FbFund is a seed fund providing micro-seed investments for companies developing websites and applications related to Facebook.

FbFund

Funding and support for concept and seed stage startups.  K9 Ventures is a true early stage venture fund that provides funding and support for concept-stage and seed-stage technology companies. We work with entrepreneurs, sometimes even before a company has been formed, to help evaluate, evolve and fund a company in its nascent stages. K9 Ventures focuses on startups in the San Francisco Bay Area that have a strong entrepreneur/team, an idea that has a clear path to revenue, which can be capital efficient and where they can add value.

K9 Ventures

Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Floodgate

Mayfield is a global venture capital firm with a people-first philosophy and a 50+ year track record of inception and investing, partnering with founders to build iconic enterprise, consumer, and engineering biology companies. Since its founding, the firm has invested in more than 500 companies, resulting in 119 IPOs and more than 200 acquisitions, and currently has $2.5B under management.

Mayfield Fund

The mission of AF Square is to discover companies whose business model disrupts the status quo.  We seek partnerships with companies that will benefit from our decades of experience and connections in a wide array of industries -- from Entertainment to Technology to Finance to Sports to Politics.  AF Square, partnered with [Atom Factory](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/atom-factory) provides an extra boost of expertise and counsel to help companies reach key people, reach more customers, and reach new goals.

AFSquare

Ooga Labs is a venture capital firm that offers investment and advisory services to network and marketplace businesses. It offers expertise in growth, consultancy, and investment services. It was founded in 2007 by Stan Chudnovsky and James Currier and is based in California.

Ooga Labs

Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption. The fund centers around two macro themes which drives business innovation in the coming years: the growth of the creative class and the concept of collaborative consumption. Craig Shapiro founded it in New York in 2010.

Collaborative Fund

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests at every stage in companies building revolutionary technologies. It has been investors, founders, and early employees of prominent technology companies. It has historically invested in a wide variety of sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, and consumer Internet.

Founders Fund

The stage of your company’s current raise does not matter, your vision and business do. We are as happy to invest a six digit seed funding check as we are to lead a Series B eight digit round. What matters is the strength of your team, your ability to disrupt, and our ability to work together.  We are a team of seasoned investors, hard workers and friends who truly care about the companies we invest in.  We are excited about the consumer Internet, a new eCommerce approach, media, virtual and augmented reality, mobile solutions or the Internet of things. We love piecing it together and building expertise.  We prefer to invest local, but at the end what matters for us is that we have a good relationship.

Altpoint Ventures

Allon Ventures operates as a venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurial, technology-driven innovators across diverse fields. Strong teams, tackling large problems, with simple solutions. Founded by Ori Allon with offices in New York, Miami and Tel Aviv.

Allon Ventures

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

NFX operates as a pre-seed & seed stage investor that is transforming how true innovators are funded for entrepreneurs. They believe that creating something of true significance starts with seeing things others do not. As Founders, they reinvented industries with this mindset. As investors, their approach is no different. They do this by asking ourselves one question - ideally, how should the startup experience work for Founders, both NFX and the whole ecosystem. NFX lens is always through the eyes of the Founder. The firm approach is to first build an early-stage experience for all Founders that is powered by more software. Second, to bring the founders they back exponential yet little-known techniques for network effects and growth. Third, to make visible the typically seen methods of technology's most impactful companies. Having built 10 companies with more than $10 billion in exits across multiple industries and geographies, they're entrepreneurs first because they're entrepreneurs first. And they are determined to guard the backs of the next generation of fearless founders.

Alibaba Group’s mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere.  They enable businesses to transform the way they market, sell, operate, and improve their efficiencies. They provide the technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, and other businesses to leverage the power of new technology to engage with their users and customers and operate in a more efficient way. Their businesses are comprised of core commerce, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, and innovation initiatives. In addition, Ant Financial, a company in which they have agreed to acquire a 33% equity stake, provides payment and financial services to consumers and merchants on their platforms. An ecosystem has developed around their platforms and businesses that consists of consumers, merchants, brands, retailers, other businesses, third-party service providers, and strategic alliance partners.

