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EuclidSR Partners » Investment focus: exploit the accelerating changes and advances in healthcare and information technologies.

Fremont Partners » Investment focus: established middle market businesses.

Pacific Venture Group » Investment focus: broad range of stages (startup through consolidation) involving healthcare services and information systems oriented towards a managed care solution

CM Equity Partners » Private equity fund focusing on the acquisition of middle-market manufacturing, distribution and service companies.

The Providencia Partnership » Focus: business and project availability of funding, strategic management and due-diligence assessment.

MBC Dotcom » Venture capital and business finance facilitator and advisory firm.

Kline Hawkes & Co. » Investment focus: later-stage venture deals, change of control situations and industry consolidations in California companies involving communications, technology or health care

Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF) » Provides equity financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries, emerging markets and in countries undergoing economic transition.

B4 Ventures » Focus: venture capital or investment capital for small to mid-sized fast growing businesses.

Venture Capital Strategies » Prepares entrepreneurs or companies seeking investment capital and unites them with investors.

Hamilton Robinson » Investment focus: smaller, middle market opportunities in the areas of energy, utilities, industrial process and business services.

Industrial Growth Partners » IGP provides private equity capital for management buyouts in middle-market manufacturing companies.

Mycapital, Inc. » Venture capital database and web application to help companies raise capital.

Matrix Partners » Investment focus: early-stage software and communications companies

TI (Texas Instruments) Ventures, L.P. » Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software infrastructure and hardware applications leveraging digital signal processing (DSP) and related technologies

Swander Pace Capital » San Francisco-based firm providing value-added investing in consumer products companies.

Signal Lake Venture Fund » Investment focus: early-stage broadband telecom and networking infrastructure being built for the global economy.

Salix Ventures » Investment focus: early-stage health care services (including health care information technology) companies

Sutter Hill Ventures » Investment focus: technology-based startups which pioneer products or services in growth markets

American Securities Capital Partners » Provides equity investments in privately and publicly held companies in numerous industries.

Palladium Equity Partners » Focus: private investment firm founded by experienced operating executives and investment professionals.

Funk Ventures, Inc. » Investment firm with focus on venture capital, business acceleration and real estate.

Mergenet Solutions Inc. » Focus: specializing in venture capital, management services, shell funding, private placement.

River Capital » Focus: organizes and invests in the acquisition of select, well-established middle market companies.

Abundance Venture Capital » Focus: private equity and venture capital investments for International investors who need protection of capital and tax-free returns.

Rockmont Capital » Focus: investing in and acquiring companies and working with their management to build profitable and successful businesses.

Corven » An international advisory and private equity firm specializing in corporate venturing, providing experience and resources necessary to start new businesses.

JLA Ventures » Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional prospects for growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services.

Sorrento Ventures » Investment focus: emerging early-, mid- and later-stage companies in the greater San Diego area involving health care, electronics, high technology, or consumer products

Svoboda, Collins L.L.C. » Focus: investing in and building value-added service and distribution companies with fundamentally sound operating models.

Foundation Capital » 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.

Sierra Ventures » Investment focus: early-stage healthcare, information technology-related companies and service businesses

Dragonfly Capital » Investment focus: private equity investor and advisor focused on Southeastern U.S. businesses in the Life Science and Information Technology sectors.

The StartUp Lab » Focus: business and venture development company providing services to venture capitalists and early-stage companies.

Trinity Ventures » Investment focus: early-stage companies in three industries -- computer software, electronic commerce, and communications

Technology Investments » Focus: seed stage information technology ventures located in Northern California

Ampal-American Israel Corporation » 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)

Flagship Ventures » Investment focus: life science, information technology, and communications sectors.

Venture Planning Associates » Consulting services for business finance and funding strategies for entrepreneurs.

Rockies Venture Club » Focus: non-profit that connects entrepreneurs, service professionals, investors, venture capitalists and other funding sources.

Concert Capital Partners » Investment focus: private equity firm that partners with the founders and management teams of profitable businesses experiencing rapid growth.

South Atlantic Venture Funds » Investment focus: expansions, acquisitions, buyouts and recapitalizations located in Florida, the Southeast and Texas

Marcus Venture Consulting » Works with early stage technology and technology-related ventures to bridge the risk gap, and help entrepreneurs and financers achieve their goals.

North American Funds » Focus: acquiring or making substantial equity investments in small businesses with significant growth potential.

Ampersand Ventures » Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies in communications, information technologies, life sciences and specialty materials and chemicals.

RoundTable Healthcare Partners » Investment focus: operating-oriented private equity firm focused on the healthcare industry.

Sprout Group » 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

Tech Coast Venture Network » Non-profit organization bringing together users and providers of resources for new and emerging businesses.

Stone Canyon Venture Partners » Focus: equity investments in select early-stage businesses with high growth prospects.

August Capital » Investment focus: companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets

Katalyst » A middle market, investment and advisory firm offering venture capital, investment banking services and business advisory services.

Advanced Technology Ventures » Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care.

CDC Capital Partners » Private equity investors in emerging markets.

Seidler Equity Partners » Investment focus: established, growing, niche-dominant manufacturing and service businesses.

New Enterprise Associates » Investment focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and life sciences

Equilant Venture Advisors » Produces presentations and diagrams that help entrepreneurial companies achieve success at key events, including venture funding, product launches, roadshows and customer sales.

First Analysis Venture Capital » 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

Enterprise Partners » Investment focus: privately held early-stage and emerging growth companies and selective leverage buy-outs of established companies.

Novak Biddle Venture Partners » 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

3i » Focus: leading international venture capital company.

Covalence » Focus: assessment of the contribution of multinational enterprises to human development in emerging and developing countries.

Tullis-Dickerson & Co. » Investment focus: small and mid-sized emerging growth healthcare companies.

The Sable Lion Group » Private-equity holding company focused on cultivating emerging growth companies; primarily technology related.

Darwin Venture Partners » Investment focus: early-stage business development and financing connecting venture capital firms and Fortune 1000 opportunities.

Technology Crossover Ventures » Investment focus: growth capital to expansion stage information technology companies

IE Consulting » Assists clients operating within the private industry with resolving day-to-day strategic issues, with emphasis on the venture capital and private equity environment.

General Catalyst » Funds breakthrough ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business building resources and strategic support.

The Bellwether Group » Focus: provides strategy consulting, financial advisory, principal investing and acquisition capabilities to Southern California based high growth companies.

TA Associates » Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare, financial services, media and consumer products

Churchill Capital » Investment focus: middle market companies for buy-outs, recapitalizations, acquisitions and growth needs.

TL Ventures » Investment focus: category-defining, early-stage companies in information technology, communications and biotechnology.

RRE Investors » Investment focus: expansion stage information technology ventures

Financial Development Company » Focus: assists companies with their venture and equity capital needs.

Forest Hill Partners » Investment focus: equity capital in management buyouts, turnarounds, recapitalizations, and growth financings.

Regulation D Resources » Focus: provide the framework to raise venture capital and angel investment.

Advent International » A global private equity firm investing exclusively in mid to upper mid market buyouts and selective growth capital investments.

Affiliated Managers Group » Acquires majority interests in mid-sized investment management firms. Profiles the company, and affiliate products. Investor information. (NYSE: AMG)

Venture Management Services » Focus: startup and later stage companies involving wireless communications, Internet, value added networking services, content and local service.

InterWest Partners » Investment focus: full range of stages in information technology, health care and non-technology ventures

Khazaen Financial and Industrial Consulting » Focus: company start-ups; early stage funding.

Sonostar Ventures » Focus: invests in promising private companies across a number of industries and in the public debt and equity markets.

Institutional Venture Partners » Investment focus: leading early-stage companies with advanced technology in information and life sciences, and selectively in later stage opportunities

Vanguard Venture Partners » Investment focus: pre-revenue stage in information technology and life sciences sectors

Labrador Ventures » Investment focus: early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital technologies - information, communications, software, media/entertainment, and semiconductors

DragonVenture » Focus: cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company.

Falcon Seaboard » Focus: privately-owned diversified energy and investment company with global operations.

Allantra Venture Development » Technology business management consulting services.

IDG Ventures » Investment focus: information technology companies, preferring either seed or first-round financings, or very late (last before IPO) stage investments

SSM Ventures » 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

Greylock » Investment focus: all stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare industries

Summer Street Capital Partners » Focus: private equity fund, venture capital, investment, financing.

2i Capital » Focus: investment and intellectual capital network.

Menlo Ventures » Investment focus: private communications, Internet infrastructure, software, semiconductor, data storage, and computer hardware companies located in the United States.

Gabriel Venture Partners » Investment focus: funding through every stage of the company growth cycle.

Fox Paine » Focus: capital for management buy-outs, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs.

Astrina Capital » Focus: venture consulting and financial advisory for early-stage companies.

Silicom Ventures » Focus: provide funding to early-stage high technology start-ups.

New York Private Placement Network » Focus: financial services firm and an online global marketplace for all classes of private securities.

Waterside Capital Corp » 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.

Almeida Capital » Focus: global venture capital research and advisory services.

Norwest Venture Capital » Investment focus: startups, emerging growth companies, management buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations

Clarity Partners » Focus: private equity and venture capital firm focused in Southern California exclusively on investments in communications, media and related technologies.

Telesystem » Focus: private equity company of the digital economy, active on a worldwide scale through a knowledge network.

Proma Investment » Offers investment database with contacts to investors, financiers, and venture capital firms.

