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Austral Capital Austral 1

Chile

Austral Capital Partners S.A. is a venture capital firm specializing in early and mid stage and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest mainly in the technology and life sciences sectors. Within technology it invests in BtoB consumer information services digital media mobile technology and SaaS. The firm prefers to invest alongside co investors and acquire minority stake taking a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Chile

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Avalon Ventures

United States of America

Avalon s long standing and successful focus has been on seed and early stage companies including many it formed in the life science and information technology sectors. They believe this is the most challenging and rewarding period of company creation they are former entrepreneurs driven by passionate people pursuing disruptive ideas in ever changing market environments.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Braemare Energy Ventures

United States of America

Braemar Energy Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early mid late and expansion stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in technology and communications opportunities in the energy sector with a focus on energy technology clean fuel processes advanced power conversion clean fuel storage electrical and mechanical storage pollution control management and energy efficiency power electronics and power semiconductors and information technology and energy communications (Energy Intelligent Networks). Within the clean fuel processes it targets efficient natural gas extraction hydrogen extraction from renewable and non renewable sources and bio fuels waste fuels and clean coal processes.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Draper Triangle Ventures

United States of America

Draper Triangle is a Venture Capital Firm that partners with the Midwest’s most extraordinary entrepreneurs who set out to change the world. Founded in 1999, Draper Triangle has invested in some of the Midwest’s most successful startups including TOA Technologies, Renal Solutions, BodyMedia, CardioInsight, and Carnegie Learning. DTVC partners with early stage companies to create iconic and disruptive businesses in emerging markets including software, digital media, robotics and medical devices.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Hyde Park Venture Partners

United States of America

Hyde Park Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on software startups in the Midwest. Hyde Park Venture Partners (HPVP) is an early stage venture capital fund investing in seed and Series A software companies in the Midwest.

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Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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K9 Ventures

United States of America

K9 Ventures is a true “early stage” venture fund that provides funding and support for seed-stage technology companies. The fund is focused on startups located in the San Francisco Bay Area that have technical founders, a core technology product, a clear path to revenue, can be capital efficient and where K9 can add value.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Klass Capital

Canada

Klass Capital is a private equity firm established to acquire businesses and provide expansion stage capital. They are backed by a $40 billion dollar pension plan and a number of institutional investors and high net worth entrepreneurs. They target investing between $2mm and $20mm of equity and target enterprise values between $5mm and $75mm. They move quickly, have a collaborative approach and strongly believe in adding value to their partners. Their advisors are significant investors in the fund and are driven to provide meaningful support to every company. They bring innovative ideas, strong values and a sense of urgency to every opportunity. Klass Capital is based in Toronto, Canada and have a North American focus. Their portfolio ranges from companies that have $1mm in sales to $200mm+ in sales. Their primary focus is to help their partners become world leading organizations.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Canada

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Meritech Capital Partners

United States of America

Meritech Capital Partners is a leading provider of late-stage venture capital to category-defining private technology companies, and has been one of the top performing venture firms of the past decade.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Milestone Venture Partners

United States of America

Milestone is an early stage venture capital fund with $108 million under management. Milestone has been successfully investing in software, data and services companies for over a decade. Software, Internet and Mobile services businesses which help their customers exploit data assets successfully are in sweet spot. Milestone is also one of the leading venture firms focused on software and data investments in the Digital Health sector. Milestone have backed 17 Digital Health companies, six of which have achieved successful exits, including Medidata's (Nasdaq:MDSO) IPO in 2009.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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NC IDEA

United States of America

NC IDEA, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, targets promising technology companies that need help bridging the gap between initial product development and venture capital funding. The organization helps young, innovative companies mainly by providing early financing in the form of grants, accelerating the creation of new North Carolina companies and jobs. NC IDEA further supports its grant winning companies by leveraging the organization’s solid partnerships and strategic alliances to assist companies through business challenges and growth goals.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Education

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Riverwood Capital

United States of America

Riverwood Capital is a globally focused private equity firm that invests in high growth businesses in the technology and services industries across a variety of verticals and geographies.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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The Social+Capital Partnership

The Social+Capital Partnership ("Social Capital") is a partnership of philanthropists, technologists and capitalists utilizing venture capital as a force to create value and change on a global scale. The Partnership is based in Palo Alto, California.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services