Venture capital firms
Every venture capital firm in the register, with stage focus, sector focus, cheque range and headquarters.
22,273 firms · page 4 of 465
Clayton Associates
Clayton Associates is a venture capital and angel group firm which operates as a subsidiary of Aviv Financing. It specializes in seed, early stage and later stage investments. The firm operates under the platforms of Bullpen Ventures, FCA Venture Partners and Rolling Hills Ventures where Bullpen Ventures provides incubation services, FCA Venture Partners manages the venture capital investments and Rolling Hills Ventures is associated with the angel investments. The firm as a whole seeks to invest in companies operating in the information technology, healthcare, mobile app development, software and digital media sectors. It was founded in 1996 and is based in Brentwood, Tennessee with an additional office in Nashville, Tennessee.
GCVC (Green Cow Venture Capital)
Green Cow Venture Capital [GCVC] is an early-stage venture fund based in San Francisco and New York City. Green Cow Venture Capital invests at the seed and Series A stage into dynamic founders that combine unparalleled drive, talent, and diverse perspective to solve problems around scarcity and inefficiency in global markets, particularly leveraging technologies like AI, ML and robotics. While we like our founders to be tackling global market problems, we currently require them to have an entity domiciled in the United States (typically Delaware C-Corp). Green Cow Venture Capital is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.
Ainventures
AIN Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage fund that invests at the intersection of dual-use and deeptech, particularly the areas of healthcare, sustainability and space technology. Additionally, AIN invests in veteran-led startups (industry agnostic). The companies that we invest in are building technologies that make the U.S. safer, operate efficiently all while also having a strong commercial use case. We are a diverse team of veterans, entrepreneurs, technologists, operators and finance professionals that have come together to invest in world class entrepreneurs. Our military backgrounds helps us assess whether or not entrepreneurs have the leadership, determination and grit necessary to make a company successful.
Exponential Creativity
We’re an early-stage venture capital fund investing in startups that invent technology to maximize humanity’s creative potential. As society shifts from a paradigm of consumption to a paradigm of creation, Silicon Valley remains stubbornly focused on the commodification of content. By contrast, we see a historic moment for value creation in human-centered creativity platforms. Our investment thesis is focused on customers, markets, and use cases. Within that niche, however, we are able to invest across a wide range of industries and regions. Exponential Creativity 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.
IP Group
IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and create value out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.
A-Force Ventures
A-Force Ventures is an early-stage fund that invests in female-led consumer internet and mobile startups. We are proud to invest in and support some of the smartest and most passionate entrepreneurs who are creating groundbreaking products and services that make our lives better, more connected, and more fulfilling. 1) We focus on investing in startups with a female founder or who are active in female dominant marketplaces; 2) We target early-stage investments (seed and pre-seed) in the consumer lifestyle sector across travel, health, entertainment, consumer products, dating, fashion, and education; and 3) The key traits we look for in our founders are hustle, passion, curiosity, and deep market knowledge.
DiverseCity Ventures
DiverseCity Ventures accelerates positive social, economic, and/or environmental impact through entrepreneurship. We do so through two primary vehicles: • DiverseCity Ventures LLC, an impact-oriented venture capital firm, invests primarily in pre-seed technology-driven companies with large addressable markets, product-market fit, a dynamic founding team, and high probability of outsized returns. • DiverseCity Ventures Inc., a non-profit arm, fosters collaboration within the innovation economy while training, incubating, and supporting early stage entrepreneurs. We advise pre-seed and seed-staged companies and strive to close the funding gap that disproportionately disadvantages under-represented founders.
Forerunner Ventures
We’re more than just investors. We’re trendspotters, strategists, and advisors. And we’re more than that, too. We’re proud parents, style aficionados, wellness gurus, artists, dreamers, urbanites, nature lovers, chefs, gourmands, cinephiles, musicians, comedians, oddballs, wanderers, leaders, teachers, and learners. Our vision for tomorrow comes from our empathy for today. In an industry obsessed with trailblazing, we go one step further: We meet the consumer where they’re going. That makes us unique - and we’re here to share that insight with founders. When big thinkers are poised on the brink of transforming consumer culture, they become more than just founders, or CEOs, or investors, or entrepreneurs.