Alibaba Group

Third Point Ventures is the venture capital arm of Third Point LLC, a registered investment adviser based in New York, with approximately $5 billion of assets under management. The firm was founded in 1995 by Daniel S. Loeb. Third Point Ventures is led by Robert Schwartz, an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience in private equity and technology company management, and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Third Point Ventures

Coatue is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm invests in the public equity markets globally focusing on investments in technology, media, and telecommunications in addition to other sectors. It employs a long or short strategy to make its investments.

Coatue

QueensBridge Venture Partners invests in technology companies in highly competitive and visible markets. The company's collective experience has shaped our approach to investing by allowing us to quickly recognize and capitalize on key trends. Furthermore, by focusing on co-investment opportunities with leading venture capital funds and angel investors in Silicon Valley, we have unique access to very attractive companies. Successful venture capital investing is highly influenced by a network of reputable investors. QBVP aligns itself with firms that have proven their ability to source and invest in the next generation of leading technology companies in Silicon Valley and emerging markets. We bring capital along with our network of industry veterans and corporate relationships to accelerate the development of the companies in which we co-invest. We seek to partner with firms that generate the most value among VCs and back the companies that reach enterprise value of over $1 billion on a regular basis. The general partners of QBVP are industry veterans in consumer products & services, media & entertainment, and financial services. We have (i) advised tech, media, and entertainment companies in raising over $20 billion of capital at bulge bracket Wall Street firms (e.g. Goldman Sachs; Deutsche Bank) (ii) started over twenty businesses, (iii) produced and/or recorded six number 1 albums on the Billboard 200, (iv) sold over 25 million records worldwide, (v) have products in over 3,000 stores.

QueensBridge Venture Partners

SuRo Capital (Nasdaq: SSSS, formerly known as GSV Capital) is a publicly-traded fund that seeks to invest in high-growth, venture-backed private companies. The firm primarily seeks to invest in social mobile, sustainability, cloud computing, big data, marketplaces, and education sectors. It also seeks to create a portfolio of high-growth emerging private companies through a repeatable and disciplined investment approach, as well as to provide investors with access to such companies through its publicly traded common stock. SuRo Capital was established in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SuRo Capital

Melo7 Tech Partners, LLC was founded by Carmelo Anthony and Stuart Goldfarb to invest in and develop opportunities primarily in early stage digital media, consumer internet and technology ventures.

Melo7 Tech Partners

Uprising is a fund and platform to catalyze epic entrepreneurial endeavors that matter. The firm prefers to make seed, early and later-stage investments. Lyft, Change.org, PeerIQ, Lending Club, Upworthy, AltSchool, ClassDojo, Minerva, Zopa, Grow Local Project. It was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Uprising Ventures

VC firm providing early stage capital and resources to transformational leaders focused on highly scalable opportunities.

Generation Ventures

Flat World Partners provides investment consulting services. They offer services that include impact investing, investment advisory services, and financial services.

Flat World Partners

Rakuten is a tech company that offers electronic commerce solutions in Japan and internationally. The company operates in three segments such as internet services, finance services, and others.  The internet services segment comprises businesses running various e-commerce sites, including Rakuten Ichiba, an internet shopping mall; travel booking sites; portal sites; and e-book businesses as well as businesses for advertising and sale of contents and similar on these sites.  Its offerings include e-reading, online travel reservations, online auctions, online marketing, online golf course reservations, portal sites, search engines, integrated internet marketing, online recipe posting and browsing, student recruiting community, online purchase of discount coupons, online shopping, and video on demand services. It is involved in the online sale of books, CDs, and DVDs.  The internet finance segment is engaged in providing services related to banking and securities, credit cards, life insurance, and electronic money. This segment provides credit card payment, internet banking, online brokerage, online comprehensive insurance, and face-to-face and online life insurance services as well as credit card transactions on smartphones and tablets.  The other segments are involved in the provision of communications services such as next-generation LTE-compatible mobile data communication, telecommunications, internet connection and corporate mobile phone services, and management of a professional baseball team.  The company was formerly known as MDM, Inc. and changed its name to Rakuten, Inc. in June 1999. Rakuten, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Rakuten

