Listed directly in this category are professional venture capital firms that raise fund(s) from investors and then identify, screen, select and invest directly in entrepreneurial business ventures that are typically in their early stages. Venture capital affiliates of corporations are also listed.
The subcategory Entrepreneurial Resources and its subcategories list many other sites potentially useful to entrepreneurs, including other forms of access to capital, e.g. angel investors.
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Focus: leading international venture capital company.
Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care.
A global private equity firm investing exclusively in mid to upper mid market buyouts and selective growth capital investments.
Acquires majority interests in mid-sized investment management firms. Profiles the company, and affiliate products. Investor information. (NYSE: AMG)
Technology business management consulting services.
Provides equity investments in privately and publicly held companies in numerous industries.
Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies in communications, information technologies, life sciences and specialty materials and chemicals.
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.
Focus: venture consulting and financial advisory for early-stage companies.
Investment focus: companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets
Focus: venture and expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies in a wide range of industries.
Investment focus on entrepreneurial companies in healthcare, information systems, telecommunications and retailing.
Focus: private equity investment firm that invests equity capital in middle market businesses.
Investment focus: equity capital for acquisition recapitalization of middle-market companies.
Focus: acquire businesses that can be grown through internal means and by add-on acquisitions.
Private equity investors in emerging markets.
Focus: private equity and venture capital firm focused in Southern California exclusively on investments in communications, media and related technologies.
Private equity fund focusing on the acquisition of middle-market manufacturing, distribution and service companies.
Investment focus: private equity firm that partners with the founders and management teams of profitable businesses experiencing rapid growth.
Private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations and industry consolidations.
Focus: assessment of the contribution of multinational enterprises to human development in emerging and developing countries.
Investment focus: early-stage business development and financing connecting venture capital firms and Fortune 1000 opportunities.
Focus: private equity investments in a broad range of middle market companies having superior management teams.
Investment focus: private equity investor and advisor focused on Southeastern U.S. businesses in the Life Science and Information Technology sectors.
Focus: cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company.
Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financing and leveraged buyouts in a broad range of technologies.
Investment focus: profitable service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace but will also consider early-stage.
Investment focus: equity capital in management buyouts, turnarounds, recapitalizations, and growth financings.
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.
Focus: capital for management buy-outs, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs.
Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies.
Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses.
Offers training for those involved in all aspects of the venture capital and private equity markets.
Focus: early-stage venture capital investment with focus on information technology and business services companies.
Focus: investing in middle market companies.
Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies.
Funds breakthrough ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business building resources and strategic support.
Investment focus: all stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare industries
Investment focus: smaller, middle market opportunities in the areas of energy, utilities, industrial process and business services.
Investment focus: software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buy-outs of operating companies.
Focus: private equity fund which seeks value-added investments in small to medium sized private companies.
IGP provides private equity capital for management buyouts in middle-market manufacturing companies.
Investment focus: leading early-stage companies with advanced technology in information and life sciences, and selectively in later stage opportunities
Investment focus: seed and early-stage life science and technology companies located near the Research Triangle and Austin
Investment focus: full range of stages in information technology, health care and non-technology ventures
Investment focus: communications, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors
Focus: industrial sectors that improve quality of life.
Investment focus: telecommunications, software and information technologies, but will consider outstanding opportunities in other industries
Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional prospects for growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services.
Investment focus: private equity for a global investment opportunities including management buy-outs and recapitalizations, venture capital, growth equity and equity to reduce excessive debt burdens.
Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund
Investment focus: constructive investing in turnarounds, restructurings, bankruptcies, employee buyouts and other special situations.
Investment focus: early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital technologies - information, communications, software, media/entertainment, and semiconductors
Focus: acquiring or investing in niche businesses with revenues of ten to fifty million dollars.
Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing.
Investment focus: technology-based, private companies at various stages of development
Investment focus: early-stage software and communications companies
Investment focus: seed to second-round financing in companies with unique, information or healthcare technology-driven products and services that address well-defined needs in rapidly growing markets
Investment focus: private communications, Internet infrastructure, software, semiconductor, data storage, and computer hardware companies located in the United States.
Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts involving information technology, health care or industrial technology
Venture capital database and web application to help companies raise capital.
Focus: debt and equity financing for early-stage, technology based companies in Ohio and Indiana
Investment focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and life sciences
Focus: acquiring or making substantial equity investments in small businesses with significant growth potential.
Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care
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
Investment focus: technology companies involving healthcare or life science; early-stages in the Northwest, later-stage deals can be anywhere in U.S.
Focus: private investment firm founded by experienced operating executives and investment professionals.
Investment focus: acquisitions and investments in technology businesses.
Investment focus: subordinated debt and equity to superior middle-market companies requiring capital to fund growth or other special situations.
Offers investment database with contacts to investors, financiers, and venture capital firms.
Focus: private equity investment firm seeking to partner with successful management teams to complete leveraged acquisitions or recapitalizations of leading middle-market companies.
Investment focus: early-stage service, financial, retail, and manufacturing companies, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states
Focus: provide the framework to raise venture capital and angel investment.
Focus: organizes and invests in the acquisition of select, well-established middle market companies.
Investment focus: 1st round and follow-on for Midwest companies in a variety of industries; not seed or startup stages -- must be actively selling their product or service
Focus: non-profit that connects entrepreneurs, service professionals, investors, venture capitalists and other funding sources.
Focus: investing in and acquiring companies and working with their management to build profitable and successful businesses.
Investment focus: operating-oriented private equity firm focused on the healthcare industry.
Investment focus: expansion stage information technology ventures
Private-equity holding company focused on cultivating emerging growth companies; primarily technology related.
Focus: European-based advisor specialized in consultancy services dedicated to the private equity industry.
Investment focus: seed and early-stage new biomedical market opportunities, including emerging technology
Investment focus: established, growing, niche-dominant manufacturing and service businesses.
Investment focus: Seed stage, early stage and growth stage emerging technology companies across the US, China, India and Israel.
Investment focus: early-stage (and follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences companies
Investment focus: early-stage healthcare, information technology-related companies and service businesses
Investment focus: ventures of all stages, primarily in technology-based companies, but also non-technology
Focus: provide funding to early-stage high technology start-ups.
Investment Focus: mezzanine financing for growing small and medium-sized businesses.
Offers programs which educate, showcase and support women entrepreneurs as they seek equity capital and grow their companies.
Focus: private equity firm engaged in the acquisition and ownership of operating businesses.
Focus: middle-market company buy-outs and capital for ownership transitions, growth and financial restructuring.
Focus: private equity fund, venture capital, investment, financing.
Focus: profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services
Investment focus: technology-based startups which pioneer products or services in growth markets
Focus: investing in and building value-added service and distribution companies with fundamentally sound operating models.
San Francisco-based firm providing value-added investing in consumer products companies.
Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare, financial services, media and consumer products
Non-profit organization bringing together users and providers of resources for new and emerging businesses.
Investment focus: growth capital to expansion stage information technology companies
Focus: seed stage information technology ventures located in Northern California
Focus: seed or first stage ventures involving information processing, communications or health care
Links investors to companies with high growth potential who are seeking funding from £50,000 to £1million.
Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software infrastructure and hardware applications leveraging digital signal processing (DSP) and related technologies
Investment focus: exclusively in information and business services companies, including content providers, transaction processors, application software and Internet products and services
Investment focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer software, electronic commerce, and communications
Focus: partners with fundless sponsors to acquire profitable manufacturing companies.
Investment focus: small and mid-sized emerging growth healthcare companies.
Focus: affiliate of Advent International investing in Turkish companies.
Venture capital for technology and life sciences companies.
Investment focus: principally companies headquartered in the Western United States in three sectors of industry: medical, technology and retail/consumer
Sells online reference manual on all aspects of venture capital, including forms, annotations and polls.
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
Consulting services for business finance and funding strategies for entrepreneurs.
Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software, interactive services and related enabling technology.
Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services.
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).
