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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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• 3i

  http://www.3i.com/
  Focus: leading international venture capital company.

• Abundance Venture Capital

  http://www.abundancevc.com/
  Focus: private equity and venture capital investments for International investors who need protection of capital and tax-free returns.

• Advanced Technology Ventures

  http://www.atvcapital.com/
  Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care.

• Advent International

  http://www.adventinternational.com/
  A global private equity firm investing exclusively in mid to upper mid market buyouts and selective growth capital investments.

• Affiliated Managers Group

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

• Allantra Venture Development

  http://www.allantra.com/
  Technology business management consulting services.

• Alliance Global Investments Inc.

  http://www.agiicorp.com/
  A private equity investment firm providing venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, and export development services.

• Almeida Capital

  http://www.almeida-capital.com/
  Focus: global venture capital research and advisory services.

• American Capital Strategies

  http://americancapitalonline.com/
  Evaluates and secures financing for middle market companies.

• American Securities Capital Partners

  http://www.american-securities.com/
  Provides equity investments in privately and publicly held companies in numerous industries.

• Ampersand Capital

  http://ampersandcapital.com/
  Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies in communications, information technologies, life sciences and specialty materials and chemicals.

• Apax Partners

  http://www.apax.com/
  Investment focus: start-ups to later-stage buyouts in a broad range of industries, most notably healthcare, information technology, telecommunications, specialty retailing and new media.

• Astrina Capital

  http://www.astrinacapital.com/
  Focus: venture consulting and financial advisory for early-stage companies.

• August Capital

  http://www.augustcap.com/
  Investment focus: companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets

• B4 Ventures

  http://www.b4ventures.com/
  Focus: venture capital or investment capital for small to mid-sized fast growing businesses.

• Bain Capital

  http://www.baincapital.com/
  Focus: venture and expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies in a wide range of industries.

• Bessemer Venture Partners

  https://www.bvp.com/
  Investment focus on entrepreneurial companies in healthcare, information systems, telecommunications and retailing.

• Blue Point Capital Partners

  http://www.bluepointcapital.com/
  Focus: private equity investment firm that invests equity capital in middle market businesses.

• Brockway Moran and Partners

  http://www.brockwaymoran.com/
  Investment focus: equity capital for acquisition recapitalization of middle-market companies.

• Capital Venture Partners

  http://www.capvent.com/
  Investment focus: buyouts and venture capital funds.

• Cardinal Ventures

  http://www.cardvent.com/
  Focus: acquire businesses that can be grown through internal means and by add-on acquisitions.

• CDC Capital Partners

  http://www.cdcgroup.com/
  Private equity investors in emerging markets.

• Clarity Partners

  http://www.claritypartners.net/
  Focus: private equity and venture capital firm focused in Southern California exclusively on investments in communications, media and related technologies.

• CM Equity Partners

  http://www.cmequity.com/
  Private equity fund focusing on the acquisition of middle-market manufacturing, distribution and service companies.

• Concert Capital Partners

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

• Cornerstone Capital Holdings

  http://www.cstonecapital.com/
  Private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations and industry consolidations.

• Corven

  http://www.corven.com/
  An international advisory and private equity firm specializing in corporate venturing, providing experience and resources necessary to start new businesses.

• Covalence

  http://www.covalence.ch/
  Focus: assessment of the contribution of multinational enterprises to human development in emerging and developing countries.

• Darwin Venture Partners

  http://www.schwartzgroup.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage business development and financing connecting venture capital firms and Fortune 1000 opportunities.

• Dimeling, Schreiber & Park

  http://www.dsppartners.com/
  Focus: private equity investments in a broad range of middle market companies having superior management teams.

• Dragonfly Capital

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

• DragonVenture

  http://www.dragonventure.com/
  Focus: cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company.

• Edelson Technology Partners

  http://www.edelsontech.com/
  Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financing and leveraged buyouts in a broad range of technologies.

• EnerTech Capital

  http://www.enertechcapital.com/
  Investment focus: profitable service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace but will also consider early-stage.

• Equilant Venture Advisors

  http://www.equilant.com/
  Produces presentations and diagrams that help entrepreneurial companies achieve success at key events, including venture funding, product launches, roadshows and customer sales.

• Falcon Seaboard

  http://www.falconseaboard.com/
  Focus: privately-owned diversified energy and investment company with global operations.

• FLAG Capital Management, LLC

  http://www.flagcapital.com/
  Investment focus: manages limited partnerships through which qualified individuals, families and their trusts or foundations invest in venture capital funds.

• Flagship Ventures

  http://www.flagshipventures.com/
  Investment focus: life science, information technology, and communications sectors.

• Forest Hill Partners

  http://www.foresthillpartners.com/
  Investment focus: equity capital in management buyouts, turnarounds, recapitalizations, and growth financings.

• Foundation Capital

  http://www.foundationcapital.com/
  Investment focus: start-ups in their formative stages, and all subsequent financings as a company develops, involving Enterprise and Internet Software, Communications and Networking, Technical Software, and Semiconductors.

• Fox Paine

  http://www.foxpaine.com/
  Focus: capital for management buy-outs, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs.

• Freeman Spogli

  http://www.freemanspogli.com/
  Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies.

• Frontenac Company

  http://www.frontenac.com/
  Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses.

• Fulcrum Partners Ltd

  http://www.fulcrum-partners.com/
  Offers training for those involved in all aspects of the venture capital and private equity markets.

• FundingPost

  http://www.fundingpost.com/
  Raising venture capital by presenting to angel and venture investors.

• Gabriel Venture Partners

  http://www.gabrielvp.com/
  Investment focus: funding through every stage of the company growth cycle.

• Gaebler Ventures

  http://www.gaebler.com/
  Focus: early-stage venture capital investment with focus on information technology and business services companies.

• Gemini Investors

  http://www.gemini-investors.com/
  Focus: investing in middle market companies.

• General Atlantic Partners

  http://www.gapartners.com/
  Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies.

• General Catalyst

  http://www.generalcatalyst.com/
  Funds breakthrough ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business building resources and strategic support.

• Greylock

  http://www.greylock.com/
  Investment focus: all stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare industries

• Hamilton Robinson

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

• HarbourVest Partners

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

• Harris & Harris Group, Inc.

  http://www.hhvc.com/
  Venture capitalist investment company which supports private investee companies. (Nasdaq: HHGP).

• IDG Ventures

  http://www.idgventures.com/
  Investment focus: information technology companies, preferring either seed or first-round financings, or very late (last before IPO) stage investments

• IE Consulting

  http://www.ieconsulting.co.uk/
  Assists clients operating within the private industry with resolving day-to-day strategic issues, with emphasis on the venture capital and private equity environment.

• Incyte Capital

  http://www.incytecapital.com/
  Focus: private equity fund which seeks value-added investments in small to medium sized private companies.

• Industrial Growth Partners

  http://www.igpequity.com/
  IGP provides private equity capital for management buyouts in middle-market manufacturing companies.

• Institutional Venture Partners

  http://www.ivp.com/
  Investment focus: leading early-stage companies with advanced technology in information and life sciences, and selectively in later stage opportunities

• Intersouth Partners

  http://www.intersouth.com/
  Investment focus: seed and early-stage life science and technology companies located near the Research Triangle and Austin

• InterWest Partners

  http://www.interwest.com/
  Investment focus: full range of stages in information technology, health care and non-technology ventures

• JAFCO America Ventures, Inc.

  http://www.jafco.com/
  Investment focus: communications, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors

• Japan Asia Investment Company

  http://www.jaic-vc.co.jp/
  Focus: industrial sectors that improve quality of life.

• JK&B Capital

  http://www.jkbcapital.com/
  Investment focus: telecommunications, software and information technologies, but will consider outstanding opportunities in other industries

• JLA Ventures

  http://www.jlaventures.com/
  Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional prospects for growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services.

• JP Morgan Partners

  http://www.chasecapital.com/
  Investment focus: private equity for a global investment opportunities including management buy-outs and recapitalizations, venture capital, growth equity and equity to reduce excessive debt burdens.

