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  • Abingworth Management Limited - Focus: venture capital investor on both sides of the Atlantic, specialising in early-stage life science companies.
  • 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.
  • ABS Capital - Investment focus: management buy-outs, expansion financing and recapitalization in technology, business services, media communications and health care.
  • Accel Partners - Investment focus: early stage opportunities in information technology and health care.
  • Advanta Partners - Investment focus: growth capital and acquisition opportunities in the information services industry and early-stage investments in Internet and e-commerce companies.
  • Affinity Films International - Focus: production company with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Montreal seeking equity investments in several slates of quality motion pictures.
  • Alden Ventures - Investment focus: insurance and healthcare technology.
  • Alliance Technology Ventures - Investment focus: information technology and life sciences startups with a focus on the Southeast U.S.
  • Alta Partners - Investment focus: high growth information technologies and life sciences companies.
  • A.M. Pappas & Associates - Investment focus: accelerating the development of life science companies, products and related technologies.
  • Applied Materials Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage startups in the communications area and particularly optical communications.
  • ARCH Venture Partners - Investment focus: seed and early-stage ventures involving information technology, life sciences or physical sciences.
  • Argo Global Capital - Investment focus: companies that are enabling the convergence of wireless communications and the Internet.
  • Arsenal Capital Partners - Focused on companies in chemical, general industrial, and healthcare sectors. Features portfolio of companies and press releases.
  • Asia Pacific Ventures Technology Partners - Investment focus: seed and early-stage information technology companies with proprietary and leading-edge technologies.
  • AsiaTech Management - Focus: early stage funding in the e-commerce, communications, networking, Internet, information technology and semiconductors areas.
  • Asset Management - Investment focus: information technology and life sciences sectors.
  • Associated Venture Investors - Investment focus: seed and early-stage high-technology companies positioned for growth segments of the Information Technologies market.
  • Athena Technology Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage companies in the global communications industry.
  • Atlantic Coastal Ventures, L.P. - Investment focus: telecommunications companies and related service companies operating within markets that reflect convergence.
  • Atlas Venture - Investment focus: early- and late-stage information technology and life sciences in Europe and the US.
  • Avalon Equity Partners - Invests in and helps develop privately held ventures in the media, communications and information services industries.
  • Avocet Ventures - Focus: strategic investments and corporate acquisitions in the healthcare and technology sectors.
  • Avogadro Partners - Focus: venture development group and venture capitalist seeking early-stage opportunities in microtechnology and nanotechnology.
  • BA Venture Partners - Focus: investing in early stage companies in broadband and wireless communications, software and biotechnology areas.
  • BCI Partners - Investment focus: growth capital to management buy-outs in media and entertainment, communications, business services, software and the Internet.
  • Bedrock Capital Partners - Investment focus: early stage companies in the communications, information technology, and healthcare industries.
  • Berkshire Partners - Focus: leveraged buy-outs, recapitalizations, industry consolidations in telecommunications, transportation, business services and manufacturing.
  • Bessemer Venture Partners - Investment focus: entrepreneurial companies in healthcare, information systems, telecommunications and retailing.
  • BioAsia Investments - Investment focus: U.S. life sciences companies with late-stage products and/or platform technologies.
  • Blackwater Capital - Investment focus: small private growth companies and/or under-represented small-cap public companies.
  • Blue Chip Venture Company - Investment focus: start-ups in Internet infrastructure, e-commerce, information technology, telecommunications and healthcare services areas.
  • Blue Dot Ventures - Investment focus: information technology, Internet technology, optoelectronics-fiber optics and new media.
  • Blue Water Capital - Investment focus: expansion-stage technology and services companies, including software, Internet, Intranet, e-commerce, telecommunications and multimedia companies.
  • Blueprint Ventures - Early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging communications and internet infrastructure companies.
  • Boston University Community Technology Fund - Investment focus: early-stage information technology and life sciences industry sectors.
