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Sequoia Capital - http://www.sequoiacap.com
Investment focus: Seed stage, early stage and growth stage emerging technology companies across the US, China, India and Israel. |
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Springboard Enterprises - http://www.springboardenterprises.org/
Offers programs which educate, showcase and support women entrepreneurs as they seek equity capital and grow their companies. |
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New Enterprise Associates - http://www.nea.com/
Investment focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and life sciences |
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Madison Dearborn Partners - http://www.mdcp.com/
Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing. |
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Greylock - http://www.greylock.com/
Investment focus: all stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare industries |
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers - http://www.kpcb.com
Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund |
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JAFCO America Ventures, Inc. - http://www.jafco.com/
Investment focus: communications, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors |
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Weiss, Peck & Greer - Venture Partners - http://www.wpgvp.com
Investment focus: early- and expansion-stage information technology and life sciences companies throughout the US |
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IDG Ventures - http://www.idgventures.com
Investment focus: information technology companies, preferring either seed or first-round financings, or very late (last before IPO) stage investments |
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Mayfield Fund - http://www.mayfield.com/
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 |
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Morgenthaler Ventures - http://www.morgenthaler.com/
Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts involving information technology, health care or industrial technology |
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Venrock Associates - http://www.venrock.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 |
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August Capital - http://www.augustcap.com
Investment focus: companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets |
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SJF Ventures - http://www.sjfund.com/
Community development venture capital fund which finances recycling, remanufacturing, environmental and other companies. |
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Norwest Venture Capital - http://www.norwestvc.com
Investment focus: startups, emerging growth companies, management buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations |
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Edison Venture Fund - http://www.edisonventure.com/
Investment focus: proprietary technologies or unique services in emerging markets, generally preferring expansion stage companies. |
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Summit Partners - http://www.summitpartners.com
Focus: profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services |
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Foundation Capital - http://www.foundationcapital.com/
Investment focus: start-ups in their formative stages, and all subsequent financings as a company develops, involving Enterprise and Internet Software, Communications and Networking, Technical Software, and Semiconductors. |
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Flagship Ventures - http://www.flagshipventures.com/
Investment focus: life science, information technology, and communications sectors. |
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General Catalyst - http://www.generalcatalyst.com/
Funds breakthrough ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business building resources and strategic support. |
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Intersouth Partners - http://www.intersouth.com/
Investment focus: seed and early-stage life science and technology companies located near the Research Triangle and Austin |
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Axa Private Equity - http://www.axaprivateequity.com/
Portfolio management company focusing on all the aspects of capital investment and private equity. |
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Novak Biddle Venture Partners - http://www.novakbiddle.com/
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 |
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Trinity Ventures - http://www.trinityventures.com/
Investment focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer software, electronic commerce, and communications |
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U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) - http://www.usvp.com/
Investment focus: principally companies headquartered in the Western United States in three sectors of industry: medical, technology and retail/consumer |
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Apax Partners - http://www.apax.com/
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. |
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Sevin Rosen Funds - http://www.srfunds.com
Investment focus: early-stage (and follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences companies |
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Sigma Partners - http://www.sigmapartners.com/
Investment focus: ventures of all stages, primarily in technology-based companies, but also non-technology |
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HarbourVest Partners - http://www.harbourvest.com/
Investment focus: software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buy-outs of operating companies. |
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North Bridge Venture Partners - http://www.nbvp.com/
Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care |
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FundingPost - http://www.fundingpost.com/
Raising venture capital by presenting to angel and venture investors. |
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TVM Capital - http://www.tvm-capital.com/
Venture capital for technology and life sciences companies. |
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InterWest Partners - http://www.interwest.com/
Investment focus: full range of stages in information technology, health care and non-technology ventures |
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Weston Presidio Capital - http://www.westonpresidio.com
Investment focus: later-stage growth companies, recapitalizations and buyouts in a diverse set of industries |
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Menlo Ventures - http://www.menloventures.com/
Investment focus: private communications, Internet infrastructure, software, semiconductor, data storage, and computer hardware companies located in the United States. |
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Vision Capital - http://www.visioncap.com/
Investment focus: trans-Atlantic expansion for proven U.S and European technology companies |
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Matrix Partners - http://www.matrixpartners.com/
Investment focus: early-stage software and communications companies |
