Caesar Ventures

CentraleSupélec Venture est un fonds de capital-risque early-stage, créé avec l’Ecole CentraleSupélec, la Fondation CentraleSupélec et l’association des Alumni. Il a pour stratégie d’investir des tickets initiaux allant de 150 000 à 500 000 € dans des startups issues de son écosystème, en phase d’amorçage, et en se concentrant sur les projets de deeptech, de santé et de transitions industrielles et environnementales.

We are early stage partners in helping founders build their companies. While we are full lifecycle investors, we typically start our partnership with Seed or Series A investments. We are backed by Allianz, one of the leading integrated financial services providers worldwide. We seek entrepreneurs transforming massive markets including: Healthcare Enterprise Financial Tech & Services Deep Tech Why AV8? Experienced Collectively, our team has decades of experience: launching products building teams scaling revenue Each investment comes with our full team’s experience and participation​ Engaged The challenges in getting a project off the ground and getting the first few $Million of revenue are unique. As a Firm focused on Seed/Series A investments, we bring a sharp focus to these unique challenges spending significant time with our entrepreneurs in helping them succeed. Networked With our decades of experience comes broad and deep networks that our entrepreneurs become part of. We connect our teams to potential end-buyers, channel partners, and new hires. And our Venture Advisor team of leading domain experts are there to assist all our entrepreneurs

Mavin Ventures is an early-stage fund committed to supporting exceptional companies in Healthcare, ClimateTech, AgriTech, and DeepTech. We invest in innovative solutions that address India’s critical needs, creating lasting value in the local economy while paving the way for global expansion. By balancing the resolution of domestic challenges with the pursuit of international opportunities, we aim to foster transformative impact at scale. Transformative Innovation: Accelerating the growth of startups that pioneer breakthrough technologies to solve national and global challenges​ Strategic Partnerships​: Offering deep industry expertise, an extensive network, and hands-on guidance to foster sustainable growth.​ Impact at Scale​: Investing in ventures that deliver measurable positive impact while maximizing financial returns.​ At Mavin, we do more than invest; we become allies in your journey, offering mentorship, expertise, and strategic resources to empower growth at every stage. By combining innovative thinking with unwavering support, Mavin Ventures is committed to shaping a better, more sustainable future. Investing in Future Technologies At Mavin, we imagine a world powered by Indian innovation, transforming global industries. We’re passionate about unlocking the potential of Indian ingenuity in these key sectors: Healthcare We invest in healthcare innovations that redefine how the world prevents, diagnoses, and treats illness. We are particularly curious about: 🩺 Medical Devices 🩻 Digital Health 🏥 Diagnostics 👴 Senior Care 🧬 Biotech 💊 Therapeutics ClimateTech We invest in ClimateTech solutions that combat the climate crisis while driving sustainable growth. We are particularly curious about: ☀️ Solar Energy 📉 Carbon Solutions ⚛️ Green Hydrogen ⚡ Electric Vehicles 🐛 Biotech 🌊 Water & Air pollution AgriTech We invest in AgriTech innovations that revolutionize farming and food systems. We are particularly curious about: 🔗 Inputs linkage solutions 🧺 Post Harvest Solutions 🎯 Precision Agriculture 🧑‍🌾 Agri-solutions providers 🔬 Agri-Biotech 💰 Financial Services DeepTech We invest in DeepTech startups turning scientific breakthroughs into transformative technologies. We are particularly curious about: 🤖 Robotics 💻 Smart Enterprise 🎨 Generative AI 🚀 SpaceTech 🪖 DefenceTech 🪙 Semiconductors

Octopus Ventures is a collective of experts and individuals. Disparate world views and diverse skill sets, yet with a shared purpose; to invest in a world that we, and future generations, can be proud of. Our belief is that you can build a better tomorrow by investing in it. Yet for us, investment is multi-dimensional, and will always be about more than just money. It means giving time, energy and focus, committing to a cause; to a belief, to optimism. With offices in London and New York and a network that spans from San Francisco to China, we’re one of Europe’s largest and most active venture capital investors. Our specialist investment teams deploy more than £200 million ever year, from Seed to Series B, across five areas where we see the maximum potential for growth, innovation, and impact: health, fintech, deep tech, consumer and B2B software. In total, we’ve backed over 140 teams, some of whom have gone on to join forces with the world’s largest businesses including Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Twitter.

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.

We believe that by investing in the brands and technologies that consumers want and use, we can help shape a brighter future, not only for consumers but also for the planet. Our vision is to empower the next generation of consumer-focused disruptors by providing them with the resources and support they need to transform the way consumers live and work. Investing in startups at the earliest stages, and then helping them innovate and scale through XRC’s unique and disruptive capital and service platform, will allow us to deliver the highest value to our entrepreneurs, strategic partners and limited partners. Who We Are XRC Ventures is a venture capital firm and startup accelerator for the next generation of disruptors in the retail technology, consumer healthtech, and consumer goods sectors. With support from our world-class retailer and eco-system partners, XRC Ventures has become the first design-centric retail innovation ecosystem of its kind. Our Funds Accelerator Fund. Invests in pre-Seed to Series A companies in retail technology, consumer goods and the consumer healthtech. Brand Capital Fund. Invests Seed to Series A consumer product companies in beauty, personal care, home goods, and health and wellness categories. Opportunity Fund. Invests in post-Seed to Series A companies in the next generation of retail technology and consumer goods. We co-invest alongside top venture capital funds and provide follow-on capital to select XRC Ventures alumni scaling their companies beyond product market fit and achieving exponential growth. Investment POV At XRC, we look for visionary founders who are leveraging technology to positively change how humans live their lives as consumers. The need for technology in consumer serving businesses, combined with the breathtakingly rapid advancement of AI and other technologies, makes the consumer tech space one of the most dynamic areas for early stage investing. We are excited to be well-connected and right in the middle of this exciting industry. We articulate on our investment thesis in our Investment POV, which in turn drives our focus on the following four core innovation areas: Commerce Enablement. Startups fueling the digital transformation of retail. We're focusing on areas such as AI automation, distributed commerce platforms, consumer fintech, loyalty tech, and the evolution of commerce supply chains. These ventures will help redefine commerce and create a seamless buying experience. Emergent Channels and Revenue. Companies reshaping how consumers discover, engage with, and purchase products/services, inventing entirely new paths to customers, and classes of revenue. This includes shoppable content, product-as-a-channel, loyalty commerce, service retailing, trans-channel experiential retailing, and AI bot-mediated commerce. Consumer Healthtech. Ventures making personalized health outcomes more accessible and efficient. This includes technology platforms for consumer health, remote health services, subscription wellness, health outcomes-as-a-service, and aging-in-place & assured living solutions. Sustainable Commerce. Businesses driving the shift towards a more sustainable and circular economy. This includes on-demand local manufacturing, alternatives to ownership, alternative materials, subscription retail, and sustainable consumer finance.