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46 VISA VENTURES is the corporate venture investment function of Visa, Inc. With a global focus, the team engages with innovative payments, fintech, and technology companies and seeks to identify and invest in the most attractive opportunities that give Visa early access to innovative technologies and emerging themes. WEST is a venture studio that partners with visionary companies and invests in bold ideas. West works alongside founders and their teams as both an operator and investor to build and execute soulful brands that generate large scale, long-term growth. West's unique engagement model combines deep strategy, product, marketing, and design expertise. And through a combination of fees and warrants, West structures engagements to responsibly manage burn rate and align interests. West also selectively invest capital for its portfolio companies' growth and development. In that way, West's contribution to the companies it engages with includes a combination of creative, intellectual, and financial capital. Notable portfolio companies include Twitter, Prelude Fertility, Impossible Foods, and Braintree. XPLORER CAPITAL is a unique growth capital firm dedicated to investing in internet and digital media businesses in emerging markets. They seek to invest in companies that have the potential to create significant regional and global impact. These companies will be geographically located or targeting the next wave of emerging economies, countries that have large populations supporting a dynamic domestic consumer market, significant offline advertising spends, improving infrastructure and strong economic growth.