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• Thomson-CSF Ventures Investment focus: electronics, telecommunications, and computer software and systems opportunities where there is potential synergy with Thomson-CSF companies
  
• Industrial Growth Partners IGP provides private equity capital for management buyouts in middle-market manufacturing companies.
  
• Vision Capital Investment focus: trans-Atlantic expansion for proven U.S and European technology companies
  
• Sutter Hill Ventures Investment focus: technology-based startups which pioneer products or services in growth markets
  
• J.L. Albright Venture Partners Inc. Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional prospects for growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services
  
• RRE Investors Investment focus: expansion stage information technology ventures
  
• Inc.com Discover ways to attract venture capitalists and private investors to fund your company.
  
• 21st Century Internet Venture Partners Investment focus: startup ventures pursuing opportunities born of the Internet
  
• United Capital Consulting Providing corporate finance services and advice to growing companies where clients require personalized service.
  
• Institutional Venture Partners Investment focus: leading early-stage companies with advanced technology in information and life sciences, and selectively in later stage opportunities
  
• Rosewood Capital Investment focus: primarily expansions and recapitalizations involving branded consumer products, retail, or service sectors, including online commerce
  
• Spring Capital Partners, L.P. Investment Focus: mezzanine financing for growing small and medium-sized businesses.
  
• Polaris Venture Partners Investment focus: early-stage companies developing information and medical technology
  
• TL Ventures Investment focus: primarily mid- to later stage information technology and biotechnology companies, but also consider early-stages
  
• Ampersand Ventures Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies seeking capital for product development and growth in electronics, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, industrial and building products, process control and instrumentation
  
• Women's Growth Capital Fund Investment focus: equity investments primarily in Mid-Atlantic region early and expansion stage women-owned and/or managed businesses
  
• Sloan Enterprises Investment focus: seed financings for companies with innovative products, technologies, and services in a broad range of industries and markets
  
• American Securities Capital Partners Provides equity investments in privately and publicly held companies in numerous industries.
  
• Emerald Venture, LLC Provides equity capital for various stages of business development.
  
• 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
  
• MKD Capital Corp Provides debt and equity financing for various types of commercial products.
  
• Encompass Ventures Investment focus: prefers early or developmental stage information technology companies in the Western United States and Canada where they can provide a bridge to Asia
  
• NCIC Capital Fund Focus: debt and equity financing for early-stage, technology based companies in Ohio and Indiana
  
• Labrador Ventures Investment focus: early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital technologies information, communications, software, media/entertainment, and semiconductors
  
• Hydro-Quebec CapiTech Venture capital company that invests in companies whose technological products and services are related to the energy field.
  
• Warburg Pincus Ventures Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services.
  
• EuclidSR Partners Investment focus: exploit the accelerating changes and advances in healthcare and information technologies.
  
• 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
  
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund
  
• Seven Hills Partners Focus: investments and buy-outs of entrepreneurial enterprises, primarily in the areas of healthcare and interactive media.
  
• 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
  
• 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.
  
• 1st Venture Capital Network Provides private placement venture financing, reverse mergers and going public advisory services.
  
• Technology Crossover Ventures Investment focus: growth capital to expansion stage information technology companies
  
• New Enterprise Associates Investment focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and life sciences
  
• EnerTech Capital Investment focus: service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace, mostly profitable companies with annual revenue in excess of $3 million, but will also consider early-stage
  
• Weiss, Peck & Greer - Venture Partners Investment focus: early- and expansion-stage information technology and life sciences companies throughout the US
  
• MBC Dotcom Venture capital and business finance facilitator and advisory firm.
  
• InnoCal Investment focus: early and expansion stage, technology-based businesses
  
• Associated Venture Investors Venture capital partnerships specializing in seed and early-stage investments in high-technology companies positioned for high growth segments of the Information Technologies market
  
• Freeman Spogli Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies.
  
• European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) Focus: globally promote and facilitate European venture capital and private equity
  
• Frontenac Company Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses
  
• 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.
  
• Wind Point Partners Investment focus: all stages of development, from expansion capital for emerging growth companies to sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations
  
• Sofinov Investment focus: Québec, Canada technology projects at various stages, from pre-startups to buyouts
  
• 4Capital Provides links to private venture capital firms.
  
• Crosspoint Venture Partners an initial stage equity investor with focused expertise in three strategic areas - networking and communications, health care, and financial services.
  
• idealab Capital Partners Investment focus: Internet commerce and other early-stage Internet companies
  
• Generation Partners Venture investment focus: seed to late stage information technology companies (telecommunications, data communications, computing and the Internet)
  
• Svoboda, Collins L.L.C. Focus: investing in and building value-added service and distribution companies with fundamentally sound operating models.
  
• Redleaf Venture Management Financial funding and strategic assistance to early stage Internet startups.
  
