Early Stage Venture Capital

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Communications Ventures
Investing exclusively in early-stage communications and networking companies.

 
Crescendo Ventures
Global venture capital organization focused on early-stage investment opportunities in the communications and eBusiness fields.

 
Marathon Investment Partners, LP
Based in Boston, provides opportunity capital for small and middle market companies.

 
Exponential Business Development Company
Venture capital for early stage and promising businesses in Upstate New York.

 
BancBoston Capital
BancBoston Capital provides later stage capital options. BancBoston Ventures provides early stage venture capital to emerging growth companies in the information technology and healthcare sectors.

 
Windamere Venture Partners, LLC
Founding, funding, and management of early-stage healthcare companies.

 
Crystal Internet Venture Funds, LP
Focus on investing solely in Internet and Internet-related opportunities at the funding and early stages.

 
First Capital Group
A private investment firm that provides equity capital to companies that fall into three general investment categories: early-stage, expansion-stage, and management buyouts and special situation investments in small and middle-market companies a.

 
Angeles Ventures
Advisory venture capital firm that builds, funds and guides early-stage ebusiness companies.

 
Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners
Serves as lead investor in early and expansion stage information technology and life sciences companies.

 
Celtic House International
Seeks investment in the information technology sector in companies with less than 2 years operations.

 
Bonaventure Capital, LLC
Makes early-stage investments in rapidly evolving industries.

 
Clayton Associates, LLC
Helps managers and companies in the Southeast by providing start-up capital, business plan development and strategic planning. Also manages a private equity, venture capital fund.

 
Roser Ventures, LLC
Focused on early-stage companies and is diversified across a broad range of industries.

 
Associated Venture Investors
Specializing in seed and early-stage investments in high-technology companies positioned for high growth segments of the Information Technologies market.

 
Sequoia Capital
Provides start-up venture capital financing to information technology and healthcare companies.

 
Mercury Partners
Investment banking and financial advisory firm dedicated to serving innovative startups and middle-market clients in the mid-Atlantic region.

 
InnoCal
Fund I provided exclusively by the California State Teachers' Retirement System. Fund II has a broad base of institutional investors. Investment focus is on early and expansion stage, technology-based businesses, primarily in California.

 
STARTech: Technology Business Development Center
Provider of resources and information for early stage to assist in the maturing of the business and business planning.

 
Venture Strategy Partners
Early-stage capital and strategy consulting firm serving the needs of marketing-driven growth companies.

 
Enterprise Development Fund
Focused on health care, information technology and other proprietary technologies in start-up, early stage and emerging growth companies in the Great Lakes Region.

 
El Dorado Ventures
Invests primarily in early-stage, technology-based companies located on the West Coast.

 
Techxas Ventures
Invests in emerging technology for the future and providing funding and operational guidance to leverage entrepreneurial innovation.

 
Sigma Partners
Early-stage high technology venture capital firm.

 
Newtek Ventures
Focuses on early stage companies and slow growth companies.

 
Rahn Group
The Rahn Group is a venture capital firm with a focus on seed and early stage company investments.

 
Carlson Group
Expertise in consulting, international finance, and venture capital through affiliated companies. Focus within the venture group is the creation of funds for investments in emerging and developmental stage companies.

 
Vanguard Venture Partners
Venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage high technology investments.

 
St. Paul Venture Capital
Capital invested in several primary industry categories: information technology, consumer information technology, health care, consumer products, specialty retailing and services/manufacturing. Focus primarily on very early-stage investing, but .

 
RWI Group, L.P.
Provides venture capital and expertise to early-stage, technology-based businesses, specializing in communications, software and Internet companies.

 
Summit Partners
Targets private equity investments in the $5 million to $100 million range. Launched a new investment vehicle which targets earlier stage emerging growth companies.

 
First Analysis Venture Capital
Primarily investing in early-stage and emerging-growth companies in the information technology, outsourced services, and infrastructure industries within the United States.

 
Aspen Ventures
Invests in early-stage software and internet companies in the Western United States, particularly those serving business markets.

 
Matrix Partners
Focused on start-ups in business software, networking equipment, semiconductor, computing, storage, telecom services, internet and e-business.

 
Pareto Partners
Invests in seed and early-stage companies that have the vision and ideas to create new products and services on the Internet.

 
21st Century Internet Venture Partners
Provides early-stage financing and a nurturing environment for new economy companies.

 
Norwest Venture Capital
Norwest Venture Partners invests in startup businesses and emerging growth companies in the information technology industry. Norwest Equity Partners focuses on management buyouts and media & communications companies.

 
Murphree Venture Partners
Murphree Venture Partners is a seed and early stage venture capital firm, making direct equity investments into emerging entrepreneurial enterprises, primarily in the southwestern U.S. region.

