Avalon’s long-standing and successful focus has been on seed and early stage companies, including many it formed in the life science and information technology sectors.  We believe this is the most challenging and rewarding period of company creation – we are former entrepreneurs driven by passionate people pursuing disruptive ideas in ever changing market environments.

Avalon Ventures

.406 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in innovative Information Technology (''IT'') and services companies founded by the finest entrepreneurs. They are a veteran team of industry entrepreneurs, operators and investors who apply real world experience, deep industry knowledge and networks, and strong company-building skills to create value for our entrepreneurs and investing partners.   .406 Ventures typically are the lead, first institutional investor in early-stage and de novo investments in market-changing IT Security and Infrastructure, Technology-Enabled Business Services, and Next-Generation Software companies.

.406 Ventures

Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that helps founders build product-focused companies. The firm actively partners with founders at inception, seed, or series-A stages and stays involved throughout the company's growth. With $2.6 billion in capital, Nexus invests mainly in enterprise software in the US and digitally-driven businesses in India.

Nexus Venture Partners

Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, edge, 5G, autonomy, cybersecurity, client & gaming, enterprise applications, silicon design and manufacturing, and a wide range of other disruptive technologies.

Intel Capital

Silicon Valley Bank works with technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity, and premium wine businesses. SVB provides industry knowledge and connections, financing, treasury management, corporate investment, and international banking services to its clients worldwide through 27 U.S. offices and seven international operations.   Banking innovative companies and exclusive wineries, Silicon Valley Bank’s diverse financial services, knowledge, global network, and world-class service increase its clients’ probability of success. Forbes Magazine ranks SVB among America’s Best Banks, and Fortune Magazine named SVB one of the Best Companies to Work For in 2012.

Silicon Valley Bank

[Mitsui & Co. Global Investment](http://www.mitsui-global.com/en/) is a venture capital fund that focuses on early stage companies.  Mitsui's expertise lies in helping companies build their business globally.  Mitsui & Co. Global Investment Co. is an investment company as a division of the financial business, to invest in companies that significant growth is expected. The headquarters in Tokyo, and we are investing activities from a global perspective, as opposed to complete in each country and a network of offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, Mumbai, while also focusing on Japan and the United States China and India.

Mitsui Global Investment

ORIX Ventures, we specialize in designing personalized financing solutions that reward your hard work and position you for future success. Our experienced team looks forward to helping you build on your accomplishments and reach the next level.  Since 2001, we’ve committed more than $1 billion to over 100 companies, designing personalized deals to meet specific needs…and delivering on our promises.  Their team is experienced, dedicated, and skilled at framing flexible financing packages for growing companies. We use an approach that’s centered on learning about your business from the inside out…so we can push the right buttons with respect to financing level, terms and timing.  ORIX Ventures has always provided smart capital to top performing growth companies. Our philosophy, which has stood the test of time, centers on offering a variety of debt structures and equity co-investments as well as the ability to be nimble–making modifications over time to meet a variety of diverse challenges.  They bring the same level of attention, enthusiasm and creativity to transactions of all sizes; our goal is to construct a financing arrangement that meets your specific needs today and grows with you. And, we won’t disappear if times get tough; that’s when our position as a strong business partner will make the difference.

ORIX Ventures

NGP Capital is a global thesis-driven, early-stage VC with a vision to unleash the magic of technology.  With an AUM of 1.6B, NGP invests in B2B companies from Series A onwards in Europe and the US in enterprise software, industrial tech, cybersecurity, and infrastructure. For nearly two decades, NGP Capital has invested in more than 100 companies of which 18 are unicorns and 11 went on to IPO.

NGP Capital

Commonfund is an institutional investment firm that delivers solutions for strategic investors within both the nonprofit and pension investment communities. Commonfund was founded in 1969 with a two-part mission, to create investment solutions for nonprofits that previously did not have the scale and access to the best managers. As importantly, our charter was to also create educational programs that would bring the current best investment practices to institutional investors of all sizes and segments.  Insight that has helped grow fund values during an increasingly challenging investment environment. Commonfund has changed and grown dramatically since that time--expanding both our investment solution offerings and the client segments we serve. Yet, our mission has remained the same: to enhance the financial resources of our clients and to improve the investment management practices of our clients.  Today, Commonfund manages over $24 billion1 for nearly 1,500 institutions with a focus on three primary activities:  Outsourced solutions Alternative investment strategies Private capital   Our only business is investment management and we are active in all sectors of the global capital markets - in both public and private markets.

Common Fund

Gera is a venture capital firm based in Brazil that finances early stage education investments.