We invest in smart people solving hard problems, often difficult scientific or engineering problems. Importantly, we believe the brightest and most creative problem solvers seek the hardest and most interesting problems, and gathering the best technical talent is a major competitive advantage.  Advances in cloud and other computing technologies radically reduce the costs of starting and running new businesses, creating opportunities for outsized returns. We invest in teams we believe in and our experience suggests that finding good founding teams and leaving them in place tends to produce higher returns overall.  As a corollary, we resist shackling a company to its original business model. Businesses really do evolve over time and changing models in the early years is anything but a sign of weakness. We do not expect that the first business model for a company will be the final or best business model and do not see evolution as a negative. The most powerful minds are the ones that can be changed.  We believe that substantially all of our investments should be directed to companies with an audacious vision seeking enormous markets. So, we will continue to invest in very talented entrepreneurs who are pursuing ambitious, challenging tasks. We will treat them with respect and hope for the best.

Kortschak Investments L.P.

KG Investments is a private family office fund focused on investing in technology companies through direct investments and secondary loans. This approach is guided by its extensive background of building and investing in technology-related companies over the last 20 years.KG Investments also invests in uncorrelated professionally managed Hedge & Private Equity funds as a Limited Partner looking for unique differentiated opportunities.  It was founded in 2006 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

KG Investments

Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million. Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

Aslanoba Capital

Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE: FIG) is a , highly diversified global investment management firm. Fortress applies its deep experience and specialized expertise across a range of investment strategies - private equity, credit, liquid markets and traditional asset management - on behalf of over 1,500 institutional investors and private clients worldwide.

Fortress Investment Group

Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services. The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi-hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation.

Didi

SierraMaya360 is a full-service early stage venture capital firm. Our team is comprised of industry veterans with an extensive network of contacts in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, New York, Boston, Charlotte and Silicon Beach. Our experience, network and expertise gives us a critical advantage to identify innovative opportunities long before they bubble up as global trends.   Our firm was founded to leverage the success of angel fund Sierra Maya Ventures, which won Top Newcomer to Venture Capital 2014- North America by Wealth and Finance International Magazine and has been consistently ranked as a top-tier Angel/Seed fund.

SierraMaya360

Elan Alternative Group has been involved in the fundraising process of many Fintech and Alternative Investment Asset Managers.  The firm not only acts as a principle investor but has a network of sophisticated and qualified investors who activly participate in capital raises.  Luke Andrew Powell has been leading the firm since 2014 after managing the capital markets team for Prosper Marketplace.  In addition to capital placement Luke Andrew Powell is an active outsourced business development executing having negotiated and created revenue generating opportunities for multiple Technology Companies in the Bay Area.

Elan Alternative Group

Fontinalis Partners, with offices in Detroit and Boston, is a venture capital firm strategically focused on next generation mobility. Fontinalis’ mission is to leverage the team’s considerable management experience, market access, strategic relationships, international expertise, and background in transportation innovation to scale companies providing next-generation mobility solutions. Fontinalis invests as a strategic partner across all facets of the world’s mobility systems on a stage- and size-agnostic basis. Fontinalis is not affiliated with Ford Motor Company.

Fontinalis Partners

Icahn Enterprises L.P. (Icahn Enterprises) is a diversified holding company. The Company owns subsidiaries, which are engaged in Investment, Automotive, Gaming, Railcar, Food Packaging, Metals, Real Estate and Home Fashion. The Company owns a 99% limited partner interest in Icahn Enterprises Holdings L.P. (Icahn Enterprises Holdings). All of its assets and liabilities are owned through Icahn Enterprises Holdings and all of its operations are conducted through Icahn Enterprises Holdings and its subsidiaries. Icahn Enterprises G.P. Inc. (Icahn Enterprises GP), the Company’s sole general partner, owns a 1% general partnership interest in both Icahn Enterprises Holdings and Icahn Enterprises. During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company acquired additional shares of common stock of Federal-Mogul Corporation and owned approximately 77.2% of the common stock of Federal-Mogul as of December 31, 2011.

