Investors in United States

Mr. Benjamin Narasin serves as General Partner at Canvas Venture Fund. He was previously President at TriplePoint Capital where he oversaw seed funding investment activities. Prior to that, Mr. Narasin spent much of the early 2000s acquiring companies in the consumer Internet and e-commerce industries and providing liquidity to shareholders. Prior to his acquisition investment and consulting roles, he founded Fashionmall.com in 1993. Mr. Narasin's works have appeared in numerous publications including San Francisco Chronicle, Wine Enthusiast, Wine News, Health Magazine and various other consumer trade magazines. Mr. Narasin holds a B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies from Babson College.

This accelerator works with startups focused on building expertise at the intersection of humans and machines in areas that will revolutionize how we live and work including AI, life sciences and health, and data and analytics. Techstars accelerators have one goal: to help entrepreneurs succeed. During each three-month program, we surround companies with the best mentors and an unrivaled network of corporate partners, investors, and alumni. We provide funding and fundraising opportunities, workshops and curated resources, not to mention countless moments where you can learn from your peers. It’s a proven model that’s helped build thousands of successful companies, all over the world.

Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc. aims to be acknowledged by our customers as the 'go to' resource for improving America's competitiveness and as the 'best practices partner for entrepreneurs and businesses with a technology focus. We will deliver value added programs efficiently and effectively with a bold entrepreneurial spirit, and attract the best and brightest people to collaborative culture and landmark facilities.Specialties:Our mission is to provide services and resources to entrepreneurs and businesses and through collaboration with industry, academia, and government, helps companies innovate and compete, thereby strengthening our nation in the global market.

Reinvestment Fund is a national mission-driven financial institution that creates opportunity for underserved people and places through partnerships. We marshal the capital, analytics, and expertise necessary to build strong, healthy, and more equitable communities. To qualify for financing, projects must primarily serve persons earning 80% or less of the area median income or be located in low- or moderate-income census tracts. Projects that are eligible include those in the following sectors: rental housing, commercial real estate, supermarkets, K-12 education, early childhood education, health care. Loans must be for a minimum amount of $500,000 and a minimum term of 10 years.

MEDC is a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides lending to Milwaukee area businesses along with the six surrounding counties for-profit businesses. Our goal is to help you find the access to capital you need to grow your business, through technical assistance and resource referrals, while facilitating business investment that will benefit Milwaukee through job retention, job creation, and neighborhood stabilization. Typically, MEDC works with a bank, savings & loan, or credit union partner to provide the financing your project needs. Check with your current banking partner or we can refer you to a lender we have successfully partnered with.

Penn Venture Partners is a New Markets Venture Capital Fund, approved by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), that focuses upon growth and expansion stage venture capital investment within certain under-served markets located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It prefers to invest in the manufacturing, materials and material technology, printing, powdered metals, tool and die, agribusiness, environmental technology, computer hardware and software, interactive media, networking, educational products and services, control systems, industrial automation, energy, telecommunications, biotechnology and life sciences sectors. The firm is based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Founded in 2015, PeakSpan Capital is a growth equity investment firm with offices in Silicon Valley and New York City that focuses exclusively on growth-stage software companies serving the full spectrum of business buyers from small businesses to large enterprises. PeakSpan strives to be domain experts and thought partners in the next-generation of innovation within software categories such as human capital management, e-commerce services, customer experience management, security, app-centric data services, SMB services automation, "less for less", SaaS+, and app-centric crowd services. PeakSpan provides capital for growth, secondary investments, and acquisition financing.

REED Fund is a community development financial institution dedicated to providing financing and helping to leverage investment to make a difference in the region. REED offers loans that: promote growth; contribute to job, business, and wealth creation; improve the infrastructure and economic base in rural areas. The fund demonstrates cooperative principles of commitment to community and cooperation among cooperatives in a meaningful way that adds value to the local economy. REED Fund is a 501.3.3 nonprofit corporation and does not restrict its lending to members of a rural electric cooperative. Loans benefit retail, service, tourism, manufacturing, and technology sectors.

