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At Supernova Invest, we believe that top scientists and ambitious entrepreneurs can build a world where cutting-edge technologies shape the next generation of industry leaders. Our team provides unparalleled expertise and patient capital in the fields of healthcare, energy and environment, Industry 4.0, and digital technologies to support high-growth, deeptech start-ups and scale them globally. Leader and pioneer in DeepTech investment from inception to maturity. Supernova Invest’s founding team has more than 20 years of experience in deeptech venture capital. The company emerged in 2017 from the alliance between Amundi (Crédit Agricole Group) and the CEA, a key player in technological research. Supernova Invest is an independent management company, investing mainly across Europe. Investment decisions are made by the partners on the Investment Committee. With a total of about 100 investments and more than 70 portfolio companies, Supernova Invest benefits from a unique track record in deeptech, as reflected in its 30+ successful trade exits. The Supernova Invest team combines the best of technology and financing. What sets us apart is our ability to understand both the underlying technologies and the most complex deep tech business models. Our sectorsINDUSTRY 4.0 Engineering tools Production tools Embedded systems Logistics HEALTHCARE Medtech Biotech Diagnostics Discovery Tools DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES Computing Semiconductors Cybersecurity Telecom ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT Cleantech Energy Transition Agritech Foodtech Our operating partners platform Supernova Invest collaborates with a selection of Operating Partners in order to industrialize our value-add support to our portfolio startups and facilitate the adoption of deeptech best practices. This program is an illustration of the Supernova Invest platform for Entrepreneurs, dedicated to the deeptech-specific challenges that they experience in scaling their startups. In the ever-growing landscape of deeptech funds, these operating partners incarnate our investor singularity as the pioneer and deep-tech leading VC firm. They were carefully selected, leveraging our unique understanding of deeptech-specific challenges and our join track record in getting deeptech startup to thrive. They embrace a one-of-kind, extensive scope of critical expertise to provide our entrepreneurs with the most elaborated deeptech support platform. The selection is the spearhead of a much wider network for fine-grained, custom-made support.

Focused on the rising consumption story in India and Indian SaaS companies catering to a global market. CONSUMER TECH Backing tech native businesses for India’s internet users and middle-class. AgriTech EdTech HealthTech SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS) Backing product-led SaaS startups that can reach a global scale. Automation, Collaboration and Intelligence Vertical SaaS SaaS enabled marketplaces FINTECH Backing companies which manage finances in the most tech efficient way Vertical neo banks, lending Embedded Finance, infra APIs Insurtech Alternative investing DEEPTECH Backing companies solving deep engineering problems Artificial Intelligence Robotics / Drones Space tech and Semiconductors OUR APPROACH We invest in people rather than companies. From great entrepreneurs emerge great brands and companies. We are good listeners and that is a trait needed in our profession to grow. We have a non-intrusive approach and we completely believe in the entrepreneurs we have backed. An entrepreneur can think of us more as a resource and a sounding board. WHAT WE LOOK FORWe prefer to invest in mission driven founders who have relevant work experience and domain expertise Significant growth potential over the next 3 to 5 years. We prefer backing founders with at least 4-5 years of prior experience. Differentiated products or services that have strong ‘moats’ built around it. HOW WE INVESTWe invest in pre-seed and seed rounds. We invest ~US$ 250K per startup in the first round and then in follow-on rounds We are open to investing through convertible structures and instruments, however, we prefer straight equity. We generally prefer to co-invest along with other VC funds and micro VC funds In a larger round of fundraising – we co-invest with our select Limited Partners.

라플라스파트너스는 초기 단계 기술 기업들의 성장을 돕는 것을 소명으로 여기며, 시장을 확장하는 등 강한 목적의식을 가진 스타트업들과 협력하고 싶습니다. 비전 어떤 문제를 해결하고 세상에 어떤 변화를 가져오고 싶은지, 즉, 미래에 대한 명확한 비전을 그릴 수 있는 팀을 기대합니다. 이유 세상의 많은 문제들 중 왜 ‘그 문제’를 해결하고 싶은지에 대해 납득할 만한 이유가 있는 팀을 선호합니다 가치 ‘비전’과 ‘이유’를 바탕으로 고객에게 얼마나 유의미한 가치를 제공할 수 있는가에 집중합니다. 혁신 기술 라플라스파트너스는 혁신 기술로 문제를 해결하고 새로운 패러다임을 만들어가는 영역에 투자합니다. 바이오·헬스케어 제약, 혁신 진단 기기, 디지털 헬스케어, 건강 기능 식품, 푸드테크 등 소재·부품·장비 2차 전지, 반도체 소재·장비, 에너지, 신소재, 디스플레이, 통신 등 IT 인공지능(AI)의 응용, 전기차, 자율주행, 로봇, 메타버스, 증강현실(AR) 등

