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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Sussex Place Ventures Sussex Place Ventures
Sussex Place Ventures is an early stage venture capital investor which backs entrepreneurs building: <br /> • software and digital companies, and <br /> • businesses with strong patent-protectable technology. <br /> <br /> We are an independently managed venture capital company owned by London Business School. <br /> <br /> For over 40 years London Business School has been graduating top class alumni who have found their way into many walks of business and financial life worldwide. At every opportunity we try to use our unique access to this network for the benefit of our portfolio companies. <br /> <br /> What we're looking for? <br /> • We are an early stage investor. <br /> • We like to follow our money. <br /> • We invest in entrepreneurial teams. <br /> • We invest initially up to £1m per company and then more over a company’s life. <br /> • We invest in Software and Digital companies, and businesses with strong patent-protectable technology.
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SustainVC SustainVC
The SustainVC series of impact investment funds back innovative entrepreneurs that share a vision of a sustainable, more equitable, and healthier world. <br /> <br /> Since 2007, the SustainVC series of impact funds have provided capital to early-stage and growth-stage companies with the goal of returning measurable social and environmental impact as well as market rate financial returns. Companies are typically seeking $500,000 to $5 million. Areas of interest include: Climate & Sustainability, Equality & Empowerment, and Health & Education.
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Sustany Capital Sustany Capital
Sustany Capital is a blockchain venture fund headquartered in Newport Beach, CA. Aside from investing in blockchain-related projects, the firm lends its expertise to existing companies interested in 'security token offerings'​.
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Sutter Hill Ventures Sutter Hill Ventures
Sutter Hill Ventures has financed technology-based start-ups and assisted entrepreneurs in building market-leading companies since 1962. Through their decades of experience, they have developed strong industry networks, considerable operating and venture capital experience, and an understanding of the challenges that early-stage and high-growth companies face. They offer expertise in developing business strategy and partnerships, building management teams, and financing companies in both public and private markets. <br /> <br /> They are experienced operating executives who love building companies. Their approach is straightforward. They have a collegial and uncomplicated operating style that is direct and results-driven. They work as a team to respond quickly to new investment proposals and to their portfolio companies' needs. Once they invest in a company, they bring to bear their time, expertise, and extensive industry networks to help these companies succeed. Building companies is their top priority and their favorite occupation. <br /> <br /> They have structured Sutter Hill to allow them to invest in a focused portfolio of early-stage companies and build value for the long-term. They are always available to their CEOs and founders as advisors and mentors ready with practical and strategic advice from their own venture capital and operating experiences. They don't insist on winning every argument, but they will always tell you what they think. They also have a network of executives, advisors, and support infrastructure to help their portfolio get going in the right direction quickly. As former line managers themselves, they know the vision, energy and commitment that building a successful company requires. They strive to build partnerships with entrepreneurs that combine dedicated support from Sutter Hill with trust that the teams they back can make good decisions and execute on the details. <br /> <br /> Their limited partners have committed long-term support to their evergreen fund which allows them to make long-term commitments to their companies. In addition, a significant portion of every dollar they invest is their own money, and each one of them participates in every investment. This direct investment reinforces each partner's commitment to every company in their portfolio and ensures that they bring every available resource to bear in helping their companies succeed.
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SV Angel SV Angel
SV Angel is a San Francisco-based seed fund founded by Ron Conway. SV Angel provides seed investment and advice to early stage companies focused on Internet software.<br /> <br /> SV Angel takes a portfolio approach to seed investing. We differ from a traditional venture capital firm by not taking board seats and investing a larger number of companies. We leverage a best in class relationship network to be the valley's human router and help startups with business development, financing, M&A and other strategic advice.<br /> <br /> Ron pioneered this approach over 20 years ago and SV Angel still employs it today. Over the last 20 years the firm and partners have invested and advised companies such as Facebook, Google, PayPal, Dropbox, Airbb, Pinterest, Twitter, SnapChat, Square, Cloudera and many more.
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SV Health Investors SV Health Investors
SV Health Investors is a specialist healthcare fund manager, investing across stages, geographic regions, and sectors, with expertise spanning biotechnology, dementia, healthcare growth, healthcare technology and public equities. Alongside our core funds, SV manages the Dementia Discovery Fund, focused on discovering and developing novel therapeutics for dementia, and International Biotechnology Trust plc, a publicly-traded investment trust.
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SV Investment SV Investment
SV Investment is a venture capital & private equity firm headquartered in Seoul, Korea, with offices located in Boston, Shanghai, Shenzhen. <br /> <br /> Founded in 2006, we've invested in more than 170 companies, and made over 30 successful IPOs. We invest in sectors with high growth potentials, mainly TMT, consumer & entertainment, healthcare and advanced manufacturing. <br /> <br /> As a strategic value creator, we prefer to lead the investment round and form a sound partnership with our investee companies, support the company in globalization, business development, strategy, HR etc.
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SV Tech Ventures SV Tech Ventures
SV Tech Ventures was established in 2015 in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley and the world's hottest technology innovation hub, by four tech industry veterans with a mission to empower early-stage promising innovations. Through many years of experience, our partners accumulated broad knowledge and extensive resources in both entrepreneurship and investments in various fields. We have faith in companies that have successfully demonstrated their capabilities to develop advanced technologies, especially those protected by high barriers to entry and thus benefit from the market leadership positions. Born from innovations, these technology breakthroughs are deemed to have significant impacts on key industries and our society alike.
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Svetofor Ventures Svetofor Ventures
We invest in projects where new ideas and technology rules. Especially in Legal Tech, FinTech, and MedTech. We invest on early stages and ready to make angel investments, although we prefer projects on a noticeable stage of development, at least with an MVP and active users or customers. We can not only invest, but also help startup with business expertise and marketing. We give your project green if we're ready to support it, yellow if we like it, but there're some issues to improve, red if we can not support it. We're ready to discuss any good ideas, feel free to contact us. We're young and flexible, we talk the same language entrepreneurs
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SVG Ventures SVG Ventures
SVG Ventures-THRIVE is the leading agri-food innovation ecosystem, comprised of top agriculture, food & technology corporations, universities and investors. With a community of over 2,500 startups from 90 countries, the THRIVE platform invests, accelerates and creates unparalleled access for entrepreneurs to scale globally.
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