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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University of Pennsylvania Endowment
University of Pennsylvania manages an endowment which is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The fund provides annual funding for the strategic initiatives of the university. The office of trust administration administers the university's endowments and other restricted gifts to ensure their use is compliant with donor wishes or relevant laws. The trust administration is responsible for the creation of new funds for operating gifts, capital gifts, endowments and agency funds to meet donor requests. The endowment fund is administered by the board of directors.
U.S. Angel Investors
US Angel Investors is an investment group of accredited private equity (“angel”) investors across two chapters in Palo Alto, CA and Reno, NV, who provide counsel and capital to startup companies in a wide variety of industries. This group includes mostly former and current executives and entrepreneurs. US Angel Investors members look for high quality investment opportunities in technology, internet, new media, healthcare and medical devices, and packaged consumer goods. Other sectors with high growth opportunities will be considered on an opportunistic basis.
LAB353
LAB353 Accelerator is looking for the best and brightest leaders with big ideas in the Mobile, Cloud and IoT space. They will select 10 companies to join the Lab353 Accelerator programme. This is a unique opportunity for tech firms to establish or scale their operations in Europe and beyond. Companies in the programme will get access to top technology leaders and mentors from Silicon Valley and Ireland, access to markets and the chance to raise capital. Their goal is to help these top innovators achieve their dreams of turning the next big idea into reality.
Mark Ghermezian
T5 Capital is an investment arm of Triple Five Corp which specializes in venture capital and private equity investments. It focuses on investing in early stage disruptive technology companies, control investments and buyouts of companies. It invests in the hospitality, development, high technology sectors, real estate, banking and financial services, retail, multimedia, bio-tech, internet, telecommunications, wireless, cable, computer software, e-commerce, fiber, networking and semiconductors. It is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada and was founded in 2011.
T5 Capital
T5 Capital is an investment arm of Triple Five Corp which specializes in venture capital and private equity investments. It focuses on investing in early stage disruptive technology companies, control investments and buyouts of companies. It invests in the hospitality, development, high technology sectors, real estate, banking and financial services, retail, multimedia, bio-tech, internet, telecommunications, wireless, cable, computer software, e-commerce, fiber, networking and semiconductors. It is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada and was founded in 2011.
Capita3
Capita3 is an early stage venture capital fund investing in women startup founders and the companies they’re building. We’re leading the next generation of venture capital by investing in the growth of the startup CEO alongside our investment in the growth of the company, and we’ll set a new standard for how VC-financed companies grow and exit. We’ve developed a game-changing program that helps women entrepreneurs grow into powerful leaders who can grow their companies to maximum value. It’s good for women, good for our investments, and good for the world.
Buckhill Capital LP
Buckhill Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct and fund of fund investing. Within direct investing, we invest in middle market, turnaround, emerging growth and late venture stages. We invest in industry consolidation, recapitalization, buyout, growth capital transactions typically ranging from $5M-$100M. Within fund of fund investing, we invest in various PE/VC funds, mezzanine funds, turn around funds, real estate funds, hedge funds and secondary investing. We have invested in over eighty companies and twenty funds.
Dutchess Capital Management
Dutchess Capital Management is a private investment firm that provides creative financing for promising, growth-stage companies. The firm has invested in companies in a wide variety of industries, including telecom, wireless communications, healthcare, biotechnology, medical devices, technology, oil and gas, defense, manufacturing, consumer products, and alternative energy. The firm was founded in 1996 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in LaGrangeville, New York; London, United Kingdom; Beijing, China; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
HubSpot Ventures
Mr. Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer at HubSpot. He also serves as Mentor at Rough Draft Ventures. Prior to HubSpot, he was founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions. Prior to Pyramid Digital Solutions, he held a number of technology management and development positions. He also runs OnStartups.com. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama and an M.S. in the Management of Technology from MIT. He is author of a book entitled Inbound Marketing, Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs.
Indiegogo
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Ledcmetro
We are Empowered Women International (EWI), a program of the Latino Economic Development Center. Our mission is to provide entrepreneurship training, mentoring, market access and support services to help talented and high-potential women monetize their creative or cultural assets, artistic abilities, knowledge and skills, and become change-makers in their families, communities and the world for immigrant, refugee, low-income, and at-risk women. Business loans: We offer loans to qualified startups and existing businesses. Loans from $1,000 to $250,000.
Designer Fund
The Designer Fund is an seed and early stage venture capital firm that primarily invests in startups co-founded by designers and build and educate through its professional development program named Bridge, that connects designers with startups and its community in San Francisco. It also organizes educational events, like the Designer Fair and Women in Design and content such as the Designer Founders book and infographic to distribute for public good and design students worldwide. The firm was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Race Point Capital
Race Point Capital Group is an angel investing group (and separate, but affiliated, investment fund) that introduces entrepreneurs to potential investors through business plan presentations at monthly meetings. Race Point Capital consists of individual angel investor members interested in achieving returns by financing privately held companies at an early stage of development. Primary sector focuses are software / IT, web and e-commerce, media and social media, mobile and wireless, networking and telecom, clean-tech, renewable energy and green-tech.
Sequoia Capital
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.
Jon Roska
Mr. Jon serves as a Founder and VP, Merchandising at Pet360. With courage, vision, and a keen marketing sense, Jon helped grow the business from a red truck to the 60,000 square-foot warehouse we have today – and most importantly satisfied millions of customers. Jon currently uses his unparalleled knowledge of both pet foods and pet products to help guide our operations and merchandising departments in providing the optimum product mix for our existing customers and to help new customers discover the convenience of shopping with PetFoodDirect.com.
AGS Capital Group
AGS Capital Group provides a combination of equity investment and debt financing to invest in, or acquire middle market companies. The firm targets the niche manufacturing industry, and prefers to invest in established organizations with an existing customer base and a constant source of revenue. Additionally the firm also provides business sericesin areas such as accounting, budget analysis, marketing and business strategy, product development and engineering, distribution, human resource, information technology support and management oversight.
Dell
We typically fund social enterprises that directly serve or impact children or youth from urban low-income communities in the areas of education, health, and family economic stability (including livelihoods and financial inclusion). These social enterprises may be structured as for-profit or nonprofit entities. The foundation only supports programs and organizations that fall within our key focus areas and align with our mission. Prioritizing those areas enables us to create opportunities for children and families to achieve their full potential.
REES Capital
REES Capital is an angel investment and advising firm headquartered in Sandy, Utah. The firm specializes in start up and growth capital investments. It provides services across a broad range of business functions, including leadership training; product and market assessment; marketing, sales and public relations strategy; financial modeling; organizational structuring; strategic planning; acquisition and exit strategy; and other key areas. They do not pursue any investments related to medical devices, life science and/or pharmaceutical companies.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense with a singular and enduring mission: to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. DARPA’s mission is to maintain the technological superiority of the U.S. military and prevent technological surprise from harming our national security by sponsoring revolutionary, high-payoff research that bridges the gap between fundamental discoveries and their military use. the firm is based in Arlington, Virginia and was founded in 1958.
SineWave Ventures
SineWave Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. The firm was founded in 2014 and focuses on investing in companies in the enterprise tech, systems tech, service platforms, education, financial services and preventative health sectors. It provides a unique platform approach to venture and growth capital investing that brings together public sector entities, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and strategic corporate partners for the purpose of accelerating company growth, enhancing value, and maximizing investor returns.
Hopecu
Hope began as a commercial loan fund and has a long track record of supporting business with the financing they need to start, stabilize and grow. Our lending is focused on providing capital to viable companies that create jobs, support communities, and address infrastructure needs in economically distressed and rural areas of the Deep South. If you’re looking for the right financing for your organization, talk to us and explore your best options for finding affordable, flexible financing. Our small business lending is for loans up to $250,000.
Loanwell
Piedmont Business Capital and our partners are offering a variety of lending programs for small businesses across Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, and rural Piedmont, North Carolina. Our services include microlending, contract/service agreement loans, relevant and impactful development programming, technical assistance and certification workshops for minority/women-owned business enterprises (MWBE), historically underutilized business (HUB), and disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE), one-on-one business coaching, and community advocacy.
Portland Incubator Experiment
Portland Incubator Experiment, also known as PIE, is a very interesting case: throughout the years they have been an early-stage startup accelerator; a community hub and co-working space; a consultant for a global incubator and accelerator programs. They have now grown into a flourishing ecosystem that nurtures and mentors startups from all over the world, on a mission is to “build better founders”, sharing successes and failures to inspire and educate founders everywhere. They are even writing a book (called, “PIE Cookbook”) to that extent.
