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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Miral Asset Management
Miral is Abu Dhabi’s creator of destinations, uniting people and places through unique, immersive and exciting <br />
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experiences. Responsible for the development and management of Yas Island, Miral’s assets encompass <br />
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entertainment, hospitality, leisure, sport, dining, retail, and real estate destinations. Today, Yas Island is home to <br />
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Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, Yas Waterworld, Yas Links Golf Course, Yas Mall, Yas Marina Circuit, Yas Marina and seven <br />
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hotels, including the flagship Yas Viceroy.
Miramar
We seek companies that are as market driven as they are technology driven, with proprietary and defensible technology positions yielding a competitive edge and barrier to entry, which are led by management teams with the experience, dedication and a high sense of urgency to succeed. Each of our funds is traditionally made up of 20-30 portfolio companies. We average around 5-8 new seed investments every year with follow-on capital reserved for existing portfolio companies. Miramar is actively investing out of Miramar Digital Ventures (MDV). We invest nationwide but focus our efforts on high potential start-ups primarily in Southern California.
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Mirin Capital
Mirin Capital invests in disruptive, technology led companies that focus on solutions to big problems. We are particularly interested in investing in technologies that significantly disrupt traditional business models, help enterprises solve big problems and make the world better or more interesting.
Mission Bay Capital
Mission Bay Capital is dedicated to helping entrepreneurial scientist create successful companies. We do this because we believe that startups are the most efficient engine for positive change. The passion and purpose that entrepreneurs bring turn ideas into solutions. These small companies take-on oversized problems like chronic diseases and global environmental challenges, and with seemingly inadequate resources they succeed. We want to help.
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MissionOG
MissionOG partners with high-growth businesses that have proven models in segments where we have had success as operators and investors, including financial services and payments, data platforms, and software.
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To help accelerate our partner companies, we invest financial capital and leverage a broad network of industry experts. Headquartered in Philadelphia, MissionOG is led by a team that has effectively built and scaled companies through their various stages of growth to successful acquisitions.
Mistletoe
Mistletoe is a collective impact community that seeks to create a human-centered sustainable future using technology. A group of entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, visionaries and other people who are at the forefront of the startup community willing to tackle the major challenges facing humankind in the near future.
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Our main activities are diverse, such as investment, R & D, joint ventures with startups, and construction of ecosystems. The biggest feature is the concept of "ORCHESTRATION". New discoveries and scientific reactions are created by creating a venue for different talents so that an orchestra composed of different players can produce great effects. As a result, we believe that it can have a much greater impact than tackling issues alone. Mistletoe hopes to create many movements around the world by developing this “ORCHESTRATION” with many like-minded friends.
Mita Ventures
MITA Ventures combines a venture fund with a strategic mentoring program— drawing on our deep network in Silicon Valley -for technology companies from Mexico, as well as fostering the expansion of US and Latin American companies into the Mexico market. Based in San Francisco, CA and Punta Mita, Mexico, MITA works to foster cross-cultural opportunities in technology, and responds to the demand for identifying opportunities and funding investments in Mexico.
Mithril Capital
Mithril is a global investment firm cofounded by Ajay Royan and Peter Thiel. Agnostic to sector and geography, we invest and partner with teams who use technology to build valuable and lasting businesses, often in industries long overdue for change. Each of these businesses is unique, but all face common challenges to unlocking long-term growth. We help navigate these critical inflection points, and we invest in size and with conviction.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital (“MUCAP”) was founded in 1974 as one of the first venture capital firms in Japan. Backed by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, the leading financing group headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, MUCAP have been helping entrepreneurs in Japan, and around the world. More than 870 companies we worked together with have gone public.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital (MUCAP) backs start-ups throughout their stages of development, from the seed / early stage, through the middle stage, to the later stage where an initial public offering (IPO) or a M&A comes into view.
We have been investing in innovative business ideas that anticipate societal needs, and engaged in commercializing the research results of universities and other academia, to name just a few. Through these endeavors, we have been working hand in hand with our start-up investees from an early stage in their business development.
Our role goes beyond just investment. Once our start-up investees are on track, we help take their business to the next level, by facilitating business partnerships with large companies to expand sales channels, providing advice on organizational enhancements with an eye to an IPO, and offering assistance in various other ways. We tailor our support to the needs of start-ups in varying stages of development.
Our investees span many spheres, from manufacturing and consumer goods to cutting-edge domains including artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), financial technology (Fintech) and other technologies, software as a service (SaaS), and life sciences. We have proactively been investing in supporting emerging industries without bias toward particular sectors.
What is essential to these activities is our team-based approach as one team. For each investee, a team is formed consisting of: an investment professional, or “capitalist,” who works shoulder to shoulder with the start-up; a business strategy partner who has extensive expertise; and personnel helping forge business partnerships with large companies. The team makes a concerted effort to increase the value of the start-up.
We have capitalists stationed in Osaka and Nagoya, as well as in our head office in Tokyo. Leveraging these resources, we strive to work even more closely with start-ups located not only in Tokyo but throughout the country.
History and track record
MUCAP is a venture capital firm founded in 1974. Our approach to start-ups remains unchanged since the founding: we first share their aspirations of entrepreneurs, establish trust as a capital partner, and then assist throughout their growth stages. This is what we were founded for, and we continue committed to our mission.
Looking back at our business over the decades, while Japan’s venture capital market has experienced some significant ups and downs, MUCAP has consistently supplied growth capital as part of MUFG .
This has resulted in our strong track record. Just for the period since 2005, the year in which the current MUCAP was created, we have made a cumulative total of more than 1,000 investments, aggregating in excess of \50 billion.
Collaboration with MUFG companies
Our support is not limited to helping start-ups reach an IPO. To make MUFG’s comprehensive financial capabilities available to start-ups, we work closely with MUFG Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, and other Group companies. Even after start-ups are listed on stock exchange, our clients continue to be provided with broad financial services that they deserve as the Group’s valued customers. Specifically, our professionals offer optimal financial services from those offered by MUFG companies, in an effort to contribute to their sustained growth.
Mitsui & Co. Global Investment Ltd.
Mitsui & Co. Global Investment is a venture capital fund that focuses on early stage companies. Mitsui's expertise lies in helping companies build their business globally.<br />
Mitsui & Co. Global Investment Co. is an investment company as a division of the financial business, to invest in companies that significant growth is expected. The headquarters in Tokyo, and we are investing activities from a global perspective, as opposed to complete in each country and a network of offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, Mumbai, while also focusing on Japan and the United States China and India.
