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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Glade Brook Capital Partners Glade Brook Capital Partners
Glade Brook is a global investment firm that specializes in global growth equity, with a focus on internet, software and technology enabled businesses. The firm partners with entrepreneurs and management teams to accelerate growth and maximize long-term shareholder value, from growth stage through IPO and beyond.
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Glasfunds Glasfunds
GLASfunds is a global alternative investment platform offering streamlined and efficient access to institutional level private capital and hedge funds. Founded in 2008, GLASfunds has been a pioneer in offering alternative investment access to financial advisors and their high-net-worth clients. We aim to give advisors the tools, expertise, and support they need to deliver institutional private market portfolios with an unrivaled client experience. Through a single, evergreen subscription process, GLASfunds provides access to a range of institutional managers with consolidated reporting and only one K-1 statement for all of your holdings. GLASfunds has removed the strenuous operational burden faced by advisors when allocating into private market funds. We provide a full suite of both private capital and hedge fund offerings - all supported by independent manager research. Advisors also have the ability to self-source their own investment ideas while still utilizing the GLASfunds Platform* For more information on GLASfunds, please visit GLASfunds.com or contact us info@GLASfunds.com *subject to fund availability and GLASfunds Due Diligence
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Glasswing Ventures Glasswing Ventures
Glasswing Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in the next generation of AI and frontier technology startups that are enabling the rise of the intelligent enterprise. We are laser-focused on funding exceptional entrepreneurs who are leading the AI revolution, capitalizing on the intellectual might and talent from the premier academic institutions on the East Coast, and fostering growth for our ecosystem. Whether we are helping our portfolio companies build the best teams, acquire their first customers or brainstorm about strategic opportunities, or scale their operations, we are there for our founders and CEOs in the good times and the bad times on their journey to success.
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Glendower Capital LLP Glendower Capital LLP
Glendower Capital is an independent secondary private equity firm founded in 2017 by its partners who have worked together in secondaries for more than fifteen years. Glendower acquires secondary private equity assets providing liquidity solutions to investors globally. The team has a long history of executing a range of transactions with sellers – from the acquisition of limited partnership interests to the more complex GP-led transactions. <br /> <br /> Headquartered in London with offices in New York, Glendower manages US$5.7 billion in commitments dedicated to secondaries.
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Glide Glide
Glide is a communication product design company, founded in 2012. The company pioneered instant video messaging (think: video walkie walkie), and is the market leader in photo and video apps for Apple Watch. The company's 2019 mission is to build the killer app for Apple Watch, and sell millions of wrist cameras. <br /> <br /> Glide's debut hardware product, CMRA, is a Dual-HD camera band that pioneers the smart-band ecosystem for Apple Watch and its over 40 million owners. CMRA is the first to turn the watch into a bonafide content creation tool, and enable live video wrist communication. You can see a 35-second product video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zos7RMttO-g&feature=youtu.be <br /> <br /> CMRA was developed internally at Glide by an ex Apple Watch Program Manager and GoPro's former Hardware Lead who designed the Hero 4 and Hero 5 action cameras. The company is advised by several senior ex Apple execs who believe in the product and its strategic value to Apple. Over 10,000 CMRA devices were pre-sold to date. CMRA is on schedule to begin shipping in Summer 2018, followed by select retail availability in late 2018.
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Glisco Partners Glisco Partners
Glisco Partners is a leading private equity firm focused on the Mexican middle market with a long, established track record of executing and exiting high-quality transactions. Glisco Partners, formerly Evercore Mexico Capital Partners (the Mexican private equity division of Evercore), has approximately $ 332 million US dollars of assets under management in three different funds (Glisco Partners II, Glisco Partners III and Glisco Partners IV). Glisco's value added approach is based on the partnership between the fund and the owners and management teams with outstanding track records, strong reputations and a clear commitment to creating shareholder value, along with a strong corporate governance investment structure.
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Global Brain Global Brain
GB supports startups that tackle various problems and create innovation. Our professionals with high achievement and extensive experience discover excellent startups through our multiple global locations and provide growth support through hands-on. <br /> <br /> The total asset under management is more than 100 billion yen (approx. US$900M), becoming the largest domestic independent venture capital firm.
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Global Brain Corporation Global Brain Corporation
Global Brain is an independent venture capital firm based in Tokyo with offices in US, UK, Germany, China, South Korea, India, Indonesia and Singapore. It supports startups on a global scale with the aim to create new industries through full hands-on support, global ecosystem, and open innovation between startups and large corporations. Along with our flagship funds, Global Brain currently manages CVC funds with 18 industry-leading companies, surpassing $2.0B in AUM.
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Global Business Development Network, LLC Global Business Development Network, LLC
We believe that human relationships have never been as present and necessary as now for business development. Thus was born GBDN, a global organization with the mission of strengthening interpersonal relationships and promoting differentiated experiences around the world, in order to identify potential businesses through an innovative and collaborative model, in line with the current needs of our network.
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Global Capital (Pty) Ltd. Global Capital (Pty) Ltd.
Established in 1995, Global Capital (Pty) Limited (Global) is a boutique Investment Banking and Private Equity firm based and operating in South Africa as well as in Australia.Shareholders of Global Capital include Management and Investec Bank Group.Global Capital manages various funds, both in South Africa and Australia on behalf of institutional and select private investors.
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