Industry Ventures

Andreessen Horowitz backs bold entrepreneurs who move fast, think big, and are committed to building the next major franchises in technology. Founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the firm provides entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights in innovation, executive and technical talent, market intelligence, policy and regulatory affairs, business development, and marketing and brand-building.

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm's founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company's lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

Battery Ventures is a US-based investor that invests in global technology opportunities, either in venture capital or private/growth equity. Battery Venture's venture capital practice invests in seed and growth-stage technology companies, and looks for potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure and consumer Internet/mobile. In private equity, Battery provides highly flexible capital that can participate in buyouts of family or founder-owned companies, public to privates, and divisional carve-outs of business units. Our deep technology expertise differentiates us from other investors. In private equity we look for companies with revenue between $5m and $200m who can become global technology leaders. Battery Ventures has offices in Boston, San Francisco, Tel Aviv and London.

Skip Capital is passionate about backing technology enabled businesses. Skip invests in phenomenal founders and world class teams with deep experience, who are solving global problems. Skip Capital has made investments in artificial intelligence (AI), software as a service (SaaS), health tech, artificial intelligence, internet of things (IoT), energy, food, education, wellness and infra-tech.

Hillhouse Capital is a Chinese-based investment group that invests in both public and private markets in and outside China. Hillhouse is able to invest at all stages from seed capital to buyouts and listed equities. At its 2005 founding, Hillhouse originally focused on smaller, venture style investments exclusively in China, but as it has grown into a multi-billion dollar fund today, it has expanded its mandate to buyouts and companies located outside the region. Hillhouse is a long-term, patient investor that partners with management teams. We invest in all sectors, although we favour consumer, TMT, industrials and healthcare sectors. We have invested and worked with some of the most iconic companies in the world including Airbnb, Didi, Tencent and Uber.

Exto Partners is a diversified private investment firm. We invest in and work with both emerging and established companies to achieve their potential. Exto Partners specialises in providing both expansion and venture capital. We have a portfolio of investments across a broad range of industries, including: education, industrial safety, retail, health, clean tech, mining services and online marketplaces. Unlike other private equity and venture capital firms, we do not subscribe to the theory of focusing on total portfolio returns. We do not assume some investments will fail and hope the poor performance will be outweighed by one or two big successes. Exto Partners concentrates on building core value in each of its portfolio companies rather than relying on financial engineering. We establish innovative, sustainable and high growth business strategies and invest heavily in both people and systems to enable each company to successfully execute on the strategy. We invest in private Australian companies and take a medium term view on business performance. We take meaningful equity positions (30%+) and deliver hands on collaborative engagement with founders, boards and management.