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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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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers - http://www.kpcb.com
Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund |
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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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New Enterprise Associates - http://www.nea.com/
Investment focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and life sciences |
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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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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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JAFCO America Ventures, Inc. - http://www.jafco.com/
Investment focus: communications, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors |
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http://www.3i.com/ - http://www.3i.com/
Focus: leading international venture capital company. |
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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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Sierra Ventures - http://www.sierraven.com
Investment focus: early-stage healthcare, information technology-related companies and service businesses |
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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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FundingPost - http://www.fundingpost.com/
Raising venture capital by presenting to angel and venture investors. |
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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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Dow Jones VentureReporter - http://www.venturereporter.net
Providing a database venture capital investments and investors. [Requires subscription] |
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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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Bain Capital - http://www.baincapital.com/
Focus: venture and expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies in a wide range of industries. |
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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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August Capital - http://www.augustcap.com
Investment focus: companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets |
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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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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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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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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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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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Madison Dearborn Partners - http://www.mdcp.com/
Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing. |
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Advanced Technology Ventures - http://www.atvcapital.com/
Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care. |
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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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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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CDC Capital Partners - http://www.cdcgroup.com/
Private equity investors in emerging markets. |
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Flagship Ventures - http://www.flagshipventures.com
Investment focus: life science, information technology, and communications sectors. |
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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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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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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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Warburg Pincus Ventures - http://www.warburgpincus.com/
Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services. |
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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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JLA Ventures - http://www.jlaventures.com/
Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional prospects for growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services. |
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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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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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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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Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF) - http://www.seafweb.org
Provides equity financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries, emerging markets and in countries undergoing economic transition. |
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PureTech Ventures LLC - http://www.puretechventures.com
Supports life science ventures based on breakthroughs from research institutions, providing management support and seed funding. |
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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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Frontenac Company - http://www.frontenac.com/
Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses. |
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Japan Asia Investment Company - http://www.jaic-vc.co.jp/
Focus: industrial sectors that improve quality of life. |
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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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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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Vanguard Venture Partners - http://www.vanguardventures.com/
Investment focus: pre-revenue stage in information technology and life sciences sectors |
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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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Keystone Capital, Inc - http://www.keystonecapitalinc.com/
Private equity investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions. |
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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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Gemini Investors - http://www.gemini-investors.com/
Focus: investing in middle market companies. |
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NCIC Capital Fund - http://www.ncicfund.org/
Focus: debt and equity financing for early-stage, technology based companies in Ohio and Indiana |
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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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Hamilton Robinson - http://www.hrco.com/
Investment focus: smaller, middle market opportunities in the areas of energy, utilities, industrial process and business services. |
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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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EnerTech Capital - http://www.enertechcapital.com/
Investment focus: profitable service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace but will also consider early-stage. |
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Westaim Corporation (The) - http://www.westaim.com/
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). |
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Telesystem - http://www.telesystem.ca/
Focus: private equity company of the digital economy, active on a worldwide scale through a knowledge network. |
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Venture Management Services - http://www.vmsgroup.com/
Focus: startup and later stage companies involving wireless communications, Internet, value added networking services, content and local service. |
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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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Summer Street Capital Partners - http://www.summerstreetcapital.com/
Focus: private equity fund, venture capital, investment, financing. |
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Tullis-Dickerson & Co. - http://www.tullisdickerson.com/
Investment focus: small and mid-sized emerging growth healthcare companies. |
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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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Ampal-American Israel Corporation - http://www.ampal.com/
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) |
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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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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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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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Harris & Harris Group, Inc. - http://www.hhvc.com
Venture capitalist investment company which supports private investee companies. (Nasdaq: HHGP). |
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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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Mycapital, Inc. - http://www.mycapital.com/
Venture capital database and web application to help companies raise capital. |
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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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DragonVenture - http://www.dragonventure.com/
