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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Wekix
We kick-start growth funding and turn investments into meaningful partnerships. Wekix maximises investment and market opportunities by focusing on the unique connection between Israel and London, leveraging deep roots in both hubs. At any given time, Israel is home to thousands of innovative ideas seeking routes to market. Bestowed with capital, creative services and its own UK market potential, London also provides an ideal gateway to Europe and the US, creating an optimal environment for Israeli high-tech startups to flourish. We’re here to make the best connections and the most lucrative deals.
Wellington
Wellington is one of the world's leading suppliers of advanced electronic solutions for the commercial refrigeration industry. They help refrigeration OEMs and food, beverage and retail brands across the globe to reduce their costs, increase sales, and become more sustainable.
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Their product range includes high efficiency motors, temperature controls, and cloud-based connectivity solutions. Since 2005, they have shipped over six million ECR® Series fan motors, making them the preferred choice for display cases, bottle coolers, and food service cabinets.
Wellington Management
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We aspire to excellence in everything we do for our clients. If we succeed, we can impact the lives of millions of real people — educators and first responders working for a secure retirement, patients seeking care at hospitals, scholarship recipients attending universities, families relying on social programs in countries around the world, and the next generation, whose success depends on a sustainable future.
In the pursuit of investment excellence, we’ve chosen to do things a little differently, including the way we structure our ownership model, organization, and investment platform.
Drawing on proprietary research and a collaborative culture, our investment professionals are well positioned to search for differentiated investment ideas: to uncover the story within the story, the hidden risks, and the potential rewards.
Long-term perspective of a partnership structure
Our private ownership model provides stability, allows us to focus on long-term results, aligns our interests with those of our clients, and helps us to recruit and retain outstanding talent.
Singular focus on investment management
Our only business is managing money for our clients, allowing us to concentrate on our goal of exceeding their investment and service expectations.
Empowered investment teams and rigorous proprietary research
We describe our investment model as a “community of boutiques.” Each investment team has freedom of philosophy and process, while benefiting from the resources of a large, global firm.
Open, collaborative culture
We have built our organization to foster healthy debate, diversity of thought, and the free exchange of ideas — conditions we believe are essential for informed investment decision making.
FACTS AND FIGURES
We trace our roots back to 1928, when Walter Morgan established the first balanced mutual fund in the United States. Today, Wellington Management has a significant presence and long-term track record in nearly all sectors of the global securities markets.
Clients are at the heart of everything we do. That is why we seek to provide superior investment results, exceptional service, and multiple layers of risk management. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.
From our grant, charitable giving, and matching gift programs to our employee volunteering and environmental initiatives, we believe in actively giving back to the communities in which we live and work.
We are committed to minimizing the environmental impact of our operations by promoting sustainable practices and active dialogue among our employees. Our Getting Greener initiative identifies, evaluates, and implements sustainability efforts that complement our day-to-day business and supports our employees and our communities.
Wellington Partners
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Wellington Partners is one of the most successful pan-European venture capital firms. With funds totalling over € 800 million, we have invested throughout Europe in companies that have the potential to become real market leaders for more than 15 years.
We are committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically lead financing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, our own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.
Providing funding is only one part of our business. After funding, the entrepreneurs we back have access to the advice and guidance of our complete team and our entire global network. Our investment professionals operate out of four offices, located in London, Munich, Zurich and Palo Alto. The pan-European and transatlantic makeup of our organisation enables us to support our portfolio in expanding globally.
To date, Wellington Partners has invested in more than 100 companies throughout Europe. We have been a part of great successes as well as dismal failures. In our view, success has always been the result of a great idea executed by a great team with strong leadership and commitment; plus an enormous amount of hard work and an ounce of luck, the good fortune to be in the right place at right time.
