QED Investors is a venture capital firm based in Alexandria, Virginia, founded in 2007. It specializes in fintech and financial services, making direct investments across seed, early, and growth stages and pursuing opportunities in the United States, Latin America, the United Kingdom, and other regions. The firm combines capital with hands-on support and emphasizes data-driven insight, direct engagement with portfolio companies, and a culture of experimentation and learning to help high-growth fintech firms scale.

Global Founders Capital is a Berlin, Germany-based venture capital firm with a global focus that invests across seed, early, and later-stage companies. It maintains a stage-agnostic approach, seeking innovative ideas with potential impact and feasibility in global markets.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. It is stage-agnostic and focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups, making seed and Series A investments. Typical checks range from 50,000 to 5,000,000 dollars. The firm supports early-stage companies across sectors such as e-commerce, fintech, ad tech, mobile, and software-as-a-service, seeking opportunities with high growth potential in the United States and internationally. Its portfolio includes a mix of consumer brands and marketplace platforms, reflecting an emphasis on business models that connect buyers and sellers or enable direct consumer experiences. FJ Labs aims to back entrepreneurs building scalable, disruptively positioned products and services, often partnering with founders early in their development to help accelerate growth.

Antler is a global venture capital firm based in Singapore that backs early-stage technology companies. It runs incubation programs and provides a global community of co-founders, access to talent, expert advisors, expansion support, and capital to help startups grow. The firm targets a broad range of sectors, including healthcare, finance, software, energy, consumer and B2B technologies, and operates through regional programs across Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and beyond.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.

The EBRD is an international financial institution founded in 1990 and headquartered in London that provides project financing and advisory services to support private sector development and transformation in emerging markets. It finances banks, industries, and businesses, supports new ventures and investments in existing companies, and helps privatize and restructure municipal services in publicly owned entities. Through its banking and treasury activities, it offers loans, equity and quasi-equity investments, guarantees, and equity funds for smaller enterprises, along with trade finance and loan syndication. It works with commercial partners to invest in private enterprises across sectors including energy, manufacturing, ICT, infrastructure, agribusiness, and real estate, across Europe, the Middle East and beyond, including a significant footprint in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and the Caucasus. It provides policy reform dialogue and advisory services to support market modernization, governance, and reform. It has invested over €130 billion in more than 5,000 projects.

Citigroup is a diversified financial services company providing a broad range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through two main segments: Global Consumer Banking, which includes retail banking, Citi-branded cards, and consumer finance, and Institutional Clients Group, which covers wholesale banking, investment banking, fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, research, corporate lending, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. The company maintains a global footprint across regions including Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and Latin America, and emphasizes sustainability and social responsibility initiatives.

Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Vienna, with offices across Europe and in San Francisco. It specializes in early-stage investments in technology sectors including deep tech, fintech, health, industrial tech, marketplaces, software as a service and infrastructure, climate tech, crypto, and emerging markets. The firm runs specialized investment teams aligned to these industries and offers an in-house Platform+ team providing tailored operational support, such as growth marketing, human resources, US business development and networking assistance throughout the portfolio journey. Speedinvest seeks to be a hands-on partner, sometimes taking operational roles for a period to help portfolio companies scale, and emphasizes hands-on collaboration with founders to accelerate growth.

Headline is a San Francisco based venture capital firm founded in 1998 that operates globally with a presence in seven cities and leads rounds across stages. It maintains a multi fund approach, with Early Stage funds across the US, Europe, Asia and Brazil and a Growth Fund based in San Francisco that backs companies from Series B onward, enabling it to identify local trends and back scale across geographies. The firm backs a broad range of sectors including consumer, media, financial services, healthcare, information technology, SaaS, cybersecurity, e commerce, artificial intelligence and digital health, and has a notable portfolio featuring Sonos, The RealReal, Creditas, Sorare, Pismo, AppFolio, GoPuff, Acorns, Farfetch, Segment, Bumble and Yeahka. Headline also runs an Asia arm, Headline Asia, based in Tokyo, investing in East, South and Southeast Asia across B2B, media, fintech, healthcare, IT, e commerce, AI and other sectors, with activity including a 2020 vintage Asia IV fund focused on the region. Headline positions itself as a global, founder friendly investor that seeks to partner with ambitious entrepreneurs to build lasting companies.