Qiming Venture Partners is a top-tier VC firm with outstanding reputation. With our exceptional investment performances, we have been widely recognized by investors from around the world. We have a reputation for being entrepreneur friendly. Why Choose Us Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners is a leading global venture capital firm. Currently, Qiming Venture Partners manages eleven US Dollar funds and seven RMB funds with $9.5 billion in capital raised. Since our establishment, we have invested in outstanding companies in the Technology and Consumer (T&C) and Healthcare industries at the early and growth stages. Since our establishment, Qiming Venture Partners has earned extensive recognition from investors worldwide and has become an ideal VC firm for entrepreneurs, due to our exceptional investment performance. Qiming Venture Partners and our partners consistently rank among the leaders in the global venture capital industry across various prestigious lists. Experienced Investment Team Our professional investment team consists of founders, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, doctors, consultants, and financial experts. We have extensive experiences in building and operating a business. We are happy to share our experiences and resources with entrepreneurs. Exceptional Investment Performances Qiming strives to be the preferred investor for top entrepreneurs. For the past decades, we seized the opportunity of changing world with technologies. We have invested in companies that later become industry unicorns and listed companies, which delivered excellent returns for our LP investors. Since our debut, we have backed over 530 fast-growing and innovative companies. Over 200 of our portfolio companies have achieved exits through IPOs at the NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEX, Shanghai Stock Exchange, or Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or through M&A or other means. There are also over 70 portfolio companies that have achieved unicorn or super unicorn status. Many of our portfolio companies are today’s most influential firms in their respective sectors, including Xiaomi (SEHK:1810), Meituan (SEHK:3690), Bilibili (NASDAQ:BILI, SEHK:9626), Zhihu (NYSE:ZH, SEHK:2390), Roborock (SHSE:688169), Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals (SHSE:603087), Tigermed (SZSE:300347, SEHK:3347), Zai Lab (NASDAQ:ZLAB, SEHK:9688), CanSino Biologics (SEHK:6185, SHSE:688185), Schrödinger (NASDAQ:SDGR), APT Medical (SHSE:688617), New Horizon Health (SEHK:6606), Sanyou Medical (SHSE:688085), AmoyDx (SZSE:300685), Berry Genomics (SZSE:000710), SinocellTech (SHSE:688520), UBTech (SEHK:9880), Yuanxin Technology, Caidya, Belief BioMed, WeRide, among many others. Adequate Resources and Experiences to Help Grow a Start-up to an Enterprise We always fully respect entrepreneurs. We are entrepreneurs' companions along their way of achieving dreams and building great companies. We leverage our industry resources to provide a broad range of support to entrepreneurs. We have built a unique Qiming ecosystem that can provide value-added services to portfolio companies, which creates beautiful chemistries between our portfolio companies. More and more new investments are made from the upstream or downstream of our portfolio companies, or from the recommendations of the portfolio companies. Increasing more of our portfolio companies started to cooperate intensively with each other. We help entrepreneurs make strategically critical decisions. When entrepreneurs are at a crossroads, we do our best to help them choose the right direction. We share industry insights with entrepreneurs so that they can better navigate the business world. We share our industry resources to entrepreneurs. Our extensive network in both East and West enables entrepreneurs with diversified resources, which helps them optimize their business model and become an industry leader. We help portfolio companies build strong teams and provide them with consulting support. We help entrepreneurs improve the leadership capacities and find their core team members to become long-term partners. We can connect entrepreneurs with management, finance, legal, and marketing professionals. We value important milestones such as financing, IPOs and M&As. We respect entrepreneurs with their own choices regarding the timing, location and approaches of financial activities. We work hand-in-hand with entrepreneurs, help them select the appropriate intermediaries, and sort out the strategic positioning, market scale, business structure and growth potential for the companies. Investment Strategies We are committed to finding great companies for the future and bring long-term value to societies. Our investment team spends a lot of time researching industry trends, technology developments, and changes in consumer habits. Through these studies, we hope to capture a huge future market as early as possible. At the same time, we also attach great importance to in-depth and detailed due diligence. We make comprehensive contact with entrepreneurs, through a deep understanding of the business operations and scientific research data, we can better grasp investment opportunities and assess investment risks. Another essential component of our investment strategy is “focus”. We hope to have good insights and rich contacts for the industries we care about, truly understand the projects we invested in, be able to help after the investment, and form an ecosystem within our portfolio companies, to help start-ups grow from multiple perspectives. What Do We Invest Since our inception in 2006, we have been in touch with tens of thousands of founding teams of startup companies. On average, one out of 30 companies receives our funding. Seventy percent of our investments are in Series-A, and many of our portfolio companies will become industry leaders in less than seven years. T&C: We invest in information technology and new consumer business patterns. We focus on mobile internet, social networking, and entertainment. We value how technology redefines business, education, and transport. We pay close attention to new core technologies, including artificial intelligence, robotics, semiconductors, enterprise software, blockchain and so forth. We have great interests in manufacturing upgrade opportunities. Healthcare: We have invested in over one hundred start-ups in the healthcare sector. Our healthcare investments are majorly in diagnostics, R&D, equipment, and services fields. In recent years, we started to pay close attention to AI-related "Digital Healthcare" sector. What we can bring to entrepreneurs?We are committed to finding great companies for the future to bring long-term value to people and society We share our industry resources with entrepreneurs We have a complete trust relationship with stakeholders, especially with our investors and entrepreneurs We help entrepreneurs build strong teams and provide them with consulting supports We build a unique ecosystem to provide value-added services to entrepreneurs We value important milestones including financing, IPOs and M&As We provide support to entrepreneurs when they make strategically critical decisions

Our investment is not limited to any one of companies’ growth stage, We believe that we can find our role in supporting and providing values whether the company is still building its team, devising its business model, preparing for IPO or considering private placements. We look for opportunities in all market segments. But over the years we have accrued experience and expertise in finding new opportunities in consumer service, medical/healthcare, education, digital media, entertainment and internet/mobile sectors. Investment sectorsEntertainment & Contents Mobility Chemical & Manufacture & Semiconductor Bio & Healthcare Consumer Service ICT Platform Service Metaverse & Software

The fund invests primarily in Japanese and Asian start-ups in the fields of environment and energy, information and communications, medical and healthcare, mobility, advanced materials, software (including AI), aerospace and defense, semiconductors, and nuclear fusion. Kyocera will collaborate with VC firm Global Brain Corporation (CEO: Yasuhiko Yurimoto, hereinafter, Global Brain) to develop venture capital strategies supported by Global Brain's investment platform, networks, and knowledge base.