Focus: cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company. |
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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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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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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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Capital Venture Partners - http://www.capvent.com/
Investment focus: buyouts and venture capital funds. |
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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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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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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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Pacifica Fund - http://www.pacificafund.com/
Focus: Silicon Valley based seed and first round venture capital firm. |
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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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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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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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Venture Planning Associates - http://www.ventureplan.com/
Consulting services for business finance and funding strategies for entrepreneurs. |
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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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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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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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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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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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Funk Ventures, Inc. - http://www.funkventures.com/
Investment firm with focus on venture capital, business acceleration and real estate. |
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Edelson Technology Partners - http://www.edelsontech.com/
Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financing and leveraged buyouts in a broad range of technologies. |
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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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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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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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Churchill Capital - http://www.churchillnet.com/
Investment focus: middle market companies for buy-outs, recapitalizations, acquisitions and growth needs. |
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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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Maton Venture - http://www.maton.com
Investment focus: technology-based, private companies at various stages of development |
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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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Hampshire Equity Partners - http://www.hampep.com/
Focus: invests in growth financing, buyouts, acquisitions, consolidations and corporate restructuring. |
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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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Seaflower Associates, Inc. - http://www.seaflower.com/
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 |
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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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Desai Capital Management Inc. - http://www.desaicapital.com/
Focused on sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations of proven growth companies. |
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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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Tuckerman Capital - http://www.tuckermancapital.com/
Focus: partners with fundless sponsors to acquire profitable manufacturing companies. |
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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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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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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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Proma Investment - http://www.proma-investment.com/
Offers investment database with contacts to investors, financiers, and venture capital firms. |
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Waterside Capital Corp - http://www.watersidecapital.com
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. |
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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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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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Swander Pace Capital - http://www.spcap.com
San Francisco-based firm providing value-added investing in consumer products companies. |
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Fulcrum Partners Ltd - http://www.fulcrum-partners.com/
Offers training for those involved in all aspects of the venture capital and private equity markets. |
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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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Ventanis - http://www.ventanis.com/
Portfolio monitoring and management software for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. |
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New Era Partners - http://www.newera-partners.com
Provides investor due diligence, business and technology consultative services to small and mid-size technology firms as well as the venture capital community. |
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Venture Capital Strategies - http://www.venturecapitalstrategies.com/
Prepares entrepreneurs or companies seeking investment capital and unites them with investors. |
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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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Mergenet Solutions Inc. - http://www.mergenetsolutions.com/
Focus: specializing in venture capital, management services, shell funding, private placement. |
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Independence Holdings Partners - http://www.independencefund.com/
Focus: private equity, venture capital and alternative investment products for high net worth investors, institutions and their financial advisors. |
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Southeastern Technology Fund - http://www.setfund.com/
Investment focus: 1st or 2nd round investments in Southeastern US companies providing information technology and solutions to the healthcare, and telecommunication industries |
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Rockmont Capital - http://www.rockmontcapital.com/
Focus: investing in and acquiring companies and working with their management to build profitable and successful businesses. |
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Parallax Capital Partners - http://www.parallaxcap.com/
Investment focus: acquisitions and investments in technology businesses. |
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Thompson Clive Venture Capital - http://www.tcvc.com/
Investment focus: life science and information technology ventures, early-stage through later-stage, on both sides of the Atlantic |
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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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Arcturus - http://www.earcturus.com/
Focus: acts as managing venturer and marketing in corporate joint ventures. |
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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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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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Sterling Investment Partners - http://www.sterlinglp.com/
Focus: middle-market company buy-outs and capital for ownership transitions, growth and financial restructuring. |
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Roser Ventures, LLC - http://www.roserventures.com/
Investment focus: early-stage companies across a broad range of industries and located in the Rocky Mountain region |
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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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Astrina Capital - http://www.astrinacapital.com/
Focus: venture consulting and financial advisory for early-stage companies. |
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Forest Hill Partners - http://www.foresthillpartners.com
Investment focus: equity capital in management buyouts, turnarounds, recapitalizations, and growth financings. |
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Darwin Venture Partners - http://www.schwartzgroup.com/
Investment focus: early-stage business development and financing connecting venture capital firms and Fortune 1000 opportunities. |
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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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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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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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Alpha Genesis Inc. - http://www.alpha-genesis.com/
Offering market analysis, due diligence, consulting and management services. Lists ventures, and presents the advisory board. |