Listed directly in this category are professional venture capital firms that raise fund(s) from investors and then identify, screen, select and invest directly in entrepreneurial business ventures that are typically in their early stages. Venture capital affiliates of corporations are also listed. The subcategory Entrepreneurial Resources and its subcategories list many other sites potentially useful to entrepreneurs, including other forms of access to capital, e.g. angel investors.- Category ID : 49615
Investment focus: early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital technologies - information, communications, software, media/entertainment, and semiconductors
Investment focus: principally companies headquartered in the Western United States in three sectors of industry: medical, technology and retail/consumer
Investment focus: exclusively in information and business services companies, including content providers, transaction processors, application software and Internet products and services
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.
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
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.
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
Focus: profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services
Investment focus: leading early-stage companies with advanced technology in information and life sciences, and selectively in later stage opportunities
Investment focus: private equity for a global investment opportunities including management buy-outs and recapitalizations, venture capital, growth equity and equity to reduce excessive debt burdens.
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
Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts involving information technology, health care or industrial technology
Investment focus: profitable service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace but will also consider early-stage.
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
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
Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software infrastructure and hardware applications leveraging digital signal processing (DSP) and related technologies
Focus: private equity and venture capital firm focused in Southern California exclusively on investments in communications, media and related technologies.
Focus: private equity investment firm seeking to partner with successful management teams to complete leveraged acquisitions or recapitalizations of leading middle-market companies.
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.
Operates two high technology businesses: iFre Technology, Westaim Biomedical; two industrial technology businesses: Surface Engineered Products and Aerospace Products; and two industrial products businesses: Coinage and Chemicals. (Nasdaq: WEDX).
Investment focus: manages limited partnerships through which qualified individuals, families and their trusts or foundations invest in venture capital funds.
Investment focus: early-stage investments in consumer and business-to-business Internet services, intranet-based business applications, interactive tools, multimedia and telecommunications
An international advisory and private equity firm specializing in corporate venturing, providing experience and resources necessary to start new businesses.
Produces presentations and diagrams that help entrepreneurial companies achieve success at key events, including venture funding, product launches, roadshows and customer sales.
Assists clients operating within the private industry with resolving day-to-day strategic issues, with emphasis on the venture capital and private equity environment.
Provides equity financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries, emerging markets and in countries undergoing economic transition.
Investment focus: private communications, Internet infrastructure, software, semiconductor, data storage, and computer hardware companies located in the United States.
Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies in communications, information technologies, life sciences and specialty materials and chemicals.