Night Capital

Drawing its name from the Italian word for 'Mongoose', Mangusta embodies the spirit of a tactical hunter - swift, precise, and unrelenting in its pursuit of the extraordinary. We seek to build a community that harnesses intellect and the ambition to change the world. Mangusta is a venture capital and growth equity firm, with its origins in Italy and a global reach. Our mission is to shape the world for future generations by supporting technology innovations that move humanity forward. We invest in audacious founders building mission-critical capabilities across AI and software. As we reach the tipping point in the advent of AGI, we see the inevitability of unlocking massive productivity gains in complex workflows across all industries. We invest in the next generation of great consumer brands and technologies enabling delightful consumer experiences. In the past, consumers trusted brands; today, consumers trust influencers. We search for the trendsetters changing the way we eat, play, and live. Our Team Our people are our greatest assets. Our team has worked together for over a decade, building products and leading global investment firms. Our team has launched generational products with iconic brands across the globe, generating billions in revenues and building many unicorns in the process. We’re not simply investors but true partners to our founders. While others are cheerleaders in the boardroom, we love the thrill of being in the trenches – brainstorming strategy and tapping into our global network of investors and operators to drive real results.

We started with the ambition to build the firm where we would want to go work every day. Smash Capital began as our startup. Our culture is extremely entrepreneurial. While our ambition is to build a generational firm and to grow our organization considerably, today we are enjoying the advantages inherent in a small team. We take advantage of our speed, real-time communication and flat organizational structure every day. We are hyper aware of the critical contribution of every member of our core team, and we encourage everyone here to think like an owner. Our founding team includes builders and creators who didn’t love the venture capital “product” we were offered as founders. We approach founders with enormous respect and a bit of awe at the enormity of what they attempt to do - the overwhelming personal stakes, sacrifice, belief and commitment they demonstrate in their life’s work. When most choose touch football, founders choose tackle. We work very hard; the founders we work with work harder. We believe in the power of creative constraints. When brainstorming a list of potential names for the firm, we limited ourselves to one syllable, spelled like it sounds, so a then 7-year-old could say where their parent worked. The inspiration for the name Smash came from the sound of a collision in a comic book: BOOM SMASH POW. We value, respect, and partner daily with the biggest and best-known competitors in our industry. They and we know we are a little different. We know that our most important core competency every day is finding and winning great deals. But we know that our lasting mark is in helping great people and great companies succeed over time. That’s how our investors grade our performance and how we grade ourselves.

We are the ideal partner for B2C companies wishing to expand their core business or having identified Germany and Austria as their next growth markets. Our flexible investment model consisting of Media-for-Equity investments and media co-operations (Media-for-Revenue) offers already established digital growth companies individually tailored support for their further successful development. What's in it for youLEVERAGE YOUR BRAND: Increase your brand value and overall marketing channel performance through customized campaigns and TV spots on our premium TV channels, digital network, influencers and retail partners – and benefit from our long-term marketing and industry expertise. GROW YOUR BUSINESS: Boost your sales performance with targeted, customized campaigns: get a relevant, effective TV spot with our experts, reach your desired audience with specific targeting across our channels and get support throughout your campaign. Our campaign optimization tools, brand tracking and spot testing are designed to help you achieve your goals. RECEIVE TAILORED INVESTMENT: Benefit from our flexible investment and cooperation models that are tailored to your business needs; investing our own resources releases us from traditional VC investment restrictions and our media convertibles enable us to enter in between investment rounds.

