Investors in United States

Tech Square Ventures

Atlanta, United States

Tech Square Venture Partners is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in technology start-ups operating in the information technology, connectivity, internet, software and cloud-enabled services sectors. It focuses in companies based in Southeast United States. It prefers to invest within a range of $0.25 million to $0.5 million. It is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and was founded in 2014.

Renaissance Venture Capital Fund

Ann Arbor, United States

Renaissance Venture Capital Fund is a venture capital is important for economic growth and that Michigan and many other major regions are under served in the amount of venture capital available to fund exciting new ideas and technologies. The firm is a Michigan-based fund of funds that supports the growth of venture capital in Michigan while serving as a bridge between Michigan's emerging innovation company community and its industrial and commercial base.

Spinnaker Venture Partners

United States

Spinnaker Venture Partners was an internationally recognized management consulting and venture development firm specializing in strategic growth and innovation to help companies create and capture value. The firm offered services in the areas of growth strategies and execution support, technology and innovation management, business model innovation, business origination and venturing, professional services, interim management, and private equity services.

Giving Joy

United States

Giving Joy is a 501(c)(3) Massachusetts-based nonprofit that strengthens and inspires women’s entrepreneurship worldwide. Through its micro-grants and mentorship program, Giving Joy helps women establish or improve their businesses and initiatives - for their benefit and the benefit of their communities. Women from any country, across any trade or industry, can apply for a one-time grant between $250 and $500 to jump-start and/or expand their operations.

Actuate Partners

United States

Actuate Partners provided private equity funding and consulting to technology sector, focusing on cloud computing, big data and analytics, SaaS business models, social media and mobility along with services sectors such as retail, restaurants and hospitality providers. The firm made investments in everything from seed capital to large buyouts. The firm was founded in 2011 and was based in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm ceased operations in February of 2016.

Visibleventures

United States

Visible invests in bold, diverse teams that build superior consumer experiences and the technologies that power them. Our founders are game-changers who bring passion, resiliency, and authentic perspectives to everything they do - from shaping diverse, values-driven teams to satisfying consumers’ evolving demands. The firm’s culture is founded on the core values of integrity, humility, teamwork, inclusivity, collaboration, humor, and consumer obsession.

WI Harper Group

Taipei, United States

WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed/startup, early growth and later growth stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in the energy, mobile, software, games, technology, media, telecommunications, information technology, clean technology and healthcare sectors. The firm was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Beijing, China with additional offices in San Francisco, California, Taipei, Taiwan and Singapore, Singapore.

Arthur Ventures

Fargo, United States

Arthur Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on software investments. The firm seeks to invest in the application software, healthtech, adtech and technology enabled sectors. It invests through seed and series A round financing stages. The firm also invests in agricultural technology companies. It was founded in 2008 and has offices in Fargo, North Dakota and Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm invests across North America, but not in Silicon Valley.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, United States

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania is a venture capital firm which focuses on innovation, investments and technology by making seed innovation and economic growth in the Greater Philadelphia region. The firm works to accelerate the formation and growth of technology-driven enterprises and development, commercialization and adoption of advanced technologies. It was founded in 1982 and has offices at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

Techstars

United States

Techstars Atlanta, in partnership with Cox Enterprises, is located in the epicenter of startup activity in the Southeast, providing entrepreneurs with the resources and network to build meaningful enterprise technology companies and enduring consumer brands. Atlanta shines as a model startup community, with active and exited entrepreneurs, as well as corporate giants, engaging with founders to help build the next set of disruptive technology companies.

NoName Ventures

Los Angeles, United States

Noname Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology companies that have value based business models and focuses on solving unique problems within established and easily accessible markets. The firm also runs Immersive Mentorship, a program designed to help early stage ventures take a product-first approach to developing their ideas, achieving product market fit, evaluating their performance and building great organizations.

Griffin Partners

United States

Griffin Partners is an investment management company that owns and operates Griffin Advisors, the manager of the Helios Alpha Fund and the Griffin Funds. Helios Alpha Fund is a GARP (growth at a reasonable price) event-driven hedge fund established in October 2014 and The Griffin Fund and Griffin Fund II, established in 2009, seek to provide growth capital and strategic advisory to companies operating in high-growth technology sectors of the economy.

