MarketX Ventures

Through our extensive relationships with family offices and high wealth groups across key locations including the GCC region, the Americas, EU and China, we source private capital for dynamic, high growth enterprise. Disruptive ideas demand smart capital to unlock true potential. Copernican was founded by Martin Thorp, a finance veteran who pioneered the development of corporate finance and transaction-led services by international ‘accounting’ firms whilst serving as Managing Partner of Arthur Andersen global corporate finance practice. Copernican's core team is complemented with our venture partner network providing access to unrivalled networks of investor groups and decades of specialist experience in sectors such as energy, healthcare and technology. Our extensive placing network brings deep relationships with family offices, high wealth groups and ultra high net worth individuals, enabling us to source global private capital to help deliver outstanding returns.

We help businesses from inception stage to exit with a bridge to innovative and sustainable business models as well as to emerging markets. We provide grassroot co-investment opportunities for our network and help our portfolio businesses grow by tapping into our vast experience in the field. Supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals – the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future. Co-investment opportunities offering institutional and high net-worth investors better exposure to attractive assets at zero fees and superior returns. Generating alpha by way of a diversified portfolio is at the core of what we do. Your membership in a hyper connected, digital-first international network. Exclusive access to our deep knowledge base in high-growth markets; in particular, innovative and sustainable business models. We pride ourselves in our integrity, as well as a reliable, club-driven approach with both our investors and our projects. We believe that by scaling sustainable innovation, together, we can create a more sustainable future.

We operate as a licensed entity in Singapore (Capital Markets Service (CMS) for fund management) and China (Qualified Foreign Limited Partner (QFLP) license). Through our three core pillars of service, we provide: Investments in Private Equity, Private Debt, Pre-IPO Companies and venture building, Fund Management Services and Advisory utilising the Variable Capital Company (VCC) structure and other fund structures, and Wealth Management Services for High-Net-Worth Individuals and Family Offices. Working alongside exceptional founders and technologists, we leverage our team and network of corporate leaders, industry veterans, and academia to provide entrepreneurs, innovators, and teams the know-how and connections needed to scale globally. Since 2006, we’ve partnered with many founders and partners to build resilient, successful companies. Tembusu Tree Tembusu trees are resilient and adaptable, thriving in adverse conditions and poor soils. They are native to secondary forests and can live up to 150 to 200 years, reaching heights of about 25 meters. Their durable wood makes them suitable for various uses, including construction and furniture making. A notable Tembusu tree The Singapore Botanic Gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is believed to predate the Gardens and holds heritage significance, being featured on the Singapore $5 currency note and postage stamps (The Straits Times, June 9, 2007).

Siguler Guff is a multi-strategy private markets investment firm which, together with its affiliates, has over $16 billion of assets under management. With over 25 years of experience investing as a firm in the private markets, Siguler Guff seeks to generate strong, risk-adjusted returns by focusing opportunistically on market niches. Siguler Guff’s investment products include multi-manager funds, direct investment funds and customized separate accounts targeting specific areas of compelling opportunity. The Firm’s core investment strategies include Small Buyout, Emerging Markets, Opportunistic Credit, Real Estate and Small Business Credit. Siguler Guff’s institutional investment knowledge, sector immersion approach and longstanding relationships provide access to compelling investment opportunities within each of its targeted strategies. Founded in 1991 within PaineWebber, Siguler Guff became an independent firm in 1995. The Firm currently serves over 700 institutional clients, including corporate and public employee benefit plans, endowments, foundations, government agencies and financial institutions, and more than 1,000 family office and high net worth investors. Headquartered in New York, Siguler Guff maintains offices in Boston, London, Mumbai, São Paulo, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Houston, TX, and West Palm Beach, FL.

We are investors and operators searching for opportunities to back other entrepreneurs or buy businesses which are in need of digital transformation. We understand that some great businesses can take time to flourish. We are not afraid of down rounds, businesses in distress, or even in administration. We are not obsessed with unicorns, we are obsessed with great businesses or businesses that can be great. Sometimes we invest for small minority positions in companies with which we have little involvement. Other times we take controlling stakes in businesses we fully manage. We stick to our knitting and only invest in businesses we understand.

We invest across sectors and stages - with a differentiated ability to deploy capital through multiple transaction types, including structured liquidity, direct secondaries, and primary financing. 137 Explained NYSE: Founding partner Justin Fishner-Wolfson’s grandfather, Haney Fishner, had a seat on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) until 1991. During his tenure, his annunciator number was 137. The annunciator board and its corresponding numbers were used to page members of the exchange and conduct business. In the early 1900s, the over 24 miles of wiring for its annunciator board was one of the most notable features of the NYSE. In 1980, the board was disassembled and replaced by a computerized display system. Prime: 137 is a prime number, and further, it also has some unique prime characteristics. 137 is a twin prime, which is when a prime number differs from another prime number by two. Except for the pair (2, 3), this is the smallest possible difference between two primes. 137 and 139 are a twin prime pair. Further, 137 is also a Chen prime. In 1966, a Chinese mathematician, Chen Jingrun, proved that every sufficiently large even number can be written as the sum of a prime and a semi prime (the product of two primes). A prime number p is a Chen prime if p + 2 is either a prime or a product of two primes. 137 satisfies Chen’s theorem, because 137+2=139, which is also prime. Physics: In physics, the inverse of 137 approximates the fine structure constant, which represents the probability that an electron will absorb a photon. Since the early 1900’s, physicists have thought that 137 might be at the heart of a Grand Unified Theory (GUT), which could relate the theories of electromagnetism, quantum mechanics and gravity, but physicists have yet to find any link between the 137 and any other physical law in the universe. It was expected that such an important equation would generate an important number, like one or pi, but this was not the case. 137 is usually denoted by α, which in investment terms has its own significance as the excess return above a benchmark index. 1337: When a vinculum is added, 137 becomes 1337, l33t or leet, also known as eleet or leetspeak. 1337 is an alternative alphabet that is used primarily online. It uses various combinations of ASCII characters to replace letters. Leetspeak was first used by hackers in the 1980s as a way to prevent websites and news groups from being found by simple keyword searches. It was also used to show status on a bulletin board system (BBS). Since then, it’s become popular in online games to suggest that its user is a skilled hacker (h4x0r).