Icahn Enterprises

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks.  Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operating strategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with ''one-stop online lifestyle services.'' Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others. In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively. Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

Tencent

Consumer focused early-to-growth stage VC fund founded by Linkin Park

Machine Shop Ventures

Invest in top tier VC funds as well as direct co-investment

Cherry Tree Investments

M13 provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies. Through Fund II, M13 will expand its focus to emerging technologies driving change in consumer behavior over the next decade.   Founded in 2016 with offices in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.

Green Bay Ventures (''GBV'') is a San Francisco based venture capital firm. The Firm is led by C. Richard ''Dick'' Kramlich and Anthony Schiller, who co-own and co-manage the Firm. Since 2012, Dick and Anthony have originated and made investments in world-class companies including Lyft, Dropbox, Xiaomi, MuleSoft, Databricks, Spotify, TransferWise, and DocuSign plus other leading early-stage venture capital deals. Dick and Anthony have designed GBV to build on the same instinct and vision which helped Dick and the firm he co-founded, NEA, pioneer investment in and commercialization of Ethernet (3Com), high capacity networking (Juniper Networks), balloon angioplasty (Advanced Cardiovascular), web-based remittances (Xoom) and graphics processing (Silicon Graphics) — but at a scale where the team can focus on a small number of high conviction opportunities and support a select group of visionary entrepreneurs working to create breakthrough technologies and transform industries. The Firm’s existing investors include some of the world’s most prominent families, top-tier venture capital investors, entrepreneurs, and Silicon Valley CEOs whose active engagement with portfolio companies provides deep domain expertise and direct access to target markets.  GBV believes that by leveraging the networks and businesses of the Firm’s investors, its portfolio companies gain an advantage — helping the growth of their businesses and the deployment of their technologies.

Green Bay Ventures

Founded in 2011, G Squared is aligned with a fundamental shift: venture-backed companies stay private longer. As a result, private companies need both primary capital to continue their growth trajectory and transitional capital to provide liquidity to early investors, current and former employees, and other sellers. Positioned at the crux of this liquidity access challenge, G Squared partners with portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle using a fundamentally different approach than traditional VCs. The company invests in companies that challenge the status quo and demonstrate a clear path to superior returns, partnering with world-class entrepreneurs tackling big problems. G Squared funds have invested in household names such as 23andMe, Coursera, Instacart, Lyft, Pinterest, and Spotify, as well as in the next generation of disruptors, including Asana, Blend, Bolt, Brex, Capsule, Flexport, Impossible Foods, Toast, and Turo.

G Squared

ECA is a seed and early stage investor in technology based companies. Our current areas of focus include but not limited to mobile products, online gaming, social media, cloud-based services, location-based services and online communications.

ECA Ventures

General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services.  The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

General Motors

Kingdom Holding Company is one of the world’s premier international investment companies with holdings in some of the world’s best known companies and brands including Apple, Time Warner, Samba, Citigroup, Pepsi, Walt Disney and Four Seasons.   KHC is based in Saudi Arabia and headed by HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. The Company’s vision is simple to ‘invest in the best’ through a strategy of:   ■ Focussing on core growth and value added industry sectors  ■ Investing in high performance companies with leading brands  ■ Maintaining a longer-term investment approach  ■ Extracting value from undervalued or underperforming assets  ■ Maximising Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s unique experience, investment expertise and international network of contacts

Kingdom Holding Company

Janus Capital Group is a global investment management firm managing $160 billion in global assets through product offerings across growth, mathematical, value and fixed-income. They work hard, think smart, and exist to create success for their clients.

