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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Outset
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Together, we write $25-500K checks into early-stage companies building in AI, deeptech, and future of work. Community has always been important to us. Previously, we built the Archive, a co-living house of 22 founders, engineers, and researchers (featured on the Today Show!).
Now, we host monthly events, including small AI dinners, fireside chats, and Builder Hours for folks thinking about starting something new. If you’re in the Bay Area, join us.
Outward VC
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We propel early-stage fintech startups in the UK and EU. Our comprehensive view of the fintech landscape has seen us back ambitious entrepreneurs solving global problems in financial services, and the connected sectors influencing the future of financial services for companies, societies and everyday people.
Our team is tightknit, fast moving and vigilant for every chance to add value.
Founders begin and end their journey with the same people – a bureaucracy-free, focussed and cohesive team. Our diverse backgrounds, career paths and personal interests converge around a shared passion for enabling founders and the ideas they believe in.
Trust us to understand where you come from and help you realise your ambition.
Overkill Ventures
Overkill Ventures is a Nordics based angel fund that invests in pre-seed b2b software startups across CEE and Nordics. We invest as early as angel investors do, however, have the resources, know-how and network to help startups get to product-market fit and scale from there.
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Overture VC
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Overture is an early-stage climate tech venture fund with a hyper-differentiated edge. We invest in climate startups and focus on helping those founders win government support and navigate regulatory complexity. The federal government has delivered a muscular industrial policy that erected a $1.0 Trillion wall of money for climate and a set of rules that will shape important new industries of the future. Each Overture portfolio company receives in-kind support from the country’s leading climate government affairs firm, Boundary Stone Partners, to unlock the full potential of federal, state, and municipal governments.
OVO Fund
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We seek to be the first institutional investor in your capital efficient startup. Although having customers is not a requirement, having an extraordinary team is
OVO incubates and backs scary early stage startups. We have invested in over 90 technology startups including Palantir, Wish, RelateIQ, Signifyd, Piazza, Addepar, Rhumbix, Juniper Square, Kiwi Crate, Man Crates, Unify ID and other promising companies.
We are investing out of our second fund of $35MM and write early pre-seed checks into exceptional founders with innovative ideas across all capital efficient sectors.
Our typical check size is $250k to $500k and then we reserve $2 for every $1 for follow-on investment that takes place prior to the Series A.
Owl Ventures
Owl Ventures is a Silicon Valley based venture capital fund that invests in the world’s leading education technology companies. Owl Ventures is a Silicon Valley based venture capital fund that invests in the world's leading education technology companies. The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education and career mobility/professional learning. Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category leading companies. The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management.
OWW Capital Partners
OWW Capital Partners ("OWW") formerly known as OCBC, Wearnes & Walden Management was established by OCBC Bank, WBL Corporation and Walden International in 1991. OWW is currently owned by its management team. OWW invests in service providers in infocomm technology, logistics, education/training, healthcare, financial services and consumer services sectors. Currently, OWW has over US$140 million under management.
Ox. B.V (OX Partners)
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Ox. participates in medium-sized companies in the Netherlands, where Ox. plays an active role in partnership with stakeholders in the further development of the company. This involvement can vary from supporting the current management in individual projects to carrying out a financial and / or operational restructuring with full end responsibility. Managers and owners with whom Ox. have worked, are happy to share their experiences with you.
Oxfam's Enterprise Development Programme
One person in three in the world lives in poverty. Oxfam is determined to change that world by mobilizing the power of people against poverty.
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Around the globe, Oxfam works to find practical, innovative ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty and thrive. We save lives and help rebuild livelihoods when crisis strikes. And we campaign so that the voices of the poor influence the local and global decisions that affect them.
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In all we do, Oxfam works with partner organizations and alongside vulnerable women and men to end the injustices that cause poverty.
Oxford Capital Partners LLP
Venture Capital investments into early-stage technology companies have been at the heart of our business since we launched our first fund in 1999. Our London-based Ventures team has more than 60 years of investment experience. They back entrepreneurs who are aiming to solve big problems in innovative ways.
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Our infrastructure team focuses on asset-backed investment and financing. They are specialists in the energy sector, and to date they have invested more than $350m into renewable energy, construction finance and other power-generating assets.
