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Venture Capital:

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/

Graand

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www.graand.com

Advanced Technology Ventures

Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care.

http://www.atvcapital.com/

Advent International

Investment focus: companies at all stages of development, including early-stage, and in virtually any industry.

http://www.adventinternational.com/

Affiliated Managers Group

Acquires majority interests in mid-sized investment management firms. Profiles the company, and affiliate products. Investor information. (NYSE: AMG)

http://www.amg.com/

All American Capital

Focus: venture capital funding using private placements and IPOs.

http://www.aacapitalcorp.com

Allantra Venture Development

Technology business management consulting services.

http://www.allantra.com

Alliance Global Investments Inc.

A private equity investment firm providing venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, and export development services.

http://www.agiicorp.com/

Almeida Capital

Focus: global venture capital research and advisory services.

http://www.almeidacapital.com/

Alpha Genesis Inc.

Offering market analysis, due diligence, consulting and management services. Lists ventures, and presents the advisory board.

http://www.alpha-genesis.com/

American Capital Strategies

Evaluates and secures financing for middle market companies.

http://americancapitalonline.com/

American Securities Capital Partners

Provides equity investments in privately and publicly held companies in numerous industries.

http://www.american-securities.com/

Amerigo Corporate Finance Partners, LLC

Venture capital services for small to medium sized companies.

http://www.amerigopartners.com/

Ampal-American Israel Corporation

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)

http://www.ampal.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/

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/

Aragon Financial Group

Investment focus: venture capital, financing and debt restructuring.

http://www.aragon-group.com/

Arcturus

Focus: acts as managing venturer and marketing in corporate joint ventures.

http://www.earcturus.com/

Argonaut Partners

Focus: acquisition of industrial and business-to-business, value-added distributorships, direct marketing, catalog and telemarketing firms.

http://www.argollc.com/

Astrina Capital

Focus: venture consulting and financial advisory for early-stage companies.

http://www.astrinacapital.com/

August Capital

Investment focus: companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets

http://www.augustcap.com

Axa Private Equity

Portfolio management company focusing on all the aspects of capital investment and private equity.

http://www.axaprivateequity.com/

B4 Ventures

Focus: venture capital or investment capital for small to mid-sized fast growing businesses.

http://www.b4ventures.com/

Bain Capital

Focus: venture and expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies in a wide range of industries.

http://www.baincapital.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/

Bertelsmann Ventures

Investment focus: early stage, Internet centric, business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer.

http://www.bvfund.com

Blue Point Capital Partners

Focus: private equity investment firm that invests equity capital in middle market businesses.

http://www.bluepointcapital.com/

Brockway Moran and Partners

Investment focus: equity capital for acquisition recapitalization of middle-market companies.

http://www.brockwaymoran.com/

Capital Venture Partners

Investment focus: buyouts and venture capital funds.

http://www.capvent.com/

Cardinal Ventures

Focus: acquire businesses that can be grown through internal means and by add-on acquisitions.

http://www.cardvent.com/

CDC Capital Partners

Private equity investors in emerging markets.

http://www.cdcgroup.com/

Churchill Capital

Investment focus: middle market companies for buy-outs, recapitalizations, acquisitions and growth needs.

http://www.churchillnet.com/

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/

CM Equity Partners

Private equity fund focusing on the acquisition of middle-market manufacturing, distribution and service companies.

http://www.cmequity.com/

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/

Commonwealth Associates

Merchant bank and venture capital firm offers services to corporate clients and investors.

http://www.comw.com/

Compere Associates

Focus: principal investor combining management, strategy and financing in acquiring telecoms, media, utility and financial services businesses.

http://www.compere.com/

Concert Capital Partners

Investment focus: private equity firm that partners with the founders and management teams of profitable businesses experiencing rapid growth.

http://www.concertcapital.com/

Convergent Capital

Focus: manages technology-oriented venture capital funds in France, Europe and Israel.

http://www.convergent-capital.com/

Cornerstone Capital Holdings

Private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations and industry consolidations.

http://www.cstonecapital.com/

Corven

An international advisory and private equity firm specializing in corporate venturing, providing experience and resources necessary to start new businesses.

http://www.corven.com/

Covalence

Focus: assessment of the contribution of multinational enterprises to human development in emerging and developing countries.

http://www.covalence.ch/

Crescent Private Capital

Focus: private equity firm based in Boston investing in middle-market growth companies.

http://www.crescentlp.com/

CrossBridge Venture Partners

Investment focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies in information technology.

http://crossbridgevp.com/

Darwin Venture Partners

Investment focus: early-stage business development and financing connecting venture capital firms and Fortune 1000 opportunities.

http://www.schwartzgroup.com/

DealPipe, Inc.