LaunchCapital
Mr. David Shen serves as Director of West Coast Operations at LaunchCapital. He serves as President at David Shen Ventures. He serves as an Advisor at Distribute. He is a mentor and strategist to internet/tech/mobile startups of all sorts, with a focus on product/UX strategy and development. He is focusing on investments in the Bay area and NYC. Prior to joining the LaunchCapital team, he was an angel investor since 2006. He was an early Yahoo! employee where he ran UX for almost 9 years and has worked on physical products at Apple and frogdesign. He holds BS degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Martin Ventures
Martin Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides capital, operational support and mentoring to early stage and start-up entrepreneurs within the healthcare and technology sectors. It provides services like strategic business planning and execution, board of directors and corporate secretary services, capital formation, structure and funding consulting, diligence preparation and review, investor relations, strategic partner negotiations, contract management, sales distribution, support and assistance, networking and business development, strategy design and execution for clinical integration and accountable care delivery. The firm was established in 2009 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Thomas Franchise Solutions
Thomas Franchise Solutions is a venture capital firm which specializes in growth, seed and early stage investments. It prefers to invest in companies based in the United States and Canada. It aims at accelerating the organic growth of the portfolio companies through unparalleled network of franchise resources, expertise, partners, and connections. Like private equity firms, TFS invests to provide predictable scalability and growth driven by recurring royalty streams. Like venture capital, TFS can also deploy capital for small strategic investments in emerging franchisors - early stage opportunities with maximum growth potential. The firm was founded in 2012 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.
Berggruen Holdings
Mr. Nicolas Berggruen serves as Chairman at Berggruen Holdings. Mr. Berggruen was born in Paris, where he studied at l'Ecole Alsacienne before attending Le Rosey in Switzerland. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Finance and International Business from New York University in 1981. Prior to Berggruen Holdings, he worked for Bass Brothers Enterprises on the real estate side of this family-held investment firm, as well as for Jacobson and Co., a leveraged buyout company. In 1988, Mr. Berggruen co-founded the Alpha Group, a hedge fund operation, which was sold to Safra Bank in 2004. He is a member of the WPO-Angeleno; a board member of Promotora De Informaciones, S.A. (Prisa) and Le Monde.
Disruption Ventures
Disruption Ventures believes that diverse teams fuel success. We know the stats and understand that women are particularly underfunded when it comes to raising venture capital dollars. We see women as high value and high potential investments. We also know from experience that building early stage companies is not easy, and that’s why we take an active role in supporting the companies we invest in. If you’re a female founded, high growth company in North America and looking for seed or Series A funding, we want to hear from you. Disruption 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.
Thomas A. Penn
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.
PeakSpan Capital
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.
Arena Ventures
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.
1843 Capital
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.”
Standards Australia Future Fund
**The Future Fund invests on behalf of Standards Australia in businesses innovating to improve safety, efficiency and quality across the economy.** Our strategic focus is to enable standards to play a central role in delivering best practice in innovation and the businesses driving it. We look for brilliant ideas, teams and technologies, which operate in sectors where the adoption and use of standards is critical to success; and in businesses with ground-breaking technologies that can positively transform standards-based knowledge distribution and practical implementation. We participate globally, in early-stage funding rounds, with strategic and patient capital
TVC The Venture Collective
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.
Salesforce Ventures
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
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.
Blue Collective
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!
Offline Ventures
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.
BBG Ventures
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.
Boldstart Ventures
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.
Owlcapital
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.
Joel Hestness
3 Day Startup (3DS) teaches entrepreneurial skills to university students in an extreme hands-on environment. In addition to supporting budding entrepreneurs, 3DS programs cultivate entrepreneurial communities that contribute to the growth of entrepreneurship ecosystems in the regions surrounding these university programs. 3DS was founded in 2008 at The University of Texas at Austin. Originally a student organization, 3 Day Startup is now a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The program has expanded globally to schools including, Harvard, MIT, WHU, Peking University, and other universities in North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
#1Seed
Founded by Raj Ramanandi and Lee Pickrell, #1seed is an entity that is investing in and helping to build awesome tech companies. We will provide seed-funding, mentorship and connections to other sources of smart-money and introductions to our wider international network. Typically, we are involved in rounds of £50k to £300k, and are generally looking at startups that have a product but are pre-revenue. We will invest personally in the range between £25,000 and £100,000 and help startups reach out for the remainder. Founded by Raj Ramanandi and Lee Pickrell, #1seed is an entity that is investing in and helping to build awesome tech companies.
