Founded in Singapore in 2017, Antler is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests globally. It focuses on backing exceptional founders from day one, offering a global community network of co-founders, talent, advisors, expansion support, and capital across various sectors such as technology, healthcare, finance, consumer goods, and more.

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.

QED Investors, established in 2007, is a venture capital firm headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with an additional office in New York City. It specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on disruptive financial services and fintech companies. QED invests in seed, early venture, and mid venture stages across the United States, Latin America, and the United Kingdom. The firm provides not only capital but also strategic support to its portfolio companies, emphasizing the role of information in their success and fostering a collaborative, hands-on approach.

Visa is a global financial services company facilitating electronic payments worldwide. It operates the largest retail payment network, processing over $16 trillion annually in more than 200 countries and 160 currencies at a rate of over 65,000 transactions per second.

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 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.

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.

PayPal is a leading digital payments company that enables consumers and merchants to make and receive online payments, transfer funds, and manage payments across a global platform. It operates consumer and merchant accounts and the peer-to-peer service Venmo, supporting hundreds of millions of active accounts in more than 200 markets. Since spinning off from eBay in 2015, PayPal has focused on expanding online transaction capabilities and financial services through a multi-channel network and partnerships with online retailers and platforms. The company pursues growth through technology-driven payments solutions that aim to be convenient, affordable, and secure. PayPal Ventures, its corporate venture capital arm, invests in fintech, payments, and related technologies to accelerate innovation and broaden the ecosystem. Overall, PayPal positions itself as a global enabler of electronic payments and digital commerce, serving a diverse base of consumers and merchants.

Tiger Global Management is a New York based investment firm that manages public and private market strategies to pursue technology-driven growth opportunities worldwide. Founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman, the firm invests in leading global companies across various industries, with a particular emphasis on technology-enabled growth. In public markets it employs long/short and growth strategies, while in private markets it targets opportunities from early to late stage. The firm operates globally, including the United States, China, India, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and works with portfolio companies across their lifecycle to drive long-term value.

Founded in 1997, Endeavor is a global non-profit organization dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. With operations in nearly 40 countries, Endeavor's network comprises over 2,000 entrepreneurs who have created more than 3.9 million jobs and generated revenues exceeding $28 billion.

Founded in 2014, Goodwater Capital is a venture capital firm based in Burlingame, California. It invests in early-stage consumer technology companies, empowering exceptional entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems and create global impact.

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.

Headquartered in San Francisco with offices globally, Citi Ventures explores, incubates, and invests in innovative ideas across fintech, data analytics, commerce, security, marketing, property tech, distributed ledger technology, and digital assets. It collaborates with Citi colleagues, clients, and the broader innovation community to drive discovery of new value.

Founded in 2000, General Catalyst is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth equity investments. It focuses on accelerating ideas, careers, and companies towards success by providing ongoing momentum and mentorship based on deep experience.

Founded in 2012 and based in Palo Alto, California, Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm focused on investing globally in early-stage companies aiming to disrupt financial services. The firm invests across sectors including information technology, software, and financial services.

Founded in 2005, Monashees is a leading venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil. It partners with exceptional founders transforming large markets through technology. With a human-centric approach, Monashees supports entrepreneurs from their early stages, fostering growth and innovation across sectors such as software, fintech, healthcare, and more.

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.

Google for Startups is an initiative supporting global startups. It offers access to Google's products, connections, and best practices through a network of partners in over 135 countries. The program aims to help determined startups succeed.

DST Global is a venture capital firm established in 2009 that focuses on late-stage investments in internet and technology sectors. It backs rapidly growing companies in areas such as information technology, mobile, software, e-commerce, IoT, and other TMT-enabled businesses, often in late-stage rounds. The firm maintains a global footprint with offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong, enabling it to source opportunities and support portfolio companies internationally. Founded by Yuri Milner and partners Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta, and Tom Stafford, DST Global seeks to partner with ambitious internet and tech-enabled firms as they scale, including fintech and other software-enabled industries.

