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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Gradient Ventures
Gradient Ventures is an ROI fund focused on supporting the most talented founders building AI-powered companies. We have been tech founders before, and we understand what it takes to start with an idea and build a transformative company. We provide our portfolio companies with access to domain experts in the fields of AI from systems and applied AI to deep learning and machine learning techniques. These senior engineers and product specialists are part of our Startup Residency Program, which is designed to supercharge development teams and help companies move fast. From helping companies build scalable analyses and techniques to delivering production models to market, we will help accelerate your progress.
Gradiente SGR S.p.A.
“Gradiente” is the Italian term for “gradient”, which in mathematics represents the maximum increase direction of a function of n variables. As such, Gradiente SGR aims at helping entrepreneurs and managers maximize their company value, supporting them for the time necessary for achieving the targets of their business plan shared before the Fund’s investments. Gradiente was created to provide a tangible solution to the Italian entrepreneurial scenario, which urgently needs help in order to keep the industrial tradition that has marked our economy and our country for years, alive.
Gramercy Funds Management LLC
Gramercy is a dedicated emerging markets investment manager based in Greenwich, CT with a presence in London and Buenos Aires. The firm, founded in 1998, seeks to provide investors with superior risk-adjusted returns through a comprehensive approach to emerging markets supported by a transparent and robust institutional platform. Gramercy offers both alternative and long-only strategies across emerging markets asset classes including capital solutions, private credit, distressed debt, private equity, special situations, USD debt, local currency debt and high yield/corporate debt. Gramercy is a Registered Investment Advisor with the SEC and is a Signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).
Granatus Ventures
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We are the first venture capital firm to provide investment, expertise and networks to startups worldwide that leverage Armenia's potential as an emerging technology hub
We back outstanding teams that have the vision and discipline to build high-growth enterprises targeting global markets in sectors that leverage the latest developments in social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies.
Granatus is an operationally driven firm that engages in the early stages of product development and company formation, where we can most effectively accelerate growth. We work closely with our founding teams to develop and execute strategies, while providing access to key players, markets and capital through our strong commercial and financial networks.
We focus on helping companies to build the product, scale and market relying on the experience of the partners and our extensive network for access of the markets of Europe, Asia, Russia, and North America. Our approach and selection criteria are based on the following key factors and our ability to add value:
Value Add
Advice from the experienced entrepreneurs and investors from our Global Advisory Network
Establishing operations in Armenia for its highly experienced and cost effective engineers, designers, marketers, network administrators and other engineering and operating staff
Criteria
Granatus invests in exceptional teams that have execution-focused approach and are dedicated to building scalable products with ambition to become leaders in high growth sectors. We particularly like:
Passionate and committed management team
Innovative and disruptive value proposition
Financially scalable market opportunity
Strong potential for sustainable recurring revenues
Realistic business model and financial projections
Viable exit opportunity
Sector
We look for businesses and teams that are:
Leveraging the latest developments in social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies
Building scalable products and solutions
Relying on underlying proprietary core technologies
Creating global leaders in high-growth sectors
Experienced in building products and have execution-focused management teams
Our Team
Our operationally focused team is committed to driving value by working closely with each new venture to accelerate growth and market leadership.
The versatility of our hands-on approach is a result of the team's complementary mix of start-up, investment and operating expertise.
Grand Angels
Grand Angels is one of Michigan’s most active and most consistent investment organizations, and we are the longest-serving regional investment group that offers robust mentoring paired with patient capital.
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Grand Angels’ objective is to build world-class companies and entrepreneurial talent through investment and mentoring. Our members are only successful if the people with whom we invest are successful. We are committed to utilizing our financial, intellectual and networking resources to help our portfolio companies achieve more. Our commitment is to grow strong entrepreneurs and companies in Michigan and the Midwest region.
Grand Prix Capital
Grand Prix Capital (GPC) is a private venture capital and investment firm specialized in rapid growth, start-up, private and microcap listed businesses. The GPC name and logo point to our mission - to make the businesses we deal with winners in an environment where speed of execution is often of tantamount importance.
Grand Ventures
Grand Ventures provides Seed and Series A capital and strategic support to entrepreneurs building world-changing B2B software companies for Agriculture, Manufacturing, Transportation, and other global industries with strong Midwest presence.
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Our sweetspot is to write $500K-$2MM checks for companies raising their first institutional round of funding. Beyond our capital investment, we help entrepreneurs with refining strategy and focus, talent development, and business development. Our goal is to help entrepreneurs achieve successful follow-on rounds and future exits.
Granite Hill Capital Partners
Granite Hill Capital Partners an early stage venture investor in Cyber-security and other fundamental areas of enterprise tech. Granite Hill is based in San Francisco and also manages an India fund focused on broad-reaching financial services companies in India in housing finance and agriculture finance.
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Granite Partners
Granite Partners is a Canadian private equity firm that targets profitable, well-managed, manufacturing and service companies with sales in the $10 million - $100 million range. Granite's goal is to help entrepreneurs and owner-managers build upon and unlock the value they have created in their businesses. Granite Partners is led by Doug Buchanan, a principal investing specialist with over 20 years of banking, corporate finance and M&A experience. He is formerly a director and Chairman of the Board of General Donlee Income Fund, a TSX listed company. He was also the President of Lincoln Capital Corporation.