 
Asia Pacific Ventures
Provides consulting and advisory services for U.S. technology companies looking to expand into Asian markets. Also focused on seed and early stage investments in information technology companies.

 
Keystone Venture Capital
Focuses on equity investments in early and expansion stage companies in high-growth technology sectors. Targeted markets include internet-enabling applications, telecom and wireless communications and business-to-business and business-to-consume.

 
M31 Ventures
New York-based venture capital firm that invests in early to mid-stage Internet companies.

 
Top Technology Limited
Early stage venture capital for British technology companies.

 
Enterprise Partners Venture Capital
Based in Southern California, invests in privately held early stage and emerging growth companies.

 
New Enterprise Associates
Invests principally in early stage companies in information technology (software, communications, electronics and information services) and medical and life sciences (biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare services, medical devices, instrume.

 
Ravenswood Capital
Venture capital investors located in Chicago, Illinois focussed on early stage Internet, direct marketing and education services companies.

 
Sprout Group
Affiliated with DLJ, makes early stage, growth, mezzanine, and buyout investments primarily in the datacom & telecom, e-commerce, services, healthcare, software, and technology industries.

 
Intersouth Partners
Seed and early-stage investments in life science and technology companies primarily in the southeast.

 
Novak Biddle Venture Partners
Provides equity financing and assistance to the management of young information technology companies.

 
atvcapital.com
Investments in emerging Internet communications and health care companies.

 
CW Group
Manager of medical venture capital funds focused on seed and early stage healthcare investing.

 
Asset Management Associates
Focuses on the creation and funding of seed and early-stage companies in the information and biological sciences markets.

 
Technology Management & Funding L.P.
Based in Princeton, NJ, invests in early-stage technology companies.

 
Emerald Venture Capital
A family of private equity funds focused on investing in early-stage growth companies.

 
Rocket Ventures
A seed and early-stage venture capital firm investing in high-growth information technology companies, particularly e-business, e-commerce, and communications infrastructure companies.

 
Benchmark Capital
Investment strategy: be the first venture investor in technology companies that seek to create new markets. These markets include application services, consumer devices, eCommerce, infrastructure services, networking equipment, semiconductor, an.

 
Austin Technology Incubator
Facilitates the growth and development of emerging technology companies by advising early-stage, high-risk companies and providing the necessary assistance to make technology-based ventures succeed.

 
New Gotham Venture Capital
Providing early-stage VC financing for technology companies in the New York area.

 
Beacon Venture Capital
Private equity offerings of developing companies.

 
Lyric Capital
Invests in early-stage companies in the United States, Europe and Latin America.

 
CHL Medical Partners LP
Invests principally in start-up and early stage companies in the medical sector.

 
Encore Venture Partners, L.P.
Dedicated to assisting and funding start-up and emerging growth technology companies.

 
Blue Rock Capital
Investing in high-growth seed and early-stage companies from New England to the Carolinas.

 
Thunderbolt Capital Corp.
Specializes in start-up and early stage investments.

 
Sagemark Capital, LP
Sagemark Capital, LP is a professionally managed firm that invests primarily in early and expansion stage companies with both a strong management team and clear, well-defined goals.

 
Primus Venture Partners
Investment focus: information technology, medical and health care, financial services, consumer and retail and education/training.

 
Trinity Ventures
Invests in early stage Internet companies.

 
Institutional Venture Partners
Actively investing in the following areas: e-commerce, internet media, communications, digital/personalized TV, web infrastructure and services, medical devices. Also targets special situation investment opportunities in later-stage technolog.

 
Amicus, LLC
Provider of early stage capital, teambuilding, product identity and partner to market, sell and support the entrepreneur.

 
R.A.F. Companies
R.A.F. Industries is engaged in the acquisition and management of a diversified group of manufacturing companies across the United States. R.A.F. Ventures invests in selected early-stage companies across industries, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic s.

 
VisionQuest Technology Ventures
Specializing in seed/early stage financing for technology companies.

 
Foundation Capital
Invests in start-up information technology companies.

 
Grassroots Venture Capital
Early stage investments for the individual investor.

 
Doll Capital Management
Focus on early-stage investments, including international startups.

 
TI (Texas Instruments) Ventures, L.P.
Worldwide venture capital fund established Texas Instruments and H&Q Venture Associates to invest in early-stage technology companies focused on software infrastructure and hardware applications that leverage DSP and other related technologies.

 
Village Ventures
Provider of financial, administrative and strategic services to a proprietary network of early-stage venture capital funds focused on nontraditional geographic markets.

 
Crosspoint Venture Partners
Invests in early stage companies in two strategic areas: e-business services and software and next-generation carriers.

 
TI Capital
Funds early-stage technology and Internet companies. Based in Los Angeles.

