Industry Focus

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

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.
www.abnequity.com/

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

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

Advanta Partners - Investment focus: growth capital and acquisition opportunities in the information services industry and early-stage investments in Internet and e-commerce companies.
www.advanta.com/partners/

Alliance Technology Ventures - Investment focus: information technology and life sciences startups with a focus on the Southeast U.S.
www.atv.com/

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

A.M. Pappas & Associates - Investment focus: accelerating the development of life science companies, products and related technologies.
www.ampappas.com/

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

Argo Global Capital - Investment focus: companies that are enabling the convergence of wireless communications and the Internet.
www.argoglobal.com/

Arsenal Capital Partners - Focused on companies in chemical, general industrial, and healthcare sectors. Features portfolio of companies and press releases.
www.arsenalcapital.com/

AsiaTech Management - Focus: early stage funding in the e-commerce, communications, networking, Internet, information technology and semiconductors areas.
www.asiatechventure.com/

Asset Management - Investment focus: information technology and life sciences sectors.
www.assetman.com/

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

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

Avalon Equity Partners - Invests in and helps develop privately held ventures in the media, communications and information services industries.
avalonequity.com

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

BA Venture Partners - Focus: investing in early stage companies in broadband and wireless communications, software and biotechnology areas.
www.baventurepartners.com/

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

Bessemer Venture Partners - Investment focus: entrepreneurial companies in healthcare, information systems, telecommunications and retailing.
www.bessemervp.com/

Blackwater Capital - Investment focus: small private growth companies and/or under-represented small-cap public companies.
www.blackwatercapital.com/

Blue Dot Ventures - Investment focus: information technology, Internet technology, optoelectronics-fiber optics and new media.
bluedotvc.com

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

Blueprint Ventures - Early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging communications and internet infrastructure companies.
www.blueprintventures.com

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

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

Carlson Group - Investment focus: early stage investments in the telecommunications and semiconductor industry.
www.carlsongroup.com

Catalyst Venture Partners - Investment focus: help technology and media sector companies start, grow, and develop.
www.catvp.com/

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

Century Capital Management - Focus: investments in insurance, financial services and related business services.
centurycap.com

Channel Medical Partners - Focus: late-stage investments in the medical technology industry.
www.chanmed.com/

Chisholm Private Capital Partners - Investment focus: seed and early-stage deals, turnarounds, industry consolidations and buy-outs in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas
www.chisholmvc.com/

CMEA Ventures - Focus: high technology investments in information technologies and life sciences.
www.cmeaventures.com/

Code Hennessy & Simmons LLC - Invests in middle-market companies that manufacture and distribute a broad array of consumer and industrial products.
www.chsonline.com/

Columbia Capital Corporation - Investment focus: communications and information technology firms at a variety of stages.
www.colcap.com/

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

ComVentures - Investment focus: exclusively early-stage communications companies
www.comven.com/

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

Coral Ventures - Investment focus: emerging and early-stage companies in the technology and healthcare industries.
www.coralventures.com/

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

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

Digital Networks Global Ventures Limited - Focus: investing in Western European companies in hardware, software and services in and around communications infrastructure.
www.zen91109.zen.co.uk/

Divineisle Inc. - Focus: creates and grows market-transforming ventures.
www.divineisle.com/

Doll Capital Management - Focus: early-stage funding in communications and Internet companies.
www.dollcap.com/

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

Dominion Ventures - Investment focus: private companies in information technology, communications, life sciences, healthcare and service industries.
www.dominion.com/

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

DynaFund Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage companies in microelectronics, telecommunications and information technology.
www.dynafundventures.com/

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

East River Ventures - Investment focus: information technologies including communications, media, software and healthcare.
www.eastriverventures.com/

El Dorado Ventures - Investment focus: primarily West Coast early-stage technology-based ventures, mainly information technologies
www.eldoradoventures.com

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

Fairfax Partners - Investment focus: seed and early-stage technology companies involving healthcare, software or the environment.
www.fairfaxpartners.com/

Fidelity Ventures - Investment focus: healthcare, communications, software, employer services, and education.
www.fidelityventures.com/

FilmSearch.net - Assists investors who seek viable film projects and producers who seek financing.
www.filmsearch.net

Financial Technology Ventures - Provides capital to firms that create technology applications of interest to the financial services industry.
www.ftventures.com

Foundry Capital - Investment focus: film, entertainment, and media.
www.foundrycapital.com/

Frazier and Company - Investment focus: all stage financing to healthcare and information technology companies in the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest.
www.frazierco.com/

Geocapital Partners - Investment focus: growing information technology firms.
www.geocapital.com/

Geometry Group, Inc. - Investment focus: start-up and early stage companies in the investment advisory and money management community.
www.geometrygroup.com/

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

Global Retail Partners - Investment focus: start-up and early-stage companies in the US and Europe that leverage technology for distribution of goods and services.
www.grpvc.com/

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

Hallador Venture Partners - Investment focus: seed and early-stage west coast companies involving telecommunications and related fields
www.hallador.com/

Hellman & Friedman - Focus: investing in management buyouts in media, telecommunications, financial services, technology and marketing.
www.hf.com

Highland Capital Partners - Investment focus: communications, consumer fund, information technology and healthcare companies.)
www.hcp.com/

HLM Venture Partners - Investment focus: technology, healthcare, business services, education and training companies.
www.hlmventurepartners.com/