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.

Global Brain is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm founded in 1998 that backs technology companies from seed stage through growth rounds. It targets a broad range of sectors including AI, cloud and software, fintech, robotics, life sciences, media, and mobility, and pursues global investments across Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. The firm emphasizes hands-on support and resources for portfolio companies, aiming to help them scale beyond financing. It operates a pure investment fund alongside corporate venture funds formed with leading public companies across telecom, real estate, financial services, beverages, agriculture and food, logistics, and electronics.

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm headquartered in Munich that pursues a long-term, flexible capital approach. It targets pre-seed, seed and Series A rounds across sectors including financial services, HR, energy and climate, healthcare, logistics and mobility, real estate and construction, crypto and web3, deeptech and e-commerce. The firm works closely with ambitious founders to help build category leaders by offering strategic guidance and operational support, including marketing and sales expertise, talent access, and connections to its broad B2B and investor network to assist fundraising. With a philosophy of staying engaged throughout the lifecycle of portfolio companies, Picus Capital has backed more than 50 ventures to date, combining disciplined investment thinking with entrepreneurial pragmatism.

Monashees is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, investing in technology-enabled companies across South America and Mexico. It backs founders from early stages and supports growth through expansion funding, guided by a human-values-first approach that aims to improve people’s lives through technology. The firm’s portfolio spans artificial intelligence, climate tech, consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, marketplaces, SaaS and services, reflecting activity in software, platforms and digital networks. The Monashees community includes more than 150 portfolio companies and 300 founders.

Endeavor is a nonprofit organization that supports high‑impact entrepreneurs through a global network spanning nearly 40 countries. It backs more than 2,000 entrepreneurs whose companies generate over $28 billion in combined revenues, employ more than 3.9 million people, and attracted more than $4 billion in capital in 2020. The organization offers an entrepreneur‑first model that connects founders with mentors, peers, and opportunities to scale and pay it forward. Its global ecosystem includes affiliates such as Endeavor Miami, which focuses on early‑stage technology firms and reflects the network’s regional and sectoral reach.

Elevar Equity is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 that focuses on impact investing in emerging markets. It backs early-stage and growth companies across financial services, microfinance, housing, education, healthcare, and agriculture, as well as MSMEs serving low-income communities. By financing scalable, affordable distribution models, the firm seeks to deliver both financial returns and meaningful social impact. Elevar operates with a cross-border approach in regions including India, Latin America, and other emerging markets, partnering with entrepreneurs to expand access to essential products and services and strengthen local economies.

Established in 2015, Tenity is an international innovation hub and early-stage investor specializing in financial technology (fintech), insurtech, web3, digital health, and related sectors. With a strong focus on Europe, EMEA, and APAC regions, the company has over a decade of experience accelerating fintech innovation globally.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Israel. The firm backs early and growth stage start-ups across sectors such as enterprise software, consumer technology, fintech, healthtech, cleantech, and information technology, and pursues opportunities in the United States, Asia, and Israel. It funds a broad range of rounds, including seed, early, later, and expansion, and also provides debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed focuses on helping entrepreneurs scale through capital, strategic guidance, and operational support, and maintains a diversified portfolio across enterprise, consumer, big data, mobile, and internet-enabled sectors.

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.

Viola Group is an Israel-based technology-focused investment group with multiple dedicated arms, including Viola Ventures, Viola Growth, Viola Credit, Viola Partners and Viola FinTech. Founded in 2000, the group provides long-term capital and value-added support to tech companies across stages, from early venture to growth and credit financing, with a broad geographic reach in Israel and globally. Viola Group manages over three billion dollars in assets and has backed more than 200 technology companies, leveraging specialized teams, extensive networks, and strategic partnerships to help portfolio companies scale in sectors such as software, cybersecurity, fintech, semiconductors, and deep technology. The firm operates as a multi-strategy house, allowing independent arms to pursue distinct investment approaches while sharing services and expertise to drive durable returns for global institutional investors and private partners. Its approach combines capital with hands-on partnership to build transformational technology businesses.