Focus: early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range of industries
Investment focus: all stages of development, from expansion capital for emerging growth companies to sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations
Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies in communications, information technologies, life sciences and specialty materials and chemicals.
Investment focus: private communications, Internet infrastructure, software, semiconductor, data storage, and computer hardware companies located in the United States.
Investment focus on entrepreneurial companies in healthcare, information systems, telecommunications and retailing.
Investment focus: early-stage healthcare, information technology-related companies and service businesses
A global private equity firm investing exclusively in mid to upper mid market buyouts and selective growth capital investments.
Investment focus: Seed stage, early stage and growth stage emerging technology companies across the US, China, India and Israel.
Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional prospects for growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services.
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.
Focus: non-profit that connects entrepreneurs, service professionals, investors, venture capitalists and other funding sources.
Venture capital for technology and life sciences companies.
Focus: early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range of industries
Private-equity holding company focused on cultivating emerging growth companies; primarily technology related.
Offers programs which educate, showcase and support women entrepreneurs as they seek equity capital and grow their companies.
Venture capital database and web application to help companies raise capital.
Consulting services for business finance and funding strategies for entrepreneurs.
Offers investment database with contacts to investors, financiers, and venture capital firms.
Links investors to companies with high growth potential who are seeking funding from £50,000 to £1million.
Offers training for those involved in all aspects of the venture capital and private equity markets.
Sells online reference manual on all aspects of venture capital, including forms, annotations and polls.
Non-profit organization bringing together users and providers of resources for new and emerging businesses.
Acquires majority interests in mid-sized investment management firms. Profiles the company, and affiliate products. Investor information. (NYSE: AMG)
Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software, interactive services and related enabling technology.
Investment focus: software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buy-outs of operating companies.
Focus: seed stage information technology ventures located in Northern California
Focus: European-based advisor specialized in consultancy services dedicated to the private equity industry.
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.
Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software infrastructure and hardware applications leveraging digital signal processing (DSP) and related technologies
Focus: private equity firm engaged in the acquisition and ownership of operating businesses.
Investment focus: acquisitions and investments in technology businesses.
Investment focus: early-stage business development and financing connecting venture capital firms and Fortune 1000 opportunities.
Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care.
Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies.
Investment focus: early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital technologies - information, communications, software, media/entertainment, and semiconductors
Operates two high technology businesses: iFre Technology, Westaim Biomedical; two industrial technology businesses: Surface Engineered Products and Aerospace Products; and two industrial products businesses: Coinage and Chemicals. (Nasdaq: WEDX).
Investment focus: equity capital in management buyouts, turnarounds, recapitalizations, and growth financings.
Focus: industrial sectors that improve quality of life.
Focus: venture consulting and financial advisory for early-stage companies.
Investment focus: private equity for a global investment opportunities including management buy-outs and recapitalizations, venture capital, growth equity and equity to reduce excessive debt burdens.
Focus: middle-market company buy-outs and capital for ownership transitions, growth and financial restructuring.
Focus: cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company.
Investment focus: smaller, middle market opportunities in the areas of energy, utilities, industrial process and business services.
Investment focus: profitable service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace but will also consider early-stage.
Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financing and leveraged buyouts in a broad range of technologies.
Focus: capital for management buy-outs, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs.
Investment focus: equity capital for acquisition recapitalization of middle-market companies.
Focus: private equity fund which seeks value-added investments in small to medium sized private companies.
Investment focus: subordinated debt and equity to superior middle-market companies requiring capital to fund growth or other special situations.
Focus: provide the framework to raise venture capital and angel investment.
Investment focus: constructive investing in turnarounds, restructurings, bankruptcies, employee buyouts and other special situations.
Focus: acquiring or investing in niche businesses with revenues of ten to fifty million dollars.
Focus: private equity fund, venture capital, investment, financing.
Focus: organizes and invests in the acquisition of select, well-established middle market companies.
Focus: acquiring or making substantial equity investments in small businesses with significant growth potential.
Focus: leading international venture capital company.
Focus: private investment firm founded by experienced operating executives and investment professionals.
Investment focus: small and mid-sized emerging growth healthcare companies.
Focus: private equity investment firm that invests equity capital in middle market businesses.
Focus: acquire businesses that can be grown through internal means and by add-on acquisitions.
Focus: investing in and acquiring companies and working with their management to build profitable and successful businesses.
Focus: assessment of the contribution of multinational enterprises to human development in emerging and developing countries.
Focus: early-stage venture capital investment with focus on information technology and business services companies.
Investment focus: operating-oriented private equity firm focused on the healthcare industry.
Focus: affiliate of Advent International investing in Turkish companies.
Focus: partners with fundless sponsors to acquire profitable manufacturing companies.
Investment focus: established, growing, niche-dominant manufacturing and service businesses.
Focus: private equity and venture capital firm focused in Southern California exclusively on investments in communications, media and related technologies.
Focus: private equity investment firm seeking to partner with successful management teams to complete leveraged acquisitions or recapitalizations of leading middle-market companies.
Investment focus: private equity firm that partners with the founders and management teams of profitable businesses experiencing rapid growth.
Investment focus: private equity investor and advisor focused on Southeastern U.S. businesses in the Life Science and Information Technology sectors.
Focus: provide funding to early-stage high technology start-ups.
Technology business management consulting services.
Investment focus: communications, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors
Focus: private equity investments in a broad range of middle market companies having superior management teams.
Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses.
Focus: investing in middle market companies.
Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies.
Funds breakthrough ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business building resources and strategic support.
Focus: venture and expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies in a wide range of industries.
Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing.
Private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations and industry consolidations.
Investment Focus: mezzanine financing for growing small and medium-sized businesses.
Private equity fund focusing on the acquisition of middle-market manufacturing, distribution and service companies.
Private equity investors in emerging markets.
Provides equity investments in privately and publicly held companies in numerous industries.
Focus: investing in and building value-added service and distribution companies with fundamentally sound operating models.
San Francisco-based firm providing value-added investing in consumer products companies.
Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services.
IGP provides private equity capital for management buyouts in middle-market manufacturing companies.
Focus: seed or first stage ventures involving information processing, communications or health care
Investment focus: seed and early-stage new biomedical market opportunities, including emerging technology
Investment focus: early-stage service, financial, retail, and manufacturing companies, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states
Investment focus: expansion stage information technology ventures
Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund
Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts involving information technology, health care or industrial technology
Focus: debt and equity financing for early-stage, technology based companies in Ohio and Indiana
Investment focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer software, electronic commerce, and communications
Investment focus: 1st round and follow-on for Midwest companies in a variety of industries; not seed or startup stages -- must be actively selling their product or service
Investment focus: technology companies involving healthcare or life science; early-stages in the Northwest, later-stage deals can be anywhere in U.S.
Investment focus: all stages of development, from expansion capital for emerging growth companies to sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations
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
Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care
Investment focus: early-stage (and follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences companies
Investment focus: seed and early-stage life science and technology companies located near the Research Triangle and Austin
Investment focus: telecommunications, software and information technologies, but will consider outstanding opportunities in other industries
Investment focus: technology-based, private companies at various stages of development
Investment focus: companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets
Investment focus: principally companies headquartered in the Western United States in three sectors of industry: medical, technology and retail/consumer
Investment focus: exclusively in information and business services companies, including content providers, transaction processors, application software and Internet products and services
Investment focus: technology-based startups which pioneer products or services in growth markets
Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare, financial services, media and consumer products
Investment focus: seed to second-round financing in companies with unique, information or healthcare technology-driven products and services that address well-defined needs in rapidly growing markets
Investment focus: full range of stages in information technology, health care and non-technology ventures
Investment focus: ventures of all stages, primarily in technology-based companies, but also non-technology
Focus: profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services
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
Investment focus: leading early-stage companies with advanced technology in information and life sciences, and selectively in later stage opportunities
Investment focus: growth capital to expansion stage information technology companies
Investment focus: all stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare industries
Investment focus: early-stage software and communications companies
Investment focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and life sciences
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