James B. Stallings
The PS27 Rhea Fund is a $20 million venture capital fund focused on early-stage technology companies. Rhea Fund is seeking to invest in early-stage solutions in SaaS, healthtech, fintech, sustainability, and ecommerce companies that can scale rapidly. Rhea Fund also has an interest in founders who are women, veterans, and people of color. We invest in early stage startup ideas and businesses, supporting their growth with a broad range of expertise from a team of highly regarded professionals. Bringing selected startups into our accelerator, we work side by side with them to grow their business and help them realize their true potential.
Chart Venture Partners
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.
Christopher D. Brady
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.
Blue Chip Venture
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
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.
WARF Ventures
Since its founding in 1925, WARF has served the University of Wisconsin-Madison scientific community by patenting the discoveries of UW-Madison researchers and licensing these technologies to leading companies in Wisconsin, the United States and worldwide. In this way, WARF also facilitates the use of UW-Madison research for the maximum benefit of society. WARF distributes the income from commercial licenses to the UW-Madison, the inventors and their departments. Each year, WARF contributes over $45 million to fund additional UW-Madison research. The university refers to WARF's annual gifts as its "margin of excellence" funding.
Vestigo Ventures
Vestigo Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early to later stage financial services technology companies. The firm was formed in 2016 and is based in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm attracts entrepreneurs who are creating innovative companies that align with four core strategic themes: 1. Market Structures (e.g., financial markets, risk analysis, trading, crypto finance) 2. Operations Solutions (e.g., front, middle, and back office, block chain) 3. Worksite Management (e.g., companies and the gig economy) 4. Personal Wealth (e.g., investment products, financial planning, behavioral finance).
Atlantic Bridge
Atlantic Bridge Capital is a growth equity firm which specializes in seed, early stage, late venture, growth/expansion and buyout investments. It prefers to invest in companies based in China, Europe and the United States operating in the semiconductor, software, infrastructure, communication, big data, mobile, internet of things, virtualization, alternative energy resources, financial services, agricultural products, messaging and robotics sectors. The firm was founded in 2005 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Dublin, Ireland; London, United Kingdom; Beijing, China and Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
KohFounders
Mr. Bong Koh is the Founder at KohFounders. Previously, he has founded/invested/advised startups including Shift, Retention Science, Freshtemp, Bringhub, KonektData, Mobilocity (Qualcomm), IBY (Photobucket), Zofari (Yahoo!) and GradientX (Singtel). Bong’s venture experience includes Mucker Lab in Santa Monica and Advanced Technology Ventures in Palo Alto. Bong’s first startup experience was with Organic where he joined pre IPO in New York. Bong was also with McKinsey in Palo Alto and Los Angeles and Salomon Smith Barney in New York. Bong holds a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Concrete Rose Capital
Our vision at Concrete Rose is to create a virtuous cycle of wealth and opportunity with and for underrepresented people of color. We do this by investing financial and social capital into 1) exceptional ventures led by underrepresented founders of color 2) founders addressing the needs of underrepresented consumers of color, and 3) founders with a demonstrated commitment to creating inclusive cultures and building diverse teams. We commit 50% of our carry to the Concrete Rose Community Foundation, which drives resources to effective nonprofit initiatives working to close opportunity gaps for underrepresented talent.
Himarkcapital
Our inaugural fund provides investment opportunities in SEDI led early-stage businesses in growing and competitive markets, while also providing the support and guidance new and experienced entrepreneurs need. We invest in diverse entrepreneurial leaders who engage in our comprehensive approach to sustainability, which measures impact based on ESG standards. Good Growth Capital, HI Mark’s fund partner, is the most active venture capital fund in South Carolina and provides us with full fund administration services, and access to its team and network to assist in deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management.