Quona Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in fintech companies in emerging markets, focusing on financial inclusion for underserved consumers and small and medium-sized enterprises. The firm backs startups developing financial products and services beyond microcredit, including alternative lending, remittances, insurance, prepaid services, and payments infrastructure, as well as software that enhances distribution, financial management, and online bill payments. It targets companies leveraging digital platforms to expand access to banking and financial services in Sub-Saharan Africa, India and Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Typical investments range from about 1 to 10 million. Founded in 2014 and based in Washington, DC, with additional offices in Bengaluru, Lima, Cape Town, and Mexico City, Quona Capital aims to fuel inclusive fintech and related adjacencies such as agriculture, healthcare, education, commerce, and mobility finance.

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and based in Menlo Park, California. It funds startups across the entire lifecycle, from seed to growth, with a broad focus on software and technology-enabled businesses. The firm backs companies in software, cloud infrastructure, digital platforms, data storage, and mobile and Internet services, as well as sectors at the intersection of technology with life sciences, such as bio healthcare and computational medicine. Its investments span artificial intelligence, fintech, consumer and enterprise software, crypto and blockchain, cybersecurity, and related infrastructure. Through strategic guidance and a hands-on approach, the firm aims to help portfolio companies scale and innovate.

Speedinvest is a venture capital firm based in Vienna, with offices in Berlin, Paris, London, Munich, and San Francisco, that focuses on early-stage technology investments across Europe, including Central and Eastern Europe. The firm backs seed to early growth rounds in areas including deep tech, fintech, health, industrial tech, marketplaces, consumer tech, software-as-a-service, and network effects, with a platform philosophy and hands-on support via an in-house Platform+ team that provides growth marketing, human resources, US business development, and networking assistance from day one. Typical investments range from a few hundred thousand euros up to about three million euros, with a preference for minority stakes up to around 20% and for taking co-entrepreneurial operational roles for six months to a year. Speedinvest was founded in 2011 and is known for combining capital with hands-on operational support to help portfolio companies scale.

Founded in 1999, Coatue is a privately owned investment firm based in New York City. It specializes in global public equity investments with a focus on technology, media, and telecommunications sectors, employing a long/short strategy.

Goldman Sachs is a global financial services firm that provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. It advises on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and other corporate actions; underwrites public offerings and debt; and helps clients raise capital through various markets. The firm engages in market making and client execution across fixed income, currencies, commodities, and equities, and offers securities services including financing and lending to institutional clients. Its asset management and wealth advisory businesses manage assets and provide investment solutions for a broad client base, including institutions and individuals. Headquartered in New York, the company serves clients worldwide and operates across multiple business lines to support capital formation, risk management, and investment activities.

Sequoia Capital Israel is a venture capital firm that backs startups and growth companies across seed to late-stage rounds, with a focus on Israel. It invests across sectors including fintech, financial services, internet, mobile, technology, and healthcare, spanning banking, payments, advertising, ecommerce, data, security, software, and related enabling tech. Typical commitments range from 100,000 to 1 million in seed, 1 to 10 million in early venture, and 10 to 100 million in growth rounds. The firm is based in Tel Aviv and operates as part of Sequoia Capital's global network.

Founded in 1998, Tencent is a leading global technology company based in China. It operates the world's largest game publishing business and owns WeChat, one of the most widely used messaging apps globally with over 1 billion users. The company offers a range of services including social networking, gaming, fintech, cloud computing, online advertising, and digital content.

Founded in 1911, Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California. With over $4 billion under management, the firm invests globally across various sectors including artificial intelligence & machine learning, biotech, cloud, consumer, cybersecurity, deep tech, developer, fintech, healthcare, marketplaces, and vertical software. Known for its long-standing support of entrepreneurs, Bessemer has backed companies such as Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, and Linkedin.