Longhorn Startup fosters interdisciplinary startup innovation at the University of Texas at Austin. Longhorn Startup Seminar is a lecture-based course for individual students wishing to benefit from the classroom sessions and who may have entrepreneurship opportunities in future semesters. Longhorn Startup Lab is an intensive project-based course in the spring semester that identifies student entrepreneurs who are building scalable technology companies and gets them course credit for working on their startups while still in school. These students receive weekly one-on-one mentoring sessions with successful entrepreneurs and free coworking memberships at Capital Factory.

Mr. Paige Craig is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner and Managing Partner at Arena Ventures. He received an MBA from National University in 1999. He is an experienced angel investor who has invested in over 110 startups in the last seven years, including companies like Lyft, AngelList, Wish, Postmates, Twitter, Styleseat, Zenpayroll, Quizup and more. Paige spent the first half of his career in the Marine Corps and US Intelligence Community and later launched a defense contractor, driving alone into Iraq in 2003 with just $10,000 and expanding operations across the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Africa and Southeast Asia. He also serves on Board of Rinse.

Empire Angels is a diverse group of millennials investing in early stage ventures with a focus on supporting young entrepreneurs. We’re training a new generation of angel investors - no bureaucracy, decisions as quickly as possible, collaborative diligence, and roll up your sleeve portfolio support but a long term view on return. We’re a group built on transparency, trust and cooperation, and very selective about who joins our ranks. We’re often the target market for the companies we invest in, and every member supports the entire portfolio, regardless of personal investment. We follow-on, support M&A, introduce to investors and customers, and are vocal, active users.

Founded in 2016 by Tracy Killoren Chadwell as an early-stage venture capital firm, 1843 Capital focuses on AgeTech - technology for older adults and their caregivers, and longevity. We invest differently - valuing diverse founders and board members - and we engage differently, with capital, counsel, and connectivity. 1843 Capital was named for the year Ada Byron Lovelace is credited with writing the first computer program. As the only legitimate daughter of poet Lord Byron, Ada found poetry in numbers and is credited with recognizing the full potential of Charles Babbage’s analytical engine. At 1843 Capital we wonder: “what would have happened if Ada was funded.”

TVC is a transformational, early-stage venture firm backed by world-class entrepreneurs and business leaders. We invest our capital, time, and network into fast-growing companies with global potential for huge, positive impact. Last year, less than 3% of VC dollars went to female-led companies and more than 75% of founders were white. We want to bridge the gap for those who aren’t born with a pre-existing network and community, making capital accessible to the best talent, regardless of race, gender or background. The Venture Collective is a gateway to creating equal opportunities for anyone with the will and determination to succeed. We are your infrastructure.

Mr. Will Smith serves as Analytics Consultant at Equator. Mr. Will Smith served as Digital Marketing & Business Development Manager at Logicalware. Having recently joined the team, Will leads the Marketing & Sales department for Logicalware, overseeing a wide range of areas including content management and various marketing campaigns. Having previously worked in the financial sector, heavily based in the customer service areas, Will’s insight into customer service gives a quality understanding of how the product can be used to its full potential. Will comes to Logicalware with an MSc. in Business Management with Entrepreneurship from Edinburgh Napier University.

Salesforce Ventures is the global investment arm of Salesforce and is focused on partnering with the most results-oriented enterprise technology companies at every stage in their journey. Since 2009, Salesforce Ventures has invested over $3 billion in over 400 leading companies including Auth0, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, Hopin, http://monday.com/, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Tanium, Twilio, and Zoom. Salesforce Ventures provides portfolio companies with unparalleled access to Salesforce, one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies in the world, including strategic advisory, customer introductions, and the strongest cloud ecosystem.