Newark Venture Partners
Mr. Thomas Wisniewski serves as a Managing Partner at Newark Venture Partners. He is a veteran of the NYC-area venture and accelerator scene. He previously founded RosePaul Ventures which has a portfolio of 20+ tech start-ups and investments in notable venture funds such as Greycroft Ventures, ff Venture Capital, ER Accelerator. Notable investments include Pond5, LiveLOOK (acquired by Oracle), Kanvas (acquired by AOL). Tom has an MBA from Dartmouth and a BA in Physics from Clark University. He also serves as Board Member at New York Angels.
Red Bike Capital
Red Bike Capital is a Latino and woman-led early stage VC fund based in New York that invests in verticals that are primed for disruption and growth. We invest in US-based SAAS, Health & Wellness, and Fintech. We are founders ourselves, have 30+ years of experience with an authentic connection to the startup ecosystem and a strong track record in asset management, including founding and scaling a Y Combinator-backed startup to $100M in revenue, deploying $2B in assets, and sourcing deals via relationships with top founders and accelerators.
Mathew Slade Farkash
Blueprint Health invests time and $20K into 20 healthcare IT companies each year. The staff and mentors work intensively with the companies for three months to help them meet their individual business goals. Typically these goals include gaining customers, raising capital, building marketing and sales collateral and refining an investor pitch. But Blueprint Health doesn’t end after three months - they continue to help their alumni founders build and grow their companies and offer them additional resources that the community can provide.
Upslope Ventures
Formerly Galvanize Ventures, Upslope Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in startups across the country. We believe exceptional teams can originate from any location. We provide more than capital and introductions. By leveraging our network we aim to empower entrepreneurs with the resources they need to have their best chance at success - even if we don’t invest. Upslope VC is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.
Day One Ventures
Day One Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications. This enables the Day One team to become actively involved in its portfolio companies and play a real, tangible role in helping them grow. The firm invests across industries from pre-seed to seed, and occasionally Series A, and invests between $100k and $5 million. Day One Ventures was founded by Masha Drokova, who is an angel investor, entrepreneur, communications executive, and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.
Second Century Ventures
Second Century Ventures (SCV) is a strategic investment fund that is verticalizing venture investing by launching its companies into the world's largest industries including real estate, financial services, banking, home services and insurance. SCV seeks investment opportunities in proven enterprises that will drive industry growth, enable new usage models and advance industry standards. SCV prefers SaaS companies generally focused on big data applications, digital media, fin tech and business services that can span multiple verticals.
TA
Mr. Kenneth Schiciano serves as Managing Director at TA Associates Management. He focuses on the communications and financial technology industries. Previously, he has worked with AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is currently on the Board of Directors of eSecLending, ION Trading, Arxan and RGM Advisors. Previously, he was on the Board of Directors of Datek Online Holdings, FTP Software, Martin Group, MetroPCS Communications, NetScout Systems, and The Island ECN. Mr. Kenneth T Schiciano serve as an Executive Board Member of Fractal Analytics.
Vistaequitypartners
By providing technology expertise, operational guidance and capital for sustainable growth, we empower organizations across all industries to stay ahead in the digital economy. We support the diverse communities in which we live and work - it’s core to who we are. Through investing in job training, increasing access to education and supporting the arts, we are proud stewards of a variety of organizations, and we are committed to creating opportunities for all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, gender or sexual orientation.
SEED Venture Finance
SEED Venture Finance, LLC is a private investment firm specializing in subordinated debt, senior debt and equity investments in small and medium sized businesses. SEED Venture Finance manages SEED Ventures L.P., a $20 million Small Business Investment Company (“SBIC”) focused on investments in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. SEED has established strategic partnerships with major commercial banks in the region and is uniquely positioned to provide a company with a full range of capital raising options and related services.
Armory Square Ventures
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.
Palm Beach Investment Group
Palm Beach Investment Group is a global firm providing private and institutional funding to the various markets with offices in West Palm Beach, Florida. PBIG's philosophy is to partner with clients using clear communication and developing corporate identity. It prefers to invest in the hospitality, gaming, housing, storage, office, industrial and medical sectors. It specializes in capital funding of start up, new construction to perm and companies needing funding for further expansion. The firm is based in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Panacea Capital Advisors
Panacea Capital Advisors is a venture capital firm which serves as the sole source of capital, leads an early stage round or co-invests along with other professional investors. It assists with fund raising activities by providing structuring and valuation expertise and by identifying, introducing and vetting a portion of the other professional investors in the capital structure. The firm focuses primarily on earlier stage companies that have a commercially available product. It was founded in 2011 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.
