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39 STORM VENTURES is a $600m (TAM) VC firm focused solely on early-stage enterprise investments. The partnership has founder/operators experience leading enterprise companies including Airespace (acquired by Cisco) and EchoSign (acquired by Adobe). Being founders themselves, they have walked in your shoes - they've had to go without compensation as CEOs to make payroll and have gone from $0 to $100m in ARR - experiencing all the stages in between. The team at Storm leverages their insights and flexes their network to add some strategic capital and value when necessary; but prides themselves on getting out of the way when they're not needed. SUN MOUNTAIN CAPITAL is an investment partnership formed in 2006 by senior private equity professionals based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The firm provides fund investment advisory services for public and private entities and as well as manages direct investment funds. They currently have over $500 million in private equity assets under management and advisement. Sun Mountain Capital has been an investor in Mexico since 2011, where they invest out of a fund jointly administered by Mexico Ventures and Fondo de Fondos. TELEFÓNICA VENTURES aims to maximise the VC portfolio value within the Telefónica Group, enhance Telefónica's relationship with start-ups and identify tomorrow's opportunities. Telefónica Ventures focuses on early, mid and late stage funding rounds, particularly in Europe, US and Israel. It is especially keen to identify investment opportunities within Telefónica's Digital service areas. Telefonica Ventures has offices in London, Silicon Valley and Madrid. USVP is an early-stage venture fund that invests in information technology and health care. Their decision making is driven by major industry and global trends, among them: virtualization and mobilization of computing, new capabilities in big data analytics enabling powerful enterprise and consumer applications, persistent need to upgrade the world's information infrastructure, globalization of all economic activity and purchasing power of the growing global middle class (among others). USVP partners with teams that believe in the disruptive power of innovation, that exibit disciplined execution and have relentless honesty and integrity in all dealings. VALOR CAPITAL GROUP is an investment firm focused on Brazil and US-Brazil cross- border opportunities with a presence in New York, San Francisco and São Paulo. The firm operates across two investment strategies: Growth Equity and Venture Capital. The firm is interested in investing in anything that is building critical infrastructure in Brazil, including the Ed-Tech, Fin-Tech, Mobile, and Health sectors, among others. Notable investments include: Satellogic and Descomplica. VENTURE PARTNERS wants to enable exceptional founders to disrupt and create new markets in order to impact Mexico's entrepreneurial ecosystem. VP invests in financial, health, mobility and technological services providing seed and growth capital. Portfolio companies include Aventones, Carrot, and Petsy.com. WAVEMAKER PARTNERS is a Los Angeles-based venture capital form that invests in technology-driven companies in the US and Southeast Asia. They seek to invest in businesses that address huge market opportunities and typically make initial investments between $100K-$200K and follow on until $1M. WAYRA is a start-up accelerator that promotes entrepreneurship and accelerates disruptive start-ups in Europe and Latin America. It's acceleration program gives its users funding up to 50,000 U.S. dollars, a place to work, mentors, business partners, access to a global network of talent, and the opportunity to reach millions of Telefónica customers. Wayra is financially backed by Telefónica, one of the biggest telecommunications companies in the world. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Madrid. Notable investments include: Doktuz and Kubo Financiaro

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