Sandalphon Capital is a micro venture capital firm focused on early stage (Seed to Series A) investments in the Midwest, South, and select other markets. It seeks to participate in early financing rounds, typically alongside angel investors and other early stage funds. It invests opportunistically across the United States but has a core focus on Chicago and the Midwest, Austin and the South, and select other markets. It prefers to invest in B2B, SaaS, fintech, real estate technology, marketplaces and niche B2C, hardware with recurring revenue, tech-enabled healthcare services, adtech and edtech sectors. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

We offer loans, investment products and services to low-income and underserved populations in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area looking to start or expand their businesses, with a special focus on women and minorities. Our products include:Credit builder loans up to $2,500;Direct loan $1,000 to $2,500;Small business loans up to $10,000;Credit line up to $20,000;Expansion loans up to $50,000;Real estate loans for business property up to $250,000;Assistance with developing business plan and financial projections, market access, graphic design, and professional servicesReferrals to partner banks and community loan funds for business loans and related assistance.

Mr. Craig Shapiro is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner at Collaborative Fund. He is an entrepreneur and investor at Collaborative Fund. He helped pioneer several mobile and interactive television initiatives in the US, including the first multi-carrier live voting in Super Bowl XXXVI. He currently is the Chairman of the Board at CreativeMornings and serves on the Board of Directors of Getable, Quarterly and Simply Gum. Mr. Shapiro also served on the Board of Directors for the Mobile Marketing Association. Previously, he was President of GOOD Magazine. Craig Shapiro received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.

Mr. Max Levchin is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Glow and Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at Hard Valuable Fun. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Affirm.He is the Executive Chairman at Upwards Labs Holdings. Mr. Levchin has Founded multiple companies including Confinity, Slide and Affirm. In the past, Mr. Levchin was a Founder & served as Vice President of Engineering at Google and Chief Technology Officer at Paypal. He earned his Bachelor's of Science from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champagne. He also serves as Investment Partner at Nyca Partners. He also serves as an Executive at SciFi VC.

ANZA Technology Network is a business accelerator that works with Australian, New Zealand, American and Asian entrepreneurs to access new markets and commercialize globally. The ANZA network consists of more than 5,000 industry professionals, primarily in the United States and China who can make valuable connections for tech entrepreneurs that lead to capital raising, collaborative partnerships and new customers. ANZA has assisted hundreds of companies since its inception in 2002. Services include market research, business matching and a "fast track" program to accelerate new market traction. Programs can be customized to suit each companies' specific needs.

Mr. James Patterson serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Eaze. He also served as the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Eaze Solutions. He co-founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer at CoTap. Mr. Patterson is a Co-Founder and served as Chief Technology Officer at Audio Case Files. Mr. Patterson is a Co-Founder of Get Fresh. He also serves as the Chief Product Officer at Yammer. He is a Board Member and co-founded Zinc. Jim has been a passionate entrepreneur for more than a decade, founding two companies of his own and serving as a founding member and chief product officer of Yammer, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2012 for $1.2 billion.

MDA Venture Philanthropy (MVP) is the Muscular Dystrophy Association's drug development program, which operates within MDA's Translational Research program. MVP is exclusively focused on funding the discovery and clinical application of treatments and cures for neuromuscular diseases. Adapting elements of the venture capital model, the MVP business plan is characterized by an emphasis on measurable results along with deep involvement by its scientific and industry advisers. MVP evaluates and makes targeted investments in for-profit and not-for-profit companies and academics developing therapeutics for neuromuscular diseases. It is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Mr. William Hambrecht is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at WR Hambrecht + Co.. In 1968, Bill co-founded Hambrecht & Quist, an investment banking firm specializing in emerging high-growth technology companies. He founded WR Hambrecht + Co in 1998, introducing OpenIPO as a means to level the playing field for both investors and issuers. Bill has served as a Director for numerous private and public companies. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for The American University of Beirut and is on the Advisory Investment Committee to the Board of Regents of the University of California. Bill graduated from Princeton University.

