See also:
- 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.
- 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
- Alta Partners - A venture capital partnership
investing in information technologies and life sciences companies
- Ameritech Development Venture
Capital - Investment focus: strategic equity investments in early and mid-stage
communications, content and media ventures that enhance Ameritech's competitive position
- 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
- ARCH Venture Partners - Investment focus: seed
and early-stage ventures involving information technology, life sciences, or physical
sciences
- Asia Pacific Ventures - Investment focus: seed and
early stage information technology companies with proprietary and leading-edge
technologies
- Aspen Ventures - Investment focus: seed and
early-stage information technology companies
- Asset Management Associates - Investment focus:
seed and early-stage companies in the information and biological sciences markets
- 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
- Atlantic Coastal Ventures, L.P. - Investment
focus: telecommunications companies and related service companies operating within markets
that reflect convergence
- Atlas Venture - Investment focus: early and
late stage information technology and life sciences in Europe and the U.S.
- AT&T Ventures - Focus: startup and later
stage companies involving wireless communications, Internet, value added networking
services, content or local service
- August Capital - Investment focus: companies with
strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets
- Avix Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage
technology companies
- 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
- Bessemer Venture Partners - Investment focus:
entrepreneurial companies at any stage in healthcare, information systems,
telecommunications and retailing
- Brand Equity Ventures - Investment focus:
broadly across the consumer sector in early-stage companies that are ready for rapid
expansion
- Brentwood Venture Capital - Invest in
start-up, early stage and emerging growth companies in: computer networking, the Internet,
enterprise software and health care
- 4Capital - Commercial links to private venture
capital in U.S., such as Safeguard Scientifics, Hershey Trust Company and many others'
links. Part of 4anything.com
- 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
- CMGI @ Ventures - Investment focus: Internet related
companies
- Convergence Partners - Investment
focus: early-stage companies in the communications, interactive media, information
technology, semiconductor, or global computing sectors that address a $1 billion or larger
market opportunity
- Crosspoint Venture Partners - an initial stage
equity investor with focused expertise in three strategic areas - networking and
communications, health care, and financial services.
- CW Group - Investment focus: seed and
early-stage healthcare companies which have the potential to grow rapidly into substantial
enterprises
- Dawntreader LP - Investment focus: seed and
early-stage Internet businesses with a particular focus on e-commerce and software and
services to enable the digital economy
- Digital Technology Partners - Investment focus:
early-stage digital technology product and services 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
- DynaFund Ventures - Investment focus:
early-stage companies with products in the market areas of microelectronics,
telecommunications and information technology
- 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
- 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
- Enterprise Partners Venture Capital - Investment
focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies involving medical technology, healthcare
services companies, computer services, systems, software and telecommunications
- Euclid Partners - Investment focus:
early-stage companies using or developing advanced information and communication
technologies, and companies aimed at improving or changing the delivery and management of
healthcare
- European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
(EVCA) - Focus: globally promote and facilitate European venture capital and private
equity
- Fairfax Partners, LP - Investment focus:
seed and early-stage emerging technology companies involving health care, software or the
environment
- 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
- Forward Ventures - Investment focus:
early-stage biotechnology and health care companies
- 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
- Frontenac Company - Investment focus: health
care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses
- Frontier Ventures - venture arm of
Frontier Communications
- General Atlantic Partners - Investment focus:
long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related
information technologies
- 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
- Gilde IT Fund - Investment focus: early through later
stage technology investments
- GreenField Technology Ventures - Services: venture
capital, incubation, business development, and mergers and acquisitions
- Greylock - Investment focus: all stages of
corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare
industries
- Hambrecht & Quist Venture
Capital - Investment focus: information technologies, environmental technologies and
branded consumer companies
- 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
- Highland Capital Partners - Investment focus:
information technology and health care
- 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
- 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
- Internet Capital Group - Investment focus:
online marketplaces, electronic commerce applications, and intranet and extranet
technologies and service providers
- 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
- Investment Opportunities in the Entertainment
Industry - Free investment information kit to people who may be interested in various
entertainment industry investments.
- JAFCO America Ventures, Inc. - Investment focus:
communications, software, info 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Microcell Capital - Investment
focus: expansion stage projects which are related to GSM products and services
- Mohr, Davidow Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage
investments in companies with a strong information technology component
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Platinum Venture Partners - Investment
focus: early-stage Internet, information technology and branded consumer products and
services
- 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
- Prism Venture Partners -
Investment focus: startups to growth stage or consolidations in the healthcare and
telecommunications/information systems industries
- Priveq Financial Corporation - Investment
focus: expansion and buyout capital for low-to-medium technology growth companies located
in Canada or the Northeast US
- 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
- 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
- Rossein Ventures - Investment focus: seed and
advanced startup stage companies that can be leaders of technology-driven markets
- 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
- Seruus Ventures, LLC - Investment focus: emerging
telecommunications companies
- 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: Qu�bec, Canada
technology projects at various stages, from pre-startups to buyouts
- Softbank Technology Ventures
- 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
- 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
- Sutter Hill Ventures - Investment focus:
technology-based startups which pioneer products or services in growth markets
- 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
- The Umbrella Project - Information, advice,
and seed capital for young entrepreneurs
- 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
- 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 Strategy Partners - Investment focus:
early-stage companies with exceptional brand potential which can be rapidly leveraged and
expanded
- Vision Capital - Investment focus:
trans-Atlantic expansion for proven U.S and European technology companies
- Volendam Capital Advisors - Investment focus: US
and European emerging growth companies engaged in telecommunications, data networking,
enterprise support software, or internet applications for interactivity
- Walden Group of
International Venture Capital Funds - Investment focus: regional, global and industry
specific funds investing in semiconductors, communications, software, new media and
information technology, healthcare, biotechnology and specialty retailing
- Walden Media and Information Technology Fund
- Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software, interactive
services and related enabling technology
- Wasatch Venture Fund - Investment
focus: information, communication, software and medical product companies based in Utah,
California, Arizona, Nevada and other Western states
- Wasserstein
Adelson Venture Capital Fund - Investment focus: startup and early-stage ventures
involving media, entertainment, communications, Internet or healthcare
- 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
- XDL Capital Corporation - Investment focus:
entrepreneurial companies directly involved in, or positioned to benefit from, the growth
of the Internet
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