Investment focus: startup, first
-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care.
Almeida Capital
Focus: manages technology-oriented venture capital funds in France, Europe and Israel.Focus: private
equity investments in a broad range of middle market companies having superior management teams.Focus:
cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company.Investment focus: proprietary
technologies or unique services in emerging markets, generally prefering expansion stage companies.
Enterprise Partners
Investment focus: privately held early-stage and emerging growth companies and selective
leverage buy-outs of established companies.
First Analysis Venture Capital
Foundation Capital
www.generalcatalyst
.com/
Investment focus: emerging technology, growth equity and corporate consolidations in energy, information
technology, manufacturing, diversified services, business services and healthcare.Investment focus:
full range of stages in information technology, health care and non-technology ventures
www.intersouth
.com/
www.jkbcapital.com
JP Morgan Partners
Labrador Ventures
Venture capital and business finance facilitator
and advisory firm.
www.mdbcapital.com
Focus: debt and equity financing for early-stage, technology based
companies in Ohio and Indiana
New Enterprise Associates
Investment focus: expansion stage information
technology ventures
Rock Maple Ventures
www.sevenhillspartners.com/
www.setfund.com/
Investment focus: technology
-based startups which pioneer products or services in growth markets
Technology Investments
The Pembroke
Group
www.trinityventures.com/
telesystem tullis
Provides equity investments in privately and publicly held companies in
numerous industries.
www.augustcap.com
Private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations
and industry consolidations. [requires subscription]
Focus: incubation reference site for investors and
start-ups.
Equilant Venture Advisors
www.flagcapital.com
Offers training for those involved in all aspects
of the venture capital and private equity markets.
Gabriel Venture Partners
Focus: investing in middle
market companies.
HarbourVest Partners
Intersouth Partners
www.jlaventures.com/
Investment focus: communications
, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors
Keystone Capital, Inc
Focus: specializing
in venture capital, management services, shell funding, private placement.Focus: business capital and
venture financing using alternative strategies and structures including a reverse merger.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
Outlook Ventures
Focus: provides
venture capital and equity-related investments in enterprises and companies embarking on expansion.
www.rccf.com/
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
Rockies Venture Club
www.roserventures.com/
Second Venture Corporation
Seven Hills Partners
Investment focus: early-stage (and
follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences companies
Summer Street Capital Partners
Focus: partners with fundless sponsors to acquire profitable manufacturing companies.Portfolio monitoring
and management software for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.Prepares entrepreneurs or companies
seeking investment capital and unites them with investors.Consulting services for business finance and
funding strategies for entrepreneurs.
restructurings turnarounds
Technology business management consulting services.
www.astrinacapital
.com/
Focus: venture and expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies
in a wide range of industries.
Brockway Moran and Partners
Carmichael and Company
www.claritypartners.net
/
Convergent Capital
www.enertechcapital.com/
www.euclidpartners.com/
Foundry Ventures
www.hrco.com/
Focus:
invests in growth financing, buyouts, acquisitions, consolidations and corporate restructuring.Investment
focus: rapidly growing ventues throughout the Southeast, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, especially
involving healthcare services, medical devices, telecommunications, and software
JK&B Capital
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.
JZ International Europe
Focus: industrial sectors that improve quality of life.Investment focus: deals too large for most individual
investors and too small for many venture capital firms - broad array of New England industries
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
Investment
company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets
.
Mitiska Net Fund Europe
New York Private Placement Network
www.primusventure.com/
www.quadcmanagement.com
/
RAF Ventures
Red Rock Ventures
Rockmont Capital
www.roundtablehp.com/
Sierra Ventures
Sports Venture Partners
TA Associates
communications technology, information technology and biotechnology
Focus: provides strategy
consulting, financial advisory, principal investing and acquisition capabilities to Southern California
based high growth companies.
www.tcvc.com/
financings interwest
www.ampal.com/
Apax Partners
www.axaprivateequity.com/
Investment
focus: early stage, Internet centric, business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer.Investment focus:
equity capital for acquisition recapitalization of middle-market companies.
