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29 ORRICK is a tech-focused, full-service law firm passionate about entrepreneurship and guiding the success of early ventures. We provide advice on tactical approaches to companies and investors, from incubation to strategic exit and future growth opportunities. Leveraging our global resources, as well as deep-rooted relationships in Silicon Valley, we provide critical insight into this rapidly evolving and increasingly competitive marketplace. Our lawyers work intimately with over 1,800 technology company clients and over 100 venture capital firms. Over the past 12 months, Orrick has helped raise nearly $12.4 billion in venture capital financings globally through over 650 transactions in 30 countries. We are recognized as leading advisors in the technology space by industry publications such as Law360, Chambers and Legal500. ROSEMONDE is a family office based out of Dubai and led by Jaideep Gulab (Endeavor Nigeria board member). Rosemonde is open to companies across sectors, primarily in US & Europe (but also open to SE Asia). The family office typically invests $300-500K and looks for companies that are at the Series A and B stage. SOFTBANK'S VISION FUND seeks to catalyze technological progress for the benefit of humanity. They are investing more than $100B into businesses and technologies which they believe will enable the next stage of the information revolution. Softbank offers the operational expertise, global network and patient, long-term capital required to help innovators build transformative companies. Notable investments in Endeavor companies include Creditas (Brazil), Rappi (Colombia), and MadeiraMadeira (Brazil). SPEEDINVEST is a Pan-European brand of venture capital funds with €230M under management, focusing on seed-stage technology start-ups. Themes of interest include Fintech, Marketplaces and Deep / Industrial Tech. Besides providing financial investments, the fund actively deploys its network and know-how to support its portfolio companies. Speedinvest's office in San Francisco supports portfolio companies entering the US market. Speedinvest has backed Endeavor company iyzico (Turkey). VARENGOLD BANK is a German bank founded in 1995 in Hamburg, with offices in London and Sofia. In Marketplace Banking, Varengold supports online marketplaces that deal with the financing of companies and consumers (peer-to-peer platforms). Varengold finances the rapid growth of Fintechs, primarily through debt facilities, and provides them with front-end services. VENTURE FRIENDS is an Athens-based early-stage fund interested in investing at the seed/ series A stage in businesses in Europe. VentureFriends is focused on consumer and SaaS business, more specifically proptech, fintech, traveltech, and marketplaces. Notable investments in Endeavor companies include Blueground (Greece) and Instashop (Greece). VOSTOK EMERGING FINANCE (VEF) is a listed investment company on the Stockholm Stock exchange, that has a mandate to invest in fast-growth fintech companies across emerging and frontier markets. They look at all lines of financial services inclusive of payments, remittences, consumer/SME credit, mobile money, insurance and digital banks. Notable investments in Endeavor companies Creditas (Brazil), Guiabolso (Brazil), and iyzico (Turkey). R O S E M O N D E