• Khazaen Financial and Industrial Consulting

  http://khazaen.com/
  Focus: company start-ups; early stage funding.

• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

  http://www.kpcb.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund

• Koor Industries Ltd.

  http://www.koor.co.il/
  Investment company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets.

• KPS Special Situations Fund

  http://www.kpsfund.com/
  Investment focus: constructive investing in turnarounds, restructurings, bankruptcies, employee buyouts and other special situations.

• Labrador Ventures

  http://www.labrador.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital technologies - information, communications, software, media/entertainment, and semiconductors

• Lynwood Capital Partners

  http://www.lynwoodcapital.com/
  Focus: acquiring or investing in niche businesses with revenues of ten to fifty million dollars.

• Madison Dearborn Partners

  http://www.mdcp.com/
  Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing.

• Marcus Venture Consulting

  http://www.marcusventures.com/
  Works with early stage technology and technology-related ventures to bridge the risk gap, and help entrepreneurs and financers achieve their goals.

• Maton Venture

  http://www.maton.com/
  Investment focus: technology-based, private companies at various stages of development

• Matrix Partners

  http://www.matrixpartners.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage software and communications companies

• Mayfield Fund

  http://www.mayfield.com/
  Investment focus: seed to second-round financing in companies with unique, information or healthcare technology-driven products and services that address well-defined needs in rapidly growing markets

• MDB Capital Group, LLC

  http://www.mdbcapital.com/
  MDB Capital Group is a merchant/investment banking firm that is a NASD registered broker/dealer located in Santa Monica, CA. MDB invests via Reg D private placements in public and private companies.

• Menlo Ventures

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

• Morgenthaler Ventures

  http://www.morgenthaler.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts involving information technology, health care or industrial technology

• Mycapital, Inc.

  http://www.mycapital.com/
  Venture capital database and web application to help companies raise capital.

• NCIC Capital Fund

  http://www.ncicfund.org/
  Focus: debt and equity financing for early-stage, technology based companies in Ohio and Indiana

• Needham Capital Partners

  http://www.needhamcapital.com/
  Focus: manages investment partnerships primarily in the equities of later-stage private growth companies.

• New Enterprise Associates

  http://www.nea.com/
  Investment focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and life sciences

• North American Funds

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

• North Bridge Venture Partners

  http://www.nbvp.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care

• Norwest Venture Capital

  http://www.norwestvc.com/
  Investment focus: startups, emerging growth companies, management buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations

• Novak Biddle Venture Partners

  http://www.novakbiddle.com/
  Investment focus: information technology companies in the very early stages through first round, but also later-stage opportunities and spin-outs where they can add significant value

• Oak Investment Partners

  http://www.oakinv.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage and selective restarts or recapitalizations of later-stage information technology, health care or retail companies

• Outlook Ventures

  http://www.outlookventures.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage investments in consumer and business-to-business Internet services, intranet-based business applications, interactive tools, multimedia and telecommunications

• Pacific Horizon Ventures

  http://www.pacifichorizon.com/
  Investment focus: technology companies involving healthcare or life science; early-stages in the Northwest, later-stage deals can be anywhere in U.S.

• Pacifica Fund

  http://www.pacificafund.com/
  Focus: Silicon Valley based seed and first round venture capital firm.

• Palladium Equity Partners

  http://www.palladiumequity.com/
  Focus: private investment firm founded by experienced operating executives and investment professionals.

• Parallax Capital Partners

  http://www.parallaxcap.com/
  Investment focus: acquisitions and investments in technology businesses.

• Peninsula Capital Partners

  http://www.peninsulafunds.com/
  Investment focus: subordinated debt and equity to superior middle-market companies requiring capital to fund growth or other special situations.

• Proma Investment

  http://www.proma-investment.com/
  Offers investment database with contacts to investors, financiers, and venture capital firms.

• PureTech Ventures LLC

  http://www.puretechventures.com/
  Supports life science ventures based on breakthroughs from research institutions, providing management support and seed funding.

