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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Elysium Venture Capital Elysium Venture Capital
Elysium Venture Capital is a premier investment management group focused on helping high growth technology companies access the global market. With strong ties in Silicon Valley, Europe, and China, the group runs venture funds, fund-of-funds, and special purpose investment vehicles across the world. Members of the group are world famous tech entrepreneurs, founders of publicly traded companies, and professional investors. With hands-on experience, Elysium VC invests in the most promising innovative companies and bridges the gap in emerging tech across North America, Europe, and Asia. <br />
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Embarca Embarca
We invest in technology-based projects. We like the verticals of Edtech, Fintech, Insurtech, Energy, Blockchain, but we are open to all kinds of projects that are innovative, scalable and that generate impact. We are focused on the region of Cuyo but we receive applications from all over Argentina. Startups must have MVP with users and / or first sales. We are looking for entrepreneurs who have deep knowledge of the problem they want to solve. We are willing to accompany them to pivot the solution. We focus on helping to generate real sales because there is no better proof of product / market adjustment than people willing to pay for the service / product. We are looking for teams with complementary profiles, preferably a founder with knowledge of technology and a founder with knowledge in management. We are looking for projects with global scale potential and with simple and clear business models. We invest between USD 25,000 and USD50,000 for 10% equity. We have 2 calls per year where we select 5 projects in each one, which during 5 months carry out our acceleration process.
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Embark Ventures Embark Ventures
Embark Ventures is a Los Angeles based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments. We are particularly interested in frontier/deep tech where technology creates a defensible competitive advantage. Specific areas of interest include Fintech, cybersecurity, AI, machine learning, robotics, and emerging platforms such as voice, blockchain, and autonomous vehicles. We have a particular interest in Southern California companies but invest nationally.
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Embedded Ventures Embedded Ventures
Embedded Ventures is an early-stage deep tech venture capital firm investing in startups in advanced manufacturing, digital engineering, and space operations. We have a 'first of its kind' partnership with the United States Space Force, and a team with firsthand experience as operators in the areas we invest in.
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EMBLEM EMBLEM
We’re a venture capital firm partnering at (pre)seed stage with entrepreneurs in France, Denmark & Sweden. We’re currently investing out of our first €75m fund, which was launched at the beginning of 2023. Our investors include the Danish sovereign fund (Vaekstfonden), Edenred (a French Euronext-listed corporation), several prestigious European family offices and 70+ French & Nordic Tech entrepreneurs (including the founders of 3shape, Akeneo, Botify, Dixa, Falcon, Kantox, Peakon, PeopleDoc, Planday, Pleo, Qonto, Silae, Spendesk, Swile, Tiller, Zendesk, etc.).
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Embria Embria
Embria is a serial startup founder with HQ in Cyprus and representative offices in Russia (St.Petersburg) and Finland (Joutseno). Embria has been creating startups in-house from scratch and investing in perspective startups in AdTech, FinTech, games, social networks/social services since 2007. In 2019 Embria had focused on building startups and investing into startups in mobile - primarily Wellness and Social. Currently Embria has 20+ Internet companies in portfolio, together companies employ 1500+ people worldwide.
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EME Capital LLP EME Capital LLP
EME Capital is a corporate finance advisory and private equity firm based in London, United Kingdom with a focus on British businesses. The firm prefers to invest in the retail, consumer products and services sectors.
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EMEA Capital LLP EMEA Capital LLP
EMEA Capital is an investment firm primarily investing its partners’ capital across financial markets, fintech and private equity.
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Emerald Media Emerald Media
Emerald Media is a pan-Asian platform established by KKR to fund investment opportunities in the fast-growing media and entertainment industries across Asia. KKR has committed up to $300mm from its KKR Asian Fund II and The Chernin Group will join as a minority co-investor. Emerald Media is led by industry veterans Paul Aiello and Rajesh Kamat and will be joined by an experienced team of investment and operating executives. Paul and Rajesh together have a combined experience of more than 30 years in the industry and bring a unique blend of operational and investment acumen to their business approach. The platform will primarily focus on providing growth capital to media, entertainment and digital media companies and will look to acquire control or significant minority positions in growing public and private media companies. The platform will look to invest approximately $15-75mm in any investment. Emerald Media will seek to identify subsectors and players in respective countries with strong growth potential based on the team’s deep knowledge and experience in the media, entertainment, and technology industries in Asia. Post-investment, the Emerald team will assist the investee companies in scaling up by providing support across strategy, operations, finance, branding and marketing depending on the needs of each company.
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Emerald Ocean Capital Emerald Ocean Capital
Emerald Ocean Capital is a private equity firm focused on navigating emerging markets through investment in professional, clean, legitimate portfolio companies for the traditional investor. <br /> <br /> Founded in August 2013, Emerald Ocean Capital will invest in the professional and legal cannabis industry. The Fund will invest in companies that consolidate leading products and services in the emerging cannabis industry, as well as technology and life science sectors. Our vision is to vertically invest in the ancillary industries and cement our leadership in consolidating a nascent industry in preparation for a new era. <br /> <br /> The Emerald Ocean Capital team has over 10 years’ combined experience successfully investing in the legal ancillary sector of the cannabis industry. We will bring professionalism, structure, and expertise lacking in today’s market.
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