Gera Venture Capital

Sapphire is a global software venture capital firm with more than $11 billion in AUM and team members across Austin, London, Menlo Park and San Francisco. For over a decade, Sapphire has partnered with visionary management teams and venture funds to back companies of consequence. Since its founding, Sapphire has invested in more than 170 companies globally resulting in more than 30 Public Listings and 45 acquisitions. The firm’s investment strategies — Sapphire Ventures, Sapphire Partners and Sapphire Sport — are focused on scaling companies and venture funds, elevating them to become category leaders. Sapphire’s Portfolio Growth team of experienced operators delivers a strategic blend of value-add services, tools and resources designed to support portfolio company leaders as they scale.

Sapphire Ventures

Mitsui & Co is a general trading company. Mitsui & Co's business area covers energy, machinery, chemicals, food, textile, logistics, finance, and more.  They will contribute to address diverse industrial needs, through procurement, supply and sales of iron and steel products and investment to processing and distribution businesses in Japan and abroad.  Through business development, investment and trading of mineral, metal resources and metals, they reinforce a stable supply of the resources and materials necessary for both industry and society. They are also active in metal recycling and other initiatives to develop industrial solutions to environmental issues.  They contribute to creating better lives through the long-term, reliable supply of social infrastructure such as electricity, gas, water,railways and other logistics infrastructure. They provide sales, financing, lease, transportation and logistics, and project investment in a wide range of machineries, including large-scale plants, marine resource development facilities,ships, and aerospace, motor vehicles, construction/mining machinery and industrial machinery.  Their chemicals business encompasses trade and investment in a range of industries, from upstream chemicals such as basic chemicals, fertilizer resources, through to downstream chemicals such as functional materials, electronics materials,fertilizers,aguricultural chemicals and specialty chemicals. They are also pursuing new initiatives such as green chemicals.  Through upstream development, logistics and trading of energy resources such as oil, natural gas/LNG ,coal and uranium, they contribute to the stable supply of energy vital to both industry and society. As part of efforts to achieve a low-carbon society, they are also actively involved in next-generation energy and environemental businesses.   Adapting to changes in consumption and lifestyles while meeting consumers’ diverse needs, they provide value-added products and services, develop businesses and make investments in the fields of food resources, food products, retail support business, medical and healthcare, fashion, forestry plantation resources, real estate-related business.  Through their ICT, Finance and Logistics business, they work on a diverse range of projects aimed at developing innovative business and expanding their business field. At the same time, they aim to strengthen their company-wide earnings base by pursuing strategic projects and new opportunities and providing specialized functions that contribute to the whole Mitsui & Co. group.  Trading in various commodities led by overseas trading subisidiaries of offices located in the Americas area. Trading in various commodites led by overseas trading subsidiaries or offices located in Europe, the Middle East and Africa area. Trading in various commodities led by overseas trading subsidiaries of offices located in the Asia Pacific area.

Mitsui & Co

Luminari Capital is a digital media fund that invests on firms that map key technology themes to the fundamental transformations in content.

Luminari Capital

As part of the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, GS Growth is the firm’s investment platform dedicated to providing preferred equity and mezzanine capital to high-growth companies. As of June 2019, Goldman Sachs' investing groups (Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Principal Strategic Investments, and Private Capital Investing) have combined to form the GS Growth team. The team targets investments of $20-250 million.

GS Growth

Kaltura

Kaltura’s mission is to power any video experience for any organization. Our Video Experience Cloud offers live, real-time, and on-demand video products for enterprises of all industries, as well as specialized industry solutions, currently for educational institutions and for media and telecom companies. Underlying our products and solutions is a broad set of Media Services that are also used by other cloud platforms and companies to power video experiences and workflows for their own products. Kaltura’s Video Experience Cloud is used by leading brands reaching millions of users, at home, at school and at work, for communication, collaboration, training, marketing, sales, customer care, teaching, learning, virtual events, and entertainment experiences.

71% of Marketers Boost Video-Based Experience Investments Amid General Decline in Effectiveness of Marketing Channels, Kaltura Study Finds

Educational technology plays a pivotal role in driving and enabling the revolution in post-secondary learning

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Designers of learning programs and creators of learning content, aggregators and libraries of learning content and program, massive open online course (MOOC) platform operators, and providers of content development tools for authoring and course-building.

Providers of tools and features to improve learner engagement and learning effectiveness such as AR/VR platforms, interactive software, memory aids, and personalized student support platforms.

Technology platforms such as learning management systems (LMS), learning experience platforms (LXP), and learning content management systems (LCMS) that host in-house or third-party content, track progress, and generate analytics.

Providers of testing and assessment, identity authentication, proctoring, plagiarism-checking, digital credentialing, and feedback-gathering solutions.

Platforms that connect students with experts, specialists, and near-peers who provide academic coaching, development support, college admissions and career guidance, and career readiness support.

Platforms that facilitate communication and networking among students/faculty/alumni/institutions and those providing search, reference, and marketplace solutions.

Providers of campus operating infrastructure including enterprise resource planning (ERP), student information system (SIS), and data analytics solutions and those that support enrollment and marketing processes. Also includes technology solution providers offering security, communication, cloud, and managed services.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their higher EdTech product offering

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