  • BR Johnson Group - Focus: venture development company working with start-up and early-stage companies principally in the health, beauty and entertainment industries.
  • Brentwood Venture Capital - Investment focus: start-up and early stage Internet, software and healthcare companies.
  • Brill Capital - Focus: identifies and evaluates growing companies that have the potential to achieve leadership positions within their industries.
  • Broadview Capital Partners - Investment focus: information technology, communications and digital media companies or companies driven by developments in these industries.
  • Burrill & Company - Investment focus: life science companies in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, related medical technologies, agricultural technologies, animal health, and nutraceuticals.
  • Cardinal Health Partners - Investment focus: early-stage e-health and information technology, health care services and life sciences.
  • Carlson Group - Investment focus: early stage investments in the telecommunications and semiconductor industry.
  • Catalyst Venture Partners - Investment focus: help technology and media sector companies start, grow, and develop.
  • Centennial Ventures - Investment focus: seed, startup or late stage opportunities involving electronic communications.
  • Century Capital Management - Focus: investments in insurance, financial services and related business services.
  • Channel Medical Partners - Focus: late-stage investments in the medical technology industry.
  • Chisholm Private Capital Partners - Investment focus: seed and early-stage deals, turnarounds, industry consolidations and buy-outs in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas
  • CMEA Ventures - Focus: high technology investments in information technologies and life sciences.
  • Code Hennessy & Simmons LLC - Invests in middle-market companies that manufacture and distribute a broad array of consumer and industrial products.
  • Columbia Capital Corporation - Investment focus: communications and information technology firms at a variety of stages.
  • Compass Technology Partners - Focus: invests in emerging, high-growth potential companies with a focus on science and technology.
  • ComVentures - Investment focus: exclusively early-stage communications companies
  • Convergence Partners - Investment focus: early-stage companies in the communications, information technology and semiconductor sectors.
  • Coral Ventures - Investment focus: emerging and early-stage companies in the technology and healthcare industries.
  • Cortec Group - Focus: private equity investment firm which makes controlling investments in middle-market manufacturing and distribution businesses.
  • Crescendo Ventures - Focus: early-stage investment opportunities in the communications and e-business fields.
  • Davitt Equity Group - Focus: private equity investment in the global infrastructure industry.
  • Defta Partners - Focus: investments in information technology start-ups and strategic alliances with major information technology companies in the US, Europe and Japan.
  • Digital Networks Global Ventures Limited - Focus: investing in Western European companies in hardware, software and services in and around communications infrastructure.
  • Divineisle Inc. - Focus: creates and grows market-transforming ventures.
  • Doll Capital Management - Focus: early-stage funding in communications and Internet companies.
  • Domain Associates - Investment focus: favors early-stage life sciences ventures
  • Dominion Ventures - Investment focus: private companies in information technology, communications, life sciences, healthcare and service industries.
  • Draper Fisher Jurvetson - Investment focus: early-stage information technology businesses with market potential.
  • DynaFund Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage companies in microelectronics, telecommunications and information technology.
  • Eakin Macdonald & Associates - Investment focus: specialists in arranging long term finance for hotels, from £1m to £25m.
  • East River Ventures - Investment focus: information technologies including communications, media, software and healthcare.
  • El Dorado Ventures - Investment focus: primarily West Coast early-stage technology-based ventures, mainly information technologies
  • Entrepia - Focus: invests in US and Japan network and Internet venture companies as a strategic partner.
  • Fairfax Partners - Investment focus: seed and early-stage technology companies involving healthcare, software or the environment.
  • Fidelity Ventures - Investment focus: healthcare, communications, software, employer services, and education.
  • FilmSearch.net - Assists investors who seek viable film projects and producers who seek financing.
  • Financial Technology Ventures - Provides capital to firms that create technology applications of interest to the financial services industry.
  • Forward Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage biotechnology and health care companies.
