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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Yabeo Capital Yabeo Capital
We are an early-stage investor that believes in flexible evergreen funding without the limitations of traditional funds. We know what we’re talking about because we’ve been there. We have grown and run everything from startups to international corporations on three continents. We help to secure significant follow-on fundings and configure the ideal cap table. Our own follow-on funding strength is supplemented by our proprietary access to globally renowned venture capitalists, growth equity, private equity players, and strategists. For debt funding, we maintain close contacts to venture debt (providers), commercial banks, and alternative lending players that we know will deliver. We have a large network and access to investors, partners, technology providers, regulators, startups, talents and corporates that we are happy to provide to you.
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Yandex Yandex
Yandex is a technology company. Our services are based on complex, unique, difficult-to-replicate technologies. They allow us to do what some time ago people would have taken for magic. Almost all Yandex services use machine learning - for ranking in search, displaying ads, and machine translation. In 2009 Yandex developed and implemented its own machine learning method - Matrixnet. Thanks to speech recognition technology, Yandex.Navigator users can communicate with it by voice, rather than typing the address by hand. Fact extraction technology marks certain letters for Mail users - tickets, meeting messages, information about discounts - so that they can be found immediately at the right time. Disco recommendation technology helps Music and Market users to choose a song that suits their mood, or the right product from a variety of similar ones. To search for similar images, Yandex uses its developments in the field of computer vision. In 2011, we launched a machine translation service - one of three similar ones around the world. In order for services and technologies to function, Yandex maintains the largest network of data processing and storage centers in Russia - tens of thousands of servers. Computational capabilities and algorithms of Yandex are also used by our partners to conduct their scientific research, for example, in the field of nuclear research and geological exploration.
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Yao Capital Yao Capital
Established in January 2016, Yao Capital was founded by NBA superstar Yao Ming, Head of Team Yao － Erik Zhang and a team of investment professionals and sports & media and entertainment industry veterans. Yao Capital focuses on growth capital investments in sports, media, entertainment and consumption related opportunities catering to new life style trends for younger generation in China. Since inception, Yao Capital has established its investment thesis around emerging consumption needs from millennials in China. As such, our portfolio companies include premier global sports franchises, IP operator in entertainment industry, media marketing companies, sports nutrition company, AI technology company, health & fitness chain, etc.
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Yavu Yavu
YAVU is an Accelerator & Venture Studio that partners with great teams to craft extraordinary startups. <br /> We invest up to US$100k per company and guide them to achieve a flawless execution with a hands-on mentorship-driven acceleration program. YAVU was born in 2016 and already has15 companies in the portfolio. TargetPortfolio: 40 startups by 2022.<br /> YAVU provides a 24x7 hands-on acceleration model to the invested startups during the Acceleration Process.<br /> Startups receive in total between 50 and 100 thousand US Dollars, strategic advice,office space, mentoring network, business development, workshops, among other perks.
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Yellow Point Equity Partners Yellow Point Equity Partners
Yellow Point Equity Partners is a private equity investment firm with significant operating and investment experience. It invests in outstanding management teams of later-stage growth companies based primarily in western Canada and aims to be the long-term partner of choice for Canada’s leading mid-market companies.
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Yellow Rockets Yellow Rockets
YellowRockets.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on robotics and automation. We work side-by-side with our founders helping them to scale their businesses. Our team have access to a huge network of corporations all around the globe. We help our companies to raise next round and meet new VC funds & angel investors. Our partners are successful angel investors and VCs. We have a team with experience in Automatics&Robotics fields. We know where to get the best developers and C-levels for your startup
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Yellowwoods Yellowwoods
At Yellowwood, we believe insightful marketing has the power to influence business and human behaviour for the better. Since 1997, we’ve helped our clients build better businesses. In doing so, we’ve also created a better business for ourselves. Today, we are South Africa’s leading Marketing Strategy Consultancy with clients that reach across Africa and the globe. Over the years, we’ve deepened our specialist capabilities and grown our footprint, to evolve into a company that bridges the traditional divide between business and brand. It is this unique perspective that allows us to solve challenges with a disciplined, rigorous but pragmatic process, balanced with creative and disruptive thinking. We call this ‘Unconventional Wisdom®’ and it all begins with asking ‘why’.
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YES Bank YES Bank
YES BANK, India's fourth largest private sector Bank, is an outcome of the professional entrepreneurship of its Founder, Rana Kapoor and his highly competent top management team, to establish a high quality, customer centric, service driven bank catering to the “Future Businesses of India”. YES BANK is the only Greenfield Bank license awarded by the RBI in the last two decades, associated with the finest pedigree investors. <br /> YES BANK a “Full Service Commercial Bank” has steadily built a Corporate, Retail & SME Banking franchise, with a comprehensive product suite of Financial Markets, Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Branch Banking, Business and Transaction Banking, and Wealth Management business lines across the country.
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Yes VC Yes VC
Hello! We are Yes VC, comprised of partners Caterina Fake and Jyri Engeström. We fund great companies at the Pre-Seed and Seed stages.
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YF Capital YF Capital
Yunfeng Capital was established in January 2010. It is the only private equity firm in China set up by successful entrepreneurs, pioneers and industry leaders. Its goal is not merely to be a financial investor, but also to share the entrepreneurial experience with companies, helping them refine their development, organizational management and brand building strategies. <br /> <br /> Yunfeng Capital places a special emphasis on young entrepreneurs, grooming future leaders to lead world-class enterprises. Yunfeng is the result of combining the Chinese first names of Mr. Jack MA (Yun), Chairman of Alibaba, and Mr. David YU (Feng), Founder of Target Media. <br /> <br /> In addition, there are more than 10 other co-founders, including Mr. Yu Zhu SHI, Chairman of Giant interactive group, Mr. Yong Hao LIU, Chairman of New Hope Group, Mr. Guo Jun SHEN, Chairman of Intime Investment, Mr. Yu Suo WANG, Chairman of ENN Group, Mr. Jason JIANG, Chairman of Focusmedia, Mr. Hang XU, Chairman of Shenzhen Mindray Medical, Mr. Yi Hong CHEN, Chairman of China Dongxiang(Group), Mr. Xin ZHOU, Chairman of E-House (China), Mr. Jian Guo WANG, Founder of Fivestar, Mr. Shao Xiong ZHOU, Chairman of Septwolves, Mr. Xu Ning WANG, Chairman of Joyong Holdings, Mr. You Cai ZHANG, President of Unifront Holdings. <br /> <br /> Yunfeng Capital is headquartered in Shanghai. Branch offices are located in Hong Kong, Beijing, Hangzhou, and other mainland cities.
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