Investors in United States
Every firm we hold for United States — venture capital, angel networks, accelerators, private equity and family offices, with stage focus, sector focus and cheque range.
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Sccommunityloanfund
We believe equitable access to capital has the power to transform communities. We offer financing and borrower support services to help make your community development project a reality. Our loans are available to nonprofits, for-profits, and municipalities across South Carolina. Our financing is concentrated in four areas: Affordable Housing: Everyone deserves a safe and affordable place to call home. We finance the construction, rehabilitation, or redevelopment of rental units that are afforsable to low to moderate-income families. Healthy Food Retail: Access to healthy food nourishes our communities. We finance construction and renovation of projects like grocery and corner stores, farmer’s markets, food hubs, and mobile markets. Small Business: Everyoe benefits from vibrant and diverse local economies. We finance small businesses serving or employing low to moderate-income communities, especially those owned by women and people of color. Community facilities: Places to gather and serve are key to a healthy life. We finance community facilities like schools, daycares, health clinics, recreation centers, municipal facilities, homeless shelters, and more.
Engineering Capital
Mr. Ashmeet Sidana serves as Founder, Managing Partner & Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital. He served as a General Partner at Foundation Capital. He is a seasoned executive who came to Foundation Capital with a combination of 15 years of experience ranging from startups to establishing companies. His experience spans engineering, sales, marketing and product management. Most recently, he was at VMware where as Dir. of Product Management he was responsible for multiple products including Virtual SMP, P2V and their flagship product, ESX Server. At VMware, he helped grow ESX Server from early pilots to widespread worldwide deployment in mission critical systems by Fortune 500 companies. Prior to VMware, Mr. Sidana was CEO of Sidana Systems, a successful enterprise-software company that pioneered Docsan for publishing very-large (terabyte) documents. He bootstrapped Sidana Systems from inception through growth and to its acquisition by Doclinx. He served as the Board Member at Simply Hired. He is presently a board member at FreeWheel Media. He began his professional career at Hewlett-Packard and later Silicon Graphics, holding various technology roles.
Brightventures
Bright Ventures Fund I invests up to $1M each in Pre Seed and Seed-stage venture in fin-tech, digital health and the future of work. Our expertise is Inclusive Innovation: identifying and scaling ventures that have inclusion as a market-winning competitive advantage.Bright Ventures’ fund is supported by a broader platform launched in 2014. The Bright Ventures Platform is an Inclusive Innovation Strategy Group, which delivers executive coaching, strategic advisory services, and training programs for founders, investors and operators globally. It is the premiere partner for leveraging inclusion as a competitive advantage in the innovation economy. Bright Ventures Fund I applies a thematic focus on inclusion using our proprietary Inclusive Innovation framework to invest in the teams and companies in fintech, digital health, and the future of work. Ventures in this category have innovative leaders, teams, and products that drive alpha in markets with massive TAM, serve overlooked consumers and win institutional partners. We use our proven expertise in sourcing, scaling and evaluating inclusive ventures to see early signals that others miss.
Harbinger Ventures
Harbinger Ventures works exclusively with early-stage consumer brands that are led by exceptional female founders or mixed-gender founder founding teams, and incentivizes collaboration amongst its portfolio companies by giving each entrepreneur an equity stake in the portfolio. We invest behind visionaries who will be successful with or without us, but where our partnership can accelerate and enhance their strategy. We build our portfolio with purpose. Our investments are more than a collection of brands; it represents a cohesive vision and is composed of companies whose strategies are well-suited to reinforcing each other. With an unusually concentrated portfolio, we are able to foster an atmosphere of trust and collaboration not only between Harbinger and its investment strategy companies but among the companies themselves, driving fast-paced growth across the portfolio. We hold ourselves accountable to our values. Gender diverse leadership drives better results. It’s also more fun, more challenging and ultimately more interesting. We work with brands who both share this vision and are willing to embrace the opportunity it presents.
Southernpartners
LocationArkadelphia, ArkansasType of CapitalLoanType of FundCDFIFocus AreaMid-South-BasedRural FoundersUnderserved Founders Southern Bancorp Community Partners (SBCP) is a certified nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution that provides lending, financial development services, and public policy advocacy in economically distressed communities. Part of the Southern Bancorp family of financial organizations, SBCP works in tandem with Southern Bancorp, Inc., a bank holding company and Southern Bancorp Bank, one of America’s largest rural development banks, toward a shared mission of creating economic opportunity for all. Southern Bancorp’s mission is to create economic opportunity in rural and underserved communities by providing responsible and responsive financial products and services that balance profits with purpose. Business Loans: Southern believes in business, and we want to work with you to help you meet your business needs, from lines of credit to commercial real estate and construction to equipment and vehicle financing. If you need it to get your business off the ground or grow it to the next level, we can help.