Listing exchange and business resource that connects entrepreneurs and business sellers with a broad network of investors, business buyers and transaction partners.

http://www.dealpipe.com/

Desai Capital Management Inc.

Focused on sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations of proven growth companies.

http://www.desaicapital.com/

Dimeling, Schreiber & Park

Focus: private equity investments in a broad range of middle market companies having superior management teams.

http://www.dsppartners.com/

Dorset Capital

Private Equity for Consumer Growth Companies

http://www.dorsetcapital.com/

Dow Jones VentureReporter

Providing a database venture capital investments and investors. [Requires subscription]

http://www.venturereporter.net

Dragonfly Capital

Investment focus: private equity investor and advisor focused on Southeastern U.S. businesses in the Life Science and Information Technology sectors.

http://www.dragonflycapital.com/

DragonVenture

Focus: cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company.

http://www.dragonventure.com/

Edelson Technology Partners

Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financing and leveraged buyouts in a broad range of technologies.

http://www.edelsontech.com/

Edison Venture Fund

Investment focus: proprietary technologies or unique services in emerging markets, generally preferring 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/

Enterprise Partners

Investment focus: privately held early-stage and emerging growth companies and selective leverage buy-outs of established companies.

http://www.epvc.com/

Equilant Venture Advisors

Produces presentations and diagrams that help entrepreneurial companies achieve success at key events, including venture funding, product launches, roadshows and customer sales.

http://www.equilant.com/

EuclidSR Partners

Investment focus: exploit the accelerating changes and advances in healthcare and information technologies.

http://www.euclidpartners.com/

Falcon Seaboard

Focus: privately-owned diversified energy and investment company with global operations.

http://www.falconseaboard.com/

Financial Development Company

Focus: assists companies with their venture and equity capital needs.

http://www.findevco.com/

First Analysis Venture Capital

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

http://www.facvc.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

Flagship Ventures

Investment focus: life science, information technology, and communications sectors.

http://www.flagshipventures.com/

Forest Hill Partners

Investment focus: equity capital in management buyouts, turnarounds, recapitalizations, and growth financings.

http://www.foresthillpartners.com

Foundation Capital

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.

http://www.foundationcapital.com/

Fox Paine

Focus: capital for management buy-outs, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs.

http://www.foxpaine.com/

Freeman Spogli

Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies.

http://www.freemanspogli.com/

Fremont Partners

Investment focus: established middle market businesses.

http://www.fremontpartners.com/

Friedland Capital

Focus: venture capital and equity raising services.

http://www.friedlandcapital.com/

Frontenac Company

Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses.

http://www.frontenac.com/

Fulcrum Partners Ltd

Offers training for those involved in all aspects of the venture capital and private equity markets.

http://www.fulcrum-partners.com/

FundingPost

Raising venture capital by presenting to angel and venture investors.

http://www.fundingpost.com/

Funk Ventures, Inc.

Investment firm with focus on venture capital, business acceleration and real estate.

http://www.funkventures.com/

Gabriel Venture Partners

Investment focus: funding through every stage of the company growth cycle.

http://www.gabrielvp.com/

Gaebler Ventures

Focus: early-stage venture capital investment with focus on information technology and business services companies.

http://www.gaebler.com

Gemini Investors

Focus: investing in middle market companies.

http://www.gemini-investors.com/

General Atlantic Partners

Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies.

http://www.gapartners.com/

General Catalyst

Funds breakthrough ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business building resources and strategic support.

http://www.generalcatalyst.com/

Generation Partners

Investment focus: seed to late stage information technology companies in telecommunications, data communications, computing and the Internet.

http://www.genpartners.com/

Greylock

Investment focus: all stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare industries

http://www.greylock.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/

Hamilton Robinson

Investment focus: smaller, middle market opportunities in the areas of energy, utilities, industrial process and business services.

http://www.hrco.com/

Hampshire Equity Partners

Focus: invests in growth financing, buyouts, acquisitions, consolidations and corporate restructuring.

http://www.hampep.com/

HarbourVest Partners

Investment focus: software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buy-outs of operating companies.

http://www.harbourvest.com/

Harris & Harris Group, Inc.

