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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NRG Ventures
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NRG Ventures is founded with a mission to be the most value-add investor for startups. It comes from the personal story of our founder Roman Tyan. To make a long story short, Roman was the youngest director at venture fund in Eastern Europe. After several years working in venture capital, Roman launched his own startup in Europe which was featured by BMW and McKinsey Digital. It was a very difficult founder's way where Roman faced a high conservative approach and total misunderstanding of its needs by early-stage investors. After selling his business, Roman launched a new type of venture fund that will meet the needs of modern startups and become a strong business partner for startups.
Founder of 12 startups, the most recognized is AnyWay.city (selected by BMW and McKinsey Digital)
Advisor at 45+ startups ($10+ bln in total value)
Invested in such startups on early-stage: Uber (IPO), Tufin (IPO), eToro, Mobeewave (acquired by Apple), LendingHome, Ocon
NRW.BANK
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As a promotional bank for North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW. BANK the country in its structural and economic policy tasks. It acts on a public mandate, is competition-neutral and uses the entire spectrum of credit promotion products – from classic credit to tailor-made advice. Its three funding areas are "Economy", "Housing" and "Infrastructure/Municipalities".
In contrast to commercial banks, the customers of NRW are. BANK primarily house banks and other funding intermediaries. The NRW. Bank strictly observes the prohibition of discrimination in relation to other credit institutions. Their cooperation with the cooperative and private banks as well as the savings banks follows – competition-neutral – the house banking procedure.
The business of NRW. BANK focuses on the canon of funding areas defined by the so-called Understanding II. Competitive business (such as commercial real estate financing and the new issue of mortgage Pfandbriefe) has already been developed by Landesbank NRW, the predecessor institution of NRW. BANK, no longer pursued.
To fulfil its mandate, NRW. BANK is active in the following areas:
Securing and improving the medium-sized structure of the economy, in particular financing for business start-ups and consolidations,
state social housing subsidies,
structural development of cities and municipalities,
Infrastructure
measures in agriculture, forestry and rural areas,
environmental protection, technology and innovation measures,
measures of a social, cultural and scientific nature,
Financing projects in the Community interest
As part of its mandate, NRW. BANK finance operations for local authorities and special purpose associations governed by public law and participate in project financing operations carried out by the European Investment Bank or similar financial institutions in the Community interest.
Treasury
Insofar as this is directly related to its tasks, NRW. In addition to the treasury business, BANK also conducts risk management, borrows subordinated liability capital and issues uncovered bearer bonds, profit participation rights, public Pfandbriefe and other bonds.
The NRW. BANK refinances itself on the international capital market and is firmly anchored here. For this reason, and in order to act responsibly and transparently also vis-à-vis the politically responsible persons in the state, funding recipients, municipalities, employees and the public, NRW is committed to itself. BANK on Public Corporate Governance.
NTT DOCOMO Ventures
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NTT DOCOMO Ventures acts as a bridge between NTT Group/ NTT DOCOMO and its strategic investment partners.
We work with startups and our group companies from the twin vectors of “investment” and “business development”.
We also work with other investors to raise funding and grow together.
Since NTT Group's companies include various business entities not only telecommunication business, we partner with these groups with introducing promising startups to explore and create new possibilities.
Our goal is to pursue the business expansion by partnering startups everywhere and promoting the growth of businesses in Japan and around the world.
Investment focus
ICT area where we can collaborate with NTT DOCOMO or other NTT Group companies; major investment areas are e.g. AI, BigData, Cloud, Communication, Education, Enterprise, Fintech, IoT/Drones, Marketing/Advertisement, Media content, Medical/Healthcare, Power/Batteries, Robotics, Security
Policy
- If we are ready/possibly to collaborate with NTT DOCOMO or other NTT Group company
- Even without short-term prospects, if we can expect growth of the business
Nuclear Block Ventures
Nuclear Block Ventures invests in startups that improve the tokenized investment ecosystem.
Nueterra Capital
Nueterra Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early and growth-stage healthcare companies. In 2002, we started making investments with an exclusive focus on healthcare. We were founded to empower entrepreneurs – to equip innovative minds with the capital, resources and expertise to help drive change in the healthcare industry. Along with our portfolio companies, we’ve raised more than $225 million from investors and have invested in more than 100 companies. By aligning our current companies with investment capital, we help their business expand and create new growth opportunities.
NUG
NUG, Inc. is a premier, state-licensed, and vertically-integrated California cannabis company. From its patented cutting-edge technology, to its award-winning branded products and dedication to equity and community involvement, NUG's leaders are pioneers and innovators in the cannabis industry, having established an industrywide standard for handcrafted, organic seed to sale cannabis cultivation and manufacturing.
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Founded in 2014, NUG continues to expand and diversify its portfolio of world-class R&D, state-of-the-art cultivation, extraction and manufacturing facilities, one of California's largest wholesale cannabis distributors, and the new, unparalleled NUG retail experience with stores open in Sacramento and San Leandro and soon Oakland.
Numerai LLC
A new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists.<br />
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Numerai manages an institutional grade long/short global equity strategy for the investors in our hedge fund. We transform and regularize financial data into machine learning problems for our global community of data scientists.<br />
In December 2015, we created the world’s first encrypted data science tournament for stock market predictions. <br />
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The most accurate and original machine learning models from the world’s best data scientists are synthesized into a collective artificial intelligence that controls the capital in Numerai’s hedge fund. We reward outstanding contributions from the data science community in USD, paid out in ether.
Nuor Nuof
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Our objective is to build societies where knowledge empowers every individual to realize their full potential to contribute to the greater good and to be responsible for future generations
Nour Nouf for knowledge is the umbrella For three business lines:
1- Nour Nouf Ventures (Investments)
2- Nour Nouf Offices (Co-working space)
3- Nour Nouf Community (Sponsorships and CR)
Nurture Invest
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We are a financial services firm providing asset management, investment advisory and corporate advisory services principally within Southern Africa. Our various group companies operate out of Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mauritius, and South Africa. Our activities are regulated by the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius. Some of our flagship entities include:
Nurture Asset Management Zimbabwe (Private) Limited, a licensed asset management firm in Zimbabwe; and
Nurture Advisory, a licensed investment advisory firm in Zimbabwe;
Our teams are comprised of experienced individuals with a wide array of expertise garnered from having worked at top-tier global and African firms such as Econet, Ernst and Young, Goldman Sachs, IH Securities, Mayer Brown International, Sygnia Asset Management, Moore Global, PWC and Strategic African Securities.
Nuwa Capital
A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.
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We are only defined by how well we serve our key stakeholder, the founders we invest in, and aim to maintain a culture of transparency where founders can contribute or criticize when needed. We believe that the collective growth of our industry serves to benefit all stakeholders, and will share our upside with our founders and the Nuwa Network.
