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Edison Venture Fund - http://www.edisonventure.com/
Investment focus: proprietary technologies or unique services in emerging markets, generally preferring expansion stage companies. |
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Sevin Rosen Funds - http://www.srfunds.com
Investment focus: early-stage (and follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences companies |
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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 |
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Greylock - http://www.greylock.com/
Investment focus: all stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare industries |
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Axa Private Equity - http://www.axaprivateequity.com/
Portfolio management company focusing on all the aspects of capital investment and private equity. |
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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 |
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JAFCO America Ventures, Inc. - http://www.jafco.com/
Investment focus: communications, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors |
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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 |
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Norwest Venture Capital - http://www.norwestvc.com
Investment focus: startups, emerging growth companies, management buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations |
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3i - http://www.3i.com/
Focus: leading international venture capital company. |
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CDC Capital Partners - http://www.cdcgroup.com/
Private equity investors in emerging markets. |
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Warburg Pincus Ventures - http://www.warburgpincus.com/
Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services. |
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Advent International - http://www.adventinternational.com/
Investment focus: companies at all stages of development, including early-stage, and in virtually any industry. |
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North Bridge Venture Partners - http://www.nbvp.com/
Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care |
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Technology Crossover Ventures - http://www.tcv.com/
Investment focus: growth capital to expansion stage information technology companies |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dow Jones VentureReporter - http://www.venturereporter.net
Providing a database venture capital investments and investors. [Requires subscription] |
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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. |
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DragonVenture - http://www.dragonventure.com/
Focus: cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company. |
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TVM Capital - http://www.tvm-capital.com/
Venture capital for technology and life sciences companies. |
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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 |
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Advanced Technology Ventures - http://www.atvcapital.com/
Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care. |
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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. |
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Partech International - http://www.partechintl.com/
Investment focus: startups and emerging growth companies in the United States, Europe and Japan involving information technology, life sciences and business services |
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Ampersand Ventures - http://www.ampersandventures.com/
Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies in communications, information technologies, life sciences and specialty materials and chemicals. |
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Red Rock Ventures - http://www.redrockventures.com
Investment focus: seed and early-stage companies that develop and sell enterprise solutions to medium and large companies |
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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 |
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Trinity Ventures - http://www.trinityventures.com/
Investment focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer software, electronic commerce, and communications |
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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. |
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Menlo Ventures - http://www.menloventures.com/
Investment focus: private communications, Internet infrastructure, software, semiconductor, data storage, and computer hardware companies located in the United States. |
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Sierra Ventures - http://www.sierraven.com
Investment focus: early-stage healthcare, information technology-related companies and service businesses |
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Regulation D Resources - http://www.regdresources.com/
Focus: provide the framework to raise venture capital and angel investment. |
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First Analysis Venture Capital - http://www.facvc.com/
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 |
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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 |
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Sigma Partners - http://www.sigmapartners.com/
Investment focus: ventures of all stages, primarily in technology-based companies, but also non-technology |
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Madison Dearborn Partners - http://www.mdcp.com/
Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing. |
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General Atlantic Partners - http://www.gapartners.com/
Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies. |
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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 |
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Gaebler Ventures - http://www.gaebler.com
Focus: early-stage venture capital investment with focus on information technology and business services companies. |
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VC Experts - http://vcexperts.com
Sells online reference manual on all aspects of venture capital, including forms, annotations and polls. |
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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 |
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Technology Partners - http://www.technologypartners.com/
Focus: seed or first stage ventures involving information processing, communications or health care |
