The firm emphasizes connections by helping portfolio companies access customers, partners, and talent on an international scale. Northzone has backed notable founders of Spotify, Avito, iZettle, Klarna, and Hopin, reflecting a history of building category-defining businesses. The firm maintains a Nordic and European footprint while operating globally, and has raised substantial capital, including over €1.5 billion in funds.
Masria Cards, based in New Cairo, Egypt, specializes in providing customized smart card services and digital payment solutions. The company offers a diverse range of products, including smart transport services, gift cards, membership cards, access control cards, and facility access cards. By focusing on optimizing payment operations for businesses, Masria Cards aims to enhance resource management and help clients realize their full potential through streamlined and efficient payment processes. Their comprehensive approach to card production and payment processing positions them as a key player in the digital payments landscape.
Hallmark is an American brand based in Kansas City, Missouri, specializing in greeting cards, gifts, ornaments, and personalized products, including books and cards. Established in 1910, Hallmark has grown into a substantial business, generating approximately $4 billion in revenue. Its products are available in over 40,000 retail locations across the United States, including mass retailers and the chain of Hallmark Gold Crown stores. Additionally, Hallmark reaches a global audience through its website, retail partners, and its well-known television channels, including Hallmark Channels and Hallmark Hall of Fame movies. The brand offers its products in more than 30 languages and distributes them in 100 countries worldwide.
Buffalo Games, Inc. is a manufacturer and marketer of jigsaw puzzles, board games, card games, and party games designed for families and friends. Founded in 1986 and based in Buffalo, New York, the company distributes its products through various channels, including mass retail, online retailers, specialty stores, and craft or hobby outlets. Buffalo Games focuses on providing engaging and innovative entertainment experiences, offering a wide range of products that cater to both children and adults. Its commitment to quality and creativity has established the company as a notable player in the games and puzzles market in America.
PaySign specializes in providing prepaid card products and processing services for corporate, consumer, and government applications. Its offerings include transaction processing, cardholder enrollment, value loading, account management, reporting, and customer service through its proprietary platform.
Hasbro is a global branded play company offering entertainment experiences for children and families. It owns renowned brands like Transformers, Nerf, Magic: The Gathering, Monopoly, and My Little Pony, along with licensed properties such as Marvel's Spider-Man and Star Wars. Hasbro also produces television programming, motion pictures, and licenses its brands worldwide.
Isracard Ltd. is a credit card company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 1975. It specializes in issuing and operating various credit cards, including its own Isracard branded cards as well as Mastercard and Visa cards in collaboration with Europay Ltd. In addition to credit card issuance, Isracard provides a range of financial services, such as revolving credit, loans, voucher discounting, prepayment, and factoring services. The company caters to both private individuals and merchants, aiming to support their financial needs and facilitate growth in personal and business contexts. Isracard is a subsidiary of Bank Hapoalim B.M.
CardWorks, Inc. is a consumer finance lender and servicer that specializes in providing third-party services for consumer credit cards. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Woodbury, New York, the company also has offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Lake Mary and Orlando, Florida. CardWorks offers a range of payment processing solutions and servicing operations for financial institutions and nontraditional card issuers in the United States and Canada. Its services encompass traditional card products, including virtual and prepaid cards, as well as backup servicing, portfolio management, and operational due diligence. By leveraging data and technology, CardWorks aims to support lenders and investors in understanding consumer asset performance and managing operational risks effectively.
Founded in 1999, LocalGlobe is a UK-based venture capital firm focusing on seed investments. It supports ambitious founders across various sectors, with notable portfolio companies including Citymapper, Improbable, Lovefilm, Moo, Tweetdeck, TransferWise, and Zoopla.
Pear is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson, based in Menlo Park, California. The firm specializes in investing in technology companies across various sectors, including consumer, business-to-business, healthcare, biotech, fintech, climate tech, SaaS, and deep tech. Pear targets exceptional founders who are building innovative companies and provides extensive support to help them succeed. The firm has a history of seeding successful startups such as Dropbox and Lending Club, emphasizing its commitment to fostering entrepreneurial talent in North America.
