
CATEGORIES/BUSINESS & ECONOMY/VENTURE CAPITAL
Abingworth Management Limited -
Venture capital investor on both sides of the Atlantic, specialising in
early-stage life science and biomedical companies. Best science and strong
management produce outstanding results.
ABN AMRO Private Equity - Investment
focus: business services, communications, information technology and healthcare
services companies with new products and services that address large existing
markets.
ABS Capital - Investment focus:
management buy-outs, expansion financing and recapitalization in technology,
business services, media communications and health care.
Advanced Technology Ventures -
Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in
electronics, communications, software and health care.
Advent International -
Investment focus: companies at all stages of development, including early-stage,
and in virtually any industry.
American Capital Strategies
- Evaluates and secures financing for middle market companies.
American Securities Capital
Partners - Provides equity investments in privately and publicly held
companies in numerous industries.
Ampersand Ventures -
Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies seeking capital for
product development and growth in electronics, telecommunications, healthcare,
life sciences, industrial and building products, process control and
instrumentation.
Apex Investment Partners - Investment
focus: emerging growth companies of all stages in telecommunications, software,
and information technology industries, with additional emphasis in specialty
retail and consumer products.
Asset Capitalization Enterprises -
Business funding and venture capital for businesses nationwide.
Associated Venture Investors -
Venture capital partnerships specializing in seed and early-stage investments in
high-technology companies positioned for high growth segments of the Information
Technologies market
Atlas Venture - Investment focus:
early and late stage information technology and life sciences in Europe and the
U.S.
August Capital - Investment focus:
companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information
technology markets
Bain Capital - Focus: venture and
expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies
in a wide range of industries.
BancBoston Capital - Investment
focus: early-stage venture capital to equity sponsorship, co-investment and
mezzanine capital for buyouts, recapitalizations and expansion of mid-size
companies
Bertelsmann Ventures - Investment focus:
early stage, Internet centric, business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer.
Brand Equity Ventures -
Investment focus: broadly across the consumer sector in early-stage companies
that are ready for rapid expansion
Cambridge Financial
Services - A venture capital firm raising capital through private stock
offerings.
4Capital - Provides links to private
venture capital firms.
Capital Solutions Network -
Provides access to a network of private investors and institutional investment
groups.
CDC Capital Partners - Private equity
investors in emerging markets.
Centurion Pictures, Inc. -
Seeks investment and support for the production of a full length feature film.
Champion Ventures - Focus:
raising pools of capital from individuals involved in professional sports and
investing it with a small number of top-tier venture capital funds.
Chase Capital Partners -
Investment focus: private equity for a wide variety of global investment
opportunities including: management buyouts and recapitalizations, venture
capital, growth equity, and equity to reduce excessive debt burdens
Chase H&Q - Investment
focus: technology, services, healthcare, and branded consumer.
CM Equity Partners - Private equity
fund focusing on the acquisition of middle-market manufacturing, distribution
and service companies.
Commonwealth Associates - Merchant bank
and venture capital firm offers services to corporate clients and investors.
Cornerstone Capital Holdings -
Private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations and
industry consolidations.
Corpfin.com - Corporate finance
solutions in private investment, public equities, and investment offerings.
Corporate Venturing - Find
news, information, and resources covering corporate venturing.
Crescent Private Capital, L.P. -
Private equity firm based in boston investing in middle-market growth companies.
Crosspoint Venture Partners - An
initial stage equity investor with focused expertise in three strategic areas -
networking and communications, health care, and financial services.
Dakota Capital Partners, L.L.C.
- Dakota Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm established in
1995 to make investments in growing companies across a diverse set of
industries.
Desai Capital Management Inc. -
Focused on sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations of proven growth
companies.
Dimeling, Schreiber & Park -
Focus: private equity investments in a broad range of middle market companies
having superior management teams.
Dorset Capital - Private Equity
for Consumer Growth Companies
Dougery Ventures - Investment focus:
fast growing emerging markets, mostly high technology products and services.
Draper Fisher Jurvetson - Venture
Capital - Investment focus: early-stage information technology businesses
with enormous market potential.
Edelson Technology Partners -
Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financings, as well as
leveraged buyouts and special situations, in a broad range of technologies.
Edison Venture Fund - Investment
focus: proprietary technologies or unique services in emerging markets,
generally prefering expansion stage companies.
Emerald Venture, LLC - Provides
equity capital for various stages of business development.
Encompass Ventures -
Investment focus: prefers early or developmental stage information technology
companies in the Western United States and Canada where they can provide a
bridge to Asia.
