Philip K. Kiracofe

Rainmaking Innovation Ltd (Rainmaking) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Carsten Kolbek. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices across the globe.

Launch Africa Ventures (Launch Africa) is a venture capital subsidiary of GFin Corporate Services Ltd founded in 2020. The firm is headquartered in Ebene, Mauritus.

A-ccelerator Italy Srl is an Italian company that offers a 3-month accelerator program for startups in the fashion market. The company is based in Milan, Italy. The program provides collaboration with over 150 mentors, partners, and investors to build world-class products, services, and businesses. At the end of the program, startups pitch their innovative ideas in front of hundreds of investors, partners, and mentors on the grand finale\: demo day. The company was founded in 2010 by Nazzareno Mengoni. Alceo Rapagna has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

Innoleaps B.V. is a Dutch company that empowers FMCG & CPG corporations to innovate beyond their traditional core business to identify and create long term, sustainable growth. The company is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and has subsidiaries in the Netherlands. The company provides access to the latest corporate innovation news, blogs, and upcoming events. The company specializes in R & D (Research & Development) accelerator, which is a form of horizon 2 innovation that looks to renew the core business within a company by delivering new product formats or applications. The company takes a systematic approach to innovation to ensure each innovation is set up for success from the very beginning with the support of the c-level leaders. Innoleaps was founded by Ruud Hendriks, Patrick Peterus Johannes Cornelis de Zeeuw, and Patrick Peterus Johannes Cornelis de Zeeuw has been the CEO since incorporation.

Giraffic Technologies Ltd. offers a disruptive solution for the growing rich media content consumption (primarily video) in the fixed and mobile web. It provides its video acceleration software to OTT Video Apps Providers, as well as to Consumer Electronics Device Manufacturers such as Smart TVs, Set-Top-Boxes, Tablets and Smartphones. The company offers online video sites, IPTV and over-the-top tv operators a distributed streaming technology that accelerates video delivery over the open Internet to their end users, enabling smooth, buffering-free HD and adaptive video streaming. Giraffic Technologies was founded in December 2008 by Yoel Zanger and Gil Gat and is headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

Startupbootcamp Fintech New York focuses on financial innovation. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Startupbootcamp is a publicly listed startup accelerator that was founded in 2010 by Bert-Jan van Essen, Ravi Madhira, Quentin Issele, Avinash Hegde, Mathew Johny Padayatty, Chris Liu, Carsten Kolbek, Hakim Karim, Tanin Sammanee, Rakhil Fernando, and Julien Le Noble. Bert-Jan van Essen, Tanin Sammanee, and Rakhil Fernando have been the CEOs since incorporation. The Singaporean company supports and scales innovative and disruptive technology companies across various sectors, including fintech, energy, sustainable development goals, and food, aqua or agritech. Startupbootcamp provides startups with direct access to an international network of relevant mentors, partners, and investors to help them scale their businesses. The private company also offers various programs, including accelerators, webinars, and innovation programs, to help startups expand internationally and increase their revenues.

The African Development Bank operates as a regional multilateral development bank. It provides banking services for economic development and social progress of African countries. The firm also offers loans, equity investments, and insurance services. The company was founded on August 4, 1963 and is headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of securities underwriting and investment services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

BidEnergy, Inc. provides a cloud-based energy spend management platform. The company was founded on April 20, 2015 and is headquartered in Concord, MA.

BidEnergy (Operations) Pty Ltd. engages in managing energy contracts and spend. It offer a single platform for the end-to-end source to pay process. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Lampoo SRL sells second hand bags, shoes, clothing and accessories. The company is based in Milan, Italy. The Italian company was founded in 2019. The CEO is Enrico Trombini.

Moffu Labs Srl (Moffu Labs) , is an independent venture capital firm. The firm was founded in 2014 by Alceo Rapanga. The firm is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Finnovista is a company based in Madrid, Spain that was founded in 2015 by Andres Fontao and Fermin Bueno. The Spanish company is focused on accelerating the growth of startups and fintech companies in Latin America and Spain through various programs, events, and initiatives. Finnovista aims to foster innovation and collaboration within the fintech ecosystem to drive positive change and transform the financial industry.

Arbor Ventures (Hong Kong) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Melissa Crane Guzy and Wei Hopeman. The firm is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Cell Capital Partners LLP (Cell Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020. The firm is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Fiskl Ltd. develops accounting software. It operates as a mobile first small business finance and productivity software platform. Its products include roadmap, application, and banking solutions. The firm uses advanced data recognition and extraction technology and automation to enable local and global small businesses to manage all financial administration tasks like big companies, boosting revenue, improving cash flow, and cost efficiency. The company was founded by Shawn Adrian Vader, Alina Cristina Lapusneanu and Monica Burian in 2015 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Deutsche Bank AG provides corporate banking and investment services. It offers asset and wealth management, corporate banking and securities and global transaction banking solutions. The company was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of General Electric Co., Bently Nevada, Inc. is a company that designs and develops a range of machinery protection and testing equipment. The company is based in Minden, NV. Bently Nevada was acquired by GE Energy Management Services LLC on January 24, 2002.

Hina Capital Partners (Hina) is an independent private equity and venture capital firm headquartered in Beijing, China. It was founded by Hong Chen in 2003.

Elucido Media Networks Pvt Ltd. develops education technology solutions. Its solutions include Elucido Learning and Collaboration System (ELCS) which is applicable in teaching and learning environments, wherever content delivery and simple to advanced levels of interaction, collaboration and assessment are required between remote teachers, students and other participants. The firm offers an end to end solution that enables both in-classroom and outside classroom teaching and learning. The company was founded by Rajat Rakkhit and Jay Sethuram in 2008 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

heymate AG operates business in a box platform for peer-to-peer service entrepreneurs. The company was founded by Philipp Toth and Tharita Cherrulli and is headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland.

ThoughtWorks Ltd. provides systems integration and application development services. The company was founded on October 17, 2000 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.