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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Starchain Capital Starchain Capital
Starchain Capital LP’s is a hedge fund committed to exceptional returns through an actively managed portfolio of blockchain based digital assets. We early identify greats founders and leverage our network to access projects making the most promising use of the blockchain and distributed systems. We invest in breakthrough technologies built by strong technical teams and are convinced that in a near future, large pieces of our society will be structured around blockchain-based incentive systems.
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StarFab Accelerator StarFab Accelerator
StarFab is a partner of innovation, enabling and facilitating corporate-startup innovation and collaboration. Our corporate partners include over 20 Taiwanese listed companies, such as Advantech, Inventec, Delta Electronics, Flytech etc. Over 120 startups have been part of our programs to date, with 47% of alumni receiving external funding after graduation, and program graduates aggressively expanding their businesses globally. We are always on the lookout for innovative solutions and exceptional entrepreneurs, and provide extraordinary startups with the best resources to help turn their ideas into a successful reality.
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Starfish Ventures Starfish Ventures
Starfish was founded by John Dyson and Michael Panaccio in Melbourne, Australia in July 2001. <br /> <br /> Starfish has raised three funds: the PreSeed Fund and Technology Funds I and II, totalling over AU$400M in funds raised. <br /> ​ <br /> <br /> The team has invested in over 60 companies to date with 14 trade sales and IPOs, including listings on the NASDAQ, AIM and ASX. The Starfish team has established a strong reputation for partnering with talented entrepreneurs to grow innovative companies from an Australian base. <br /> <br /> <br /> Starfish supports commercialisation of Australian R&D, and has undertaken 19 investments with universities and research institutes across Australia. Starfish Ventures partners with talented entrepreneurs to build successful innovative global technology companies. Our team’s proven expertise in venture capital investing, entrepreneurship and technology gives us the skills to navigate the challenges of seeding, building and managing high growth technology businesses from an Australian base.
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Starling Group Starling Group
Starling International Management Ltd is a family office specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. Starling International Management is a Private equity firm. The firm does not invest in derivatives, currencies, hedge funds, retail infrastructure real estate and debt instruments, and rarely invests directly in publicly traded companies. It does not invest in limited partnerships that finance businesses whose activities are not compatible with the Jawa family's ethical and religious beliefs such as enterprises with significant interests in gaming, weaponry, pornography, pork products, tobacco, and alcoholic beverages production and distribution. The firm is sector agnostic. For fund of fund investments, the firm seeks to make investments in private equity funds in leveraged buyout and management buyout funds, growth capital funds, expansion capital funds, seed and early stage growth capital funds, expansion capital funds, seed early stage venture capital funds, and late stage venture capital funds. For direct investments, the firm seeks to invest in growth capital, late venture, middle market, and buyout investments. It prefers to invest in consumer services and service companies in oil and gas industry. The firm seeks to invest in North America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim countries, Australia, India, China, and the MENA region. It also seeks direct investments in GCC region. The firm makes direct investments between $5 million and $20 million and limited partnerships investments between $5 million to $50 million in increments of $5 million. For direct investments, it invests in select transactions, either independently or through co-investment positions with existing private equity and venture capital funds. The firm typically makes three to five investments in a year. For direct investments, it seeks to invest for a maximum term of 10 years, with three years thereafter for dissolution. Starling International Management Ltd was founded in 1986 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Starquest Starquest
The best shareholder to accelerate the growth of the best entrepreneurs. A pure French venture capital player involved in the € 200K - € 1.5M tranche, Starquest manages (as of September 1, 2012) 20 million euros invested in 50 companies via 13 ISF holding companies and one SCR.
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Starshot Capital Starshot Capital
We support ambitious founders building gigatonne-scale climate solutions to decarbonize massive markets.
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Start Garden Start Garden
We all win when anyone who wants to start a business in our community has the opportunity and a platform to be successful.
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Starta Ventures Starta Ventures
tarta is a venture ecosystem to find, foster, and fund early stage talent in tech. Our mission is to provide opportunities for those who want to start: 1) International founders to go global with their startup 2) Professionals to boost their career in tech by joining an early stage startup team 3) Investors to begin investing in early stage tech companies We are on a path to become the leading venture capital ecosystem, whose strategy revolves entirely around early stage startups.
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StartersHub StartersHub
We are the leading early-stage tech investment fund of Turkey, currently aiming to become the leader of MENA&CEE region. Startups we take under our wings can expect to be part of our proactive family, as we only make long-term commitments with all the startups we take in, where we hustle, succeed and grow together. We’re here for founders working to disrupt the system for good. We focus on startups solving issues with scalable solutions, making real impact, disrupting the industry.
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Startmesh Innovation Fund Startmesh Innovation Fund
Founded in 2014, Cataliize is "The World's Venture Catalyst"​. Bring us your brilliant validated venture and we’ll back you. All the way, all around the world. That’s the power of our global human and financial capital network. <br /> <br /> We are an international group of over 170 people in 36 cities who help entrepreneurs take their ventures to the world. We have founded, funded, and operated large and small businesses across a range of industries in all continents. We were founded as Startmesh in 2014, and in 2018 renamed the company to Cataliize. We empower startups to successfully navigate the stage where most others fail: the time between your locally validated idea and global success story. <br /> <br /> WHAT WE OFFER <br /> <br /> * Expertise in global commercialisation and expansion <br /> * Creative and unique access to funding from clients, government, and investors <br /> * Proven and transparent processes that accelerate the path to profitability <br /> * Seasoned executives with deep, subject-matter expertise <br /> * Cost-efficient back office support <br /> * Growth hacking, marketing and communication execution
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