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Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund invests in economic infrastructure private loans and bonds across a range of industries in stable, low-risk jurisdictions creating equity-like returns with the protections of debt.

From founders to founders, LIFT99 helps startup entrepreneurs and bright minds from all over the world to elevate their businesses with the necessary know-how, network, and support. We are set to transform the way founders share expertise, learn, and grow. On one level we are moving towards that goal through strategically placed startup hubs located in Tallinn and Kyiv. Internationally we are uniting today's and tomorrow's founders within our Salto App and the Toolbox of Salto Network, built to connect founders and help their startups grow into unicorns. Keep an eye on our Salto Network page to find out more.

D-Ax is a partnership between Axel Johnson, a Swedish retail conglomerate and RECAPEX, a Nordic Investment company. Axel Johnson’s aim with D-ax is to invest in digital entrepreneurial companies. The ambition is to increase the trading group’s digital resources. As one of the Nordic region’s leading trading groups, Axel Johnson aims to meet with customers across all contact channels and develop new digital offers. The ambition is to is to increase the trading group’s digital resources. The firm looking for entrepreneurial digital companies that do business in trading and services. The companies should have achieved a certain level of sales and have a proven business model. While they may be e-commerce companies, this is not a must; they might also be companies that work with other digital business ideas within the spectrum covering online marketing, data transparency and data analysis.

Inventure is the early-stage VC that knows how to get Nordic and Baltic founders to the next level. Since 2005, the team has been in venture with over 90 companies ranging from deep tech to consumer internet brands, including Wolt, Swappie, Stravito and Jobbatical. With its €377 million of assets under management, Inventure focuses on Seed and Series A investments across Nordics and Baltics, with offices in Helsinki and Stockholm.

OHB Venture Capital is a corporate venture capital company of OHB SE, specializes in start-up and early stage investments. OHB Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of the OHB group. They invest worldwide in cutting-edge space technology-related start-ups. With a spirit of disruption in their DNA.

CEA Investissement (SA), founded (as CEA Valorisation) in 1999, is a subsidiary of the CEA, a major player in technological research, development and innovation. The central mission of CEA Valorisation is to create economic value based on technological innovations. To fulfill this mission, they have developed two main activities: Investment in seed capital in innovative start-ups / start-ups active in the technology areas of CEA. The Licensing of advising companies and public laboratories of innovation in creative strategy development and marketing rights to patent or know-how belonging to the CEA, other research organizations or innovative companies. In addition, CEA contributes to the financing of national investment in seed technology (activity "Fund of Funds"), this activity is developed through particular Emertec management and funds managed by this company (FCPR Emertec 2 Emertec Energy and Environment), the FCPR managed by ACE Security Management SA, an investment company in seed priming Minatec SAS. Their areas of technological expertise are mainly micro-and nanotechnology, health technologies, the New Technologies for Information and Communication (NTIC), advanced materials and technologies for energy.

Karma Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage deep tech software startups across Europe. We back exceptional founders building defensible technology, typically at the late-seed or Series A stage.  

Together with successful founders, key academic and industry partners, Venturelab designs and operates programs to bring Switzerland's best startup talents to the next level. Our mission is to support entrepreneurs towards successful fundraising and business growth throughout the evolution of their company. Venturelab has 15 years of experience bringing Switzerland’s best entrepreneurs to the heart of technology hotspots: Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Barcelona, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong. Companies founded by the 360 Venture Leaders alumni have created more than 3,500 jobs and raised more than 1.7 billion Swiss francs in capital. We are also particularly proud of the success of our mandate to run the operations of the Venture Kick Foundation since its launch in 2007. So far, the program of financial support, training and network, has led to the creation of 519 companies and +7,000 jobs. Venture Kick alumni companies have attracted a total of 3.5 billion francs, and represent 54 companies ranked at the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2019.

Aboa Advest is a family-owned investment company focusing on startups and other growth companies. Founded in 2015, we have been particularly interested in impact investing: Impact investing generates a beneficial social or environmental impact, as well as a financial return. (*) We are an active investor in Finnish growth companies. We revised our investment strategy in January 2020: our primary focus is to invest in Venture Capital funds. To date we have invested in two buyout funds and five VC funds, adding value in DeepTech startups. Our investment strategy is based on a long-term perspective: we expect a significant return on our investments in 10 years time.

Tera Ventures is an international investment firm based in Estonia. Tera helps some of Europe's most disruptive technology companies scale and become global leaders. We back ambitious founders and their compelling visions at pre-seed and seed stage. Founded in 2016, Tera Ventures has 12 active investments in its first fund (that we previously managed under SmartCap). We are also proud of our previous exits from GrabCAD, Modesat, VitalFields, Startup Wise Guys, and others. The team at Tera Ventures consists of investors and advisors from around the world who have created exceptional value and personally made the journey from founders to acquisition or IPO of several digital tech companies. We believe in and strongly support founders and great teams and possess a very Silicon Valley-approach to helping our companies – we have worked in all weather conditions and life cycles of startups and are there to support our clients' success. We are tenacious, ambitious and experienced in making it happen.

Vendep Capital is a B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in the Nordics and Baltics. They invest in the best early stage software entrepreneurs, providing funding ranging from 0.1–3M euros depending on the stage.

Innovestor was founded in 2014 to solve a very tangible problem for technology entrepreneurs: lack of capital for growing the business. At the same time, we had identified an increasing demand among private investors to gain access to promising early-stage technology startups. Our first product, an online co-investment platform, was developed and brought to market to address this opportunity. The business gained traction, and our community grew. We were able to attract ambitious founders and smart investors to the platform. Meanwhile, we had reached another conclusion: a more impactful way to support founders is by backing the lifecycle of a company, not just a single round of funding. For achieving that at meaningful scale, the most suitable model is a VC fund.