CM Equity Partners
Concert
Capital Partners
www.dragonflycapital.com/
www.falconseaboard.com/
Flagship Ventures
Fremont Partners
www
.gemini-investors.com/
Focus: raising pools of capital from individuals involved in professional sports
and investing it with a small number of top-tier venture capital funds.
www.hvcc.com/
www.ieconsulting
.co.uk/
www.idanta.com/
Information Technology Ventures
Investment focus: fast growing information technology
enterprises with "unfair" competitive advantages that have the potential to dominate their
market space
KBL Healthcare Ventures
MBC Dotcom
Marathon Investment Partners
www.menloventures.com/
www.nea
.com/
Provides investor due diligence, business and technology consultative services to small and mid
-size technology firms as well as the venture capital community.
www.nyppe.com/
North Bridge Venture Partners
www.pacificafund.com/
Palladium Equity Partners
SSM Ventures
www.sepfunds.com/
Sevin Rosen Funds
Sonostar
Ventures
www.sproutgroup.com/
www.summitpartners.com
Technology Crossover Ventures
www.technologyfunding
.com/
Also invests in the "restarting" of struggling private companies.
Transatlantic Ventures
Turkven Private Equity
Ventanis
Investment focus: trans-Atlantic expansion for proven U.Waterside Capital
is a publicly held company headquartered in Norfolk, VA.Investment focus: later-stage growth companies
, recapitalizations and buyouts in a diverse set of industries
restructurings consolidations
2i Capital
A private equity investment firm
providing venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, and export development services
.
Alpha Genesis Inc.
Cardinal Ventures
Focused on sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations of proven
growth companies.Private Equity for Consumer Growth Companies
www.foxpaine.com/
Focus: early-stage venture
capital investment with focus on information technology and business services companies.
Glick Morganstern
Capital Group
Gryffindor Capital Partners
www.harbourvest.com/
Focus: private equity fund which seeks value
-added investments in small to medium sized private companies.Investment focus: telecommunications,
software and information technologies, but will consider outstanding opportunities in other industries
khazaen.com/
Koor Industries Ltd.
Lynwood Capital Partners
Mac Investment Company Inc
www.mycapital.com/
Focus: financial services firm and an online global marketplace for all classes of private securities
.Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care
www.norwestvc.com
Investment focus: early-stage investments in consumer and business-to-business Internet services, intranet
-based business applications, interactive tools, multimedia and telecommunications
www.realoptions.dk
www.rockmapleventures.com/
www.sagicap.com/
www.salixventures.com/
www.sanderling.com/
Investment focus:
emerging early-, mid- and later-stage companies in the greater San Diego area involving health care
, electronics, high technology, or consumer products
Swander Pace Capital
Links investors to companies
with high growth potential who are seeking funding from 50,000 to 1million.
Vision Capital
www.westonpresidio
.com
venture capital consult
recapitalizations subordinated
www.2icapital.com/
www.adventinternational.com/
Focus: principal investor combining
management, strategy and financing in acquiring telecoms, media, utility and financial services businesses
.
www.concertcapital.com/
Edison Venture Fund
Investment focus: equity capital in management buyouts, turnarounds
, recapitalizations, and growth financings.
www.foundryventures.com/
www.fremontventures.com/
Friedland
Capital
Generation Partners
www.genpartners.com/
Hibiscus Investments
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
InnoCal
www.katalyst.com/
Kennet Capital
www.matrixpartners
.com/
Company profile, team members, portfolio and news.
www.oddtrack.com/
www.picacapital.com/
www.peninsulafunds
.com/
www.redrockventures.com
Focus: European-based advisor specialized in consultancy services dedicated
to the private equity industry.Investment focus: seed and early-stage new biomedical market opportunities
, including emerging technology
Signal Lake Venture Fund
www.signallake.com/
Svoboda, Collins L.L.C.
www
.svoco.com
Pioneer in public venture funds
www.toptechnology.co.uk/
Trautman Wasserman and Company
Venture
Capital Strategies
Offers venture factoring as an alternative to venture capital financing.Focus: startup
and later stage companies involving wireless communications, Internet, value added networking services
, content and local service.
www.warburgpincus.com/
Westaim Corporation (The)
venrock tullis
Offering market analysis,
due diligence, consulting and management services.
Compere Associates
www.corven.com/
An international
advisory and private equity firm specializing in corporate venturing, providing experience and resources
necessary to start new businesses.
CrossBridge Venture Partners
Investment focus: life science, information
technology, and communications sectors.
www.foresthillpartners.com
Fox Paine
Fremont Ventures
Investment
firm with focus on venture capital, business acceleration and real estate.
www.igpequity.com/
www.mentre
.com.au/informationcity/
Investment focus: leading early-stage companies with advanced technology in information
and life sciences, and selectively in later stage opportunities
www.jafco.com/
www.chasecapital.com/
Madison
Dearborn Partners
Mergenet Solutions Inc.
