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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ZAS Ventures ZAS Ventures
Founded in 2021, ZAS Ventures is a Seed fund in Ukraine to invest in SaaS and cloud infrastructure startups in Central and Eastern Europe that target the U.S. market, leveraging partners’ startup founder background and first-hand experience scaling sales in cloud-based products. ZAS Ventures is supported by a fund-building accelerator called VC Lab run by the Founder Institute in the Bay Area. Investment Strategy: Our strategy is to help founders with four key elements on their path of building the next unicorns from the CEE region. Tune product & revise strategy Engage advisors and first U.S. execs Grow sales to $MM ARR Attract Series A lead investor We are a founder-friendly, “hands-on,” and mentor-driven fund. Ex-Founders, Marketing Leaders, and Executives at Top Tech companies in the U.S. will be mentoring our startups to accelerate their path to unicorn status.
ZBS Capital ZBS Capital
ZBS CAPITAL is a VC fund dedicated to build a decentralized world together. ZBS CAPITAL story starts in 2017 with an ICO boom and continues nowadays. We have assembled the right team from all over the world with diverse experience in the main areas of blockchain, marketing and finance. ZBS CAPITAL supports promising early-stage projects & companies with finance and advisory help. Our Telegram & Twitter mostly focused on short/mid-term trading deals. Our analysts & traders do a deep research based on the fundamentals: tech development of the project, social impact & awareness, tokenomics, upcoming news & events, vision & ability to reach the goal.
ZDream Ventures ZDream Ventures
We encourage entrepreneurial ultimate dreams, foster the business to face the challenges and get the success with Chinese Fund, Experience and Technology. We assist as – Accelerator I Venture I Media for Indian start-ups and facilitate them to grow. Our mission is to bridge China and India TMT industry to achieve win-win growth story.
Zelkova Ventures Zelkova Ventures
Zelkova Ventures looks for leading companies and management within their industry when determining investment choices. We conduct complete due diligence of all our potential investments to ensure the firm’s vision aligns with our investment vision and goals. When dealing with industries and firms that have yet to mature Zelkova Ventures conducts deep analysis into its investments to help determine and pick the future market leader. We are flexible in providing capital in a manner that addresses the goals of the management and shareholders of the companies in which we invest. <br />
Zephyr Acorn Zephyr Acorn
Zephyr Acorn invests in and actively supports innovative early-stage companies across sectors in East Africa that have the potential to scale across the continent and beyond. A global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity funds
Zephyr Management Zephyr Management
Since 1994, we have sponsored 22 funds with approximately $1.2 billion in committed capital which are managed from our offices in New York, London and Bangalore <br /> With a global network of partners, Zephyr is positioned to identify sustainable secular growth changes which lead to attractive investment opportunities for our investors. <br /> <br /> While our focus is on the creation and execution of innovative investment strategies, the operating style is conservative and sustainable <br /> Managers strictly adhere to their respective mandates and investments are selected based on rigorous fundamental research. Today, Zephyr manages investment funds in India and Sri Lanka, and we are actively researching new investment opportunities around the world.
Zerno Ventures Zerno Ventures
We invest in companies with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a favorable financial return. Impact business Projects with impact, the goal is to have at least 50% of female-founded projects in our portfolio , profit-oriented business, Seed / Series A, female founders Scalable business models
Zero Carbon Capital Zero Carbon Capital
The Zero Carbon Fund is an EIS fund investing in early-stage companies on a mission to address climate change through hard tech innovation. We're looking for awesome teams with breakthrough ideas that could scale to reduce greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions by half a gigaton per year.
Zero G Capital Zero G Capital
We offer entrepreneurs funding to accelerate their business’s growth during the critical seed stage. We go beyond providing a source of funds by helping our founders with strategic, financial, and operational advice as well as critical industry connections. These resources enable companies to rapidly grow and increase value for all stakeholders. <br />
Zero Gravity Capital Zero Gravity Capital
Zero Gravity Capital is a venture capital fund in Slovakia fuelling early-stage innovations. Zero Gravity Capital cooperates also with other established international funds and takes role of single investor, leading investor or co-investor. Additionally Zero Gravity Capital belongs to 0100 Ventures ecosystem and provides to portfolio companies valuable business benefits & services.Together with funding we organize key European venture capital & start-up conferences or provide software development resources as well as co-working spaces or transaction advisory services