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Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences
Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences (EUAS) is a privately-owned institution of professional higher education.
Accelerator
European Innovation Academy
France
European Innovation Academy is a non-profit educational institution recognized for excellence in tech entrepreneurship education. It educates future entrepreneurs and accelerates companies to pursue digital growth.
Accelerator
Incubator
European International University
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
International French Higher Education Provider
Education
Higher Education
Entrepreneurship Program
Incubator
Evan Greenberg
Georgia
Mr. John Hendricks served as Chairman & Board Member at Software Acquisition Group. He is an Angel Investor. He served as Board member at VinTech Nano Materials. John Hendricks served as the Chairman & Founder at Discovery Communications. He co-founded discovery channel. He created Discovery Channel in 1985 as the first cable network in the United States designed to provide high-quality documentary programming enabling people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity. Hendricks has been the driving force behind the company's dramatic growth, including the expansion of Discovery Communications from its core property, Discovery Channel, to current global operations in over 220 countries and territories with more than 2 billion cumulative subscribers. Under Hendricks' leadership, Discovery now encompasses more than 190 networks of distinctive programming representing 50 entertainment brands including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science and Investigation Discovery. Across the Nordic region, Discovery owns and operates SBS Discovery Media, a top-three portfolio of television brands that feature leading nonfiction content, as well as locally produced entertainment programs, sports and the best scripted series and movies from major studios. Discovery also is a leading provider of educational products and services to schools and owns and operates a diversified portfolio of digital media services, including Revision3. efore 1985, Hendricks founded and served as president of the American Association of University Consultants (AAUC), a private consulting organization that specialized in television distribution, marketing and fundraising for educational programs and services. Hendricks holds a B.A. in history (magna cum laude, 1974) and an honorary doctorate (1991) from the University of Alabama, Huntsville. John Hendricks is the founder and former Chairman of Discovery Communications, the world's leading nonfiction media company. Hendricks created Discovery Channel in 1985 as the first cable network in the United States designed to deliver high-quality documentary programming to television viewers. He was the driving force behind Discovery's dramatic growth, including the expansion of Discovery Communications from its core property, Discovery Channel, to current global operations in over 220 countries and territories representing 26 entertainment brands including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science and Investigation Discovery with more than 1.8 billion cumulative subscribers worldwide. Discovery also is a leading provider of educational products and services to K-12 schools. Hendricks's memoir about founding the company, A Curious Discovery: An Entrepreneur's Story, was published by Harper Collins in 2013. Hendricks retired as Executive Chairman of Discovery in May 2014. Hendricks also is the Founder of Curiosity Project, a multi-platform initiative delivering to lifelong learners the highest quality deep-dive content on topics in science, technology, civilization and the human spirit. Curiosity Project is comprised of Curiosity Retreats, annual five-day gatherings of leading-edge thinkers presenting to and engaging with enrolled guests at the five-star Gateway Canyons Resort in Colorado; and Curiosity Club, a digital subscription service launching in first quarter 2015 at curiosityclub.com, featuring the highest quality deep-dive factual content captured at Curiosity Retreats and Curiosity Studios. A visionary in the media industry, Hendricks has been honored with a Primetime Emmy Award and with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences highest honor, the Governors Award, for conceiving the TLC series, Great Books. The Ark Trust named him a recipient of the Genesis Award for lifetime achievement for his efforts in raising awareness around the globe about animal issues. Hendricks also has been recognized as the first corporate leader to receive the National Education Association's Friend of Education award for "innovations in education and technology and greatly expanding educational opportunity for America's schoolchildren."
