Shaneel Parekh

AppliedXL is on a mission to build the world’s first fully autonomous "self-gathering news engine," transforming how industries discover, analyze, and act on critical real-time signals. Starting with the pharmaceutical sector, our flagship platform, PharmaXL, empowers decision-makers with real-time alerts, contextual insights, and API integration for seamless workflows.

Hearst Ventures makes strategic investments in companies operating at the intersection of media, information and technology. Starting with its investment in Netscape in 1995, Hearst Ventures has grown to become one of the most active and successful corporate venture funds. Hearst Ventures is global investment group with offices in NYC, London, Beijing and Tel-Aviv. Notable investments include Via Transportation, Buzzfeed, Roku, Sling Media, HootSuite, Brightcove, E Ink, Pandora, and XM Satellite Radio. Hearst Ventures is a unit of Hearst, one of the nation’s largest diversified media and information companies.

AppliedXL is on a mission to build the world’s first fully autonomous "self-gathering news engine," transforming how industries discover, analyze, and act on critical real-time signals. Starting with the pharmaceutical sector, our flagship platform, PharmaXL, empowers decision-makers with real-time alerts, contextual insights, and API integration for seamless workflows.

Hearst Ventures makes strategic investments in companies operating at the intersection of media, information and technology. Starting with its investment in Netscape in 1995, Hearst Ventures has grown to become one of the most active and successful corporate venture funds. Hearst Ventures is global investment group with offices in NYC, London, Beijing and Tel-Aviv. Notable investments include Via Transportation, Buzzfeed, Roku, Sling Media, HootSuite, Brightcove, E Ink, Pandora, and XM Satellite Radio. Hearst Ventures is a unit of Hearst, one of the nation’s largest diversified media and information companies.

We provide non-traditional liquidity solutions for portfolio companies of General Partners and for Limited Partners. We are sector generalists but tend to invest in fast-growing businesses operating within Western Europe. We have completed 50 transactions into 94 companies predominantly sourced through our General Partner network.

Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies. At CLP we have extended credit and managed portfolio relationships of greater than €500 million to over 75 companies. We fund €2-€20 million and we will partner with others to write larger cheques. We invest from a long-term committed fund and have $300 million of financing capacity. Our experience through the ups and downs of the past decade has taught us that no company has a straight path to success. Because of this, our approach is to take a "light touch"​ with no board seats, light covenants and standard reporting.