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.
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.
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.
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.
Athena Technology Ventures - Investment focus: early-stage companies in the global communications industry.
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.
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.
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.
Blackwater Capital - Investment focus: small private growth companies and/or under-represented small-cap public companies.
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.
BR Johnson Group - Focus: venture development company working with start-up and early-stage companies principally in the health, beauty and entertainment industries.
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.
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.
Divineisle Inc. - Focus: creates and grows market-transforming ventures.
DN Capital - Focus: investing in Western European companies in digital media, communications and enterprise software solutions. Also active in helping US companies enter the European market.
Doll Capital Management - Focus: early-stage funding in communications and Internet companies.
Domain Associates - Investment focus: favors early-stage life sciences ventures
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Retail Partners - Investment focus: start-up and early-stage companies in the US and Europe that leverage technology for distribution of goods and services.
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: communications, consumer fund, information technology and healthcare companies.)
HLM Venture Partners - 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.
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.
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.
J. H. Whitney and Co. - Investment focus: all stages in communications, Internet technology, healthcare, transforming industries and consumer.
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.
Longworth Venture Partners - Investment focus: early-stage companies involving e-commerce, Internet media, enterprise software and information technology services.
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.
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.
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.
Newbury Ventures - Equity capital firm specializes in communications and information technology industries.
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.
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.
Research Corporation Technologies - Focus: identifies promising early-stage biomedical and optics technologies and provides seed funding and management support for critical early development work.
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.
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.
Steamboat Ventures - Focus: venture capital arm of The Walt Disney Company to help companies succeed in emerging media and entertainment markets.
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.
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.
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.
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.