Janus Capital Group

Autotech Ventures is a venture capital firm that manages more than $400 million to invest in start-ups that aim to generate financial returns in the vast $3 trillion ground transportation industry. Connected, autonomous, shared and electrified vehicles and related mobility services have created tectonic shifts in the incumbent ground transportation industry. Vehicle manufacturers, parts suppliers, dealerships, repair shops, parking operators, ground logistics firms, and road infrastructure providers are all being impacted by ground transportation startups. Autotech Ventures provides startup companies with 1) capital to execute on their business plan, 2) access to its industry contacts - including dozens of ground transportation corporate investors who together represent a global market capitalization of over $500 billion dollars, 3) up-to-the-minute market intelligence on the ground transport landscape, 4) support in recruiting ground transportation industry talent, and 5) fundraising support to raise additional capital from other financially-motivated investors and strategic investors. Start-ups typically innovate quickly then scale slowly, while corporations typically innovate slowly then scale quickly. Autotech Ventures brings startups and corporations together to bridge this gap and build a new transportation future.

Autotech Ventures

Since 2013, the EquityZen marketplace has made it easy to buy and sell shares in the private companies shaping the future. EquityZen brings together investors and shareholders, providing liquidity to early shareholders and private market access to accredited investors. With low investment minimums through our funds and with more than 37,000 private placements completed across 400+ companies, EquityZen leads the way in delivering “Private Markets for the Public”.

EquityZen

Graphene Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and growth stage tech companies in enterprise software,consumer technology, health tech, fintech and blockchain technologies

Graphene Ventures

Oceanic Partners is a VC Firm dedicated to making investments in mid-to late-staged private technology companies focused on strong teams and fundamentals, with meaningful opportunities for liquidity. The team at Oceanic has an unparalleled mastery of the private markets, both as successful principals as well as intermediaries. The Firm's Management has executed thousands of private transactions, valued at over $3 Billion, across hundreds of companies. Oceanic Partners investment approach is unconstrained by deal size, geography, ''style box,'' and/or market phase. Share

Oceanic Partners

Cube is the family office founded by the Rancilio family in 2013, after the sale of the espresso machine company founded in 1927 by our grandfather Roberto. The Rancilio family managed its company for three generations, during the course of which it became a leading global espresso producer. After selling the family business, we created Rancilio Cube. Cube focuses on venture, growth and impact investments, and makes both direct and fund investments. With regard to direct investments, we invested in companies such as Lyft (made in 2015, we consider it as our ''cornerstone'' venture/growth investment), Sennder, N26, SpaceX, Airbnb, Wise, 23andme, Uber, Flexport, Deliveroo, SumUp, Capsule, Coursera, Lyst, Omaze, Prodigy Finance, Taboola, Applause, Reef, Rapyd, Logz.io, Tier, Toast, Bnext, Treedom, Casavo and many more.  Cube also makes limited partner investments in international VC funds: examples include Pelion, Earlybird DE, Cherry Venture, Foundation Capital, Khosla, NEA, Lake Star, Hoxton Venture, Hetz, Glilot, Cavalry, Bessemer, Omega, Blue Lion, TCV, Firstmark, Seedcamp, Holtzbrinck, OWL, Better Tomorrow, Zetta, DST, Jackson Square Venture, GSquared, Speedinvest, Target GlobaI, Aspect Ventures, Oxford Science Innovation, Triodos Organic Growth and other funds. From 2022 we are a fully compliant investment company for professional investors. We got an embedded global network, with a particularly deep and wide set of relationships in the Us/European investment and corporate markets. Cube goes out of its way to open up its networks for the benefit of the companies and funds in which it has invested.

Rancilio Cube Sicaf

Counterpart Advisors is a Venture Capital, Private Equity & Consulting firm that engages in highly competitive and visible markets.

Counterpart Advisors

[AllianceBernstein](http://www.alliancebernstein.com) is a publicly traded global asset management firm, with approximately $735 billion in assets under management at March 31, 2008.

