Quest Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm located in Palo Alto CA. They invest between $300k-$1.5MM in early stage companies, with typical investments being around $500k.

Quest Venture Partners

XG Ventures was founded by ex-Googlers, who were early hires in strategic roles at Google. This group is now dedicated to advising and investing in supremely talented early stage teams.   One of XG's strengths is sharing their early experiences at Google, including how its unique culture shaped a dynamic and fun enterprise.  The primary goal is to use their complementary expertise to help successfully guide the start-up teams to the next stage.  XG's core assets include operational and strategic expertise, mentorship, global networking contacts, and access to seed capital and beyond.  XG Ventures is focused primarily on the consumer internet, including the mobile, video, gaming, social media, and online media sectors.

XG Ventures

Skystar Ventures is a tech incubator and working space founded by Universitas Multimedia Nusantara (UMN) and Kompas Gramedia Group (KGG).

Skystar Ventures

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

Liquid 2 Ventures

Sports Investment Partners (SIP) is  focused purely on driving investment and growth in the sports industry. SIP takes an “operating leverage” approach, proactively seeking opportunities which allow it to leverage its significant experience and track record of success in sport and business.SIP’s objective is to enable and accelerate growth and optimise its investee companies’ market position and potential. They work closely with financial investors and are highly selective in the company they keep. They are not a fund and should not be confused as such. They work on the behalf of investors to maximise the commercial opportunity that exists in the wider sports and entertainment industry. They find that the backers they work are most likely to back businesses that are profitable (or at least can demonstrate they will be shortly), have a strong management team and are looking for capital to take the next step in their growth journey. Alongside these institutional investors, they look at companies headquartered in Western Europe, although with global reach, worth between £10m-£200m.

Sports Investment Partners

Claytonia Capital is an early stage risk capital firm focused on finding the best entrepreneurs and management teams and backing them with capital to support growth.

Claytonia Capital

Next News Ventures is a venture capital firm that preferred to invest in the media and telecom sectors.  The firm was based in New York, New York, and was founded in 2009.

Next News Ventures

DeBartolo Family Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation provide leadership and financial resources to improve the community.

DeBartolo Family Foundation

Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. Venture Capital for Startups. Since 2011, Quest Ventures has focused on an overarching ‘digital economy’​ strategy across Asia, and is a top venture capital firm in artificial intelligence, e-commerce and marketplaces, entertainment, finance, food, insurance, logistics, media, property, sports, and the Islamic digital economy. Portfolio companies include industry leaders such as 99.co, Carousell, Carro, Glife, Hepmil, Oddle, Shopback, VulcanPost, Xfers, and Yummy Corporation. Innovation for Enterprises. In partnership with Silicon Valley’s pre-eminent Applied Innovation Institute, Quest Ventures’​ enterprise innovation initiative drives industry and corporate transformation for at-risk sectors based on world class research, local knowledge, and collaboration with startups. Sectors covered include alternative food, aviation, banking, insurance, logistics & transportation, oil & gas, and smart cities. Clients include Applied Materials, Coca-Cola, HP, Nissan, and Tencent. Impact Capital for Good. Quest Ventures’ multi-dimensional environment, social and governance strategy was the first in Asia for a venture firm, and supports a range of social good initiatives across Asia for financial inclusion, gender, healthcare and education for all. Impact acceleration initiatives include advocacy, investment, world class partner benefits, and collaborations with the venture portfolio. Portfolio organisations include Ethis, Hatch, and Social Collider. Potential of Asia. Asia’s potential is ultimately realized in its people. Quest Ventures’ portfolio of 100+ venture-backed companies operate in more than 150 cities across Asia, creating employment and advancement opportunities for more than 4,400 employees, while our Enterprise and ESG efforts directly impact thousands more.

Quest Ventures

A fundamental investment philosophy of ‘Building on principles’ guides us at Mirae Asset. Over the years, these principles have enabled us to become Asia’s premier financial group and created new trends in the Asian capital market.  Above all, we put our clients’ interests first, always adhering to high ethical standards. Because our success clearly comes from their success, we use fundamental investment principles to identify opportunities that generate value and lasting profits.  We are strong believers in teamwork and are determined to recruit the best and brightest people as we open new horizons in Asia and expand globally. Just as we strive to continually improve our own performance, Mirae Asset is committed to helping every community it joins.  On behalf of the entire Mirae Asset Financial Group, I would like to convey the sense of responsibility your trust in us merits and pledge to do all that we can to exceed your expectations.