Individual/Angel
Everstrong Capital
Kenya
Everstrong Capital LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (Everstrong, or the Sponsor), believes the projected expansive economic growth of the Kenya and the rest of East Africa will require and fuel the demand for new and improved infrastructure across the segments of energy, transportation, water, communications, healthcare and housing infrastructure. Moreover, improvements in the regulation of infrastructure and financial markets are building a robust and sustainable investment environment in Kenya and East Africa. Therefore, Everstrong is sponsoring the Everstrong Kenya Infrastructure Fund (the Fund) to focus on the infrastructure sector in Kenya and the rest of East Africa, with investments primarily in the energy, transport, communication, and water sectors. Everstrong is committed to ensuring that all our investments, irrespective of the sector, are of positive impact to society. We believe that availing good and efficient transport, ICT, water, healthcare and housing infrastructure will enable the development and continuous operation of small businesses, promote education and learning, boost the provision of health services within hospitals, clinics and dispensaries, improve communication services and eventually drive-up productivity within the jurisdictions we are investing. Everstrong anticipates that the Fund will be able to achieve long term capital appreciation with favorable risk-adjusted returns and predictable cash flows through a diversified portfolio of infrastructure assets. Such investments will be made primarily through controlling equity investments or investments providing the Fund with strong influence or control in infrastructure assets. To address the need for reliable energy across Africa, Everstrong is the sponsoring member of Milele Energy.
Infrastructure Fund
Excelen
United States
Operator of a non-profit research and education organization. The company assists orthopedic researchers in development of surgical and rehabilitative techniques and offers expertise and facilities to scientists, engineers, physicians and students for research purposes. It also operates an orthopedic incubator.
Accelerator
Incubator
Exhibition Capital
Canada
Exhibition Capital is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the energy, finance, education and healthcare sectors. The firm is based in Calgary, Canada.
Venture Capital
Exponentials
United Kingdom
Exponentials support entrepreneurs and organizations that have the potential to make a positive impact in the world. The firm focuses mainly in the education sector. It was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Accelerator
Incubator
Ezdehar Management
Egypt
Founded in 2005, Ezdehar Management is a growth investment capital firm based in Cairo, Egypt. The firm focuses on mid-cap companies in Egypt operating in the food and beverage, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, agribusiness, building materials, business services, education, oil, and gas.
Growth Capital
Fabric Interactive
United States
Fabric Interactive is an accelerator/incubator that helps startups and brands bring new products to the market. The firm is specialized in beta product development and growth hacking. It was founded in August 2001 and is based in Los Angeles, California. The firm prefers to invest in the art, data, software, hardware, sports, and education sectors. It provides startups and big companies with CaseZero, a platform to gain data insights in three weeks.
Accelerator
Incubator
Falcon Partners VC
Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Venture capital focused on AI/machine learning, consumer, e-commerce, education, and pharma life-sciences in the China Greater Bay Area.
Angel Investment
Venture Capital
Venture Capital
Famcorp
Bahrain
Famcorp is an investment firm that seeks to invest in the construction, manufacturing, real estate, hospitality, logistics, education, trading, sustainability, retail and telecommunication sectors. The firm was founded in 1975.
Private Equity Firm
Farhat Siddiqui
United States
Interested in big bold ideas in #AI #ML #NLP for finance and education
Female Investors
Far Ventures (Cape Town)
United States
Mr. Nicholas Tiller is the Founder and serves as Chairman at Sustainable America. He also served as Portfolio Manager at SAC Private Capital Group. For 12 years, Nick built the energy practice at SAC Capital/Point72 from a two-person effort to 10 portfolio teams and 30 investment professionals. He managed a long/short equity and commodity portfolio with over $1.5 billion gross capital. The energy group was profitable every year and was consistently one of the top-performing sectors at the firm. At Fidelity Investments, Nick was first a food sector analyst, then an energy analyst and portfolio manager of the $1 billion Fidelity Select Energy Services Fund, which outperformed its benchmark each year under his management. As a student at Harvard Business School, Nick earned the Dean's Award for leadership and community service by co-founding the Harbus Foundation, a grant-making, student-run organization dedicated to improving literacy, education and journalism. Nick was named The Wall Street Journal's "Donor of the Day" for his venture philanthropy with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. He serves as a director on the board of trustees of The Nature Conservancy, Connecticut. Nick grew up in Springfield, Ohio, where his family owns and preserves hundreds of acres of farmland. In addition to his philanthropy and his work with Sustainable America, Nick manages investments for his family office and advocates for impact investing. He was also the Founder and served as Managing Partner, Executive Officer & Limited Partner at Precocity Capital.