• Crescent Private Capital, L.P. Private equity firm based in boston investing in middle-market growth companies.
  
• Swander Pace Capital San Francisco-based firm providing value-added investing in consumer products companies.
  
• Sevin Rosen Funds Investment focus: early-stage (and follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences companies
  
• Corporate Venturing Find news, information, and resources covering corporate venturing.
  
• Media Technology Ventures Investment focus: seed and start-up companies involving the convergence of information, communications and entertainment technologies and services
  
• Norwest Venture Capital Investment focus: startups, emerging growth companies, management buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations
  
• Partech International Investment focus: startups and emerging growth companies in the United States, Europe and Japan involving information technology, life sciences and business services
  
• 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
  
• Maton Venture Investment focus: technology-based, private companies at various stages of development
  
• IDG Ventures Investment focus: information technology companies, preferring either seed or first-round financings, or very late (last before IPO) stage investments
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• Indiainfoline | Venture Capital Provides an introduction to investing and venture capital.
  
• Menlo Ventures Investment focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies in the areas of biotechnology, medical devices, healthcare services, computer software, hardware, networking, communications, and the Internet
  
• Desai Capital Management Inc. Focused on sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations of proven growth companies.
  
• Hickory Venture Capital Corporation Investment focus: rapidly growing ventues throughout the Southeast, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, especially involving healthcare services, medical devices, telecommunications, and software
  
• Oak Investment Partners Investment focus: early-stage and selective restarts or recapitalizations of later-stage information technology, health care or retail companies
  
• Hawaii Venture Group, LLC Investment focus: emerging growth companies, typically start-up, seed capital, and second stage investment opportunities within the State of Hawaii
  
• Red Rock Ventures Investment focus: seed and early-stage companies that develop and sell enterprise solutions to medium and large companies
  
• Idanta Partners Ltd. Investment focus: young companies that have the potential to grow into substantial enterprises in the fields of information technology, health care and life sciences, retail and others
  
• 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
  
• Piper Jaffray Venture Capital Investment focus: emerging-growth companies in medical devices, healthcare services and technology
  
• FairShare Provides investors with insight on how to evaluate deal structures in venture stage companies.
  
• HarbourVest Partners, LLC Investment foucs: global, with direct investments in software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buyouts of operating companies
  
• OneLiberty Ventures Investment focus: seed and early-stage venture capital to companies with products or services in information technology, medical technology and telecommunications
  
• Technology Investments Focus: seed stage information technology ventures located in Northern California
  
• Advanced Technology Ventures Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care
  
• Dakota Capital Partners, L.L.C. Dakota Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm established in 1995 to make investments in growing companies across a diverse set of industries.
  
• Roser Ventures, LLC Investment focus: early-stage companies across a broad range of industries and located in the Rocky Mountain region
  
• Global Crossing Ventures Investment focus: startups in the Internet and communications industries.
  
• Onset Ventures Investment focus: startups in information, communications and medical technologies
  
• BancBoston Capital Investment focus: early-stage venture capital to equity sponsorship, co-investment and mezzanine capital for buyouts, recapitalizations and expansion of mid-size companies
  
• Venture Management Services Focus: startup and later stage companies involving wireless communications, Internet, value added networking services, content and local service.
  
• Morgan Stanley Venture Partners Investment focus: primarily in later-stage high growth companies, concentrating on the information technology and health care industries
  
• Intersouth Partners Investment focus: seed and early-stage life science and technology companies located near the Research Triangle and Austin
  
• National City Capital Invests equity and mezzanine capital primarily in private companies.
  
• Apex Investment Partners Investment focus: emerging growth companies of all stages in telecommunications, software, and information technology industries, with additional emphasis in specialty retail and consumer products
  
• PRIMEDIA Ventures Investment focus: early-stage Internet companies and other technology opportunities in such areas as: commerce services, enterprise software applications, distance learning and advertising-related technologies
  
• New Technology Opportunities Seeks capital financing for the production and marketing of a patented product.
  
• ABS Capital Investment focus: management buy-outs, expansion financing and recapitalization in technology, business services, media communications and health care.
  
• Online Investment Banking Company EMBRO Capital Online is an international investment banking firm for small capitalization growth companies offering public financing, private placements, and venture capital.
  
• Thompson Clive Venture Capital Investment focus: life science and information technology ventures, early-stage through later-stage, on both sides of the Atlantic
  
• Asset Capitalization Enterprises Business funding and venture capital for businesses nationwide.
  
• Corpfin.com Corporate finance solutions in private investment, public equities, and investment offerings.
  