Weston Presidio Capital » Investment focus: later-stage growth companies, recapitalizations and buyouts in a diverse set of industries

FundingPost » Raising venture capital by presenting to angel and venture investors.

Southeastern Technology Fund » Investment focus: 1st or 2nd round investments in Southeastern US companies providing information technology and solutions to the healthcare, and telecommunication industries

Intersouth Partners » Investment focus: seed and early-stage life science and technology companies located near the Research Triangle and Austin

Maton Venture » Investment focus: technology-based, private companies at various stages of development

Mayfield Fund » 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

Gemini Investors » Focus: investing in middle market companies.

Sterling Investment Partners » Focus: middle-market company buy-outs and capital for ownership transitions, growth and financial restructuring.

Vision Capital » Investment focus: trans-Atlantic expansion for proven U.S and European technology companies

Blue Point Capital Partners » Focus: private equity investment firm that invests equity capital in middle market businesses.

Parallax Capital Partners » Investment focus: acquisitions and investments in technology businesses.

U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) » Investment focus: principally companies headquartered in the Western United States in three sectors of industry: medical, technology and retail/consumer

VC Experts » Sells online reference manual on all aspects of venture capital, including forms, annotations and polls.

Sigma Partners » Investment focus: ventures of all stages, primarily in technology-based companies, but also non-technology

General Atlantic Partners » Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies.

Bain Capital » Focus: venture and expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies in a wide range of industries.

PureTech Ventures LLC » Supports life science ventures based on breakthroughs from research institutions, providing management support and seed funding.

Incyte Capital » Focus: private equity fund which seeks value-added investments in small to medium sized private companies.

Sanderling » Investment focus: seed and early-stage new biomedical market opportunities, including emerging technology

Thompson Clive Venture Capital » Investment focus: life science and information technology ventures, early-stage through later-stage, on both sides of the Atlantic

North Bridge Venture Partners » Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care

The Pembroke Group » Investment focus: early-stage funding for proprietary software and hardware technology, information technology and e-commerce investments.

Alliance Global Investments Inc. » A private equity investment firm providing venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, and export development services.

JK&B Capital » Investment focus: telecommunications, software and information technologies, but will consider outstanding opportunities in other industries

Warburg Pincus Ventures » Providing investments in information technology, healthcare, media, communications, energy, financial and business services.

Morgenthaler Ventures » Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts involving information technology, health care or industrial technology

Thames Valley Investment Network » Links investors to companies with high growth potential who are seeking funding from £50,000 to £1million.

Tuckerman Capital » Focus: partners with fundless sponsors to acquire profitable manufacturing companies.

KPS Special Situations Fund » Investment focus: constructive investing in turnarounds, restructurings, bankruptcies, employee buyouts and other special situations.

WaldenVC » Investment focus: early-stage technology companies involving software, interactive services and related enabling technology.

Wind Point Partners » Investment focus: all stages of development, from expansion capital for emerging growth companies to sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations

Outlook Ventures » Investment focus: early-stage investments in consumer and business-to-business Internet services, intranet-based business applications, interactive tools, multimedia and telecommunications

Keystone Capital, Inc » Private equity investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions.

Seven Hills Partners » Focus: investments and buy-outs of entrepreneurial enterprises, primarily in the areas of healthcare and interactive media.

Brockway Moran and Partners » Investment focus: equity capital for acquisition recapitalization of middle-market companies.

Lynwood Capital Partners » Focus: acquiring or investing in niche businesses with revenues of ten to fifty million dollars.

Fulcrum Partners Ltd » Offers training for those involved in all aspects of the venture capital and private equity markets.

Freeman Spogli » Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies.

MDB Capital Group, LLC » 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.

Quad-C Management » Focus: private equity investment firm seeking to partner with successful management teams to complete leveraged acquisitions or recapitalizations of leading middle-market companies.

Pacific Horizon Ventures » Investment focus: technology companies involving healthcare or life science; early-stages in the Northwest, later-stage deals can be anywhere in U.S.

Cornerstone Capital Holdings » Private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations and industry consolidations.

American Capital Strategies » Evaluates and secures financing for middle market companies.

Commonwealth Associates » Merchant bank and venture capital firm offers services to corporate clients and investors.

Spring Capital Partners, L.P. » Investment Focus: mezzanine financing for growing small and medium-sized businesses.

Venrock Associates » 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

Trident Capital » Investment focus: exclusively in information and business services companies, including content providers, transaction processors, application software and Internet products and services

JP Morgan Partners » 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.

Technology Partners » Focus: seed or first stage ventures involving information processing, communications or health care

Springboard Enterprises » Offers programs which educate, showcase and support women entrepreneurs as they seek equity capital and grow their companies.

HRJ Capital » Focus: raising pools of capital from individuals involved in professional sports and investing it with a small number of top-tier venture capital funds.