AllianceBernstein

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is an investment firm that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and, through its strategic partners, hedge funds. The company generates investment returns for its fund investors through a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing people, and driving growth and value creation with KKR portfolio companies. The company invests its own capital alongside the capital it manages for fund investors and delivers financing solutions and investment opportunities through its capital markets business. The firm has completed more than two-hundred-eighty private equity investments in portfolio companies with approximately $545 billion of total enterprise value as of June 30, 2017. Assets Under Management (“AUM”) and Fee Paying Assets Under Management (“FPAUM”) were $153 billion and $114 billion, respectively as of September 30, 2017. Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. and cousins Henry Kravis and George R. Roberts, all of whom had previously worked together at Bear Stearns, where the three completed some of the leveraged buyout transactions founded the company. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has completed a number of transactions including the 1989 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, which was a large buyout in history to that point, as well as the 2007 buyout of TXU, which is currently also a large buyout completed to date since its founding. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has offices in 21 cities in 16 countries across 5 continents. The firm is currently headquartered in the Solow Building, New York, but in October 2015, the firm announced its intentions to occupy a newly constructed 30 Hudson Yards. In October 2009, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts listed shares in the company through KKR & Co., an affiliate that holds 30% of the firm's ownership equity, with the remainder held by the firm's partners. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts filed to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in March 2010, with trading commencing four months later, on July 15, 2010.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts

Baillie Gifford is an independently owned investment management firm. It is owned and run by 39 of its senior executives, who operate as a partnership, a structure that has endured for over a century and provides stability for clients and motivation for employees. It enables them to manage the business for the future as well as the present, with an emphasis on genuine long-term thinking rather than lurching haplessly between short-term targets.

Baillie Gifford

Glade Brook Capital Partners focuses on companies in the technology, media, telecom, and consumer sectors.  Glade Brook specializes in technology growth equity, the Firms' experience investing across private and public markets, and a network of company management teams, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders foster unique deal flow.  It was founded in 2011 by Paul Hudso.

Glade Brook Capital Partners

UTA Ventures is the venture capital arm of United Talent Agency and is based in Beverly Hills, California.

UTA Ventures

InMotion Ventures is the venture capital arm of Jaguar Land Rover.  The team collaborates with subject matter experts at JLR to identify and invest in startups shaping the future of the automotive industry. The fund allocates capital and resources to purpose-driven businesses aligned with Jaguar Land Rover’s global strategy, and prioritises environmental and societal impact alongside strategic & financial returns.

InMotion Ventures

Chromo Invest is an Investment Studio focused on Global Alternative Investments and “Out-of-the-box” investment ideas. The firm manages liquid and illiquid investments for a UHNW Brazilian family and selected clients. They seek global investment theses in order to achieve an appreciation of the capital invested in the long term, with participatory and contributory activities in business. It analyzes the intrinsic characteristics of potential businesses, far beyond financial indicators. Chromo Invest's mission as an alternative investment manager is to be a powerful guiding focus for businesses and investors, such as marine lighthouses, which project the light to indicate the right direction and warn of obstacles ahead of any adversity.

Chromo Invest

BAM Elevate is a growth equity fund that invests in breakout companies in transformational industries poised to compound long-term value.

BAM Elevate

Fidelity is a privately-owned investment manager focusing on a diverse set of customers. It also provides IRAs, 401(k) rollovers, annuities, discount brokerage services, retirement services, estate planning, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, and life insurance services to its clients. Fidelity provides its services to individual investors, businesses, financial advisors, and institutions. It manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds. Fidelity invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It conducts in-house research to make its investments.  It helps over 32 million people feel more confident in their most important financial goals, manage employee benefit programs for over 22,000 businesses, and support more than 13,000 financial institutions with innovative investment and technology solutions to grow their businesses. Headquartered in Boston, Fidelity serves its customers through 12 regional offices and more than 190 Investor Centers in the United States.

