Investments

Organizations

Investing at the convergence of blockchains with artificial intelligence, the internet of things and robotics. Founded in 2014, Outlier Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on blockchain and decentralised ledger technology. We view blockchains and other decentralised tools like tokens as a new data layer for the internet enabling other technologies like AI and IoT to combine and converge.

Maeve Ventures

Fenbushi Capital

Eden Dhaliwal

Aron van Ammers

Jamie Burke

Outlier Ventures

Unbanx

Exorde

mesha

Fayre

cheqd

Pool

Ex Populus

Altered State Machine

Fragcolor

Matterless Studios

Meme.com

Swash

Unique Network

Hashdex

Crucible

idexo

Wicrypt

XCLAIM

Weaver Labs

Biconomy

Sperax

Diffusion

Alkemi

Cryptio

keyTango

DIA Data

SEED

Botanic

Evernym

Haja Networks

Fetch AI

Boson Protocol

NFT42

SCRT Labs

Ocean Protocol

IOTA

CoLab is IDEO's platform for collaborative impact. We connect organizations to shape technology's impact on the world. Together, we design the future.

IDEO CoLab

DCM is a venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management. Since 1996, we have invested in more than 325 technology companies across the U.S. and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM empowers our entrepreneurs with hands-on operational guidance and a global network of business and financial resources.

We invest the proprietary capital of Fidelity International Limited. For nearly fifty years we’ve been using our global scale, expertise and market reach to build bold and disruptive businesses.

Eight Roads partners with ambitious entrepreneurs to build bold and meaningful businesses. We are active in Ventures, Principal Investments and Real Estate. 

We have teams in Asia and in Europe and work alongside associated funds around the world, providing substantial global scale, expertise and market reach.

Eight Roads Ventures

We are an entrepreneur’s most valuable partner over a long period of time. We engage early. We wear well. We are steady. We are the best firm for you on day one, and the best firm for you at $1B. For over 40 years, we've backed founders building companies across B2B, infrastructure and consumer technology.

Matrix Partners

Hashkey Capital, invest primarily in blockchain assets traded on exchanges, based on fundamental research and technical analysis.

As an affiliate of Hong Kong-based tech conglomerate HashKey Group, HashKey Capital manages a diverse portfolio of innovative companies in the blockchain and financial technology industries. HashKey's investment and advisory will help start-ups deliver their innovative platform to developers, enterprises, and end users across Asia and the Americas.

HashKey Group is a prominent figure in the technology industry and strategic partner of Wanxiang Blockchain Labs, a non-profit institution supporting entrepreneurs in the blockchain industry with development, regulatory, and digital economics guidance. Together, HashKey Group and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs accelerate promising projects by promoting technical development, adoption, partnerships, and integration with their wide array of portfolio companies.

HashKey Capital

Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage companies, and both consumer and enterprise technology companies. To date, a16z has raised $7.1B, across seven funds, including the $650M Bio funds.

a16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. The firm is led by general partners who are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services.

We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent; top media and marketing resources; Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies; as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building.

ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ

Kindred Ventures supports emerging founders and world-changing startups at the earliest of stages.

Founded by Steve Jang, a serial entrepreneur and angel investor based in San Francisco, California. Steve served as an early advisor and investor at Uber and was an early investor in Coinbase, Blue Bottle Coffee, and Virgin Hyperloop One. Steve is a co-founder at Out There Labs, a decentralized app studio, and previously was the founder of SoundTracking (acquired by Rhapsody) and co-creator of imeem (acquired by MySpace).

As a product-focused entrepreneur, Steve has served as a founder, executive, and board member at several technology startups from inception to acquisition. Most recently, he was an investor and board director at WillCall (acquired by Ticketfly/Pandora), and a co-founder and creator of SoundTracking, a social music recognition & discovery app, that was recognized by Apple as the Best iPhone Music App in the US in 2011 (acquired by Rhapsody International). Before that, he was the co-creator of imeem, the world's first on-demand ad-supported music streaming service which reached over 100 million monthly users before its acquisition by MySpace.

As an early-stage startup advisor, Steve has served as an early Advisor to Uber, the leading ride-sharing and transportation network, since its founding in 2009, and Advisor to Expa, a startup studio and incubator based in San Francisco and New York, since its inception in 2013.

Today, Steve invests in early stage startups in software, hardware, and retail/consumer brand sectors, from the Kindred Ventures fund.

Kindred Ventures

VC firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help create successful companies at scale & build thriving global ecosystems.

"Every day at 500 Startups is a master class in how to build a kickass startup." @CynthiaSchames "500 Startups changed our company's trajectory.

500 Startups

At Samsung NEXT, we partner with innovators to build ideas into products, grow products into businesses and scale businesses that leverage and transform the Samsung ecosystem.

New technologies, new business models and new consumer habits create change, and with change come opportunities for entrants to become leaders. We invest in, build, partner with and acquire startups to create opportunities and ensure that Samsung is a part of these new value streams.

We all know software is eating the world; now machine learning is eating software. This reality is not only changing the ways computers are impacting human lives but also how the systems are built. This fundamental shift affects how our digital and physical worlds connect, how machines help us accomplish tasks and how we interact with the machines.

The growth of sensors and computing at the connected edge are creating a path towards a further decentralized computing network. The cloud as we know it will no longer sustain the velocity, variety, and volume of data originating at the edge. Architectures and workflows will be stressed to the point where a new model is required.

Samsung NEXT