Blue Collective is an investment firm founded in 2015 and located in Brooklyn, New York. Blue’s investment thesis is simple: phenomenal people build phenomenal businesses. We like to be the first outside investor in early-stage venture capital companies. We invest in Pre-Seed and Seed rounds of companies across a wide variety of industries and categories (from cowboy boots to podcasts to fintech to enterprise SaaS to med devices). If you’re a phenomenal entrepreneur (or think you have what it takes to be one), reach out to us on our website (www.bluecollective.com), Twitter (@_bluecollective), or by email (blue@bluecollective.com). We want to hear from you!

Mr. Gottesman served as Chairman of the Board and Co-Chief Executive Officer of GLG Partners and a member of the board of directors since November 2007. He has been a Managing Director of GLG Partners since he co-founded GLG Partners as a division of Lehman International in 1995. He has also served as GLG Partners's Co-Chief Executive Officer since September 2005 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from September 2000 until September 2005. Prior to 1995, Mr. Gottesman was an Executive Director of Goldman Sachs International, where he managed global equity portfolios in the private client group. Mr. Gottesman obtained a B.A. from Columbia University.

Our belief is that the best ideas happen offline. Far away from the everyday. Away from the complexity of modern society and its mores. We exist to help founders find the space to create. To think big, original, and different. Then, to ensure founders and their teams stay healthy on the journey to take that thinking and transform the world. With the hope that along the way, beautiful companies are born that are driven by both profit and purpose while taking great care of the world around them. In the end, we believe the foundational technology breakthroughs that most benefit humanity are forged at the intersection of science, engineering, design, and art.

Dr. Michael Palmer serves as the Board Observer & Investor at HiQ Solar. Dr. Michael Palmer was a Co-Founder and served as the Chief Executive Officer at Vouchpop. Mike was previously Chief Technical Officer of the Web Search Division of Inktomi Corporation, which was a provider of Internet-scale web search results to partners including Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology, and was later a Research Associate in the Biology Department at Stanford University, where he used computer models to study macroevolution, with applications to robotics. He is an active member of the Band of Angels.

Wyoming Women’s Business Center Microloan Program helps entrepreneurs finance a startup or business expansion. Over the past 20 years, our Microloan Program has assisted more than 150 Wyoming small businesses and nonprofits with more than $2.5 million in loans. You must be a resident of Wyoming or your business must be located and registered within the state of Wyoming to apply for either program. We also work with local banks and economic development organizations to coordinate funding resources to help meet your business needs. A full-time loan counselor is available to provide guidance through every step of the loan or matched savings account process.

Lucey Fund, a venture technology firm that builds, sells and finances products for early-stage startups. Lucey Fund invests in entrepreneurs who understand their industry, but who have not done technology before. Lucey funds the acceleration of these startups by funding the development of their first scalable, secure, fully-viable product. The firm designs and builds scalable, secure online products for a range of different customers. Whether the company is a startup building a new Web Product, or a Blue Chip company building the next Big Data tool for an entire industry, the firm is able to build amazing tools, in the cloud, that fulfills requirements.

Mr. Ryan Born is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at AdRev. Mr. Ryan Born is Chief Executive Officer of AudioMicro. Currently, Mr. Born serves as Board Member at Los Angeles Venture Association, Investor at Internet Marketing Inc. Prior to this he has experience as, Vice President of Finance & Financial Controller at MediaVast, Inc, Investor at WireImage, Investor & CFO at NewCondosOnline, Inc, Assurance and Business Advisory Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Photojournalist at Ryan Born Photography. He completed education from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business and Emory University.

Ms. Susan Lyne serves as Founding Partner, President & Managing Partner at BBG Ventures. She is also currently the chief executive officer of brand group at AOL. In this position, she oversees all aspects of the Brand Group's growth strategy, including increasing traffic across properties, maximizing partnerships with advertisers and publishers, and attracting top talent, with a particular focus on content, design, programming, and product. Ms. Lyne is on the board of AOL, Inc. She is a trustee of Rockefeller University and The New School, and a former trustee of The Posse Foundation and The Public Theater. She also serves as the Advisor at LearnVest.