Edgus
EDG helps nascent business owners get on their feet and moving forward with critical microfinance loans. For entrepreneurs seeking to start, sustain or expand a business, we provide small business loans at amounts up to $50,000 using lending criteria that most traditional banks are either unable or unwilling to consider. Presently, we serve entrepreneurs from a wide range of trades, including: Restaurants, transportation, service companies, various small businesses and many more. To qualify, you must be a legal resident of the U.S., a citizen, permanent resident, refugee or have been granted asylum in this country. We focus on individuals who are unable to access capital from traditional sources, such as low-to-moderate income applicants. EDG’s goals are to create or expand new businesses and create jobs, especially for people who are low-or-moderate income. In addition, you must be operating or planning to launch a small business. Loans may range in size from $500 to $50,000, and repayment may last up to five years. Interest rates vary from year to year. Note: There is a non-refundable charge of $100 to cover administrative costs.
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Accion Venture Lab
Early-stage startups often lack access to the capital and support they need to grow. Accion’s seed-stage investment initiative, Accion Venture Lab, provides financial and post-investment support to address these needs. Investing since 2012, and backed by third party commercial and impact investors since the launch of our fund in 2019, we typically invest U.S. $500,000 in seed-stage startups and can continue to support companies as they grow through follow-on capital that drives scale. Accion Venture Lab is an active and engaged investor, creating value in our portfolio by providing investees with strategic and operational support across a broad range of functional areas. We look for startups that are leveraging new technologies, data, and analytical tools to acquire, engage, and serve previously underserved individuals and small businesses. We like innovative customer engagement models that blend tech and touch to create seamless user experiences. We are excited about new approaches that focus on financial health and building financial capabilities as they provide critical products and services to consumers.
Tahoma Ventures
Mr. John Ives is the Founder of Tahoma Ventures. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of ColoradoBoulder and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis, John was a product manager at Spectra Logic in Boulder. There, he focused on solid-state storage devices (SSD) and memory systems.He moved on to Symbios Logic, Ft. Collins and Colorado Springs, where he worked for the high-performance data-storage I/O standard product semiconductor business, and then went on to co-found Serano Systems, a fabless storage semiconductor company also in Colorado Springs. John was at the helm of the companys early sales, marketing and business development efforts prior to Seranos acquisition by Vitesse Semiconductor in 1999.John has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1997. He is co-founder of Chips on the Deck, a networking organization for Colorado-based semiconductor, EDA and embedded system entrepreneurs. He is also the founder of Boulder Angels, which organizes the activities of active, professional angel investors in Boulder County.
Nmdc
Northern Maine Development Commission (NMDC) is a membership organization comprised of participating communities and counties in the Aroostook Washington Economic Development District. NMDC provides federal and state services at the regional and local levels. NMDC will continue its efforts to expand, diversify, and attract business and industry in the region. The Commission also will continue its outreach to northern and eastern Maine communities and its efforts to work with those communities to create the capacity needed to support development. There are a variety of loan programs available to help address the different needs of the business community. Each program has particular purposes and requirements, including a range of eligible financing, use of funds, type of business, collateral requirements, and interest rates: Micro business loans up to $50,000 with low-fixed interest rates and terms between 5 and 10 years; small business loans from $50,000 to $350,000 with low interest rates and terms up to 25 years; brownfields cleanup loans up to $250,000 with an interest rate of 3% and up to a 25-year term.
Rethink Capital
Rethink Food is tackling an existential problem: our planet will need to feed 2 billion more people by 2050, while human activity and climate change shrink our arable land by the day. We invest in technologies that leverage data to increase agricultural yields, unlock scientific breakthroughs to deliver better nutrition, and utilize materials and processes that will build a sustainable food supply chain. Led by Rini Greenfield, a former Tiger Management fund manager, and Brad Jakeman, the former President of Global Beverages at PepsiCo, Rethink brings a combination of investment sophistication and industry experience. We have built a board of industry experts who are able to advise our companies on food science, regulatory processes, supply chain, data analysis, and sales. Our experience accelerates the growth of companies using data, software, automation, and biotechnology to Digitize the Food System. We are raising a $100mm Fund for early-stage investments across precision agriculture, novel ingredients, sustainable distribution, waste reduction, packaging technology, and food as medicine.
rethink food
Rethink Food is tackling an existential problem: our planet will need to feed 2 billion more people by 2050, while human activity and climate change shrink our arable land by the day. We invest in technologies that leverage data to increase agricultural yields, unlock scientific breakthroughs to deliver better nutrition, and utilize materials and processes that will build a sustainable food supply chain. Led by Rini Greenfield, a former Tiger Management fund manager, and Brad Jakeman, the former President of Global Beverages at PepsiCo, Rethink brings a combination of investment sophistication and industry experience. We have built a board of industry experts who are able to advise our companies on food science, regulatory processes, supply chain, data analysis, and sales. Our experience accelerates the growth of companies using data, software, automation, and biotechnology to Digitize the Food System. We are raising a $100mm Fund for early-stage investments across precision agriculture, novel ingredients, sustainable distribution, waste reduction, packaging technology, and food as medicine.