Investment focus: early-stage technology companies managed
by minority and women entrepreneurs
www.novakbiddle.com/
Pacific Horizon Ventures
Postidea.com
www.ssmventures
.com/
www.skypointcorp.com/
Sterling Investment Partners
Focus: acquires and grows successful companies
in partnership with operating management.Focus: seed stage information technology ventures located
in Northern California
www.thepembrokegroup.com/
www.tuckermancapital.com/
Investment focus: small and
mid-sized emerging growth healthcare companies.
Venture Management Services
www.ventureplan.com/
edelson leveraged
www.microcapexperts
.com/
Focus: investment and intellectual capital network.
Advent International
Affiliated Managers Group
All American Capital
Lists ventures, and presents the advisory board.
American Capital Strategies
Acquires
interests in and/or invests in a broad variety of businesses located in the state of Israel or which
are Israel-related.
www.aragon-group.com/
Axa Private Equity
Focus: provides functional resources to funds
to actively manage private equity and venture capital assets.
Cornerstone Capital Holdings
www.dealpipe
.com/
Investment focus: private equity investor and advisor focused on Southeastern U.Produces presentations
and diagrams that help entrepreneurial companies achieve success at key events, including venture funding
, product launches, roadshows and customer sales.Investment focus: exploit the accelerating changes
and advances in healthcare and information technologies.Investment focus: established middle market
businesses.
Fulcrum Partners Ltd
FundingPost
Hamilton Robinson
Investment focus: early-stage ventures,
and includes the KPCB Java Fund
www.marcusventures.com
Focus: invests equity and mezzanine capital primarily
in private companies.
www.nvcap.com/
www.outlookventures.com/
www.ovationcapital.com/
www.pacven.com/
www
.secondventure.com/
Non-profit organization bringing together users and providers of resources for new
and emerging businesses.
The Bellwether Group
www.turkven.com/
www.vc-consult.com/
jaffray csf
(NYSE: AMG)
Ampal-American
Israel Corporation
Arcturus
Focus: venture consulting and financial advisory for early-stage companies
.
www.capitalsearch.net/
Investment focus: buyouts and venture capital funds.Investment focus: merchant
banking firm offering financial advisory services to middle market companies through a broad global
network.
www.corpfin.com/
www.freemanspogli.com/
Frontenac Company
www.frontenac.com/
www.gapartners.com
/
General Catalyst
Incyte Capital
Independence Holdings Partners
Information City
Includes case studies and
current portfolio.
www.innocal.com/
www.interwest.com/
www.jaic-vc.co.jp/
www.keystonecapitalinc.com/
Private
equity investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions.Focus: company start
-ups; early stage funding.
www.morgenthaler.com/
www.oakinv.com/
PICA Corporation
www.postidea.com/
Quad-C
Management
Focus: non-profit that connects entrepreneurs, service professionals, investors, venture capitalists
and other funding sources.Focus: investing in and acquiring companies and working with their management
to build profitable and successful businesses.Offers programs which educate, showcase and support women
entrepreneurs as they seek equity capital and grow their companies.Focus: middle-market company buy
-outs and capital for ownership transitions, growth and financial restructuring.
Telesystem
Private-equity
holding company focused on cultivating emerging growth companies; primarily technology related.
www.venturefactoring
.com
www.williamblair.com/
recapitalization telesystem
www.agiicorp.com/
Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies in communications
, information technologies, life sciences and specialty materials and chemicals.
Astrina Capital
Investment
focus: companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets
www.edelsontech.com/
Falcon Seaboard
Focus: privately-owned diversified energy and investment company with
global operations.
www.foundationcapital.com/
www.friedlandcapital.com/
Investment focus: bringing leading
edge technology to the marketplace.
IE Consulting
KPS Special Situations Fund
northamericanfund.com/
Oak
Investment Partners
Real Options Approaches in Venture Capital Finance
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.
Sustainable Jobs Fund
Investment focus: exclusively in
information and business services companies, including content providers, transaction processors, application
software and Internet products and services
www.watersidecapital.com
Focus: early-stage venture capital
, growth equity, and leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range of
industries
tullis leveraged
www.atvcapital.com/
Argonaut Partners
Portfolio management company focusing on all the aspects
of capital investment and private equity.
www.baincapital.com/
Provides access to a network of private
investors and institutional investment groups.Seeks investment and support for the production of a full
length feature film.Merchant bank and venture capital firm offers services to corporate clients and
investors.Focus: private equity firm based in Boston investing in middle-market growth companies.
