Open Directory - Business: Financial Services: Venture Capital
See also: This category in other languages: - Focus: leading international venture capital company. - Focus: private equity and venture capital investments for International investors who need protection of capital and tax-free returns. - Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care. - A global private equity firm investing exclusively in mid to upper mid market buyouts and selective growth capital investments. - Acquires majority interests in mid-sized investment management firms. Profiles the company, and affiliate products. Investor information. (NYSE: AMG) - Technology business management consulting services. - A private equity investment firm providing venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, and export development services. - Focus: global venture capital research and advisory services. - Evaluates and secures financing for middle market companies. - Provides equity investments in privately and publicly held companies in numerous industries. - Acquires interests in and/or invests in a broad variety of businesses located in the state of Israel or which are Israel-related. (Nasdaq: AMPL) - Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies in communications, information technologies, life sciences and specialty materials and chemicals. - 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. - Focus: acquisition of industrial and business-to-business, value-added distributorships, direct marketing, catalog and telemarketing firms. - Focus: venture consulting and financial advisory for early-stage companies. - Investment focus: companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets - Portfolio management company focusing on all the aspects of capital investment and private equity. - Focus: venture capital or investment capital for small to mid-sized fast growing businesses. - Focus: venture and expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies in a wide range of industries. - Investment focus: early stage, Internet centric, business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer. - Focus: private equity investment firm that invests equity capital in middle market businesses. - Investment focus: equity capital for acquisition recapitalization of middle-market companies. - Private equity investors in emerging markets. - Private equity fund focusing on the acquisition of middle-market manufacturing, distribution and service companies. - Investment focus: buyouts and venture capital funds. - Focus: acquire businesses that can be grown through internal means and by add-on acquisitions. - Investment focus: middle market companies for buy-outs, recapitalizations, acquisitions and growth needs. - Focus: private equity and venture capital firm focused in Southern California exclusively on investments in communications, media and related technologies. - Merchant bank and venture capital firm offers services to corporate clients and investors. - Investment focus: private equity firm that partners with the founders and management teams of profitable businesses experiencing rapid growth. - Focus: manages technology-oriented venture capital funds in France, Europe and Israel. - Private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations and industry consolidations. - An international advisory and private equity firm specializing in corporate venturing, providing experience and resources necessary to start new businesses. - Focus: assessment of the contribution of multinational enterprises to human development in emerging and developing countries. - Investment focus: early-stage business development and financing connecting venture capital firms and Fortune 1000 opportunities. - Focus: private equity investments in a broad range of middle market companies having superior management teams. - Providing a database venture capital investments and investors. [Requires subscription] - Focus: cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company. - Investment focus: private equity investor and advisor focused on Southeastern U.S. businesses in the Life Science and Information Technology sectors. - Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financing and leveraged buyouts in a broad range of technologies. - Investment focus: proprietary technologies or unique services in emerging markets, generally preferring expansion stage companies. - Investment focus: profitable service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace but will also consider early-stage. - Investment focus: privately held early-stage and emerging growth companies and selective leverage buy-outs of established companies. - Produces presentations and diagrams that help entrepreneurial companies achieve success at key events, including venture funding, product launches, roadshows and customer sales. - Investment focus: exploit the accelerating changes and advances in healthcare and information technologies. - Investment focus: manages limited partnerships through which qualified individuals, families and their trusts or foundations invest in venture capital funds. - Focus: privately-owned diversified energy and investment company with global operations. - Focus: assists companies with their venture and equity capital needs. - 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 - Investment focus: life science, information technology, and communications sectors. - Investment focus: equity capital in management buyouts, turnarounds, recapitalizations, and growth financings. - 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. - Focus: capital for management buy-outs, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs. - Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies. - Investment focus: established middle market businesses. - Focus: venture capital and equity raising services. - Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses. - Offers training for those involved in all aspects of the venture capital and private equity markets. - Raising venture capital by presenting to angel and venture investors. - Investment firm with focus on venture capital, business acceleration and real estate. - Investment focus: funding through every stage of the company growth cycle. - Focus: early-stage venture capital investment with focus on information technology and business services companies. - Focus: investing in middle market companies. - Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies. - Funds breakthrough ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business building resources and strategic support. - Investment focus: seed to late stage information technology companies in telecommunications, data communications, computing and the Internet. - Investment focus: all stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare industries - Investment focus: smaller, middle market opportunities in the areas of energy, utilities, industrial process and business services. - Focus: invests in growth financing, buyouts, acquisitions, consolidations and corporate restructuring. - Investment focus: software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buy-outs of