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CDC Capital Partners - http://www.cdcgroup.com/
Private equity investors in emerging markets. |
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Trident Capital - http://www.tridentcap.com/
Investment focus: exclusively in information and business services companies, including content providers, transaction processors, application software and Internet products and services |
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Ampersand Ventures - http://www.ampersandventures.com/
Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies in communications, information technologies, life sciences and specialty materials and chemicals. |
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Second Venture Corporation - http://www.secondventure.com/
Runs a proprietary venture exchange network to enable venture capital funds and angel groups to better manage their deal flow. |
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Oak Investment Partners - http://www.oakinv.com/
Investment focus: early-stage and selective restarts or recapitalizations of later-stage information technology, health care or retail companies |
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Technology Partners - http://www.technologypartners.com/
Focus: seed or first stage ventures involving information processing, communications or health care |
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Warburg Pincus Ventures - http://www.warburgpincus.com/
Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services. |
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Wind Point Partners - http://www.wppartners.com/
Investment focus: all stages of development, from expansion capital for emerging growth companies to sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations |
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TA Associates - http://www.ta.com/
Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare, financial services, media and consumer products |
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William Blair & Company, LLC - http://www.williamblair.com/
Focus: early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range of industries |
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Frontenac Company - http://www.frontenac.com/
Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses. |
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TI (Texas Instruments) Ventures, L.P. - http://www.ti.com/tiventures
Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software infrastructure and hardware applications leveraging digital signal processing (DSP) and related technologies |
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American Capital Strategies - http://americancapitalonline.com/
Evaluates and secures financing for middle market companies. |
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Sutter Hill Ventures - http://www.shv.com/
Investment focus: technology-based startups which pioneer products or services in growth markets |
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TL Ventures - http://www.tlventures.com/
Investment focus: category-defining, early-stage companies in information technology, communications and biotechnology. |
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General Atlantic Partners - http://www.gapartners.com/
Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies. |
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Sanderling - http://www.sanderling.com/
Investment focus: seed and early-stage new biomedical market opportunities, including emerging technology |
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Institutional Venture Partners - http://www.ivp.com/
Investment focus: leading early-stage companies with advanced technology in information and life sciences, and selectively in later stage opportunities |
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Labrador Ventures - http://www.labrador.com/
Investment focus: early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital technologies - information, communications, software, media/entertainment, and semiconductors |
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Signal Lake Venture Fund - http://www.signallake.com/
Investment focus: early-stage broadband telecom and networking infrastructure being built for the global economy. |
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Silicom Ventures - http://www.silicomventures.com/
Focus: provide funding to early-stage high technology start-ups. |
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The Sterling Group - http://www.sterling-group.com/
Focus: private equity firm engaged in the acquisition and ownership of operating businesses. |
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DragonVenture - http://www.dragonventure.com/
Focus: cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company. |
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http://www.innocal.com/ - http://www.innocal.com/
Investment focus: early and expansion stage, technology-based businesses |
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Thames Valley Investment Network - http://www.tvin.co.uk/
Links investors to companies with high growth potential who are seeking funding from £50,000 to £1million. |
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Pacific Horizon Ventures - http://www.pacifichorizon.com/
Investment focus: technology companies involving healthcare or life science; early-stages in the Northwest, later-stage deals can be anywhere in U.S. |
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Katalyst - http://www.katalyst.com/
A middle market, investment and advisory firm offering venture capital, investment banking services and business advisory services. |
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Red Rock Ventures - http://www.redrockventures.com
Investment focus: seed and early-stage companies that develop and sell enterprise solutions to medium and large companies |
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KPS Special Situations Fund - http://www.kpsfund.com/
Investment focus: constructive investing in turnarounds, restructurings, bankruptcies, employee buyouts and other special situations. |
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Rockies Venture Club - http://www.rockiesventureclub.org/
Focus: non-profit that connects entrepreneurs, service professionals, investors, venture capitalists and other funding sources. |
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IE Consulting - http://www.ieconsulting.co.uk/
Assists clients operating within the private industry with resolving day-to-day strategic issues, with emphasis on the venture capital and private equity environment. |
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Tech Coast Venture Network - http://www.tcvn.org/
Non-profit organization bringing together users and providers of resources for new and emerging businesses. |
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Turkven Private Equity - http://www.turkven.com/
Focus: affiliate of Advent International investing in Turkish companies. |
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KBL Healthcare Ventures - http://www.kblhealthcare.com/
Investment focus: startup, early-stage and emerging growth companies in the healthcare industry, particularly medical devices, healthcare services and niche pharmaceuticals |
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Freeman Spogli - http://www.freemanspogli.com/
Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies. |
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Amerigo Corporate Finance Partners, LLC - http://www.amerigopartners.com/
Venture capital services for small to medium sized companies. |
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Generation Partners - http://www.genpartners.com/
Investment focus: seed to late stage information technology companies in telecommunications, data communications, computing and the Internet. |
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Real Options Approaches in Venture Capital Finance - http://www.realoptions.dk
Resources for those interested in valuing start-up venture firms, or growth options in general, based on a Master's Thesis by Søren Bruun Petersen and Peter Christopher Bason. |
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Sprout Group - http://www.sproutgroup.com/
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 |
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Affiliated Managers Group - http://www.amg.com/
Acquires majority interests in mid-sized investment management firms. Profiles the company, and affiliate products. Investor information. (NYSE: AMG) |
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RAF Ventures - http://www.rafind.com/
Investment focus: early-stage service, financial, retail, and manufacturing companies, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states |
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Primus Venture Partners - http://www.primusventure.com/
Investment focus: various stages of development, with greater emphasis on businesses beyond proof of concept and which are demonstrating capacity to become large enterprises |
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Skypoint Capital Corporation - http://www.skypointcorp.com/
Investment focus: very early-stage high-technology opportunities in North America, the United Kingdom and Israel in telecommunications and IT |
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Needham Capital Partners - http://www.needhamcapital.com/
Focus: manages investment partnerships primarily in the equities of later-stage private growth companies. |
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Summer Street Capital Partners - http://www.summerstreetcapital.com/
Focus: private equity fund, venture capital, investment, financing. |
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Strategic Investments & Holdings - http://www.sihi.net/
Focus: acquires and grows successful companies in partnership with operating management. |
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Outlook Ventures - http://www.outlookventures.com/
Investment focus: early-stage investments in consumer and business-to-business Internet services, intranet-based business applications, interactive tools, multimedia and telecommunications |
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Crescent Private Capital - http://www.crescentlp.com/
Focus: private equity firm based in Boston investing in middle-market growth companies. |
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FLAG Capital Management, LLC - http://www.flagcapital.com
Investment focus: manages limited partnerships through which qualified individuals, families and their trusts or foundations invest in venture capital funds. |
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Kline Hawkes & Co. - http://www.klinehawkes.com/
Investment focus: later-stage venture deals, change of control situations and industry consolidations in California companies involving communications, technology or health care |
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Funk Ventures, Inc. - http://www.funkventures.com/
Investment firm with focus on venture capital, business acceleration and real estate. |
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Koor Industries Ltd. - http://www.koor.co.il/
Investment company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets. |
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Smedvig Capital - http://www.smedvigcapital.com
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. |
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Cardinal Ventures - http://www.cardvent.com/
Focus: acquire businesses that can be grown through internal means and by add-on acquisitions. |
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JP Morgan Partners - http://www.chasecapital.com/
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. |
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EuclidSR Partners - http://www.euclidpartners.com/
Investment focus: exploit the accelerating changes and advances in healthcare and information technologies. |
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Seven Hills Partners - http://www.sevenhillspartners.com/
Focus: investments and buy-outs of entrepreneurial enterprises, primarily in the areas of healthcare and interactive media. |
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HRJ Capital - http://www.hrjcapital.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. |
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Venture Planning Associates - http://www.ventureplan.com/
Consulting services for business finance and funding strategies for entrepreneurs. |
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Kestrel Venture Management - http://www.kestrelvm.com/
Investment focus: deals too large for most individual investors and too small for many venture capital firms - broad array of New England industries |
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Moore, Clayton and Company - http://www.mccglobal.com/
Focus: traditional industries converging with new technologies, in particular healthcare, energy, entertainment, financial services, communications and education. |
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Mitiska Net Fund Europe - http://www.netfundeurope.com/
European Internet venture capital fund, based in Belgium. Company profile, team members, portfolio and news. |
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Churchill Capital - http://www.churchillnet.com/
Investment focus: middle market companies for buy-outs, recapitalizations, acquisitions and growth needs. |
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Equilant Venture Advisors - http://www.equilant.com/
Produces presentations and diagrams that help entrepreneurial companies achieve success at key events, including venture funding, product launches, roadshows and customer sales. |
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Hampshire Equity Partners - http://www.hampep.com/
Focus: invests in growth financing, buyouts, acquisitions, consolidations and corporate restructuring. |
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South Atlantic Venture Funds - http://www.southatlantic.com
Investment focus: expansions, acquisitions, buyouts and recapitalizations located in Florida, the Southeast and Texas |
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Clarity Partners - http://www.claritypartners.net/
Focus: private equity and venture capital firm focused in Southern California exclusively on investments in communications, media and related technologies. |
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http://www.npdcinc.com/ - http://www.npdcinc.com/
Focus: seek to identify, fund and nurture business ideas through participation of our members to create and capture new markets. |
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Quan Ventures - http://www.quanvc.com/