Desai
Capital Management Inc.
DragonVenture
www.dragonventure.com/
Focus: assists companies with their venture
and equity capital needs.
Forest Hill Partners
Idanta Partners Ltd.
www.incytecapital.com/
Japan Asia Investment
Company
National City Equity Partners
Needham Capital Partners
www.newera-partners.com
Investment focus:
startups, emerging growth companies, management buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations
Investment
focus: technology companies involving healthcare or life science; early-stages in the Northwest, later
-stage deals can be anywhere in U.
www.palladiumequity.com/
Investment focus: startups and emerging growth
companies in the United States, Europe and Japan involving information technology, life sciences and
business services
www.rre.com/
Investment focus: operating-oriented private equity firm focused on the
healthcare industry.
Sanderling
Silicom Ventures
Focus: provide funding to early-stage high technology
start-ups.Focus: invests in promising private companies across a number of industries and in the public
debt and equity markets.
www.sihi.net/
Focus: private equity fund, venture capital, investment, financing
.
Sutter Hill Ventures
www.spcap.com
TI (Texas Instruments) Ventures, L.P.
www.tlventures.com/
The StartUp
Lab
Focus: private equity firm engaged in the acquisition and ownership of operating businesses.
www.taventures
.com/
Trident Capital
www.visioncap.com/
Warburg Pincus Ventures
Waterside Capital Corp
Investment focus:
profitable and near profitable companies, as well as start-up companies with a short term path to profitability
.
recapitalizations jaffray
Focus: acquisition of industrial and business-to-business, value-added distributorships, direct marketing
, catalog and telemarketing firms.
www.bvfund.com
Private equity fund focusing on the acquisition of middle
-market manufacturing, distribution and service companies.
www.cardvent.com/
Focus: acquire businesses
that can be grown through internal means and by add-on acquisitions.
Centurion Pictures
Churchill Capital
Focus: assessment of the contribution of multinational enterprises to human development in emerging and
developing countries.
www.schwartzgroup.com/
www.equilant.com/
Greylock
Investment focus: early and expansion
stage, technology-based businesses
Institutional Venture Partners
LeBonfante Group
www.mergenetsolutions
.com/
Mycapital, Inc.
Focus: seek to identify, fund and nurture business ideas through participation of
our members to create and capture new markets.
Partech International
Peninsula Capital Partners
Piper Jaffray
Venture Capital
www.piperjaffray.com/info3.aspx?id=116
www.river-capital.com/
Salix Ventures
www.stonecanyonvp
.com/
Investment focus: European and U.
Technology Funding Inc.
www.telosvp.com/
Focus: business and venture
development company providing services to venture capitalists and early-stage companies.
www.sterling
-group.com/
Trinity Ventures
VenGlobal Capital
Founded in 1993, the company is a licensed Small Business
Investment Company (SBIC) and has $50 million in capital to invest.
leveraged westaim
www.3i.com/
Advanced Technology Ventures
www.amg.com/
August Capital
Blue Point Capital Partners
www.cmequity.com/
www.churchillnet.com/
Cogent Partners
www.cogent-partners.net/
Focus: private equity-focused investment bank that helps institutional, corporate
and individual investors sell their assets in the private equity secondary market.
www.cstonecapital
.com/
An initial stage equity investor with focused expertise in three strategic areas - networking and
communications, health care, and financial services.Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing
in growing companies.
www.fremontpartners.com/
www.gabrielvp.com/
JAFCO America Ventures, Inc.
www.kblhealthcare
.com/
Investment focus: constructive investing in turnarounds, restructurings, bankruptcies, employee
buyouts and other special situations.
MDB Capital Group, LLC
Menlo Ventures
Focus: manages investment partnerships
primarily in the equities of later-stage private growth companies.
www.nbvp.com/
Novak Biddle Venture
Partners
Oddtrack, Inc.
Resources for those interested in valuing start-up venture firms, or growth options
in general, based on a Master`s Thesis by S ren Bruun Petersen and Peter Christopher Bason.
www.regdresources
.com/
Roser Ventures, LLC
Investment focus: early-stage health care services (including health care information
technology) companies
Investment focus: growth-oriented businesses in the technology, media, telecom
and business services sectors.
