Advent Venture Partners is one of Europe's most successful growth and venture capital investors in market-leading tech and life sciences businesses. They have designed their strategy, teams and funds so they can focus on backing a select few companies. They pride their selves on establishing true partnerships with entrepreneurs in order to build valuable businesses together.

Advent Venture Partners

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London, San Francisco, and Geneva, helping entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.  Since 1996, Index has partnered with exceptional entrepreneurs who are using technology to reshape the world. The companies they’ve started include Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King, Slack, and Supercell.

Index Ventures

Headline (formerly e.ventures) is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. It invests across geographies, leading rounds at every stage. The firm's Early Stage Funds are based in the US, Europe, Asia, and Brazil, and invest locally. Its San Francisco-based Growth Fund invests globally from Series B and beyond, working in collaboration with their Early Stage Teams. The sizes and locations of these funds make it possible for them to see local trends up close, identify winning founders, and lead rounds at every stage. Sonos, The RealReal, Creditas, Sorare, Pismo, AppFolio, goPuff, Acorns, Farfetch, Segment, Bumble, and Yeahka are among the stars in Headline’s world. Headline was founded in San Francisco, California in 1998.

Headline

BV Capital Partners provides 'The professional financial buyer solution for small and medium sized companies in the Benelux'. Over the years, there has been a growing demand for professional financial investors for smaller transactions, as many private equity investors have left this segment. Mid 2003, John Blydenstein and Hans Vanoorbeek have left their respective large European private equity funds in London to return to their home-countries to start investing their private capital in small & medium sized companies in the Benelux under the name BV Capital Partners. John Blydenstein has been one of the three founding partners of West Private Equity in London (€ 400m pan-European mid market private equity fund, now called Lyceum Capital). Hans Vanoorbeek has been a partner at BC Partners in London (€ 4.3bn pan-European large cap private equity fund). From 1995 until 1999, based in London, Hans and John have jointly built up Industri Kapital (€ 750 m pan-European mid market private equity fund, now called IK Investment Partners) in the Benelux.

BV Capital Partners

Condé Nast publishes magazines, websites, and tablet and smartphone applications to industries that include fashion, interior design and decoration, society and celebrity, bridal, travel, and technology. It also develops film, television, and premium video programs. Its media portfolio consists of companies such as Vogue, Glamour, Allure, Self, Teen Vogue, GQ, Details, Lucky, Architectural Digest, The World of Interiors, Brides, Golf Digest, Golf World, Bon Appetit, Epicurious, Ziplist, Conde Nast Traveller, Wired, Ars Technica, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, WWD, Style.com, Footwear News, NowManifest, Beauty Inc., Fairchild Summits, and many others. It reaches more than 263 million consumers in over 30 markets through its 143 magazines and 130 websites as well several other ventures in education and dining. Condé Nast began operation in 1909, with its headuqarters in New York City in the United States. It currently operates as a subsidiary of Advance Publications.

Condé Nast

Vitruvian Partners is an equity firm that specializes in middle-market buyouts, growth buyouts, and growth capital investments.  Independent private equity firm that specialises in middle-market buyouts, growth buyouts and growth capital investments in the UK and elsewhere. The company backs exceptional management teams in businesses where there is a major opportunity to create strategic value. They seek out companies where this opportunity exists through change or “Dynamic Situations”.

Vitruvian Partners

Ceyuan Ventures is a Beijing-based early stage venture capital firm focused on IT and emerging growth companies. They emphasize backing great teams, technology and business innovation. Their mission is to assist entrepreneurs in creating and building world-class businesses.

Ceyuan Ventures

Huangpu River (HPR) Capital is an investment firm that is focused on the global high-growth companies. Based in Shanghai, the financial center of China, we have managed multiple funds and invested in many late-stage and Pre-IPO companies globally. We're holding the largest number of shares of global unicorns in the Asia-Pacific region. HPR owns several investment entities including Shanghai Investment Corporation.

Huangpu River Capital

DST Global is an investment firm that funds late-stage ventures in the internet industry. Its investments include some of the world’s fastest-growing and most valuable companies. DST Global has offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner, Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta, and Tom Stafford.

DST Global

Infinity Ventures is now Headline Asia. At Headline Asia, we strive to invest in and create venture companies with infinite possibilities.

Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)

Caixa Capital is the Private Equity and Venture Capital arm of banking Group Caixa Geral de Depósitos and has a track record spanning over two decades of activity, since the industry was created in Portugal. It is a leading investor in terms of funds under management, portfolio size and diversity.   Caixa Capital´s mission is to invest in funds and companies, led by highly qualified management teams, with high growth and valuation potential, that enable our funds to achieve an attractive risk adjusted return and for society at large to benefit sustainably from our activity.  Currently with more than 700 million Euros under management and a portfolio of over 80 investments, Caixa Capital is a reference in this area with special links to the respective European sector associations.

Caixa Capital

Sandbridge Capital is a private investment firm with offices in Los Angeles and New York that invests exclusively in high growth global consumer brands, including Youth to the People, ILIA, Peach & Lily, Thom Browne, Hydrow, Rossignol and Farfetch. Since its founding with the backing of an iconic group of consumer industry operators and advisors, Sandbridge has been strategically partnering with brands in the beauty, luxury, health and wellness, and disruptive consumer-based technology segments.

Sandbridge Capital

Felix Capital is a venture capital firm for the creative class, operating at the intersection of technology and creativity. Felix Capital focuses on digital lifestyle, investing in authentic brands, platforms and related enabling software technologies.  Felix Capital's mission is to support entrepreneurs with big ideas, to help them build strong category-leading companies that stand out and that move the world forward. The ambition to partner with the best entrepreneurs, the creative agents of change of digital lifestyle.

Felix Capital

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector. Today they work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors, and business entities from around the world. Their limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices, and business luminaries. IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, they are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Their highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.

IDG Capital

Temasek Holdings is a lender provider. The company offers debt financing and focuses on transforming economies, increasing middle-income populations, developing comparative advantages, and emerging champions. Financial services, transportation, industrial, consumer, real estate, telecommunications, media, technology, and life sciences are among the industries served by the firm.

Temasek Holdings

Eurazeo is a private equity and venture capital firm that invests in SMEs and manages a diversified portfolio of assets. With its expertise in private equity, real estate, and private debt, the group supports companies of all sizes in their development commitment through the commitment of its 235 professionals. It provides companies with the necessary investments needed to realize their growth potential. The firm was founded in 1969 and is based in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

Eurazeo

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Their investments are seed and series A. The investment range of the company is $50,000 to $5,000,000. It invests in Alibaba Group, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest.

FJ Labs

Farfetch

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Didimo is a company specializing in the development of digital human avatars. The company’s key product, Popul8, supported by the Unity and Unreal game engines, allows users to create lifelike 3D full-body avatars that capture nuanced facial expressions and emotions. Developers can also import existing art assets into Popul8 to generate more high-quality variations of it with support for animation rigging. To further streamline avatar creation, the company added an asset verification system in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26812">February 2024</a>, designed to automate generation of 3D characters. The overall tech was inspired by research conducted by CEO Verónica Orvalho and her team at Porto University, demonstrating the potential of virtual avatars in emotional empathy and engagement.The company claims that its tech is able to render thousands of characters on screen using a single draw call, reducing memory footprint by 99%.The company was preparing to launch its latest AI-powered character generator and editor for game developers and character artists in April 2024. Didimo claims that this would allow for the creation of hundreds of unique game characters in a fraction of the usual time and cost. Alongside this, Didimo was conducting AI-based research into human face modeling, animation retargeting, and advanced stylization features.As of September 2022, the company operated a subscription-based model with packages starting at USD 100 per month.Key customers and partnershipsNotable customers include Sony, AVALON, and NOS Communications. Funding and financialsIn October 2022, the company raised USD 7.15 million in a Series A funding round led by Armilar Venture Partners, with participation from Bright Pixel Capital, Portugal Ventures, and Techstars. The proceeds were earmarked to accelerate the development of its gaming ecosystem, facilitate international expansion, and simplify the process of creating 3D avatars into a single-step, executable in 60 seconds.

Imbuing emotion into human-digital interactions

Digital Humans

Didimo is a technology company founded in 2016 that specializes in creating high-fidelity digital human avatars. The company's proprietary AI-based platform can generate photorealistic 3D avatars from a single selfie in approximately 90 seconds. Didimo's technology consolidates a complex 3D avatar creation process into a single step, using computer graphics, computer vision and deep learning. The avatars include detailed facial animation rigs capable of delivering lifelike performances. As of October 2022, Didimo had secured three patents for its unique approach. The company's technology has applications across gaming, immersive entertainment, fashion, and communication. Didimo aims to enable users to create authentic digital representations of themselves for use in virtual worlds and experiences. The company is headquartered in Porto, Portugal with additional offices in the UK.
Key customers and partnerships
Didimo has worked with major companies including Amazon, Sony, CEEK VR, and Drest. The company's digital avatar technology allows game developers and brands to create realistic 3D versions of users that can be incorporated into video games, virtual concerts, ecommerce sites for virtual try-ons, and other immersive experiences. Didimo's goal is to become the standard for digital human representation across various virtual environments and metaverse platforms.

Decommerce is community software that allows brands to create communities on their websites or landing pages.

My AI is the core developer of the ingenious Me Protocol rewards infrastructure and Me Marketplace. The platform allows bands of any size to create rewards that can be instantly redeemed across loyalty programs from around the world. We call these Frictionless Open Rewards™, and they give brands all the control of a closed program with all the retention and new customer acquisition benefits of an open program, with one simple API integration.

iiNDYVERSE is the only Customer Engagement platform that powers ROI driven NFT rewards and metaverse experiences.  iiNDYVERSE's mission is to empower every creator and brand to easily launch Web3 powered customer activations that are proven to increase customer spend and loyalty. The founders, Bryan and Robin, have a strong combination of entertainment, marketing, data and Web3 tech expertise. They have pioneered music & entertainment focused business initiatives for brands like Red Bull, The North Face and Pernod Ricard; and also built and scaled data-tech platforms that improved customer experiences for 10 of the top 15 internet brands.  The company is backed by leading investors such as Outlier Ventures and Farfetch, and advised by former leaders from Nike, Red Bull, Depop, Paypal, Niatnic, and more.

Yoox Net-a-Porter Group is the global Internet retailing partner for leading fashion and design brands. It has established itself amongst the market leaders with the multi-brand online stores yoox.com, thecorner.com, and shoescribe.com, as well as with numerous mono-brand online stores. In October 2015, YOOX GROUP and THE NET-A-PORTER GROUP came together, two companies that have revolutionized the luxury fashion industry since their birth in 2000. The Group has offices and operations in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and Hong Kong and delivers to more than 100 countries worldwide.

Neiman Marcus Group is a luxury fashion retail company that offers clothing, accessories, jewelry, and dinnerware, providing consumers with branded products at lower prices for men and women.

Wishi has fundamentally altered the e-commerce experience for both retailers and shoppers by solving the paradox of choice and transforming how inventory is sold.  We’ve optimized the high-touch experience of brick-and-mortar shopping for the digital landscape.  Wishi is the only software company combining human expertise and technology to curate the world of e-commerce. As the most personalized, scalable, contextual commerce solution on the market, Wishi uses client data, proprietary technology and experts to offer users shopping recommendations that guide them to the most relevant digital inventory.

Colvin was born to reshape floriculture trading to create a more sustainable and efficient future for the $120bn floriculture industry The level of fragmentation and the perishable nature of floriculture has created several underlying problems in its supply chain, leading to economic inefficiency, environmental impact - with up to 30% product waste from farm to retail. The long supply chain also creates subpar customer experience for a product that is meant to shine and mostly be gifted. Colvin was born to digitize the floriculture supply chain improving the economical and environmental efficiency of this beautiful industry. So, all customers can send love and joy in a better way.

FavourUp creates technology solutions for fashion brands to engage influencers and customers. They offer platforms for fashion, retail, and travel brands, creating an endless stream of localised user-generated content.

Didimo is the world’s leading provider of fast, automated solutions for the generation of high-quality real-time humans.  Our high-fidelity 3D didimo human avatars are created in around 90 seconds, from inputs as simple as a 2D photo. Our PaaS allows content creators, software developers, collaboration platforms, and app builders to integrate a fast, robust, and reliable solution for generating user-generated avatars in their own software solutions. Our patented and flexible pipeline can translate various image-based inputs of a user’s face, and using automated machine vision, topology generation, texturing, and rigging components, to output a real-time ready high fidelity avatar. These are designed to be perfectly suited for real-time engines - and include a full facial animation system and text-to-speech animation capability.

Buy Buddy is a revolutionary IoT solution transforming the retail industry. We offer cutting-edge smart tags that provide real-time insights into physical customer engagements within brick-and-mortar stores. As the #1 platform in this space, Buy Buddy is uniquely positioned to optimize conversions by unlocking a new level of understanding of consumer behavior. Our technology captures and analyzes data from customers' natural interactions with products, such as when a customer picks up an item, walks with it, or spends time examining it. These metrics inform strategies to enhance the shopping experience and drive conversion. Buy Buddy's solution bridges the gap between online and offline retail, enabling a seamless, personalized, and highly engaging shopping experience that maximizes marketing ROI. Join us in redefining retail and driving your business growth with smart data.

TO THE MARKET is an innovative platform powering the ethical and sustainable supply chain for some of the world’s largest companies. Facing intense and rising demand for operational transparency, our clients rely on our proprietary digitized vendor scoring, procurement workflows, automated reporting, and more.

The Modist is an online women's fashion retailer. The company was founded in 2017 by Algerian entrepreneur and finance expert Ghizlan Guenez. It is headquartered in Dubai, U.A.E. with a secondary office in London.

Welcome to Nigeria’s leading online fashion destination! Shopping online at Fashpa.com in Nigeria  means the days of  looking  through endless boutiques and car boot sales to find that perfect fashion item and buying it at an expensive price when you do are long gone.   Whether you are searching for the latest trends, clothing items, shoes,  accessories or beauty products, FASHPA.COM  brings you a huge collection of brands from which to choose the very best and latest. From shoes, such as heels, espadrilles, flats, sandals for women, wedges, down to clothes, like, swimwear, shorts, underwear or lingerie, and fashion jewelry.   Our extensive range of international and local brands and designers such as Topshop, New look, Asos and Zara are literally at your fingertips. Our Mission is simple, the latest trends, hottest brands and best prices all delivered to your doorstep.  At FASHPA Nigeria, we believe your online shopping experience should be fantastic and enjoyed as if you visited the best fashion store  in Nigeria in person.This is why we have the latest collections and we remove all the stress and make sure you are able to  receive your FASHPA order as quickly as possible - in major cities that's usually 1-3 working days.   Enjoy free delivery in Lagos or a low shipping rate outside lagos with multiple payment options such as Pay Online,  Bank Deposit  and cash on delivery. Getting your fashion fix has never been easier and more secure.

Inline is a wholesale platform uniquely designed for luxury brands & retailers to streamline non-digital workflows, optimize sales cycles, and offer real-time performance insights.

Mirow is an award-winning start-up in retail and hospitality space featured in Financial Times and a part of Retail Tech Map by CB Insights. Mirow develops smart mirrors-as-a-service for the fitting rooms that help customers to get AI-driven recommendations, call for assistance and get their items in desired size or color, and provide improved quality of service, confirmed sales uplift and completely unique big data on customer behavior and identity. List of our clients include top level brands and we're currently expanding both in the US and the EU.

Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trousers, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. The company operates a modular end-to-end technology platform built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem. The company's platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services, and data.

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Marketplaces and related solutions for selling goods and services online

Ecommerce Platforms

C2C and B2C ecommerce platforms that enable users to sell a range of goods and services via their online marketplace (e.g., eBay, Amazon).

B2B ecommerce platforms that enable businesses to sell a range of goods and services aimed mainly at other businesses. These companies mostly provide wholesale/bulk purchases (e.g., DHgate, Lightinthebox).

B2C ecommerce platforms that enable businesses to sell specialized product categories (including electronics, fast fashion, or books) via their online marketplace (e.g., Trendyol, Asos, Bookshop).

Ecommerce solutions providers that offer software for customizable ecommerce and other websites or specific modules embedded in websites such as digital experience intelligence and ecommerce management support (e.g., Shopify, CommerceIQ).

Companies that buy and grow ecommerce brands on ecommerce marketplaces (e.g., Thrasio, OpenStore, Moonshot Brands).

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