Listed directly in this category are professional venture capital firms that raise fund(s) from investors and then identify, screen, select and invest directly in entrepreneurial business ventures that are typically in their early stages. Venture capital...
This page was last updated on October 5th, 2008
This page was last updated on October 5th, 2008
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Roser Ventures, LLC
Investment focus: early-stage companies across a broad range of industries and located in the Rocky Mountain region
Peninsula Capital Partners
Investment focus: subordinated debt and equity to superior middle-market companies requiring capital to fund growth or other special situations.
Redleaf Venture Management
Financial funding and strategic assistance to early stage Internet startups.
Parallax Capital Partners
Investment focus: acquisitions and investments in technology businesses.
Alliance Global Investments Inc.
A private equity investment firm providing venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, and export development services.
Carmichael and Company
Investment focus: merchant banking firm offering financial advisory services to middle market companies through a broad global network.
Sevin Rosen Funds
Investment focus: early-stage (and follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences companies
Generation Partners
Investment focus: seed to late stage information technology companies in telecommunications, data communications, computing and the Internet.
Gabriel Venture Partners
Investment focus: funding through every stage of the company growth cycle.
Thomson-CSF Ventures
Investment focus: electronics, telecommunications, and computer software and systems opportunities where there is potential synergy with Thomson-CSF companies
Technology Crossover Ventures
Investment focus: growth capital to expansion stage information technology companies
JP Morgan Partners
Investment focus: private equity for a global investment opportunities including management buy-outs and recapitalizations, venture capital, growth equity and equity to reduce excessive debt burdens.
RRE Investors
Investment focus: expansion stage information technology ventures
Centurion Pictures
Seeks investment and support for the production of a full length feature film.
All American Capital
Focus: venture capital funding using private placements and IPOs.
FLAG Capital Management, LLC
Investment focus: manages limited partnerships through which qualified individuals, families and their trusts or foundations invest in venture capital funds.
LeBonfante Group
Focus: develop businesses and provide venture capital primarily throughout the Hispanic market.
MBC Dotcom
Venture capital and business finance facilitator and advisory firm.
Morgenthaler Ventures
Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts involving information technology, health care or industrial technology
The Pembroke Group
Investment focus: early-stage funding for proprietary software and hardware technology, information technology and e-commerce investments.
Gryffindor Capital Partners
Investment focus: emerging technology, growth equity and corporate consolidations in energy, information technology, manufacturing, diversified services, business services and healthcare.
Koor Industries Ltd.
Investment company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets.
Hampshire Equity Partners
Focus: invests in growth financing, buyouts, acquisitions, consolidations and corporate restructuring.
EnerTech Capital
Investment focus: profitable service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace but will also consider early-stage.
Bain Capital
Focus: venture and expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies in a wide range of industries.
Allantra Venture Development
Technology business management consulting services.
Edelson Technology Partners
Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financing and leveraged buyouts in a broad range of technologies.
Cornerstone Capital Holdings
Private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations and industry consolidations.
RocketFinance.com
Venturing support for commercial space ventures and feasibility studies.
Piper Jaffray Venture Capital
Investment focus: emerging-growth companies in medical devices, healthcare services and technology.
Gaebler Ventures
Focus: early-stage venture capital investment with focus on information technology and business services companies.
Darwin Venture Partners
Investment focus: early-stage business development and financing connecting venture capital firms and Fortune 1000 opportunities.
Smedvig Capital
Investment focus: Europe based mid- to early-stage companies with specialisations which employ technology for re-engineering of business processes or create added value from the use of customer or market data.
Hydro-Quebec CapiTech
Focus: invests in companies whose technological products and services are related to the energy field.
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.
Apax Partners
Investment focus: start-ups to later-stage buyouts in a broad range of industries, most notably healthcare, information technology, telecommunications, specialty retailing and new media.
Keystone Capital, Inc
Private equity investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions.
RAF Ventures
Investment focus: early-stage service, financial, retail, and manufacturing companies, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states
The Providencia Partnership
Focus: business and project availability of funding, strategic management and due-diligence assessment.
