Investments

Organizations

Third Kind Venture Capital, Close Encounters of the First Kind refer to the sighting of a UFO. Physical evidence of a UFO is classified as a Close Encounter of the Second Kind. Actual contact with an alien is a Close Encounter of the Third Kind.

Shana Fisher

Third Kind

Bubblehouse

Housecat

SkillWallet

Zeta Markets

Palm

SuperRare

Ridge Ventures is the new name for IDG Ventures USA.  The name is inspired by the daring journeys we share with the founding teams we back and reflects our long-term independent status.  Founded in 2007, Ridge evolved out of a single-LP fund started by the media company IDG.  The new name contains an homage to our roots.

Ridge Ventures

ParaFi Capital is an SF-based alternative investment firm focused on the fintech and blockchain ecosystem.

ParaFi Capital

ZhenFund is a seed stage focused venture fund founded in 2011 by Bob Xu and Victor Wang, in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China.

ZhenFund

We believe we can only build the next generation of Pillar companies if we form a trusted partnership with founders of the companies we back. From our investment terms to the capabilities and support we provide, our mission is to align every step we take, every decision we make with the interests of entrepreneurs, right from the start.

As early-stage investors, many of our companies are ideas beginning to take flight; so we are investing in the people, the founders. We look for unstoppable founders who know how to blow through walls. Founders who rally people around their vision for the future and have the ability to create a swell of momentum around a market-transforming idea.

We co-founded Pillar with a group of 17 world-class executives, who have built some of the most substantial companies in Boston with a combined total of more than $30B in enterprise value. All are investors in our fund, and are active as hands-on advisors, mentors and board members to our entrepreneurs. An investment from Pillar is an investment from them.

Our partners are serial entrepreneurs with decades of operating experience in high-growth start-ups. We know what it’s like to build a team, a product, a community of customers. We know what it’s like to pour your time, energy and resources into scaling your company. That’s why we’re so committed to helping you align with the people and capabilities you need to win.

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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

IDG Capital is a leading investment firm, focused on developing extraordinary companies through our expertise in private equity and venture capital, as well as real estate.

Founded in 1992, we were the first firm to bring foreign venture capital into China. Today we work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors and business entities from around the world. Our limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices and business luminaries.

IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, we are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Our highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.

IDG Capital

MULTICOIN CAPITAL’s mission is to accelerate the transition from the centralized institutions of the industrial age to the decentralized institutions of the Internet age.

MULTICOIN CAPITAL

Devonshire Investors is the private investment arm of the owners of Fidelity Investments, one of largest financial institutions in the world with over $1.5 trillion in assets under management. Devonshire has been a leading venture capital investor for over 40 years through its funds, including: Fidelity Biosciences, Fidelity Growth Partners, Fidelity Ventures and Devonshire Investors. Past investments include Alibaba (NYSE: BABA), Cloudant (IBM), Xoom (NASDAQ: XOOM) and Airspace (Cisco). Current investments include Kensho, Good Data, FutureAdvisor, TradeBlock and peerTransfer. Devonshire Investors is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Devonshire Investors

Greylock Partners, a Leading Silicon Valley Venture Capital Firm. Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley.