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Abundance Venture Capital  www.abundancevc.com Focus: private equity and venture capital investments for International investors who need protection of capital and tax-free returns.

Advanced Technology Ventures  www.atvcapital.com Investment focus: startup, first-round and later-stage investments in electronics, communications, software and health care.

Advent International  www.adventinternational.com Investment focus: companies at all stages of development, including early-stage, and in virtually any industry.

Affiliated Managers Group  www.amg.com Acquires majority interests in mid-sized investment management firms. Profiles the company, and affiliate products. Investor information. (NYSE: AMG)

All American Capital  www.aacapitalcorp.com Focus: venture capital funding using private placements and IPOs.

Allantra Venture Development  www.allantra.com Technology business management consulting services.

Alliance Global Investments Inc.  www.agiicorp.com A private equity investment firm providing venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, and export development services.

Almeida Capital  www.almeidacapital.com Focus: global venture capital research and advisory services.

Alpha Genesis Inc.  www.alpha-genesis.com Offering market analysis, due diligence, consulting and management services. Lists ventures, and presents the advisory board.

American Capital Strategies  americancapitalonline.com Evaluates and secures financing for middle market companies.

American Securities Capital Partners  www.american-securities.com Provides equity investments in privately and publicly held companies in numerous industries.

Amerigo Corporate Finance Partners, LLC  www.amerigopartners.com Venture capital services for small to medium sized companies.

Ampal-American Israel Corporation  www.ampal.com Acquires interests in and/or invests in a broad variety of businesses located in the state of Israel or which are Israel-related. (Nasdaq: AMPL)

Ampersand Ventures  www.ampersandventures.com Investment focus: early and expansion-stage companies in communications, information technologies, life sciences and specialty materials and chemicals.

Apax Partners  www.apax.com Investment focus: start-ups to later-stage buyouts in a broad range of industries, most notably healthcare, information technology, telecommunications, specialty retailing and new media.

Aragon Financial Group  www.aragon-group.com Investment focus: venture capital, financing and debt restructuring.

Arcturus  www.earcturus.com Focus: acts as managing venturer and marketing in corporate joint ventures.

Argonaut Partners  www.argollc.com Focus: acquisition of industrial and business-to-business, value-added distributorships, direct marketing, catalog and telemarketing firms.

Astrina Capital  www.astrinacapital.com Focus: venture consulting and financial advisory for early-stage companies.

August Capital  www.augustcap.com Investment focus: companies with strong potential to become leaders in important information technology markets

Axa Private Equity  www.axaprivateequity.com Portfolio management company focusing on all the aspects of capital investment and private equity.

B4 Ventures  www.b4ventures.com Focus: venture capital or investment capital for small to mid-sized fast growing businesses.

Bain Capital  www.baincapital.com Focus: venture and expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies in a wide range of industries.

The Bellwether Group  www.bellwethergrp.com Focus: provides strategy consulting, financial advisory, principal investing and acquisition capabilities to Southern California based high growth companies.

Bertelsmann Ventures  www.bvfund.com Investment focus: early stage, Internet centric, business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer.

Blue Point Capital Partners  www.bluepointcapital.com Focus: private equity investment firm that invests equity capital in middle market businesses.

Brockway Moran and Partners  www.brockwaymoran.com Investment focus: equity capital for acquisition recapitalization of middle-market companies.

Capital Venture Partners  www.capvent.com Investment focus: buyouts and venture capital funds.

Cardinal Ventures  www.cardvent.com Focus: acquire businesses that can be grown through internal means and by add-on acquisitions.

CDC Capital Partners  www.cdcgroup.com Private equity investors in emerging markets.

Churchill Capital  www.churchillnet.com Investment focus: middle market companies for buy-outs, recapitalizations, acquisitions and growth needs.

Clarity Partners  www.claritypartners.net Focus: private equity and venture capital firm focused in Southern California exclusively on investments in communications, media and related technologies.

CM Equity Partners  www.cmequity.com Private equity fund focusing on the acquisition of middle-market manufacturing, distribution and service companies.

Cogent Partners  www.cogent-partners.net Focus: private equity-focused investment bank that helps institutional, corporate and individual investors sell their assets in the private equity secondary market.

Commonwealth Associates  www.comw.com Merchant bank and venture capital firm offers services to corporate clients and investors.

Compere Associates  www.compere.com Focus: principal investor combining management, strategy and financing in acquiring telecoms, media, utility and financial services businesses.

Concert Capital Partners  www.concertcapital.com Investment focus: private equity firm that partners with the founders and management teams of profitable businesses experiencing rapid growth.

Convergent Capital  www.convergent-capital.com Focus: manages technology-oriented venture capital funds in France, Europe and Israel.

Cornerstone Capital Holdings  www.cstonecapital.com Private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations and industry consolidations.

Corven  www.corven.com An international advisory and private equity firm specializing in corporate venturing, providing experience and resources necessary to start new businesses.

Covalence  www.covalence.ch Focus: assessment of the contribution of multinational enterprises to human development in emerging and developing countries.

Crescent Private Capital  www.crescentlp.com Focus: private equity firm based in Boston investing in middle-market growth companies.