Newtek Ventures
Investment focus: early-stage and slow growth companies involving medical devices/software/services, electronics, semi-conductors, software, telecommunications, or Internet
Dorset Capital
Private Equity for Consumer Growth Companies
Abundance Venture Capital
Focus: private equity and venture capital investments for International investors who need protection of capital and tax-free returns.
General Catalyst
Funds breakthrough ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business building resources and strategic support.
Vision Capital
Investment focus: trans-Atlantic expansion for proven U.S and European technology companies
Trinity Ventures
Investment focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer software, electronic commerce, and communications
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
Compere Associates
Focus: principal investor combining management, strategy and financing in acquiring telecoms, media, utility and financial services businesses.
Schroder Ventures US
Investment focus: growth-oriented businesses in the technology, media, telecom and business services sectors.
Technology Partners
Focus: seed or first stage ventures involving information processing, communications or health care
Advanced Technology Ventures
Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care.
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: category-defining, early-stage companies in information technology, communications and biotechnology.
NPDC
Focus: seek to identify, fund and nurture business ideas through participation of our members to create and capture new markets.
Warburg Pincus Ventures
Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services.
Maton Venture
Investment focus: technology-based, private companies at various stages of development
Sustainable Jobs Fund
Community development venture capital fund which finances recycling, remanufacturing, environmental and other companies.
Enterprise Partners
Investment focus: privately held early-stage and emerging growth companies and selective leverage buy-outs of established companies.
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
New Enterprise Associates
Investment focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and life sciences
Seidler Equity Partners
Investment focus: established, growing, niche-dominant manufacturing and service businesses.
Harris & Harris Group, Inc.
Venture capitalist investment company which supports private investee companies. (Nasdaq: HHGP).
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.
Brand Equity Ventures
Investment focus: broadly across the consumer sector in early-stage companies that are ready for rapid expansion
KBL Healthcare Ventures
Investment focus: startup, early-stage and emerging growth companies in the healthcare industry, particularly medical devices, healthcare services and niche pharmaceuticals
CDC Capital Partners
Private equity investors in emerging markets.
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
American Capital Strategies
Evaluates and secures financing for middle market companies.
Dimeling, Schreiber & Park
Focus: private equity investments in a broad range of middle market companies having superior management teams.
Silicom Ventures
Focus: provide funding to early-stage high technology start-ups.
The Bellwether Group
Focus: provides strategy consulting, financial advisory, principal investing and acquisition capabilities to Southern California based high growth companies.
Financial Development Company
Focus: assists companies with their venture and equity capital needs.
Technology Funding Inc.
Pioneer in public venture funds
Telesystem
Focus: private equity company of the digital economy, active on a worldwide scale through a knowledge network.
New Technology Opportunities
Seeks capital financing for the production and marketing of a patented product.
American Securities Capital Partners
Provides equity investments in privately and publicly held companies in numerous industries.
Fremont Ventures
Focus: help experienced management teams build businesses by providing relationships, strategic insight and ongoing financial support.
idealab Capital Partners
Investment focus: Internet commerce and other early-stage Internet companies
Tuckerman Capital
Focus: partners with fundless sponsors to acquire profitable manufacturing companies.
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.
Lynwood Capital Partners
Focus: acquiring or investing in niche businesses with revenues of ten to fifty million dollars.
Cambridge Financial Services
A venture capital firm raising capital through private stock offerings.
River Capital
Focus: organizes and invests in the acquisition of select, well-established middle market companies.
Triple Technology
Focus: UK based company seeks investment to expand its services.
Commonwealth Associates
Merchant bank and venture capital firm offers services to corporate clients and investors.
North American Funds
Focus: acquiring or making substantial equity investments in small businesses with significant growth potential.
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
Information Technology Ventures
Investment focus: fast growing information technology enterprises with "unfair" competitive advantages that have the potential to dominate their market space
Covalence
Focus: assessment of the contribution of multinational enterprises to human development in emerging and developing countries.