Founded in 2009, SV Angel is a San Francisco-based angel investment firm and service organization that backs early-stage startups, particularly in software and technology, by providing business development support, financing, strategic guidance on mergers and acquisitions, and other resources. It leverages a broad network to assist founders at critical inflection points, helping with market strategy, partnerships, and access to capital to build durable companies across the United States.
NatWest Group provides a wide range of banking and financial services to personal, commercial, corporate, and institutional customers globally. Established in 1727, it operates under various brands, offering products such as personal and business banking, private banking, insurance, and corporate finance.
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with offices across North America. It provides access to venture investing for individual accredited investors, particularly alumni networks, by offering diversified portfolios of venture opportunities and allowing members to invest alongside fellow alumni in ventures led by peers. The firm backs early-stage and later-stage opportunities across technology, consumer, healthcare, financial services, and other sectors, with a sector- and geography-agnostic approach. It typically invests between $10,000 and $3 million per deal and emphasizes the involvement of alumni connections and an institutional lead investor in opportunities. Alumni Ventures also offers focused funds to broaden participation, enabling accredited investors to access venture portfolios diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. The model aims to democratize access to venture capital while maintaining rigorous selection standards through alumni networks.
Founded in 2000, RTP Global is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage technology investments. With offices in New York, London, and Bangalore, the company supports young companies globally with strategic know-how and a broad network. Notable successes include Yandex, EPAM, Delivery Hero, RingCentral, Datadog, and Ozon.
Founded in 2007, StepStone Group is a global asset manager specializing in private markets. It provides customized investment solutions and advisory services to institutional investors, focusing on achieving excess net risk-adjusted returns across private equity, infrastructure, private debt, and real estate.
Bullpen Capital is a San Francisco Bay Area based venture capital firm specializing in post-seed and early-stage technology investments across the United States. Founded in 2010 by Paul Martino, the firm seeks to back overlooked entrepreneurs and provide strategic capital to extend seed rounds, restart promising ventures, or accelerate growth before larger rounds. It emphasizes hands-on support and collaborates with experienced angel investors to fund startups in software, information technology, and other technology sectors, aiming to help companies reach product-market fit and scale efficiently.
Founded in Woodside, California, GSV Asset Management is a merchant bank that focuses on identifying and investing in high-growth, dynamic companies worldwide. The firm offers early-stage internet companies management, marketing, financing, human resources, and accounting support in exchange for equity.
Founded in 2015, FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm focusing on stage-agnostic investments in marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Their investment range varies from $50,000 to $5,000,000, typically at seed or series A stages.
American Express Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of American Express, focused on investing in startups to expand American Express's capabilities in consumer commerce and B2B services. The firm is stage agnostic after seed and seeks opportunities both domestically and internationally. It targets areas including consumer commerce with emphasis on mobile, consumer payments, marketplaces, lending, loyalty and digital marketing products; business-to-business services such as business payments, process automation, lending and small business services; and core capabilities such as servicing, customer acquisition, fraud detection, security, data analytics and underwriting. It invests in fintech and related sectors to enhance American Express's core platform. It is based in Palo Alto with an additional office in New York.
Activant Capital, established in 2015, is a global investment firm headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with an additional office in Berlin, Germany. The firm specializes in venture capital and private equity investments, focusing on high-growth companies that are transforming commerce, particularly in the technology, e-commerce, supply chain, retail infrastructure, logistics, financial technology, insurance, and healthcare sectors. Activant Capital typically invests between $20 million to $40 million in series A, B, and C rounds, as well as growth equity and recapitalizations, with a global investment scope, primarily in North America.
