Investors in Venture

Leorsa Innovations invests in companies with big ideas that aspire to be the best in the world. Excited by technological breakthroughs and cutting-edge ideas, Leorsa invests in a variety of companies from the initial seed round through to series A. Leorsa provides these companies with unparalleled support from world class scientists and researchers to drive both growth and revenue.

Btomorrow Ventures (BTV) is the corporate venturing unit of BAT. BAT is building A Better Tomorrow by reducing the health impact of its business by transforming into a truly consumer-centric multi-category CPG company. We are dedicated to partnering with ambitious and passionate entrepreneurs to realize their vision by providing a platform to enhance innovation and accelerate growth.

ICF Capital is a venture and growth capital management firm from ICF. ICF is a public financial institution founded in 1985 and owned by the Government of Catalonia. Our mission is to foster and improve access to funding for companies that operate in Catalonia in order to contribute to the growth of the region's economy while complementing the private financial sector. ICF provides funding to Catalan companies and entrepreneurs. They assist them in their development and growth, generating value for society at large.

Winton Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Winton Group that invests in companies that operate in the cybersecurity, energy and environment, and data science-driven healthcare sectors. It leverages Winton’s extensive experience and in-house expertise in data science to make better investment decisions and to support actively its portfolio companies. It began operation in 2015, with its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom.

Endeavour Ventures raises money for growth businesses from HNW and Sophisticated investors. We have directly sourced >£150m for portfolio companies directly from individuals typically looking for EIS opportunities. We make very few investments each year and work hard to create successful outcomes. We tend to make thematic investments into fast growth markets, always seeking the most experienced management teams and the most scalable models.

Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF) invests in groundbreaking therapeutics-focused biotechnology companies to drive innovation in biomedical research. BIVF is searching for significant enhancements in patient care through pioneering science and its clinical translation by building long-term relationships with scientists and entrepreneurs. BIVF’s focus is to target unprecedented therapeutic concepts addressing high medical needs in immuno-oncology, regenerative medicine, infectious diseases and digital health. These may include novel platform technologies to address so far undruggable targets, new generation vaccines and/or new biological entities, such as oncolytic virotherapy.

ABB Technology Ventures (ATV) is the strategic venture capital unit of ABB (NYSE: ABB). ATV scouts the globe for breakthrough power and automation technology partners aligned with ABB’s goal to write the future of industrial digitalization. Since its formation in 2009, ATV has invested nearly $200 million into high potential technology companies spanning a range of sectors including robotics, industrial IoT, machine learning, 3D printing, cybersecurity and distributed energy. Business-led strategic venture capital for breakthrough industrial technology startups.

MVP Factory: A Ness Digital Engineering Company leverages expertise from business, design, engineering and data science to help organizations do digitization “right”. We have developed a systematic approach to ideate, validate and launch digital products and services following lean and agile methodologies - delivering business impact at start-up speed. Entrepreneurs ourselves, we are innovating digital consulting. We design, build and scale digital products & ventures. With leading enterprises and entrepreneurs.

WPP Ventures is the strategic corporate venture capital fund for WPP, the world's largest communications services group. WPP is a world leader in marketing communications services, offering a wide range of solutions in Advertising, Media Investment Management, Data Investment Management, Public Relations & Public Affairs, Branding & Identity, Healthcare Communications. WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities.

Elevator Ventures is the Corporate Venture Capital entity of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) headquartered in Vienna. Its primary focus is on early stage and growth investments in Fintech and related enabling technologies in Central and Eastern Europe. In the role of a leading growth partner for Fintech's in CEE, Elevator Ventures leverages RBI Group`s expertise, network and corporate strength in order to help promising scaleups expand across this dynamic region and beyond.

Nesta Ventures is a venture capital arm of NESTA specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. The company seeks to invest in seed, startup, early stage, growth, and expansion companies. It invests in medium term equity, quasi-equity, and debt investments. Nesta seeks to invest in all legal structures from registered charities to companies limited by shares and private companies.

Ringier Digital Ventures AG is a venture capital firm and focuses on investments in innovative digital start-ups. Ringier is a Swiss-based diversified media company focused on media, sports media and marketplaces. The Group comprises around 140 companies in 20 countries, which operate a range of leading media & sports media brands as well as digital marketplaces. 83 percent of the operating profit comes from the digital business.