Adastra
OUR MISSION We activate our capital, expertise, and resources to prepare visionary founders to successfully lead and grow their businesses. AWARENESS. IMPACT. ACTION. We unravel the narrative so that you can expand your perspective. AWARENESS. IMPACT. ACTION. The traditional way isn’t the only way. AWARENESS. IMPACT. ACTION. Thinking creatively is encouraged, in fact, it’s essential OUR MISSION We activate our capital, expertise, and resources to prepare visionary founders to successfully lead and grow their businesses. AWARENESS. IMPACT. ACTION. We unravel the narrative so that you can expand your perspective.
Brook Venture Partners
Brook Venture Partners is a Wakefield, Massachusetts based private equity firm. The firm prefers to invest in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It focuses on information technology business, which includes healthcare IT systems for both hospital and private practice environments, business productivity software and data intensive businesses in fields such as CRM, business intelligence and IT security. Additionally, the firm's industry focus includes tech-enabled service businesses, including data driven marketing services, loyalty marketing and other IT intensive service businesses.
SenaHill Partners
SenaHill Partners through its subsidiaries; SenaHill Investment Group and SenaHill Advisors, provides two complementary services of principal investing and investment banking. SenaHill Investment Group invests in early stage ventures that are using technology to disrupt and improve the one trillion dollar financial services marketplace. SenaHill Advisors comprises of a group of senior level executives with advisory and operating experience who have founded, scaled, raised capital, purchased, integrated and sold financial and technology businesses. The firm was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.
Wellington Management
Founded in 1928, Wellington Management Company is an investment managing firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm provides provides services to to high net worth individuals, banking and thrift institutions, pension and profit sharing plans, endowment and foundations, insurers, intermediaries and wealth managers, state and municipal government entities, charitable organizations, family offices and consultants. The firm invests in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap and large-cap companies. It launches and manages equity, fixed income, balanced mutual funds and hedge funds for its clients.
Donald R. Katz
Mr. Donald Katz is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Audible. Mr. Donald Katz is the Founder at Newark Venture Partners. He was previously a journalist and author for 20 years, writing five books and serving as contributing editor at Rolling Stone and other publications; his work won a National Magazine Award and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. For his leadership of the company since inception, Katz won the 2004 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for New Jersey. Katz graduated from New York University in 1974, where he studied with novelist Ralph Ellison.
Cleveland Avenue
Founded by Don Thompson, the former President and CEO of McDonald’s Corporation, Cleveland Avenue is a Chicago-based venture capital firm that invests in lifestyle consumer brands and technology companies that positively disrupt large and growing markets. Launched in 2021, the CAST US Fund is a $70M initiative that will bridge the capital and resource gap impacting Black, Latinx, and women entrepreneurs in Chicago’s South and West Side neighborhoods. CAST US leverages the investment and entrepreneurial development expertise of Cleveland Avenue to support this historically underserved group of entrepreneurs.
Timberline Venture Partners
Timberline Venture Partners is a venture capital firm which specializes in early stage and start-up investments. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the United States, operating in the biotechnology, business and consumer products, computer hardware, financial services, healthcare, IT services, industrial and energy products, media and entertainment, medical equipment, networking, retailing and distribution, semiconductors, software, telecommunications and real estate sectors. The firm is based in Woodland, Washington with additional offices in Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, Washington.
Velocity Equity Partners
Velocity Equity Partners is a venture capital firm investing in early stage companies primarily in the northeast region of United States. The firm seeks to invest in the enterprise software, communications infrastructure, wireless applications, niche vertical software applications, silicon and hardware technology, sensors, process control and applications of technologies to manufacturing processes and industrial products sectors. The firm was founded in 2000 by the merging of the two venture investment groups Velocity Capital and Corning Technology Ventures. The firm is located in Boston, Massachusetts.
The W Fund
The W Fund is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, Washington and was founded in 2012. The firm seeks to invest in the technology-based companies with a focus on life sciences, software, information technology, engineering and clean technology sectors. It seeks to invest in companies spinning out from the University of Washington or one of Washington's other universities and research institutions, including Washington State University, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Biomed and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.