New Europe Ventures
Mr. Andrew Rasiej is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Civic Hall. Mr. Andrew serves as a Founding Partner at New Europe Ventures. He's a recognized serial entrepreneur and investor in a number of early-stage companies including MobileComms, BlipTV, DayLife and ConFabb. He is the Founder of the Personal Democracy Forum and has served as an advisor to Senators, Congressmen and political candidates on the use of Information Technology for campaign and policy purposes since 1999. He also served as a senior advisor to the global Wi-Fi enabler FON, AirAmerica Radio and the Washington DC based Sunlight Foundation. Andrew is a co-founder of TechPresident.com, a news and data service tracking presidential candidates. In the past, he served as former chairman and co-founder of the Digital Club Network (DCN) now called eMusic Live, the Internet's largest live music website and founded Irving Plaza, an internationally known New York City concert venue. Andrew is responsible for Fund's investments in internet services and media companies. Andrew has a BFA from Cooper Union.
The Tech Garden
The Syracuse Technology Garden's goal is to be the focal point for high-technology entrepreneurship and business growth in the Central New York (CNY) region.They foster entrepreneurial activity in Syracuse and the CNY region by stimulating technological creativity through the incubation of technology start-up businesses. Located in downtown Syracuse, NY , the specially constructed facility covers 33,000 square feet and is a regular gathering spot for aspiring entrepreneurs, early stage investors, and creative individuals seeking to connect with others to share their passion for technology and business. In addition to facilitating the growth and development of early stage technology companies, The Tech Garden offers its facilities to the public for use for meetings, conferences, and social gatherings.The Tech Garden is home to the CleanTech Center and Syracuse Student Sandbox.Additionally, they host the TechExpo, pre-seed workshops, and the Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program (SATOP). The Tech Garden is a supporting member of the Business Incubator Association of New York State.
Vertex Ventures US
Dr. Sandeep Bhadra serves as a Partner at Vertex Ventures US. He joined Vertex in 2017 and focuses primarily on cloud infrastructure, data-driven business applications and cybersecurity. At 21, as a freshly minted electrical engineer, he helped set up and operate India's first WiFi hotspot and felt how transformative technology could be for business users, how hard infrastructure was to operate at scale and how demanding business buyers could be. Most recently, he was a Principal at Menlo Ventures where he focused on investments in infrastructure and data/machine-learning driven applications-my investments there include Platform9, Signifyd, Unravel Data and Clarifai. Prior to that, he was with Cisco's Corporate Development team learning how a market leader uses inorganic strategies to grow and transform itself. While there he worked on Cisco's investments in MapR, Platfora, Moogsoft and acquisitions of Metacloud, tail-f and Memoir Systems. He holds both a B.Tech from IIT Madras and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA from INSEAD.
Capital Factory
Mr. Gordon Daugherty serves as a Managing Director at Capital Factory. He spent eight years in the videoconferencing industry, including four years as President of an Israeli-based company that grew from $5M to $36M in a short few years and went public on the Euronext stock market. He has served in an executive capacity over most company functions, but with emphasis on marketing, sales, business development and M&A. He ran corporate development and strategy for Austin-based NetQoS, who grew rapidly to more than $55M in revenue before being acquired by CA Technologies for $200M and was a founding advisor for digital advertising pioneer MediaMind, who reached $65M in revenue and a NASDAQ IPO in 2010 at a $192M valuation. Through his advisory practice, Shockwave Innovations, and as Managing Director for Austin's Capital Factory startup accelerator, Gordon is an active angel investor, VC and startup advisor. He is currently a board member for Austin-based technology companies SwimTopia, Riskpulse and Chiron Health. He received his Computer Science degree from Baylor University.
1Sharpe Ventures
1Sharpe Ventures (1SV) is an early-stage venture fund backing founders reimagining FinTech, PropTech and the trillion-dollar built world industries: construction, real estate, hospitality, commerce, logistics, and climate. We invest in category-defining businesses transforming the picks and shovels of how we experience, transact, and own real estate. Our team has founded multiple billion-dollar venture-backed tech companies (like Roofstock, Lessen, Kiavi, Azibo) in addition to billion-dollar real estate portfolios. We saw a gap in scalable, strategic capital for proptech founders in the earliest stages, so we built a platform based off of our experience in the trenches. We are investing out of $90M fund in pre-seed, seed, and series A rounds – typical check size if $1-$2M and we can lead or follow. Our venture fund is connected to the broader 1Sharpe Capital, a $3Bn+ asset management firm investing in real estate and credit – which brings an in-house sandbox of real estate assets, access to capital markets, and a deep bench of real estate, lending, and operating expertise.
Nationalfunding
At National Funding, we know that small business loans for women are not a one-size-fits-all affair. Every business has a different strategy, needs different resources, and cares for their customers in a unique way. What may work for one woman-owned business may not be the ideal fit for another. From small business working capital loans to equipment financing, female business owners can rest easy knowing we have a product designed to fit their personal business needs. We offer small business funding loans for women who are ready to take their business to the next level. National Funding’s business loans for women have been streamlined to make the application and funding process as straightforward as possible. Our easy application and approval process on business loans for women empower the female business owner. Together with our flexible repayment options and willingness to work with business owners who may have less than perfect credit, procuring the cash you need just got easier. Requirements: 1 Year in Business $150,000 in Annual Gross Sales 3 Months’ Bank Statements.