CCV Capital is a global venture capital firm with a Silicon Valley pedigree, specializing in early-stage investments while inheriting the legacy of KPCB. Founded by Wei Zhou, the former managing partner of KPCB China, together with the original technology investment team, we seamlessly blend Silicon Valley DNA with unparalleled global reach and deep Asia resources. Drawing from extensive entrepreneurial experience, our founding team has proven exceptional in identifying and nurturing high-potential startups, achieving a 35% unicorn formation rate within our first decade. We have taken the lead in 80% of Series A funding rounds, guiding many to become sector pioneers in going public. What sets CCV Capital apart is our global approach. As globalization evolves, CCV Capital embraces Globalization 2.0 principles, supporting a decentralized, multi-centric approach to global expansion. We enable startups to establish a global presence through strategic regional offices, localized market involvement, and intelligent use of international resources.We empower startups on their strong competitive advantage, fast business growth, international footprint expansion by leveraging the synergies, such as supply chain, talent resource, and proven business model, among East Asia, Southeast Asia and America. Our globally diversified portfolio exemplifies our collaboration with visionary founders propelling innovations across industries. It spans the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania, featuring prominent enterprises like Perfect Corp. (NYSE: PERF), MetaApp, Multiway Robots, U Power, Newrizon, Palmpay, Realchar, Aventurier, Pebble, as well as sector leaders including JD.com (NASDAQ:JD), VenusTech (002439), CreditEase (NYSE:YRD), Rong360 (NYSE:JT), Arrail Dental (HKSE:06639), KJY water (301372), TanTan (acquired by NASDAQ:MOMO), Ximalaya FM, and Shukun Technology, underscoring our steadfast commitment to nurturing transformative global leaders.

Brand Capital is the strategic investment arm of The Times Of India Group, for over 2 decades we have fuelled entrepreneurship through our unique investment model that provides unparalleled advertising mediums to brands poised for growth. The advertising platforms have been leveraged by over 850 companies and it has helped add a force multiplier to the growth of companies that couldn’t have managed break-neck growth without the media muscle of our advertising mediums. We assess start-ups based on three key criteria: the size of the market or opportunity, the quality of the team, and the likelihood of securing the next round of capital. Additionally, our media offering should provide the support that these categories need to reach closer to the customers. We are one of our kind and bring unmatched depth and width of media platforms from the Times of India Group with a strong national presence. Furthermore, we provide invaluable insights gathered over 2 decades of participating in the growth of companies in diverse categories, for instance ecommerce, retail, automobile, services, education and many more. Our business proposition has evolved over our journey of having invested in India’s most trusted brands. Brand Capital has emerged as the first point of leverage for any growth-oriented enterprise. Our structured solutions, both financial as well as brand related are conceptualized keeping in mind the need to build/add enterprise value and drive brand growth. Long term brand building solutions, expertise in media planning, creative developments and brand positioning are topped with cash leverage for our portfolio companies to benefit from. The Times of India group is one of the largest media conglomerates and offers a myriad of media offerings that include: Print advertising, OOH, Times Internet, In-Cinema advertising, PR services and experiential marketing platforms. Simply put, we provide the media that best suits a product category and encourage utilisation of the mediums that are most efficient and powerful to drive growth.

Channel 4 Ventures (“C4V”) is a highly innovative corporate venture activity for Channel 4, which invests Channel 4’s airtime in return for minority stakes in early-stage companies (“media-for-equity”). Channel 4 Ventures provides an exciting opportunity for high-growth startups to access mass market audiences via premium marketing inventory (i.e. the spots between Bake-Off, Made in Chelsea, and Gogglebox) without dipping into cash reserves earmarked for competing development priorities. We are the leading media-for-equity fund in the UK and one of the few consumer-focused venture funds in the market with a truly unique proposition, clear value-add, and ambitious team. Since inception in 2015, C4V has completed 50+ investments in consumer growth companies, including Pinterest, Airtasker, Eve Sleep, Swyft, what3words, Strike, Cannaray, Crowdcube, Raylo, and Drover. C4V has invested alongside many prominent VC investors across the consumer ecosystem, such as Accel, Felix, Octopus, Balderton, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity Investments, Intel, Whole Foods & BP Ventures. Some of our successful exits via IPO include Eve Sleep, Pinterest, and Readly.