Roble Ventures

GSV Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in the most important founders and leaders across the global “Pre-K to Gray” digital learning and workforce skills landscape. Investments include ClassDojo, Clever (exited), Coursera, Degreed, Gradescope (exited), Guild, Learneo (formerly Course Hero), Nearpod (exited), PhotoMath (exited), Physicswallah and QuillBot (exited) amongst other notable investments in education technology leaders positioned to achieve disproportionate gains. GSV Ventures manages over $1.0bn in assets across three funds and several SPVs, and partners include Michael Cohn, Adam Freed, Jason Horne, Michael Moe, Luben Pampoulov, Deborah Quazzo and Tiffany Taylor. Critical platforms for GSV Ventures’ investing activity also include the All Eyes on India Summit and the world-renowned ASU+GSV Summit, drawing some of the globe’s most prominent speakers including Tencent Co-founder and Yidan Prize founder, Charles Chen; Stanford Dean, Dan Schwartz, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, Sal Khan, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Arne Duncan, Bari Weiss, Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein, Sheryl Lee Ralph, amongst many, many others.

JFF Ventures is building a future where innovative products and solutions give everyone increased access to learning, employment, and economic advancement opportunities. We do this through: Connections: Our network of forward-thinking corporate leaders is committed to helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses and deepen their impact. Community: Our portfolio companies are part of a community of impact-oriented leaders focused on creating opportunity for learners and workers. Investments: Our investments in early-stage companies and entrepreneurs help build inclusive technology solutions. JFF Ventures marks a major expansion of JFF’s growing focus on technology investing and acceleration, building on the organization’s 2019 acquisition and incubation of the Employment Technology Fund in JFFLabs (ETF@JFFLabs). JFF has already invested in more than 35 high-impact technology startups through ETF@JFFLabs, now JFF Ventures Fund I.

Access Bridge Ventures is a leading early-stage $35m venture capital fund. Investing in entrepreneurs across the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and on a case-by-case basis outside these regions, if it is within our core sectors. WHAT WE DO We look for exceptional leaders with an aim to support their journey as early as the first institutional investor. When we invest, we like to lead the round and support our partners throughout their journey. HOW WE DO IT We look to provide value add through leveraging our exceptional networks across the region, our collective investment and operational experiences, strong governance and overall discipline. WHAT WE LOOK FOR Our target investments span a wide range of sectors. The following are some common characteristics that we look for: MENA FOCUS TRACTION AND VALIDATION CAPITAL EFFICIENCY SCALABILITY DEFENSIBILITY SECTOR LEADER AND INNOVATORS UNFAIR ADVANTAGE SUPERSTAR TEAM CLEAR EXIT PATH SECTORSHEALTHTECH ENTERPRISE TECH & SAAS EDUTECH ECOMMERCE ENABLERS FINTECH MARKETPLACES

We invest across consumer and enterprise and have partnered with thousands of inspiring entrepreneurs over the past two decades. We have a track record of backing great entrepreneurs at the earliest stages. Since 1999, Redpoint Ventures has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones. The firm invests in startups across the seed, early and growth phases. Redpoint has backed over 465 companies with 140 IPOs and M+As, including 2U, HomeAway, Heroku, Netflix, PureStorage, Twilio and Zendesk, and incubated market disruptors like Android. In total, the firm manages $4 billion across multiple funds. Redpoint is based in Menlo Park and has offices in San Francisco, Beijing and Shanghai.

1337 Ventures is a Venture Capital (VC) firm focused on pre-seed and seed-stage startups in Malaysia as well as South East Asia. We invest in early-stage startups, assisting startups in the pre-seed & seed stage through every growth phase. Our primary investments are technology solutions (social enterprises, commerce and other out-of-the-box solutions are also welcome!) 1337 will continue expanding throughout South East Asia as an accelerator and early stage venture capital focused on scaling companies from ideas to being valued as a multi-million dollar company in less than 10 months. Our central tenets are built into 1337’s core business activities: Idea generation, idea validation, accelerator & growth stage investment. Yielding more than 700 successful alumni, 1337 Ventures has since diversified to covering some of the most exciting and innovative areas such as retail analytics, indoor positioning systems, automated parking systems, marketplaces, wearable technology, and proximity marketing bringing the total investments completed to 24 startups. Through Leet Academy, our education arm, we conduct corporate digital transformation workshops such as Design Thinking, Pitching & Agile Ways of Work to build resilient individuals & organisations. To democratized fundraising, Leet Capital is an Equity Crowdfunding (EFC) platform where we connect startups to angel & retail Investors.

We are privileged to invest on behalf of institutional investors, most with charitable, educational, or non-profit missions. Serving entrepreneurs is a calling for us, and we look to partner with companies with an equally strong sense of purpose. Founder Oriented The world’s most iconic companies have been built and run by founders. We prefer to partner with management with an ownership mentality – leaders with a vision for the future, creating value for all stakeholders, with an eye on the bottom line. Fundamentals Focused We make initial investments in early-stage companies tackling emerging consumer and enterprise opportunities. We look to partner with management to build world-class businesses based on strong operating fundamentals and attractive unit economics. Uncommonly Patient We are known for our uncommonly patient approach to building companies. We look for opportunities to deepen our relationships with high-performing companies, and can make significant capital commitments more than a decade after our initial investment. Contrarian by Nature We don’t chase trends or hot sectors. We work from first principles, evaluating each team, company and market on its independent merits. We avoid overfunded areas and prefer companies taking idiosyncratic approaches to solving big problems.