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American Capital Strategies - http://americancapitalonline.com/
Evaluates and secures financing for middle market companies. |
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HarbourVest Partners - http://www.harbourvest.com/
Investment focus: software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buy-outs of operating companies. |
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Sanderling - http://www.sanderling.com/
Investment focus: seed and early-stage new biomedical market opportunities, including emerging technology |
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Vanguard Venture Partners - http://www.vanguardventures.com/
Investment focus: pre-revenue stage in information technology and life sciences sectors |
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Pacific Venture Group - http://www.pacven.com/
Investment focus: broad range of stages (startup through consolidation) involving healthcare services and information systems oriented towards a managed care solution |
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Japan Asia Investment Company - http://www.jaic-vc.co.jp/
Focus: industrial sectors that improve quality of life. |
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Rockies Venture Club - http://www.rockiesventureclub.org/
Focus: non-profit that connects entrepreneurs, service professionals, investors, venture capitalists and other funding sources. |
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Intersouth Partners - http://www.intersouth.com/
Investment focus: seed and early-stage life science and technology companies located near the Research Triangle and Austin |
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Gabriel Venture Partners - http://www.gabrielvp.com/
Investment focus: funding through every stage of the company growth cycle. |
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Top Technology - http://www.toptechnology.co.uk/
Investment focus: early-stage British technology companies |
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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 |
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J.L. Albright Venture Partners Inc. - http://www.jlaventures.com/
Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional prospects for growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services |
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TA Associates - http://www.ta.com/
Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare, financial services, media and consumer products |
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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 |
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PureTech Ventures LLC - http://www.puretechventures.com
Supports life science ventures based on breakthroughs from research institutions, providing management support and seed funding. |
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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. |
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Almeida Capital - http://www.almeidacapital.com/
Focus: global venture capital research and advisory services. |
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JK&B Capital - http://www.jkbcapital.com
Investment focus: telecommunications, software and information technologies, but will consider outstanding opportunities in other industries |
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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. |
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Moore, Clayton and Company - http://www.mccglobal.com/
Focus: traditional industries converging with new technologies, in particular healthcare, energy, entertainment, financial services, communications and education. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Pacifica Fund - http://www.pacificafund.com/
Focus: Silicon Valley based seed and first round venture capital firm. |
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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. |
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Friedland Capital - http://www.friedlandcapital.com/
Focus: venture capital and equity raising services. |
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Kline Hawkes & Co. - http://www.klinehawkes.com/
Investment focus: later-stage venture deals, change of control situations and industry consolidations in California companies involving communications, technology or health care |
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Needham Capital Partners - http://www.needhamcapital.com/
Focus: manages investment partnerships primarily in the equities of later-stage private growth companies. |
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Primus Venture Partners - http://www.primusventure.com/
Investment focus: various stages of development, with greater emphasis on businesses beyond proof of concept and which are demonstrating capacity to become large enterprises |
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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) |
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Venture Management Services - http://www.vmsgroup.com/
Focus: startup and later stage companies involving wireless communications, Internet, value added networking services, content and local service. |
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Tech Coast Venture Network - http://www.tcvn.org/
Non-profit organization bringing together users and providers of resources for new and emerging businesses. |
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Katalyst - http://www.katalyst.com/
A middle market, investment and advisory firm offering venture capital, investment banking services and business advisory services. |
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Pacific Century Group Ventures - http://www.pcentury.com/
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 |
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Frontenac Company - http://www.frontenac.com/
Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses. |
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Cardinal Ventures - http://www.cardvent.com/
Focus: acquire businesses that can be grown through internal means and by add-on acquisitions. |
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Summer Street Capital Partners - http://www.summerstreetcapital.com/
Focus: private equity fund, venture capital, investment, financing. |
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KBL Healthcare Ventures - http://www.kblhealthcare.com/
Investment focus: startup, early-stage and emerging growth companies in the healthcare industry, particularly medical devices, healthcare services and niche pharmaceuticals |
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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. |
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Palladium Equity Partners - http://www.palladiumequity.com/
Focus: private investment firm founded by experienced operating executives and investment professionals. |
