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Partech is a global investment firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin, and Dakar. They bring together capital, operational experience, and strategic support for entrepreneurs at seed, venture, and growth stages across multiple continents, with over a $1.5B investment capacity. Investments range from $200K to $50M in a wide range of technologies and businesses for enterprises and consumers, from software, digital brands, and services, to hardware and deep tech across all major industries. Companies backed by Partech have completed more than 20 initial public offerings and more than 50 strategic exits above $100M.

The National Security Strategic Investment Fund is the British Government’s corporate venturing arm for dual-use advanced technologies. It is a joint initiative between HM Government and the British Business Bank. NSSIF invests commercially in advanced technology firms, alongside other investors, supporting long-term equity investment – ‘patient capital’ – and harnesses the Government’s unique technology expertise. Its objectives include accelerating the adoption of HMG’s future national security and defense capabilities and the development of the UK’s dual-use technology ecosystem.

Edenred Capital Partners is the Venture Capital investment arm of Edenred group. They are looking for ambitious teams of entrepreneurs reshaping interactions between companies, workers and merchants. Edenred Capital Partners has a traditional Venture Capital governance and provides financial and operational support to entrepreneurs. They invest up to €10m, from Series A to Series C, usually alongside other investment funds.

Bolloré provides transportation and logistics services relating to sea and air transportation networks in France, Europe, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and the Americas. It operates through Transportation and Logistics, Oil Logistics, Communications, Electricity and Storage Solutions, and Other Activities segments. Bolloré engages in air, sea, and land freight forwarding; warehousing and distribution activities; and industrial logistics, safety and quality control, and port operations, as well as offers general cargo and aircraft chartering, shipping, stevedoring, shipping agency, and transportation services.

Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation invests in innovative businesses and technologies in the packaging space. Areas of interest include recycling systems, alternative barriers, paper-based solutions, smart and connected packaging, biomaterials, and new industry business models. Producing responsible packaging for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home and personal-care, and other products.

Banca Transilvania (BT) is the Bank for Entrepreneurial People in Romania. BT is ranked 2nd amongst Romanian banks, in terms of assets. Banca Transilvania’s mission is to support the development of the business environment, through innovative products and services, offered with professionalism. The bank’s history began in Cluj-Napoca in 1994, at the initiative of a group of business people.

Aschendorff NEXT GmbH & Co. KG is the company for digital corporate investments within the Aschendorff Group. They invest in companies with innovative, digital business models and good growth prospects that operate under independent brands in regional, national or even international markets. They do not see themselves only as an investor. Together with their co-investors and experts from the media, technology and start-up world, they form a powerful network that supports and accompanies their portfolio companies on their way to a successful future.

U VENTURES is a part of LOBBE group of companies that promotes innovative business models, corporate ventures and digital transformation.

Big Issue Invest is the UK's first 'social merchant bank,' by social entrepreneurs, for social entrepreneurs. As a social enterprise ourselves, we understand how good businesses can achieve great things." Nigel Kershaw - Chair, The Big Issue Group.

The Broadcast Content Fund aims to help the sustainable growth of Scotland’s broadcast production sector, encouraging the development of new projects, the scaling up of already successful activities and the production of commissioned programmes. The Fund has an allocation of £3m for the period 2018/19 and will prioritise projects which have the potential to generate lasting benefits to build companies of scale, reflect or promote Scottish culture, creativity and diversity, as well as projects which offer significant opportunities to people currently under-represented in the screen sector.

The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) is an NHS England Initiative delivered in partnership with the Country’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), hosted by UCLPartners. It supports delivery of the Five Year Forward View by accelerating the uptake of high impact innovations for the patient, population and NHS staff benefit, and providing real-time practical insights on spread to inform national strategy. Fellows supported by the NIA all share a set of values and passion for scaling evidence-based innovation to benefit a wider population, with a commitment to share their learnings. Some impressive results have been achieved by Fellows since the NIA launched in July 2015: 1,423 additional NHS sites now using NIA innovations; £45.2m in external funds secured; 52 awards won; 226 jobs created; and 21 innovations selling internationally. In addition, impact data is already available at adopter sites and this demonstrates earlier intervention, reductions in complications and emergency admissions, alongside cost savings.

SHS Ventures, a joint venture of the energy industry and steel industry in the Saarland, is driving the corporate venture capital activities of VSE and SHS. SHS Ventures is specifically looking for young start-up companies including in the fields of Industry 4.0, infrastructure and the energy industry.