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

Idealflow Angel Fund LLC - Investment focus: high-growth businesses developing innovative products and services in the information and electronic technology areas.
www.idealflowfund.com/

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

Impact Venture Partners - Investment focus: early-stage companies offering information technology products and services.
www.impactvp.com/

Integra Ventures - Investment focus: early stage and seed companies in healthcare and wireless technology.
www.ibhweb.com/

Integral Capital Partners - Investment focus: expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies in the information technology and life sciences industries.
www.integralcapital.com/

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

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

J. H. Whitney and Co. - Investment focus: all stages in communications, Internet technology, healthcare, transforming industries and consumer.
www.jhwhitney.com/

Kettle Partners - Investment focus: emerging stage companies that enable telecommunications, new media and the Internet.
www.kettlevc.com/

Kinetic Ventures - Investment focus: communications, Internet, and customer service companies.
www.kineticventures.com/

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

Marcus & Millichap Venture Partners - Focus: early to late stage venture funding for real estate technology companies.
www.mm-vp.com/

Marquette Venture Partners - Investment focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies in consumer and business services, healthcare, and technology.
www.marquetteventures.com/

M/C Venture Partners - Investment focus: early-stage communications and related information technology companies.
www.mcventurepartners.com/

Meritage Private Equity Fund - Investment focus is on communications network and service opportunities.
www.meritagefunds.com

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

Merlin Biosciences - Focus: broad-based venture capital and advisory company dedicated to the life sciences sector.
www.merlin-biosciences.com/

Mohr, Davidow Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage companies with a strong information technology component.
www.mdv.com/

Montreux Equity Partners - Focus: invests primarily in early-stage technology and healthcare.
www.montreuxequity.com

Nautic Partners - Focus: private equity firm specializing in the business services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and information, and telecommunications services industries.
www.nauticpartners.com/

New Tech Financing - Focus: companies with revolutionary technology that is ready for commercialization.
www.newtechfinancing.com/

New World Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage technology and telecommunications companies.
www.newworldvc.com/

Newbury Ventures - Equity capital firm specializes in communications and information technology industries.
www.newburyven.com/

newman capital group - private equity investment firm - Focus: investment capital for growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations and buyouts of manufactured homes, golf and leisure businesses.
www.newmancap.com/

Oak Point Partners - Focus: Profitable companies with less than $15MM in revenues in niche markets.
www.oakpointpartners.com/

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

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

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

Osprey Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage and expansion-stage companies in the business and consumer technology marketplace.
www.ospreyventures.com/

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

Pacesetter Capital Group - Specializing in venture financing, leveraged buyouts, growth financing. Focus on broadcasting, technology infrastructure, and manufacturing and services. Features protfolio and links to resources.
www.pacesettercapital.com/

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

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

Polaris Venture Partners - Investment focus: early-stage companies developing information and medical technology
www.polarisventures.com/

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

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

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

Providence Equity Partners - Focus: equity investments in communications and media companies around the world.
www.provequity.com

Psilos - Focus: financing to entrepreneurs in the healthcare and digital media industry.
www.psilos.com

Quaker BioVentures - Investment focus: life sciences.
www.quakerbio.com/

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

Rho Management Company, Inc. - Investment focus: targets the Internet, healthcare and telecommunications industries.
www.rhomanagement.com

Richland Ventures - Investment focus: expansion capital for service companies located primarily in the Southeast and Southwest
www.richlandventures.com/

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

Riverside Partners - Investment focus: growing industrial products companies.
www.riversidepartners.com/

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

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

RWI Group, L.P. - Investment focus: early-stage technology communications, software and Internet companies.
www.rwigroup.com

Sage Hill Partners - Focus: help build early-stage technology companies that promise to shape the future of the new digital medium.
www.sagehillpartners.com/

SCF Partners - Investment focus: worldwide energy service and equipment industry.
www.scfpartners.com/

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

Senmed Medical Ventures - Investment focus: proprietary medical technologies and businesses.
www.senmed.com/

SI Ventures - Investment focus: early to mid-stage information technology-based or Internet-enabled companies.
www.siventures.com/

Silver Brands - Investment focus: middle market food companies.
www.silverbrands.com/

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

Storm Ventures - Investment focus: seed and early-stage Internet infrastructure and optical networking companies with emphasis in bandwidth creation, wireless connectivity and managed services.
www.stormventures.com/

SunAmerica Ventures - Investment focus: communications infrastructure and software in communications infrastructure.
www.sunamericavc.com/

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

Telegraph Hill Partners - Investment focus: life science and healthcare companies that are in the commercialization phase.
www.thpartners.net/

Three Arch Partners - Investment focus: early stage opportunities in life science companies.
www.threearchpartners.com/

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

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

VCHub Ventures - Investment focus: communications and networking start-ups.
www.vchub.com/

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

Versentech Holdings - Focus: venture consulting firm focused on high technology and bioscience sectors.
www.versentech.com/

Wakefield Group - Investment focus: technology, health and media ventures with major growth potential in the Southeast.
www.wakefieldgroup.com/

Walden Capital Partners - Invests in expansion-stage companies in information technology, manufacturing, distribution and the medical industries.
www.waldencapital.com/

Walnut Venture Associates - Investment focus: early-stage information technology, communications, software and Internet companies in the New England area.
www.walnutventures.net

WFD Venutes, LLC - Focused on medical device and business process outsourcing industries. Features portfolio companies.
www.wfdventures.com/