Mastercard is a payments and technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, and governments, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. It processes trillions of dollars in volume across more than 200 countries and in over 150 currencies. It offers data services and analytics through Mastercard Advisors, provides marketing and consulting solutions to optimize and grow client businesses, and delivers fraud prevention and broader payments security. Mastercard Labs serves as the global research and development arm driving rapid innovation in payment solutions. The company also offers loyalty solutions to enhance safety and connectivity in the digital economy.

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.

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. The firm focuses on growth-stage software, internet, and data services, with emphasis on fintech, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, DevOps, and healthcare. Based in New York City with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto, Insight Partners has backed more than 750 companies worldwide and has more than 55 portfolio companies that have achieved an IPO. As of 2022, the firm reports over $75 billion in assets under management. It seeks to fund and work closely with visionary executives, providing practical, hands-on software expertise to support growth from initial investment through to IPO.

Founded in 2019, Flourish Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in San Francisco. It invests in early-stage companies focused on fintech, insurtech, regtech, and other sectors that advance financial health and prosperity for individuals and small businesses. The firm manages $850M in patient capital, deploying it with a long-term perspective across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It invests in seed, early, and growth-stage companies across technology, energy, financial services, healthcare, internet, mobile, outsourcing, manufacturing, media, and retail sectors. The firm seeks ambitious founders and aims to help them build long-lasting, scalable businesses, often taking the lead or significant co-investor roles and providing strategic guidance, networks, and resources. It maintains an international footprint, including investments in India and other regions, reflecting a global approach to partnering with fast-growing companies. Sequoia emphasizes strong teams, innovative products or services, and the potential for rapid growth, positioning itself as a long-term partner for companies that redefine their markets.

Kaszek is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 with offices in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo, focused on technology-driven startups in Latin America. The firm targets early-stage investments, typically Seed to Series A, and offers more than capital through hands-on guidance in strategy, product, growth, operations, team-building, fundraising, and networking. Kaszek backs ambitious founders building software-enabled platforms across sectors such as financial services, education, healthcare, e-commerce, marketplaces, and enterprise software, including SaaS. It operates with a regional lens, identifying opportunities across Latin America and helping portfolio companies navigate local markets, regulatory environments, and scaling challenges. The firm emphasizes practical expertise and operational support to accelerate growth, with the aim of helping portfolio companies achieve durable, regionally scaled businesses.

Digital Currency Group is a Stamford, Connecticut-based corporate venture capital firm that invests in and supports companies operating in fintech, bitcoin, web3 infrastructure, platforms, decentralized finance, data, metaverse, and blockchain sectors. Through its portfolio, the firm provides capital and strategic guidance to a global network of startups and mature ventures. Digital Currency Group also owns and operates CoinDesk, a prominent blockchain media and events platform, Genesis Trading, a leading bitcoin brokerage, and Grayscale Investments, a major digital asset management firm, which together extend its ecosystem beyond investment into media, trading, and asset management services.

Valar Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that makes early-stage investments in technology companies worldwide, with a focus on fintech. Backed by Peter Thiel, the firm partners with global founders to navigate the challenges of building transformative companies outside Silicon Valley and supports them with strategic guidance and capital.

Stripe develops APIs and tools for businesses to accept and manage online payments securely. It supports various international debit/credit cards, serving e-commerce platforms, SaaS companies, marketplaces, and non-profits globally.

Bain Capital is a Boston-based multi-asset alternative investment firm that sources, funds, and manages investments across private equity, venture capital, credit, and public equity. Founded in 1984, it operates globally with specialized units focused on growth and buyout investments, life sciences, and impact-oriented opportunities. The firm backs companies across sectors including healthcare and life sciences, technology, software and data services, financial services, consumer, manufacturing, and industrials, spanning from early-stage ventures to growth equity and large-scale acquisitions. It emphasizes value creation through strategic support and partnerships, leveraging deep operating experience and a global network. Its life sciences arm targets pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostic companies; the Double Impact unit pursues market-rate returns alongside measurable social and environmental benefits; Bain Capital Ventures backs technology-enabled businesses from seed to growth across enterprise software, infrastructure, and services. The firm maintains offices in Boston and major markets worldwide, aiming to deliver competitive returns while supporting innovation and economic development.

