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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AV Ventures AV Ventures
AV Frontiers is an investment management firm based in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. AV Frontiers is owned by Kyrgyz financial institution Frontiers and Washington DC-based impact investment manager AV Ventures, a subsidiary of development organization ACDI/VOCA. AV Frontiers is well equipped to fill the financing gap in the dynamic Central Asian SME market by providing both favorable financing terms and technical assistance. This approach will allow AV Frontiers to return value to investors and put its impactful portfolio companies on a path of sustainable growth. AV Frontiers is raising a US$8–10 million evergreen Central Asia Impact Fund anchored with US$2 million investment from ACDI/VOCA and affiliates.  Taalaibek Djoumataev, Managing Director, AV Frontiers (Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic). Kyrgyz national with 25+ years’ experience in private commercial banking, microfinance lending, and financial regulation with the Kyrgyz National Bank (Central Bank). Key figure in the Kyrgyz Republic’s structural and regulatory changes during the country’s shift to a market-based economy  Arsalan Ni, Fund Management Advisor, AV Frontiers (Almaty, Kazakhstan). American citizen with 20+ years’ experience in venture capital, development finance, SME lending and investing, and entrepreneurship. Proven track record launching and managing SMEs funds in emerging and frontier markets at the IFC, World Bank, and United Nations Green Climate Fund.  Geoffrey Chalmers, Managing Director, AV Ventures (Washington, DC). American citizen with 20+ years’ experience in development partnerships, catalyzing investment in emerging and frontier markets, and enterprise development.
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Avalanche VC Avalanche VC
WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR A UNICORN. WE'RE LOOKING FOR AN AVALANCHE. WE INVEST BEHIND MASSIVE TRENDS. WE LOVE COMPANIES THAT TRANSFORM HOW PEOPLE LEARN, EARN, AND OWN. WE HAVE A KEEN EYE FOR FOUNDERS WHO KNOW WHY THEY CARE – BECAUSE THAT'S AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE. WE BELIEVE THESE TRENDS ARE OBVIOUSLY THE FUTURE.
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Avallon MBO Avallon MBO
Avallon is a pioneer of the management buyout market in Poland. Since its inception, we have participated in over 100 transactions of this type. Avallon MBO funds are the first of their kind in Central and Eastern Europe. We buy companies when owners are for various reasons (strategic decisions, succession issues, funds for development) looking for an investor to buy the shares of their company. We have been doing this as Avallon for nearly 15 years, and as managers for 25 years.
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Avalon Ventures Avalon Ventures
Avalon Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund focused on information technology and life sciences.Avalon’s long-standing and successful focus has been on seed and early stage companies, including many it formed in the life science and information technology sectors. We believe this is the most challenging and rewarding period of company creation – we are former entrepreneurs driven by passionate people pursuing disruptive ideas in ever changing market environments.
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Avatech Avatech
Avatech is a startup accelerator that provides entrepreneurs with the necessary ingredients to succeed. We provide aspiring entrepreneurs with mentorship, entrepreneurial training, seed funding and a creative workspace through Avacamp and Accelerator.
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Avedon Capital Partners Avedon Capital Partners
We invest in rapidly growing companies that have reached an inflection point where a growth equity investment in combination with domain knowledge and active support can create significant value for all shareholders.<br /> <br /> We believe that to be successful in adding sustainable value to our portfolio companies, we need to maintain a clear focus in a rigorous manner.
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Avendus PE Investment Advisors Avendus PE Investment Advisors
It has a preference for sectors which benefit from<br /> India’s strong domestic consumption or<br /> infrastructure spending, India’s rising consumer<br /> discretionary spend, rural prosperity, and rapid<br /> urbanization.
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Avenir Avenir
OUR LIFE CREDO IS ALWAYS TO DO ONLY WHAT WE BELIEVE IN AND NOT TO DO WHAT WE DO NOT BELIEVE. WE HAVE BEEN HELPING STARTUPS SINCE 2015. We help small russian business with advice, love and money. Is there a project about the reasonable, kind, eternal, the growth of which will be helped by investments? There is a working useful business, but cash gaps and problems in the operating system?
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AVentures Capital AVentures Capital
AVentures Capital team backs talented Ukrainian entrepreneurs with innovative ideas, global thinking, and solid execution skills. The fund invests in early stage startups as well as advises IT businesses across all stages and other funds on strategy and execution. They split their time between Kyiv and San Francisco, investing in companies that disrupt global markets while using Ukraine-based R&D teams as a leverage in global competition. Being entrepreneurs themselves, Yevgen and Andrey commit to building successful businesses out of Ukraine by leveraging their experience and a hands-on approach which makes them great partners for an early stage company. The fund's investment focus spans across software tech, including such areas as machine learning, big data, AR, VR, SaaS, cloud, storage, enterprise, web, mobile, IoT and others.
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Averroes Ventures Averroes Ventures
Averroes Ventures is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund. We invest in entrepreneurial teams seeking to transform big ideas into game-changing companies. We invest in tech-enabled early and seed stage startups operating primarily in the MENA but also abroad. <br /> <br /> Why Averroes? <br /> <br /> Because we don't only invest money, we invest time, which is ultimately more valuable than money. While startups spend their time building their product and strategy, we come along the way and help support them by exposing them to our vast network of connections to help materialize a strategic foundation. We understand our region's ins and outs and we have the necessary connections that pave the way for our startups and accelerate their traction and development. Our team possesses over 150 years of combined experience in global business operation and management across a multitude of sectors to help achieve any and all of your visions.
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