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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4490 Ventures
As investors, we have the advantage of having learned the craft of early-stage technology venture capital investing at firms on the West Coast and the East Coast. We brought our knowledge, networks and experiences to 4490 Ventures where we apply those learnings to the unique opportunities available in underserved markets. Underserved markets contain the majority of the inputs into America’s innovation economy, yet receives a disproportionately small amount of all venture capital. We’re committed to changing that ratio.
468 Capital
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468 Capital is a venture capital firm based in Berlin and San Francisco. Founded by Alexander Kudlich, Ludwig Ensthaler and Florian Leibert, we invest from day 0, through Seed, and Series A&B.
4BIO Capital
4BIO Capital is an international venture capital firm focused solely on the advanced therapies sector.
4BIO’s objective is to invest in, support, and grow early stage companies developing treatments in areas of high unmet medical need, with the ultimate goal of ensuring access to these potentially curative therapies for all patients. Specifically, it looks for viable, high-quality opportunities in cell and gene therapy, RNA-based therapy, targeted therapies, and the microbiome.
The 4BIO team comprises leading advanced therapy scientists and experienced life science investors who have collectively published over 250 scientific articles in prestigious academic journals including Nature, The Lancet, Cell, and the New England Journal of Medicine. 4BIO has both an unrivalled network within the advanced therapy sector and a unique understanding of the criteria that define a successful investment opportunity in this space.
4D Global Energy Advisors
4D Global Energy Advisors S.A.S. (4D GEA) is a Paris-based investment management company that specialises in the energy sector. The company was formed in 2002 to establish private equity funds investing in the hydrocarbon value chain, advising on the selection of investments in energy companies and assisting their portfolio companies in the implementation of their financial strategy.
4Di Capital
4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa. Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy. We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital. Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential. 4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors. We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.
4DX Ventures
4DX Ventures is an early stage venture firm focused on Africa. We partner with world class entrepreneurs leveraging technology to build transformative businesses.
4Front Ventures
4Front is a leading investment and management firm in the U.S. cannabis industry. It has developed a national platform that consists of a multi-state retail footprint, a far-reaching network of partnership relationships, and operational efficiencies that allow it to take advantage of new opportunities as state-legal cannabis markets continue to open up. Led by a group of professionals with experience in finance, real estate, manufacturing, and multi-location retail and hospitality operations, 4Front brings to the table a comprehensive collection of management skills and hands-on operating expertise. It has invested heavily in its talent and capabilities in order to support the steep growth curve in front of it.
4i Capital Partners
Investment Strategy
We invest in private sector medium-sized businesses with a strong potential to deliver sustainable profitable growth.
We are looking for opportunities to consolidate fragmented niche markets, to substitute imports, to expand regionally or to reshape an industry by unique products or services.
We invest with entrepreneurs that think out of a box, have a clear vision and capacity to do the right things right.
Investment Criteria
We employ the following key criteria when making a decision in which companies to invest:
Investing in SMEs
We invest primarily in medium-sized companies in niche sectors of the economy. Our primary investment strategies include market consolidation, import substitution, innovation and regional expansion.
Partnership
We typically take a majority shareholding in our portfolio companies. We are looking for real partnerships with a fair balance between financial and operating partners. We always seek to align interests of all stakeholders.
Consumer Sectors
We remain convinced that over 40 million people living in Ukraine are striving for better products and services. It is a big enough market to prosper.
Leadership
Our portfolio companies normally hold top market positions or have a clear potential for leading the market.
Team
We invest in or with professional and ambitious management teams, sharing the same vision with us on how to create value and build a strong business. We provide economic incentives for the team to benefit along with shareholders.
Transparent Business Strategy
Principles of the business and how money runs through the operations must be well understandable to us and auditable. The business plan shall be realistic.
Financial Prudence
We seek to invest in profitable businesses or companies capable of reaching positive operating cash flows within 12 months of investment. We avoid business with excessive debt and unmanageable foreign currency exposure.
Potential for Target Return & Liquidity
We are reasonable at entry, and prepared to share profits at the end. Our investment horizon is long enough, yet we only invest in companies that have natural potential for a trade sale.
Team
Our team includes veterans of the private equity industry in the region as well as ambitious talented professionals, bonded by the 4i Capital Partner’s investment philosophy of integrity, innovation, intelligence and impact.
The combined experience of the company’s investment team is nearly 50 years of doing deals and developing companies in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. The founding partners of 4i Capital Partners have been working together since 2008, having raised the Europe Virgin Fund and having made all of its portfolio investments.
Our experience shows that only active management of investee companies may lead to results. Sitting in the passenger seat of a minority shareholder often does not. We take controlling stakes, as only that assures a balanced relationship with our local partners, commonly founders of the business. Our team members have successful experience in taking management roles in our portfolio companies, if and when needed.
4impact
Investing in a better future 4impact is a venture capital fund investing in Dutch digital tech4good start-ups focusing on societal and sustainable impact and financial return.
5 Eyes Ventures
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We look for the exceptional companies. Those that operate outside the hype but in large industries. The crazy founders who think they can make the world a little better. Early stage startups that show signs of revenue at seed stage and a good potential growth trajectory. The companies we choose are not part of the bubble and will not be hurt when it explodes. They can also be evaluated using public market fundamentals that give us greater confidence in their potential even at an early stage. While other venture firms go narrow, We go wide. A more extensive journey to discover the diamond in the rough.
And then we do everything we can to polish that diamond.