Founded in 1983, Silicon Valley Bank specializes in providing diversified financial services to emerging growth and mature companies in the technology, life science, private equity, and premium wine markets. With a global presence through offices in the U.S. and international operations, SVB offers industry knowledge, financing solutions, treasury management, corporate investment, and international banking services.

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.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), established in 1956, is a member of the World Bank Group dedicated to fostering private sector development in emerging markets. It provides financial services, including loans and equity investments, ranging from $1 million to $100 million, with a focus on projects that drive economic growth and social impact. IFC invests across various sectors such as infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, education, technology, and financial services.

Launch Africa Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 and based in Ebene, Mauritius, that funds early-stage startups across Africa, focusing on seed and pre-Series A opportunities. It seeks investments across fintech, healthtech, climate tech, agritech, edtech, transportation and logistics, mobility, e-commerce, software as a service, artificial intelligence, big data, and analytics.

Fiserv is a global financial services technology company that provides core processing, payments, and related technology to banks, credit unions, merchants, and other financial institutions. It offers merchant acquiring, e-commerce, mobile and online payments, card and account processing, and payments infrastructure, plus risk and fraud management, treasury and cash management, and client communications services. The company provides electronic bill payment, account-to-account transfers, mortgage and lending software, and analytics, data services, and document management. Through the 2019 merger with First Data, Fiserv expanded merchant payment capabilities and scale. With thousands of clients worldwide, Fiserv supports financial institutions, processors, governments, merchants, and businesses by enabling faster, more secure money movement and processing across channels.

Better Tomorrow Ventures is a San Francisco–based fintech-focused venture capital firm that supports early-stage startups, primarily in fintech, with emphasis on pre-seed and seed rounds and on fintech-enabled SaaS and marketplace business models.

Founded in 2012, Coinbase operates a platform enabling merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. It offers products such as Coinbase Wallet, USD Coin, Coinbase Pro, and custody services. The company is headquartered in San Francisco.

Founded in 2015, Soma Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco. It focuses on investing seed capital in early-stage software startups globally, with a notable track record including investments in companies now valued at over $60 billion combined.

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.

Castle Island Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, that focuses exclusively on public blockchains. It funds infrastructure and application companies building on and around blockchain protocols to power scalable services for a mass user base, targeting opportunities in cryptocurrency, financial technology, and information technology that enable the next generation of blockchain-enabled applications.

General Atlantic is a global growth equity firm founded in 1980 and based in New York. It specializes in growth capital investments for high-potential companies across sectors such as software and technology, consumer, financial services, and healthcare. The firm combines capital with strategic guidance and a long-term partnership approach, supporting management teams to scale and expand market reach. With a collaborative, globally integrated investment model, it provides sector expertise and a deep understanding of growth drivers to help entrepreneurs build enduring, market-leading businesses. General Atlantic maintains a worldwide footprint with offices in key centers including Stamford, Palo Alto, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, London, Munich, Jakarta, Mumbai, Singapore, Mexico City, and Sao Paulo.

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.

Anthemis Group is an independent investment firm founded in 2010 and headquartered in London. It operates as a multi-stage asset management platform focused on financial services and technology, particularly fintech and insurtech. The firm targets opportunities from pre-seed through growth stages and invests in, grows, and sustains companies across North America and Europe to advance resiliency, transparency, access, and equity in the financial system. By supporting a diverse ecosystem of startups, investors, entrepreneurs, institutions, and researchers, Anthemis aims to accelerate innovation in finance.