Seaflower Associates, Inc.
www.seaflower.com/
Provides equity financing
to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries, emerging markets and in countries undergoing
economic transition.
South Atlantic Venture Funds
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
www.thestartuplab.com/
Tullis-Dickerson & Co.
www.venrock.com/
Venture Planning Associates
WaldenVC
Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software, interactive services and
related enabling technology.
consolidations csf
www.almeidacapital.com/
www.amerigopartners.com/
Capital Solutions Network
www.capvent.com/
Focus: private equity and venture capital firm focused in Southern California exclusively
on investments in communications, media and related technologies.Investment focus: early-stage business
development and financing connecting venture capital firms and Fortune 1000 opportunities.
Dimeling,
Schreiber & Park
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.
Funk Ventures, Inc.
Gaebler Ventures
General Atlantic Partners
Hickory Venture Capital Corporation
Industrial Growth Partners
www.kpcb.com
Matrix Partners
MicroCap Venture
Fund
Investment focus: acquisitions and investments in technology businesses.
www.sierraven.com
Small Enterprise
Assistance Funds (SEAF)
Investment focus: expansions, acquisitions, buyouts and recapitalizations located
in Florida, the Southeast and Texas
www.ti.com/tiventures
www.tullisdickerson.com/
Providing investments
in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services
.
William Blair & Company, LLC
gryffindor ventures
Investment focus: companies at all stages of development, including
early-stage, and in virtually any industry.
www.aacapitalcorp.com
Aragon Financial Group
Columbia Strategy
Commonwealth Associates
A service of Dow Jones & Company providing a database venture capital investments
and investors.
www.funkventures.com/
www.greylock.com/
Australian company providing early stage funding
and support services to new businesses.
J.L. Albright Venture Partners Inc.
NCIC Capital Fund
www.npdcinc
.com/
www.needhamcapital.com/
Pacific Venture Group
Focus: private investment firm founded by experienced
operating executives and investment professionals.
www.parallaxcap.com/
Proma Investment
Regulation D Resources
Focus: provide the framework to raise venture capital and angel investment.
www.rockmontcapital.com/
www
.silicomventures.com/
www.svpllc.com/
Focus: private equity company of the digital economy, active on a
worldwide scale through a knowledge network.
Telos Venture Partners
Focus: business and project availability
of funding, strategic management and due-diligence assessment.
www.usvp.com/
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
Weston Presidio Capital
www.wppartners.com/
recapitalization subordinated
www.abundancevc.com/
www.argollc
.com/
B4 Ventures
Corporate finance solutions in private investment, public equities, and investment offerings
.
Corven
www.crescentlp.com/
Freeman Spogli
www.FundingPost.com/
Venture capitalist investment company which
supports private investee companies.
www.idgventures.com
InterWest Partners
Investment focus: seed and
early-stage life science and technology companies located near the Research Triangle and Austin
Investment
focus: startup, early-stage and emerging growth companies in the healthcare industry, particularly
medical devices, healthcare services and niche pharmaceuticals
Khazaen Financial and Industrial Consulting
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
www.lebonfante.com/
www.xpressmarketing.biz/MicroCap/
www.mccglobal
.com/
NPDC
www.nationalcity.com/corporate/business/equity.asp
NewVista Capital
Focus: Silicon Valley based
seed and first round venture capital firm.
Parallax Capital 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
Supports life science ventures based on breakthroughs from research
institutions, providing management support and seed funding.Investment focus: early-stage healthcare
, information technology-related companies and service businesses
Sigma Partners
www.springboardenterprises
.org/
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
www.sterlinglp.com/
Strategic Investments & Holdings
Focus: investing
in and building value-added service and distribution companies with fundamentally sound operating models
.
www.ta.com/
Investment focus: category-defining, early-stage companies in information technology, communications
and biotechnology.Investment focus: growth capital to expansion stage information technology companies
www.sablelion.com/
Top Technology
www.vanguardventures.com/
Focus: venture capital consulting for start
-up companies in Germany, UK and the US.
restarts capitalists
1st Accredited Venture Capital, LLLP
3i
Abundance Venture Capital
Focus: private equity and venture capital investments for International investors who need protection
of capital and tax-free returns.
www.b4ventures.com/
www.centurionpictures.com/
Covalence
www.dsppartners
.com/
businesses in the Life Science and Information Technology sectors.
Edelson Technology Partners
FLAG
Capital Management, LLC
www.flagshipventures.com/
Focus: arranges and negotiates financing for growth
, acquisition, turnaround and start-up. (Nasdaq: HHGP).
www.hibiscus-cornes.com/
www.itventures.com/
A middle
market, investment and advisory firm offering venture capital, investment banking services and business
advisory services.Investment focus: European information and communications technology companies
Investment
focus: manufacturers, distributors, and technology and service 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
Pacific Century Group Ventures
www.pcentury
.com/
Pacifica Fund
www.proma-investment.com/
Investment focus: emerging technology niches in telecommunications
, semiconductors and Internet infrastructure.
Ruppert Ventures
Springboard Enterprises
Summit Partners
Investment
focus: early-stage technology companies involving software infrastructure and hardware applications
leveraging digital signal processing (DSP) and related technologies
S.
Tech Coast Venture Network
www.technologypartners
.com/
VC Experts
Investment focus: pre-revenue stage in information technology and life sciences sectors
www.venglobal.com
Venrock Associates
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.
Wind Point Partners
nGenuity Capital
buyouts venrock
Acquires
majority interests in mid-sized investment management firms. Investor information.
Alliance Global Investments
Inc.
Focus: venture capital or investment capital for small to mid-sized fast growing businesses.
www
.compere.com/
Investment focus: private equity firm that partners with the founders and management teams
of profitable businesses experiencing rapid growth.
www.crosspointvc.com/
Listing exchange and business
resource that connects entrepreneurs and business sellers with a broad network of investors, business
buyers and transaction partners.
www.dorsetcapital.com/
www.findevco.com/
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
Investment focus: health care services, information
technology services and consumer/industrial businesses.Raising venture capital by presenting to angel
and venture investors.
Gemini Investors
Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively
on software and services, and related information technologies.
Harris & Harris Group, Inc.
Assists
clients operating within the private industry with resolving day-to-day strategic issues, with emphasis
on the venture capital and private equity environment.
www.jzieurope.com/
www.kennetcapital.com/
Maton
Venture
Investment focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and life
sciences
New Era Partners
Focus: acquiring or making substantial equity investments in small businesses
with significant growth potential.Investment focus: includes Internet and mobile infrastructure, software
, storage and data networking.
River Capital
www.rockiesventureclub.org/
Investment focus: early-stage
companies across a broad range of industries and located in the Rocky Mountain region
www.srfunds.com
Skypoint Capital Corporation
www.seafweb.org
www.southatlantic.com
Community development venture capital
fund which finances recycling, remanufacturing, environmental and other companies.
Thompson Clive Venture
Capital
Sells online reference manual on all aspects of venture capital, including forms, annotations
and polls.
www.waldenvc.com/
Investment focus: all stages of development, from expansion capital for
emerging growth companies to sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations
www.ngenuitycapital.com/
buyouts sanderling
Works
with private and public companies with market capitalization s under three hundred million dollars
.
americancapitalonline.com/
Venture capital services for small to medium sized companies.
www.ampersandventures
.com/
Focus: acts as managing venturer and marketing in corporate joint ventures.
www.cdcgroup.com/
www
.comw.com/
Dow Jones VentureReporter
Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financing and
leveraged buyouts in a broad range of technologies.
EuclidSR Partners
www.fulcrum-partners.com/
Funds breakthrough
ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business building resources and strategic
support.
HRJ Capital
Hydro-Quebec CapiTech
IDG Ventures
www.netfundeurope.com/
Moore, Clayton and Company
Ovation Capital
www.partechintl.com/
www.rafind.com/
Investment focus: seed and early-stage companies that
develop and sell enterprise solutions to medium and large companies
Schroder Ventures US
www.sigmapartners
.com/
Smedvig Capital
www.tvmvc.com/
www.tcv.com/
The Providencia Partnership
www.propari.com/
Tuckerman Capital
www.wpgvp.com
Investment focus: early- and expansion-stage information technology and life sciences companies
throughout the US
(Nasdaq: WEDX).
csf restructurings
Profiles the company, and affiliate products.
Amerigo Corporate Finance
Partners, LLC
Ampersand Ventures
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.
Bain Capital
Focus: private equity investment firm that invests equity capital in middle
market businesses.Private equity investors in emerging markets.
Clarity Partners
DealPipe, Inc.
www.edisonventure
.com/
Focus: capital for management buy-outs, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth
programs.Focus: help experienced management teams build businesses by providing relationships, strategic
insight and ongoing financial support.Focus: venture capital and equity raising services.Investment
focus: funding through every stage of the company growth cycle.
www.gaebler.com
www.mybizcapital.com/
MDB Capital Group is a merchant/investment banking firm that is a NASD registered broker/dealer located
in Santa Monica, CA.Investment focus: private communications, Internet infrastructure, software, semiconductor
, data storage, and computer hardware companies located in the United States.Venture capital database
and web application to help companies raise capital.
www.ncicfund.org/
Investment focus: subordinated
debt and equity to superior middle-market companies requiring capital to fund growth or other special
situations.
RoundTable Healthcare Partners
SAGICAP
Seidler Equity Partners
Investment focus: established
, growing, niche-dominant manufacturing and service businesses.Focus: investments and buy-outs of entrepreneurial
enterprises, primarily in the areas of healthcare and interactive media.
www.sonostarventures.com/
www
.sorrentoventures.com/
Investment focus: electronics, telecommunications, and computer software and systems
opportunities where there is potential synergy with Thomson-CSF companies
Investment focus: early-stage
British technology companies
Focus: assist European companies in preparing and implementing their entry
plan into the North American market.
www.trautmanwasserman.net/
Focus: affiliate of Advent International
investing in Turkish companies.
www.venturecapitalstrategies.com/
turnarounds leveraged
www.american-securities.com/
www.brockwaymoran
.com/
CDC Capital Partners
carmichaelandco.com/
www.columbiastrategy.com/
Darwin Venture Partners
Dragonfly
Capital
Investment focus: profitable service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader
energy marketplace but will also consider early-stage.Facilitates venture capital partnerships with
private entrepreneurial companies.Investment focus: smaller, middle market opportunities in the areas
of energy, utilities, industrial process and business services.
www.independencefund.com/
IGP provides
private equity capital for management buyouts in middle-market manufacturing companies.
Kestrel Venture
Management
www.koor.co.il/
Marcus Venture Consulting
Works with early stage technology and technology-related
ventures to bridge the risk gap, and help entrepreneurs and financers achieve their goals.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
Offers investment database with contacts
to investors, financiers, and venture capital firms.
PureTech Ventures LLC
Quan Ventures
Investment focus:
small to mid-size companies searching to grow to the next level.
Sequoia 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.
Sorrento Ventures
TVM Techno Venture Management
Investment focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer
software, electronic commerce, and communications
S and European technology companies
trautman consolidations
www.alpha-genesis
.com/
Evaluates and secures financing for middle market companies.
American Securities Capital Partners
Bertelsmann Ventures
Corpfin.com
crossbridgevp.com/
Investment focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies
in information technology.
Crosspoint Venture Partners
Dorset Capital
www.venturereporter.net
S.
www.epvc
.com/
Financial Development Company
www.hrjcapital.com/
www.hampep.com/
www.kestrelvm.com/
www.klinehawkes
.com/
Focus: develop businesses and provide venture capital primarily throughout the Hispanic market.
Focus: specializing in venture capital, private equity, and direct investments.
Mayfield Fund
Focus: traditional
industries converging with new technologies, in particular healthcare, energy, entertainment, financial
services, communications and education.
North American Funds
Norwest Venture Capital
Investment focus:
early-stage and selective restarts or recapitalizations of later-stage information technology, health
care or retail companies
Service linking entrepreneurs with venture capital firms looking for new ventures
to fund.Investment focus: broad range of stages (startup through consolidation) involving healthcare
services and information systems oriented towards a managed care solution
Primus Venture Partners
Investment
focus: early-stage technology businesses in a variety of industries, emphasis on software, financial
services, health care and communications.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
Runs a proprietary venture exchange network to enable venture capital funds and angel
groups to better manage their deal flow.Investment focus: primarily very early-stage West Coast technology
companies; post beta-stage around Boston and Austin; later-stage nationwide
Investment focus: very early
-stage high-technology opportunities in North America, the United Kingdom and Israel in telecommunications
and IT
Southeastern Technology Fund
www.springcap.com/
Focus: equity investments in select early-stage
businesses with high growth prospects.San Francisco-based firm providing value-added investing in consumer
products companies.Investment focus: post-seed funding --generally the first or second significant
financing -- in information technology, semiconductors, and communications.Investment focus: early-stage
funding for proprietary software and hardware technology, information technology and e-commerce investments
.
www.ventures.thomson-csf.com/
Vanguard Venture Partners
www.ventanis.com/
Venture Factoring
www.vmsgroup
.com/
Weiss, Peck & Greer - Venture Partners
csf venrock
Focus: leading international venture capital company.
