AP Ventures

Ilona Capital is an investment firm focused on investing in internet and software businesses. It was co-founded by Michael Abdy and Noah Lowy, and is anchored by the Frank Lowy family, one of the wealthiest and most known families in Australia. Frank Lowy was the founder of Westfield, one of the world's largest shopping centre owners.

Recruit Strategic Partners is the Silicon Valley-based venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings (a leading Japanese headquartered media company). We invest in world-class startups around the world. Our mission is to support our portfolio companies to expand their business in Japanese market and we offer our accumulated industry expertise and knowledge to achieve this. We frequently co-invest with leading venture capital funds in the United States. We invest at any stage from the seed round to the growth phase, and concentrate on the following sectors: Business Applications, AI/Internet of Things/Robotics, Blockhain, and Fintech.

Golden Alpha is a family investment vehicle of the Sohmen family. Golden Alpha invests both directly and through external fund managers, in both private and public investments. The Sohmen family has an operating business, BW Group, which is a leading maritime group founded in 1995 and involved in oil and gas transportation, floating gas infrastructure, environmental technologies and deepwater production.

Breakthrough Energy Ventures backs new, cutting-edge companies that are developing clean energy innovations. Breakthrough Energy Ventures was created by the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, whose goal is to make sure that everyone on the planet can enjoy a good standard of living, including basic electricity, healthy food, comfortable buildings, and convenient transportation, without contributing to climate change. The Breakthrough Energy Coalition is backed by 28 global high net worth individuals including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, Richard Branson and Ray Dalio. We have four criteria. 1) We only invest in technologies with the potential to reduce at least half a gigaton of greenhouse gases every year, about 1 percent of projected 2050 global emissions. 2) We only invest in companies that will ultimately be able to attract additional investment from other investors. 3) We will only invest in projects that our technologists deem scientifically feasible at scale. 4) We target areas in cleantech being neglected currently by other investors. Our first investing principle is to leverage innovation as broadly as possible. We don't limit ourselves to early- or late-stage companies; to small, medium, or large enterprises; or to particular geographies or technologies. We have very long term investment horizons which allows us to incubate and develop technologies not targeted by traditional investors.

Bioscience Managers is an international healthcare investment firm that finances and enables innovative science and technology with the potential to transform healthcare. Bioscience Managers invests in private and public healthcare companies with clear technological and market advantages in any territory, where we are confident that our engagement with management will deliver commercial success and returns for investors. We are both geographically and therapeutically agnostic. We invest in public and private healthcare companies in any territory which work in therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics or digital health, which are in or near clinical development or commercialisation. Our strategy is to take a a meaningful stake in our investee companies, including board representation, advisory and or hands-on-roles to augment existing skills and to build a proactive and supportive relationships. We are part of the PhillipCapital Group, which has £30bn under management across 16 offices around the world.

BMH Capital provides corporate and venture advisory and capital-markets services; BMH Ventures invests from seed through late-stage private rounds.

Blackstone is a global alternative asset manager investing across private equity, real estate, credit and insurance, multi-asset, secondaries, tactical opportunities, infrastructure, life sciences, growth and energy transition strategies.

KKR is a leading global investment firm that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit and hedge funds. The firm is a recognised global leader in private equity, with a long history of successful investments dating back to its founding in 1976. Although originally specialising in leveraged buy-out (control) transactions, KKR today participates in almost every asset class.

GIC is a sovereign wealth fund of Singapore. GIC manages most of the Singapore Government's assets, with a mandate to invest for the long term across all asset classes in order to generate sustainable returns. GIC invests both directly and through other fund managers, and invests globally. Our portfolio is spread across six core asset classes: developed market equities, emerging market equities, bonds and cash, real estate and private equity.

EQT Partners is a global alternative investment firm with strategies across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, growth equity, and public value.

The Future Fund is an Australian sovereign wealth fund. The Future Fund aims to generate strong risk adjusted returns over a long-term horizon and operates independently of the Australian government. The Future Fund does not make direct investments. We employ a small number of specialist external managers across asset classes including equities, private equity, venture capital, special opportunities, property, infrastructure, debt and alternatives. The Future Fund has an annual return target of 6%.

Oaktree Capital is one of the world's leading alternative investment managers. Oaktree has its original roots in high yielding and distressed credit/debt, although today invests across the spectrum from equity to debt. There are four primary strategies: credit, private equity, real assets, and listed equities. Credit comprises approximately 70% of the portfolio, with private equity and real assets comprising most of the remainder. Oaktree has a strong culture and investment philosophy focused on risk control, consistency, market inefficiency, specialisation, bottom-up analysis and disavowal of market timing.