Technically private equity and venture capital are different, yet, there is significant overlap. Please check out Investopedia for the most up-to-date definition of both concepts.
Venture Capital
- Angivest Angivest invests in global start-up and early stage ventures between USD 25,000 to USD 100,000 per round, and syndicates larger opportunities with other angel groups and venture firms.
- Armilar Ventures Armilar Venture Partners is an independent VC fund manager of more than 200 million euros of assets, represented by worldwide companies with innovative products and services that are improving our world, the way we live, and the way we do business.
- Capria Ventures Capria is a global investment firm leading the largest network of fund managers collaborating to deliver superior returns in emerging and frontier markets, using flexible capital, advanced investment systems, and deep partnerships. Through its network fund, Capria invests in venture capital, private equity, and other debt and equity funds backing early-growth businesses.
- InQvest Partners InQvest Partners invests mainly with early stage FinTech companies from North America, Western Europe, Middle East and Southeast Asia. Their focus is on FinTech companies which are in the early stage or growth stage of their lifecycle.
- Kaszek Kaszek is a VC firm focussed on high-impact technology-based companies initially targeting the Latin America market. Kaszek is industry and stage agnostic, mainly investing in seed, series A and series B.
- KBC Start It Fund The Start it @kbc accelerator was created in 2014 to foster scalable business models and provides the office space, expert advice, mentoring, workshops and all the tools needed to succeed. In just a few years, we have seen the accelerator become Belgium’s biggest with over 500 different development stories.
- KPN Ventures KPN Ventures focusses on early growth-stage investments (series A/B) in European high growth companies in the segments of IoT, Connected Home, Digital Health, Cyber Security, Networking Technology, Data & Analysis and Cloud Computing. Their investments typically range from 0.5 to 2.5 million euro for minority stakes, building long-term partnerships, ultimately aiming for external exits, not acquisitions.
- Naspers Naspers is a global internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Their ventures team hunts for new opportunities to back high potential internet businesses and help their founders to scale globally.
- Nederlandse Vereniging van Participatiemaatschapijen (NVP) NVP is the trade association of private equity and venture capital firms. The association's primary purpose is joint advocacy. Their website contains an overview of Dutch venture capital parties.
- NL Funding An overview of venture capital investors in the Netherlands.
- Oakley Capital
- Omidyar Network Omidyar, with US$ 954 million committed YTD, takes calculated risks in the earliest stages of innovations, transforming promising ideas into successful ventures. Omidyar invests in for-profit investments and non-profit grants.
- Peak Capital Peak Capital is a Dutch venture capital firm which provides growth capital and pro-active hands-on support to fast-growing highly-scalable marketplaces, SaaS or data startups. Total fund size 18m EUR.
- Pitchbook Pitchbook is an excellent source for data on global venture capital, private equity and public markets.
- Ribbit Capital Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage companies. It seeks to invest in financial services and financial technology with a focus on lending, payments, insurance, accounting, tax preparation, bitcoin, wealth management, and personal financial management. The firm invests globally. Ribbit Capital was founded in 2012 and is based in the Palo Alto, United States.
- RRE Ventures Over the past quarter-century, RRE has raised ~$2B across nine total funds, investing in over 400 companies in 26 states and establishing RRE as one of NYC oldest, largest, and most active venture capital firms. US & Canada only.
- Volta Ventures Seed & early stage venture capital for internet & software companies in the Benelux.
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