Moment Ventures
Mr. Clint Chao is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Moment Ventures. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Formative Ventures. He invests in emerging technologies start-ups in areas such as communications, wireless, and next-generation Internet solutions. He brings years of start-up operating experience including marketing, sales and business development to Formative Ventures. Prior to co-founding Formative Ventures, he served as vice president of marketing, sales, and business development at SkyStream Networks (acquired by Tandberg TV). Under his leadership, SkyStream formed partnerships with industry leaders such as AOL Time Warner, HP, Microsoft, RealNetworks, Lucent Technologies, Mitsubishi, and Philips. He served as a Board Member at SOASTA. He has also served as senior director of marketing at C-Cube Microsystems and held numerous sales and sales management positions at Motorola Semiconductor. He earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Brooklyn Fashion & Design Accelerator
The Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator is a vibrant hub where designers can build successful businesses that integrate the environment and society into their bottom line and explore the relationship of technology, product and fashion.The Accelerator provides space, mentorship and access to a network of experts that range from design, production, future technologies, business development and environmental and social impact. We are a community committed to changing the world.The Accelerator welcomes creative entrepreneurs from throughout NYC. By becoming a member of the BF+DA you get access to the resources you need to produce and prototype your products. We provide traditional apparel production for runs from one to one hundred units. Our digital fabrication lab includes laser cutters and 3D printers and a lab for textile innovation that includes a textile printer, knitting machines and an extensive samples library. We offer showroom space, retail space, conference rooms and 30 onsite studio spaces equipped for fashion, accessory, product and media designers.
Mo Kan
Mo-Kan Regional Council (Mo-Kan) is a designated regional planning commission and economic development district, recognized by the states of Kansas and Missouri and the federal government. Loan programs offered by Mo-Kan are designed to be an affordable means in which businesses can access much-needed capital. Through many of the loan programs, Mo-Kan partners with a local lender and provides “gap financing” for owner-occupied businesses. Many entrepreneurs that Mo-Kan is able to help are in search of ways to preserve their cash on hand for the use of working capital. Mo-Kan is able to fill the financing gap between what a local bank is able to provide and what the borrower has available for down payment. In many cases, the local lender provides 50% of the financing and Mo-Kan secures 30-40% of the project costs. All of Mo-Kan’s loan products offer a fixed interest rate for the life of the loan. Fixed rates provide entrepreneurs the assurance they need that their payments will not increase over time, which in turn helps them gauge future growth opportunities.
Broadway Angels
Broadway Angels is an angel investment group made up of world-class investors and business executives who all happen to be women. We all have decades of experience investing in and managing the best technology companies in the world. All of us are or have been general partners in venture capital firms or senior executives in top technology and consumer companies. For most of us, we have been the only woman partner or senior executive in our firm. All of us have built great careers and portfolios along with amazing relationships with entrepreneurs and executives. Broadway Angels invests in the very best people and ideas in start-up and growing companies. Most of our investments are in information technology, an area we all know best, but we are also open to other opportunities too. We are small investors and typically invest only a fraction of the total amount raised. We are great team players and work well with other angels and venture capital firms. We typically do not take board seats but serve as excellent advisers and sounding boards to management teams.
Greater Cincinnati Microenterprise Initiative
The Greater Cincinnati Microenterprise Initiative (GCMI) provides access to microloans and small business loans to individual business owners who are low- to moderate-income. These loans can be used to start or expand your business. GCMI has three different loan programs: The GCMI Loan Fund which serves to increase the creation and expansion of businesses, operated by low-to-moderate income individuals and increase access to traditional and conventional financing sources to low-to-moderate income individuals; and the Microcity Loan, which is a flexible microloan financing to established or qualified emerging small businesses within the city of Cincinnati serving to facilitate growth and retention of small businesses, promote job creation and retention and enhance access to capital; and the Grow Cincinnati Loan, which is a flexible term loan for established or qualified emerging small businesses within the city of Cincinnati with the goal to facilitate growth and retention of small businesses, promote job creation and retention and enhance access to capital.
Theenterprisecenter
The Enterprise Center has a rich and diverse practice supporting minority entrepreneurs and under-resourced communities spanning more than three decades. Our clients and partners trust us to advise and deliver on transformative economic development connected to minority business growth cycles and community wealth-building initiatives. We invest in people and projects at the heart of business and communities in the belief that aligning capital with expertise is the strongest pathway to economic wealth and prosperity. The Enterprise Center Capital Corporation (TEC-CC) offers both microloans and traditional small-business loans of up to $500,000. If you need a loan under $50,000, you may be eligible through TEC-CC for a microloan: a short‐term, fixed-rate, fixed-payment loan of up to $50,000, made to startup or growing small businesses. If you have an established or growing business with a mid- to low-risk applicant profile, you may be eligible for a traditional small-business loan: a short-term, fixed-rate, fixed-payment loan ranging from $50,000 to $500,000.