EnerTech Capital - Investment
focus: service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader
energy marketplace, mostly profitable companies with annual revenue in excess of
$3 million, but will also consider early-stage.
EuclidSR Partners - Investment
focus: exploit the accelerating changes and advances in healthcare and
information technologies.
European Private Equity and Venture Capital
Association (EVCA) - Focus: globally promote and facilitate European venture
capital and private equity
FairShare - Provides investors with
insight on how to evaluate deal structures in venture stage companies.
First Analysis Venture Capital -
Investment focus: all stages of development in industrial and institutional
automation, knowledge and information management, outsourced and specialized
services, specialty chemicals and materials, telecommunications and information
technology, and waste management and natural resource efficiency
FLAG Venture Managemnt, LLC -
Investment focus: manages limited partnerships through which qualified
individuals, families and their trusts or foundations invest in venture capital
funds.
Fleet Equity Partners -
Investment focus: telecommunications services, media & information,
healthcare services, industrial manufacturing, business services, and consumer
products and services, including buyouts, leveraged recapitalizations, growth
financings, and consolidations.
Fleming and Associates - Business
planning and venture capital fund raising.
Foundation Capital -
Investment focus: start-ups in their formative stages, and all subsequent
financings as a company develops, involving Enterprise & Internet Software,
Communications & Networking, Technical Software, and Semiconductors.
Freeman Spogli - Private equity
investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies.
Frontenac Company - Investment
focus: health care services, information technology services and
consumer/industrial businesses.
Gabriel Venture Partners -
Investment focus: funding through every stage of the company growth cycle.
Gemini Investors - Focus:
investing in middle market companies.
General Atlantic Partners -
Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software
and services, and related information technologies.
General Catalyst - Funds
breakthrough ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business
building resources and strategic support.
Generation Partners - Venture
investment focus: seed to late stage information technology companies
(telecommunications, data communications, computing and the Internet)
Geocapital Partners - Investment
focus: growing information technology firms
Glick Morganstern Capital Group,
LLC - Arranges and negotiates financing for growth, acquisition, turnaround
and start-up.
Global American Corporation - Focus:
financing the capital requirements for a variety of companies, in various
industries, through private investors.
Global Crossing Ventures -
Investment focus: startups in the Internet and communications industries.
Greylock - Investment focus: all
stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications,
and healthcare industries
HarbourVest Partners, LLC - Investment
foucs: global, with direct investments in software, hardware, data
communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buyouts of
operating companies
Hawaii Venture Group, LLC -
Investment focus: emerging growth companies, typically start-up, seed capital,
and second stage investment opportunities within the State of Hawaii
Hickory Venture Capital Corporation -
Investment focus: rapidly growing ventues throughout the Southeast, Southwest,
Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, especially involving healthcare services, medical
devices, telecommunications, and software
Hydro-Quebec CapiTech
- Venture capital company that invests in companies whose technological products
and services are related to the energy field.
Idanta Partners Ltd. - Investment
focus: young companies that have the potential to grow into substantial
enterprises in the fields of information technology, health care and life
sciences, retail and others
idealab Capital Partners - Investment focus:
Internet commerce and other early-stage Internet companies
IDG Ventures - Investment focus:
information technology companies, preferring either seed or first-round
financings, or very late (last before IPO) stage investments
Inc.com -
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company.
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Venture Capital - Provides an introduction to investing and venture capital.
Industrial Growth Partners - IGP
provides private equity capital for management buyouts in middle-market
manufacturing companies.
Information Technology Ventures -
Investment focus: fast growing information technology enterprises with "unfair"
competitive advantages that have the potential to dominate their market space
InnoCal - Investment focus: early and
expansion stage, technology-based businesses
Institutional Venture Partners -
Investment focus: leading early-stage companies with advanced technology in
information and life sciences, and selectively in later stage opportunities
Interactive Minds - Investment focus:
early-stage investments in consumer and business-to-business Internet services,
intranet-based business applications, interactive tools, multimedia and
telecommunications
Intersouth Partners - Investment
focus: seed and early-stage life science and technology companies located near
the Research Triangle and Austin
InterWest Partners - Investment
focus: full range of stages in information technology, health care and
non-technology ventures
Ira Besserman Productions - Los
Angeles-based production company seeking an equity investment for the production
of ten movies.