MS&AD Ventures is the corporate venture arm of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, based in Menlo Park, California. It invests in early-stage companies across sectors including property, insurance technology, ESG, health care, financial technology, and the future of transportation, seeking startups that leverage data and technology to advance the insurance and broader financial services ecosystems.

Lok Capital is an impact investment firm based in Gurgaon, India, founded in 2004. It focuses on funding early-stage and growth ventures that deliver affordable, accessible solutions in financial services, agriculture and livelihoods, healthcare, fintech, climate and sustainability, and related sectors. The firm targets companies serving underserved or low-income segments and emphasizes financial inclusion and social impact alongside financial returns. Lok Capital manages multiple venture funds with total commitments in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and pursues investments typically in India, supporting portfolio companies with growth capital, strategic guidance, and impact screening criteria that consider promoter intent, gender, geography, and income levels. Through its fund vehicles, it has supported fintech, health tech, climate tech, and agriculture initiatives, often at the Series A+ or early growth stages, with investment sizes commonly ranging from a couple of million to tens of millions per company.

Ulu Ventures is a Palo Alto, California-based seed- and early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology-driven startups across IT, software, internet-enabled services, EdTech, FinTech, IoT, digital media, and related sectors in the United States, with a Bay Area emphasis. Founded in 2008, the firm backs diverse entrepreneurial teams and frequently co-invests with other angels or venture funds in early rounds. Ulu is noted as the first Latina-led venture fund in Silicon Valley and is among the largest in the country by assets under management, with over $200M.

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm backs entrepreneurs with venture assistance, strategic guidance, and capital, focusing on bold, early-stage technology companies. It invests across sectors including AI, climate and sustainability, enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technologies. Based in Menlo Park, the firm manages several funds to support startups across stages, prioritizing ventures that address large markets and have potential for significant social and economic impact.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It pursues investments across multiple sectors, including information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, mobile, nanotechnology, financial services, internet, energy, media, and retail, and provides early to growth-stage funding coupled with strategic support to help founders build lasting, category-defining companies.

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.

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 that provides early-stage and growth equity investments in technology companies. It supports portfolio companies with momentum and mentorship to accelerate growth toward long-term success and typically engages across seed to growth stages, potentially taking minority or majority stakes. The firm targets a broad range of sectors enabled by software and technology, including consumer, enterprise, fintech, crypto, healthcare IT, and related areas, and maintains a multi-region presence with offices in North America and Europe to back companies as they scale globally.

Latitud is a venture capital platform and investment firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, that backs early-stage technology startups across Latin America. It focuses on pre-seed investments and provides hands-on support to founders to help them build and scale their companies from the ground up.

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, it funds software and technology companies across seed to growth stages, with emphasis on web and mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, fintech, consumer Internet, artificial intelligence, and biotech-adjacent ventures. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and provides strategic support and networks to portfolio companies.

European Investment Fund (EIF) is a public institution established in 1994 to improve access to finance for Europe's small and medium-sized businesses. It designs and develops venture capital and guarantee instruments to support SMEs and to catalyse private investment, aiming to build a robust European equity ecosystem. EIF engages in venture capital, growth capital, and guarantee operations, backing innovative entrepreneurs primarily in technology and life sciences, as well as across other sectors. Through cornerstone investments and fund participation, EIF seeks to crowd in private investors and stimulate venture activity across Europe. Its equity portfolio has grown substantially, with assets under management exceeding EUR 14 billion, reflecting its broad role in strengthening SME finance and supporting entrepreneurship and growth.

Valar Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2010. Backed by Peter Thiel, it focuses on early-stage investments in technology companies, with a particular emphasis on financial technology (fintech) and software, targeting opportunities globally. The firm partners with entrepreneurs worldwide, seeking to support founders pursuing transformative technology outside Silicon Valley, and offers early-stage capital and strategic guidance to help scale businesses across global markets.

Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, established in 2013. It targets individual accredited investors who previously had limited access to venture capital by enabling alumni from top entrepreneurial schools to invest together in ventures led by fellow alumni. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with sector expertise. It offers focused funds that provide accredited investors access to a diversified venture portfolio by type, sector, stage, and geography. The organization engages in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments across technology, consumer, financial services, health care, life sciences, and other sectors.

Altos Ventures is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm, founded in 1996, with an office in Seoul. It concentrates on early-stage investments in consumer and technology companies, including software and TMT, with emphasis on founder-led, capital-efficient businesses. The firm backs companies across the globe, primarily in the United States and Asia, and participates in multiple stages from seed to later rounds, often taking minority stakes and supporting growth through follow-on funding.

Gaingels is a venture investment organization focused on LGBTQ+-founded and led companies and their allies, investing across stages from pre-seed to pre-IPO and maintaining a global portfolio. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, it operates as a syndicate with more than 130 portfolio companies and around $70 million deployed. The organization supports inclusive leadership by backing ventures that promote diverse C-suite and board representation and actively assists portfolio companies in recruiting diverse executive talent. It also fosters a global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who pursue positive social change through business and successful investments.

Magma Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Santiago, Chile, with offices in California, Colombia, Mexico, and China. Founded in 2014, it backs Latin American entrepreneurs aiming to launch and scale in the US market and also supports global startups with Latin American tech teams targeting the US. The firm focuses on fintech, insurtech, blockchain, and marketplaces, with activity across information technology and software-as-a-service sectors. Magma Partners also manages the Sino-Latin American accelerator, a program that facilitates business between Chinese and Latin American startup ecosystems.

Raed Ventures is a Saudi-based venture capital firm that provides seed and early-stage funding to startups in Saudi Arabia and the broader MENA region. The firm backs entrepreneurial teams aiming to transform markets and leverages its regional market knowledge and network to support portfolio companies in building and executing growth plans, including accessing opportunities in Saudi Arabia and GCC markets.

Kaszek Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 and based in São Paulo, Brazil, with origins in Argentina. It invests in early-stage technology companies across Latin America, focusing on Seed, Series A and Series B rounds, and provides portfolio companies with strategic and operational guidance, including growth, product, technology, and fundraising support. The firm targets software, fintech, education, healthcare, e-commerce, marketplaces, and related sectors, aiming to back innovative businesses across the region. By combining capital with hands-on expertise and an extensive network, Kaszek Ventures helps founders scale from inception to growth-stage phases.

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Newtopia VC is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage startups across Latin America. The firm typically invests between $100k to $250k USD in pre-seed rounds, with follow-on investments of up to $1.5M USD in Series A rounds for top performers. Newtopia VC offers strategic mentorship and training through its community of unicorn founders and elite athletes.

Fin Capital is a global asset manager founded in 2018 that focuses on full lifecycle investing in B2B fintech software companies. The firm partners with repeat entrepreneurs who have deep financial services experience and differentiated products, pursuing a hands-on approach across multiple markets. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Los Angeles, London, Miami, and New York, Fin Capital targets investments across eight fintech software sub-sectors, including Enterprise AI Enablement, BankTech, B2B Payments, CFO Tech Stack, Asset and Wealth Management, Capital Markets, RiskTech and Cyber, Vertical Fintech, and InsurTech. The firm emphasizes long-term relationships and active collaboration to support growth and scale within its portfolio.

Nyca Partners is a New York–based venture capital firm focused on financial technology. Founded in 2014, it provides venture investments and facilitates connections between fintech startups and financial institutions, technology companies, and experienced investors and advisers.