Agilent Technologies
Herman Verrelst serves as General Manager - Clinical Applications Division at Agilent Technologies. He served as the Chief Executive Officer at Cartagenia. He also serves as Board Member at icoMetrix. Herman Verrelst is an experienced entrepreneur and business manager, with a specific background in the set up and management of high-tech companies and university spin-offs. In the past, he has been CEO, director and business unit manager in a number of software/bioinformatics based ventures, in the areas of gene expression based cancer biomarkers, medical imaging and pre-operative planning software and financial crime and compliance solutions. He received a master’s degree in engineering from the K.U.Leuven in 1996 and spent 4 years as a researcher and project coordinator at the same university focusing on artificial intelligence and various applications of advanced data analytics. He served as Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Data4S. He served as the CEO of Medicim. He graduated from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Slow Ventures
Mr. Kevin Colleran serves as Managing Partner and is the Co-Founder of Slow Ventures. He also serves as an Advisor at General Catalyst Partners. He serves as a board member at Chatous and SocialRadar. Mr. Colleran was one of the first 10 Facebook employees and its first salesperson. Prior to Facebook, Colleran had been a lifelong entrepreneur winning many National Entrepreneur of the Year awards. Kevin's various internet companies included StartingPage.com, LiveService.com and PhotoMasterpieces. While in college in Boston, Colleran co-Founded BlabberForce Enterprises, a company that recruited student entrepreneurs on college campuses (called 'Blabbermouths') and gave them the tools to start their own grassroots marketing companies on their own campuses. After college, Colleran worked as a consultant with BMG Music in NY where he launched a music sponsorship company that focused on artists signed to the Arista and RCA record labels. Kevin received a BA in Business Management and Marketing from Babson College. He serves as Mentor at Rough Draft Ventures.
Pacificcommunityventures
Does your small business need funds to increase inventory, expand or update your space, scale up for a new opportunity, purchase equipment, or make health and safety improvements for your customers and employees? Pacific Community Ventures can help. We’re a mission-driven lender that provides fair and affordable loans up to $250,000 to California small businesses. Our loans help small business owners like you thrive, be successful, and create jobs in our communities. We’re here to help small business owners build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic, including the capital and advice needed to pivot or reopen safely and sustainably. Our staff and financial advisors will get your small business’ finances in order, and as one of our small business loan borrowers you’ll get free access to our network of over 2,000 business advisors for help in any area you need, like marketing, business strategy, or sales. All of the areas that you may face challenges in as you grow your business. With a PCV small business loan, you’re not alone - we’re here with you.
Kickstart Fund
Mr. Clarke Miyasaki serves as General Partner at Kickstart Seed Fund. He is also a Board Member at Wireless Advanced Vehicle Electrification. He previously served as a Board Member at Dsco. He has a history of success in start-up and early-stage investment environments. Most recently, Clarke served as the Global Vice President of Business Development at Skullcandy, which went public in July 2011 (NASDAQ: SKUL). Clarke joined Skullcandy in early 2008 when there were 18 employees and keyed several initiatives that helped grow the company to over $230 million in revenue in 2011. Prior to Skullcandy, Clarke was the Vice President of Business Development at Logoworks, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $57 million in April 2007. Clarke joined on the ground floor of Logoworks and developed several strategic partnerships that spurred Logoworks rapid growth and positioned it for a successful sale to HP. Some of the partnerships included Staples, eBay, Network Solutions, HP, Legalzoom and Intuit. Clarke was at Logoworks from August 2004 - April 2008.
Foundation Capital
Mr. Jonathan Ehrlich serves as Partner at Foundation Capital. He concentrates on identifying and investing in early-stage consumer, mobile, small business-oriented startups and technologies. Jonathan has deep experience building fast-growing startups. From 2009 to 2011, he ran Marketing for Facebook where he led the company's consumer and brand marketing efforts. Prior to his career at Facebook, he was the executive vice president, online, at Indigo Books & Music, Canada’s largest book retailer, where he was responsible for building the online business to over $100 million. Jonathan also co-founded Utah Street Labs, backed by Foundation, Google and Relay Ventures and Mobshop, backed by Marc Andreessen, Visa and GE. He also spent several years as an EIR at Albright Ventures (now Relay Ventures). Jonathan began his career in Advertising and Consumer Packaged Goods, working for McCann: Erikson and Unilever respectively. He holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business and a BA in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.
Masters
We are women who have invested in tech startups for 10+ years, with 4 exits and $475 million in generated revenue. Our superpower is connecting and attracting powerful partners, all experienced entrepreneurs and investors. We use gender lens investing to bring valuable information to the investment decision. Gender lens investing is the deliberate integration of gender analysis into investment analysis and decision making. Such intentional investing is not only about funding women, but about looking at deals with an understanding of gender bias in ideas and processes. When we are aware of our bias, we make better investment decisions. Our expertise lies in B2B and B2C tech companies. We will look at other business models and invest when we and our VP and LP advisors can bring the company to an exit or the next stage of capitalization. We may syndicate funding, taking either a lead or follow-on position. When we lead, we take a Board Seat; when we follow, we or the other investors take a Board Seat to represent the interest of the investors.