JAFCO America Ventures, Inc. -
Investment focus: communications, software, information services,
systems/peripherals and semiconductors
JK&B Capital - Investment focus:
telecommunications, software and information technologies, but will consider
outstanding opportunities in other industries
J.L. Albright Venture Partners
Inc. - Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional prospects for
growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services
KBL Healthcare Ventures -
Investment focus: startup, early-stage and emerging growth companies in the
healthcare industry, particularly medical devices, healthcare services and niche
pharmaceuticals
Kennet Capital - Investment
focus: European information and communications technology companies
Kestrel Venture Management -
Investment focus: deals too large for most individual investors and too small
for many venture capital firms - broad array of New England industries
Keystone Capital, Inc -
Private equity investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, mergers and
acquisitions.
Keystone Venture Capital -
Investment focus: Mid-Atlantic early to late expansion stage opportunities
involving information technology, consumer and outsourcing service sectors
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers -
Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund
Kline Hawkes & Co. -
Investment focus: later-stage venture deals, change of control situations and
industry consolidations in California companies involving communications,
technology or health care
Labrador Ventures - Investment focus:
early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital
technologies — information, communications, software, media/entertainment, and
semiconductors
Madison Dearborn Partners - Focus:
management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and
acquisition-oriented financing.
Maton Venture - Investment focus:
technology-based, private companies at various stages of development
Matrix Partners - Investment
focus: early-stage software and communications companies
Mayfield Fund - Investment focus:
seed to second-round financing in companies with unique, information or
healthcare technology-driven products and services that address well-defined
needs in rapidly growing markets
MBC Dotcom - Venture capital and
business finance facilitator and advisory firm.
MDB Capital Group, LLC - MDB Capital
Group is a merchant/investment banking firm that is a NASD registered
broker/dealer located in Santa Monica, CA. MDB invests via Reg D private
placements in public and private companies.
Media Technology Ventures -
Investment focus: seed and start-up companies involving the convergence of
information, communications and entertainment technologies and services
Menlo Ventures - Investment
focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies in the areas of biotechnology,
medical devices, healthcare services, computer software, hardware, networking,
communications, and the Internet
MKD Capital Corp - Provides debt and
equity financing for various types of commercial products.
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners -
Investment focus: primarily in later-stage high growth companies, concentrating
on the information technology and health care industries
Morgenthaler Ventures -
Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led
buyouts involving information technology, health care or industrial technology
National City Capital - Invests
equity and mezzanine capital primarily in private companies.
National Venture Capital Association -
Dedicated to defining, serving and representing the interests of the venture
capital and private equity industries
NCIC Capital Fund - Focus: debt and
equity financing for early-stage, technology based companies in Ohio and Indiana
New Enterprise Associates - Investment
focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and
life sciences
New Technology Opportunities -
Seeks capital financing for the production and marketing of a patented product.
Newtek Ventures - Investment
focus: early-stage and slow growth companies involving medical
devices/software/services, electronics, semi-conductors, software,
telecommunications, or Internet
NewVista Capital - Investment focus:
early-stage technology companies managed by minority and women entrepreneurs
North Bridge Venture Partners -
Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health
care
Norwest Venture Capital - Investment
focus: startups, emerging growth companies, management buyouts, acquisitions and
recapitalizations
Novak Biddle Venture Partners -
Investment focus: information technology companies in the very early stages
through first round, but also later-stage opportunities and spin-outs where they
can add significant value
Oak Investment Partners - Investment
focus: early-stage and selective restarts or recapitalizations of later-stage
information technology, health care or retail companies
OneLiberty Ventures - Investment
focus: seed and early-stage venture capital to companies with products or
services in information technology, medical technology and telecommunications
Online Investment Banking Company - EMBRO
Capital Online is an international investment banking firm for small
capitalization growth companies offering public financing, private placements,
and venture capital.
Onset Ventures - Investment focus:
startups in information, communications and medical technologies
Pacific Century Group Ventures -
Investment focus: all stages from initial private seed capital rounds to senior
public equity financings in information technology, natural resources, real
estate and special situations
Pacific Horizon Ventures -
Investment focus: technology companies involving healthcare or life science;
early-stages in the Northwest, later-stage deals can be anywhere in U.S.
Pacific Venture Group - Investment
focus: broad range of stages (startup through consolidation) involving
healthcare services and information systems oriented towards a managed care
solution
Partech International - Investment
focus: startups and emerging growth companies in the United States, Europe and
Japan involving information technology, life sciences and business services
Patricof & Co. Ventures, Inc. -
Investment focus: startups to later-stage buyouts in a broad range of
industries, most notably healthcare, information technology, telecommunications,
specialty retailing and new media
Piper Jaffray Venture Capital
- Investment focus: emerging-growth companies in medical devices, healthcare
services and technology
PlacementTracker - Research,
reporting and analysis on private placements by public companies.