Mr. Edward Sim is a Founding Partner at Boldstart Ventures. He has led many seed and first rounds and helped a number of entrepreneurs successfully scale from seed to market leader including big data pioneer Greenplum (sold to EMC), 24/7 Media (public and then sold to WPP Group), Answers.com, Gizmo5 (sold to Google), Moreover Technologies (sold to Verisign), and Flashbase (sold to Doubleclick). Ed has a BA in Economics from Harvard. He started his venture capital career in 1996 with Prospect Street Ventures and subsequently co-founded Dawntreader Ventures in 1998 and founded Boldstart Ventures in 2010. He also serves as an Advisor at Chaac Ventures.

We lead with our values in all of our endeavors. We believe that collaboration - with our entrepreneurs and with our peers - is critical to your success and ours. We believe that diversity matters and leads to better decision-making and outcomes - 80% of our portfolio founders come from a diverse background, and almost 40% are female. Also, we believe in giving back - we are the first venture firm to commit $1,000,000 (5%) of our carry profit pool to the communities where our entrepreneurs live and work. Finally, we hold honesty and integrity above all else. These are the operating principles for Owl Capital and our commitment to you, our community.

Mr. Putorti is a Co-Founder and serves as the Vice President, Design of Brigade Media. He served as Venture Advisor at 500 Startups. He co-founded Votizen. Jason was the first designer hired at Mint.com in 2007 and held the leading role until Mint’s acquisition, when he became a Designer-in-Residence for Bessemer Venture Partners. He’s an advisor and mentor for 500 Startups, SV Angel, SSE Labs, and to many startups in Silicon Valley. In January 2012 he was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 for social media and mobile. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and was the youngest ever MFA candidate at Parsons School of Design.

Mr. Jonathan Ebinger serves as General Partner at BlueRun Ventures. He was also a Board Member at SaveUp. He focuses on communications, social commerce, and mobility opportunities. He also serves as Board Member at Coupa and Kabbage. His experiences include Vice President of Marketing at Qwest Communications, and senior level positions at Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions and MCI Communications. In addition, Jonathan founded and successfully exited Simply Savings, an Internet shopping service. He received his M.B.A. from Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, and holds a B.S. in Finance from Virginia Tech.

Lehman Brothers had been an active private equity investor since 1984. Since then, Lehman Brothers' investment partnerships have managed a number of private equity portfolios. The company's investment partnerships managed a number of private equity portfolios, providing opportunities in privately negotiated transactions across a variety of asset classes to institutional and high-net-worth individual investors. Its areas of specialty included merchant banking, venture capital, real estate, credit-related investments, infrastructure investments and private fund investments. Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in 2008 and is no longer in business.

Shire Strategic Investment Group was Shire's corporate venture fund, tasked with identifying and investing in external innovation that may bring new products to Shire's pipeline and which support Shire's mission to enable people with life-altering conditions to lead better lives. Further to that mission, Shire was focused on delivering novel, cost-effective therapies to patients with symptomatic diseases and significant unmet medical need. Accordingly, the SIG sought to invest across a broad range of therapeutic areas of interest including central nervous system/neuropsychiatry, gastrointestinal, orphan genetic diseases, allergy and hematology.

Open to founders of all backgrounds, Techstars New York City powered by J.P. Morgan is designed to provide equitable access to funding and support for Black, Hispanic and Latino, Indigenous American and Pacific Islander entrepreneurs building startups that aspire to make us healthier, happier, smarter and wealthier. In this sense, we are particularly excited to work with founders in the healthcare, health and beauty, edtech and financial inclusion spaces. Through game-changing investment and community partnerships, together we will take steps towards dismantling institutional, structural, and systematic barriers that often limit opportunities.

