Venture capital (VC) is a type of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth. Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or an ownership stake, in those companies. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful. Because startups face high uncertainty, VC investments have high rates of failure. The start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from the high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), clean technology or biotechnology.
Warburg Pincus LLC is a New York-based private equity firm focused on growth investing with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil, China, Southeast Asia and India. It has been a private equity investor since 1966. The firm currently has approximately $62 billion in assets under management and invests in a range of sectors including retail, industrial manufacturing, energy, financial services, health care, technology, media, and real estate. Warburg Pincus is a growth investor. Warburg Pincus has raised 19 private equity funds which have invested $79 billion in over 880 companies in 40 countries.
Walter Butler is a French/American businessman. He is the founder of Butler Capital Partners, an investment and private equity firm.
Goldman Sachs Capital Partners is the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs, focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments globally.
Adebayo "Bayo" O. Ogunlesi is a Nigerian lawyer and investment banker. Ogunlesi is currently Chairman and Managing Partner at the private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). Ogunlesi was the former head of Global Investment Banking at Credit Suisse First Boston before being promoted to Chief Client Officer and Executive Vice Chairman.
Conergy is a multinational renewable energy company headquartered in Singapore. It was founded in Hamburg, Germany in 2000 by former CEO Hans-Martin Rüter, and specializes in the development, operation and maintenance of photovoltaic power plants and plant components.
Lexington Partners is the largest independent manager of secondary acquisition and co-Investment funds in the world, founded in 1994. Lexington manages approximately $38 billion of which an unprecedented $10.1 billion was committed to the firm's eighth fund. This renders it the largest dedicated secondaries vehicle ever raised at the time.
A club deal, in finance, refers to a leveraged buyout or other private equity investment that involves two or more private equity firms. It can also be referred as consortium or syndicated investment.
Richard Ong is the founder, chairman, and CEO of RRJ Capital, one of the largest private equity funds based in Asia. Richard was also a founder and CEO of Hopu Fund 1, a Beijing-based private equity fund.
Lionel I. Pincus was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of the private equity firm Warburg Pincus, running it from 1966 to 2002, and later became the chairman emeritus of the company.
Lee Thomas Kranefuss is an American businessman, investment manager, corporate adviser, and entrepreneur.
Danny Yong is a Singaporean hedge fund manager. He is the Chief Investment Officer and founding partner of Dymon Asia Capital. The firm was founded in 2008 and is a leading Asia focused alternative investment management firm based in Singapore. The firm is headquartered in Singapore with offices in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan and Thailand. In May 2014, Temasek invested USD500 million in Dymon Asia's strategies and also took a minority stake in the company. Dymon Asia Capital has 134 employees, including 65 investment professionals.
Neil Z. Auerbach is a private equity investor known for his leadership role in clean energy investment. He co-founded Hudson Clean Energy Partners, a global private equity firm that invests exclusively in clean energy, and co-founded the U.S. alternative energy investment business within the Special Situations Group at Goldman Sachs & Co.
William Hall "Bill" Janeway is an American venture capitalist and economist. His work on the innovation economy emphasizes the strategic role played by the state and by financial speculators—sources of investment unconcerned with economic value—in overcoming fundamental uncertainty and driving the development and deployment of transformational technologies.
Mosaic is a solar fin-tech company based in Oakland, California. Founded in 2010, Mosaic created their initial business model using crowdfunding principals to offer loans for commercial solar development projects. For that reason, GigaOM referred to the company as "the Kickstarter for Solar". After shifting their model in 2014, Mosaic Inc. is now focused on financing residential solar projects by leveraging third party capital partners. Through this model, the company aims to democratize the social and environmental benefits of clean energy. Mosaic is a certified benefit corporation.
Rajiv B. Lall is the managing director and vice chairman of Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) in India. His father K.B. Lall was a member of Indian Civil Service.
Jon B. Kutler is chairman, chief executive officer and founder of Admiralty Partners, Inc. and a trustee of the California Institute of Technology where he serves as the chairman of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Subcommittee.
Michelle Kathryn Essomé is an African investment banker and the chief executive officer of the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA). She is also an ambassador of Build Africa, an international development and education charity based in London, England.