Polaris Venture Partners -
Investment focus: early-stage companies developing information and medical
technology
PRIMEDIA Ventures -
Investment focus: early-stage Internet companies and other technology
opportunities in such areas as: commerce services, enterprise software
applications, distance learning and advertising-related technologies
Primus Venture Partners -
Investment focus: various stages of development, with greater emphasis on
businesses beyond proof of concept and which are demonstrating capacity to
become large enterprises
Prospect Street Ventures -
Investment focus: information technology ventures in New York City
RAF Ventures - Investment focus:
early-stage service, financial, retail, and manufacturing companies, mostly in
the Mid-Atlantic states
Red Rock Ventures - Investment
focus: seed and early-stage companies that develop and sell enterprise solutions
to medium and large companies
Redleaf Venture Management - Financial
funding and strategic assistance to early stage Internet startups.
River Cities Capital Funds - Investment
focus: 1st round and follow-on for Midwest companies in a variety of industries;
not seed or startup stages -- must be actively selling their product or service
Road Show - A source for the
information investors need to make a qualified buying decision regarding a
public companies stock.
RocketFinance.com - Venturing
support for commercial space ventures and feasibility studies.
Roser Ventures, LLC - Investment
focus: early-stage companies across a broad range of industries and located in
the Rocky Mountain region
Rosewood Capital - Investment focus:
primarily expansions and recapitalizations involving branded consumer products,
retail, or service sectors, including online commerce
RRE Investors - Investment focus:
expansion stage information technology ventures
Salix Ventures - Investment
focus: early-stage health care services (including health care information
technology) companies
Sanderling - Investment focus: seed
and early-stage new biomedical market opportunities, including emerging
technology
Seaflower Associates, Inc. -
Investment focus: promising seed and first-round investments in companies in
most segments of the biomedical industry that are located in either New England
or the Great Lakes region
Sequoia Capital - Investment focus:
primarily very early-stage West Coast technology companies; post beta-stage
around Boston and Austin; later-stage nationwide
Seven Hills Partners - Focus:
investments and buy-outs of entrepreneurial enterprises, primarily in the areas
of healthcare and interactive media.
Sevin Rosen Funds - Investment focus:
early-stage (and follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences
companies
Sierra Ventures - Investment focus:
early-stage healthcare, information technology-related companies and service
businesses
Sigma Partners - Investment
focus: ventures of all stages, primarily in technology-based companies, but also
non-technology
Skypoint Capital Corporation -
Investment focus: very early-stage high-technology opportunities in North
America, the United Kingdom and Israel in telecommunications and IT
Sloan Enterprises - Investment
focus: seed financings for companies with innovative products, technologies, and
services in a broad range of industries and markets
Sofinov - Investment focus:
Québec, Canada technology projects at various stages, from pre-startups to
buyouts
Softbank Venture Capital - Focus: seed
stage to mezzanine round investments for Internet companies.
The Sophisticated
Investor - Introduces accredited investors to small public companies in
search of financing.
Sorrento Ventures -
Investment focus: emerging early-, mid- and later-stage companies in the greater
San Diego area involving health care, electronics, high technology, or consumer
products
South Atlantic Venture Funds -
Investment focus: expansions, acquisitions, buyouts and recapitalizations
located in Florida, the Southeast and Texas
Southeastern Technology Fund -
Investment focus: 1st or 2nd round investments in Southeastern US companies
providing information technology and solutions to the healthcare, and
telecommunication industries
Spring Capital Partners, L.P. -
Investment Focus: mezzanine financing for growing small and medium-sized
businesses.
Sprout Group - Investment focus:
startups, expansion financing and management buyouts involving business to
business services, communications, distribution, education, health care
services, information technologies, life science products, or retail
SSM Ventures - Investment focus:
primarily Southeast and Texas companies at various stages of development
involving software and technology, consumer services and retail,
telecommunications, healthcare services, and business services
21st Century Internet Venture
Partners - Investment focus: startup ventures pursuing opportunities born of
the Internet
Summit Partners - Focus:
profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of
software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services
Sustainable Jobs Fund - Community
development venture capital fund which finances recycling, remanufacturing,
environmental and other companies.