Newcorpinc
NewCorp Inc. is a 501(c) (3) organization that was formed in 1995. NewCorp, Inc. is a certified Community Development Institution (CDFI) whose mission is to be an economic development catalyst by providing technical and financial assistance to small and emerging businesses to improve their basic business capabilities by way of training, counseling, planning and financial products and services. NewCorp has an array of products and services to address the needs of the business community. NewCorp provides a blend of traditional, flexible and patient capital financing to support the growth and development of start-up, early stage, and seasoned businesses. In partnership with our public, private, and community partners, we promote the sustaibability of small businesses and their communities. NewCorp, Inc.’s target market is located primarily in Orleans and Jefferson parishes and the surrounding parishes of St. Bernard, St. Tammany, St. Charles, St. John, and Plaquemines. The entire state of Louisiana is NewCorp, Inc.’s secondary target market.
The Impact Engine
We invest in business models that align financial and social or environmental impact returns such that there is minimal or no tradeoff between the two. Ideally, they mutually reinforce each other: the impact drives value creation in the business and the business growth brings the impact to scale. We invest across early and late stage private equity, allowing us to see the trajectories of companies and trends over the years, and we invest both directly into companies as well as into other impact funds. Investing in both companies and funds allows us to create synergies in the impact investing ecosystem, by supporting the creation of high-impact syndicates (to the benefit of both our company and fund portfolios) and bringing even deeper perspectives to our own understanding of each impact sub-sector and theme. We have invested in 50% Economic Opportunity, 22% Environmental Sustainability, and 28% Health Equity-focused companies as of 6/24/2022. Of these companies in our direct portfolio, 67% are led by women CEOs or CEOs of color.
Collidecap
Collide Capital is a Black-owned VC firm ushering in a new era of venture capital where opportunities go to the most deserving, not the most privileged. The firm is led by two GPs who founded AfroTech and BLCK VC, and combines institutional training from Goldman Sachs, Bain & Co, Harvard Business School, and Stanford Graduate School of Business. Following their top-quartile proof-of-concept fund, they set out to raise a $40M Fund 1 and successfully closed an oversubscribed vehicle with $66M in AUM. This fund is backed by a diverse array of LPs from Big Tech (Alphabet, Twitter), Private Equity (General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Bain Capital, Insight Partners), Philanthropy (Weinberg Foundation, George Kaiser Family Foundation), and Institutional Banking (Bank of America & Citi). The portfolio consists of 40+ companies with over 80% led by Black, Latine, and Female founders, and the Collide Capital team works to equip their founders with the resources, knowledge networks, and hands-on operational support for a successful exit.
Authentic Ventures
Authentic Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Oakland. The firm was founded in 2016, and invests in Pre-Seed through Series B companies that are solving the world’s hardest problems with diverse teams. We invest primarily in B2B software with a particular focus on AI and Machine Learning, Vertically focused Software, FinTech, and selective Consumer subscription companies. We have a strong focus on investing in companies that are led by diverse teams. Engaging great founders seeking to solve some of our world’s hardest problems might be the single greatest challenge of our generation. Wherever and whoever they are - we endeavor to find them. Solutions to the world’s hard problems are more likely to come from diverse teams. To many, this talent is invisible. Our mission is to seek out and engage with this talent. Authentic has built a differentiated and diverse network that over-indexes to women and people of color who are extremely accomplished yet underrepresented in traditional funding circles.
Oak Investment Partners
Ms. Annie Lamont serves as a Managing Partner at Oak HC/FT. She also serves as an Advisor at Mansa Capital. She serves on the Boards of Acculynk, Aspire, Benefitfocus, Candescent, Castlight Health, Freshbooks, Hometeam, ILS, Poynt, Precision for Medicine, Quartet, VillageMD & xG Health Solutions. Prior investments include athenahealth, American Esoteric Laboratories (SHL acquired), Argus (Verisk acquired), CareMedic (Ingenix acquired), CLARiENT (GE acquired), Harbor Payments (AmEx acquired), Health Dialog (BUPA acquired), Odyssey, Oak Tree/Oxford, NetSpend (TSYS acquired), PayFlex (Aetna acquired), PharMEDium (CD&R acquired), Point Carbon (Thomson Reuters acquired), Psychiatric Solutions, TxVia (Google acquired) & United BioSource (Medco Health Solutions acquired). She also serves on the board of HCA Holdings and is a member of The Advisory Council for the Financial Solutions Lab. She served on the Stanford University Board of Trustees and on the Executive Board of the NVCA. Annie graduated from Stanford University.