• 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
  
• TA Associates Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare, financial services, media and consumer products
  
• Patricof & Co. Ventures, Inc. Investment focus: startups to later-stage buyouts in a broad range of industries, most notably healthcare, information technology, telecommunications, specialty retailing and new media
  
• Dorset Capital Private Equity for Consumer Growth Companies
  
• South Atlantic Venture Funds Investment focus: expansions, acquisitions, buyouts and recapitalizations located in Florida, the Southeast and Texas
  
• General Atlantic Partners Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies
  
• Champion Ventures Focus: raising pools of capital from individuals involved in professional sports and investing it with a small number of top-tier venture capital funds.
  
• Prospect Street Ventures Investment focus: information technology ventures in New York City
  
• Gabriel Venture Partners Investment focus: funding through every stage of the company growth cycle.
  
• Woodside Fund Investment focus: startup and early-stage ventures involving software, telecommunications or networking, with consideration for other industries/markets
  
• 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
  
• General Catalyst Funds breakthrough ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business building resources and strategic support.
  
• Top Technology Investment focus: early-stage British technology companies
  
• Chase H&Q Investment focus: technology, services, healthcare, and branded consumer.
  
• FLAG Venture Managemnt, LLC Investment focus: manages limited partnerships through which qualified individuals, families and their trusts or foundations invest in venture capital funds
  
• Weston Presidio Capital Investment focus: later-stage growth companies, recapitalizations and buyouts in a diverse set of industries
  
• Abingworth Management Limited Venture capital investor on both sides of the Atlantic, specialising in early-stage life science and biomedical companies. Best science and strong management produce outstanding results.
  
• Matrix Partners Investment focus: early-stage software and communications companies
  
• Dimeling, Schreiber & Park Focus: private equity investments in a broad range of middle market companies having superior management teams.
  
• August Capital Investment focus: companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets
  
• Foundation Capital Investment focus: start-ups in their formative stages, and all subsequent financings as a company develops, involving Enterprise & Internet Software, Communications & Networking, Technical Software, and Semiconductors
  
• Western Association of Venture Capitalists Non-profit association whose approximately 140 member firms represent virtually all professionally managed venture capital in the Western United States
  
• TTC Ventures - Venture Capital subsidiary of The Thomson Corporation Investment focus: mostly early-stage information technology companies that can leverage Thomsons content and access to markets
  
• Draper Fisher Jurvetson - Venture Capital Investment focus: early-stage information technology businesses with enormous market potential
  
• CDC Capital Partners Private equity investors in emerging markets.
  
• First-Venture Associates, Inc. Assists foreign and domestic companies, structuring and arranging public and private financing
  
• Glick Morganstern Capital Group, LLC Arranges and negotiates financing for growth, acquisition, turnaround and start-up.
  
• Commonwealth Associates Merchant bank and venture capital firm offers services to corporate clients and investors.
  
• Softbank Venture Capital Focus: seed stage to mezzanine round investments for Internet companies.
  
• InterWest Partners Investment focus: full range of stages in information technology, health care and non-technology ventures
  
• ABN AMRO Private Equity Investment focus: business services, communications, information technology and healthcare services companies with new products and services that address large existing markets.
  
• Sierra Ventures Investment focus: early-stage healthcare, information technology-related companies and service businesses
  
• Sequoia Capital Investment focus: primarily very early-stage West Coast technology companies; post beta-stage around Boston and Austin; later-stage nationwide
  
• Cambridge Financial Services A venture capital firm raising capital through private stock offerings.
  
• Technology Partners Focus: seed or first stage ventures involving information processing, communications or health care
  
• VenGlobal Capital Investment focus: Early-stage ventures particularly in the data communications and electronic design automation (EDA) industries.
  
• Salix Ventures Investment focus: early-stage health care services (including health care information technology) companies
  
• Morgenthaler Ventures Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts involving information technology, health care or industrial technology
  
• Fleming and Associates Business planning and venture capital fund raising.
  
• KBL Healthcare Ventures Investment focus: startup, early-stage and emerging growth companies in the healthcare industry, particularly medical devices, healthcare services and niche pharmaceuticals
  
• CM Equity Partners Private equity fund focusing on the acquisition of middle-market manufacturing, distribution and service companies.
  
• Bertelsmann Ventures Investment focus: early stage, Internet centric, business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer.
  
• Ira Besserman Productions Los Angeles-based production company seeking an equity investment for the production of ten movies.
  
• Geocapital Partners Investment focus: growing information technology firms
  
• Atlas Venture Investment focus: early and late stage information technology and life sciences in Europe and the U.S.
  
• Chase Capital Partners Investment focus: private equity for a wide variety of global investment opportunities including: management buyouts and recapitalizations, venture capital, growth equity, and equity to reduce excessive debt burdens
  
• Sigma Partners Investment focus: ventures of all stages, primarily in technology-based companies, but also non-technology
  
• National Venture Capital Association Dedicated to defining, serving and representing the interests of the venture capital and private equity industries
  
• 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.
  
• Centurion Pictures, Inc. Seeks investment and support for the production of a full length feature film.
  