operating companies. - Venture capitalist investment company which supports private investee companies. (Nasdaq: HHGP). - Investment focus: information technology companies, preferring either seed or first-round financings, or very late (last before IPO) stage investments - Assists clients operating within the private industry with resolving day-to-day strategic issues, with emphasis on the venture capital and private equity environment. - Focus: private equity fund which seeks value-added investments in small to medium sized private companies. - IGP provides private equity capital for management buyouts in middle-market manufacturing companies. - Investment focus: early and expansion stage, technology-based businesses - Investment focus: leading early-stage companies with advanced technology in information and life sciences, and selectively in later stage opportunities - Investment focus: full range of stages in information technology, health care and non-technology ventures - Investment focus: seed and early-stage life science and technology companies located near the Research Triangle and Austin - Investment focus: communications, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors - Investment focus: telecommunications, software and information technologies, but will consider outstanding opportunities in other industries - Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional prospects for growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services. - 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. - Focus: industrial sectors that improve quality of life. - Investment focus: constructive investing in turnarounds, restructurings, bankruptcies, employee buyouts and other special situations. - A middle market, investment and advisory firm offering venture capital, investment banking services and business advisory services. - Private equity investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions. - Focus: company start-ups; early stage funding. - Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund - Investment focus: later-stage venture deals, change of control situations and industry consolidations in California companies involving communications, technology or health care - Investment company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets. - Investment focus: early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital technologies - information, communications, software, media/entertainment, and semiconductors - Focus: acquiring or investing in niche businesses with revenues of ten to fifty million dollars. - Venture capital and business finance facilitator and advisory firm. - 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. - Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing. - Works with early stage technology and technology-related ventures to bridge the risk gap, and help entrepreneurs and financers achieve their goals. - Investment focus: technology-based, private companies at various stages of development - Investment focus: early-stage software and communications 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: private communications, Internet infrastructure, software, semiconductor, data storage, and computer hardware companies located in the United States. - Focus: specializing in venture capital, management services, shell funding, private placement. - Focus: traditional industries converging with new technologies, in particular healthcare, energy, entertainment, financial services, communications and education. - Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts involving information technology, health care or industrial technology - Venture capital database and web application to help companies raise capital. - Focus: debt and equity financing for early-stage, technology based companies in Ohio and Indiana - Focus: manages investment partnerships primarily in the equities of later-stage private growth companies. - Investment focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and life sciences - Provides investor due diligence, business and technology consultative services to small and mid-size technology firms as well as the venture capital community. - Focus: financial services firm and an online global marketplace for all classes of private securities. - Focus: acquiring or making substantial equity investments in small businesses with significant growth potential. - Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care - Investment focus: startups, emerging growth companies, management buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations - 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: early-stage and selective restarts or recapitalizations of later-stage information technology, health care or retail companies - Investment focus: early-stage investments in consumer and business-to-business Internet services, intranet-based business applications, interactive tools, multimedia and telecommunications - Investment focus: technology companies involving healthcare or life science; early-stages in the Northwest, later-stage deals can be anywhere in U.S. - Investment focus: broad range of stages (startup through consolidation) involving healthcare services and information systems oriented towards a managed care solution - Focus: Silicon Valley based seed and first round venture capital firm. - Focus: private investment firm founded by experienced operating executives and investment professionals. - Investment focus: acquisitions and investments in technology businesses. - Investment focus: subordinated debt and equity to superior middle-market companies requiring capital to fund growth or other special situations. - Offers investment database with contacts to investors, financiers, and venture capital firms. - Supports life science ventures based on breakthroughs from research institutions, providing management support and seed funding. - 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: early-stage service, financial, retail, and manufacturing companies, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states - Investment focus: expansion stage information technology ventures - Focus: provide the framework to raise venture capital and angel investment. - Focus: organizes and invests in the acquisition of select, well-established middle market companies. - 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 - Focus: non-profit that connects entrepreneurs, service professionals, investors, venture capitalists and other funding sources. - Focus: investing in and acquiring companies and working with their management to build profitable and successful businesses. - Investment focus: early-stage companies across a broad range of industries and located in the Rocky Mountain region - Investment focus: operating-oriented private equity firm focused on the healthcare industry. - Focus: European-based advisor specialized in consultancy services dedicated to the private equity industry. - Community development venture capital fund which finances recycling, remanufacturing, environmental and other companies. - 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 - Investment focus: early-stage health care services (including health care information technology) companies - Investment focus: seed and early-stage new biomedical market opportunities, including emerging technology - Runs a proprietary venture exchange network to enable venture capital funds and angel groups to better manage their deal flow. - Investment focus: established, growing, niche-dominant manufacturing and service businesses. - Investment focus: Seed stage, early stage and growth stage emerging technology companies across the US, China, India and Israel. - Focus: investments and buy-outs of entrepreneurial enterprises, primarily in the areas of healthcare and interactive media. - Investment focus: early-stage (and follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences companies - Investment focus: early-stage healthcare, information technology-related companies and service businesses - Investment focus: ventures of all stages, primarily in technology-based companies, but also non-technology - Investment focus: early-stage broadband telecom and networking infrastructure being built for the global economy. - Focus: provide funding to early-stage high technology start-ups. - Provides equity financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries, emerging markets and in countries undergoing economic transition. - Focus: invests in promising private companies across a number of industries and in the public debt and equity markets. - Investment focus: emerging early-, mid- and later-stage companies in the greater San Diego area involving health care, electronics, high technology, or consumer products - Investment focus: expansions, acquisitions, buyouts and recapitalizations located in Florida, the Southeast and Texas - Investment focus: 1st or 2nd round investments in Southeastern US companies providing information technology and solutions to the healthcare, and telecommunication industries - Investment Focus: mezzanine financing for growing small and medium-sized businesses. - Offers programs which educate, showcase and support women entrepreneurs as they seek equity capital and grow their companies. - 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 - Focus: middle-market company buy-outs and capital for ownership transitions, growth and financial restructuring. - Focus: equity investments in select early-stage businesses with high growth prospects. - Focus: acquires and grows successful companies in partnership with operating management. - Focus: private equity fund, venture capital, investment, financing. - Focus: profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services - Investment focus: technology-based startups which pioneer products or services in growth markets - Focus: investing in and building value-added service and distribution companies with fundamentally sound operating models. - San Francisco-based firm providing value-added investing in consumer products companies. - Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare, financial services, media and consumer products - Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software infrastructure and hardware applications leveraging digital signal processing (DSP) and related technologies - Investment focus: category-defining, early-stage companies in information technology, communications and biotechnology. - Venture capital for technology and life sciences companies. - Non-profit organization bringing together users and providers of resources for new and emerging businesses. - Investment focus: growth capital to expansion stage information technology companies - Focus: seed stage information technology ventures located in Northern California - Focus: seed or first stage ventures involving information processing, communications or health care - Focus: private equity company of the digital economy, active on a worldwide scale through a knowledge network. - Links investors to companies with high growth potential who are seeking funding from £50,000 to £1million. - Focus: provides strategy consulting, financial advisory, principal investing and acquisition capabilities to Southern California based high growth companies. - Investment focus: early-stage funding for proprietary software and hardware technology, information technology and e-commerce investments. - Focus: business and project availability of funding, strategic management and due-diligence assessment. - Private-equity holding company focused on cultivating emerging growth companies; primarily technology related. - Focus: business and venture development company providing services to venture capitalists and early-stage companies. - Focus: private equity firm engaged in the acquisition and ownership of operating businesses. - Investment focus: life science and information technology ventures, early-stage through later-stage, on both sides of the Atlantic - Investment focus: early-stage British technology companies - Investment focus: exclusively in information and business services companies, including content providers, transaction processors, application software and Internet products and services - Investment focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer software, electronic commerce, and communications - Focus: partners with fundless sponsors to acquire profitable manufacturing companies. - Investment focus: small and mid-sized emerging growth healthcare companies. - Focus: affiliate of Advent International investing in Turkish companies. - Investment focus: principally companies headquartered in the Western United States in three sectors of industry: medical, technology and retail/consumer - Sells online reference manual on all aspects of venture capital, including forms, annotations and polls. - Investment focus: pre-revenue stage in information technology and life sciences sectors - Investment focus: Early-stage ventures particularly in the data communications and electronic design automation (EDA) industries. - 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 - Prepares entrepreneurs or companies seeking investment capital and unites them with investors. - Focus: startup and later stage companies involving wireless communications, Internet, value added networking services, content and local service. - Consulting services for business finance and funding strategies for entrepreneurs. - Investment focus: trans-Atlantic expansion for proven U.S and European technology companies - Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software, interactive services and related enabling technology. - Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services. - 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. - Investment focus: early- and expansion-stage information technology and life sciences companies throughout the US - 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: later-stage growth companies, recapitalizations and buyouts in a diverse set of industries - Focus: early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range of industries - Investment focus: all stages of development, from expansion capital for emerging growth companies to sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations
