Lakestar with offices in Zurich, is an institutional fund that invests in consumer Internet companies, with a specific focus on business models that can achieve global scale quickly.   They have had tremendous success investing early in marquee billion euro brand names, such as Facebook, Spotify, and Skype.   In addition, they have either invested in or helped found over 25 early stage companies, and in each of these companies they take an extremely hands-on, or entrepreneurial, approach to investing.  They strongly believe that the key to successful investing is not just in finding the next marquee Internet brand – but in creating it.

• Focus: consumer Internet companies,  promising start-ups
• Looking for: consumer Internet companies, with a specific focus on business models that can achieve global scale quickly.
• Website: www.lakestar.com

Dogan Online is one of Turkey's first digital media companies and home to a successful portfolio of online business with many being the leader in their field.   Its portfolio of sites is complimented through its own media sales house Medyanet, which markets online advertising and mobile inventories of company owned sites as well as other successful web presences.

• Looking for: online businesses with synergy to Dogan Online business
• Website: www.dol.com.tr

360° Capital Partners with offices in Luxembourg, Paris and Milan is a venture capital firm, investing in Innovation at full scale, in Europe.   The new 360 Capital fund has reached a total capital commitment of over €100m.

• Focus: innovation, early stage, small cap, some seed capital
• Geography: Europe, Israel
• Range: € 0.1m – 5m
• Looking for: innovative companies with strong business team, scalable business model and competitive advantage. All sectors except biotech.
• Website: www.360capitalpartners.com

Kondiment with offices in the US, Germany, Romania and Cyprus, is one of the biggest full service digital marketing agencies in Eastern Europe, with 10 years of activity on local and international markets.  

• Focus: innovation in digital marketing
• Geography:  Europe, Israel, US

• Looking for: innovative companies with products or services that can add value to Kondiment clients.  
• Website: /www.kondiment.com

BDMI with offices in USA, Germany, Luxembourg, is a strategic venture investor focused on innovative digital media technologies, products, and distribution channels across the globe. They look for opportunities where they can accelerate growth through BDMI's financial and management resources and close connectivity with one or more Bertelsmann divisions.

BDMI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG,an international media company encompassing television (RTL Group), book publishing (Random House), magazine publishing (Gruner + Jahr), and media services (Arvato) in more than 50 countries  with consolidated revenues of over €15.4 billion.

• Focus: innovative digital media technologies, products, and distribution channels
• Geography:  global
• Looking for: pioneering companies developing new technologies, new business models or new visions of the future
• Website: /www.bdmifund.com

Kima Ventures  was started in 2010 by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Their goal is to support and finance innovative companies with seed capital all over the world. They mainly consider projects in the internet industry at large, as well as mobile, video games, software and telecom applications.  They seek to invest in capital-efficient companies that can achieve profitability without needing to raise a lot of money initially.  

• Focus: innovative companies (internet industry, mobile, video games, software and telecom applications) excluding cleantech, medical devices and biotech
• Geography: global
• Range:150 000 USD per company
• Looking for: invests in the first round at the seed stage
• Website: /www.kimaventures.com/

Arts Alliance, with offices in London, is a venture capital fund  that supports high growth companies in Europe with a particular focus on technology-enabled services.  Arts Alliance has invested in over 40 companies since 1996. Key areas of interest include media & entertainment, mobile services, retail & logistics, marketing services, outsourcing and energy.

• Focus: technology-enabled services (media & entertainment, mobile services, retail & logistics, marketing services, outsourcing and energy)
• Geography: Europe, Israel
• Looking for: innovative and high growth businesses; companies that provide services to both consumers and professional users; companies that possess following qualities: exemplary management, innovation, unique advantage, and a balance of creativity and discipline
• Website: /www.artsalliance.co.uk/

IG Expansion with offices in Madrid, is an investment holding vehicle created to start and develop technology companies, mainly in the internet space.

• Focus: technology companies, mainly in the internet space
• Geography:  Spain, Latin America, Israel
• Range: invests in one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project)
• Looking for: emerging markets
• Website: /www.igexpansion.com/

Motorola Mobility Ventures with offices in the US and Israel, seeks out the most innovative companies with which to form strategic alliances - nurturing them through the critical phases of start-up, growth and expansion in order to evolve the overall wireless market and bring new experiences to people around the world.

• Focus: telecommunications, digital media & entertainment, information technology (IT), breakout investments
• Geography:  global
• Looking for: early-stage companies that are developing cutting-edge technology
• Website: /www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/About_Motorola/Ventures

Bright Capital,  with offices in Moscow, is an independent venture capital firm that invests globally in a wide range of promising companies solving problems in a variety of clean technology, industrial bio, telecom/electronics and IT markets.

• Focus: clean technology, industrial bio, telecom/electronics, IT
• Geography: USA, Europe and Asia
• Looking for: multiple stages, from seed and start up investment to growth capital; high-tech projects; breakthrough technologies
• Website: /bright-capital.com/

Piton Capital with offices in London, is a private investment firm specializing in investments in privately held companies. The firm focuses on technology, telecom, media, and internet sectors - online businesses with network effects (marketplaces, exchanges, communities, etc).

• Focus on entrepreneurs who are:
• making cross-border e-commerce a seamless experience for buyers and sellers;
• changing the way brands are created and purchased;
• creating engagement and loyalty incentives for young people
• Looking for: invest from seed to late stage
• Website: /www.pitoncap.com/

Samsung Ventures Europe, specializes in investments in startups. Focus on consumer electronics, digital media, display technology, semiconductor, and telecommunications. Invests in companies based in North America, Europe, and Asia.

• Focus: IT, Digital Media, Telecom
• Geography: North America, Europe, Asia
• Range: Typical investment range would be $2~10m per investment round, at various stages of the startup's life cycle.
• Website: /www.samsung.com/

BDC with offices in Canada, is the Business Development Bank of Canada. From over 100 offices across the country, BDC promotes entrepreneurship by providing highly tailored financing, venture capital and consulting services to entrepreneurs. BDC has co-invested in Israel in the past.

• Focus: manufacturing, exporting, innovation and knowledge-based industries
• Range:Broad range
• Looking for: start-ups, innovators, fast growth companies, manufacturers and exporters; entrepreneurs who are working to commercialize the fruits of R&D to create innovative products and globally successful companies
• Website: /www.bdc.ca/

Index Ventures with offices in Geneva and London, is dedicated to working with entrepreneurs who have the drive and ability to build world-class companies that can become global players in their market.

• Focus: all sectors, although their primary focus is on investing in technology, life sciences and green technology
• Geography: Europe
• Range: from €250,000 to €50 million
• Looking for: seed, early-stage and late-stage companies
• Website: /www.indexventures.com/