Individual/Angel
Fast Forward (Consulting Services)
United States
Fast Forward (San Francisco) is an accelerator for social impact tech. Focused exclusively on tech nonprofits, Fast Forward's three-month Accelerator provides a philanthropic grant, intros to mentors, curated curriculum, and community. Fast Forward is issue area agnostic, and funds tech solutions to social problems, like health, human rights, education, and the environment.
Accelerator
Incubator
FAT Projects
Singapore
Founded in 2015, FAT Projects is a venture capital and venture studio headquartered in Singapore, Singapore. The firm seeks to invest in financial services & fintech, food tech & hospitality, e-commerce, and education & services sectors across Southeast Asia.
Venture Capital
Federation
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Federation is a private equity fund that invests in renewable energy; social, education and health real estate; and operating companies.
Venture Capital
Federico Forcolini
United States
Mr. James Breyer is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Breyer Capital. He serves as Board Member at The Blackstone Group. He serves as Co-Chairman at IDG Capital. He serves as Investment Advisory Board Member at Xfund. He is a Co-Founder and Board Member of EDO and a Board Member of GNL Québec. He served as Board Member at UM and Wickr. He has been an investor in over 40 consumer internet/technology companies that have completed successful public offerings or mergers, including Facebook, Etsy, Legendary, Datalogix and Marvel Entertainment. As a lead investor and/or board member, he has assisted teams at over a dozen companies complete IPOs. Several of his investments have returned to investors over 100 times their cost and over a dozen more have returned over 25 times cost. Over the past several years, he has developed a deep personal and investment interest in long-term oriented entrepreneurs and teams working in artificial intelligence (AI) and human assisted intelligence (HAI) and he has made numerous investments in this space. He also has a long track record of investing in China and partnering with Chinese entrepreneurs, including through Breyer Capital's major limited partnership with IDG Capital, a premier technology venture capital firm based in Beijing. He has been actively involved with IDG China for well over a decade and currently plays the leading outside strategic advisory role for the firm. IDG's investments in China include Xiaomi, Baidu and Tencent, among others. He currently serves on the board of directors of Blackstone and 21st Century Fox, where he is Chairman of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating Committee. He served on Facebook's board from 2005 to 2013 after leading the company's Series A funding round. He served on Etsy's board from 2008 to 2016 and was the company's largest outside shareholder at the time of its IPO in 2015. Notably, Etsy is one of the first B Corporations to successfully go public and continue to grow significantly post-offering. He was the lead investor for Legendary Entertainment's first funding round and served as a board member until its acquisition by Dalian Wanda in March 2016. He was also an investor and board member of Marvel Entertainment through its acquisition by Disney in 2009. his other board memberships include Wal-Mart, where he served for over a decade and was the lead independent director until his retirement in 2013 and Dell Inc., where he was a director through the company's $24 billion take-private in 2013. He is passionate about philanthropy and applying venture philanthropy and innovation models to areas such as education, the arts, and environmental sustainability. He is a Fellow of Harvard Corporation, Harvard's senior governing board; a member of Harvard Business School's Board of Dean's Advisors since 2001; a member of Harvard University's Global Advisory Council since inception; a founding member of the Dean's Advisory Board at Stanford's School of Engineering; Chairman of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund and Chairman of the Advisory Board at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. He is passionate about the Breyer Center at Stanford-in-Florence and is a former Trustee of Menlo School (a grade 6-12 school in Atherton, CA). In addition, he is a long-time Trustee of SFMOMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles. He is actively involved in The Environmental Defense Fund and Stanford's Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS). He began his career at Accel, where he was a partner for nearly three decades and served as Managing Partner. He also co-founded AKKR, a joint venture between Accel and KKR in 2000. He graduated from Stanford University with a BS degree, and from Harvard University with an MBA, where he was named a Baker Scholar. He is also an Angel Investor. He is a Co-Founder and served as Board Member at Accel-KKR. He also serves as an Advisor at Elemental Cognition.
Individual/Angel
Feimalv
China
Founded in 2012, Feimlv is a venture capital firm based in Shanghai, China. It focuses on making investments in sectors like TMT, education, healthcare, and culture and entertainment.
Venture Capital
Fennec Ventures
United Arab Emirates
Fennec Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm and venture builder based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The firm seeks to invest in the healthcare, automotive, Saas, internet of things, construction, education sectors.
Venture Capital
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