Highland Capital Partners

Cambridge, United States

Highland Capital Partners is an investments firm which specializes in seed, early stage, later stage, spin-outs, expansion stage and buyouts. The firm prefers to invest in financial services, clean technology, health technology, digital media, consumer services, business services and infrastructure sectors. It focuses on investing in companies based in Asia, Europe, Israel and Africa. HCP was founded in 1988 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Jacsten

Milwaukee, United States

Jacsten is a Milwaukee based private investment firm that was formed to make investments in small businesses primarily in the Midwest. As a family managed and funded firm, our proprietary capital affords us the flexibility to focus on long-term value creation as compared to short-term profits. This approach benefits our portfolio companies and operating partners by fostering stability, certainty and proper alignment of interests. At Jacsten, we t...

Wembly Enterprises

Franklin Lakes, United States

Wembly Enterprises takes majority ownership in companies with specialized expertise in manufacturing and holds these companies for long-term growth. We do not follow a private equity model that requires exit or liquidity even in any predefined range of time. Instead, Wembly focuses on strengthening business fundamentals, investing in infrastructure and business development, and sharing the benefits of growth with company management. Established i...

We are an active group of accredited investors providing capital, connections and expertise to early stage ventures. We are segment agnostic, with a geographic focus on the US Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Canada. We are passionate about companies with unique products/solutions that solve unmet market needs and that are led by great people. Since our founding in 2005, BAI members have invested more than $30M in approximately 50 companies.

Evolution Media Capital

United States

Evolution Media Capital provides traditional investment banking and strategic advisory services to maximize growth and expansion for its clients. Through Evolution Media Partners it provides growth equity and venture capital investment in companies operating in the entertainment, media, sports, technology, and lifestyle sectors. The firm is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco and was founded in 2008.

Microsoft Accelerator

United States

Microsoft Accelerator is an accelerator that provides mentorship and co-working office space to start up companies. It was founded in 2011 and is based in Seattle, Washington with accelerator locations in startup hubs around the world including Bangalore, Beijing, Berlin, Shanghai, London, Paris and Tel Aviv. It offers a 4 to 6 month program for later stage startups looking to go beyond the development of their product by scaling their businesses.

VCapital - Venture Capital

Chicago, United States

VCapital is a professionally managed online venture capital firm offering equity crowdfunding opportunities and is based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm invests in growth companies operating in the social media, mobile digital products and services, cloud computing and big data, internet commerce, clean technology, educational technology, innovative media and telecommunications, biotechnology, medical devices, biomedical and drug discovery sectors.

Verge Fund

Albuquerque, United States

Verge Fund is a venture capital fund based in Albuquerque, New Mexico that invests in the seed-stage, high-growth ventures in the Southwest region. It focuses on opportunities at the earliest stages of their development, even if the business plan hasn't been fully built out. The firm consists of national research labs, tier-1 research universities and military research facilities spending more than $5 billion in research and development each year.

Hyde Park Venture Partners

Chicago, United States

Hyde Park Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital fund focused on high growth technology and software startups based in the Midwest region of United States. The firm is dedicated to developing partnerships with early-stage companies looking for their first or second round of capital to bridge the gap between initial seed and later stage venture capital investments. The firm was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

New Spring Capital

United States

NewSpring Capital is a private equity firm founded in 1999. The firm has raised over $1.5 billion of committed capital supporting more than 120 portfolio companies across growth equity, healthcare, control buyout and mezzanine debt funds. Its team of private equity investors and operators have partnered with management teams to provide them the financial resources, strategic guidance and a powerful network to assist them in achieving their goals.

Rahim Amidi

United States

Mr. Rahim Amidi is the Co-Founder & Founding General Partner at Amidi Group. Mr. Amidi serves as Board Member at Surkus. Rahim Amidi serves as the founding general partner at Amidzad Partners. For the past 23 years, he has chaired and spearheaded the operations and management of a number of the Amidi Group entities, growing the aggregate value of its assets under management to over $1 Billion. He also serves as the Advisory Board Member at Bouju.