Sutter Hill Ventures - Investment focus:
technology-based startups which pioneer products or services in growth markets
Svoboda, Collins L.L.C. - Focus:
investing in and building value-added service and distribution companies with
fundamentally sound operating models.
Swander Pace Capital - San
Francisco-based firm providing value-added investing in consumer products
companies.
TA Associates - Investment focus:
profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare,
financial services, media and consumer products
Technology Crossover Ventures - Investment
focus: growth capital to expansion stage information technology companies
Technology Funding Inc. -
Pioneer in public venture funds
Technology Investments - Focus: seed
stage information technology ventures located in Northern California
Technology Partners -
Focus: seed or first stage ventures involving information processing,
communications or health care
Telos Venture Partners - Investment
focus: post-seed funding --generally the first or second significant financing
-- in information technology, semiconductors, and communications. Also invests
in the "restarting" of struggling private companies.
Thompson Clive Venture Capital -
Investment focus: life science and information technology ventures, early-stage
through later-stage, on both sides of the Atlantic
Thomson-CSF Ventures -
Investment focus: electronics, telecommunications, and computer software and
systems opportunities where there is potential synergy with Thomson-CSF
companies
Thunderbolt Capital Corp. -
Investment focus: seed capital up to $250,000 for rapid growth opportunities in
a variety of industries and locations
TI (Texas Instruments) Ventures,
L.P. - Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software
infrastructure and hardware applications leveraging digital signal processing
(DSP) and related technologies
TL Ventures - Investment focus:
primarily mid- to later stage information technology and biotechnology
companies, but also consider early-stages
Top Technology - Investment
focus: early-stage British technology companies
Trade Management Indonesia -
Specialist in facilitating private equity investment in Indonesia with a wide
range of business information services, and data base of qualified companies.
Focus of is on firms with foreign export markets or local distribution, as well
as the tourism industry.
Tribune Ventures - Focus:
leading Tribune Company's strategic investments and new-media development
Trident Capital - Investment focus:
exclusively in information and business services companies, including content
providers, transaction processors, application software and Internet products
and services
Trinity Ventures - Investment
focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer software,
electronic commerce, and communications
TTC Ventures - Venture Capital
subsidiary of The Thomson Corporation - Investment focus: mostly early-stage
information technology companies that can leverage Thomson’s content and access
to markets
TVM Techno Venture Management -
Investment focus: European and U.S. communications technology, information
technology and biotechnology
U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) - Investment
focus: principally companies headquartered in the Western United States in three
sectors of industry: medical, technology and retail/consumer
Vanguard Venture Partners -
Investment focus: pre-revenue stage in information technology and life sciences
sectors
VenGlobal Capital - Investment focus:
Early-stage ventures particularly in the data communications and electronic
design automation (EDA) industries.
Venrock Associates - Venture capital
arm of the Rockefeller family with investment focus: a high percentage of
investments are seed or first round, and second round investments are considered
where there is a complete management team and demonstrated progress toward
market leadership
Venture Management Services - Focus:
startup and later stage companies involving wireless communications, Internet,
value added networking services, content and local service.
VirtualFund - Invests in promising
Internet companies with high viral growth potential.
Vision Capital - Investment focus:
trans-Atlantic expansion for proven U.S and European technology companies
Walden Media and Information Technology
Fund - Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving
software, interactive services and related enabling technology
Warburg Pincus Ventures -
Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media,
communications, energy, financial and business services.
Waterside Capital Corp -
Waterside Capital is a publicly held company headquartered in Norfolk, VA.
Founded in 1993, the company is a licensed Small Business Investment Company
(SBIC) and has $50 million in capital to invest.
Weiss, Peck & Greer - Venture
Partners - Investment focus: early- and expansion-stage information
technology and life sciences companies throughout the US
Western Association of Venture
Capitalists - Non-profit association whose approximately 140 member firms
represent virtually all professionally managed venture capital in the Western
United States
Weston Presidio Capital -
Investment focus: later-stage growth companies, recapitalizations and buyouts in
a diverse set of industries
William Blair
Capital Partners - Focus: early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and
leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range
of industries
Wind Point Partners - Investment
focus: all stages of development, from expansion capital for emerging growth
companies to sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations
Women's Growth Capital
Fund - Investment focus: equity investments primarily in Mid-Atlantic region
early and expansion stage women-owned and/or managed businesses
Woodside Fund - Investment focus:
startup and early-stage ventures involving software, telecommunications or
networking, with consideration for other industries/markets
World Capital - Business funding
and venture capital for businesses worldwide.
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