Razor's Edge Ventures
Ms. Peggy Styer is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Razor's Edge Ventures. Additionally she serves as Chief Executive Officer at Raytheon Blackbird Technologies and as an Advisor at ICX Media. Before Razor's Edge, she was the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Blackbird Technologies, a company she co-founded with Steve Pann and Richard Moxley. She oversaw the record-setting sale of Blackbird to Raytheon Corporation, a $427 million deal that closed in November 2014. From 2003-2007, Peggy simultaneously served as CEO of Blackbird and RavenWing, an affiliated company, leading both companies to substantial growth and profitability before selling RavenWing to Boeing in 2008. Earlier in her career, Peggy co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Merex, Inc. before it was sold to Infodata Systems, Inc. in 1996. Peggy earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from California State University and a MS degree in Technology Management from the University of Maryland.
William Mann Jr. CDC
We are part of your community. We are the small business lender that can possibly assist your business financial need. We are your partner. Like you, we want your business to have everything it needs to flourish. At William Mann Jr. CDC, we understand that each of our clients have a unique need that calls for a customized loan program. Based on your need, we can help find the right loan program for you. William Mann Jr. CDC business loans assist in the growth of the local growth. We provide access to capital with low down payment or equity injection, no pre-payment penalties and flexible underwriting. We customize loans to fit the needs of the business. We lend up to $100,000 for existing businesses. Small Business or Working Capital loan: Capital for equipment, machinery, permanent working capital, facility improvement, business acquisition or real estate. Short-term working capital for a specific job associated with account receivable, inventory purchase or contract. Revolving Line of Credit for contractors.
Transmedia Capital
Mr. Peter Boboff serves as General Partner at Transmedia Capital. He was a Co-Founder and served as Managing Director at Kicklabs. He has been in the early stage venture business for more than 14 years. Peter has invested in more than 50 startups including top search engines Baidu (China), Yandex (Russia), C2B (Inktomi) and more recently: Domo, Percolate, Kiip and Levelup. Previously, Peter was the founder and CEO of Pakana Corporation, a venture-funded company focused on online marketplaces. In 1998, he was a Managing Partner at Whittman-Hart (WHIT), a $1 billion global IT solutions provider. Prior, he was a founder and CEO of Axis Consulting, a leading systems integrator specializing in Internet and ERP solutions, which was a self-funded venture that was acquired by Whittman-Hart in 1997 in a deal valued at $60M. After relocating from Australia in 1991, Peter began his US career as a consultant with Charles Schwab & Co. He holds a BS degree in Mathematics from the Western Australian Institute of Technology.
Act One Ventures
Act One is an early stage investor with a track record of success, having already returned total investments in its first fund twice over, that backs capital-efficient companies with demonstrated founder-market fit (an expertise in their industry and the software solutions it needs). The firm was founded in 2016 by entrepreneurs Michael Silton and Alejandro Guerrero, who have been working together for more than a decade starting at the UCLA VC Fund. Michael is a three-time software founder with an exit and a unicorn IPO. Alejandro is a first-generation Mexican-American startup founder who has become one of the most visible and fastest rising emerging managers in America, where only 3% of investment partners are of Latinx descent. Michael and Alejandro’s experience as software company founders allows them to help portfolio founders build scalable businesses while connecting with a network that helps bring in early customers. 70% of Act One’s portfolio companies were founded by women and/or people of color.
Opportunity Resource Fund
The Opportunity Resource Fund offers several types of loans to help further the economic development goals of your community. Our goal is to ensure that all small businesses have equal access to capital. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community development financial institution with a successful, nearly 30-year history serving Michigan. We are structured as a revolving loan fund and provide loans to benefit Michigan communities from Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Detroit. Our small business loan types are small business and micro-enterprise, which are for the startup and expansion of a small business, at every stage. Our lending capabilities include: startup capital. working capital, business expansion, build-out, inventory, short-term financing. Business loan amounts range from $10,000 to $250,000. Terms are flexible with a wide range of loan amortization and maturities although, generally not beyond five years. Interest rates are competitive and designed to accommodate the needs of your business.
Foolventures
We’re an early stage, technology-focused venture capital fund, powered by The Motley Fool’s brand, investing approach and communities. We consider early stage to be young, growing companies with operating businesses and initial customers. Often, these companies fall into the category of “Series A,” but we recognize that those labels are fluid. While not all of our companies will initially be focused on revenue, many will join the portfolio with between $500K and $5M of annualized revenue. Technology-focused does not simply mean that a company employs technology in the business. It’s rare that one does not. We look for situations where founders are leveraging technology to create a clear competitive advantage and to disrupt their industry. We have a particular interest in the areas of finance, culture, people, and business processes. Motley Fool Ventures is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.