Sunny River Management

Atlanta, United States

Sunny River Management, LLC is an operationally-focused private investment firm backed by patient, long-term, family capital. Our focus is to build leading, middle-market companies in desirable industries by acquiring, operating, and growing smaller businesses. We are operationally-focused investors who have spent years in operating roles. We keep a close eye on the operations of our businesses and are readily available to support our manageme...

ZS Fund

New York, United States

We are a Family Office engaged in making long-term investments in successful middle-market companies. Since 1985, we have focused on transactions that provide liquidity to business owners while enabling them to maintain a significant ownership stake and keep their company independent. Our strengths are understanding the objectives of business owners, structuring transactions that respond to these objectives, and being constructive partners to ...

Altegris Investments, Inc.

La Jolla, United States

After more than 23 years, Altegris has come to the end of its run. We are grateful to the many colleagues, clients, advisors, managers, partners, and board members who were part of the firm’s history over the years. Altegris was shaped by talented people across research, distribution, marketing, operations, technology, accounting, compliance, and governance, and we thank all who contributed to that work and the relationships built along the way.

Newark Venture Partners

Newark, United States

Newark Venture Partners invests in seed-stage B2B software companies based on thematically oriented convictions, reinforced by industry insights and limited partner relationships. Our current themes include healthcare, fintech, supply chain, and marketplaces. Our tight-knit team of investment professionals executes with a startup mindset and decades of operational experience to support entrepreneurs throughout the journey of building a business.

Primary Venture Partners

New York, United States

Primary Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm which makes seed investments in industry-transforming technology companies and reserve capital to follow initial investments across multiple financings. The firm focuses on investing in companies within the business products, business services, mobile, software, information technology, enterprise SaaS, nextgen commerce, manufacturing and energy sectors. The firm was founded in 2004.

SV Tech Ventures

Sunnyvale, United States

SV Tech Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses its investments primarily on companies that have demonstrated their capabilities to develop advanced technologies. The firm invests in companies operating in the biotech, med-tech, cloud and mobile, internet of things, network and security, smart hardware, artificial intelligence and augmented reality and virtual reality sectors. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Sesame Ventures

United States

Sesame Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Sesame Workshop and is based in New York, New York. It seeks to partner with emerging companies operating in the education, health and social welfare sectors. The firm's portfolio companies will have access to Sesame Workshop's expertise in early childhood development, research, kid-centric design thinking and whole-child curriculum accumulated over nearly five decades of child-focused advancement.

TK Capital Partners

Lake Geneva, United States

TK Capital is a midwest based Family Office. TK Capital leverages the human and financial capital of the Keller Family to identify and participate in profitable private equity investments with an eye towards long term stewardship and value creation. TK Capital’s investment strategy is focused on acquiring a controlling interest in a healthy platform company or companies that provide the opportunity to create significant value over the long term.

Lead Lap Enterprises

Northfield, United States

Lead Lap is a Northfield, Illinois-based private investment firm with several current investments in private companies. Lead Lap seeks control investments in the business services, consumer, online, education, information, media, marketing services, and health services sectors of small to mid-size company buyouts. Lead Lap also makes non-control growth capital investments in promising businesses. Lead Lap was founded by operating executive Dav.

Princeville Global

United States

Princeville Global is a venture capital firm focused on backing rapidly growing technology related companies around the world. It seeks to invest in the e-commerce, e-health, fintech, marketplaces, SaaS, cloud and big data sectors. The firm is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Central, Hong Kong. It makes investments and helps its companies expand their businesses in the Americas, Asia, Europe and around the world.

S3 Ventures

Austin, United States

S3 Ventures is an early, expansion and growth stage venture capital firm. The firm focuses on information technology solutions that solve large business problems and medical devices that improve the human condition. It invests in category defining opportunity, partnering with the team and helping to focus methodically on what it takes to build a successful company. It is focused primarily on businesses in Texas and the southwest United States.

Techstars

United States

Based in Birmingham, Alabama, the Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator is a 13-week mentorship-driven accelerator focused on startups addressing innovative electrical and utility solutions. In partnership Alabama Power, with support from the Alabama Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama, the program provides startups in the EnergyTech space hands-on mentorship and access to Techstars’ worldwide network.