  • Foundry Capital - Investment focus: film, entertainment, and media.
  • Frazier and Company - Investment focus: all stage financing to healthcare and information technology companies in the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest.
  • Frontier Capital - Investment focus: technology enabled business service providers located in the southeastern and mid-Atlantic states.
  • Gateway Associates - Investment focus: expansion-stage information technology, telecommunications and medical technology companies located in the Midwest.
  • Geocapital Partners - Investment focus: growing information technology firms.
  • Geometry Group, Inc. - Investment focus: start-up and early stage companies in the investment advisory and money management community.
  • Global Catalyst Partners - Focus: funding, industry knowledge and a global network of resources to early-stage information technology companies
  • Global Health Investors - Focus: venture capital firm in Latin America and the Caribbean that invests in health and medical service companies.
  • 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.
  • Granite Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage software, communications, Internet and electronic publishing companies.
  • Greenbridge Group - Focus: strategic advice to and private investments in leading companies in the telecommunications, Internet, media and technology industries.
  • Guide Ventures - Investment focus: seed and early-stage information technology companies.
  • Hallador Venture Partners - Investment focus: seed and early-stage west coast companies involving telecommunications and related fields
  • Hellman & Friedman - Focus: investing in management buyouts in media, telecommunications, financial services, technology and marketing.
  • Highland Capital Partners - Investment focus: information technology and healthcare companies.
  • HLM Management Company - Investment focus: technology, healthcare, business services, education and training companies.
  • Housatonic Partners - Investment focus: later stage companies in the business services, media and communications industries.
  • Hydro-Quebec CapiTech - Investment focus: Companies whose technological products and services are related to the energy field.
  • Idealflow Angel Fund LLC - Investment focus: high-growth businesses developing innovative products and services in the information and electronic technology areas.
  • Imin Partners - Investment focus: private equity capital fund dedicated to investing in industrial minerals businesses.
  • Impact Venture Partners - Investment focus: early-stage companies offering information technology products and services.
  • IngleWood Ventures - Investment focus: life sciences fund focusing on biotechnology, medical devices and healthcare information technology.
  • Integra Ventures - Investment focus: early stage and seed companies in healthcare and wireless technology.
  • Integral Capital Partners - Investment focus: expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies in the information technology and life sciences industries.
  • Intelligent Capital - Focus: specialized advisor for mergers, acquisitions and strategic finance in the information technology sector.
  • International Venture Partners - Focus: teams with entrepreneurs to create successful new companies that are technology-based ventures in e-commerce, communications and health care.
  • Internet financing Venture Capital Angel Investing - Focus: early-stage venture capital and angel investing organization focusing on Internet financing, e-commerce and entrepreneurial companies.
  • Jerusalem Venture Partners - Focus: early-stage investments in communications and Internet companies in Israel, the US and Europe.
  • Kappa IT Ventures - Investment focus: high growth information technology companies in Europe and the USA.
  • Kettle Partners - Investment focus: emerging stage companies that enable telecommunications, new media and the Internet.
  • Kinetic Ventures - Investment focus: communications, Internet, and customer service companies.
  • Kuranda Capital - Focus: acquires and operates growth businesses in partnership with management focusing on manufacturing and value-added distribution businesses.
  • LEAP Energy Fund - Focus: makes investments in alternative energy and distributed generation technology companies.
  • LF Venture Capital - Provides grouth capital and global sourcing for consumer product companies.
  • London & Pacific Healthcare Development - Investment focus: early-stage and emerging companies in healthcare services, medical technology, instrumentation, devices, life sciences, biotech, medical information services and healthcare media.
  • Longworth Venture Partners - Investment focus: early-stage companies involving e-commerce, Internet media, enterprise software and information technology services.
  • Lucent Venture Partners - Focus: subsidiary of Lucent Technologies invests in early-stage technology companies in high-growth communications areas.