Venture capitalist investment company which supports private investee companies. (Nasdaq: HHGP).

http://www.hhgp.com/

HRJ Capital

Focus: raising pools of capital from individuals involved in professional sports and investing it with a small number of top-tier venture capital funds.

http://www.hrjcapital.com/

3i

Focus: leading international venture capital company.

http://www.3i.com/

2i Capital

Focus: investment and intellectual capital network.

http://www.2icapital.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

IE Consulting

Assists clients operating within the private industry with resolving day-to-day strategic issues, with emphasis on the venture capital and private equity environment.

http://www.ieconsulting.co.uk/

Incyte Capital

Focus: private equity fund which seeks value-added investments in small to medium sized private companies.

http://www.incytecapital.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/

Industrial Growth Partners

IGP provides private equity capital for management buyouts in middle-market manufacturing companies.

http://www.igpequity.com/

InnoCal

Investment focus: early and expansion stage, technology-based businesses

http://www.innocal.com/

Institutional Venture Partners

Investment focus: leading early-stage companies with advanced technology in information and life sciences, and selectively in later stage opportunities

http://www.ivp.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/

InterWest Partners

Investment focus: full range of stages in information technology, health care and non-technology ventures

http://www.interwest.com/

JAFCO America Ventures, Inc.

Investment focus: communications, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors

http://www.jafco.com/

Japan Asia Investment Company

Focus: industrial sectors that improve quality of life.

http://www.jaic-vc.co.jp/

JK&B Capital

Investment focus: telecommunications, software and information technologies, but will consider outstanding opportunities in other industries

http://www.jkbcapital.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/

JP Morgan Partners

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.

http://www.chasecapital.com/

Katalyst

A middle market, investment and advisory firm offering venture capital, investment banking services and business advisory services.

http://www.katalyst.com/

KBL Healthcare Ventures

Investment focus: startup, early-stage and emerging growth companies in the healthcare industry, particularly medical devices, healthcare services and niche pharmaceuticals

http://www.kblhealthcare.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/

Keystone Capital, Inc

Private equity investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions.

http://www.keystonecapitalinc.com/

Khazaen Financial and Industrial Consulting

Focus: company start-ups; early stage funding.

http://khazaen.com/

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund

http://www.kpcb.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/

Koor Industries Ltd.

Investment company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets.

http://www.koor.co.il/

KPS Special Situations Fund

Investment focus: constructive investing in turnarounds, restructurings, bankruptcies, employee buyouts and other special situations.

http://www.kpsfund.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/

LeBonfante Group

Focus: develop businesses and provide venture capital primarily throughout the Hispanic market.

http://www.lebonfante.com/

Lynwood Capital Partners

Focus: acquiring or investing in niche businesses with revenues of ten to fifty million dollars.

http://www.lynwoodcapital.com/

Mac Investment Company Inc

Focus: specializing in venture capital, private equity, and direct investments.

http://www.macinvestco.com/

Madison Dearborn Partners

Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing.

http://www.mdcp.com/

Marcus Venture Consulting

Works with early stage technology and technology-related ventures to bridge the risk gap, and help entrepreneurs and financers achieve their goals.

http://www.marcusventures.com

Maton Venture

Investment focus: technology-based, private companies at various stages of development

http://www.maton.com

Matrix Partners

Investment focus: early-stage software and communications companies

http://www.matrixpartners.com/

Mayfield Fund

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

http://www.mayfield.com/

MBC Dotcom

Venture capital and business finance facilitator and advisory firm.

http://www.mybizcapital.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

Menlo Ventures

Investment focus: private communications, Internet infrastructure, software, semiconductor, data storage, and computer hardware companies located in the United States.

http://www.menloventures.com/

Mergenet Solutions Inc.

