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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Liquid 2 Ventures Liquid 2 Ventures
Liquid 2 is building the most valuable ecosystem at seed. Founded in 2016 by Joe Montana, our ecosystem is defined by a network of deeply rooted connections with our founding advisors, top-tier co-investors, and a portfolio of over 800 technology companies. Liquid 2's mission to be the premier institutional angel investing $250K - $1M in pre-seed and seed stage technology startups. Our portfolio includes 35 unicorns and over 75 companies valued or exited over $200M including Gitlab, Rippling, Jasper AI, Retool, Anduril, Applied Intuition, Remote, Solugen, Astranis, Stoke Space, FanDuel, Rappi, WhatNot, Modern Treasury, Athelas, Chipper Cash and many more.
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Liquid Realty Partners Liquid Realty Partners
Liquid Realty Partners was a pioneering private equity real estate firm that invested in commercial real estate by acquiring interests in institutional real estate funds, partnerships, joint ventures, separate accounts, trusts and other private investment vehicles on a secondary basis. From 2002 to 2009, Liquid Realty Partners raised $1.5 billion in capital commitments, and closed 47 investments comprising over 1,000 properties in 17 countries diversified by strategy, sector, vintage and manager through four fully invested vehicles: two discretionary funds, one club partnership, and one separate account. Liquid Realty Partners' investors included many of the world's leading pensions, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, multi-managers, sovereign wealth funds and private offices. Scott Landress, founder and CEO of Liquid Realty Partners, decided in 2012 to wind down the firm and withdraw from the real estate and securities industries.
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Listed Private Capital (LPEC) Listed Private Capital (LPEC)
LPeC (formerly known as LPEQ) represents listed private capital, including listed private equity funds, debt funds and other multi-asset managers. LPeC provides its members with a platform that reflects the listed private capital markets, aligns it with the broader capital markets and gives a strong platform to engage with investors and other market participants. <br /> <br /> LPeC aims to be the leading international platform for listed private capital funds providing a platform and network to deepen the understanding of diverse investment strategies, performance and attractiveness to public market investors. <br /> <br /> LPeC was established to deepen public market investor understanding of listed private equity, the investment case for the asset class and as a platform to access investors. <br /> <br /> In line with market developments, evolving investment strategies and the attractiveness of private capital markets, LPeC’s purpose is to be the leading international platform for listed private capital funds providing a platform and network to deepen the understanding of diverse investment strategies, performance and attractiveness to public market investors.
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Listen Ventures Listen Ventures
Listen invests in consumer-obsessed entrepreneurs building at the tipping point of behavior shifts. Many firms invest in consumer, few actually Listen to consumers.
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Lit Capital Lit Capital
Founded in 2010, LitCapital is a leading dedicated growth capital investor that invests in the development and growth phases of technologically enabled and advanced companies. LitCapital supports entrepreneurs and management teams with not only financial resources, but also expertise and strategic guidance in areas, such as top talent attraction, strategy and business model development, finance, sales, and add-on acquisitions. LitCapital raised its first fund in cooperation with the European Investment Fund (EIF), and the successor LcX Opportunity Fund is backed by INVEGA, along with local pension funds, family offices and high-net-worth private investors.
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Literacy Capital plc Literacy Capital plc
Literacy Capital is a closed-end investment company focused on investing in and supporting small, growing UK businesses and helping their management teams to achieve success The company was formed in September 2017 and its investment strategy is broadly a continuation of the successful strategy employed by the executive members of the Board over the last 8 years.
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Litorina Capital Advisors Litorina Capital Advisors
Litorina invests in companies with the goal of jointly and jointly with management and the board creating responsible conditions for long-term and sustainable industrial value creation. Litorina is responsible for a number of long-term and reputable Scandinavian, European and American institutions that together invested approximately SEK 8 billion in Litorina's five funds.By offering industrial know-how, financial expertise, capital and experience, Litorina becomes an active partner to corporate management and can assist the portfolio companies in their continued development.
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Little fish Group Little fish Group
little fish Group is an private investment group with a mandate to pursue investments in small-cap private equity and venture capital markets. The group currently is engaged in its first investment cycle with investments in a mixed-use development in Perth, and products in insurance and agritech. Our investment hypothesis centres around identifying passion capital opportunities. We welcome enquiries from businesses at all stages of development about how we can partner in the success of your passion. <br />
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Littlejohn & Co Littlejohn & Co
Since 1996, Littlejohn & Co. has invested in middle market companies across the capital structure. Our flexibility and creativity provide our business partners with attractive equity and debt solutions across economic cycles, including “good-to-great” buyouts, corporate carveouts, operational turnarounds, distressed securities, structured capital, and performing credit. Our integrated approach across these strategies creates long-term value and builds sustainable success for our portfolio companies through a disciplined and active approach to engineering change. Littlejohn utilizes its unique culture and complementary capabilities to make transformative equity and debt investments in a broad range of middle market companies. We complement this effort through our investments in the performing credit of corporate borrowers. The companies we invest in are all facing the opportunities and challenges of significant change, and we partner with management to transform these businesses. With over $8 Billion of assets under management, Littlejohn is a private equity and special situations investor with a long track record of successfully building value in middle market companies.
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LIV Capital LIV Capital
LIV Capital is a leading Mexico City-based private equity firm that invests in early and growth stage companies targeting Mexico and the broader Latin American markets. Founded in 2000, the Firm has raised six funds totaling approximately US$320m in aggregate capital commitments. LIV partners with world class management teams leveraging proven business models to build large-scale businesses in high-growth segments of the regional economy. The Firm is a generalist investor with a strong track record in the TMT and Business Services sectors, and is currently actively investing out of Fund IV (Growth Equity) and LIVE Fund I (Venture Capital).
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