Wellstreet
Wellstreet is an innovation and tech ecosystem that includes an investment company, a strategic consultancy firm and a venture building incubator. We believe in challenging the status quo and doing things differently. With a unique model based on operational and vertical-specific knowledge, Wellstreet breeds successful businesses. Wellstreet plays the role of helping entrepreneurs grow and rise to the challenge.
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS)
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The Welsh Carson Way
Since 1979, WCAS has been partnering with outstanding management teams to build leading healthcare and technology companies. Our deep experience and unparalleled network of relationships help us find the best investment opportunities and help our portfolio companies grow.
Our Strategy
WCAS invests in growth-oriented companies in our two focus industries: healthcare and technology. Our strategy is to buy growth businesses, partner with outstanding management teams, and build value through a combination of operational improvements, internal growth initiatives and strategic acquisitions.
For four decades, we have been building our Firm and businesses the Welsh Carson Way. Relationships are the foundation for our success, and we build those relationships with integrity, honesty, and transparency.
For four decades, we have been building our Firm and businesses the Welsh Carson Way. Relationships are the foundation for our success, and we build those relationships with integrity, honesty, and transparency.
Wendel Group
Wendel is one of Europe’s leading listed investment firms, working at the crossroads of industry and finance. A long-term investor with permanent capital, Wendel has been supported for over three centuries by the Wendel family, its reference shareholder.ince 1977, Wendel has invested in a great number of successful industrial companies, including Bureau Veritas, Saint-Gobain, Capgemini, CarnaudMetalbox (Crown Holdings Inc.), BioMérieux, Reynolds, Stallergenes, Wheelabrator Allevard, Valeo, Afflelou, Editis, Deutsch and Legrand.
Wenvest Capital
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We are entrepreneurial minded investors and partners, investing into pre-growth and growth companies, typically around Series A investment phase. With our first investment into a company, we usually invest in the range of EUR 0.5m to EUR 1.0m and reserve further capital for future financing rounds. From taking over board seats, to supporting in future fundraising, strategic & operational sparring or hiring, we can be your partner of choice.
WePlay Ventures
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We are a Gaming VC that invests in early-stage game studios in Turkey, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We invest in early-stage Mobile, PC, Console and Web game studios which are seeking for more than just financial support. We provide capital, know-how, experience, and a wide network to gaming studios that have potential unicorns. We support to game studios with our professional and experienced team in gaming and startup ecosystems. We are not only a financial investor but also a teammate!
Wermuth Asset Management
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Wermuth Asset Management GmbH (“WAM”) is a German family office and BaFin-regulated investment adviser.
We prove through high risk-adjusted total returns that investment strategies which also insist on generating a positive environmental impact generate higher financial returns.
Attracting capital through performance, we intend to contribute to the move of trillions of euros into resource-efficient companies and renewable power – and thus help to slow and then stop climate change.
As the world economy is undergoing major structural changes we see outstanding investment opportunities. The internet, the rise in demand from emerging markets, competitive decentralized renewable energy and resource-efficiency have changed the rules of the game: a global “green industrial revolution” is under way with “energy, transport, food, and financial transitions” in full swing: many long-established companies and whole sectors will disappear while new champions are emerging.
We have in the past identified similar global macro trends ahead of others, like the transitions that were under way in Eastern Europe. We developed the detailed know-how to benefit from it: over the decade from its launch in March 1998 through March 2008 our first fund thus delivered a 13x gross return, which made it one of the best-performing funds of any style.
We have substantial experience working and investing in Western Europe and in emerging markets across all asset classes, as in economic and geopolitical analysis. We currently focus on investing in private companies in the “green growth” area. We see this as “the next thing”. This is because there is a strong demand from global population growth for more resource efficiency, as well as a shortage of capital. Moreover, new green growth technologies and business models often provide strategic input for our investments across all asset classes. Our founder, Jochen Wermuth, thus also serves as a member of the German government’s new sovereign wealth fund, its €24bn “Energy Transition Fund” (Atommüllentsorgungsfonds).