FusionX Ventures
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.
Craig J. Duchossois
The Duchossois Group is a privately held, family-owned company with holdings in the consumer products, technology and service sectors. The firm seeks to build its companies by providing management support, capital resources and a long-term commitment to growth in value. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Elmhurst, Illinois. It seeks to acquire other companies that make access control equipment, various tools needed by the manufacturing industries and other products that are required by the automation markets.
Adam Lessler
Canepa Healthcare is an investment advisory firm with expertise in global healthcare sector advisory. The firm serves as the discretionary advisor to its main client, the Canepa Advanced Healthcare Fund. The Canepa Advanced Healthcare Fund is a private investment growth fund that aims to achieve long-term capital appreciation through equity investments primarily in non-public companies that operate in the medical technology space. Canepa Healthcare may also provide non-discretionary investment advisory services to other clients.
Airlie Family Office
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.
F50
F50 is a venture capital syndication platform focused on finding and funding the companies graduating from the seed stage and moving into their high growth stage. It prefers to invest in companies based in western region of the United States, but is capable of investing globally too. It primarily seeks to invest in the hardware, services, communications, life sciences, material sciences, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, robotics and software sectors. The firm was founded in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
New Lab
Provider of professional, interdisciplinary work space and support to entrepreneurs working in emerging technologies, and a pioneering resource for new tech, new hardware, and new manufacturing in New York City. The company provides facilities designed to support entrepreneurs working in emerging technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence and connected devices. The company offers design, prototyping and new manufacturing technologies for advanced robotics, nanotechnology, physical computing and the built environment.
Volta Global
Volta Global is a private investment firm with investment activities in venture capital, private equity, real estate and public markets. The investment philosophy of the firm is guided by its permanent capital base. It primarily seeks to invest across a variety of industries and throughout the entire capital structure of a company. The firm actively invest across stages of the typical venture capital fundraising cycle from seed through series A, B and C financing rounds. It was established in 2015 and is based in Miami, Florida.
Hedcoinc
HEDCO provides small business clientele with access to capital needs that would be otherwise un-met or under-served. We also provide hope and opportunity for people to realize their dream businesses, create financial freedom and contribute to their communities through job creations and needed services. HEDCO is not just a lending institution, we care about you, your dream and your business. HEDCO offers small business and non-profit organizations flexible and affordable loan options that fit their needs: Amounts up to $150,000.
Park City Angels
Park City Angels (PCA) is the largest and most active angel investment group in Utah. We are a group of accredited investors based in Utah's Wasatch Back who provide early-stage capital for high growth companies in Utah and the surrounding Mountain West Area.Our investors make their own investment decisions and are not guided by restrictive limited partner agreements. We often invest in companies that are overlooked by venture capital. Our members gladly provide mentorship, connections, and industry expertise to entrepreneurs.
SteelSky Ventures
SteelSky Ventures invests in companies that improve access, care and outcomes in women’s health. Our focused thesis is driven by the belief that women’s healthcare is a global market opportunity, in the nascent stage, that is primed for exponential growth driven by technological and business model innovation in established and new categories. We invest across the spectrum of women’s health in consumer health, digital health, new healthcare delivery models, ePharmacy and retail therapeutics, with 16 portfolio companies to date.
First Capital Group
First Capital Group is a growth capital investment firm that invests in a diversified portfolio of well-managed middle-market companies with demonstrated growth potential. First Capital Group’s investment focus is Texas and the Southwest. The firm primarily invests in companies within the communications, information technology, medical products and life sciences, manufacturing, and distribution and services industry sectors. Founded in 1984, the firm is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with an additional office in Dallas.
Battle Born Venture
Battle Born Venture is a venture capital program, overseen by the Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development under the auspices of the US Treasury's State Small Business Credit Initiative. Battle Born makes equity and equity-like investments in early stage, high-growth Nevadan enterprises in the aerospace and defense, agriculture, energy, healthcare, information technology, logistics and operations, manufacturing, mining, tourism, gaming and water sectors. The firm was founded in 2013 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Relativity Capital
Relativity Capital is a private equity firm that targets control-focused investments in both traditional leveraged buyouts and distressed acquisitions. The firm prefers to invest in the aerospace, automotive, business services, consumer, defense, general manufacturing and healthcare sectors. It seeks to invest in middle market companies based in North America with revenues of between $15 million and $150 million and EBITDA between $5 million and $15 million. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.