Tim Brinkman

United States

Mr. Tim Brinkman serves as Board Member at iSnap Social. He serves as Chief Executive Officer at VeriFone Commerce Solutions. Prior to serving as Chief Executive Officer at ChargeSmart, Mr. Brinkman was the Director at Wasserstein Perella, Managing Director at C.E. Unterberg Towbin, and a Co-founder of Indusino Capital Management. Mr. Brinkman holds a BS in Accounting and Finance from Miami University and an MBA from The University of Chicago.

DCA Capital Partners

United States

DCA Capital Partners is a private equity firm that provides expansion capital to middle market businesses across California and the Southwest. The firm seeks to invest in the business service, light manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, retail, consumer product, media, publishing, technology, construction service, sustainable technology, food, beverage and agri-business sectors. It was founded in 2001 and is based in Roseville, California.

Shatterfund

United States

The Shatter Fund exclusively invests in high potential disruptive technology companies led by female entrepreneurs. Legacy industries such as healthcare, education and finance, where women are the majority of the workforce and largely the end-customer, are ripe for disruption. We are actively seeking women entrepreneurs who want to scale their innovative companies in these spaces. And, we are seeking women led technology companies in general.

Squadron Capital

Granby, United States

Squadron Capital seeks to acquire and invest in operating companies located both in the US and abroad. Squadron is not a traditional private equity firm but an acquisition vehicle funded by a Chicago-based trust and led from its headquarters near Hartford, Connecticut. Squadron is exceptionally well-capitalized and typically does not require any debt financing. These resources allow us to move quickly through our diligence process to closing.

Northeast Angels Investment Group

United States

Northeast Angels Investment Group is an early-stage investment group that prefers to invest in companies based in the Northeast region of the United States. The firm seeks to invest in the biotechnology, business product and service, clean technology, computer and peripheral, consumer product and service, electronic, healthcare service, industrial, energy, internet service, information technology service, medical device and software sectors.

VentureSouth

United States

VentureSouth is an early-stage venture firm that provides capital and expertise to Southeastern startups through our angel investment network and funds. VentureSouth has grown to include more than 550 active investors, making us one of the largest angel investment groups in the United States - and we have been named a Top 10 angel group numerous times since 2014. To date, VentureSouth has invested more than $80 million in over 100 companies.

Plug and Play

Sunnyvale, United States

Plug and Play is a seed and early-stage investor focused on great teams leading emerging growth companies. Plug and Play runs 12 industry-specific accelerator programs twice a year, that acts as a platform for major corporations and high quality startups to connect and collaborate. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Plug and Play participates in Seed, Angel, and Series A funding where they often co-invest with their strategic partners.

The Massachusetts Green Energy Fund

United States

The Massachusetts Green energy Fund is a private venture capital fund investing in Massachusetts-based renewable and green energy companies. The firm focuses its investment in a broad range of emerging power generation technologies, including photovoltaic, fuel cells, hydrogen storage, hydrogen generation, wind, wave, tidal, biomass, biodiesel, power control, power conditioning, engine design, and energy management and storage technologies.

Verb Ventures

United States

Verb Ventures is a venture capital firm which intends to select few startups every year from airplane hangar in Marin County, California. It comes up with hundreds of new business ideas and its team develops all the new companies that it launches and self-funds the ventures. Founded in 1999, it conducts monthly off-sites, countless brainstorming sessions and endless business model iterations. The firm is headquartered in Novato, California.

BlueTree Allied Angels, formed in 2003, is Western Pennsylvania’s leading angel network. We are a members-only group of accredited investors focused on funding promising start-up companies. BlueTree Allied Angels meets regularly to evaluate and consider private equity investments in early-stage, pre-institutional ventures in Western Pennsylvania and other high-tech regions where we co-invest with colleagues and other leading venture firms.

Franklin Street Investment Advisors (Family Office Services)

Chapel Hill, United States

Franklin Street Partners has provided personalized investment solutions for more than three decades. Founded by a group of North Carolina business and investment professionals, we have grown from a startup to managing over $4.7 billion for individuals and families. Our founders’ philosophy was to manage each client’s assets with the same care and commitment that they gave to their own, and this continues to be our guiding philosophy today.