Venture Capital Firm Directory

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.

Accel Partners - Investment focus: early stage opportunities in information technology and health care.

Advent International - Investment focus: companies at all stages of development, including early-stage, and in virtually any industry.

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

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.

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

BancBoston Capital - Investment focus: early-stage venture capital to equity sponsorship, co-investment and mezzanine capital for buyouts, recapitalizations and expansion of mid-size companies

Battery Ventures - Investment focus: early emerging companies in the communications and software technology markets in the U.S. and abroad

Benchmark Capital - Investment strategy: Be the first venture investor in technology companies that seek to create new markets.

Bessemer Venture Partners - Investment focus: entrepreneurial companies in healthcare, information systems, telecommunications and retailing.

Centennial Ventures - Investment focus: seed, startup or late stage opportunities involving electronic communications.

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

GTCR - Focus: capital for companies in consolidating of fragmented industries and high-growth industries.

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

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

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

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

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners - Investment focus: Software companies at every stage of development (startup to mezzanine) that have the basis of becoming a large market leader based on a substantial market opportunity and technical advantage.

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.

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

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

Meritage Private Equity Fund - Investment focus is on communications network and service opportunities.

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

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

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

Oxford Bioscience Partners - Focus: equity financing and management assistance to start-up and early-stage companies in the bioscience and healthcare industries.

Pinnacle Equity Capital - Focus exclusively on investments in business services companies.

Piper Jaffray Venture Capital - Investment focus: emerging-growth companies in medical devices, healthcare services and technology.

Primus Venture Partners - Investment focus: various stages of development, with greater emphasis on businesses beyond proof of concept and which are demonstrating capacity to become large enterprises

St. Paul Venture Capital - Focus: communications technology, health care, software and services.

Sequoia Capital - Investment focus: primarily very early-stage West Coast technology companies; post beta-stage around Boston and Austin; later-stage nationwide

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

Softbank Venture Capital - Focus: seed stage to mezzanine round investments for Internet companies.

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.

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

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

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

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

Telecom Partners - Denver, Colorado-based seed and early stage venture capital firm specializing in telecommunications investments.

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

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

William Blair Capital Partners - Focus: early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range of industries