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Industry focus venture capitalists specialize in providing investments to start-up or early-stage companies in major industries without regard for the exact location of a company. The industry focus may be, for example, retail, Internet, or life sciences.

Subcategories

• Healthcare
• Internet
• Oil and Gas
• Technology

Resources in This Category

• A.M. Pappas & Associates

  http://www.ampappas.com/
  Investment focus: accelerating the development of life science companies, products and related technologies.

• Abingworth Management Limited

  http://www.abingworth.com/
  Focus: venture capital investor on both sides of the Atlantic, specialising in early-stage life science companies.

• ABS Capital

  http://www.abscapital.com/
  Investment focus: management buy-outs, expansion financing and recapitalization in technology, business services, media communications and health care.

• Accel Partners

  http://www.accel.com/
  Investment focus: early stage opportunities in information technology and health care.

• Alta Partners

  http://www.altapartners.com/
  Investment focus: high growth information technologies and life sciences companies.

• ARCH Venture Partners

  http://www.archventure.com/
  Investment focus: seed and early-stage ventures involving information technology, life sciences or physical sciences.

• Argo Global Capital

  http://www.argoglobal.com/
  Investment focus: companies that are enabling the convergence of wireless communications and the Internet.

• Arsenal Capital Partners

  http://www.arsenalcapital.com/
  Focused on companies in chemical, general industrial, and healthcare sectors. Features portfolio of companies and press releases.

• Asset Management

  http://www.assetman.com/
  Investment focus: information technology and life sciences sectors.

• Athena Technology Ventures

  http://www.athenatv.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage companies in the global communications industry.

• Atlas Venture

  http://www.atlasventure.com/
  Investment focus: early- and late-stage information technology and life sciences in Europe and the US.

• Avogadro Partners

  http://www.avogadro.us/
  Focus: venture development group and venture capitalist seeking early-stage opportunities in microtechnology and nanotechnology.

• Berkshire Partners

  http://www.berkshirepartners.com/
  Focus: leveraged buy-outs, recapitalizations, industry consolidations in telecommunications, transportation, business services and manufacturing.

• Blue Chip Venture Company

  http://www.bcvc.com/
  Investment focus: start-ups in digital media, ad tech, and big data.

• Blue Water Capital

  http://www.bluewatercapital.com/
  Investment focus: expansion-stage technology and services companies, including software, Internet, Intranet, e-commerce, telecommunications and multimedia companies.

• BR Johnson Group

  http://www.brjg.net/
  Focus: venture development company working with start-up and early-stage companies principally in the health, beauty and entertainment industries.

• Cardinal Health Partners

  http://www.cardinalpartners.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage e-health and information technology, health care services and life sciences.

• Centennial Ventures

  http://www.centennial.com/
  Investment focus: seed, startup or late stage opportunities involving electronic communications.

• Century Capital Management

  http://centurycap.com/
  Focus: investments in insurance, financial services and related business services.

• Code Hennessy & Simmons LLC

  http://www.chsonline.com/
  Invests in middle-market companies that manufacture and distribute a broad array of consumer and industrial products.

• Columbia Capital Corporation

  http://www.colcap.com/
  Investment focus: communications and information technology firms at a variety of stages.

• Compass Technology Partners

  http://www.compasstechpartners.com/
  Focus: invests in emerging, high-growth potential companies with a focus on science and technology.

• Convergence Partners

  http://www.convergencepartners.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage companies in the communications, information technology and semiconductor sectors.

• Cortec Group

  http://www.cortecgroup.com/
  Focus: private equity investment firm which makes controlling investments in middle-market manufacturing and distribution businesses.

• Crescendo Ventures

  http://www.crescendoventures.com/
  Focus: early-stage investment opportunities in the communications and e-business fields.

• DN Capital

  http://www.dncapital.com/
  Focus: investing in Western European companies in digital media, communications and enterprise software solutions. Also active in helping US companies enter the European market.

• Domain Associates

  http://www.domainvc.com/
  Investment focus: favors early-stage life sciences ventures

• Draper Fisher Jurvetson

  http://www.drapervc.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage information technology businesses with market potential.

• Eakin Macdonald & Associates

  http://www.hotel-funding.com/
  Investment focus: specialists in arranging long term finance for hotels, from £1m to £25m.

• Entrepia

  http://www.entrepia.com/
  Focus: invests in US and Japan network and Internet venture companies as a strategic partner.

• Global Catalyst Partners

  http://www.gc-partners.com/
  Focus: funding, industry knowledge and a global network of resources to early-stage information technology companies

• Guide Ventures

  http://www.guideventures.com/
  Investment focus: seed and early-stage information technology companies.

• Hellman & Friedman

  http://www.hf.com/
  Focus: investing in management buyouts in media, telecommunications, financial services, technology and marketing.

• Highland Capital Partners

  http://www.hcp.com/
  Investment focus: communications, consumer fund, information technology and healthcare companies.)

• HLM Venture Partners

  http://www.hlmventurepartners.com/
  Investment focus: technology, healthcare, business services, education and training companies.

• Housatonic Partners

  http://www.housatonicpartners.com/
  Investment focus: later stage companies in the business services, media and communications industries.

• Imin Partners

  http://www.iminpartners.com/
  Investment focus: private equity capital fund dedicated to investing in industrial minerals businesses.

• Integral Capital Partners

  http://www.icp.com/
  Investment focus: expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies in the information technology and life sciences industries.