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
NewVista Capital
Investment focus: early-stage technology companies managed by minority and women entrepreneurs
InterWest Partners
Investment focus: full range of stages in information technology, health care and non-technology ventures
Corpfin.com
Corporate finance solutions in private investment, public equities, and investment offerings.
Glick Morganstern Capital Group
Focus: arranges and negotiates financing for growth, acquisition, turnaround and start-up.
EuclidSR Partners
Investment focus: exploit the accelerating changes and advances in healthcare and information technologies.
North Bridge Venture Partners
Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care
Quad-C Management
Focus: private equity investment firm seeking to partner with successful management teams to complete leveraged acquisitions or recapitalizations of leading middle-market 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
South Atlantic Venture Funds
Investment focus: expansions, acquisitions, buyouts and recapitalizations located in Florida, the Southeast and Texas
William Blair Capital Partners
Focus: early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range of 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
Fox Paine
Focus: capital for management buy-outs, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs.
MC Capital Europe Limited
Investment focus: private equity investor into small and medium sized UK and European companies.
Ampal-American Israel Corporation
Acquires interests in and/or invests in a broad variety of businesses located in the state of Israel or which are Israel-related. (Nasdaq: AMPL)
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 touris
Capital Solutions Network
Provides access to a network of private investors and institutional investment groups.
Cardinal Ventures
Focus: acquire businesses that can be grown through internal means and by add-on acquisitions.
General Atlantic Partners
Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies.
VenGlobal Capital
Investment focus: Early-stage ventures particularly in the data communications and electronic design automation (EDA) industries.
Sierra Ventures
Investment focus: early-stage healthcare, information technology-related companies and service businesses
Funk Ventures
Focus: primary investment interests in technology, education, entertainment and real estate.
MicroCap Venture Fund
Focus: business capital and venture financing using alternative strategies and structures including a reverse merger.
Regulation D Resources
Focus: provide the framework to raise venture capital and angel investment.
NanoBioCorp
Focus: providing biotechnology as well as nanotechnology, biomedical, investment company for healthcare investments.
Technology Investments
Focus: seed stage information technology ventures located in Northern California
Skypoint Capital Corporation
Investment focus: very early-stage high-technology opportunities in North America, the United Kingdom and Israel in telecommunications and IT
Pacifica Fund
Focus: Silicon Valley based seed and first round venture capital firm.
Argonaut Partners
Focus: acquisition of industrial and business-to-business, value-added distributorships, direct marketing, catalog and telemarketing firms.
Rosewood Capital
Investment focus: primarily expansions and recapitalizations involving branded consumer products, retail, or service sectors, including online commerce
European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA)
Focus: globally promote and facilitate European venture capital and private equity
HarbourVest Partners
Investment focus: software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buy-outs of operating companies.
Norwest Venture Capital
Investment focus: startups, emerging growth companies, management buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations
Vanguard Venture Partners
Investment focus: pre-revenue stage in information technology and life sciences sectors
Blue Point Capital Partners
Focus: private equity investment firm that invests equity capital in middle market businesses.
Needham Capital Partners
Focus: manages investment partnerships primarily in the equities of later-stage private growth companies.
Kennet Capital
Investment focus: European information and communications technology companies
Frontenac Company
Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses.
Ampersand Ventures
Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies in communications, information technologies, life sciences and specialty materials and chemicals.
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 le
Summer Street Capital Partners
Focus: private equity fund, venture capital, investment, financing.
JAFCO America Ventures, Inc.
Investment focus: communications, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors
IDG Ventures
Investment focus: information technology companies, preferring either seed or first-round financings, or very late (last before IPO) stage investments
Astrina Capital
Focus: venture consulting and financial advisory for early-stage companies.
Thompson Clive Venture Capital
Investment focus: life science and information technology ventures, early-stage through later-stage, on both sides of the Atlantic
StartupX
Investment focus: online trading platform which provides funding through venture capital and private investors.
Partech International
Investment focus: startups and emerging growth companies in the United States, Europe and Japan involving information technology, life sciences and business services
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
Friedland Capital
Focus: venture capital and equity raising services.
