Endeavor

34 LUMIA is an expansion-stage VC partnering with leading tech companies in under-invested emerging markets and forward-thinking US companies targeting these markets to accelerate growth. Lumia employs a hands-on strategy, working closely with management teams by pairing Silicon Valley insights and contacts with global knowledge sharing and relationships to propel companies through expansion-stage challenges and opportunities. Notable investments include: MarkaVIP, Careem, EatStreet, Greenhouse Software, Hired, Kabbage, OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco), Procore, and Xtime (acquired by Cox Automotive). MITHRIL is a global investment firm that provides capital to leading growth companies. They partner with teams who use technology to build valuable and lasting businesses, often in industries long overdue for change. Each of these businesses is unique, but all face common challenges in unlocking long-term growth. Mithril helps navigate these critical inflection points, and invest in size and with conviction. Ajay Royan and Peter Thiel, both cofounders and investors in Mithril, serve as its investment committee. MOUNTAIN PARTNERS is a globally operating venture builder headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. To date they have been involved in starting and funding over 150 technology businesses. Their business model is focused on helping incubate, grow, and internationalize technology businesses in four core sectors: e-commerce and web services, digital payments and fintech, and technology and security sectors. Their model takes companies from great ideas to global presence and creates market leaders through close co-operation with local co-investors and a large network of international hubs. NORWEST VENTURE PARTNERS is a global, multi-stage venture capital and growth equity investment firm. They manage approximately $6 billion in capital and have funded more than 600 companies since inception. The firm targets early to late stage venture and growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors including: technology, information services, business services, financial services, consumer products/services and healthcare. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Norwest has subsidiaries in San Francisco, Mumbai and Bengaluru, India and Herzelia, Israel. OMIDYAR NETWORK, founded by Pierre Omidyar (founder of eBay) and his wife Pam, is a philanthropic investment firm that makes investments and grants to companies and non-profits that maximize positive social impact through their work. They are focused on five key areas that form the building blocks for prosperous, stable, and open societies: consumer internet and mobile, education, financial inclusion, governance & citizen engagement, and property rights. The firm's mandate is to focus on companies that target low to moderate-income populations living at the base of the economic pyramid. Notable investments include: Ruma, Geekie and Mimoni. PARTECH VENTURES is a global investment firm with a team spread across offices in San Francisco, Paris and Berlin. Most partners at Partech Ventures have been entrepreneurs themselves or have held management positions within tech companies. Companies backed by Partech Ventures have completed 21 initial public offerings and more than 50 major M&A transactions with leading international companies. Since 2012, the team has built a pioneering open-innovation platform fostering business development opportunities for both entrepreneurs and investors. PEARSON AFFORDABLE LEARNING FUND (PALF) is a venture fund with $65 million of capital that invests in private schools, education technology, and scalable services to meet the demand for affordable education in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. PALF seeks investments with market returns while demonstrating outsized learning outcomes. Currently PALF has 10 portfolio companies across 6 countries averaging 140% revenue growth in 2016.

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