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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B4 Sports B4 Sports
B4SPORTS is a corporate investment program that was established in 2019 by BILD. BILD, established in 1952, is Germany’s leading daily newspaper and digital news media provider. Sport has always been part of BILD’s DNA. Well-known for its great network of journalists, BILD continuously investigates the latest developments in the sports industry and defines the daily topics people talk about. Amongst BILD’s brands one also finds strong sports brands such as Sport BILD and Transfermarkt. BILD is part of Axel Springer, which is a global leading publisher with a strong digital footprint. B4SPORTS combines strong synergy effects and high growth potential to early stage sports tech ventures. The program was designed as a fast track investment vehicle to leverage the media reach and the extensive network of Axel Springer.
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B4YO Capital B4YO Capital
B4YO Capital is established in early 2019 with five partners with extensive knowledge, network and experience in local and global business. The main objective is to actively assist entrepreneurs in reaching know-how and contacts to upscale their business in every shape and form. We are a hard working and dedicated team with intellectual capacity to enable ventures to realize their dreams and ambitions.
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Babel Ventures Babel Ventures
BABEL Ventures is leading the charge in early-stage consumer biotech investments. As the first VC check in many of our portfolio companies, we’ve seen diverse successes, from companies going public to returns as high as 40x - a true testament to our bold ethos and unwavering belief in groundbreaking ideas. Since our launch in 2017, we’ve remained steadfast in our commitment to empowering visionary entrepreneurs who are not only driving innovation but also shaping a more sustainable future.
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Babylon Ventures Babylon Ventures
“We invest in our friends…lucky we have good friends.” Launching 1st July. Come be our friend. We don’t care what your resume says. We care what your eyes say. Finance, Startups, Capital, Venture Capital, accelerators, fund management, Machine Learning, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence
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BAce Capital BAce Capital
The BAce team - with our deep past background at Alibaba and Ant Financial - has rich investment, portfolio empowerment and mobile internet experience. We believe mobile internet will transform people’s lives and community. We support young dreams, and pursue dreams together.
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BackBone Ventures BackBone Ventures
Backbone Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Zurich and Frankfurt am Main. Founded in 2018, we started out by investing without a fund, on a deal-by-deal basis. In four years we invested in 26 teams, mostly in Switzerland but also in Germany, the US, and Israel. Since September 2022 we have invested almost exclusively out of our Backbone Ventures 5502 Fund, a EUR 20m pre-seed fund with a strong geographical focus on Germany and Switzerland. We strive every day to justify the trust that our investors and our founders put in us and to become the trusted partner for the best founders who are still about to start their ventures.
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Backed Backed
Backed is a venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2015. The firm was established by Andre de Haes, who has a background in venture capital and entrepreneurship. Backed is known for its human-centric approach to investing, focusing on building strong relationships with founders. The team is composed of experienced investors and analysts who prioritize putting people first and seeking the truth in their investment decisions. Backed invests primarily in seed-stage companies across Europe, with a focus on frontier technology sectors such as deep tech, gaming, and biotechnology. The firm typically invests between $500K and $5M per deal. Backed manages a $100M fund and has a history of successful investments, with many portfolio companies achieving unicorn status. The firm collaborates with strategic partners like Isomer Capital and Wunderland Capital. Notable investments by Backed include Sky Mavis - a blockchain gaming company, Laguna Games - a gaming studio, and Foundries.io - an IoT platform. Other significant portfolio companies include Immutable - a blockchain gaming platform, and Legl - a legal tech company. These investments highlight Backed's commitment to supporting innovative and high-growth potential startups.
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Backed VC Backed VC
BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders, at Seed, in Europe. We provide founders with an extensive support system to catalyse their development as a company operators and leaders. Through our Founder Experience Platform and energetic portfolio community we help entrepreneurs across all areas of a startup: from talent management to business development, further fundraising and international expansion. Founded in 2015 by partners Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, we invest across sectors including BioTech, Entertainment, Financial Services, Industry 4.0 and more. Investments to date include Hutch, Pollen, Thought Machine, LabGenius, THIS, Enterprise Alumni, and many more. Put People First | Be An Apprentice | Push the Limits | Bring Good Energy. Since 2015.
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Backstage Backstage
Backstage Invest is a single family office venture capital investor with focus on entrepreneurial scale-up companies based in the Nordics. Do you have a great new business idea or are you managing a company with strong growth potential in need of capital for scale-up? We give value back to our portfolio companies not only in form of capital, but also by contributing with knowledge and contacts in areas such as business development, strategy, financing, marketing and international expansion.
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Backstage Capital Backstage Capital
Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund investing in the best startups led by underrepresented founders in the U.S.
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