Mirae Asset Venture Investment

Paxion Capital Partners is a privately-held investment management firm that offers investment management services. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California, United States.

Paxion Capital Partners

Innovation Global Capital builds transformative early stage companies disrupting consumer industries through technology and innovation.

Innovation Global Capital

Asahi Media Lab Ventures is a Tokyo and Silicon Valley-based Corporate Venture Capital arm of the Asahi Media Group, one of the world's leading media conglomerates. It invests in early-stage technology startups changing digital media, entertainment, and way of life.

Asahi Media Lab Ventures

Skystar Capital is an early-stage VC firm committed to supporting tech entrepreneurs create a lasting and profound positive difference in Southeast Asia and Indonesia. We have a strong track record of helping founders scale their business to the next level. We provide strategic value-add through our own expertise and our extensive network in many sectors of the economy including media, telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, consumer products and services, hospitality, education, and others.

Skystar Capital

RHL Ventures is a private investment firm founded to champion long term growth and support businesses in ASEAN countries.

RHL Ventures

Mighty Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that capitalizes on the growing influence of product management in corporate success. Founded by SC Moatti, a former Facebook mobile tech expert, and Jennifer Vancini, a seasoned professional with over 20 years in tech investments and M&A, the firm taps into Moatti's Products That Count network of over 500,000 product managers and CPOs to gain insights into startups and corporate needs. The real “Why now?” is Covid, which has reshaped corporate power structures, accelerating the shift towards digital products and services, thereby elevating the role of product managers. As a result, Fortune 1000 companies with CPOs have increased 10x in 3 years and are outperforming their peers. Mighty Capital’s focus on this product management revolution has led to high returns and minimized risk. Notable investments include Amplitude, Groq, and Canela. Founders and institutional investors praise the firm for its exceptional value, rapid execution, and ability to spot trends early. Learn more at Mighty.Capital.

Mighty Capital

B3 Capital is an evergreen venture vehicle looking to back ground-breaking businesses that define the new economy

B3 Capital

GreatPoint Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing between $250k and $20m into Seed, A, and B rounds. The firm was founded in San Francisco, California in 2015.

GreatPoint Ventures

RB VENTURE PARTNERS (RBVP) is an investment management and advisory firm focused on lower middle-market opportunities.

RB Venture Partners

ON is a software company that offers a conversational AI platform that enhances customer engagement and supports business objectives. The company integrates seamlessly with CRMs, e-commerce systems, and other tools through a low-code approach, enabling businesses to implement generative AI-driven chat experiences efficiently.

ON is a company that develops AI-related products and services. The company has a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. ON offers various AI solutions to customers across different industries.

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Using AI to mimic and understand human language

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ON is a company that develops AI-related products and services. The company has a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. ON offers various AI solutions to customers across different industries.

Reduct is a cloud-based video editing and storage platform that enables users to transcribe, organize, and edit video content through text-based interfaces. The platform uses automated transcription technology to convert video and audio files into searchable text transcripts. Users can then highlight, tag, and edit these transcripts to create video clips and reels. Reduct's key differentiator is its ability to edit video by manipulating the corresponding transcript text, allowing for efficient review and compilation of interview footage and other video content. The platform supports various file formats and integrates with video conferencing tools like Zoom for direct import of recordings. Reduct also offers collaborative features, allowing multiple team members to work on projects simultaneously. In addition to its core editing capabilities, Reduct provides unlimited cloud storage for video files, making it a comprehensive solution for video post-production workflows.
Key customers and partnerships
Reduct caters to a range of industries and professionals, including researchers, content creators, marketers, and corporate teams. The platform has developed integrations with popular video editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro, enabling users to export their Reduct projects as editable sequences in these applications. Reduct also supports Final Cut Pro through XML export.

