Who were the founders of the multinational corporation venture capital conglomerate for which David Baxby was formerly Co-CEO?
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David Baxby David Baxby is the former CEO of Global Blue and former Co-CEO of the Virgin Group. He was born on 9 September 1973 in Sydney Australia. Baxby is currently based in Geneva. As Co-CEO of the Virgin Group, Baxby was responsible for the branded investing activities of the Virgin Group globally.
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Virgin Group Virgin Group Ltd. is a British multinational corporation venture capital conglomerate founded by entrepreneurs Sir Richard Branson and Nik Powell.
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Chaebol A chaebol ( ; ; from Korean "jaebeol" ] ) is a South Korean form of business conglomerate. They are typically global multinationals and own numerous international enterprises, controlled by a chairman with power over all the operations. The term is often used in a context similar to that of the English word "conglomerate". The term was first used in 1984. There are several dozen large Korean family-controlled corporate groups which fall under this definition.
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Jim Breyer James W. Breyer (born July 1961) is an American venture capitalist, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, an investment and venture philanthropy firm, and a partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm. Breyer has invested in over 30 companies that have gone public or completed a merger, with some of these investments, including Facebook, earning over 100 times cost and many others over 25 times cost. On the "Forbes" 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.
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EBay eBay Inc. ( , stylized as ebay) is a multinational e-commerce corporation, facilitating online consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales. It is headquartered in San Jose, California. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble. Today it is a multibillion-dollar business with operations in about 30 countries.
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IB Daiwa IB Daiwa Corporation (株式会社アイビーダイワ ) is a Japanese multi-national business conglomerate with headquarters in Tokyo. Daiwa's primary interests are in the resources and energy business in the United States and Australia; and the company is also involved in the food business.
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Venture Corporation Venture Corporation Limited is a high-tech design and manufacture firm based in Singapore.
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Sandbox Industries Sandbox Industries is a venture capital firm located in Chicago. The firm focuses on connecting established corporations, or incumbents, with disruptive startups, or innovators, across several lines of business: strategic corporate investment funds, new business accelerators, and innovation consulting.
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Byron Trott Byron David Trott (born December 2, 1958) is the founder, chairman and CEO of BDT Capital Partners, a merchant bank that provides advice and capital to family and founder-led companies. Formerly, Trott was vice chairman of Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs. Warren Buffett has called Trott "the only banker he trusts".
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Google Google Inc. is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares, and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its new headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google, Alphabet's leading subsidiary, will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. Upon completion of the restructure, Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google; he replaced Larry Page, who became CEO of Alphabet.
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Eric A. McAfee Eric Armstrong McAfee (born September 24, 1962) is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist, founding and funding companies in renewable energy, oil and gas, agriculture, networking devices and enterprise software. Based in the Silicon Valley, McAfee is Chairman of McAfee Capital, a growth equity investment fund; is a principal at merchant bank, Cagan McAfee Capital Partners; and co-founded Berg McAfee Companies, a holding company.
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Mitchell Kertzman Mitchell Kertzman is a venture capitalist with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, and former CEO of Sybase, Powersoft, and Liberate Technologies.
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General Atlantic General Atlantic (also known as "GA") is an American worldwide growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for growth companies. GA is based in New York, New York. The firm was founded in 1980 as the captive investment team for Atlantic Philanthropies, a philanthropic organization founded by Charles F. Feeney, the billionaire co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers Ltd.
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Sam E. Jonah Samuel Esson Jonah, KBE (born 19 November 1949) is a Ghanaian businessman, the Executive Chairman of Jonah Capital, an equity fund based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Jonah was previously President of AngloGold Ashanti and shared the strategic leadership of the company with its CEO, Bobby Godsell.
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Michael R. Eisenson Michael R. Eisenson is co-founder, managing director and chief executive officer of Charlesbank Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity investment firm based in Boston and New York. Founded in 1998, Charlesbank raised its most recent fund, Charlesbank Equity Fund VIII, in 2014.
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Rothenberg Ventures Rothenberg Ventures, known briefly as Frontier Technology Venture Capital, is an American venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2012 by Mike Rothenberg, who continues to serve as chief executive officer. It has invested in more than 100 companies, including "Bustle", Revel Systems, and SpaceX, and has focused its investments on virtual reality and other "frontier" technologies. Rothenberg Ventures became the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2016, and multiple lawsuits have been filed against the firm.
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Initialized Capital Initialized Capital is a venture capital fund founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco. It was founded by Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan. As of 2016, it has raised $46.15M in funds.
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Adrian Beecroft Paul Adrian Barlow Beecroft (born Yorkshire 20 May 1947) is a British venture capitalist based in London. He was for many years Chief Investment Officer of the private equity group Apax. He is currently Chairman of Dawn Capital.
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David Krane David Krane is the CEO and managing partner at GV, where he is the investor responsible for Uber, Nest Labs, HomeAway, and Blue Bottle Coffee. He was Google employee #84. As director of Global Communications and Public Affairs, Krane oversaw the company's communications programs worldwide, and was a member of the senior leadership team that grew Google from a small startup to a global enterprise.
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E.ventures e.ventures, formerly BV Capital, is a global venture capital firm with an early-stage investment approach in the markets of Adtech, Commerce, Fintech, Media, Mobile and Software. It was founded 1997 in Santa Barbara, California and has since grown to invest in five different regions worldwide: United States, Europe, Russia, Asia and Brazil. The firm has its headquarters in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany; Beijing, China; Tokyo, Japan; Moscow, Russia and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Bradley Tusk Bradley Tusk (born October 3, 1973) is an American businessman, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political strategist, and writer. He is the founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings, a multi-faceted platform featuring multiple businesses (Tusk Ventures, Tusk Strategies, Ivory Gaming, Kronos Archives), politics, philanthropy, and writing and commentary.
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Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is an American venture capital firm focused on early- and growth-stage investments in enterprise, consumer and disruptive technologies. In 2015, DFJ was identified as one of the top investors of billion-dollar startups.