Fidelity

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan invests and administers the pensions of active and retired teachers. It invests the pension fund's assets and administers the pensions of 284,000 active and retired teachers in Ontario. A pension plan has existed for Ontario teachers since 1917. Today, the plan's members include 173,000 teachers in elementary and secondary schools in Ontario, 111,000 pensioners, and 72,000 inactive members. The plan has one of Canada's largest payrolls with $4.2 billion in benefits paid to plan members and $2.3 billion received in total contributions from teachers and the provincial government in 2008.

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund, invests in remarkable companies transforming the fields of consumer products and services, enterprise tech, cybersecurity, fintech, cryptocurrency, and transportation tech. CapitalG partners with growth-stage companies in their transition from startup to scale-up through hands-on assistance from its in-house growth team and connections to Google's engineering, product, marketing, sales, and people operations experts worldwide. More than 2,500 Googlers and Alphabet leaders have already engaged with CapitalG portfolio companies, including Airbnb, Collibra, CrowdStrike, Curated, DCG, Duolingo, Freshworks, Gusto, ID.me, Lyft, Robinhood, Stripe, UiPath, Whatnot, among others.

CapitalG

Valia is a global venture capital firm with offices in New York, San Francisco, and London. We back founders building tomorrow's most iconic companies.

Valia Ventures

Lexington Ventures is an investment arm of Lexington Commercial Holdings specializing in early stage, later stage, growth stage, emerging growth stage, and mature investments. It seeks to invest in mergers/acquisitions of more mature companies. The firm seeks to invest in technology, internet/networking, real estate, media, and entertainment sectors. Lexington Ventures, L.L.C. was founded in 2000 and is based in Beverly Hills, California.

Lexington Venture

Intellectus Partners, LLC is a financial service company that specializes in wealth creation, and preservation services. The Company offers investment consulting and management services, as well as manages client investment portfolios on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis. Intellectus has a unique focus on Entrepreneurs and has a focus on Venture & Entrepreneurial Advisory. The firm is a very active investor in disruptive technologies with a particular focus on Fintech-specifically focused on the convergence of Artificial Intelligence & Blockchain, AI at large and New Space. It helps their clients address key issues of creating and preserving self-made wealth, spanning a lifecycle of needs, from formation through impact investing to address the needs of entrepreneurs and executives.

Intellectus Partners

Comcast Ventures is the venture capital affiliate of Comcast Corporation and partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs building transformative consumer and enterprise companies.

Comcast Ventures

Light Street Capital Management is an investment management firm located in Menlo Park, California. The firm invests globally in public and private equity markets with a focus on technology and media sectors. Core areas of investment focus are social media, cloud computing, e-commerce, and sharing economy companies.

Light Street Capital

Milliways construct a stellar track record of both entrepreneurship as well as investment. They have created companies of over $1 Billion in value as well as were early investors in companies like Facebook, Lyft and Whisper.

Milliways Ventures

Senator Investment Group is a hedge-fund firm providing services to pooled investment vehicles. It specializes in the fields of financial services and investment management. It was formed in 2008 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Senator Investment Group

Sweetwater helps General & Limited partners generate liquidity and rebalance private equity exposure across all asset types.

Sweetwater Capital Partners

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Lyft

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    ID.me provides a digital wallet and identity verification services. It puts users in control of data and how they use the digital wallet to access benefits and services. The company offers a range of services, including Digital Wallet that allows access to government services and benefits; Identity Verification; Government Services; Discounts and Cash Back providing big discounts and cash backs from over 5,000 stores; and Prescription Services that enable savings of up to USD 95 per prescription through the Rx Card.
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    ID.me operates on a B2B and B2C sales model. It provides special discounts for military personnel, nurses, teachers, medical providers, first responders, and EMT and government employees. Moreover, any savings obtained through the ID.me Rx Program cannot be combined with insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and other discounts in a single transaction.
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    ID.me has partnerships with 31 states, multiple federal agencies, and over 500 name brand retailers. Moreover, it has over 112 members and is accepted by more than 600 partners. Shopify is considered to be the company&rsquo;s largest partner. Meanwhile, it serves a customer base across the retailers, healthcare, financial services, and travel and leisure industries, as well as government agencies. Apple, Amazon, Yeti, Lenovo, and Ford are among ID.me&rsquo;s customers.
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    ID.me raised USD 132 million from its latest funding round in April 2023. This was a Series D round led by Viking Global Investors, and the funds raised were used to build the company&rsquo;s secure digital identity network.
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Argo AI is a global autonomy products and services company headquartered in Pittsburgh, with engineering centers located in Detroit, Cranbury, NJ, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, and Munich, Germany. Since 2016, the company has been on a mission to make the world’s streets and roadways safe, accessible, and useful for all. With a team of more than 1,800 people across the U.S. and Europe, Argo designs its Argo Autonomy Platform and Solutions to support autonomous ridesharing and goods delivery at scale to benefit communities around the world.

ID.me simplifies how individuals prove and share their identities online. The ID.me secure digital identity network has more than 72 million members with over 145,000 new subscribers joining daily,  including 29 states, 10 federal agencies, and over 500 retail brands. The company provides identity proofing, authentication, and group affiliation verification for organizations across sectors. ID.me technology meets federal standards and the company is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 conformant credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me is the only provider with video chat and is committed to “No Identity Left Behind” to enable all people to have a secure digital identity.

Together with leading educators, engineers, and entrepreneurs, Girls Who Code has developed a new model for computer science education, pairing intensive instruction in robotics, web design, and mobile development with high-touch mentorship and exposure led by the industryâ€™s top female engineers and entrepreneurs. In its inaugural program, Girls Who Code empowered young women from New York Cityâ€™s five boroughs and will launch programs in New York, Detroit, San Francisco, and San Jose in 2013.

Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ridesharing company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population. Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.

<div><p>Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ride sharing company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population. Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.</p></div>

Riding together toward a sustainable future

Shared Mobility

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    Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ride sharing company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population. Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.
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    Swvl offers an app that allows customers to book fixed-rate rides on buses and vans in their network. It allows people to share a ride in a van or bus during morning and evening commutes for a fixed flat fare with no surge pricing.
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    Lime aims to provide a sustainable solution to the first- and last-mile transportation problems by helping people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint. The company empowers future generations to change their behavior so they can save this planet together. From the electric scooter to the e-assist and pedal bike, experience the excitement of Lime&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;s smart mobility fleet.
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    Getaround empowers users to instantly rent and drive great cars shared by people in their city. Cars can be rented by the hour, or the day, with a $1M insurance policy and 24/7 roadside assistance included. By using its app, people skip the lines and paperwork at traditional rental car counters, and the hassle of buying and maintaining a car. Powered by Getaround ConnectTM, the patented connected car technology, Getaround creates a fun and safe car sharing experience is without the need to meet the car owner, carry an access card, or coordinate picking up a car key. People share everything from a Prius to a Tesla and earn thousands in extra income each year, offsetting the high cost of car ownership while also making a positive impact on the environment. Headquartered in San Francisco, Getaround has thousands of cars available throughout major metropolitan areas across the United States. Existing investors in Getaround include Menlo Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures, Asset Plus, Triangle Peak Partners, SPARX Group, Toyota Motor Corporation, Cox Automotive Inc., and SAIC Capital.
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    Bird designs a vehicle sharing platform that provides affordable transportation solutions to communities across the world. The company's platform coordinates with cities to provide citizens with access to shared personal electric vehicles that can be picked up and dropped off anywhere, enabling users to receive sustainable and environment-friendly local transport.
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Bird

Technological innovations into urban mobility systems such as micromobility

Solutions such as ride and car sharing promote efficient use of resources

IoT provides apps with real-time information to facilitate ride hailing and other shared transport methods

Platforms that connect passengers with personal drivers on-demand, for dedicated rides.

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Passenger Mobility Tech (Q1 2024): Tech upgrades pave way for safer, smarter vehicles; partnerships strengthen EV ecosystem

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Motional delays commercial robotaxi launch until 2026 to restructure operations and refine technology; suspends current operations

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