PE/VC investors

Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) investors are the catalysts of innovation and growth in the business world. PE firms primarily target established companies, seeking to optimize operations and unlock value through strategic investments and management expertise. They focus on long-term growth and profitability, often preparing businesses for a future sale or IPO. VC investors, by contrast, are the adventurers of finance, injecting capital into high-potential startups and early-stage companies. They embrace risk for the possibility of outsized returns, often becoming invaluable advisors. Both investor types not only bring capital but also strategic guidance, industry connections, and market insights, propelling their portfolio companies towards success.

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Abingworth Abingworth
Vast experience: check. Deep expertise: check. Easy accessibility: check. After decades of investing from offices in the most important centers of biotechnology worldwide, Abingworth offers entrepreneurs an unmatched combination of all three of these key attributes. We partner with entrepreneurs to create companies that have a significant impact on patients’ lives. Participating at all stages of development and across all sectors, we take a broad strategic approach to investing in life sciences. BROAD STRATEGIC APPROACH Within the life sciences market we participate in a wide range of opportunities spanning therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, instrumentation and software. We invest in seed stage projects, technology platforms, preclinical and clinical assets as well as approved and marketed products. Supporting private and public companies, we aim to partner with the most innovative entrepreneurs to address significant unmet needs in healthcare. Vast experience: check. Deep expertise: check. Easy accessibility: check. After decades of investing from offices in the most important centers of biotechnology worldwide, Abingworth offers entrepreneurs an unmatched combination of all three of these key attributes. We can help attract talent for boards and leadership teams, choose drug targets for novel platforms, devise plans for clinical development, navigate legal issues, advise on PR strategy and think through corporate development and exit strategies. Adding to our own knowledge, we have a wide network of leading scientific and industry experts. Our collective experience is offered to all portfolio companies.
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ABN AMRO Participaties BV ABN AMRO Participaties BV
ABN AMRO serves retail, private and commercial banking customers in the Netherlands and across the globe. Along with a comprehensive range of products and services, we offer in-depth financial expertise, extensive knowledge of numerous sectors and an international network supporting our customers’ domestic and international operations. <br /> <br /> We aim to respond to the ever-changing market and, in doing so, to our customers’ ever-changing needs. Customers want a bank that acts in the context of today’s realities and is straightforward with them at all times; a bank that learns from its experiences and whose top priority is to provide the best possible service.
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ABN AMRO Ventures ABN AMRO Ventures
With €150 million in assets under management, we invest growth capital (series A and beyond) in innovative technology companies in Europe, the United States and Israel with investments between €2.5 and €15 million. The companies we fund are typically in their growth phase and contribute to the purpose of ABN AMRO. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 The collaboration between the fund and the portfolio companies goes far beyond capital: we actively provide knowledge and expertise, access to the bank and its systems, and support from relevant specialists inside and outside ABN AMRO. 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 In addition to a well performing and financially sound fund – ABN AMRO Ventures also enables the organisation to bring in external expertise and accelerate innovation. Cutting-edge solutions contribute to our strategy of a client-focused and data-driven organisation, both now and in the future. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝'𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐬 In October 2015, the corporate venture fund was launched under the name ABN AMRO Digital Impact Fund with an initial size of €10 million. To this day, its mission has been to help innovating companies flourish and to benefit from a collaboration of knowledge and capital. Following the demonstrable successes since then, the fund has overtime been increased to €150 million.
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Abraaj Abraaj
The Abraaj Group is a private equity, venture capital, and real estate investment firm specializing in early venture, seed, growth capital, emerging growth, mid venture, late venture, expansion capital, industry consolidation, mezzanine, subdebt, PIPES, buyouts, bridge, recapitalization, infrastructure, and buy and build in mature companies. It seeks to invest in small and medium sized enterprises in emerging markets. The firm typically invests in oil, gas and consumable fuels, metals and mining, agricultural machinery and equipment, agricultural services, auto parts and equipment, leisure facilities, pharmaceuticals, services outsourcing, water utilities, real estate, health care and clean energy, manufacturing, food products, FMCG, construction, healthcare services, industrials, telecommunications, resource and infrastructure services, education, information technologies, aviation, materials and logistics, agribusiness, energy, and food industries. It focuses on consumer goods and services, within which it also focuses on fast moving consumer goods manufacturing, retail, and food & beverage. Within financial services it also focuses on banking, non-bank financial institutions (such as mortgage or consumer finance specialists), insurance companies (life, general and reinsurance), and payments and fintech businesses. Within healthcare it focuses on hospitals & clinics and other type of service providers in the healthcare domain. Within education, it focuses on private K-12 schools and traditional graduate and post-graduate, campus-based universities. We are also investing in clean energy power generation, i.e., renewable power generation assets. We will also selectively invest in base-load gas-fired power generation assets and select midstream and downstream energy infrastructure assets including transmission and distribution assets that complete the value chain. It invests in companies based in Far East, the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, North Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Asia with a focus on Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Algeria, Pakistan, Turkey, the Palestinian territories and the six Gulf Arab nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council. The firm also seeks to invest globally with a focus on Sub Saharan Africa including Ivory Coast region; Latin America including Argentina, Brazil; Central Asia; and Southeast Asia including India and the Philippines. The firm seeks to make equity investments between $0.5 million and $100 million; typically investing $10 million to $100 million in private equity investments as well as in real estate. It prefers to invest between $100 million and $300 million in its portfolio companies. It prefers to invest in companies with revenue between $6 million to $35 million. The firm acquires controlling or significant interest and seeks board representation in its portfolio companies. It typically exits its investments within a period of three years to five years through structured exits to strategic and trade buyers or onto public markets in the region. The firm seeks majority and minority positions in public enterprises ranging between 10% and 49%. The Abraaj Group was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with additional offices across Asia, Africa, and Europe.
