Investors in United States

In-Q-Tel is a not-for-profit and venture capital firm that accelerates the development and delivery of cutting-edge technologies to U.S. government agencies that keeps the nation safe. The firm identifies and invest in venture-backed startups developing technologies that will provide ready-soon innovation vital to the IC mission. The firm focuses on investing in companies within the data analytics, infrastructure, communications, cyber and mobile security, data management, detection and analysis, materials and power, video and imaging, and information technology sectors.

Sequoia Capital

Menlo Park, United States

Mr. Omar Hamoui serves as Partner at Sequoia Capital. He also co-founded HerBabyShower. He is a Board Member at LIFX Labs, PicsArt, Clutter, Kiwi and Offermatic. He founded AdMob in January 2006 while in the MBA program at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he started and ran several companies in the mobile, Internet and computer software industries including Vertical Blue, GoPix and Fotochatter, a mobile to mobile image sharing network. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angelesl.

Armory Square Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage investments. It provides the first round of institutional capital for companies targeting the largest industries across New York State and northeast region in the United States. It prefers to invest in companies operating in the web, healthcare, education technology, fintech, energy software, mobile and technology-enabled service sectors. The firm was founded in 2014 and is based in Syracuse, New York with an additional office in New York, New York.

FusionX Ventures is an early-stage investment fund focused on helping companies build the next generation of cloud-enabled Smart Machines. The investment theme focuses on startups with products that fuse hardware, software and cloud (IoT) that include a recurring revenue stream. The firm help companies reduce execution risk by combining go-to-market experience and advisor network with design, manufacturing, and program management. The firm has a partnership with D&K Engineering, who specializes in class-leading product realization.

Airlie Group is an investment advisor based in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides its services to pooled investment vehicles. Airlie Opportunity Capital Management (AOCM), an investment advisor and its affiliates make up the Airlie Group. The group serve as the investment advisers to a diverse group of funds and managed accounts, investing in high yield, bank debt, mezzanine securities and private equity. The assets of the firm are managed by the executive management team.

E²JDJ is an early stage venture capital fund based in New Orleans, LA. The fund invests in talented founders who are creating novel technology or science solutions focused on food and agriculture across the value chain that improve the quality, resilience and sustainability of the food system. E²JDJ focuses on scalable, high growth and early-stage businesses that promote human health, lower global energy consumption, reduce the environmental impact of the industry, and leverage technology to materially impact productivity.

The BREW is a mentor-driven seed accelerator focused on startups that address global challenges in freshwater. The fund will be selecting six early stage water technology startups to participate in a 6-month accelerator program, which is designed to accelerate commercialization of products or services by providing a network of mentors, investors, and an entrepreneurial training program. Each startup that is selected will receive a grant of $50,000 and placement in the state of the art Global Water Center.

Chartline Capital Partners is a minority equity investor committed to helping boards, investors, and management teams realize the full potential value of venture-backed companies. The firm invests in digital health, digital industrials, retail analytics, communications infrastructure and food supply chain sectors. The firm does not invest in the real estate, B2C, social, fintech, material science and therapeutic sectors. The firm is a spin-out of yet2Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of yet2.

With 82% of Americans living in cities, and two-thirds of the world’s population urbanizing by 2050, there is a growing number of challenges facing urban dwellers. The Urban Innovation Fund invests in startups enhancing the livability, sustainability, and economic vitality of our cities. We invest in the following verticals: transportation, energy and water, real estate tech, the future of work and edtech, business services and fintech, health and public safety, govtech and civic tech, and food systems

Established in 2016, Brain Robotics Capital is a venture capital firm with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Santa Clara, California. It supports scientist-entrepreneurs across the board, building businesses based on groundbreaking scientific advances on the areas where it has technical expertise and business experience. The firm works with a number of incubators, accelerators, technology transfer offices, associations and corporations to bring radical science and technology into the economy.

General Partner Born and raised in Argentina, Nico brings a global perspective to his investment approach. In his early years, Nico was part of the senior leadership of TECHO.org and played a key role in driving it to becoming the largest non-profit in Latin America. He then went on to start Miami Angels, an angel investor network, where he found his calling in early-stage investing. Later, he spent two years with Resolute Ventures before founding ANIMO. He lives in Miami with his wife and three

We invest early (mostly Series A and Series B) in emerging category leaders who are at an inflection point in their company’s growth. We have a bias towards companies that have demonstrated early efficient growth, meaning they have been able to scale while being lightly financed. We are generalist investors who invest across categories including in software, hardware and tech-enabled services. We’re particularly focused on companies transforming industries from analog to digital, and from digita

The GWM Group was founded in 2000 as a wealth manager / multi-family office. Currently, the GWM Group is focused only on European alternative investments for institutional clients, including real estate private debt, distressed credit, real estate special situations, and a merger arbitrage strategy. The GWM Group operates through its main offices in London, Luxembourg, Malta, Milan and Rome with a team of 50+ highly experienced professionals advising and/or managing client’s investments. Referen

Illinois Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed and early stage investments and affiliated with the University of Illinois. The firm seeks to invest in research-derived companies in information technologies, physical sciences, life sciences, greentech and clean technology. The firm offers three types of funding: proof of concept grants, seed funding and venture capital. The firm was launched by the University of Illinois in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Granite Ventures is a venture capital firm which seeks to do pre-revenue, early revenue, seed, series-A and B investments in the cloud infrastructure and applications, mobility, internet applications, communications, digital media, information technology, mobile and manufacturing sectors. The firm generally makes its initial investment in the Seed, Series A or Series B round. The firm primarily invests in the U.S. based companies, but may also consider select investments outside the U.S.

