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Astella Investimentos

Brazil

Astella Investimentos support daring entrepreneurs at different stages of their trajectories. They share their dreams and accompany them through their amazing entrepreneurial adventure. They walk along with them anticipating and overcoming any obstacles.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Brazil

Impact: Access to Information

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Credo Ventures

Czech Republic

Credo Ventures is a venture capital company focused on early stage investments in Central Europe. Credo Ventures mission is to identify and back the most interesting early stage companies in the region support them in their growth plans (including expansion to the U.S. / global market) and help to achieve their objectives. Credo Ventures are looking for opportunities to invest in high growth potential companies with international ambitions and competence to execute and deliver. industry focus is IT Internet & Health.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Czech Republic

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Infuse Ventures

India

Infuse is a venture catalyst. Housed at IIM Ahmedabad's Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) partner with exceptional entrepreneurial teams in India to help create build and scale new cleantech business. They provide entrepreneurs with hands on business and mentoring support a world class ecosystem of Indian and global partners and seed & early stage capital.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: India

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Kae Capital

India

A destination for early stage companies to acquire capital for growth. Kae Capital is a sector agnostic fund and invests in companies which bring about innovative solutions for the existing gaps in the markets backed by a great team. Their focus investing in Innovation Leadership and Growth. Kae Capital bring in the expertise of identifying and building large companies even from a concept. Their team at Kae Capital has a wide range of experience in helping companies grow fill gaps in the market and help create winning companies.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: India

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Mercia Fund Management

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela

Mercia Fund Management (Mercia) is a venture capital fund manager with over 22 million under active management. Mercia provides investment growth capital for businesses ranging from early commercial traction through to those seeking expansion or working capital that are trading profitably. Furthermore Mercia can also provide cost effective incubator accommodation at Forward House in Henley in Arden coupled with centralised support services in keeping with its model as a hands on supportive investor.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Natural State Angel Association

Natural State Angel Association (NSAA) is an association of 100+ accredited angel investors across the region of Northwest Arkansas that meets once quarterly over dinner at the Community Room at Arvest Ballpark in Springdale, Arkansas, to review investment pitches from invited entrepreneurs. The investors provide feedback to the presenting companies, and interested investors collaborate in deals.

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New Dominion Angels

United States of America

New Dominion Angels is an investor group formed to capitalize early stage Virginia based companies. They are not a managed fund. They are a group of like minded members who make individual decisions whether to invest in companies that present to the group.

Type: Investor Network

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Pitango Venture Capital

Israel

Pitango is one of Israel's leading venture capital firms that has been investing in technology entrepreneurs since 1993. With offices in Israel and Silicon Valley California Pitango currently manages several venture funds totaling over $1.6 Billion in committed capital. It is invested in more than 150 companies among them are companies that have gone public such as JinkoSolar RADWARE Retalix CardGuard and others as well as companies that were acquired such as dbMotion (acquired by AllScripts) superDimension (acquired by Covidien) Anobit (acquired by Apple) VideoSuf (acquired by MSFT) Provigent (acquired by Broadcom) Convergin (acquired by Oracle) Optonol (acquired by Alcon) Dune Networks (acquired by Broadcom) Ventor (acquired by Medtronic) Traiana (acquired by ICAP) ColBar (acquired by Johnson & Johnson) RADLAN (acquired by Marvell) and Disc o Tech (acquired by Kyphone). Pitango invests in early stage start ups as well as growth phase companies in the IT Life Sciences and Cleantech industries.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Employment Generation

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PRAISE

Praise.com offers the latest in contemporary praise and worship music, news, videos, and reviews from a Christian perspective. Listen to inspiring music, read reviews of recent album releases, watch videos of today?s biggest contemporary Christian artists, read thought-provoking devotionals, even read the Bible online, all ways to deepen your faith in Jesus Christ.

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SISFUND

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela

SISFund invests in UK based companies in an early or pre revenue stage with a solid team and a product or service ready for the market. They invest from 20 to 80k per startup as part of an 80 to 250k round. SISFund don't consider crazy valuations they don't do follow up investments and they don't waste your time.

Type: Institutional Investor

Geography: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Sustainability: Behaviour change

Sustainability: Behaviour change is a project of The Unilever Foundry. A regularly evolving list of opportunities and challenges where their brands and functional teams are looking for innovative technology solutions. You can pitch your solution and if your proposal is successful, you?ll be given the opportunity to create a pilot, as part of our ongoing marketing activities.

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TechAngels Pitch Program

Romania

TechAngels is facilitating the development of tech businesses from South Eastern Europe through investment expertise and connections. TechAngels help entrepreneurs shape up their pitch deck evaluate their business and put them in contact with the most fitted investors from their network in order to improve their success rate.

Type: Investor Network

Geography: Romania

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Unilever Ventures

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela

Unilever Ventures (UV) is the global venture capital arm of Unilever. They invest in early stage companies which could become strategically relevant to Unilever and can benefit from access to Unilevers assets and capabilities. UV focuses its investment in Personal Care Digital Marketing Refreshment Technology that could be deployed to help Unilevers sustainability mission.

Type: Corporate

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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UnternehmerTUM-Fonds

Germany

UnternehmerTUM is about innovation and cutting edge technologies. They invest in high technology startups in Information and Communication Medical Engineering and CleanTech. UnternehmerTUM are committed to building up high growth companies for global markets and pursue our goal with passion and professionalism.

Type: Fund

Geography: Germany

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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VenturWise

Venturwise is an investment and investment management company with European reach. Venturwise brings capital management skills global network fund raising M&A business development coaching and mentoring to promising early stage startups with the potential to have an impact worldwide.

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Vert Capital

Vert Capital Corp is a Los Angeles-based private investment firm that provides innovative financing solutions to lower/middle market companies globally. As a business accelerator, they provide corporate development, strategic planning, distribution, M&A expertise, and access to strategic capital.

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Wadi Ventures

A new Europe-backed micro-seed VC fund focused on Internet startups in Israel. Wadi Ventures provide an early stage mentoring and investment program for the best ideas of the Silicon Wadi in partnership with top european investors and industry leaders.

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Wasabi Ventures

United States of America

Wasabi Ventures is an venture capital and incubation firm that specializes in building and advising early stage technology companies. Wasabi Ventures has built financed and advised over 200 start ups including some wildly successful ventures like Right Now Technologies PBworks Ustream and Etherpad.Wasabi Ventures was founded by Chris Yeh and TK Kuegler both startup entrepreneurs and NY Times bestselling authors who take an active roll in the WV day to day operations.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services