Wecken Family Office
Wecken Family Office is based in Switzerland and focuses on managing and preserving the wealth of the Wecken family. As a family office, they offer a comprehensive range of services tailored to the unique needs of ultra-high-net-worth families. The team comprises financial experts, lawyers, and advisors dedicated to providing individualized attention and strategic guidance, ensuring effective wealth management and legacy planning.
Their investment strategy includes diversification into various asset classes, including real estate, private equity, and more traditional market investments. They prioritize long-term growth and asset preservation, taking a global approach to investments. Exact check sizes and specific fund vintages are not publicly disclosed, reflecting their private nature.
Notable investments made by Wecken Family Office in the past include various strategic placements across sectors, supporting both private and public enterprises. While specific portfolio companies are not publicly listed, their investment philosophy emphasizes sustainable growth and value creation.
Weekend Fund
Weekend Fund is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017 by Ryan Hoover, the founder of Product Hunt, and Vedika Jain. The firm focuses on early-stage investments and is known for its small team of two professionals. They differentiate themselves by leveraging a network of over 350 exceptional founders and operators to support their portfolio companies, providing expertise in product development, community building, and go-to-market strategies.
The firm invests in both consumer and B2B sectors, with a particular focus on AI, fintech, health, SaaS, and consumer industries. Weekend Fund typically writes checks ranging from $100,000 to $300,000 and invests in pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. Their investments span globally, although they primarily focus on the USA. The firm manages several funds, including Weekend Fund II and Weekend Fund III, with a total AUM of approximately $30 million.
Notable investments by Weekend Fund include Intercom - customer messaging platform, Deel - payroll and compliance platform, Luminai - workflow automation, TrueMed - healthcare services, and Lim.run - software development applications.
Weight Partners Capital LLP
Weight Partners Capital LLP is a private equity investor based in the United Kingdom, specialized in healthcare services. Founded in 2009, the firm leverages the extensive operational experience of its team to selectively invest in smaller UK-based healthcare ventures. Their strategy emphasizes long-term partnerships with management teams to enhance business potential through strategic and operational expertise. Notable team members include Managing Partner Jim Weight, along with key professionals such as David Jolly, Robin Ach, and Gail Jermyn.
The firm invests in healthcare-focused sectors such as healthcare delivery, social care, consumer health, and tech-enabled businesses, focusing on UK and Ireland-based companies with EBITDA ranges of £1m to £10m. As majority investors, they typically engage in strategies including buy-and-build, operational improvements, and corporate carve-outs. They seek businesses undergoing change or in need of strategic support, ensuring quality services and outcomes.
Noteworthy investments include companies across various healthcare services, emphasizing high-quality standards in sectors such as mental health, addictions treatment, and consumer-oriented health services like dermatology and private testing. With their unique sector focus, Weight Partners Capital LLP remains a pivotal player in the UK healthcare investment landscape.
Weinberg Capital Partners
Weinberg Capital Partners (WCP) is an independent investment company active in capital investment, real estate and minority stakes in listed companies, with over $900 million under management. In capital investment, Weinberg Capital Partners invests alongside upper management teams committed to their development projects. Backed by its dual operational and financial experience, the team has already accompanied its stakes in more than 35 external growth operations.
Wekix
We kick-start growth funding and turn investments into meaningful partnerships. Wekix maximises investment and market opportunities by focusing on the unique connection between Israel and London, leveraging deep roots in both hubs. At any given time, Israel is home to thousands of innovative ideas seeking routes to market. Bestowed with capital, creative services and its own UK market potential, London also provides an ideal gateway to Europe and the US, creating an optimal environment for Israeli high-tech startups to flourish. We’re here to make the best connections and the most lucrative deals.
Wellington
Wellington is one of the world's leading suppliers of advanced electronic solutions for the commercial refrigeration industry. They help refrigeration OEMs and food, beverage and retail brands across the globe to reduce their costs, increase sales, and become more sustainable.
