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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Ludlow Ventures Ludlow Ventures
Ludlow operates differently because we’re a different kind of VC. We believe in VC without ego. We wear our hearts on our sleeves, avoiding the puffery and posturing that has given venture capital a bad name. We fund the dreams of entrepreneurs and startups, becoming close friends with all of the teams we invest in. <br /> <br /> Truly great companies are built on trust and friendship (and rainbows and luck). VC is a customer service business. Whether it’s testing product, leveraging our network, or forcing people to download your app, we’re here to help. You make our dream jobs possible and we’re forever thankful for that. Check out some of our other projects - www.carpool.vc and www.computer.show
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Ludus Venture Studio Ludus Venture Studio
Ludus brings a deep understanding the mobile industry and ensures that they can work as a single team and reach global success in each investment. With a $30M fund and flexible ticket sizes between $100K and $2M, Ludus supports its founders across the globe - from US to SEA. With its advisors and board members who carry a wealth of knowledge across the mobile industry, Ludus aims to lead the venture studio model in Turkey by providing in house expertise and funding through the idea process until the launch.
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LUMA Capital Partners LUMA Capital Partners
Our team has spent their careers investing in, leading and advising some of the most transformative companies in digital media and marketing technology. We launched LUMA Capital Partners, an early stage venture firm, because there is no other fund exclusively focused on supporting the next generation of innovation in marketing technology. Our first investors are some of the biggest and most successful names in our industry who we have worked with over the years – and who know the value first hand of having a financial partner who can offer more than just capital. <br />
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Lumia Capital Lumia Capital
Lumia is an Expansion-stage VC firm partnering with forward-thinking US and European innovators expanding internationally for growth. We employ a hands-on strategy, working closely with management teams by pairing Silicon Valley insights and contacts with global knowledge sharing and relationships to propel companies through expansion-stage challenges and opportunities.
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Lumikai Ventures Lumikai Ventures
Lumikai combines the Latin word for ‘light’ with the Japanese word for ‘tribe.’ India’s interactive market is entering a golden age. Our purpose is to be the lighthouse VC fund catalysing India's 'ripe for disruption' gaming and interactive media industries. We are curating and supporting a select tribe of India’s most forward thinking, creative and talented founders. Our vision is to find and fund game-changing early stage founders with a bold vision for the future and to help them achieve outlier success. We bring decades of sector strategic experience and knowledge, while leveraging our all-star local and global networks to help propel our founders to success.
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Luminar Ventures Luminar Ventures
Luminar Ventures is newly founded $60M Seed stage VC from Sweden. Founded by successful angel investors Magnus Bergman and Jacob Key, together with Sting, the leading startup platform in Sweden, the fund aims to provide experienced seed stage financing and active operational support to Sweden based early stage technology companies that are looking to disrupt or transform major industries with digital technologies and innovations
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Luminari Capital Luminari Capital
Luminari Capital is a digital media fund focused on the innovation and disruption occurring globally throughout the video ecosystem. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs, whom we believe are the next-generation luminaries in video, to help them build category-defining companies. In this next wave of evolution in video, where the predominant distribution modalities transition to IP and wireless, large incumbents will need to evolve their legacy businesses via 'build, partner, or buy' strategies. Concurrently, new entrants will emerge and will drive much of the key innovation. Many of these participants will be venture-backed, start-up companies. Some of these companies will become the next-generation leaders in the video ecosystem and achieve multi-billion dollar enterprise values. Luminari Capital believes that the firm is already invested in such companies, and we endeavor to invest in and partner with others. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
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Luminous Ventures Luminous Ventures
Luminous Ventures is a London-based VC fund investing in Deep Tech with a focus on the application of artificial intelligence (AI), VR, AR, edge computing, robotics, quantum technologies and synthetic biology to healthcare, life science, nutrition, food and agriculture at Seed and Series A in Europe and North America. Since the inception of our first fund in 2015, we have deployed over £30 million in disruptive, deep-tech businesses. <br />
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Lumis Partners Lumis Partners
Lumis Partners is an Operating Investment firm. We partner with Founders who are passionate about solving large complex challenges, to co-create businesses with extraordinary impact at scale. <br /> <br /> We focus on operating models that require deep domain expertise, development of intellectual property, and strong technology leverage. With this focus, we have partnered with early stage companies as well as mature businesses, providing them with growth capital and strategic leverage. <br /> <br /> We bring Senior Industry Leaders as dedicated Operating Co-Founders to augment our Core Operating Model that has been chiseled over the last decade.
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LUMUS Investment Collective LUMUS Investment Collective
LUMUS is a place where female angel investors meet startups from Central Europe. We are an initiative that educates, supports, and connects women to investment opportunities in the CEE region. We educate women that want to learn about (angel) investing. We support women who do angel investing. We connect them all with the best early-stage startups from Central Europe and let the magic happen. Our mission: We aim to improve inclusiveness in the early stage of investing by: Empowering & educating a community of female angels Igniting investments into diverse founding teams Creating opportunities to diversify the investment portfolio of our angel invest
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