We at Immito are experts in small business loans. Immito is driven by a powerful sense of purpose on behalf of small business borrowers, determined to guide them to success. Our expertise, technology and willingness to understand our borrower’s needs allow us to help clients who may have been turned away by conventional lenders. We are an SBA 7(a) non-bank lender providing loans for small businesses across the country, with a diverse nationwide team of SBA professionals. We are backed by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, our parent company which has a history of stability, capital and unrelenting commitment to supporting communities.

AU21 Capital is a Venture Capital firm dedicated to procuring value for teams expanding the frontiers of blockchain technology. Our team brings decades of executive and operational experience at industry titans including Huobi and Galaxy Digital. Our business development and investment acumen shines through our portfolio companies, including partnerships with Astar, Axie Infinity, Injective, Marlin, Cere, Covalent, Casper labs, Serum, Fantom, Harmony, Iotex, Coin98, Polkadot, Star Atlas among many others. We also serve as trusted partners to sector-leading launchpads, and work routinely alongside top exchanges to bring products to market.

Mr. Mark Rosenblatt serves as Chief Executive Officer at Rationalwave Capital Partners. He also serves as a Board Member at Ensurify. He became Chairman of Violin in mid-2008. In 1999, Mr. Rosenblatt co-founded Premium Wireless Services, the first fully legal ringtone company in the United States where he served as the Chief Financial Officer. He has also worked as a technology investor at Lone Pine Capital and Omega Advisors, and consulted for McKinsey & Company. He has a B.S.E.E. and an MBA both from Yale University. He also serves on the board of Metara, a chemical metrology company focusing on the water and semiconductor industries.

Mr. Frank Quattrone is a Co-Founder & serves as Executive Chairman at Qatalyst Partners. He also serves as Foundation Manager & Trustee at Frank and Denise Quattrone Foundation. He began his career with Morgan Stanley in 1977, has advised technology companies since 1981, and headed the global Technology Groups for Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse before co-founding Qatalyst. Over the past four decades, Frank and the teams he has led have advised on more than 500 mergers and acquisitions with an aggregate transaction value over $650B and on more than 350 financings that raised over $65B for technology companies worldwide.

Chart Venture Partners is an independent investment company founded through a collaborative relationship between the Chart Group and InSitech, a non-profit commercial partnership intermediary for the U.S. Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at Picatinny Arsenal. The firm seeks to invest security related technologies with a focus on dual use products for government and commercial applications including communications, software, robotics, materials science, power and energy, semiconductor, photonics, imaging, sensor, guidance, navigation and control, biometrics, and geospatial imaging and services media.

ECDI is fiercely dedicated to assuring every entrepreneur - regardless of where they came from, where they live, their gender, or their race - has access to the funding and assistance they need to build a small business that thrives. We provide low-barrier, responsible loan capital for those entrepreneurs who fall through the cracks in the traditional lending system. We provide a variety of loans that range from $750 to $500,000. ECDI’s Business Incubation and Innovation Center (BIIC) offers a hub where you can find help from experts or learn to improve your own skills in topics such as finance, legal, marketing, management, and more.

Blue Chip Venture is a venture capital firm which seeks to provide the last financing round or pre-exit capital for early stage investors and venture-backed companies. It invests in late financing rounds of venture-backed companies with proven business plans in the digital media and big data industries that plan to be sold, recapitalized, or taken public within a target of two years. The firm prefers to invest in the new internet media, consumer marketing, software, healthcare, pharmaceuticals to traditional manufacturing sectors. It was founded in 1990 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio with an additional office in New York, New York.

GXP Investments is the non-regulated investment affiliate and wholly owned subsidiary of Great Plains Energy Incorporated. The firm focuses on opportunities in the customer energy solutions and energy infrastructure industries, and is open to attractive investments outside of these sectors within the energy value chain. Other areas of focus include energy marketing, environmental remediation, infrastructure security and renewables services. It primarily targets growth equity investments in revenue generating businesses that are primed for expansion and that can benefit from a well-capitalized, industry experienced, strategic partner.