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Abris Capital Partners Abris Capital Partners
We’re a leading independent private equity fund manager investing in Central Europe. <br /> <br /> We deliver superior returns for our investors by applying a proven, collaborative methodology <br /> that identifies, unlocks and realizes value from mid-market opportunities in the region.
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ABRT ABRT
ABRT creates a structure of funds, operating and management companies. We build our companies to evolve Venture Capital industry beyond today's booming economy of entrepreneurship. By promoting the best instruments and processes we reduce risks and increase the liquidity of Venture Capital assets. We make Venture Capital industry accessible to "non-VC club" investors. We have a long-term experience in Venture Capital, business, technology, finance, and ecosystem development that allows us to optimize the way that VC industry operates. We co-invest with top tier Venture Capital firms bringing relationship-based access to a superior deal pipeline and an exclusive expertise ensuring outstanding returns. ABRT forms a holistic Venture Capital ecosystem. We integrate technologies, capital, and infrastructure together to transform how true innovators connect, get funding, and grow their businesses. We've adopted an end-to-end Venture Capital cycle. Our offerings provide a full spectrum of services, beginning from investor relations and deal sourcing to portfolio management and exit optimization. We've adopted an end-to-end Venture Capital cycle. Our offerings provide a full spectrum of services, beginning from investor relations and deal sourcing to portfolio management and exit optimization. With our Digital VC framework we provide multiple advantages for private companies beyond Venture Capital financing, better enhancing our Venture Capital investments and success rates. As ABRT Fund, we have made over 30 investments in 22 companies focused on global IT markets and grew two global unicorns (more than $1 billion in market value) with our hands-on approach. We have co-invested directly with the top tier VCs and jointly organized events & programs with them to further promote the best startups. Silicon Valley is no longer the only place to build a successful company. New emerging ecosystems provide a wide range of services to entrepreneurs. The operating costs of building a company have dramatically decreased while the economy of entrepreneurship isn't slowing down. The number of early-stage companies and early-stage investors continues to increase globally and in emerging markets.
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ABRY Partners ABRY Partners
Since its founding in 1989, Abry has focused on media, communications, business and information services to become one of the most experienced private equity firms investing in North America and Europe. Abry’s funds are deployed by our close-knit and diverse team of professionals, most of whom have built their careers at the firm.
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ABS Capital Partners ABS Capital Partners
For over 30 years, we've been helping growth companies reach their full potential. At ABS Capital, our most productive partnerships begin with those who have successfully piloted their companies through these exciting first stages and are now determined to make the choices that will drive them further forward. Many successful CEOs began their companies with a bold idea, or a better way — bent on delivering game-changing impact within their industries. The skills, actions, and insights that may have served them best at the start may now be evolving in this next stage of growth, and ABS Capital can serve as a guiding partner through this time. Growth can be defined in many ways and found in multiple places. It’s never too early to talk with us.
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ABSA Capital Private Equity Pty Ltd ABSA Capital Private Equity Pty Ltd
We’re committed to finding local solutions to uniquely local challenges and everything we do is focussed on adding value. To this end we offer all our clients across the continent a range of retail, business, corporate and investment, and wealth management solutions as well as ensure a positive impact in all the countries where we operate.<br /> <br /> We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve and determined to always be brave, passionate and ready so that we can make Africa proud.<br /> <br /> Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 42 000 employees.<br /> <br /> Our group owns majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa (Absa Bank), Tanzania (Barclays Bank in Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda and Zambia. We also have representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria, as well as insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
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Abstract Ventures Abstract Ventures
Abstract Ventures is an SF-based seed investor. We are way pavers for founders, making vital connections for fundraising, talent, customers and advice. We are dot connectors, counting the world’s most visionary investors, founders and industry leaders as our allies. We are first movers, operating at the speed of our founders and matching the creative hustle required to achieve unimaginable goals.
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