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Their product range includes high efficiency motors, temperature controls, and cloud-based connectivity solutions. Since 2005, they have shipped over six million ECR® Series fan motors, making them the preferred choice for display cases, bottle coolers, and food service cabinets.
Wellington Management
Wellington Management is an independent asset manager founded in 1928 and headquartered in Boston. With over 800 investment professionals, the firm provides clients worldwide with local knowledge and global expertise across various financial centers. Known for its unique ownership model that fosters a collaborative culture, Wellington emphasizes a marketplace of ideas where investors leverage intellectual capital to enhance portfolio decisions.
The firm invests across multiple asset classes, including equity, fixed income, multi-asset, and alternatives. It also offers private investing, sustainable investing, and impact investing solutions. Wellington has over $1.3 trillion in client assets under management and serves over 3,000 clients across more than 60 locations globally. The firm is known for its independence and scale, allowing it to take a long-term view in investing.
Wellington Management's notable investments include various major equity and fixed income portfolios. They focus on exploiting market inefficiencies through a top-down and bottom-up investment approach, further enhanced by deep multidisciplinary research and specialized teams.
Wellington Partners
Wellington Partners is one of the most successful pan-European venture capital firms. With funds totalling over € 800 million, we have invested throughout Europe in companies that have the potential to become real market leaders for more than 15 years.
We are committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically lead financing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, our own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.
Providing funding is only one part of our business. After funding, the entrepreneurs we back have access to the advice and guidance of our complete team and our entire global network. Our investment professionals operate out of four offices, located in London, Munich, Zurich and Palo Alto. The pan-European and transatlantic makeup of our organisation enables us to support our portfolio in expanding globally.
To date, Wellington Partners has invested in more than 100 companies throughout Europe. We have been a part of great successes as well as dismal failures. In our view, success has always been the result of a great idea executed by a great team with strong leadership and commitment; plus an enormous amount of hard work and an ounce of luck, the good fortune to be in the right place at right time.
Wellstreet
Wellstreet is a venture capital firm based in Sweden, founded by entrepreneurs who have firsthand experience of building companies from the ground up. They focus on investing in early-stage startups and maintaining close relationships with founders throughout the company's growth journey. The firm is committed to helping entrepreneurs avoid common pitfalls while providing essential support and guidance. Their team, comprised of industry experts with diverse backgrounds, is dedicated to understanding and supporting founders' visions.
The firm invests primarily in sectors such as AI, fintech, ecommerce, SaaS, and digital infrastructure, with a focus on early-stage startups, including those at pre-seed and seed stages. Wellstreet’s investments are generally aimed at companies located in Europe, although their comprehensive network allows for broader outreach. Apart from financial investments, they offer strategic guidance and access to an expansive network of partners and community members.
Some notable portfolio companies of Wellstreet include Berget AI, which focuses on sovereign AI infrastructure for Europe; Enable Banking, an open banking platform; and DanAds, an online advertising platform. These companies reflect Wellstreet’s commitment to supporting groundbreaking solutions across diverse technology sectors.
Welltower
Welltower Inc. is a healthcare real estate investment trust based in Toledo, Ohio, founded in 1970. The company is a leader in the silver economy, focusing on rental housing for aging seniors across the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. With a portfolio of over 2,500 seniors and wellness housing communities, Welltower is known for its vibrant communities that blend housing and hospitality. The firm operates with a unique approach, viewing itself as an operating company within a real estate framework, driven by data science and the Welltower Business System.
Welltower invests primarily in healthcare real estate, including independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities, as well as post-acute care and outpatient medical properties. The company does not specify typical check sizes but is involved in large-scale real estate transactions. Welltower's operations span North America and Europe, with a focus on high-demand micromarkets. The firm is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker WELL and has a market capitalization of approximately $169 billion.
Notable investments in Welltower's portfolio include Coterie at Cathedral Hill in San Francisco, Revelle King of Prussia in Pennsylvania, Jazz Newman in Montreal, The Ivy at Blue Oaks in Roseville, and Sunrise at E 56th in New York. These properties exemplify Welltower's commitment to creating high-quality living environments for seniors.