TVM Techno Venture Management
Investment focus: European and U.S. communications technology, information technology and biotechnology
Sterling Investment Partners
Focus: middle-market company buy-outs and capital for ownership transitions, growth and financial restructuring.
Bertelsmann Ventures
Investment focus: early stage, Internet centric, business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer.
Gemini Investors
Focus: investing in middle market companies.
Transatlantic Ventures
Focus: assist European companies in preparing and implementing their entry plan into the North American market.
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
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
Capital Venture Partners
Investment focus: buyouts and venture capital funds.
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
CrossBridge Venture Partners
Investment focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies in information technology.
PICA Corporation
Focus: provides venture capital and equity-related investments in enterprises and companies embarking on expansion.
DFS Consult
Focus: investors from both sides of the Atlantic, specialising in obtaining financing for companies world-wide.
New York Private Placement Network
Focus: financial services firm and an online global marketplace for all classes of private securities.
Pacific Venture Group
Investment focus: broad range of stages (startup through consolidation) involving healthcare services and information systems oriented towards a managed care solution
Crescent Capital Investment
Investment focus: acquire significant equity interests in successful growth companies.
Churchill Capital
Investment focus: middle market companies for buy-outs, recapitalizations, acquisitions and growth needs.
Sports Venture Partners
Focus: alternative investment vehicle for professional athletes investing in established growth equity financing.
Summit Partners
Focus: profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services
Cogent Partners
Focus: private equity-focused investment bank that helps institutional, corporate and individual investors sell their assets in the private equity secondary market.
B4 Ventures
Focus: venture capital or investment capital for small to mid-sized fast growing businesses.
nGenuity Capital
Investment focus: profitable and near profitable companies, as well as start-up companies with a short term path to profitability.
Svoboda, Collins L.L.C.
Focus: investing in and building value-added service and distribution companies with fundamentally sound operating models.
Madison Dearborn Partners
Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing.
Oak Investment Partners
Investment focus: early-stage and selective restarts or recapitalizations of later-stage information technology, health care or retail companies
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
21st Century Internet Venture Partners
Investment focus: startup ventures pursuing opportunities born of the Internet
TA Associates
Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare, financial services, media and consumer products
Aragon Financial Group
Investment focus: venture capital, financing and debt restructuring.
Stone Canyon Venture Partners
Focus: equity investments in select early-stage businesses with high growth prospects.
Forest Hill Partners
Investment focus: equity capital in management buyouts, turnarounds, recapitalizations, and growth financings.
SAGICAP
Focus: European-based advisor specialized in consultancy services dedicated to the private equity industry.
Crosspoint Venture Partners
An initial stage equity investor with focused expertise in three strategic areas - networking and communications, health care, and financial services.
Advent International
Investment focus: companies at all stages of development, including early-stage, and in virtually any industry.
EQY.com
Focus: incubation reference site for investors and start-ups.
DragonVenture
Focus: cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company.
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
Convergent Capital
Focus: manages technology-oriented venture capital funds in France, Europe and Israel.
Hibiscus Investments
Investment focus: bringing leading edge technology to the marketplace.
Rockmont Capital
Focus: investing in and acquiring companies and working with their management to build profitable and successful businesses.
Ovation Capital
Investment focus: includes Internet and mobile infrastructure, software, storage and data networking.
Rock Maple Ventures
Investment focus: early-stage technology businesses in a variety of industries, emphasis on software, financial services, health care and communications.
Sonostar Ventures
Focus: invests in promising private companies across a number of industries and in the public debt and equity markets.
Fremont Partners
Investment focus: established middle market businesses.
August Capital
Investment focus: companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets
Mac Investment Company Inc
Focus: specializing in venture capital, private equity, and direct investments.
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
Clarity Partners
Focus: private equity and venture capital firm focused in Southern California exclusively on investments in communications, media and related technologies.
Axa Private Equity
Portfolio management company focusing on all the aspects of capital investment and private equity.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund
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.
Seven Hills Partners
Focus: investments and buy-outs of entrepreneurial enterprises, primarily in the areas of healthcare and interactive media.