• Quad-C Management

  http://www.quadcmanagement.com/
  Focus: private equity investment firm seeking to partner with successful management teams to complete leveraged acquisitions or recapitalizations of leading middle-market companies.

• RAF Ventures

  http://www.rafind.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage service, financial, retail, and manufacturing companies, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states

• Regulation D Resources

  http://www.regdresources.com/
  Focus: provide the framework to raise venture capital and angel investment.

• River Capital

  http://www.river-capital.com/
  Focus: organizes and invests in the acquisition of select, well-established middle market companies.

• River Cities Capital Funds

  http://www.rccf.com/
  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

• Rockies Venture Club

  http://www.rockiesventureclub.org/
  Focus: non-profit that connects entrepreneurs, service professionals, investors, venture capitalists and other funding sources.

• Rockmont Capital

  http://www.rockmontcapital.com/
  Focus: investing in and acquiring companies and working with their management to build profitable and successful businesses.

• Roser Ventures, LLC

  http://www.roserventures.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage companies across a broad range of industries and located in the Rocky Mountain region

• RoundTable Healthcare Partners

  http://www.roundtablehp.com/
  Investment focus: operating-oriented private equity firm focused on the healthcare industry.

• RRE Investors

  http://www.rre.com/
  Investment focus: expansion stage information technology ventures

• SAGICAP

  http://www.sagicap.com/
  Focus: European-based advisor specialized in consultancy services dedicated to the private equity industry.

• Salix Ventures

  http://www.salixventures.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage health care services (including health care information technology) companies

• Sanderling

  http://www.sanderling.com/
  Investment focus: seed and early-stage new biomedical market opportunities, including emerging technology

• Second Venture Corporation

  http://www.secondventure.com/
  Runs a proprietary venture exchange network to enable venture capital funds and angel groups to better manage their deal flow.

• Seidler Equity Partners

  http://www.sepfunds.com/
  Investment focus: established, growing, niche-dominant manufacturing and service businesses.

• Sequoia Capital

  http://www.sequoiacap.com/
  Investment focus: Seed stage, early stage and growth stage emerging technology companies across the US, China, India and Israel.

• Sevin Rosen Funds

  http://www.srfunds.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage (and follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences companies

• Sierra Ventures

  http://www.sierraventures.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage healthcare, information technology-related companies and service businesses

• Sigma Partners

  http://www.sigmapartners.com/
  Investment focus: ventures of all stages, primarily in technology-based companies, but also non-technology

• Signal Lake Venture Fund

  http://www.signallake.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage broadband telecom and networking infrastructure being built for the global economy.

• Silicom Ventures

  http://www.silicomventures.com/
  Focus: provide funding to early-stage high technology start-ups.

• SJF Ventures

  http://www.sjfund.com/
  Community development venture capital fund which finances recycling, remanufacturing, environmental and other companies.

• Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF)

  http://www.seafweb.org/
  Provides equity financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries, emerging markets and in countries undergoing economic transition.

• South Atlantic Venture Funds

  http://www.southatlantic.com/
  Investment focus: expansions, acquisitions, buyouts and recapitalizations located in Florida, the Southeast and Texas

• Spring Capital Partners, L.P.

  http://www.springcap.com/
  Investment Focus: mezzanine financing for growing small and medium-sized businesses.

• Springboard Enterprises

  http://www.springboardenterprises.org/
  Offers programs which educate, showcase and support women entrepreneurs as they seek equity capital and grow their companies.

• Sprout Group

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

• Sterling Investment Partners

  http://www.sterlinglp.com/
  Focus: middle-market company buy-outs and capital for ownership transitions, growth and financial restructuring.

• Strategic Investments & Holdings

  http://www.sihi.net/
  Focus: acquires and grows successful companies in partnership with operating management.

• Summer Street Capital Partners

  http://www.summerstreetcapital.com/
  Focus: private equity fund, venture capital, investment, financing.