  • Mara Venture Partners - Focus: international venture capitalists to finance early-stage biotechnology businesses in life sciences.
  • Marcus & Millichap Venture Partners - Focus: early to late stage venture funding for real estate technology companies.
  • Marquette Venture Partners - Investment focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies in consumer and business services, healthcare, and technology.
  • M/C Venture Partners - Investment focus: early-stage communications and related information technology companies.
  • MedVenture Associates - Investment focus: early-stage financing of companies in medical devices, medical information technology, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology products.
  • Meritage Private Equity Fund - Investment focus is on communications network and service opportunities.
  • 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.
  • Merlin Biosciences - Focus: broad-based venture capital and advisory company dedicated to the life sciences sector.
  • Mohr, Davidow Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage companies with a strong information technology component.
  • Montauk Energy Capital - Private equity and mezzanine financing primarily for energy related projects.
  • Montreux Equity Partners - Focus: invests primarily in early-stage technology and healthcare.
  • Nautic Partners - Focus: private equity firm specializing in the business services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and information, and telecommunications services industries.
  • New Tech Financing - Focus: companies with revolutionary technology that is ready for commercialization.
  • New World Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage technology and telecommunications companies.
  • Newberger Greenberg & Associates - Focus: media advisory firm that works with entrepreneurs and companies that are developing new ventures in both "traditional" media (cable/satellite programming and distribution) and/or "new media" (the Internet and Broadband).
  • Newbury Ventures - Equity capital firm specializes in communications and information technology industries.
  • newman capital group - private equity investment firm - Focus: investment capital for growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations and buyouts of manufactured homes, golf and leisure businesses.
  • Newport Capital Corporation - Investment focus: start-up and existing companies involving high technology, biotechnology and innovative products.
  • Nth Power Technologies - Investment focus: companies capitalizing on the deregulating energy industry, beyond seed stage and nearing introduction of commercial products
  • Oak Point Partners - Focus: Profitable companies with less than $15MM in revenues in niche markets.
  • Odyssey Capital Group - Focus: equity investments in real estate, leveraged buy-outs and growth companies.
  • Onset Ventures - Investment focus: startups in information, communications and medical technologies.
  • ORESA Ventures - Investment focus: companies in the consumer goods, retailing and distribution, health care and pharmaceutical sectors in Central and Eastern Europe.
  • Osprey Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage and expansion-stage companies in the business and consumer technology marketplace.
  • Oxford Bioscience Partners - Focus: equity financing and management assistance to start-up and early-stage companies in the bioscience and healthcare industries.
  • 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.
  • PacRim Venture Partners - Focus: investments in early-stage information technology companies in Silicon Valley.
  • Palomar Ventures - Focus: start-up and early-stage investments in information technology companies.
  • Polaris Venture Partners - Investment focus: early-stage companies developing information and medical technology
  • Portico Capital - Focus: venture investment and advisory firm focused on the information services industry.
  • 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.
  • Prism Venture Partners - Focus: equity investments in start-up, early-stage and growth companies in the communications, Internet and healthcare industries.
  • Progeny Ventures - Investment focus: turn internal IT ventures and projects into independent start-up companies.
  • Providence Equity Partners - Focus: equity investments in communications and media companies around the world.
  • Psilos - Focus: financing to entrepreneurs in the healthcare and digital media industry.
  • Quaker BioVentures - Investment focus: life sciences.
  • Research Corporation Technologies - Focus: identifies promising early-stage biomedical and optics technologies and provides seed funding and management support for critical early development work.
  • RFC Capital - Investment focus: working capital for telecommunications companies and related industries.
  • Rho Management Company, Inc. - Investment focus: targets the Internet, healthcare and telecommunications industries.
  • Richland Ventures - Investment focus: expansion capital for service companies located primarily in the Southeast and Southwest
  • Ridgewood Capital - Investment focus: e-commerce, infrastructure technology, software, telecommunications/wireless and online media.