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman. It allocates capital across public and private markets worldwide, with a focus on technology-enabled growth opportunities. The firm pursues public equity strategies, including long/short and growth investments, and private equity across early- to late-stage companies in multiple industries, seeking high-quality growth opportunities and guiding portfolio companies through their lifecycle.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs science and technology companies across stages. The firm focuses on transformational technologies and has supported early backers of SpaceX, Palantir, Facebook, and Airbnb. It pursues a founder-friendly approach that provides significant support with minimal interference, and it invests globally across sectors including software, artificial intelligence, aerospace, energy, healthcare, cybersecurity, biotech, and information technology. The firm targets opportunities from seed to growth stages and emphasizes solving difficult problems through innovative technology.

Arbor Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm that backs technology-driven financial services and related sectors across Asia and beyond. Founded in 2013, the firm focuses on fintech, payments, big data, cyber security, regtech, capital markets, blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, insurance, marketplaces and digital commerce, seeking to accelerate growth through sector expertise and a broad strategic network. Arbor emphasizes a global perspective, leveraging its relationships to recruit world-class board members, investors and strategic partners to support portfolio companies as they scale. The firm invests in technology-enabled financial services and platforms that broaden access, improve efficiency and transform how financial services are served and consumed.

Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 2017. It operates as an early-stage investor backed by a network of over 420 Y Combinator alumni, and it seeks to back top YC startups. The firm maintains a broad sector scope, investing in consumer products and services, information technology, financial technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain, life sciences, healthcare technology, real estate technology, ride-sharing, and SaaS and supply chain technologies, among others. Pioneer Fund positions itself as a generalist, technology-focused investor with activity across consumer, enterprise and emerging tech sectors.

Valor Capital Group is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 and based in New York. It specializes in cross-border investments between the United States and Brazil, pursuing opportunities across seed, early, and growth stages. The firm backs companies across sectors including software, technology, fintech, TMT, e-commerce, B2B, commercial services, and consumer-oriented businesses, with a focus on U.S. and Brazilian startups. Valor aims to help portfolio companies scale by providing strategic guidance, industry networks, and operational support. The firm operates as a registered investment adviser.

Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London and Bangalore. It funds early- and growth-stage technology companies across software, cloud, SaaS, consumer, enterprise IT and related sectors, and it supports portfolio companies as they scale internationally. With a global network and more than three decades of experience, Accel seeks to help entrepreneurs build world-class, category-defining businesses. Notable investments include Atlassian, Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, Etsy, Braintree, Cloudera and Qualtrics, among others. Accel operates multiple funds and programs to back companies at different stages, continuing a long track record of backing ambitious technology founders around the world.

Ribbit Capital is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Meyer Malka. It makes early-stage investments globally, focusing on financial services and technology sectors. The firm backs companies that aim to transform financial services, supporting innovative startups across information technology and related fields.

Maya Capital is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Founded in 2018, it concentrates on early-stage technology companies in Latin America, including Brazil, and seeks to support ventures that drive accessibility, transformation and efficiency across the region.

Route 66 Ventures is a venture capital firm with a global footprint and a credit arm, based in Alexandria, Virginia. Founded in 2012, it backs seed through growth stage fintech and financial services companies, and also focuses on adjacent areas such as digital health, healthcare technology, wellness, and technology sectors. The firm operates a Venture Capital unit that invests across the financial services ecosystem worldwide, and a Credit unit that funds alternative lending platforms by purchasing whole loans or providing secured debt facilities, enabling balance sheet support for innovative business models.

VentureSouq is a venture capital firm headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with a global portfolio. Founded in 2013, it backs early-stage technology companies across sectors including fintech, software as a service, edtech, gaming, legaltech, and climate technology. The firm operates with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa and seeks scalable, innovative solutions, supporting portfolio companies through strategic guidance and capital.

Inovia Capital is a Montreal-based venture capital firm established in 2007 that backs technology founders with global ambitions. It operates as a full-stack investor, providing capital, mentorship, and access to a worldwide network to support early- and growth-stage software startups. The firm targets software-driven companies across North America and Europe, including business-to-business and business-to-consumer SaaS, as well as sectors such as commerce, digital health, enterprise platforms, the future of work, security, travel, and hospitality, along with applied services and infrastructure. It emphasizes forming long-term partnerships and helping portfolio companies scale internationally.