Focus: specializing in venture capital, management services, shell funding, private placement.

http://www.mergenetsolutions.com/

Mitiska Net Fund Europe

European Internet venture capital fund, based in Belgium. Company profile, team members, portfolio and news.

http://www.netfundeurope.com/

Moore, Clayton and Company

Focus: traditional industries converging with new technologies, in particular healthcare, energy, entertainment, financial services, communications and education.

http://www.mccglobal.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/

Mycapital, Inc.

Venture capital database and web application to help companies raise capital.

http://www.mycapital.com/

NCIC Capital Fund

Focus: debt and equity financing for early-stage, technology based companies in Ohio and Indiana

http://www.ncicfund.org/

Needham Capital Partners

Focus: manages investment partnerships primarily in the equities of later-stage private growth companies.

http://www.needhamcapital.com/

New Enterprise Associates

Investment focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and life sciences

http://www.nea.com/

New Era Partners

Provides investor due diligence, business and technology consultative services to small and mid-size technology firms as well as the venture capital community.

http://www.newera-partners.com

New York Private Placement Network

Focus: financial services firm and an online global marketplace for all classes of private securities.

http://www.nyppe.com/

NewVista Capital

Investment focus: early-stage technology companies managed by minority and women entrepreneurs

http://www.nvcap.com/

North American Funds

Focus: acquiring or making substantial equity investments in small businesses with significant growth potential.

http://northamericanfund.com/

North Bridge Venture Partners

Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care

http://www.nbvp.com/

Norwest Venture Capital

Investment focus: startups, emerging growth companies, management buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations

http://www.norwestvc.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/

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/

Oak Investment Partners

Investment focus: early-stage and selective restarts or recapitalizations of later-stage information technology, health care or retail companies

http://www.oakinv.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/

Ovation Capital

Investment focus: includes Internet and mobile infrastructure, software, storage and data networking.

http://www.ovationcapital.com/

Pacific Century Group Ventures

Investment focus: all stages from initial private seed capital rounds to senior public equity financings in information technology, natural resources, real estate and special situations

http://www.pcentury.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/

Pacific Venture Group

Investment focus: broad range of stages (startup through consolidation) involving healthcare services and information systems oriented towards a managed care solution

http://www.pacven.com/

Pacifica Fund

Focus: Silicon Valley based seed and first round venture capital firm.

http://www.pacificafund.com/

Palladium Equity Partners

Focus: private investment firm founded by experienced operating executives and investment professionals.

http://www.palladiumequity.com/

Parallax Capital Partners

Investment focus: acquisitions and investments in technology businesses.

http://www.parallaxcap.com/

Partech International

Investment focus: startups and emerging growth companies in the United States, Europe and Japan involving information technology, life sciences and business services

http://www.partechintl.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/

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/

Postidea.com

Business financing marketplace for entrepreneurs and investors.

http://www.postidea.com/

Primus Venture Partners

Investment focus: various stages of development, with greater emphasis on businesses beyond proof of concept and which are demonstrating capacity to become large enterprises

http://www.primusventure.com/

Proma Investment

Offers investment database with contacts to investors, financiers, and venture capital firms.

http://www.proma-investment.com/

The Providencia Partnership

Focus: business and project availability of funding, strategic management and due-diligence assessment.

http://www.propari.com/

PureTech Ventures LLC

Supports life science ventures based on breakthroughs from research institutions, providing management support and seed funding.

http://www.puretechventures.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/

Quan Ventures

Investment focus: emerging technology niches in telecommunications, semiconductors and Internet infrastructure.

http://www.quanvc.com/

RAF Ventures

Investment focus: early-stage service, financial, retail, and manufacturing companies, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states

http://www.rafind.com/

Real Options Approaches in Venture Capital Finance

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.

http://www.realoptions.dk

Red Rock Ventures

Investment focus: seed and early-stage companies that develop and sell enterprise solutions to medium and large companies

http://www.redrockventures.com

Regulation D Resources

Focus: provide the framework to raise venture capital and angel investment.

http://www.regdresources.com/

River Capital

Focus: organizes and invests in the acquisition of select, well-established middle market companies.

http://www.river-capital.com/

River Cities Capital Funds

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

http://www.rccf.com/

Rockies Venture Club

Focus: non-profit that connects entrepreneurs, service professionals, investors, venture capitalists and other funding sources.

http://www.rockiesventureclub.org/

Rockmont Capital

Focus: investing in and acquiring companies and working with their management to build profitable and successful businesses.

http://www.rockmontcapital.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/

RoundTable Healthcare Partners

Investment focus: operating-oriented private equity firm focused on the healthcare industry.

http://www.roundtablehp.com/

RRE Investors

Investment focus: expansion stage information technology ventures

http://www.rre.com/

The Sable Lion Group

Private-equity holding company focused on cultivating emerging growth companies; primarily technology related.

http://www.sablelion.com/

SAGICAP

Focus: European-based advisor specialized in consultancy services dedicated to the private equity industry.

http://www.sagicap.com/

Salix Ventures

Investment focus: early-stage health care services (including health care information technology) companies

http://www.salixventures.com/

Sanderling

Investment focus: seed and early-stage new biomedical market opportunities, including emerging technology

http://www.sanderling.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/

Second Venture Corporation

Runs a proprietary venture exchange network to enable venture capital funds and angel groups to better manage their deal flow.

http://www.secondventure.com/

Seidler Equity Partners

Investment focus: established, growing, niche-dominant manufacturing and service businesses.

http://www.sepfunds.com/

Sequoia Capital

Investment focus: primarily very early-stage West Coast technology companies; post beta-stage around Boston and Austin; later-stage nationwide

http://www.sequoiacap.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/

Sevin Rosen Funds

Investment focus: early-stage (and follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences companies

http://www.srfunds.com

Sierra Ventures

Investment focus: early-stage healthcare, information technology-related companies and service businesses

http://www.sierraven.com

Sigma Partners

Investment focus: ventures of all stages, primarily in technology-based companies, but also non-technology

http://www.sigmapartners.com/

Signal Lake Venture Fund

Investment focus: early-stage broadband telecom and networking infrastructure being built for the global economy.

http://www.signallake.com/

Silicom Ventures

Focus: provide funding to early-stage high technology start-ups.

http://www.silicomventures.com/

SJF Ventures

Community development venture capital fund which finances recycling, remanufacturing, environmental and other companies.

http://www.sjfund.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/

Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF)

Provides equity financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries, emerging markets and in countries undergoing economic transition.

http://www.seafweb.org

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

Sonostar Ventures

Focus: invests in promising private companies across a number of industries and in the public debt and equity markets.

http://www.sonostarventures.com/

Sorrento Ventures

Investment focus: emerging early-, mid- and later-stage companies in the greater San Diego area involving health care, electronics, high technology, or consumer products

http://www.sorrentoventures.com/

South Atlantic Venture Funds

Investment focus: expansions, acquisitions, buyouts and recapitalizations located in Florida, the Southeast and Texas

http://www.southatlantic.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/

Sports Venture Partners

Focus: alternative investment vehicle for professional athletes investing in established growth equity financing.

http://www.svpllc.com/

Spring Capital Partners, L.P.

Investment Focus: mezzanine financing for growing small and medium-sized businesses.

http://www.springcap.com/

Springboard Enterprises

Offers programs which educate, showcase and support women entrepreneurs as they seek equity capital and grow their companies.

http://www.springboardenterprises.org/

Sprout Group

Investment focus: startups, expansion financing and management buyouts involving business to business services, communications, distribution, education, health care services, information technologies, life science products, or retail

http://www.sproutgroup.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/

1st Accredited Venture Capital, LLLP

Works with private and public companies with market capitalization’s under three hundred million dollars.

http://www.microcapexperts.com/

The StartUp Lab

Focus: business and venture development company providing services to venture capitalists and early-stage companies.

http://www.thestartuplab.com/

The Sterling Group

Focus: private equity firm engaged in the acquisition and ownership of operating businesses.

http://www.sterling-group.com/

Sterling Investment Partners

Focus: middle-market company buy-outs and capital for ownership transitions, growth and financial restructuring.

http://www.sterlinglp.com/

Stone Canyon Venture Partners

Focus: equity investments in select early-stage businesses with high growth prospects.

http://www.stonecanyonvp.com/

Strategic Investments & Holdings

Focus: acquires and grows successful companies in partnership with operating management.