  • Riverside Partners - Investment focus: growing industrial products companies.
  • Rock Creek Capital - Investment focus: private investment and advisory firm focusing on information technology and financial and business services.
  • Rocket Ventures - Focus: early-stage investments in information technology companies, particularly e-commerce and communications infrastructure companies.
  • Rockport Capital Partners - Investment focus: early to mid-stage energy, environmental and advanced materials companies.
  • RWI Group, L.P. - Investment focus: early-stage technology communications, software and Internet companies.
  • Sage Hill Partners - Focus: help build early-stage technology companies that promise to shape the future of the new digital medium.
  • SCF Partners - Investment focus: worldwide energy service and equipment industry.
  • SeaPoint Ventures - Focus: invests in growing companies in the areas of telecommunication and Internet infrastructure.
  • Senmed Medical Ventures - Investment focus: proprietary medical technologies and businesses.
  • SI Ventures - Investment focus: early to mid-stage information technology-based or Internet-enabled companies.
  • Silver Brands - Investment focus: middle market food companies.
  • Snider Capital, L.P. - Investment Focus: early stage companies in sports, leisure and recreation.
  • SpaceVest - Investment focus: expansion capital, primarily in late-stage and established growth companies that supply, support or depend on space-related activities.
  • Steamboat Ventures - Focus: venture capital arm of The Walt Disney Company to help companies succeed in emerging media and entertainment markets.
  • StoneGate Partners - Focus: growth capital and interim financing to private companies in the technology, telecommunications and health sciences sectors.
  • Storm Ventures - Investment focus: seed and early-stage Internet infrastructure and optical networking companies with emphasis in bandwidth creation, wireless connectivity and managed services.
  • SunAmerica Ventures - Investment focus: communications infrastructure and software in communications infrastructure.
  • Target Partners - Investment focus: seed financing of young start-ups in the field of information technology.
  • TechStock - Focus: early-stage investments in technology and life science industries.
  • Telegraph Hill Partners - Investment focus: life science and healthcare companies that are in the commercialization phase.
  • Three Arch Partners - Investment focus: early stage opportunities in life science companies.
  • Timberline Venture Partners - Investment focus: early-stage information technology ventures located in the areas of Portland-Seattle, Southern California and Silicon Valley.
  • TransOcean Capital - Industry focus: equity investments in U.S. based enterprises demonstrating sustainable cash flows and having valuations between $30mm and $100mm.
  • TransTechnik Management - Investment focus: emerging markets in Asia, Middle East and Africa.
  • Tregan Partners - Investment focus: telecommunications, including wireless and wireless infrastructure.
  • Trinity Investors - Investment focus: primarily the healthcare and biotechnology field.
  • VCHub Ventures - Investment focus: communications and networking start-ups.
  • Venture Bank - Investment focus: financing emerging growth companies in the broadband and wireless media.
  • Versentech Holdings - Focus: venture consulting firm focused on high technology and bioscience sectors.
  • The Vertical Group - Investment focus: biotechnology, medical device and instrument industry.
  • Vertical Investments - Focus: early-stage and expansion capital to healthcare companies and information services companies in the US.
  • Wakefield Group - Investment focus: technology, health and media ventures with major growth potential in the Southeast.
  • Walden Capital Partners - Invests in expansion-stage companies in information technology, manufacturing, distribution and the medical industries.
  • Walnut Venture Associates - Investment focus: early-stage information technology, communications, software and Internet companies in the New England area.
  • WFD Venutes, LLC - Focused on medical device and business process outsourcing industries. Features portfolio companies.
  • White Pines Management, L.L.C - Investment focus: growth capital for Midwest and Southeast manufacturing and value added services companies with revenues of at least $5.0 million
  • Whitney and Co. - Investment focus: all stages in communications, Internet technology, healthcare, transforming industries and consumer.
  • YankeeTek Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage companies in communications, software, Internet and information technology.

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