 
Capstone Ventures
Focus is on early stage technology-enabled service companies, primarily in the health care and outsourced business service markets.

 
Redleaf Venture Management
Financial funding and strategic assistance to early stage Internet startups.

 
North Bridge Venture Partners
Early-stage venture capital fund based in Boston.

 
NewVista Capital
Private equity venture capital fund that invests in early stage information technology companies.

 
Polaris Venture Partners
Partnership of experienced early-stage investors with a history of backing entrepreneurs in companies developing information and medical technology.

 
Venture Investors Management LLC
Manager of early stage venture capital funds primarily serving Wisconsin and the midwest.

 
G51 Captial LLC
Extends venture capital financing to seed and early stage software and internet companies.

 
Labrador Ventures
Provides capital to promising early stage businesses in the field of information technology.

 
Viridian Capital Partners
North Carolina based venture capital firm that makes equity investments in early stage technology companies.

 
Sevin Rosen Funds
Invests in companies creating market leadership positions in communications, eBusiness infrastructure and solutions, and Internet enabled business models. Also prefers to invest at the start-up and first round of funding, and actively seeks seed.

 
Apex Investment Partners
Invests in early stage technology companies.

 
Telecommunications Development Fund
Private corporation based in Washington, DC that finances early stage growth companies in the telecommunications industry

 
VCfirm.com
Seed and early stage private equity investment firm specializing in electronic commerce businesses which target the Asian market or which have operations based in Asia.

 
Venrock Associates
Founded as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller Family. Focuses on early stage companies in information technology and healthcare.

 
Chicago Venture Partners
Specializes in helping entrepreneurs build successful technology companies.

 
Bessemer Venture Partners
Efforts are entirely devoted to financing and building young companies. Carries on strategic investment practices in communications, e-commerce, optics and health care.

 
Monarch Capital Partners
Invests in early stage technology companies.

 
KB Partners
Private equity investment firm that invests in early stage and start-up companies.

 
Woodside Fund
Invests in seed and early stage technology ventures.

 
Wasatch Venture Corp.
Affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, invests in early stage companies based in Utah, California, Arizona, Colorado, Washington and other Western states.

 
U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)
Focus entirely on early stage opportunities.

 
Southeastern Technology Fund
Focus is on early-stage companies in the Southeast region that are in the Internet, information technology, and communications sectors.

 
Edison Venture Fund
Generally invests in expansion stage ($2+ million revenue) software, communications and electronics technology companies located in the Midatlantic region of the US.

 
Convergent Ventures
Provider of investment capital, technical expertise and management support to startup and development-stage companies whose products stem from biomedical and digital technologies.

 
Mohr, Davidow Ventures
Specialize in making early stage investments in companies with a strong information technology component.

 
Sagebrook Technology Partners
A venture capital firm that focuses its investment activities in early and expansion technology markets.

 
Onset Ventures
Venture capital firm that focuses on seed and early-stage investing in business-to-business markets.

 
Altos Ventures
Venture capital partnership focused on early stage technology investments.

 
Telos Venture Partners
Early stage venture capital firm that focuses on information technology.

 
Red Rock Ventures
Specializes in seed and early-stage information technology investments.

 
Kestrel Venture Management
Favors early stage companies which have developed a working business model. Focused on the New England area.

 
Bay Partners
Invests in early stage technology firms.

 
Salix Ventures
Invests exclusively in early-stage health care services (including health care information technology) companies.

 
Strategic Capital Resources, Inc.
Private equity investment firm that assists in the funding of entrepreneurial emerging growth and early stage companies in a broad range of industries.

 
DynaFund Ventures
Early stage, information technology venture capital firm.

 
4HighTech.com
Provider of information and resoucres for early stage Start-Ups looking for capital and investors looking for investment opportunities.

 
Isabella Capital LLC
Focuses on early stage, women-led businesses that operate at the cutting edge of a market driven, technology based society.

 
Hudson Ventures
Focused on the New england and Mid-Atlantic regions, invests in early stage technology companies.

 
Capital One Ventures
Provides capital and management assistance to early stage high growth companies.

 
Women's Growth Capital Fund
Established to make equity investments primarily in early and expansion stage women-owned and/or managed businesses.

 
VenGlobal Capital Fund
Targets investments in early-stage companies with a focus on software and data communications.

 
Idanta Partners Ltd.
Generalist venture capital firm that specializes in seed and early stage investments.

 
Telinvest Management Corporation
Specializes in private equity and equity-like investments in start-up, early-stage and growth enterprises, acting either as a private investment manager on a discretionary basis (e.g., as the general partner of an investment limited partnership).

 
NeoCarta Ventures Inc.
Invests in early and late stage Internet commerce businesses.

 
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