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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Workday Ventures Workday Ventures
Workday Ventures is the strategic capital arm of Workday, Inc., focused on accelerating the growth of emerging enterprise software companies that are valuable to Workday customers and complementary to Workday products. Workday was founded on a disruptive idea: to put people at the center of enterprise software. Now, more than a decade later, we still deliver on that idea every day. Thousands of organizations, from midsize companies to Fortune 50 enterprises, trust Workday as their partner. This year, Workday achieved an industry-leading 97 percent customer satisfaction rating. Workday Ventures stems from the same roots, making us a strong partner to support you on your journey. When we launched our Workday Ventures fund in early 2018, we decided to approach things a little differently. Rather than just being a source of strategic capital, we set out to be an active partner, helping accelerate the growth of early stage companies that provide solutions complementary to Workday offerings and that are attractive to our customers. Our intention was also rooted in Workday core values, which we feel are foundational to our success. In addition to a focus on innovation and customer commitment, we also function with integrity. We want to be known for making good on our promises and doing things the right way by helping our portfolio companies understand the enterprise technology space, connecting them with customers, and offering technical integrations that help their business grow.
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World Fund World Fund
We help to decarbonise the global economy. As a climate tech VC, we are driven by tackling the climate crisis and only invest in technologies with scalable businesses and significant emissions savings potential. We support startups from early to growth stage, focusing on Energy, Food and Agriculture, Manufacturing, Buildings, and Mobility. Entrepreneurs who understand decarbonisation as a value driver are whom we back; those who think big, act macro; those who build tech for a regenerative world.
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World Innovation Lab (WiL) World Innovation Lab (WiL)
Gateway to global growth We are a US and Japan-based VC investing in growth-stage companies that are ready to scale and enter new markets. We help US startups expand to Japan and Asia, and Japanese startups expand globally. Our capital comes from governments and global corporations in Japan, and we work hard with our Limited Partners on evolving their own innovation capabilities on top of offering financial returns. In other words, we act as the bridge between startups and corporations across key innovation hubs around the globe - starting with Japan and the US. Investment Mid & Late Stage Investments in US Multi-stage Investments in Japan & Asia Investments in Venture Funds We make direct investments in growth and late stage companies. As a part of our investment, we also provide Japan expansion support to US startups, and vice versa. In addition to direct investments, we also invest in emerging and exceptional venture capital funds. Global Expansion Executive Relationships Business Partnerships Customer Adoption Talent Media Relations We are a team of experienced, cross-cultural investors and operators. We are startup founders, company builders, and corporate leaders who understand global growth. Our partners in Japan and throughout Asia are forward-thinking enterprises eager to collaborate with Silicon Valley’s most innovative startups. Together, we are uniquely positioned to help new companies enter global markets and accelerate revenue growth. Empowerment Corporate Innovation Advisory Government-backed Entrepreneur Programs In addition to facilitating growth through investment, we help our corporate partners evolve their own innovation capabilities through executive training, strategic advisory, and partnerships with leading startups. We also partner with government organizations to provide workshops, pitch contests, and mentorship programs open to the general entrepreneur and academic communities. Our companies and corporate partners are all members of the WiL tribe. Our success as a team requires camaraderie, commitment, and a shared understanding of our core values.
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Worth Capital Worth Capital
We believe that the normal rules of business have changed and it’s nimble entrepreneurs that are challenging the old order and becoming the catalyst for our disruptive age. It’s start-ups that are creating new consumer behaviours and leading a recovering economy. For most aspiring entrepreneurs, securing investment if often key so we’ve developed a unique approach to finding & funding early stage businesses in high-growth sectors. By creating & delivering high profile business competitions, we uncover the very best entrepreneurs of tomorrow. In October 2016, we launched The Start-Up Series - the UK's largest ever seed funding competition. Each month brings a new opportunity for start-ups to win up to £250,000 of S/EIS equity investment to kick-start their business. Investments are made from the Start-Up Series SEIS & EIS Fund - a regulated fund which is managed by established Fund Managers, Amersham Investment Management.
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Wren House Infrastructure Management Ltd. Wren House Infrastructure Management Ltd.
Wren House Infrastructure Management Limited (“Wren House”, “Wren House Infrastructure”), based in London, U.K., was established in 2013. Wren House is a captive global infrastructure investment manager, with a focus on delivering attractive risk adjusted equity returns through a disciplined investment approach, a long-term responsible investment horizon and active asset management. With a flexible and commercial approach to investment, we have a clear mandate and a long term view without the need to exit.
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Wren Investment Office Wren Investment Office
Wren Investment office is a multi-family office in London, offering wealth management, investment management and family office services. We look after wealthy families, charities and endowments, who entrust us to oversee, grow and secure their financial interests. <br /> <br /> Our global alliance oversees more than 110 clients with a combined net worth of over $11 billion. With offices in the UK, the US and Spain we offer global perspective with local capability.
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Wu Capital Wu Capital
Wu Capital operates as an investment company. The Company invests in technology, media, telecom (TMT), healthcare, fintech, high-tech, offline experience consumptions, virtual experience consumptions, culture and Sports, and other related fields. Wu Capital operates business worldwide.
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WXR Fund WXR Fund
The WXR Fund invests in gender diverse seed stage companies that are transforming business and human interaction with spatial computing (VR/AR) and artificial intelligence (AI). We are the only venture firm at the intersection of the next wave of computing and female founders. This is the ideal time to invest in these areas. Similar to the broad impact of the internet, spatial computing will be the next way we will communicate and consume digital content. Combined with the power of artificial intelligence, new companies will be created and most industries will be transformed. <br />
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Wychwood Capital Investments Limited Wychwood Capital Investments Limited
Wychwood Capital Investments is a family-run private capital partnership established in 2008. Wychwood Capital supports the investment and trust activities of our family businesses which have been operating for three generations. Our goal is to allocate to alternative investment strategies that emphasize both capital preservation and alpha generation across varying market conditions. We continually seek to enhance our diversification profile, while reducing overall correlation to major asset classes and our existing businesses. <br />
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Wyre Capital Wyre Capital
The global economy exists as a web of relationships between individuals and firms. These relationships take the form of contracts defining the creation and utilization of money, real and intangible assets, equity, debt and other instruments. Within the legacy financial system, intermediaries have established control over the lifecycle of these economic primitives, administering them within siloed systems which require placing trust in a centralized third party.<br /> <br /> This legacy architecture has fundamentally failed to take advantage of the internet, a global, standardized and open communications network available to almost everyone on earth. The current financial system is plagued with administrative, compliance and transaction costs, geographic isolation, counterparty risk, downtime, invasions of privacy, restrictions on economic freedom and the perpetual risk of currency inflation. The current system also fundamentally limits the scope and nature of economic interactions between people, firms, software and machines.<br /> <br /> A competing financial system has emerged in the form of internet-native, distributed software systems founded on cryptography. These systems present a fundamentally differentiated architecture that offers a universal standard for money, assets and debt, while introducing a novel asset class that is enabled by the distributed trust inherent in these cryptographic protocols. Bitcoin established the concept of digital scarcity, where an internet-native good or asset cannot be replicated. Bitcoin and other crypto-assets are bearer instruments that can be transmitted peer-to-peer over a network that is not controlled by a centralized party. This allows bitcoin to operate as a reserve asset resistant to seizure and transaction censorship.<br /> <br /> The concept of digital scarcity is now being implemented in a broad range of crypto-assets, with differing structures to suit a range of applications being deployed. The unification of a global asset register, digital money and arbitrary programmability enables limitless innovation, bringing applications that facilitate asset exchange, debt issuance, derivative trading, identity management, data storage and computing markets, prediction markets, insurance, machine to machine payments, asset securitization and unitization to this parallel financial system. We expect that, in time, the financial services offered by legacy intermediaries will be replicated in code and executed within this distributed economy, enabling the market to source these services freely, while retaining control of their assets and personal data.<br /> <br /> The maturation of these distributed systems will catalyze a paradigm shift away from the traditional means of developing, distributing and monetizing software. The advent of crypto-assets and crypto-economic incentives enables a distributed group of network participants to deliver software in a market subject to perfect competition. The combination of open source software and commoditized service delivery has the potential to reshape the economic model of the software industry in a manner not seen since the SaaS revolution.<br /> <br /> Wyre Capital seeks to invest in the infrastructure and applications that will form the foundation of this decentralized financial system and distributed economy.
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