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Edelson Technology Partners - http://www.edelsontech.com/
Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financing and leveraged buyouts in a broad range of technologies. |
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Freeman Spogli - http://www.freemanspogli.com/
Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies. |
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EuclidSR Partners - http://www.euclidpartners.com/
Investment focus: exploit the accelerating changes and advances in healthcare and information technologies. |
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Blue Point Capital Partners - http://www.bluepointcapital.com/
Focus: private equity investment firm that invests equity capital in middle market businesses. |
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Hickory Venture Capital Corporation - http://www.hvcc.com/
Investment focus: rapidly growing ventues throughout the Southeast, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, especially involving healthcare services, medical devices, telecommunications, and software |
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Signal Lake Venture Fund - http://www.signallake.com/
Investment focus: early-stage broadband telecom and networking infrastructure being built for the global economy. |
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MBC Dotcom - http://www.mybizcapital.com/
Venture capital and business finance facilitator and advisory firm. |
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Smedvig Capital - http://www.smedvigcapital.com
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. |
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Mycapital, Inc. - http://www.mycapital.com/
Venture capital database and web application to help companies raise capital. |
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Swander Pace Capital - http://www.spcap.com
San Francisco-based firm providing value-added investing in consumer products companies. |
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RAF Ventures - http://www.rafind.com/
Investment focus: early-stage service, financial, retail, and manufacturing companies, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states |
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Kestrel Venture Management - http://www.kestrelvm.com/
Investment focus: deals too large for most individual investors and too small for many venture capital firms - broad array of New England industries |
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Telos Venture Partners - http://www.telosvp.com/
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. |
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Cogent Partners - http://www.cogent-partners.net/
Focus: private equity-focused investment bank that helps institutional, corporate and individual investors sell their assets in the private equity secondary market. |
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Hamilton Robinson - http://www.hrco.com/
Investment focus: smaller, middle market opportunities in the areas of energy, utilities, industrial process and business services. |
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The Sable Lion Group - http://www.sablelion.com/
Private-equity holding company focused on cultivating emerging growth companies; primarily technology related. |
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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. |
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2i Capital - http://www.2icapital.com/
Focus: investment and intellectual capital network. |
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CrossBridge Venture Partners - http://crossbridgevp.com/
Investment focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies in information technology. |
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Fox Paine - http://www.foxpaine.com/
Focus: capital for management buy-outs, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs. |
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SSM Ventures - http://www.ssmventures.com/
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 |
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NPDC - http://www.npdcinc.com/
Focus: seek to identify, fund and nurture business ideas through participation of our members to create and capture new markets. |
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Generation Partners - http://www.genpartners.com/
Investment focus: seed to late stage information technology companies in telecommunications, data communications, computing and the Internet. |
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Churchill Capital - http://www.churchillnet.com/
Investment focus: middle market companies for buy-outs, recapitalizations, acquisitions and growth needs. |
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Parallax Capital Partners - http://www.parallaxcap.com/
Investment focus: acquisitions and investments in technology businesses. |
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Waterside Capital Corp - http://www.watersidecapital.com
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. |
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South Atlantic Venture Funds - http://www.southatlantic.com
Investment focus: expansions, acquisitions, buyouts and recapitalizations located in Florida, the Southeast and Texas |
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Hampshire Equity Partners - http://www.hampep.com/
Focus: invests in growth financing, buyouts, acquisitions, consolidations and corporate restructuring. |
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Maton Venture - http://www.maton.com
Investment focus: technology-based, private companies at various stages of development |
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Quan Ventures - http://www.quanvc.com/
Investment focus: emerging technology niches in telecommunications, semiconductors and Internet infrastructure. |
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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. |
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Salix Ventures - http://www.salixventures.com/
Investment focus: early-stage health care services (including health care information technology) companies |
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Real Options Approaches in Venture Capital Finance - http://www.realoptions.dk
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. |
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All American Capital - http://www.aacapitalcorp.com
Focus: venture capital funding using private placements and IPOs. |
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Desai Capital Management Inc. - http://www.desaicapital.com/
Focused on sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations of proven growth companies. |
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Tuckerman Capital - http://www.tuckermancapital.com/
Focus: partners with fundless sponsors to acquire profitable manufacturing companies. |
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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. |