3i
Focus: leading international venture capital company.
JZ International Europe
Focus: private investment firm specializing in buying and building European companies in partnership with management.
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
Freeman Spogli
Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies.
Westaim Corporation (The)
Operates two high technology businesses: iFre Technology, Westaim Biomedical; two industrial technology businesses: Surface Engineered Products and Aerospace Products; and two industrial products businesses: Coinage and Chemicals. (Nasdaq: WEDX).
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
J.L. Albright Venture Partners Inc.
Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional prospects for growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services
Women's Growth Capital Fund
Investment focus: equity investments early and expansion stage women-owned or managed businesses.
National Venture Capital Association
Dedicated to defining, serving and representing the interests of the venture capital and private equity industries
Industrial Growth Partners
IGP provides private equity capital for management buyouts in middle-market manufacturing companies.
Hamilton Robinson
Investment focus: smaller, middle market opportunities in the areas of energy, utilities, industrial process and business services.
National City Equity Partners
Focus: invests equity and mezzanine capital primarily in private companies.
InnoCal
Investment focus: early and expansion stage, technology-based businesses
Ruppert Ventures
Investment focus: small to mid-size companies searching to grow to the next level.
The StartUp Lab
Focus: business and venture development company providing services to venture capitalists and early-stage companies.
Red Rock Ventures
Investment focus: seed and early-stage companies that develop and sell enterprise solutions to medium and large companies
Turkven Private Equity
Focus: affiliate of Advent International investing in Turkish companies.
Sequoia Capital
Investment focus: primarily very early-stage West Coast technology companies; post beta-stage around Boston and Austin; later-stage nationwide
L Frecon Enterprises
Investment focus: women owned businesses or businesses targeting the female segment.
Labrador Ventures
Investment focus: early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital technologies - information, communications, software, media/entertainment, and semiconductors
Investment focus: early-stage companies across a broad range of industries and located in the Rocky Mountain region
Investment focus: subordinated debt and equity to superior middle-market companies requiring capital to fund growth or other special situations.
Financial funding and strategic assistance to early stage Internet startups.
Investment focus: acquisitions and investments in technology businesses.
A private equity investment firm providing venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, and export development services.
Investment focus: merchant banking firm offering financial advisory services to middle market companies through a broad global network.
Investment focus: early-stage (and follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences companies
Investment focus: seed to late stage information technology companies in telecommunications, data communications, computing and the Internet.
Investment focus: funding through every stage of the company growth cycle.
Investment focus: electronics, telecommunications, and computer software and systems opportunities where there is potential synergy with Thomson-CSF companies
Investment focus: growth capital to expansion stage information technology companies
Investment focus: private equity for a global investment opportunities including management buy-outs and recapitalizations, venture capital, growth equity and equity to reduce excessive debt burdens.
Investment focus: expansion stage information technology ventures
Seeks investment and support for the production of a full length feature film.
Focus: venture capital funding using private placements and IPOs.
Investment focus: manages limited partnerships through which qualified individuals, families and their trusts or foundations invest in venture capital funds.
Focus: develop businesses and provide venture capital primarily throughout the Hispanic market.
Venture capital and business finance facilitator and advisory firm.
Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts involving information technology, health care or industrial technology
Investment focus: early-stage funding for proprietary software and hardware technology, information technology and e-commerce investments.
Investment focus: emerging technology, growth equity and corporate consolidations in energy, information technology, manufacturing, diversified services, business services and healthcare.
Investment company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets.
Focus: invests in growth financing, buyouts, acquisitions, consolidations and corporate restructuring.
Investment focus: profitable service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace but will also consider early-stage.
Focus: venture and expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies in a wide range of industries.
Technology business management consulting services.
Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financing and leveraged buyouts in a broad range of technologies.
Private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations and industry consolidations.
Venturing support for commercial space ventures and feasibility studies.
Investment focus: emerging-growth companies in medical devices, healthcare services and technology.
Focus: early-stage venture capital investment with focus on information technology and business services companies.