Edelson Technology Partners » Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financing and leveraged buyouts in a broad range of technologies.

Axa Private Equity » Portfolio management company focusing on all the aspects of capital investment and private equity.

Top Technology » Investment focus: early-stage British technology companies

Hampshire Equity Partners » Focus: invests in growth financing, buyouts, acquisitions, consolidations and corporate restructuring.

Pacifica Fund » Focus: Silicon Valley based seed and first round venture capital firm.

Capital Venture Partners » Investment focus: buyouts and venture capital funds.

Sequoia Capital » Investment focus: Seed stage, early stage and growth stage emerging technology companies across the US, China, India and Israel.

Summit Partners » Focus: profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services

RAF Ventures » Investment focus: early-stage service, financial, retail, and manufacturing companies, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states

Needham Capital Partners » Focus: manages investment partnerships primarily in the equities of later-stage private growth companies.

Convergent Capital » Focus: manages technology-oriented venture capital funds in France, Europe and Israel.

Oak Investment Partners » Investment focus: early-stage and selective restarts or recapitalizations of later-stage information technology, health care or retail companies

Strategic Investments & Holdings » Focus: acquires and grows successful companies in partnership with operating management.

SJF Ventures » Community development venture capital fund which finances recycling, remanufacturing, environmental and other companies.

River Cities Capital Funds » 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

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers » Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund

Westaim Corporation (The) » 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).

InnoCal » Investment focus: early and expansion stage, technology-based businesses

Second Venture Corporation » Runs a proprietary venture exchange network to enable venture capital funds and angel groups to better manage their deal flow.

NCIC Capital Fund » Focus: debt and equity financing for early-stage, technology based companies in Ohio and Indiana

TVM Capital » Venture capital for technology and life sciences companies.

William Blair & Company, LLC » Focus: early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range of industries

Japan Asia Investment Company » Focus: industrial sectors that improve quality of life.

Peninsula Capital Partners » Investment focus: subordinated debt and equity to superior middle-market companies requiring capital to fund growth or other special situations.

Dimeling, Schreiber & Park » Focus: private equity investments in a broad range of middle market companies having superior management teams.

FLAG Capital Management, LLC » Investment focus: manages limited partnerships through which qualified individuals, families and their trusts or foundations invest in venture capital funds.

Bertelsmann Ventures » Investment focus: early stage, Internet centric, business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer.

JAFCO America Ventures, Inc. » Investment focus: communications, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors

Gaebler Ventures » Focus: early-stage venture capital investment with focus on information technology and business services companies.

Dow Jones VentureReporter » Providing a database venture capital investments and investors. [Requires subscription]

Smedvig Capital » Investment focus: Europe based mid- to early-stage companies with specialisations which employ technology for re-engineering of business processes or create added value from the use of customer or market data.

Generation Partners » Investment focus: seed to late stage information technology companies in telecommunications, data communications, computing and the Internet.

Apax Partners » 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.

Moore, Clayton and Company » Focus: traditional industries converging with new technologies, in particular healthcare, energy, entertainment, financial services, communications and education.

Weiss, Peck & Greer - Venture Partners » Venture Partners - Investment focus: early- and expansion-stage information technology and life sciences companies throughout the US

HarbourVest Partners » Investment focus: software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buy-outs of operating companies.

EnerTech Capital » Investment focus: profitable service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace but will also consider early-stage.

Koor Industries Ltd. » Investment company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets.

Argonaut Partners » Focus: acquisition of industrial and business-to-business, value-added distributorships, direct marketing, catalog and telemarketing firms.

SAGICAP » Focus: European-based advisor specialized in consultancy services dedicated to the private equity industry.

Harris & Harris Group, Inc. » Venture capitalist investment company which supports private investee companies. (Nasdaq: HHGP).

The Sterling Group » Focus: private equity firm engaged in the acquisition and ownership of operating businesses.

Turkven Private Equity » Focus: affiliate of Advent International investing in Turkish companies.

Friedland Capital » Focus: venture capital and equity raising services.

Edison Venture Fund » Investment focus: proprietary technologies or unique services in emerging markets, generally preferring expansion stage companies.

New Era Partners » Provides investor due diligence, business and technology consultative services to small and mid-size technology firms as well as the venture capital community.

Sevin Rosen Funds » Investment focus: early-stage (and follow-on rounds) for information sciences and life sciences companies

VenGlobal Capital » Investment focus: Early-stage ventures particularly in the data communications and electronic design automation (EDA) industries.

Madison Dearborn Partners » Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing.

Roser Ventures, LLC » Investment focus: early-stage companies across a broad range of industries and located in the Rocky Mountain region

Cardinal Ventures » Focus: acquire businesses that can be grown through internal means and by add-on acquisitions.

Frontenac Company » Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses.