OMERS Ventures

Sopra Steria Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Sopra Steria, a major European technology company with 51,000 employees operating across nearly 30 countries. The parent organisation generated €5.8 billion in revenue in 2024, providing consulting, digital services, and end-to-end solutions focused on digital transformation and competitiveness for large companies and organisations. Under CEO Xavier Pecquet, the firm combines sector expertise with technology capabilities across consulting advisory, digital service delivery, and integrated solutions designed to produce tangible outcomes from digital initiatives. The parent company's technical focus spans consulting, digital services, digital transformation, end-to-end IT solutions, and collaborative approaches emphasising collective intelligence. Its service portfolio addresses strategic guidance for digital initiatives, the design and delivery of digital services yielding sustainable benefits, and comprehensive solutions that integrate deep sector knowledge with innovative technologies. Sopra Steria positions employee development as a core element, offering staff opportunities to expand skills through varied experiences with top European companies. The firm's operational philosophy centres on collaborative approaches and collective intelligence, with an articulated commitment to using digital technology to guide customers, partners, and employees toward strategic choices. While specific investment thesis, stage preferences, check sizes, and portfolio composition for the venture arm are not publicly detailed, the parent organisation's scale, geographic reach across Europe, and broad exposure to business sectors provide the venture function with substantial operational context and potential strategic alignment opportunities.

Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV) is the first fund by Verod-Kepple Africa Partners, a joint venture between Verod Capital Management Limited and Kepple Africa Ventures. Launched in 2021, VKAV is a US$60 million pan-African venture fund investing in scalable, tech-enabled, post-revenue businesses bringing about transformative change by addressing difficult challenges across various industries on the continent. Our portfolio companies currently consist of Moove, NowPay, Koko Networks, Ceviant, Chari, Shuttlers, Nawy, Julaya, Chefaa, Cloudline, mTek, Zone, Tagaddod, WorkPay and Autochek. We are supported by a diverse group of prominent global institutional investors and family offices with extensive experience in investing in emerging markets.

Technology exists today that can solve many of society’s greatest problems, but these technologies are often trapped in political stasis. The bigger the problem, the greater the value in solving it. Trust Ventures exists to find these solutions. Our ApproachFIND: We look for startups taking on society’s greatest challenges. We are building a portfolio that will bring progress to a range of industries held back by public policy barriers. FUND: We invest like a venture capital fund, but think like advisors. We don’t seek compensation for the strategic guidance we offer our portfolio companies - we succeed when they succeed. ASSIST: From building relationships to developing strategies to proactively head off regulatory challenges and advocate for change, we offer guidance to startups to help them level the playing field with larger incumbent companies.

We believe the world is changing faster than ever. We are an early-stage venture capital firm investing in transformative companies harnessing information growth and computing power to change the world. We believe the most important companies of the future will be the product of three forces: the exponentially increasing availability of information; rapid advancements in the science of computing; and the ingenuity of visionary founders. We have seen the information + computing + people thesis transform the business of investment management, and we support companies applying it to other industries. Our ValuesSMARTER TOGETHER: We believe we are stronger as a collective than as individuals, and look for every opportunity to augment our own abilities with the resources and expertise around us. HUMBLY OPEN-MINDED: We are humble enough to acknowledge that which we cannot know or predict, and remain diligently focused on our search for knowledge and understanding. EMPATHETIC: We endeavor to understand and respect the ambitions and challenges of entrepreneurs, and do all we can to support them as they work to achieve their objectives. CHALLENGING CONVENTION: We earnestly challenge the status quo and are ambitious in our efforts to improve upon it through the discovery and creation of technological breakthrough. Our Focus We support companies using data science and advanced engineering to create the future. Early stage: We invest early - from seed to series B - and stick around as a long-term partner. Across industries: From infrastructure tools and healthcare to real estate and consumer hardware, we support data- and computing-driven transformation in every industry. Where we have expertise: We bring Two Sigma brainpower in software engineering, data science, quantitative modeling, machine learning and more to all we do. We have deep expertise and an extensive technical network. Throughout 15+ years of building Two Sigma, we’ve learned a lot about what makes a technology company succeed. Though we can hardly be called a startup anymore, our team and the over 1,600 employees and 200 PhDs we’re lucky to call colleagues bring a wealth of extraordinary experience to every company we work with. We are data scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs & operators. Our core team is dedicated to finding and partnering with great founders. We are supported by Venture Partners who bring years of experience building Two Sigma, and an army of experts from Two Sigma who are eager to share their skills.

First founded as a venture capital firm in 1999, IMM Investment has since become one of leading multi-asset alternative investment firms in Asia with $6.4 billion* of assets under management across three business segments (venture capital, growth equity and infrastructure) We continue to create significant value for our portfolio companies. Established in September 1999, IMM Investment Corp. is the leading alternative investment firm in Korea, focusing on Venture Capital, Mezzanine and Infrastructure. With longstanding trust of institutional investors, partners and investment professionals continue to create significant values for Portfolio companies, which consist of Information Technology, Healthcare/Biotech and Manufacturing. The Leading Investment Firm in Korea IMM Investment today is a leading firm in Korean alternative investment market. However, the position as a top player in the Korean capital market was not achieved in one day. IMM Investment has built up its track record with the strong management team based on partnership, working to increase the value of portfolio companies and distribute returns to LP investors. 1999~2006 _Growth Stage Korean VC industry emerged when ‘Special Law to Promote Venture Capital Companies' was enacted in 1997. IMM Investment was established in September 1999. In 2000, the company merged with GEO Investment and set foundation for future growth. In the initial years, IMM Investment focused on IT and Culture/Contents industry and Corporate Restructuring Company (CRC). Through outstanding performance from VC and CRC, IMM Investment built successful track records, and asset under management reached KRW 207bn by December 2006. 2007~2009 _Transition After enactment of the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act (formerly indirect Investment Asset Management Business Act) in 2004, CRC was gradually replaced with PEF. In the end of 2006, IMM Investment spun-off Buyout business to IMM PE and, in 2008, spun-off Culture/Contents focus to Stonebridge Capital. During this time, some of the company’s successful investments include Celltrion(Biosimilar), Novelis Korea(Manufacturing, Flat-rolled aluminum products). 2010~Present _Emergence as a leading investment firm in Korea Based on the successful track record, IMM Investment raised several VC and PEF funds since 2010. Company currently manages total of 25 VC funds (AUM KRW 1,300bn) and 23 PEF (AUM KRW 6,400bn). In addition to VC, IMM Investment also made several investments in medium-to-large sized enterprises or infrastructures, notably Hanjin Newport, PSA Hyundai Pusan Newport Terminal, Hyundai LNG Shipping, and Incheon Total Energy Company. IMM Investment is currently actively pursuing both domestic and overseas investment opportunities.

FCJ is a multinational venture builder founded in 2013 in Brazil. In just eight years, we’ve become the largest venture builder in Latin America, working with companies in many different industries: from agriculture, health, education, and retail to logistics, real estate, and finance sectors.