Crowberry Capital is a venture capital firm based in Reykjavik, Iceland, focused on seed and early-stage technology startups across the Nordic region. The firm backs teams with strong technology advantages and supports building fast-growing, international companies that can scale beyond the Nordics. It emphasizes a hands-on approach throughout the investment cycle, from seed to exit. The team combines extensive experience in managing technology startups and exits with a global outlook gained from work in multiple countries. Investments span sectors such as health tech, software-as-a-service, fintech, gaming and consumer products, reflecting a broad tech mandate in the Nordic ecosystem.
8VC is a technology and life sciences investment firm that partners with founders to develop transformational technologies and create long-term value. Its activities span sectors such as healthcare, logistics, software, energy, manufacturing, enterprise IT, and life sciences, with a focus on supporting early-stage and growth opportunities in the United States and beyond.
Founded in 2015, Human Capital is an investment firm based in San Francisco, California. It focuses on venture capital investments across various industries, with a particular emphasis on supporting founders and teams who share its builder mindset.
HPS Investment Partners is a global investment firm focused on non-investment grade credit. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, it operates with offices worldwide. The firm originated as a unit of Highbridge Capital Management, a subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and was acquired by its principals in 2016, with J.P. Morgan retaining the hedge fund strategies. HPS manages a broad set of capital-structure strategies, including syndicated leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, privately negotiated senior secured debt, mezzanine financing, asset-based leasing, and private equity, serving clients across industries such as insurance, healthcare, media, retail, logistics, and marine.
Founded in 1995, Oaktree Capital Management is a global alternative investment firm specializing in credit strategies and less efficient markets. With extensive experience and substantial assets under management, the company aims to achieve consistent performance with a primary emphasis on risk control.
King Street Capital Management, L.P. is a privately owned investment firm based in New York, established in 1995. The firm specializes in managing pooled investment vehicles and focuses on identifying complex and misunderstood investment opportunities across various asset classes, including public equity and fixed income markets globally. King Street employs rigorous fundamental analysis, supplemented by external research, to inform its investment decisions. The firm has developed a strong expertise in distressed companies and event-driven situations, such as restructurings and bankruptcies, allowing it to navigate the capital structure effectively. Its strategic approach combines tactical trading with exceptional sourcing capabilities, aiming to capitalize on opportunities where it possesses a competitive advantage.
Dragonfly Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco. It concentrates on investing in and supporting startups that drive the decentralized economy, focusing on opportunities in the crypto asset class and leveraging a global ecosystem to back promising crypto ventures.
Founded in Berlin in 2013, Global Founders Capital is a venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs across various stages and global markets. It focuses on software and TMT sectors, investing based on potential impact and feasibility.
Founded in 2017, Gradient Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco. It focuses on investing in seed-stage and early-stage companies operating in the information technology, artificial intelligence, and machine learning sectors.
Everywhere Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage, pre-seed investments. Founded by founders for founders, it operates as a community-powered investing platform that unites capital, expertise, and mentoring from a broad network of founders and operators across ten micro funds. The firm supports global startups in their first financing rounds, with a focus on purpose-driven teams across money, health, and work verticals. Its model combines hands-on guidance from experienced builders with early-stage funding to help entrepreneurs build durable companies.
Founded in 2000, Industry Ventures is a leading investment firm specializing in flexible capital solutions across the venture life cycle. With over $8 billion in assets under management, it invests in private technology through direct investments, secondary transactions, and primary commitments. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Washington DC and London, the firm pioneers new segments of the venture capital market.
Commerce Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that invests across early-stage and growth capital in commerce-related sectors, including mobile, payments, retail fintech, insureTech, and related software and services. The firm combines capital with strategic guidance to help portfolio companies scale their commerce innovations, drawing a network of entrepreneurs, senior executives, and corporate partners from its focus sectors. It pursues opportunities across North America, funding software, financial services, and retail technology companies that transform how consumers shop and transact.
Established in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, Mischief is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in investments across various sectors within the software industry.
Thayer Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on technology companies serving travel and hospitality. It backs software, information technology, and SaaS providers across travel, transportation, hospitality, and related services, including foodservice, lodging, cruise lines, airlines, and travel tech. Founded in 2009, the firm is headquartered in San Francisco with an additional office in Valencia, California, and invests across seed, early, and growth stages in North America and globally.