Investment focus: early-stage business development and financing connecting venture capital firms and Fortune 1000 opportunities.
Investment focus: Europe based mid- to early-stage companies with specialisations which employ technology for re-engineering of business processes or create added value from the use of customer or market data.
Focus: invests in companies whose technological products and services are related to the energy field.
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.
Investment focus: start-ups to later-stage buyouts in a broad range of industries, most notably healthcare, information technology, telecommunications, specialty retailing and new media.
Private equity investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions.
Investment focus: early-stage service, financial, retail, and manufacturing companies, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states
Focus: business and project availability of funding, strategic management and due-diligence assessment.
Investment focus: early-stage and slow growth companies involving medical devices/software/services, electronics, semi-conductors, software, telecommunications, or Internet
Private Equity for Consumer Growth Companies
Focus: private equity and venture capital investments for International investors who need protection of capital and tax-free returns.
Funds breakthrough ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business building resources and strategic support.
Investment focus: trans-Atlantic expansion for proven U.S and European technology companies
Investment focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer software, electronic commerce, and communications
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
Focus: principal investor combining management, strategy and financing in acquiring telecoms, media, utility and financial services businesses.
Investment focus: growth-oriented businesses in the technology, media, telecom and business services sectors.
Focus: seed or first stage ventures involving information processing, communications or health care
Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care.
Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software infrastructure and hardware applications leveraging digital signal processing (DSP) and related technologies
Investment focus: category-defining, early-stage companies in information technology, communications and biotechnology.
Focus: seek to identify, fund and nurture business ideas through participation of our members to create and capture new markets.
Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services.
Investment focus: technology-based, private companies at various stages of development
Community development venture capital fund which finances recycling, remanufacturing, environmental and other companies.
Investment focus: privately held early-stage and emerging growth companies and selective leverage buy-outs of established companies.
Investment focus: principally companies headquartered in the Western United States in three sectors of industry: medical, technology and retail/consumer
Investment focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and life sciences
Investment focus: established, growing, niche-dominant manufacturing and service businesses.
Venture capitalist investment company which supports private investee companies. (Nasdaq: HHGP).
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.
Investment focus: broadly across the consumer sector in early-stage companies that are ready for rapid expansion
Investment focus: startup, early-stage and emerging growth companies in the healthcare industry, particularly medical devices, healthcare services and niche pharmaceuticals
Private equity investors in emerging markets.
Non-profit association whose approximately 140 member firms represent virtually all professionally managed venture capital in the Western United States
Evaluates and secures financing for middle market companies.
Focus: private equity investments in a broad range of middle market companies having superior management teams.
Focus: provide funding to early-stage high technology start-ups.
Focus: provides strategy consulting, financial advisory, principal investing and acquisition capabilities to Southern California based high growth companies.
Focus: assists companies with their venture and equity capital needs.
Pioneer in public venture funds
Focus: private equity company of the digital economy, active on a worldwide scale through a knowledge network.
Seeks capital financing for the production and marketing of a patented product.
Provides equity investments in privately and publicly held companies in numerous industries.
Focus: help experienced management teams build businesses by providing relationships, strategic insight and ongoing financial support.
Investment focus: Internet commerce and other early-stage Internet companies
Focus: partners with fundless sponsors to acquire profitable manufacturing companies.
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.
Focus: acquiring or investing in niche businesses with revenues of ten to fifty million dollars.
A venture capital firm raising capital through private stock offerings.
Focus: organizes and invests in the acquisition of select, well-established middle market companies.
Focus: UK based company seeks investment to expand its services.
Merchant bank and venture capital firm offers services to corporate clients and investors.
Focus: acquiring or making substantial equity investments in small businesses with significant growth potential.
Investment focus: early-stage venture capital to equity sponsorship, co-investment and mezzanine capital for buyouts, recapitalizations and expansion of mid-size companies
Investment focus: fast growing information technology enterprises with "unfair" competitive advantages that have the potential to dominate their market space
Focus: assessment of the contribution of multinational enterprises to human development in emerging and developing countries.
Investment focus: rapidly growing ventues throughout the Southeast, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, especially involving healthcare services, medical devices, telecommunications, and software
Investment focus: early-stage technology companies managed by minority and women entrepreneurs
Investment focus: full range of stages in information technology, health care and non-technology ventures
Corporate finance solutions in private investment, public equities, and investment offerings.
Focus: arranges and negotiates financing for growth, acquisition, turnaround and start-up.
Investment focus: exploit the accelerating changes and advances in healthcare and information technologies.
Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care
Focus: private equity investment firm seeking to partner with successful management teams to complete leveraged acquisitions or recapitalizations of leading middle-market companies.
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
Investment focus: expansions, acquisitions, buyouts and recapitalizations located in Florida, the Southeast and Texas
Focus: early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range of industries
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
Focus: capital for management buy-outs, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs.
Investment focus: private equity investor into small and medium sized UK and European companies.
Acquires interests in and/or invests in a broad variety of businesses located in the state of Israel or which are Israel-related. (Nasdaq: AMPL)
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 touris
Provides access to a network of private investors and institutional investment groups.
Focus: acquire businesses that can be grown through internal means and by add-on acquisitions.
Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies.
Investment focus: Early-stage ventures particularly in the data communications and electronic design automation (EDA) industries.
Investment focus: early-stage healthcare, information technology-related companies and service businesses
Focus: primary investment interests in technology, education, entertainment and real estate.
Focus: business capital and venture financing using alternative strategies and structures including a reverse merger.
Focus: provide the framework to raise venture capital and angel investment.
Focus: providing biotechnology as well as nanotechnology, biomedical, investment company for healthcare investments.
Focus: seed stage information technology ventures located in Northern California
Investment focus: very early-stage high-technology opportunities in North America, the United Kingdom and Israel in telecommunications and IT
Focus: Silicon Valley based seed and first round venture capital firm.
Focus: acquisition of industrial and business-to-business, value-added distributorships, direct marketing, catalog and telemarketing firms.
Investment focus: primarily expansions and recapitalizations involving branded consumer products, retail, or service sectors, including online commerce
Focus: globally promote and facilitate European venture capital and private equity
Investment focus: software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buy-outs of operating companies.
Investment focus: startups, emerging growth companies, management buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations
Investment focus: pre-revenue stage in information technology and life sciences sectors
Focus: private equity investment firm that invests equity capital in middle market businesses.
Focus: manages investment partnerships primarily in the equities of later-stage private growth companies.
Investment focus: European information and communications technology companies
Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses.
Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies in communications, information technologies, life sciences and specialty materials and chemicals.
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 le
Focus: private equity fund, venture capital, investment, financing.
Investment focus: communications, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors
Investment focus: information technology companies, preferring either seed or first-round financings, or very late (last before IPO) stage investments
Focus: venture consulting and financial advisory for early-stage companies.
Investment focus: life science and information technology ventures, early-stage through later-stage, on both sides of the Atlantic
Investment focus: online trading platform which provides funding through venture capital and private investors.
Investment focus: startups and emerging growth companies in the United States, Europe and Japan involving information technology, life sciences and business services
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
Focus: venture capital and equity raising services.
Investment focus: European and U.S. communications technology, information technology and biotechnology
Focus: middle-market company buy-outs and capital for ownership transitions, growth and financial restructuring.
Investment focus: early stage, Internet centric, business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer.
Focus: investing in middle market companies.
Focus: assist European companies in preparing and implementing their entry plan into the North American market.
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
Investment focus: deals too large for most individual investors and too small for many venture capital firms - broad array of New England industries
Investment focus: buyouts and venture capital funds.
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
Investment focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies in information technology.
Focus: provides venture capital and equity-related investments in enterprises and companies embarking on expansion.
Focus: investors from both sides of the Atlantic, specialising in obtaining financing for companies world-wide.
Focus: financial services firm and an online global marketplace for all classes of private securities.
Investment focus: broad range of stages (startup through consolidation) involving healthcare services and information systems oriented towards a managed care solution
Investment focus: acquire significant equity interests in successful growth companies.
