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Warburg Pincus Ventures Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services. http://www.warburgpincus.com/ Weiss, Peck & Greer - Venture Partners Investment focus: early- and expansion-stage information technology and life sciences companies throughout the US http://www.wpgvp.com Edison Venture Fund Investment focus: proprietary technologies or unique services in emerging markets, generally prefering expansion stage companies. http://www.edisonventure.com/ EnerTech Capital Investment focus: profitable service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace but will also consider early-stage. http://www.enertechcapital.com/ Greylock Investment focus: all stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare industries http://www.greylock.com/ Cornerstone Capital Holdings Private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations and industry consolidations. http://www.cstonecapital.com/ Sevin Rosen Funds Investment focus: early-stage (and follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences companies http://www.srfunds.com North Bridge Venture Partners Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care http://www.nbvp.com/ Kestrel Venture Management Investment focus: deals too large for most individual investors and too small for many venture capital firms - broad array of New England industries http://www.kestrelvm.com/ 21st Century Internet Venture Partners Investment focus: startup ventures pursuing opportunities born of the Internet http://www.21st-century.com Friedland Capital Focus: venture capital and equity raising services. http://www.friedlandcapital.com/ L Frecon Enterprises Investment focus: women owned businesses or businesses targeting the female segment. http://www.lfrecon.com/ Quad-C Management Focus: private equity investment firm seeking to partner with successful management teams to complete leveraged acquisitions or recapitalizations of leading middle-market companies. http://www.quadcmanagement.com/ CDP Capital - Technology Ventures Investment focus: Québec, Canada, USA, Europe technology projects at various stages, from pre-startups to buy-outs. http://www.cdpcapital.com/technologyventures/ Crescent Capital Investment Investment focus: acquire significant equity interests in successful growth companies. http://www.crescentcapital.com/ KPS Special Situations Fund Investment focus: constructive investing in turnarounds, restructurings, bankruptcies, employee buyouts and other special situations. http://www.kpsfund.com/ Crescent Private Capital Focus: private equity firm based in Boston investing in middle-market growth companies. http://www.crescentlp.com/ Financial Development Company Focus: assists companies with their venture and equity capital needs. http://www.findevco.com/ Tuckerman Capital Focus: partners with fundless sponsors to acquire profitable manufacturing companies. http://www.tuckermancapital.com/ Koor Industries Ltd. Investment company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets. http://www.koor.co.il/ Enterprise Partners Investment focus: privately held early-stage and emerging growth companies and selective leverage buy-outs of established companies. http://www.epvc.com/ Venture Management Services Focus: startup and later stage companies involving wireless communications, Internet, value added networking services, content and local service. http://www.vmsgroup.com/ Hydro-Quebec CapiTech Focus: invests in companies whose technological products and services are related to the energy field. http://www.hqcapitech.com/en/index.html NCIC Capital Fund Focus: debt and equity financing for early-stage, technology based companies in Ohio and Indiana http://www.ncicfund.org/ Clarity Partners Focus: private equity and venture capital firm focused in Southern California exclusively on investments in communications, media and related technologies. http://www.claritypartners.net/ All American Capital Focus: venture capital funding using private placements and IPOs. http://www.allamericancapital.com/ VenGlobal Capital Investment focus: Early-stage ventures particularly in the data communications and electronic design automation (EDA) industries. http://www.venglobal.com Trautman Wasserman and Company Focus: combines venture capital investing with conventional money management for companies requiring funding in the one to twenty five million dollar range. http://www.trautmanwasserman.net/ MicroCap Venture Fund Focus: business capital and venture financing using alternative strategies and structures including a reverse merger. http://www.xpressmarketing.biz/MicroCap/ Winfield Capital Corp. Uses funds borrowed from the SBA, together with its own capital, to provide loans to, and to make equity investments in, unaffiliated business concerns. (Nasdaq: WCAP). http://www.winfieldcap.com/ FLAG Capital Management, LLC Investment focus: manages limited partnerships through which qualified individuals, families and their trusts or foundations invest in venture capital funds. http://www.flagcapital.com The Providencia Partnership Focus: business and project availability of funding, strategic management and due-diligence assessment. http://www.propari.com/ Freeman Spogli Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies. http://www.freemanspogli.com/ Advent International Investment focus: companies at all stages of development, including early-stage, and in virtually any industry. http://www.adventinternational.com/ The Bellwether Group Focus: provides strategy consulting, financial advisory, principal investing and acquisition capabilities to Southern California based high growth companies. http://www.bellwethergrp.com/ North American Funds Focus: acquiring or making substantial equity investments in small businesses with significant growth potential. http://northamericanfund.com/ Darwin Venture Partners Investment focus: early-stage business development and financing connecting venture capital firms and Fortune 1000 opportunities. http://www.schwartzgroup.com/ Outlook Ventures Investment focus: early-stage investments in consumer and business-to-business Internet services, intranet-based business applications, interactive tools, multimedia and telecommunications http://www.outlookventures.com/ Almeida Capital Focus: global venture capital research and advisory services. http://www.almeidacapital.com/ Wind Point Partners Investment focus: all stages of development, from expansion capital for emerging growth companies to sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations http://www.wppartners.com/ Needham Capital Partners Focus: manages investment partnerships primarily in the equities of later-stage private growth companies. http://www.needhamcapital.com/ Sports Venture Partners Focus: alternative investment vehicle for professional athletes investing in established growth equity financing. http://www.svpllc.com/ Sierra Ventures Investment focus: early-stage healthcare, information technology-related companies and service businesses http://www.sierraven.com RoundTable Healthcare Partners Investment focus: operating-oriented private equity firm focused on the healthcare industry. http://www.roundtablehp.com/ J.L. Albright Venture Partners Inc. Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional prospects for growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services http://www.jlaventures.com/ Peninsula Capital Partners Investment focus: subordinated debt and equity to superior middle-market companies requiring capital to fund growth or other special situations. http://www.peninsulafunds.com/ Argonaut Partners Focus: acquisition of industrial and business-to-business, value-added distributorships, direct marketing, catalog and telemarketing firms. http://www.argollc.com/ Harris & Harris Group, Inc. Venture capitalist investment company which supports private investee companies. (Nasdaq: HHGP). http://www.hhgp.com/ The StartUp Lab Focus: business and venture development company providing services to venture capitalists and early-stage companies. http://www.thestartuplab.com/ IDG Ventures Investment focus: information technology companies, preferring either seed or first-round financings, or very late (last before IPO) stage investments http://www.idgventures.com Forest Hill Partners Investment focus: equity capital in management buyouts, turnarounds, recapitalizations, and growth financings. http://www.foresthillpartners.com Arcturus Focus: acts as managing venturer and marketing in corporate joint ventures. http://www.earcturus.com/ TL Ventures Investment focus: category-defining, early-stage companies in information technology, communications and biotechnology. http://www.tlventures.com/ The Pembroke Group Investment focus: early-stage funding for proprietary software and hardware technology, information technology and e-commerce investments. http://www.thepembrokegroup.com/ General Atlantic Partners Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies. http://www.gapartners.com/ Incyte Capital Focus: private equity fund which seeks value-added investments in small to medium sized private companies. http://www.incytecapital.com/ Corpfin.com Corporate finance solutions in private investment, public equities, and investment offerings. http://www.corpfin.com/ StartupX Investment focus: online trading platform which provides funding through venture capital and private investors. http://www.startupx.com/ Menlo Ventures Investment focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies in the areas of biotechnology, medical devices, healthcare services, computer software, hardware, networking, communications, and the Internet http://www.menloventures.com 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 http://www.sproutgroup.com/ 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 http://www.klinehawkes.com/ Roser Ventures, LLC Investment focus: early-stage companies across a broad range of industries and located in the Rocky Mountain region http://www.roserventures.com/ Piper Jaffray Venture Capital Investment focus: emerging-growth companies in medical devices, healthcare services and technology. http://www.piperjaffray.com/info3.aspx?id=116 New York Private Placement Network Focus: financial services firm and an online global marketplace for all classes of private securities. http://www.nyppe.com/ Kennet Capital Investment focus: European information and communications technology companies http://www.kennetcapital.com/ Funk Ventures Focus: primary investment interests in technology, education, entertainment and real estate. http://www.funkventures.com/ Churchill Capital Investment focus: middle market companies for buy-outs, recapitalizations, acquisitions and growth needs. http://www.churchillnet.com/ nGenuity Capital Investment focus: profitable and near profitable companies, as well as start-up companies with a short term path to profitability. http://www.ngenuitycapital.com/ EQY.com Focus: incubation reference site for investors and start-ups. http://www.eqy.com/ Astrina Capital Focus: venture consulting and financial advisory for early-stage companies. http://www.astrinacapital.com/ RAF Ventures Investment focus: early-stage service, financial, retail, and manufacturing companies, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states http://www.rafind.com/ RRE Investors Investment focus: expansion stage information technology ventures http://www.rre.com/ 3i Focus: leading international venture capital company. http://www.3i.com/ SSM Ventures Investment focus: primarily Southeast and Texas companies at various stages of development involving software and technology, consumer services and retail, telecommunications, healthcare services, and business services http://www.ssmventures.com/ Sterling Investment Partners Focus: middle-market company buy-outs and capital for ownership transitions, growth and financial restructuring. http://www.sterlinglp.com/ Keystone Capital, Inc Private equity investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions. http://www.keystonecapitalinc.com/ Labrador Ventures Investment focus: early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital technologies - information, communications, software, media/entertainment, and semiconductors http://www.labrador.com/ Information Technology Ventures Investment focus: fast growing information technology enterprises with "unfair" competitive advantages that have the potential to dominate their market space http://www.itventures.com/ Ampersand Ventures Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies in communications, information technologies, life sciences and specialty materials and chemicals. http://www.ampersandventures.com/ Advanced Technology Ventures Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care. http://www.atvcapital.com/ Gryffindor Capital Partners Investment focus: emerging technology, growth equity and corporate consolidations in energy, information technology, manufacturing, diversified services, business services and healthcare. http://gcpfunds.com/ Fremont Ventures Focus: help experienced management teams build businesses by providing relationships, strategic insight and ongoing financial support. http://www.fremontventures.com/ Thompson Clive Venture Capital Investment focus: life science and information technology ventures, early-stage through later-stage, on both sides of the Atlantic http://www.tcvc.com/ NanoBioCorp Focus: providing biotechnology as well as nanotechnology, biomedical, investment company for healthcare investments. http://www.nanobiocorp.com/ Trade Management Indonesia Specialist in facilitating private equity investment in Indonesia with a wide range of business information services, and data base of qualified companies. Focus of is on firms with foreign export markets or local distribution, as well as the touris http://www.tmiconsulting.com TI (Texas Instruments) Ventures, L.P. Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software infrastructure and hardware applications leveraging digital signal processing (DSP) and related technologies http://www.ti.com/tiventures Flagship Ventures Investment focus: life science, information technology, and communications sectors. http://www.flagshipventures.com/ Skypoint Capital Corporation Investment focus: very early-stage high-technology opportunities in North America, the United Kingdom and Israel in telecommunications and IT http://www.skypointcorp.com/ Summer Street Capital Partners Focus: private equity fund, venture capital, investment, financing. http://www.summerstreetcapital.com/ MBC Dotcom Venture capital and business finance facilitator and advisory firm. http://www.mybizcapital.com/ American Capital Strategies Evaluates and secures financing for middle market companies. http://americancapitalonline.com/ Weston Presidio Capital Investment focus: later-stage growth companies, recapitalizations and buyouts in a diverse set of industries http://www.westonpresidio.com Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund http://www.kpcb.com National City Equity Partners Focus: invests equity and mezzanine capital primarily in private companies. http://www.nationalcity.com/corporate/business/equity.asp Cogent Partners Focus: private equity-focused investment bank that helps institutional, corporate and individual investors sell their assets in the private equity secondary market. http://www.cogent-partners.net/ Rockmont Capital Focus: investing in and acquiring companies and working with their management to build profitable and successful businesses. http://www.rockmontcapital.com/ Thomson-CSF Ventures Investment focus: electronics, telecommunications, and computer software and systems opportunities where there is potential synergy with Thomson-CSF companies http://www.ventures.thomson-csf.com/ CrossBridge Venture Partners Investment focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies in information technology. http://crossbridgevp.com/ Rosewood Capital Investment focus: primarily expansions and recapitalizations involving branded consumer products, retail, or service sectors, including online commerce http://www.rosewoodvc.com Dorset Capital Private Equity for Consumer Growth Companies http://www.dorsetcapital.com/ Industrial Growth Partners IGP provides private equity capital for management buyouts in middle-market manufacturing companies. http://www.igpequity.com/ Stone Canyon Venture Partners Focus: equity investments in select early-stage businesses with high growth prospects. http://www.stonecanyonvp.com/ Morgenthaler Ventures Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts involving information technology, health care or industrial technology http://www.morgenthaler.com/ Venture Capitalists in the UK Focus: best of venture capitalists in the UK on the Internet. http://www.cantufind.com/venture_capitalists.htm National Venture Capital Association Dedicated to defining, serving and representing the interests of the venture capital and private equity industries http://www.nvca.org/ Technology Partners Focus: seed or first stage ventures involving information processing, communications or health care http://www.technologypartners.com/ Brand Equity Ventures Investment focus: broadly across the consumer sector in early-stage companies that are ready for rapid expansion http://www.brand-equity.com/ Blue Point Capital Partners Focus: private equity investment firm that invests equity capital in middle market businesses. http://www.bluepointcapital.com/ Idanta Partners Ltd. Investment focus: young companies that have the potential to grow into substantial enterprises in the fields of information technology, health care and life sciences, retail and others http://www.idanta.com/ BancBoston Capital Investment focus: early-stage venture capital to equity sponsorship, co-investment and mezzanine capital for buyouts, recapitalizations and expansion of mid-size companies http://www.bancboscap.com/ Matrix Partners Investment focus: early-stage software and communications companies http://www.matrixpartners.com/ Columbia Strategy Focus: provides functional resources to funds to actively manage private equity and venture capital assets. http://www.columbiastrategy.com/ WaldenVC Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software, interactive services and related enabling technology. http://www.waldenvc.com/ Telos Venture Partners Investment focus: post-seed funding --generally the first or second significant financing -- in information technology, semiconductors, and communications. Also invests in the "restarting" of struggling private companies. http://www.telosvp.com/ Convergent Capital Focus: manages technology-oriented venture capital funds in France, Europe and Israel. http://www.convergent-capital.com/ B4 Ventures Focus: venture capital or investment capital for small to mid-sized fast growing businesses. http://www.b4ventures.com/ Seven Hills Partners Focus: investments and buy-outs of entrepreneurial enterprises, primarily in the areas of healthcare and interactive media. http://www.sevenhillspartners.com/ Seaflower Associates, Inc. Investment focus: promising seed and first-round investments in companies in most segments of the biomedical industry that are located in either New England or the Great Lakes region http://www.seaflower.com/ Trinity Ventures Investment focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer software, electronic commerce, and communications http://www.trinityventures.com/ Crosspoint Venture Partners An initial stage equity investor with focused expertise in three strategic areas - networking and communications, health care, and financial services. http://www.crosspointvc.com/ Desai Capital Management Inc. Focused on sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations of proven growth companies. http://www.desaicapital.com/ Regulation D Resources Focus: provide the framework to raise venture capital and angel investment. http://www.regdresources.com/ CDC Capital Partners Private equity investors in emerging markets. http://www.cdcgroup.com/ Technology Investments Focus: seed stage information technology ventures located in Northern California http://www.carsten.com/ Transatlantic Ventures Focus: assist European companies in preparing and implementing their entry plan into the North American market. http://www.taventures.com/ Sustainable Jobs Fund Community development venture capital fund which finances recycling, remanufacturing, environmental and other companies. http://www.sjfund.com/ RocketFinance.com Venturing support for commercial space ventures and feasibility studies. http://www.rocketfinance.com/ Triple Technology Focus: UK based company seeks investment to expand its services. http://www.tripletechnology.com/ Venrock Associates Venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family with investment focus: a high percentage of investments are seed or first round, and second round investments are considered where there is a complete management team and demonstrated progress toward market le http://www.venrock.com/ Parallax Capital Partners Investment focus: acquisitions and investments in technology businesses. http://www.parallaxcap.com/ Capital Venture Partners Investment focus: buyouts and venture capital funds. http://www.capvent.com/ Allantra Venture Development Technology business management consulting services. http://www.allantra.com Intersouth Partners Investment focus: seed and early-stage life science and technology companies located near the Research Triangle and Austin http://www.intersouth.com/ LeBonfante Group Focus: develop businesses and provide venture capital primarily throughout the Hispanic market. http://www.lebonfante.com/ Frontenac Company Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses. http://www.frontenac.com/ NPDC Focus: seek to identify, fund and nurture business ideas through participation of our members to create and capture new markets. http://www.npdcinc.com/ Hickory Venture Capital Corporation Investment focus: rapidly growing ventues throughout the Southeast, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, especially involving healthcare services, medical devices, telecommunications, and software http://www.hvcc.com/ InterWest Partners Investment focus: full range of stages in information technology, health care and non-technology ventures http://www.interwest.com/ Hamilton Robinson Investment focus: smaller, middle market opportunities in the areas of energy, utilities, industrial process and business services. http://www.hrco.com/ Lynwood Capital Partners Focus: acquiring or investing in niche businesses with revenues of ten to fifty million dollars. http://www.lynwoodcapital.com/ Technology Crossover Ventures Investment focus: growth capital to expansion stage information technology companies http://www.tcv.com/ Mac Investment Company Inc Focus: specializing in venture capital, private equity, and direct investments. http://www.macinvestco.com/ MDB Capital Group, LLC MDB Capital Group is a merchant/investment banking firm that is a NASD registered broker/dealer located in Santa Monica, CA. MDB invests via Reg D private placements in public and private companies. http://www.mdbcapital.com Smedvig Capital Investment focus: Europe based mid- to early-stage companies with specialisations which employ technology for re-engineering of business processes or create added value from the use of customer or market data. http://www.smedvigcapital.com Signal Lake Venture Fund Investment focus: early-stage broadband telecom and networking infrastructure being built for the global economy. http://www.signallake.com/ Independence Holdings Partners Focus: private equity, venture capital and alternative investment products for high net worth investors, institutions and their financial advisors. http://www.independencefund.com/ MC Capital Europe Limited Investment focus: private equity investor into small and medium sized UK and European companies. http://www.mccapitaleurope.com/ Hibiscus Investments Investment focus: bringing leading edge technology to the marketplace. http://www.hibiscus-cornes.com/ Japan Asia Investment Company Focus: industrial sectors that improve quality of life. http://www.jaic-vc.co.jp/ Abundance Venture Capital Focus: private equity and venture capital investments for International investors who need protection of capital and tax-free returns. http://www.abundancevc.com/ Southeastern Technology Fund Investment focus: 1st or 2nd round investments in Southeastern US companies providing information technology and solutions to the healthcare, and telecommunication industries http://www.setfund.com/ Capital Solutions Network Provides access to a network of private investors and institutional investment groups. http://www.capitalsearch.net/ Apax Partners Investment focus: start-ups to later-stage buyouts in a broad range of industries, most notably healthcare, information technology, telecommunications, specialty retailing and new media. http://www.apax.com/ Pacific Horizon Ventures Investment focus: technology companies involving healthcare or life science; early-stages in the Northwest, later-stage deals can be anywhere in U.S. http://www.pacifichorizon.com/ Foundation Capital Investment focus: start-ups in their formative stages, and all subsequent financings as a company develops, involving Enterprise & Internet Software, Communications & Networking, Technical Software, and Semiconductors. http://www.foundationcapital.com/ Novak Biddle Venture Partners Investment focus: information technology companies in the very early stages through first round, but also later-stage opportunities and spin-outs where they can add significant value http://www.novakbiddle.com/ Aragon Financial Group Investment focus: venture capital, financing and debt restructuring. http://www.aragon-group.com/ Svoboda, Collins L.L.C. Focus: investing in and building value-added service and distribution companies with fundamentally sound operating models. http://www.svoco.com Compere Associates Focus: principal investor combining management, strategy and financing in acquiring telecoms, media, utility and financial services businesses. http://www.compere.com/ Silicom Ventures Focus: provide funding to early-stage high technology start-ups. http://www.silicomventures.com/ American Securities Capital Partners Provides equity investments in privately and publicly held companies in numerous industries. http://www.american-securities.com/ Sequoia Capital Investment focus: primarily very early-stage West Coast technology companies; post beta-stage around Boston and Austi