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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Horizons Ventures
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Horizons Ventures, the private investment arm of Mr. Li Ka-shing, is a leading investor in some of the world’s most innovative companies and disruptive technologies, including Facebook, Waze, Spotify, Impossible Foods, Improbable and Zoom.
Horsley Bridge Partners
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Horsley Bridge Partners (“HBP”) has been investing with the world’s leading private equity funds since 1983. Our track record of success reflects a highly focused strategy – the pursuit of top investment opportunities with outsized return potential. We measure ourselves not only by the returns earned, but by the integrity of our process and the longstanding relationships built with our clients, investment partners, and peers.
HBP’s venture capital approach is highly selective, focusing on early stage strategies in technology sectors. We work in close partnership with the leading seed and early stage venture investors, maintaining enduring relationships built on trust and honest counsel. Our firm’s mission is to provide our clients unparalleled access to the most coveted new investment opportunities and early, meaningful exposure to the next generation of technology leaders.
In the buyout space, HBP partners with ambitious teams executing differentiated strategies – groups who enhance businesses through active ownership and by accelerating growth. We emphasize smaller funds in hard-to-find places, where company-building expertise is most impactful. Recognizing selectivity is paramount to achieving outsized returns, we build concentrated portfolios where every investment can truly move the needle.
With offices in San Francisco, London, and Beijing, HBP has applied its knowledge and experience in pursuit of opportunities in Europe, Asia, and other emerging markets for over two decades. Our international relationships often have close ties to the leading U.S. firms and practice a similar brand of hands-on investing. Innovation is more pervasive than ever. Our partnership with the leading international investors connects us to the ideas and opportunities shaping our collective future.
Hotbed
You make the investment decisions.....we do the rest
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Investment opportunities in alternative assets, such as private equity and commercial property, are often hard to find. Building a broad portfolio is even more of a challenge.
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Hotbed offers experienced private investors the opportunity to make direct investments in both unquoted companies and commercial properties. As a member of Hotbed, you select the deals in which you invest, retaining control of your capital up to the point of investment and creating a bespoke portfolio of your choice.
Hotung Venture Capital Corp.
Hotung Venture Capital is a venture capital firm based in Taiwan which operates as a subsidiary of Hotung Investment Holdings. It is one of three subsidiaries of Hotung Investment Holdings focused on investments, joined by Daitung Development and Investment and Huiting Investments. It was formed through the merger of Hotung Venture Capital Corp, Litung Venture Capital Corp, and Futung Venture Capital Corp.
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Hotung Investment Holdings Ltd, a venture capital firm with operations in Taiwan, the US and China, was incorporated in March 1997 and has been listed on the Main Board of SGX-ST since August 1997. Hotung Investment Holdings Limited(和通投資控股有限公司)(“Hotung”) and together with its subsidiaries (the “Group”) is a premier venture capital investment management group, with almost 30 years of investment and fund management experience. Hotung has two business segments, namely, Venture Capital and Fund Management.
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Headquartered in Taiwan, the Group’s main core business is its venture capital business. Leveraging on its expertise and investment strategies, Hotung invests in innovative and promising businesses globally and across a variety of industries, that aim to improve general living standards. With a focus on companies that are in the start-up and expansion stages of development, Hotung works with its investee companies to build their business. Tapping on its strong network, resources and experience, Hotung is able to support the breakthrough in its investee companies’ products and services and grow along with its investees.
Houston Health Ventures LLC
Houston Health Ventures operates as an accelerator and a venture capital firm. The Firm provides early-stage financing to startups with a primary focus on the healthcare and technology sectors. The Firm primarily makes investments within the United States.
How 2 Ventures LLC
How 2 Ventures was founded in response to the “Blockchain Boom” of 2017 and has been thriving due to the five-point strategy of Founder & CEO, Nic Howery. The volatility of the market has dissuaded many retail investors, but How 2 Ventures has leveraged the volatility of the market to achieve industry-leading returns.<br />
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How 2 Ventures five-point strategy focuses on several areas of investment within the Blockchain startup, and Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency markets:<br />
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1. Emerging Blockchain Technology (pre-ICO & ICO investments).<br />
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2. Established Blockchain networks’ digital assets & cryptocurrencies (forks, airdrops, etc.).<br />
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3. Emerging Blockchain networks’ digital assets & cryptocurrencies (growth, adoption, etc.).<br />
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4. Leverage trading during periods of volatility to increase returns (BTC, ETH vs. alternative coins).<br />
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5. Capitalize on swings in the market using alpha theory (-2, -1, 0, 1, 2).
How Women Invest
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We envision a future where women-led companies have access to capital, mentorship and a deep network of industry experts required to successfully catapult their businesses. Women, especially women of color, are underrepresented in business and in all parts of the venture capital system - as investors, board members, general partners, founders, and CEOs. We're changing that.
Hoxton Ventures
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We are an early-stage technology venture capital firm. We partner with founders seeking to invent new market categories or transform large, existing industries. We chase after outliers. We only invest if a company has the potential to be a large, valuable, global market leader. We care more about the magnitude of the return if things work, and less about minimizing risk in a company’s early days.
HP Tech Ventures
HP Tech Ventures is helping to foster an ecosystem of innovation and reinvention that will define tomorrow’s world and experiences, through strategic partnerships and investments in disruptive technology areas. HP Tech Ventures offers more than 75 years of experience in innovation and technology, backed by more than 18,000 global patents, to entrepreneurs around the globe. As part of a Fortune 100 company with world-class technology, one of the world’s largest channel and distribution partner networks, and a vast global manufacturing and supply chain, they are uniquely positioned to help their portfolio companies gain a foothold and scale quickly.
HPC Germany
HPC is the international family office of SAP founder Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner. In this function, the HPC Group – with its offices in Potsdam, San Francisco and Cape Town – provides a wide range of services, from asset management to private concierge services, to the Plattner family. Through the Hasso Plattner Foundation, HPC oversees inter alia the renowned Hasso Plattner Institute and Museum Barberini in Potsdam.
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Hasso Plattner has recently been awarded the prestigious Werner-von-Siemens-Ring. Since 1916, the foundation of the same name honors the life achievement of important engineers. The jury’s verdict for one of the most important German scientific and technical awards states: “As the founder of SAP, Hasso Plattner had a decisive influence on Germany as a business location and repeatedly built bridges with a wealth of ideas – between science and research, industry and politics.
