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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Wangara Capital
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Wangara Capital Partners is an impact investment firm currently launching a climate-focused fund in Ghana. This is an evergreen fund with a target fund size of USD10 million and a minimum fund size of USD 4 million.
The fund will invest between USD50,000 to USD500,000 in equity and quasi-equity in SGBs in the missing middle that are engaged in renewable energy, energy efficiency, waste management, water management, climate smart agriculture or generally climate friendly businesses. Wangara also supports the growth and sustainability of these SGBs by making available pre-investment and post-investment Technical Assistance Grants to assist their scale and overall ESG impact.
Warburg Pincus LLC
At Warburg Pincus, private equity investing is our only business. Established over 50 years ago, Warburg Pincus has invested more than $77 billion in more than 870 companies in more than 40 countries around the world.
Warsaw Equity Group
Warsaw Equity Group (WEG) is a privately held investment company, created by entrepreneurs with over 20 years long track record of successfully supporting business ventures, both by investing their own capital, as well as by providing ongoing operational and strategic support for active investment projects.
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We invest in projects with high growth potential and exploit the opportunities that appear at the different stages of enterprise development – starting from the support of companies that are in the early stage of development, through investing in quickly growing companies, up to carrying out financial or operational restructuring of mature businesses.
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Our effectiveness results from the careful selection of projects and early identification of their strategic growth paths, as well as the from the involvement and close cooperation of our team with other shareholders and boards during the consistent implementation of jointly mapped out strategies. This approach results in a rapid increase in the scale of operations and the market value of companies in which we have invested.
Waterdrip Capital
Waterdrip is a blockchain fund focusing on the investment towards crypto ecosystem, the blockchain underlying technology and the blockchain scene constructions. Its founding partners are also the experts and early participants of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Waterdrip company is registered in the British Virgin Islands and now located in Zhangjiang, Shanghai.<br />
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Waterdrip contributes more to the early stage investment of outstanding blockchain projects, especially to the China’s blockchain underlying technology projects. Since its inception, Waterdrip has invested many quality projects at home and abroad such as EOS、COSMOS、GXS、QTUM、Vechain、YOYOW、EchoLink、SDchain、EOSgravity、Rchain、Tokenclub、BOX、Alphacat、M2Cchain、DHC and BKBT.<br />
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Waterdrip has been named as one of the top 40 China’s most competitive token fund and won“the Most Outstanding Digital Asset Management Team Award” at POWER 2018 China Blockchain Contributors Annual Summit hosted by Mars Finance.
Waterfall Asset Management
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Waterfall Asset Management, LLC is an SEC-registered institutional asset manager focused on structured credit (asset-backed securities and loans) and private equity investments. Waterfall was founded in 2005 by Tom Capasse and Jack Ross, two individuals who were early leaders of the ABS industry, and who together have over 60 years of proven ABS/Loan credit analysis, trading, banking and servicing experience. Capasse and Ross started the Asset Finance Group at Merrill Lynch in the 1980s and conducted the first ABS issuances for many of the more than 40 ABS sectors in which Waterfall invests. Waterfall has approximately $10.5 billion* in assets under management. Waterfall utilizes a relative value approach to investing in structured credit and loan products. Leveraging the extensive experience of its founding partners and talented portfolio managers, the firm sources, analyzes, and purchases ABS and loan investments across multiple sectors globally in an effort to seek an attractive risk/return profile. This multi-sector specialization in both ABS and loans enables Waterfall to seek to provide its clients with attractive, competitive returns that are generally uncorrelated to most traditional investment sectors. Waterfall Asset Management’s headquarter offices are located in New York City.
Waterland Private Equity Investments BV
Waterland is an independent private equity investment group that supports entrepreneurs in realizing their growth ambitions. With substantial financial resources and committed industry expertise, Waterland enables its portfolio companies to achieve accelerated growth both organically and through acquisitions.
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Waterland acts as an active shareholder in its portfolio companies, playing a key role in their strategic and operational development, growth and performance. With its experienced, entrepreneurial investment team, Waterland aims to help ambitious entrepreneurs obtain a strong market position in today’s increasingly competitive business environment. To date, Waterland has made investments in over 500 companies.
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Waterland Private Equity Investments B.V. is registered as a fund manager in the register maintained by the Dutch regulator, the AFM (Autoriteit Financiële Markten).
Waterline Ventures
Waterline is a group of longtime healthcare investors who partner with amazing entrepreneurs tackling the toughest problems in the healthcare industry. Waterline Ventures invests in the early stage healthcare technology and services companies that are improving the way care is delivered. Increasing costs, inconsistent quality, and inadequate access to healthcare create the need for innovation. Companies that address these issues stand to create tremendous value while improving people's lives across the country and around the world. There is a massive and growing opportunity for technological transformation in healthcare. Our entrepreneurs are leading the change within healthcare.
Waterton Global Resource Management Inc.
Waterton Global Resource Management is a private equity firm that specializes in the metals and mining sector. The firm’s unique, integrated institutional platform combines in-house project evaluations, mining operations and asset management expertise to generate superior returns for its investors.
Watertower Ventures
We are a seed and early stage venture capital fund actively investing in and supporting entrepreneurs and their companies through a hands-on, service-driven approach. We invest in startups led by innovative entrepreneurs focused on building products and services for the connected consumer. We seek out founders who are passionate about building revolutionary products and groundbreaking companies with global ambition.
Wave Capital
Wave is a venture capital firm that specializes in marketplaces. We lead seed investments in a small number of companies every year. `From hiring an early team, to finding product-market fit and raising a strong series A, our firm is designed to be the only partner founders need as they get up and running.