http://www.sihi.net/

Summer Street Capital Partners

Focus: private equity fund, venture capital, investment, financing.

http://www.summerstreetcapital.com/

Summit Partners

Focus: profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services

http://www.summitpartners.com

Sutter Hill Ventures

Investment focus: technology-based startups which pioneer products or services in growth markets

http://www.shv.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

Swander Pace Capital

San Francisco-based firm providing value-added investing in consumer products companies.

http://www.spcap.com

TA Associates

Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare, financial services, media and consumer products

http://www.ta.com/

Tech Coast Venture Network

Non-profit organization bringing together users and providers of resources for new and emerging businesses.

http://www.tcvn.org/

Technology Crossover Ventures

Investment focus: growth capital to expansion stage information technology companies

http://www.tcv.com/

Technology Funding Inc.

Pioneer in public venture funds

http://www.technologyfunding.com/

Technology Investments

Focus: seed stage information technology ventures located in Northern California

http://www.carsten.com/

Technology Partners

Focus: seed or first stage ventures involving information processing, communications or health care

http://www.technologypartners.com/

Telesystem

Focus: private equity company of the digital economy, active on a worldwide scale through a knowledge network.

http://www.telesystem.ca/

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/

Thames Valley Investment Network

Links investors to companies with high growth potential who are seeking funding from £50,000 to £1million.

http://www.tvin.co.uk/

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/

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

TL Ventures

Investment focus: category-defining, early-stage companies in information technology, communications and biotechnology.

http://www.tlventures.com/

Top Technology

Investment focus: early-stage British technology companies

http://www.toptechnology.co.uk/

Transatlantic Ventures

Focus: assist European companies in preparing and implementing their entry plan into the North American market.

http://www.taventures.com/

Trident Capital

Investment focus: exclusively in information and business services companies, including content providers, transaction processors, application software and Internet products and services

http://www.tridentcap.com/

Trinity Ventures

Investment focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer software, electronic commerce, and communications

http://www.trinityventures.com/

Tuckerman Capital

Focus: partners with fundless sponsors to acquire profitable manufacturing companies.

http://www.tuckermancapital.com/

Tullis-Dickerson & Co.

Investment focus: small and mid-sized emerging growth healthcare companies.

http://www.tullisdickerson.com/

Turkven Private Equity

Focus: affiliate of Advent International investing in Turkish companies.

http://www.turkven.com/

TVM Capital

Venture capital for technology and life sciences companies.

http://www.tvm-capital.com/

U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)

Investment focus: principally companies headquartered in the Western United States in three sectors of industry: medical, technology and retail/consumer

http://www.usvp.com/

Vanguard Venture Partners

Investment focus: pre-revenue stage in information technology and life sciences sectors

http://www.vanguardventures.com/

VC Experts

Sells online reference manual on all aspects of venture capital, including forms, annotations and polls.

http://vcexperts.com

VenGlobal Capital

Investment focus: Early-stage ventures particularly in the data communications and electronic design automation (EDA) industries.

http://www.venglobal.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 leadership

http://www.venrock.com/

Ventanis

Portfolio monitoring and management software for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.

http://www.ventanis.com/

Venture Capital Strategies

Prepares entrepreneurs or companies seeking investment capital and unites them with investors.

http://www.venturecapitalstrategies.com/

Venture Factoring

Offers venture factoring as an alternative to venture capital financing.

http://www.venturefactoring.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/

Venture Planning Associates

Consulting services for business finance and funding strategies for entrepreneurs.

http://www.ventureplan.com/

Vision Capital

Investment focus: trans-Atlantic expansion for proven U.S and European technology companies

http://www.visioncap.com/

WaldenVC

Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software, interactive services and related enabling technology.

http://www.waldenvc.com/

Warburg Pincus Ventures

Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services.

http://www.warburgpincus.com/

Waterside Capital Corp

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.

http://www.watersidecapital.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

Westaim Corporation (The)

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).

http://www.westaim.com/

Weston Presidio Capital

Investment focus: later-stage growth companies, recapitalizations and buyouts in a diverse set of industries

http://www.westonpresidio.com

William Blair & Company, LLC

Focus: early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range of industries

http://www.williamblair.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/

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