Telegraph Hill Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Barcelona, Spain and London, United Kingdom. The firm prefers to invest in early stage technologies companies operating in the advertising, e-commerce, education, social media, fintech, productivity, health & fitness, big data and wearable devices industries. It primarily focuses on investing in Seed and Series A rounds, with $500k in initial investment and $1.5M in total.

Artiman is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in white space companies that create or disrupt multi-billion dollar markets. The firm primarily focuses on investing in companies based in the United States and India operating in the information technology, software, life science, healthcare technology, manufacturing, e-commerce, hardware and security sectors. It was founded in 2000 and is based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Bangalore, India.

ff Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm in New York, New York. The firm backs creative entrepreneurs who are using technology to transform industries such as food, disaster recovery housing, crowdfunding and drones. The firm's portfolio companies have ongoing access to the ff Acceleration Team, who provide a full range of services in accounting and finance, publlic relations and branding, engineering, recruiting, community management and business development.

Horowitz Group is a single family office based in Southern California with its roots in the ready-mix concrete industry. Today the group invests opportunistically in real estate, private businesses, and alongside alternative investment managers. Our investment philosophy is rigorously centered on aligning interests and the virtues of patient capital. We have applied this discipline over three generations, deploying capital across various industries with like-minded operators.

Thominvest is a Helsinki-based, family-owned investment company built on a foundation of Finnish strength and resilience. Our story began in 1911, with W.G. Thomé’s Forestry Office, taking root in the heart of Finland’s vast forests. For five generations, we’ve weathered four wars, economic downturns, and subsequent recoveries. Through it all, our family has embraced diverse business ventures, from timber trade and shipping to broader trading activities and asset management.

http://sap.io/ helps innovators start-up and scale with SAP. We deliver new partnerships and products for SAP by accelerating and scaling startup innovation as well as incubating employee ventures. http://sap.io/ brings together innovators from every region, industry, and line of business to transform how businesses run. Since 2017, http://sap.io/ has helped 300+ startups and ventures accelerate their growth while enabling thousands of SAP customers to access innovation.

Mendoza Ventures is an early and growth stage Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity venture fund that provides an actively managed approach to VC. We invest in areas where we have deep domain expertise, companies with early revenue, a clear value proposition, and using a proven due diligence model. We focus on diversity as playing an important role in our investment decisions, as roughly 75% of our portfolio consists of start-ups led by immigrants, people of color, and women.

Partner (MIT, Civil and Environmental Engineering) 15 years of global operations and management consulting across three continents. Developed national transformation strategy for the office of the Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, and national food security strategy for the Minister of Agriculture of a large gulf nation. Davis Projects for Peace award recipient. Contributed to research on malaria reduction in Africa, a study that has been cited over 50 times.

The Dorman Group of Companies is a single-family office that manages investments and various activities on behalf of the Dorman family. Most of the Group's activities are focused in and around the acquisition and growth of quality operating companies in engineered manufacturing, value-added distribution/logistics, business services and metal processing/distribution industries. Investments and acquisitions are made predominantly in private family-owned companies.

Merrimac's mission is to positively impact the world through our investments and philanthropy. We partner with proven investment managers all over the world to generate the highest performance achievable. We are competitors in how we live and work, learning, investing and giving back to the world. We have a diversified approach towards building our portfolio, but truly have passion towards innovation and building the technology and biotechnology of the future.

BlackBern Partners LLC invests in mature operating companies in the lower middle market, partnering with management teams that have a proven track record of success and providing capital to realize organic growth and acquisition opportunities. BlackBern is industry agnostic and focuses on situations where it can see specific opportunities to add value. A flexible mandate allows BlackBern to tailor investments for companies with a wide range of capital needs.

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.

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 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 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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DCM Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage and later stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in the consumer software and services, communications, clean technology, consumer internet, digital media, mobile, security, storage, content, e-commerce, cloud computing and big data sectors. It was founded in 1996 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan and Beijing, China.

OS Fund

New York City, United States

OS Fund is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois and was established in 2014. It seeks to invest in the aerospace and physics, 3D printing, genomics, robotics, health and life sciences, software, synthetic biology, infrastructure and machine intelligence sectors. The firm finances and supports inventors and scientists who are working on breakthroughs to solve the greatest issues and opportunities facing humanity today.

cadence.capital is an experienced investor with a long time transaction advisory team dedicated toward prompt, discrete closings. Our banks, attorneys and accountants understand the sensitive nature of private equity investment as well as the various issues often present with family businesses. We are experienced M&A professionals and able to work quickly and decisively under mutually agreeable terms to facilitate an investment.

VantagePoint Capital Partners is a venture capital firm based in San Bruno, California. The firm was founded in 1996 and it seeks to invest in companies operating in the electric vehicle, biochemical, advanced business service, internet, digital media, energy efficiency, social media, communication, robotic, healthcare, power management, cloud based software, consumer technology and advanced network hardware system sectors.