Focus: venture capital funding using private placements and IPOs.
Allantra Venture Development
www.allantra
.com
Investment focus: venture capital, financing and debt restructuring.
www.covalence.ch/
Investment focus:
all stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare industries
gcpfunds.com/
Focus: invests in companies whose technological products and services are related to the
energy field.
www.ivp.com/
Focus: acquiring or investing in niche businesses with revenues of ten to fifty
million dollars. MDB invests via Reg D private placements in public and private companies.
www.mdcp
.com/
Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing
.Investment focus: technology-based, private companies at various stages of development
Investment focus:
emerging-growth companies in medical devices, healthcare services and technology.
www.puretechventures
.com
Focus: private equity investment firm seeking to partner with successful management teams to complete
leveraged acquisitions or recapitalizations of leading middle-market companies.
River Cities Capital
Funds
www.ruppertcompanies.com/ventures.html
www.svus.com/
Investment focus: ventures of all stages, primarily
in technology-based companies, but also non-technology
Investment focus: early-stage broadband telecom
and networking infrastructure being built for the global economy.
Stone Canyon Venture Partners
TL Ventures
Technology Partners
Thomson-CSF Ventures
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
Investment focus: Early-stage ventures particularly in the data communications and electronic
design automation (EDA) industries.
gryffindor interwest
www.earcturus.com/
Capital Venture Partners
Investment focus: middle
market companies for buy-outs, recapitalizations, acquisitions and growth needs.
www.desaicapital.com
/
EQY.com
Investment focus: manages limited partnerships through which qualified individuals, families
and their trusts or foundations invest in venture capital funds.
www.facvc.com/
Hampshire Equity Partners
Investment focus: information technology companies, preferring either seed or first-round financings
, or very late (last before IPO) stage investments
Focus: private investment firm specializing in buying
and building European companies in partnership with management.
Katalyst
www.labrador.com/
www.marathoninvestment
.com/
Investment focus: early-stage software and communications companies
www.pacifichorizon.com/
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
www.sequoiacap.com
www.sjfund.com/
www.tcvn.org/
www.carsten.com/
Focus: seed or first stage ventures
involving information processing, communications or health care
www.telesystem.ca/
www.tvin.co.uk/
The
Sable Lion Group
Focus: combines venture capital investing with conventional money management for companies
requiring funding in the one to twenty five million dollar range.
www.tridentcap.com/
edelson restructurings
Focus: global venture
capital research and advisory services. (Nasdaq: AMPL)
www.apax.com/
www.bluepointcapital.com/
www.convergent
-capital.com/
Crescent Private Capital
www.eqy.com/
EnerTech Capital
Investment focus: seed to late stage
information technology companies in telecommunications, data communications, computing and the Internet
.
www.glickmorganstern.com
Investment focus: software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications
, financial services and management buy-outs of operating companies.
www.hhgp.com/
www.hqcapitech.com/en
/index.html
Focus: private equity, venture capital and alternative investment products for high net worth
investors, institutions and their financial advisors.Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional
prospects for growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services
www.kpsfund.com/
Investment
focus: early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital technologies - information
, communications, software, media/entertainment, and semiconductors
www.lynwoodcapital.com/
www.macinvestco
.com/
www.maton.com
www.mayfield.com/
European Internet venture capital fund, based in Belgium.
Morgenthaler
Ventures
Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts
involving information technology, health care or industrial technology
S.Business financing marketplace
for entrepreneurs and investors.
www.quanvc.com/
Investment focus: early-stage service, financial, retail
, and manufacturing companies, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states
RRE Investors
Focus: organizes and invests
in the acquisition of select, well-established middle market companies.
www.smedvigcapital.com
www.summerstreetcapital
.com/
www.shv.com/
Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare
, financial services, media and consumer products
Thames Valley Investment Network
www.bellwethergrp.com
/
The Sterling Group
Investment focus: life science and information technology ventures, early-stage through
later-stage, on both sides of the Atlantic
vcexperts.com
www.westaim.com/
leveraged csf