Investment focus: emerging technology niches in telecommunications, semiconductors and Internet infrastructure. |
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First Analysis Venture Capital - http://www.facvc.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 |
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Dragonfly Capital - http://www.dragonflycapital.com/
Investment focus: private equity investor and advisor focused on Southeastern U.S. businesses in the Life Science and Information Technology sectors. |
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Abundance Venture Capital - http://www.abundancevc.com/
Focus: private equity and venture capital investments for International investors who need protection of capital and tax-free returns. |
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Convergent Capital - http://www.convergent-capital.com/
Focus: manages technology-oriented venture capital funds in France, Europe and Israel. |
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Spring Capital Partners, L.P. - http://www.springcap.com/
Investment Focus: mezzanine financing for growing small and medium-sized businesses. |
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Bertelsmann Ventures - http://www.bvfund.com
Investment focus: early stage, Internet centric, business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer. |
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Marcus Venture Consulting - http://www.marcusventures.com
Works with early stage technology and technology-related ventures to bridge the risk gap, and help entrepreneurs and financers achieve their goals. |
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SSM Ventures - http://www.ssmventures.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 |
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Fox Paine - http://www.foxpaine.com/
Focus: capital for management buy-outs, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs. |
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Arcturus - http://www.earcturus.com/
Focus: acts as managing venturer and marketing in corporate joint ventures. |
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http://www.corven.com/ - http://www.corven.com/
An international advisory and private equity firm specializing in corporate venturing, providing experience and resources necessary to start new businesses. |
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Alpha Genesis Inc. - http://www.alpha-genesis.com/
Offering market analysis, due diligence, consulting and management services. Lists ventures, and presents the advisory board. |
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Argonaut Partners - http://www.argollc.com/
Focus: acquisition of industrial and business-to-business, value-added distributorships, direct marketing, catalog and telemarketing firms. |
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Commonwealth Associates - http://www.comw.com/
Merchant bank and venture capital firm offers services to corporate clients and investors. |
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Sorrento Ventures - http://www.sorrentoventures.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 |
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B4 Ventures - http://www.b4ventures.com/
Focus: venture capital or investment capital for small to mid-sized fast growing businesses. |
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Seidler Equity Partners - http://www.sepfunds.com/
Investment focus: established, growing, niche-dominant manufacturing and service businesses. |
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Brockway Moran and Partners - http://www.brockwaymoran.com/
Investment focus: equity capital for acquisition recapitalization of middle-market companies. |
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Quad-C Management - http://www.quadcmanagement.com/
Focus: private equity investment firm seeking to partner with successful management teams to complete leveraged acquisitions or recapitalizations of leading middle-market companies. |
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The Pembroke Group - http://www.thepembrokegroup.com/
Investment focus: early-stage funding for proprietary software and hardware technology, information technology and e-commerce investments. |
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MDB Capital Group, LLC - http://www.mdbcapital.com
MDB Capital Group is a merchant/investment banking firm that is a NASD registered broker/dealer located in Santa Monica, CA. MDB invests via Reg D private placements in public and private companies. |
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All American Capital - http://www.aacapitalcorp.com
Focus: venture capital funding using private placements and IPOs. |
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The Bellwether Group - http://www.bellwethergrp.com/
Focus: provides strategy consulting, financial advisory, principal investing and acquisition capabilities to Southern California based high growth companies. |
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The StartUp Lab - http://www.thestartuplab.com/
Focus: business and venture development company providing services to venture capitalists and early-stage companies. |
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Gryffindor Capital Partners - http://gcpfunds.com/
Investment focus: emerging technology, growth equity and corporate consolidations in energy, information technology, manufacturing, diversified services, business services and healthcare. |
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http://www.sagicap.com/ - http://www.sagicap.com/
Focus: European-based advisor specialized in consultancy services dedicated to the private equity industry. |
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Sonostar Ventures - http://www.sonostarventures.com/
Focus: invests in promising private companies across a number of industries and in the public debt and equity markets. |
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Alliance Global Investments Inc. - http://www.agiicorp.com/
A private equity investment firm providing venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, and export development services. |
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Concert Capital Partners - http://www.concertcapital.com/
Investment focus: private equity firm that partners with the founders and management teams of profitable businesses experiencing rapid growth. |
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Ovation Capital - http://www.ovationcapital.com/
Investment focus: includes Internet and mobile infrastructure, software, storage and data networking. |
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Mac Investment Company Inc - http://www.macinvestco.com/
Focus: specializing in venture capital, private equity, and direct investments. |
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Postidea.com - http://www.postidea.com/
Business financing marketplace for entrepreneurs and investors. |
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Partech International - http://www.partechintl.com/
Investment focus: startups and emerging growth companies in the United States, Europe and Japan involving information technology, life sciences and business services |
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Advent International - http://www.adventinternational.com/
Investment focus: companies at all stages of development, including early-stage, and in virtually any industry. |