Founded in 1892, Assurant is a global provider of specialty insurance products. It operates through two segments: Global Lifestyle and Global Housing. The company offers mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, lender-placed homeowners insurance, and other protection services for consumers and businesses worldwide.
Founded in 2018, Leo Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore. It invests in early-stage companies across India and Southeast Asia, focusing on sectors such as information technology, consumer products/services, e-commerce, fintech, health tech, and SaaS.
Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank (BLKB) is a prominent Swiss cantonal bank headquartered in Liestal, Switzerland, and serves the Canton of Basel-Landschaft. Established in 1864, it offers a wide range of banking products and services to private, institutional, business, and public sector clients. These services include savings and deposit products, mortgage loans, cash bonds, and securities-backed loans. Additionally, BLKB engages in trading foreign exchange, precious metals, and securities. The bank operates through 20 branches across the canton, including a branch in Breitenbach and a private banking outlet in Basel. It also provides mobile banking services to various municipalities in the region, emphasizing its commitment to accessibility and customer service. As the largest bank in Baselbiet and a key player in northwest Switzerland, BLKB is recognized for its sustainable approach and employee satisfaction.
Hard Yaka is an investment firm based in Crystal Bay, Nevada, founded in 2010. It pursues technology investments across private equity and venture capital, including buyouts and distressed opportunities, and it frequently seeks majority stakes. The firm focuses on digital transformation infrastructure, including portable identity, payments, marketplaces, and regtech, and also backs early-stage opportunities in exchange space startups, targeting verticals within exchange markets as well as horizontals such as messaging and payments across exchange sectors.
Founded in 1986, Morningside Group is a venture capital firm based in the greater Boston area. It invests in companies with innovative science and technology across life sciences, digital health, AI, materials, and technology sectors.
Tappan Hill Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, founded in 2014. It invests in seed, early-stage, and later-stage companies, with a focus on software, network connectivity, and the Internet of Things.
Ventures Platform is a venture capital firm based in Abuja, Nigeria, with an additional office in Lagos. It invests in technology companies across Africa at early-stage and seed phases and supports growth when appropriate. The firm runs an acceleration program that selects a cohort of about 10 to 15 companies over roughly 16 weeks, helping founders with strategy and scaling. It funds its activities from its own capital resources and focuses on mission-driven founders building technology-enabled platforms that improve livelihoods across the continent.
LoftyInc Capital is a venture capital firm based in Victoria Island, Lagos, focused on Africa's growth enterprises. Over the past decade it has invested over $25 million in more than 150 companies, including several unicorns, and attracted over $1.5 billion in follow-on funding to its portfolio. It has built an ecosystem of tech hubs, angel networks, and talent platforms to support portfolio companies. The firm has achieved multiple exits and delivered strong returns across its Afropreneurs funds.
Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and based in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. It focuses on early and growth-stage technology startups, investing across software, cloud, data analytics, mobile technology, consumer services, fintech, security, healthcare, and information technologies. Accel seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to build world-class companies that define new categories and drive growth. Its portfolio includes notable technology companies such as Atlassian, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, Etsy, Cloudera, DJI, Braintree, and Lookout Security, among others.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that backs startups across enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, healthtech, and cleantech from seed through growth stages. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it maintains offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya to engage markets in the United States, Asia, and Israel. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and has supported companies across software, mobile, data, e-commerce, and services, spanning early-stage to expansion rounds. It offers strategic guidance, network access, and capital, and has historically included debt financing as part of its investment approach. With a multi-region footprint and a broad multi-stage mandate, Lightspeed seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to scale innovative companies globally.
Lumikai is a venture capital firm based in New Delhi, India, founded in 2019, specializing in technology, gaming, and interactive media investments in India. It backs early‑stage startups in gaming and related digital media sectors, providing capital and strategic guidance to help Indian companies scale.