The Global Venture Investors Foundation is a non-profit international venture capital foundation dedicated to expanding the early stage venture capital sector in countries around the world.

GVIF does this by helping overseas investors, corporations, and financial institutions invest and become limited partners in venture capital firms from the U.S. and other countries. GVIF also helps venture firms from the U.S. and other countries develop strategic alliances with one another.

A New and Different International Venture Capital Foundation
The accelerating globalization of the technology industries today is requiring nearly all venture capital firms to operate globally in one form or another. Many VC firms are raising funds and developing strategic alliances around the world on their own account. Others are discovering they need international relationships to help their portfolio firms market globally.

And what is true for venture capital firms is equally important for the professional service firms who facilitate and expedite the venture capital process. Both VCs and their service providers need networks of global contacts and alliances today. The Global Venture Investors Association provides these relationships.

A third group with a stake in the globalization of the venture capital process are companies that would like to market their products and services to the fast growing portfolio firms generated by professional venture capital firms in the U.S. and other countries. Expert pre-investment screening, adequate capitalization, and the strategic assistance they receive later, make venture backed firms an extremely promising class of prospects for many other companies. The Global Venture Investors Conference helps sponsor organizations market to the venture community and to a continuing stream of venture backed companies in the U.S. and around the world.

GVIF fosters professional contacts and working relationships between:

• Strategic investors from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Canada and the U.S. seeking an institutionalized asset class with the potential for dramatic returns
   
• U.S. VCs and other venture capital firms from around the world
   
• Globally competitive corporations and banks looking to develop or expand venture subsidiaries with the help of independent venture capital firms
   
• Professional service firms
   
• Organizations interested in marketing to venture backed companies in the U.S. and abroad
   
• Economic development organizations from around the world seeking to attract venture capital to their regions
   
• Government officials from countries seeking to invigorate their venture sector