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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Narrative Fund
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We back high-impact founders using technology to leave the world a better place than they found it. We are a founder and operator-run venture capital firm based in San Francisco and Paris. We invest between $50K and $250K in early-stage consumer tech startups where storytelling really matters. We lead and we follow.
Nashville Capital Network
NCN is a partnership of more than 100 professional investors, most of whom have been founders and executives of highly successful companies. NCN leverages the experience and expertise of the individuals within its partnership to identify, develop, and support promising, high-growth companies. NCN manages several investment funds including NCN Angel Fund I, NCN Angel Fund II, Tennessee Angel Fund, and NCN Partners Fund.
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Naspers
Naspers is a global internet and entertainment group and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Founded in 1915, Naspers is a $100b+ global Internet and entertainment group with investments and operations in more than 120 markets with long-term growth potential.<br />
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Today, Naspers companies hold leading positions in traditional media, video entertainment, ecommerce, classifieds, marketplaces, fintech, food delivery, and other online platforms.<br />
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Naspers is a unique blend of venture capital and operating company that funds, acquires, builds and scales technology businesses. It combines venture capital investing with deep operational experience in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.<br />
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Naspers was an early investor in Tencent in China, mail.ru in Russia and Flipkart in India and remains invested in these leading companies today.<br />
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In total, the Naspers portfolio comprises more than 100 companies, many of which are the leader in their market.
National Grid Partners
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National Grid Partners (NGP) is the venture investment and innovation arm of National Grid plc. NGP makes and manages strategically and financially attractive investments and leads company-wide innovation efforts. The organization focuses on corporate venture capital, incubation, business development and innovation, providing a multi-functional approach to change the status quo. NGP is based in Silicon Valley with offices and team members in Los Gatos, San Francisco, Boston, London, and New York.
National Holding
National Holding's roots go back to the early 90's with the aim of contributing to the UAE's prosperity through investing in key growth sectors. We have since become one of Abu Dhabi’s leading holding companies with interests in financial, industrial, property development, general trading and oil & gas sectors.<br />
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For almost two decades, National Holding has invested in diverse growth sectors in the United Arab Emirates, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, as well as other emerging and international markets. The multifaceted synergy with the Abu Dhabi Government economic development plans gives National Holding a unique combination of unrivaled corporate strength and niche industry positioning, enabling it to play a vital role in fulfilling the emirate's economic and strategic plans, in line with the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030.<br />
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Today, we are one of Abu Dhabi's leading privately-owned conglomerates and maintain a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio of companies operating in key growth sectors and contributing directly to Abu Dhabi's economic growth.
Native Angel Network
Native Lead Foundation is a not for profit organization works with the vision to make South Tamil nadu, a region of innovation and business leadership. It is highly evident that the inclination for native innovation and entrepreneurship is on the negative scale comparing the large pool of human resource of our entire nation. Native Lead, a dynamic online-offline platform helps the young minds of South Tamilnadu to become innovators and entrepreneurs through practical learning. Towards this end, Native Lead works with the concerned stake holders such as Educational Institutions, Students, Aspiring Entrepreneurs, Enterprises, Independent Experts, Investors, Industrial Forums, Governments, NGOs and General public. The objective being creating awareness, motivating, training, connecting to resources and extending real-time platforms for the younger generation to become innovators and business leaders of the future.
Natixis Private Equity
Natixis is the international corporate, investment, insurance and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the 2nd-largest banking group in France with 35 million clients spread over two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne.
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With more than 16,000 employees, Natixis has a number of areas of expertise that are organized into three main business lines: Corporate & Investment Banking, Investment Solutions & Insurance, and Specialized Financial Services.
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A global player, Natixis has its own client base of companies, financial institutions and institutional investors as well as the client base of individuals, professionals and small and medium-size businesses of Groupe BPCE’s banking networks.
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Listed on the Paris stock exchange, it has a solid financial base with a CET1 capital under Basel 3(1) of €12.7 billion, a Basel 3 CET1 Ratio (1) of 11,2% and quality long-term ratings (Standard & Poor’s: A / Moody’s: A2 / Fitch Ratings: A).
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(1) Based on CRR-CRD4 rules published on June 26, 2013, including the Danish compromise - no phase-in except for DTAs on loss carry-forwards.
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Figures as at December 31, 2015
Nauta Capital
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Nauta Capital is a Pan-European Venture Capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies. With over half a billion assets under management and a team of 24 people, Nauta Capital is one of Europe’s largest B2B focused VCs.
As a sector-agnostic investor, Nauta’s main areas of interest include B2B SaaS solutions with strong network effects, vertically focused enterprise tech transforming large industries as well as those leveraging deep-tech applications to solve challenges faced by large enterprises.
Nauta has offices in London, Barcelona, and Berlin.
Navegar
Navegar is a Philippines-focused, Manila-based private equity firm that provides growth capital to established companies. Navegar invests in both primary and secondary share offerings, and actively seeks to maximize the value of its portfolio companies by providing financial, operational and strategic guidance.
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Established in 2012, Navegar manages Navegar Fund I and Navegar Fund II, with total assets under management of over USD 250 million.
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Naver Corporation
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NAVER has emerged as Korea’s largest Internet company in terms of net profit. This outstanding growth is largely attributable to the company's efforts to create and introduce stable revenue streams in its core services; for instance, search-oriented advertising services and fee-based games. NAVER outgrew the confines of the national borders. Not only did we build a good reputation in Japan and China, but we also trying to set up branches at abroad, forging toward becoming a world-class internet company.