Grameen America
Women entrepreneurs often just need a little capital and support to help them reach their goals. Founded in Queens, NY, in 2008, Grameen America builds on the legacy and proven model of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. His revolutionary but simple idea that all people can lift themselves out of poverty through their own entrepreneurial spirit has dramatically altered how the world views global poverty. Grameen America provides microloans (starting at no more than $2,000), financial training, and support to members. As part of our program, members open free savings accounts with commercial banks and make weekly deposits. We also report microloan repayments to Experian, enabling our members to build their financial identity. Our target population is women who live below the federal poverty line, for whom the mainstream financial system is currently out of reach. Our members are women who previously had few options for accessing capital and most lacked bank accounts and credit scores.
Full In Partners
Full In is a $200m growth equity firm that focuses primarily on software, mobile, and online marketplace investments. We evaluate companies globally but have a sweet spot for US, European, and Israeli markets. We are excited to partner with companies who are showing signs of product market fit but might benefit from an expert or two in go-to-market strategy and/or in sales and marketing. We love working actively with companies to really earn our seat at the table. Above all, we care most about the people we will be working with and the passion they bring to their craft. Our focus: As growth-stage investors, Full In invests in companies with demonstrated product-market fit and rapid growth trajectory. Among many other factors, we love to to look at track record and momentum as key indicators of long-term sustainable business models. Full In Partners is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.
Smifoundation
Since inception, part of SMIF’s mission has been to catalyze entrepreneurial activity within our region. We strengthen economic development by supporting local business owners and entrepreneurs through financial investments and technical assistance. We offer a range of services and financial options to empower new and growing business owners: Business loans (up to $200,000) in manufacturing, technology, local foods, agriculture and health care; Building Blocks Loans (up to $15,000) to support the business of family child care by providing financial resources and technical assistance to help expand or enhance licensed child care businesses; Grow a Farmer Loans (up to $15,000) which provides small-scale sustainable farmers lower-interest loans to help them improve their operations and increase their bottom lines; and Small Enterprise Loans (up to $35,000) which support small business owners or startup entrepreneurs who create service, retail, local foods, and manufacturing businesses.
Newjerseycommunitycapital
Through our work across the state, we continuously witness the power of people and place. As our strategies, innovations and impact evolve, we still measure our work against our fundamental vision entrenched by our founders: to always sustain deep roots in the communities of New Jersey and operate as a vehicle for supporting residents and the creation of healthy and livable neighborhoods for all. Whether investing in vibrant arts and cultural institutions, community facilities, early child care centers or diverse small businesses, we know that the strongest community-building efforts are localized and resident-driven. NJCC partnered with the Pascale Sykes Foundation in December 2014 to launch THRIVE South Jersey, an economic development initiative developed to address the challenges of poverty and unemployment in the targeted four-county region (Gloucester, Cumberland, Salem and western Atlantic counties) as part of Pascale Sykes’s South Jersey Strengthening Families Initiative.
Revolvingfund
The mission of the Providence Revolving Fund is to preserve historic buildings and places of cultural significance by providing lending and services to promote equitable neighborhood revitalization. The Providence Revolving Fund (PRF) was established in 1980, as an independent non-profit corporation. The organization was formed in order to provide financing to preserve structures in historic districts that faced underinvestment because of the redlining of neighborhoods. PRF is Rhode Island’s only homegrown CDFI focused on housing, historic preservation and equitable neighborhood revitalization. The PRF model focuses on providing investment to neighborhoods where the plurality of the residents are people of color and/or low-income and where the building stock is historic (over 50 years old). We currently have three fund pools, our Neighborhood Loan Fund ($3 million), the Opportunity Investment Fund ($10,000,000), and the Providence Commercial Corridor Micro-Business Loan Fund.
Sigma Partners
Mr. Robert Davoli serves as a Managing Director at Sigma Prime Ventures. He also serves as a Board of Director at VIRTUSA. From February 1993 to September 1994, Mr. Davoli was president and chief executive officer of Epoch Systems, Inc., a vendor of client-server data management software products. From 1990 to 1992, Mr. Davoli served as an executive officer of Sybase, Inc. (which AnchorAnchoracquired SQL Solutions). In 1985, Mr. Davoli founded SQL Solutions, a purveyor of services and tools for the relational database market where he was president and chief executive officer from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Davoli holds a B.A. in History from Ricker College and studied Computer Science at Northeastern University for two years. Mr. Davoli brings to the board of directors his broad entrepreneurial experience, his extensive experience in the technology industry and his service as a director of the Company since 2000, which affords him unique perspectives on our growth and evolution.
Insight Partners
Jerry Murdock is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director of Insight Venture Partners. He played a leading role in defining the company's investment strategy and was primarily responsible for the development of many of the firms portfolio investments. From 1988 to 1995, Mr. Murdock was a founder and director of the Aspen Technology Group. Mr. Murdock graduated with a degree in Political Science from San Diego State University and subsequently worked at the Georgetown Center for Strategic & International Studies (now known as CSIS), where he was a contributor to the export competitiveness project. His work was published in The Export Competitive Series: Comparative Analysis of Export Policy, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and Japan. Mr. Murdock is a member of the Board of Trustees of both The Santa Fe Institute and The Aspen Institute and is a co-founder of For The Forest. He is also the Board Member at FuzeBox Software and Truecaller.