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title: Investor Types
description: "Definitions for every investor type on MAGNiTT: VC, CVC, angel, PE, family office, accelerator, sovereign wealth fund, and fund of funds."
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# Investor Types

### **Investor Types**

MAGNiTT classifies 8,182 investors into distinct types based on their primary investment mandate and organisational structure. This classification is used across the platform for filtering, analytics, and reporting.

**Venture Capital (VC) —** Firms whose primary business is investing in startups through dedicated fund vehicles. Includes both generalist and sector-specific funds. This is the largest investor category on MAGNiTT.

**Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) —** Investment arms of established corporations. May invest from balance sheet or through dedicated fund structures. Round classification follows deal characteristics regardless of the CVC’s parent company classification.

**Angel Investor —** Individuals investing personal capital, typically at pre-seed and seed stages. Angel-only rounds are classified separately from institutional rounds.

**Accelerator / Incubator —** Programmes providing small equity funding alongside mentorship and operational support. Accelerator investments may be included in round totals where they meet equity funding criteria.

**Family Office —** Private entities managing wealth for high-net-worth families. Increasingly active in Emerging Venture Markets venture at seed through growth stages.

**Sovereign Wealth Fund —** Government-owned investment vehicles. In Emerging Venture Markets, several sovereign entities are active venture investors, including through dedicated innovation and technology mandates.

**Development Finance Institution (DFI) —** Bilateral and multilateral development finance institutions with venture mandates in Emerging Venture Markets.

**Fund of Funds —** Entities that invest in other venture funds rather than directly into companies. Active FoFs on MAGNiTT include SVC, Jada, QDB, BDB, Al Waha, and ISSF.

**Private Equity (Venture capacity) —** PE firms participating in venture rounds. Round classification is based on deal characteristics, not investor type. This aligns with the global standard for tracking nontraditional VC participation.

**Government Fund —** Government-backed investment vehicles with direct venture mandates, distinct from sovereign wealth funds.

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