PE/VC investors
Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) investors are the catalysts of innovation and growth in the business world. PE firms primarily target established companies, seeking to optimize operations and unlock value through strategic investments and management expertise. They focus on long-term growth and profitability, often preparing businesses for a future sale or IPO. VC investors, by contrast, are the adventurers of finance, injecting capital into high-potential startups and early-stage companies. They embrace risk for the possibility of outsized returns, often becoming invaluable advisors. Both investor types not only bring capital but also strategic guidance, industry connections, and market insights, propelling their portfolio companies towards success.
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Zephyr Acorn
Zephyr Acorn invests in and actively supports innovative early-stage companies across sectors in East Africa that have the potential to scale across the continent and beyond. A global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity funds
Zephyr Management
Since 1994, we have sponsored 22 funds with approximately $1.2 billion in committed capital which are managed from our offices in New York, London and Bangalore
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With a global network of partners, Zephyr is positioned to identify sustainable secular growth changes which lead to attractive investment opportunities for our investors.
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While our focus is on the creation and execution of innovative investment strategies, the operating style is conservative and sustainable
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Managers strictly adhere to their respective mandates and investments are selected based on rigorous fundamental research. Today, Zephyr manages investment funds in India and Sri Lanka, and we are actively researching new investment opportunities around the world.
Zerno Ventures
We invest in companies with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a favorable financial return.
Impact business
Projects with impact, the goal is to have at least 50% of female-founded projects in our portfolio , profit-oriented business, Seed / Series A, female founders
Scalable business models
Zero Carbon Capital
The Zero Carbon Fund is an EIS fund investing in early-stage companies on a mission to address climate change through hard tech innovation. We're looking for awesome teams with breakthrough ideas that could scale to reduce greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions by half a gigaton per year.
Zero G Capital
We offer entrepreneurs funding to accelerate their business’s growth during the critical seed stage. We go beyond providing a source of funds by helping our founders with strategic, financial, and operational advice as well as critical industry connections. These resources enable companies to rapidly grow and increase value for all stakeholders.
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Zero Gravity Capital
Zero Gravity Capital is a venture capital fund in Slovakia fuelling early-stage innovations. Zero Gravity Capital cooperates also with other established international funds and takes role of single investor, leading investor or co-investor. Additionally Zero Gravity Capital belongs to 0100 Ventures ecosystem and provides to portfolio companies valuable business benefits & services.Together with funding we organize key European venture capital & start-up conferences or provide software development resources as well as co-working spaces or transaction advisory services
zerocap
Advisory:<br />
- We ignite and accelerate ideas, projects and people.<br />
- Consultative end-to-end advisory through seed rounds to ecosystem launch.<br />
- Post-launch enterprise connections to aid APAC focused distribution and blockchain adoption.<br />
- Alliances with blockchain development consultancies and recruitment specialists to grow your developer base.<br />
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Capital:<br />
- We invest in companies that we jive with.<br />
- We invest our own proprietary capital and provide further exposure to like-minded smart capital networks across Asia Pacific and beyond.<br />
- We believe your foundational investor network is the crucial springboard for sustained growth.<br />
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Liquidity:<br />
- We bring unique solutions to illiquid markets.<br />
- Prime Brokerage and aggregated liquidity technology;<br />
- OTC execution;<br />
- Institutional FX and hedging solutions;<br />
- Cross-border remittance with a focus on Asian and G7 economies.
ZGI Capital
ZGI Capital is one of the most experienced venture capital firms in the Baltics that started its operations in 2005. The investment period has been concluded for three generations of funds: ZGI-1, ZGI-2, ZGI-3 and now we are building the next-generation venture capital fund ZGI-4. ZGI Capital has won VC & PE sector awards for four consecutive years: in 2014., 2015., 2016, and 2017. ZGI Capital is registered in the Financial and Capital Market Commission as an alternative investment fund manager.
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ZhenFund
ZhenFund (Chinese: 真格基金) is a seed stage focused venture fund with over $1 billion under management since founded in 2011 by Bob Xu and Victor Wang, in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. Bob and Victor previously co-founded New Oriental (NYSE: EDU), one of the world's largest education conglomerates. Three of Bob's seed investments have IPOed in NYC: Shiji Jiayuan (Nasdaq: DATE) (世纪佳缘, website), LightInTheBox (Nasdaq: LITB) (website), and Jumei (NYSE: JMEI) (聚美, website). Bob was named to the Midas List four years in a row (2016-2019) and was last ranked at #11.<br />
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ZhenFund currently dominates China’s early stage venture capital scene, and is rapidly expanding its U.S. practice based in Palo Alto, CA. Its portfolio has over 750 high-growth companies, including 17zuoye, OFO, VIPKID, RED, Hero Entertainment, and Urwork. ZhenFund’s mission is to support, educate, and inspire the next generation of global entrepreneurs.