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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Skystar Capital
Skystar Capital is a venture capital firm backed by leading corporate groups with access to media, telecommunications, financial services, agriculture, healthcare, consumer products and services, hospitality, and education sectors.
Skytree Capital Partners
Skytree Capital Partners is an innovative private equity firm founded by a dynamic team of relentless entrepreneurs. Our investment strategy identifies key sectors such as technology, healthcare, energy, and new agricultural markets poised for growth. Today's savvy investors are searching for more than traditional investments. An emerging desire for something that will create new national brands, medical breakthroughs, and social responsibility is catching the eye of investors. For these reasons, investment trends show a sophisticated attraction to our new paradigm of private equity investing.
Slack Fund
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The Slack Fund is a venture capital fund that invests in and collaborates with entrepreneurs creating the next great software companies.
We’re long-term partners for your company. We put our money and time towards helping you build the future of work.
Lean on experts from the Slack organization for help with go-to-market, product-led growth, team building and more.
We’ve made over 80 investments to date, at all stages of company growth, and with all kinds of companies.
The importance of effective IT management and security can never be overstated. We’re always on the lookout for products that make IT simpler, more intuitive and, above all, secure.
Slack was created to make people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. Now we’re on a mission to find more companies like us.
Good employee engagement leads to better company performance. We back products that help companies keep team satisfaction top of mind
Slow Ventures
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The most powerful ideas, companies, and industries aren’t created overnight. With a community built on collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.
Smart Infastructure Ventures
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Who we are
Smart Infrastructure Ventures is a heterogeneous group of successful entrepreneurs, founders & investors. We are supported by a likeminded international network of advisors, corporate partners & co-investors. In addition we are proud to call the award-winning SpinLab – The HHL Accelerator our family as well as the renowned HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, who has several times been awarded as the best university for entrepreneurship, our friends. At Smart Infrastructure Ventures we believe that a great team of founders can be successful in most markets – let us be part of your exciting journey!
Stages
Our investment focus is early stage startups and unlike some other VCs: we really mean early – don’t worry too much about turnover (yet)! When we invest in a team of founders we are usually the startup’s first professional investor. At that point the company may have raised some money from the FFFs (friends, family & fools – oh and maybe from some angels too ;-), released an MVP and gained first customer traction. We typically invest a low six digit Euro amount as a first investment in a pre-seed or seed round but keep significant capital for follow-on rounds.
Sectors
As our name Smart Infrastructure Ventures suggests, we especially like anything surrounding smart city, energy, proptech, e-mobility, IoT, ehealth etc. – sometimes it is as easy as that! And although smart infrastructure is our focus, we would still like to hear from you in case your team is operating in potentially related areas. Please contact us as well if you believe your startup could be the next big thing – we will definitely take a look.
Geographies
We at Smart Infrastructure Ventures think globally, feel at home in Europe, operate Germany-wide, have a regional interest in East Germany as it’s our home soil and have an office at Baumwollspinnerei in Leipzig. Especially if you are a founder from East Germany: let’s have a chat about what you are trying to achieve!
Smart-Holding
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АBOUT US
Smart-Holding is one of the largest investment groups in Ukraine
Smart-Holding is one of the largest investment groups in Ukraine, comprised of companies that share common strategic goals and business principles. Smart-Holding focuses on the industries that are the key sectors of the country’s economy. Smart-Holding invests in enterprises in such areas as metals and mining, oil and gas, agriculture, shipbuilding and real estate. Smart-Holding also participates in other projects as a portfolio investor.
Smart-Holding’s strategy aims to deliver the effective management of a diversified portfolio of investments, ensuring long term growth in its value. Smart-Holding’s enterprises are continuously looking for new business lines that could become development drivers both for the enterprises and the economy of Ukraine.
Smartblock Capital
Smart Block Capital is a Crypto-Asset Investment Fund dedicated to funding Blockchain Startups, specifically in the seed-round of funding. <br />
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In addition to fundraising, Smart Block Capital offers advisory services that are inclusive of their wide network of blockchain technology investors, digital asset influencers, marketing entities and more.
SmartFin
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SmartFin operates both early stage and growth stage investment vehicles targeting technology companies, headquartered in Europe and the United Kingdom that display the potential for significant value creation. Our total AUM amounts to more than 350 million euro, and investments range from 0,5 million euro to 25 million euro.
It is a clear strategic choice to focus on companies in the broader technology sector given the successful track record of our team in this area. Our team consists of four investment professionals and three advisors.
We are a strong value-added partner to our portfolio companies given the successful track record, expertise and complementary experience within our team. We support our companies to become successful international leaders by accelerating the scaling and monetization of their growth.
We are convinced that a well-diversified portfolio is a better long-term strategy than a narrow focus on one specific technology area.
SmartGate VC
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We invest on the edge where science and entrepreneurship join to disrupt the status quo. We identify the next industry-defining ideas on day one and inject the capital, talent, and industry connections necessary for powering their pre-seed to seed transformation. Investing at the Intersection of AI with Healthcare, Biotech, Security and IoT
SmartGateVC
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SmartGateVC is a Silicon Valley pre-seed venture capital fund backed by Tim Draper and a network of entrepreneurs and professionals from the US, Europe, and MENA. Our key focus is deep tech: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Security, Internet of Things (IoT) and emerging Computational Biotech, Quantum Computing, and Blockchain across California, Massachusetts, NYC, Armenia, and wider Eastern Europe.
SmartGateVC is a big family of startup and technology enthusiasts, seasoned professionals and a bunch of talented teams on their way of crafting the success on the global landscape.