Investment focus: middle market companies for buy-outs, recapitalizations, acquisitions and growth needs.
Focus: alternative investment vehicle for professional athletes investing in established growth equity financing.
Focus: profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services
Focus: private equity-focused investment bank that helps institutional, corporate and individual investors sell their assets in the private equity secondary market.
Focus: venture capital or investment capital for small to mid-sized fast growing businesses.
Investment focus: profitable and near profitable companies, as well as start-up companies with a short term path to profitability.
Focus: investing in and building value-added service and distribution companies with fundamentally sound operating models.
Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing.
Investment focus: early-stage and selective restarts or recapitalizations of later-stage information technology, health care or retail companies
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
Investment focus: startup ventures pursuing opportunities born of the Internet
Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare, financial services, media and consumer products
Investment focus: venture capital, financing and debt restructuring.
Focus: equity investments in select early-stage businesses with high growth prospects.
Investment focus: equity capital in management buyouts, turnarounds, recapitalizations, and growth financings.
Focus: European-based advisor specialized in consultancy services dedicated to the private equity industry.
An initial stage equity investor with focused expertise in three strategic areas - networking and communications, health care, and financial services.
Investment focus: companies at all stages of development, including early-stage, and in virtually any industry.
Focus: incubation reference site for investors and start-ups.
Focus: cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company.
Investment focus: emerging early-, mid- and later-stage companies in the greater San Diego area involving health care, electronics, high technology, or consumer products
Focus: manages technology-oriented venture capital funds in France, Europe and Israel.
Investment focus: bringing leading edge technology to the marketplace.
Focus: investing in and acquiring companies and working with their management to build profitable and successful businesses.
Investment focus: includes Internet and mobile infrastructure, software, storage and data networking.
Investment focus: early-stage technology businesses in a variety of industries, emphasis on software, financial services, health care and communications.
Focus: invests in promising private companies across a number of industries and in the public debt and equity markets.
Investment focus: established middle market businesses.
Investment focus: companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets
Focus: specializing in venture capital, private equity, and direct investments.
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
Focus: private equity and venture capital firm focused in Southern California exclusively on investments in communications, media and related technologies.
Portfolio management company focusing on all the aspects of capital investment and private equity.
Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund
Investment focus: technology companies involving healthcare or life science; early-stages in the Northwest, later-stage deals can be anywhere in U.S.
Focus: investments and buy-outs of entrepreneurial enterprises, primarily in the areas of healthcare and interactive media.
Focus: leading international venture capital company.
Focus: private investment firm specializing in buying and building European companies in partnership with management.
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
Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies.
Operates two high technology businesses: iFre Technology, Westaim Biomedical; two industrial technology businesses: Surface Engineered Products and Aerospace Products; and two industrial products businesses: Coinage and Chemicals. (Nasdaq: WEDX).
Investment focus: 1st or 2nd round investments in Southeastern US companies providing information technology and solutions to the healthcare, and telecommunication industries
Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional prospects for growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services
Investment focus: equity investments early and expansion stage women-owned or managed businesses.
Dedicated to defining, serving and representing the interests of the venture capital and private equity industries
IGP provides private equity capital for management buyouts in middle-market manufacturing companies.
Investment focus: smaller, middle market opportunities in the areas of energy, utilities, industrial process and business services.
Focus: invests equity and mezzanine capital primarily in private companies.
Investment focus: early and expansion stage, technology-based businesses
Investment focus: small to mid-size companies searching to grow to the next level.
Focus: business and venture development company providing services to venture capitalists and early-stage companies.
Investment focus: seed and early-stage companies that develop and sell enterprise solutions to medium and large companies
Focus: affiliate of Advent International investing in Turkish companies.
Investment focus: primarily very early-stage West Coast technology companies; post beta-stage around Boston and Austin; later-stage nationwide
Investment focus: women owned businesses or businesses targeting the female segment.
Investment focus: early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital technologies - information, communications, software, media/entertainment, and semiconductors