• Intelligent Capital

  http://www.intelligentcapital.com/
  Focus: specialized advisor for mergers, acquisitions and strategic finance in the information technology sector.

• International Venture Partners

  http://www.ivp2000.com/
  Focus: teams with entrepreneurs to create successful new companies that are technology-based ventures in e-commerce, communications and health care.

• Kinetic Ventures

  http://www.kineticventures.com/
  Investment focus: communications, Internet, and customer service companies.

• Longworth Venture Partners

  http://www.longworth.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage companies involving e-commerce, Internet media, enterprise software and information technology services.

• M/C Partners

  http://www.mcpartners.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage communications and related information technology companies.

• Meritage Private Equity Fund

  http://www.meritagefunds.com/
  Investment focus is on communications network and service opportunities.

• Meritech Capital Partners

  http://www.meritechcapital.com/
  Focus: pursues late-stage traditional growth companies as well as co-investments in corporate buy-outs and spin-offs of information technology companies.

• Mohr, Davidow Ventures

  http://www.mdv.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage companies with a strong information technology component.

• Montreux Equity Partners

  http://www.mepvc.com/
  Focus: growth capital in healthcare.

• New Tech Financing

  http://www.newtechfinancing.com/
  Focus: companies with revolutionary technology that is ready for commercialization.

• New World Ventures

  http://www.newworldvc.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage technology and telecommunications companies.

• Newbury Ventures

  http://www.newburyven.com/
  Equity capital firm specializes in communications and information technology industries.

• Oak Point Partners

  http://www.oakpointpartners.com/
  Focus: Profitable companies with less than $15MM in revenues in niche markets.

• Odyssey Capital Group

  http://www.argosycapital.com/
  Focus: equity investments in real estate, leveraged buy-outs and growth companies.

• Onset Ventures

  http://www.onset.com/
  Investment focus: startups in information, communications and medical technologies.

• ORESA Ventures

  http://www.oresaventures.com/
  Investment focus: companies in the consumer goods, retailing and distribution, health care and pharmaceutical sectors in Central and Eastern Europe.

• Oxford Bioscience Partners

  http://www.oxbio.com/
  Focus: equity financing and management assistance to start-up and early-stage companies in the bioscience and healthcare industries.

• PacRim Venture Partners

  http://www.pacrimpartners.com/
  Focus: investments in early-stage information technology companies in Silicon Valley.

• Palomar Ventures

  http://www.palomarventures.com/
  Focus: start-up and early-stage investments in information technology companies.

• Polaris Partners

  http://www.polarispartners.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage companies developing information and medical technology

• Portico Capital

  http://www.porticocapital.com/
  Focus: venture investment and advisory firm focused on the information services industry.

• Prism Venture Partners

  http://www.prismventure.com/
  Focus: equity investments in start-up, early-stage and growth companies in the communications, Internet and healthcare industries.

• Progeny Ventures

  http://www.progenyvc.com/
  Investment focus: turn internal IT ventures and projects into independent start-up companies.

• Providence Equity Partners

  http://www.provequity.com/
  Focus: equity investments in communications and media companies around the world.

• Psilos

  http://www.psilos.com/
  Focused on providing growth capital to companies operating in the healthcare economy.

• Quaker BioVentures

  http://www.quakerbio.com/
  Investment focus: life sciences.

• Research Corporation Technologies

  http://www.rctech.com/
  Focus: identifies promising early-stage biomedical and optics technologies and provides seed funding and management support for critical early development work.

• Ridgewood Capital

  http://www.ridgewoodcapital.com/
  Investment focus: e-commerce, infrastructure technology, software, telecommunications/wireless and online media.

• Riverside Partners

  http://www.riversidepartners.com/
  Investment focus: growing industrial products companies.

• Rocket Ventures

  http://www.rocketventures.com/
  Focus: early-stage investments in information technology companies, particularly e-commerce and communications infrastructure companies.

• Rockport Capital Partners

  http://www.rockportcap.com/
  Investment focus: early to mid-stage energy, environmental and advanced materials companies.

• SCF Partners

  http://www.scfpartners.com/
  Investment focus: worldwide energy service and equipment industry.

• SeaPoint Ventures

  http://www.seapointventures.com/
  Focus: invests in growing companies in the areas of telecommunication and Internet infrastructure.

• Steamboat Ventures

  http://www.steamboatvc.com/
  Focus: venture capital arm of The Walt Disney Company to help companies succeed in emerging media and entertainment markets.

• Storm Ventures

  http://www.stormventures.com/
  Investment focus: early stage companies in information technology.

• Target Partners

  http://www.targetpartners.de/
  Investment focus: seed financing of young start-ups in the field of information technology.

• Telegraph Hill Partners

  http://www.thpartners.net/
  Investment focus: life science and healthcare companies that are in the commercialization phase.

• Three Arch Partners

  http://www.threearchpartners.com/
  Investment focus: early stage opportunities in life science companies.

• Timberline Venture Partners

  http://www.timberlinevc.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage information technology ventures located in the areas of Portland-Seattle, Southern California and Silicon Valley.

• TransOcean Capital

  http://www.transoceancapital.com/
  Industry focus: equity investments in U.S. based enterprises demonstrating sustainable cash flows and having valuations between $30mm and $100mm.

• Venture Bank

  http://www.venturebank.com/
  Investment focus: financing emerging growth companies in the broadband and wireless media.

• Walnut Venture Associates

  http://walnutventures.com/
  Investment focus: early-stage information technology, communications, software and Internet companies in the New England area.

 

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