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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Amadeus Capital Partners
Amadeus Capital Partners is a global technology investor. Since 1997, the firm has backed more than 130 companies and raised over $1bn for investment.
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With vast experience and a great network, Amadeus Capital’s team of investors and entrepreneurs share a passion for the transformative power of technology. We invest in consumer services, financial technology, artificial intelligence, cyber security, medical technology, digital health and digital media.
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Pioneering businesses we’ve backed include gene-sequencing innovators Solexa, massively parallel simulation platform Improbable.io, cyber security vendor ForeScout, Optos, producer of advanced retinal imaging, and Kreditech, provider of financial products to the ‘underbanked’.
Amam Ventures
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Amam Ventures is a Gender Lens investment fund that caters to f businesses that are committed to diversity and inclusion. We offer a bundle of financial and non-financial services to ventures that are building sustainable and profitable businesses but need risk capital to grow.
Amand Ventures
We invest in startups which are solving pain points in real life. Indonesia, with its unique challenges, presents many opportunities for startups; we have been concentrating most of our investments in the country. Our investments are sector-agnostic. We also have a positive outlook for the Southeast Asian region. We believe in founders who are on a mission to become the new frontiers and disrupt existing industries through the use of technology.
Amaranthine Partners
We connect, support and invest in the world's top technologists through the f.ounders platform.
Amasia
Amasia is a VC firm that helps technology companies get global. We primarily invest in US tech companies from the pre-Series A to Series B stage, although we have the flexibility to invest at a later stage and in other geographies. We typically lead or co-lead deals, take on a board-level role, and serve as trusted advisors to our founders.
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Beyond strategic assistance, executive recruiting and other customary value addition, a key element of our differentiation is a global mindset and access to an international network. Our cross-border investment and operating experience, as well as access to leaders in business and government, helps our portfolio companies achieve international scale.
Amaya Capital Partners
Amaya Capital is a principal investment firm that was set up in 2009 to focus on Africa with the objective of helping to create and build businesses primarily in the infrastructure space, whilst making a positive, significant and sustainable impact on the communities and society in which those business operate.
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Amaya’s business model is to focus on supporting the best management teams by actively shaping and developing businesses in their early stage initially using our own capital and resources to transform them from ‘good business ideas’ to ‘investable businesses’. At the appropriate time we bring institutional capital and expertise to scale up the business and to provide the necessary capabilities and governance required for the long term sustainable success of the business.
Amazon Alexa Fund
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The Alexa Fund provides up to $200 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation. We believe experiences designed around the human voice will fundamentally improve the way people use technology.
We are honored to work with founders who are trailblazers in their fields and to help them navigate Amazon and innovate with Alexa.
Get Inspired by Innovation Powered by Voice
Since 2015, the Alexa Fund has invested in companies that are innovating in AI, voice technology, frontier tech, robotics, and more.
Discover the companies that are pushing the boundaries of what customers can do with voice.
You can join more the world's leading OEMs and brands that have delighted their customers by adding Alexa to more than 140,000 smart speakers, lights, plugs, smart TVs, and cameras. Or you can add Alexa to invent entirely new categories of smart products to delight your customers. Today, customers engage with Alexa hundreds of millions of times each week through these devices. Enable customers to control your device with voice and automatically, and use your device to access content, services, and more than 100,000 skills. You can use our certification programs to ensure your product delivers delightful customer experiences and boost its exposure and sales on amazon.com.
How we Support Companies
Beyond the capital we can provide, the founders in our portfolio value our help to facilitate introductions, navigate Amazon, and identify opportunities.
Value-added investor
The Alexa Fund provides up to $200M in investment to fuel voice technology innovation.
Innovation
Opportunities to improve your product with Amazon.
Support
Dedicated portfolio development managers helping you navigate Amazon, AWS, and Alexa teams.
Industry Leadership
Introductions to product leaders at Amazon.
Product Insights
Opportunities to learn about closed betas for new APIs, devices, and features.
PR and Marketing Opportunities
Potential opportunities for enhanced marketing and PR support timed with investments and product milestones.
Amber Infrastructure Limited
Amber Infrastructure Group (Amber) is a leading international infrastructure specialist, providing asset management and investment advisory services in respect of over £8 billion of assets in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America.
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Amber’s core business focuses on sourcing, developing, advising on, investing in and managing infrastructure assets within the utilities, transport, digital infrastructure, social infrastructure, renewable and conventional energy and regeneration sectors.
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Amber provides investment advisory services to FTSE-listed International Public Partnerships Limited as well as private investment funds, specialising in urban regeneration and digital infrastructure.
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Amber is headquartered in London with offices in Munich, Sydney, Melbourne and San Francisco and employs approximately 120 people, making it one of the largest international infrastructure specialists.
Ambienta SGR S.p.A.
Ambienta is a leading pan-European middle-market investor focused on acquiring rapidly expanding companies capturing long-term environmental trends. We have a proven strategy of investing in such SMEs across Europe, which we believe comprises a broad and deep landscape of attractive targets whose products and services are now in global demand. Our model has been refined to execute on this approach, combining knowledge-based sourcing with a strong local relationship network to identify and access attractive companies.
Ambit Pragma Advisors LLP
Ambit is an emerging financial services conglomerate in India led by Ashok Wadhwa. Started as a corporate finance boutique, the firm has now grown to be one of India’s leading investment banks and is one of the leading top 5 investment banks in terms of deal count.