Reduct

MonkeyLearn is an AI-powered text analysis and data visualization platform that enables businesses to extract insights from unstructured textual data. The platform offers both pre-built and custom machine learning models for tasks such as sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, topic detection, and intent classification. MonkeyLearn's no-code interface allows users to clean, label, and visualize customer feedback data without requiring programming skills. The platform can process various types of text data including customer reviews, surveys, social media posts, and support tickets. MonkeyLearn integrates with popular tools like Excel, Google Sheets, Zapier, and Zendesk, allowing users to connect their existing data sources. In 2023, MonkeyLearn launched an all-in-one text analysis and data visualization studio that provides instant insights with greater granularity. The platform offers customizable dashboards and templates for different business scenarios, enabling users to create visualizations tailored to their specific needs.

MonkeyLearn

Keatext is an AI-powered text analytics platform that specializes in interpreting customer feedback. The company's cloud-based solution synthesizes large volumes of unstructured feedback data from multiple channels, including open-survey questions, online reviews, support tickets, chats, and social media posts. Keatext's platform utilizes deep learning and natural language processing to analyze, cluster, correlate, and track customer opinions autonomously, providing actionable insights through a comprehensive dashboard.
The platform is designed to minimize response time and requires no setup, featuring multilingual analysis and context-sensitive, industry-agnostic understanding. It automatically visualizes correlations and trends, offering immediate report-sharing capabilities. Keatext's technology adapts to various industries without requiring algorithm customization, eliminating the need for keywords, lexicons, and semantic dictionaries.
Founded in 2010 by Narjès Boufaden, Keatext initially operated as a professional services provider. In 2015, the company transitioned to a product-based model with the launch of its cloud-based AI-powered text analytics platform. Keatext's solution helps businesses optimize profitability through customer feedback analysis, enabling them to move from assumption-based decision-making to data-driven, research-based strategies. The platform significantly reduces the time required for analyzing customer feedback, with users reporting that tasks that previously took eight hours can now be completed in 10 minutes using Keatext.

Keatext

Aircover is a sale assistant tool that leverages conversational AI and real-time technologies to enhance the efficiency of sales teams. The platform integrates with virtual meetings, providing sales representatives with up-to-date messaging and positioning information. This approach aims to reduce ramp time for new representatives and products, shorten sales cycles, and increase win rates. Aircover's AI-powered system enforces best practices throughout sales meetings, offering real-time answers to representatives and potentially reducing the number of follow-up meetings required per prospect. The tool is designed to serve a wide range of users, from individuals to large enterprises. Aircover also features a relationship management component, allowing users to store notes and track roles within deals. By putting sales enablement on autopilot, the platform seeks to streamline the sales process and improve overall performance.

Aircover

NeuralSpace is an AI SaaS company that specializes in providing advanced text and voice AI technologies in over 100 languages. Founded in 2019, the company focuses on delivering language AI solutions, particularly for Arabic, Indian, and other low-resource languages predominantly spoken in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. NeuralSpace's platform offers a suite of products including speech-to-text, machine translation, entity recognition, transliteration, data generation, language detection, and text-to-speech conversion. The company's flagship product, VoiceAI, launched in October 2023, provides highly accurate call transcription, translation, and speech analytics for Arabic and Indian languages and dialects, achieving an average accuracy rate of 91%. NeuralSpace utilizes proprietary speech-to-text technology trained on a dataset of 40,000 hours of audio data, which it aims to increase to 100,000 hours. The company's no-code modular toolkit enables enterprises to train and deploy AI models for language processing applications without extensive coding knowledge. NeuralSpace's technology leverages modeling techniques such as transfer learning, multilingual learning, and data augmentation to work effectively with limited text or speech data. The platform can be accessed through a command-line interface, REST APIs, or a no-code GUI, making it versatile for various integration needs.

NeuralSpace

Solutions that use techniques such as named entity recognition, part-of-speech tagging, or summarization to produce insights from unstructured textual documents.

Platforms that summarize conversations, audio, or video files including reactions into text formats.

Tools to identify and analyze the opinions or emotions expressed in survey responses or reviews to produce actionable insights.

Platforms that decipher search queries by analyzing structured and unstructured data based on user intent and behavior.

Solutions that enable real-time conversation through chatbots or automate ticket routing to relevant agents.

Tools that automatically translate text from one language to another.

Tools that detect plagiarism, punctuation errors, or style errors in text.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for natural language processing.

NLP tools such as chatbots are used to cater to each individual

NLP tools are built using AI/ML technologies

Some NLP tools are built using foundation models

NLP tools are provided for other companies to integrate into their workflows

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