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The Investors Who Stay for the Whole Story
For more than three decades, Baird Capital has backed founder-led B2B technology and services companies from an early venture check to a late-stage buyout - one global team, one employee-owned firm, and a preference for the sectors most people scroll past.
Scrum Ventures Built a Two-Way Door Between Silicon Valley and Japan
The firm writes early-stage checks, then does something harder to copy: it turns Japanese companies, cities and even a baseball village into landing pads for global startups.
B Capital Built a $12 Billion Bridge Between Founders and the Corporate World
Most venture firms promise a network. B Capital wired one into its operating model - then stretched it from Silicon Valley to Singapore and from seed rounds to late-stage growth.
The $250,000 Check That Wants to Go Everywhere
Everywhere Ventures turned a New York side project into a global pre-seed machine. Its edge is not a bigger check, but a loop: founders fund the fund, find the deals and help the next founders through the door.
Sunwater Capital Built a Portfolio Where Warehouses, Health Data and Medicare Share an Address
The Maryland investment firm makes an unusual promise: patient capital, operator experience and permission to cross category lines. Its portfolio connects buildings, care delivery and data in ways a conventional sector fund rarely attempts.
Hapi
Hapi is a Peruvian-founded, YC-backed fintech that lets people across Latin America invest in U.S. stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies from their phones - with zero commissions, no minimums and an account you can open in about five minutes. Built to knock down the high fees and paperwork that historically kept Latin Americans out of the U.S. markets, Hapi has grown from 10,000 users in 2022 to a reported 500,000-plus clients across roughly 20 countries.
Daisy Cai
Daisy Cai is a General Partner at B Capital, the multi-stage venture firm co-founded by Eduardo Saverin. With nearly two decades of investment experience spanning Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, and global markets, she heads B Capital's China expansion and leads investments in deep tech, AI, robotics, autonomous systems, clean energy, and space technology. Before B Capital, she was a Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund and Managing Partner of Baidu Capital and Baidu Ventures. She holds a B.S. from Tsinghua University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from USC, and an MBA from Columbia Business School - and has six U.S. patents in semiconductor chip design.
Jenny Lee
Jenny Lee is a Singapore-born venture capitalist and co-founder of Granite Asia, formerly Senior Managing Partner at GGV Capital, where she spent nearly two decades building Asia's most formidable tech investment franchise. A Cornell-trained electrical engineer who bought out her government scholarship bond for S$300,000 to chase her VC calling, she has backed over 21 unicorns and facilitated 16 IPOs across five global stock exchanges, including early bets on Alibaba, Xiaomi, Didi, and Grab. The first woman ever to crack the top 10 of Forbes' Midas List, Lee now runs Granite Asia - a $5 billion multi-asset platform investing across Asia's next technology wave.