• Summit Partners

  http://www.summitpartners.com/
  Focus: profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services

• Sutter Hill Ventures

  http://www.shv.com/
  Investment focus: technology-based startups which pioneer products or services in growth markets

• Svoboda, Collins L.L.C.

  http://www.svoco.com/
  Focus: investing in and building value-added service and distribution companies with fundamentally sound operating models.

• Swander Pace Capital

  http://www.spcap.com/
  San Francisco-based firm providing value-added investing in consumer products companies.

• TA Associates

  http://www.ta.com/
  Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare, financial services, media and consumer products

• Tech Coast Venture Network

  http://www.tcvn.org/
  Non-profit organization bringing together users and providers of resources for new and emerging businesses.

• Technology Crossover Ventures

  http://www.tcv.com/
  Investment focus: growth capital to expansion stage information technology companies

• Technology Investments

  http://www.carsten.com/
  Focus: seed stage information technology ventures located in Northern California

• Technology Partners

  http://www.technologypartners.com/
  Focus: seed or first stage ventures involving information processing, communications or health care

• Thames Valley Investment Network

  http://www.tvin.co.uk/
  Links investors to companies with high growth potential who are seeking funding from £50,000 to £1million.

• The Sable Lion Group

  http://www.sablelion.com/
  Private-equity holding company focused on cultivating emerging growth companies; primarily technology related.

• The StartUp Lab

  http://www.thestartuplab.com/
  Focus: business and venture development company providing services to venture capitalists and early-stage companies.

• The Sterling Group

  http://www.sterling-group.com/
  Focus: private equity firm engaged in the acquisition and ownership of operating businesses.

• TI (Texas Instruments) Ventures, L.P.

  http://www.ti.com/tiventures
  Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software infrastructure and hardware applications leveraging digital signal processing (DSP) and related technologies

• TL Ventures

  http://www.tlventures.com/
  Investment focus: category-defining, early-stage companies in information technology, communications and biotechnology.

• Trident Capital

  http://www.tridentcap.com/
  Investment focus: exclusively in information and business services companies, including content providers, transaction processors, application software and Internet products and services

• Trinity Ventures

  http://www.trinityventures.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer software, electronic commerce, and communications

• Tuckerman Capital

  http://www.tuckermancapital.com/
  Focus: partners with fundless sponsors to acquire profitable manufacturing companies.

• Tullis-Dickerson & Co.

  http://www.tullisdickerson.com/
  Investment focus: small and mid-sized emerging growth healthcare companies.

• Turkven Private Equity

  http://www.turkven.com/
  Focus: affiliate of Advent International investing in Turkish companies.

• TVM Capital

  http://www.tvm-capital.com/
  Venture capital for technology and life sciences companies.

• U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)

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

• VC Experts

  http://vcexperts.com/
  Sells online reference manual on all aspects of venture capital, including forms, annotations and polls.

• Venrock Associates

  http://www.venrock.com/
  Venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family with investment focus: a high percentage of investments are seed or first round, and second round investments are considered where there is a complete management team and demonstrated progress toward market leadership

• Venture Planning Associates

  http://www.ventureplan.com/
  Consulting services for business finance and funding strategies for entrepreneurs.

• Vision Capital

  http://www.visioncap.com/
  Investment focus: trans-Atlantic expansion for proven U.S and European technology companies

• WaldenVC

  http://www.waldenvc.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software, interactive services and related enabling technology.

• Warburg Pincus Ventures

  http://www.warburgpincus.com/
  Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services.

• Westaim Corporation (The)

  http://www.westaim.com/
  Operates two high technology businesses: iFre Technology, Westaim Biomedical; two industrial technology businesses: Surface Engineered Products and Aerospace Products; and two industrial products businesses: Coinage and Chemicals. (Nasdaq: WEDX).

• Weston Presidio Capital

  http://www.westonpresidio.com/
  Investment focus: later-stage growth companies, recapitalizations and buyouts in a diverse set of industries

• William Blair & Company, LLC

  http://www.williamblair.com/
  Focus: early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range of industries

• Wind Point Partners

  http://www.wppartners.com/
  Investment focus: all stages of development, from expansion capital for emerging growth companies to sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations

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