• 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
  
• Technology Funding Inc. Pioneer in public venture funds
  
• American Capital Strategies Evaluates and secures financing for middle market companies.
  
• Trident Capital Investment focus: exclusively in information and business services companies, including content providers, transaction processors, application software and Internet products and services
  
• Capital Solutions Network Provides access to a network of private investors and institutional investment groups.
  
• Information Technology Ventures Investment focus: fast growing information technology enterprises with "unfair" competitive advantages that have the potential to dominate their market space
  
• Cornerstone Capital Holdings Private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations and industry consolidations.
  
• Sanderling Investment focus: seed and early-stage new biomedical market opportunities, including emerging technology
  
• Skypoint Capital Corporation Investment focus: very early-stage high-technology opportunities in North America, the United Kingdom and Israel in telecommunications and IT
  
• Kennet Capital Investment focus: European information and communications technology companies
  
• Sustainable Jobs Fund Community development venture capital fund which finances recycling, remanufacturing, environmental and other companies.
  
• Fleet Equity Partners Investment focus: telecommunications services, media & information, healthcare services, industrial manufacturing, business services, and consumer products and services, including buyouts, leveraged recapitalizations, growth financings, and consolidations
  
• RocketFinance.com Venturing support for commercial space ventures and feasibility studies.
  
• RAF Ventures Investment focus: early-stage service, financial, retail, and manufacturing companies, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states
  
• Edison Venture Fund Investment focus: proprietary technologies or unique services in emerging markets, generally prefering expansion stage companies
  
• 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.
  
• 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
  
• Interactive Minds Investment focus: early-stage investments in consumer and business-to-business Internet services, intranet-based business applications, interactive tools, multimedia and telecommunications
  
• Summit Partners Focus: profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services
  
• VirtualFund Invests in promising Internet companies with high viral growth potential.
  
• 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
  
• Venture Strategy Partners Investment focus: early-stage companies with exceptional brand potential which can be rapidly leveraged and expanded
  
• 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
  
• Brand Equity Ventures Investment focus: broadly across the consumer sector in early-stage companies that are ready for rapid expansion
  
• William Blair Capital Partners Focus: early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range of industries
  
• Vanguard Venture Partners Investment focus: pre-revenue stage in information technology and life sciences sectors
  
• JAFCO America Ventures, Inc. Investment focus: communications, software, info services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors
  
• Gemini Investors Focus: investing in middle market companies.
  
• Trinity Ventures Investment focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer software, electronic commerce, and communications
  
• Dougery Ventures Investment focus: fast growing emerging markets, mostly high technology products and services
  
• 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
  
• Bain Capital Focus: venture and expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies in a wide range of industries.
  
• World Capital Business funding and venture capital for businesses worldwide.
  
• NewVista Capital Investment focus: early-stage technology companies managed by minority and women entrepreneurs
  
• TVM Techno Venture Management Investment focus: European and U.S. communications technology, information technology and biotechnology
  
• Newtek Ventures Investment focus: early-stage and slow growth companies involving medical devices/software/services, electronics, semi-conductors, software, telecommunications, or Internet
  
• Greylock Investment focus: all stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare industries
  
• Keystone Venture Capital Investment focus: Mid-Atlantic early to late expansion stage opportunities involving information technology, consumer and outsourcing service sectors
  
• 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
  
• Edelson Technology Partners Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financings, as well as leveraged buyouts and special situations, in a broad range of technologies
  
• JK&B Capital Investment focus: telecommunications, software and information technologies, but will consider outstanding opportunities in other industries
  
• Trade Management Indonesia Specialist in facilitating private equity investment in Indonesia with a wide range of business information services, and data base of qualified companies. Focus of is on firms with foreign export markets or local distribution, as well as the tourism industry.
  
• Madison Dearborn Partners Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing.
  
• Walden Media and Information Technology Fund Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software, interactive services and related enabling technology
  
• 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
  
• Pacific Venture Group Investment focus: broad range of stages (startup through consolidation) involving healthcare services and information systems oriented towards a managed care solution
  
• Keystone Capital, Inc Private equity investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions.
  
• PlacementTracker Research, reporting and analysis on private placements by public companies.
  
• Advent International Investment focus: companies at all stages of development, including early-stage, and in virtually any industry
  
• Tribune Ventures Focus: leading Tribune Company's strategic investments and new-media development
  
• Road Show A source for the information investors need to make a qualified buying decision regarding a public companies stock.
  
• Thunderbolt Capital Corp. Investment focus: seed capital up to $250,000 for rapid growth opportunities in a variety of industries and locations
  
• Global American Corporation Focus: financing the capital requirements for a variety of companies, in various industries, through private investors.
  
• The Sophisticated Investor Introduces accredited investors to small public companies in search of financing.
  
• North Bridge Venture Partners Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care