CrossBridge Venture Partners  crossbridgevp.com Investment focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies in information technology.

Darwin Venture Partners  www.schwartzgroup.com Investment focus: early-stage business development and financing connecting venture capital firms and Fortune 1000 opportunities.

DealPipe, Inc.  www.dealpipe.com Listing exchange and business resource that connects entrepreneurs and business sellers with a broad network of investors, business buyers and transaction partners.

Desai Capital Management Inc.  www.desaicapital.com Focused on sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations of proven growth companies.

Dimeling, Schreiber & Park  www.dsppartners.com Focus: private equity investments in a broad range of middle market companies having superior management teams.

Dow Jones VentureReporter  www.venturereporter.net Providing a database venture capital investments and investors. [Requires subscription]

Dragonfly Capital  www.dragonflycapital.com Investment focus: private equity investor and advisor focused on Southeastern U.S. businesses in the Life Science and Information Technology sectors.

DragonVenture  www.dragonventure.com Focus: cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company.

Edelson Technology Partners  www.edelsontech.com Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financing and leveraged buyouts in a broad range of technologies.

Edison Venture Fund  www.edisonventure.com Investment focus: proprietary technologies or unique services in emerging markets, generally preferring expansion stage companies.

EnerTech Capital  www.enertechcapital.com Investment focus: profitable service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace but will also consider early-stage.

Enterprise Partners  www.epvc.com Investment focus: privately held early-stage and emerging growth companies and selective leverage buy-outs of established companies.

Equilant Venture Advisors  www.equilant.com Produces presentations and diagrams that help entrepreneurial companies achieve success at key events, including venture funding, product launches, roadshows and customer sales.

EuclidSR Partners  www.euclidpartners.com Investment focus: exploit the accelerating changes and advances in healthcare and information technologies.

Falcon Seaboard  www.falconseaboard.com Focus: privately-owned diversified energy and investment company with global operations.

Financial Development Company  www.findevco.com Focus: assists companies with their venture and equity capital needs.

First Analysis Venture Capital  www.facvc.com Investment focus: all stages of development in industrial and institutional automation, knowledge and information management, outsourced and specialized services, specialty chemicals and materials, telecommunications and information technology, and waste management and natural resource efficiency

FLAG Capital Management, LLC  www.flagcapital.com Investment focus: manages limited partnerships through which qualified individuals, families and their trusts or foundations invest in venture capital funds.

Flagship Ventures  www.flagshipventures.com Investment focus: life science, information technology, and communications sectors.

Forest Hill Partners  www.foresthillpartners.com Investment focus: equity capital in management buyouts, turnarounds, recapitalizations, and growth financings.

Foundation Capital  www.foundationcapital.com Investment focus: start-ups in their formative stages, and all subsequent financings as a company develops, involving Enterprise and Internet Software, Communications and Networking, Technical Software, and Semiconductors.

Fox Paine  www.foxpaine.com Focus: capital for management buy-outs, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs.

Freeman Spogli  www.freemanspogli.com Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies.

Fremont Partners  www.fremontpartners.com Investment focus: established middle market businesses.

Friedland Capital  www.friedlandcapital.com Focus: venture capital and equity raising services.

Frontenac Company  www.frontenac.com Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses.

Fulcrum Partners Ltd  www.fulcrum-partners.com Offers training for those involved in all aspects of the venture capital and private equity markets.

FundingPost  www.fundingpost.com Raising venture capital by presenting to angel and venture investors.

Funk Ventures, Inc.  www.funkventures.com Investment firm with focus on venture capital, business acceleration and real estate.

Gabriel Venture Partners  www.gabrielvp.com Investment focus: funding through every stage of the company growth cycle.

Gaebler Ventures  www.gaebler.com Focus: early-stage venture capital investment with focus on information technology and business services companies.

Gemini Investors  www.gemini-investors.com Focus: investing in middle market companies.

General Atlantic Partners  www.gapartners.com Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies.

General Catalyst  www.generalcatalyst.com Funds breakthrough ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business building resources and strategic support.

Generation Partners  www.genpartners.com Investment focus: seed to late stage information technology companies in telecommunications, data communications, computing and the Internet.

Greylock  www.greylock.com Investment focus: all stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare industries

Gryffindor Capital Partners  gcpfunds.com Investment focus: emerging technology, growth equity and corporate consolidations in energy, information technology, manufacturing, diversified services, business services and healthcare.

Hamilton Robinson  www.hrco.com Investment focus: smaller, middle market opportunities in the areas of energy, utilities, industrial process and business services.

Hampshire Equity Partners  www.hampep.com Focus: invests in growth financing, buyouts, acquisitions, consolidations and corporate restructuring.

HarbourVest Partners  www.harbourvest.com Investment focus: software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buy-outs of operating companies.

Harris & Harris Group, Inc.  www.hhgp.com Venture capitalist investment company which supports private investee companies. (Nasdaq: HHGP).

HRJ Capital  www.hrjcapital.com Focus: raising pools of capital from individuals involved in professional sports and investing it with a small number of top-tier venture capital funds.

3i  www.3i.com Focus: leading international venture capital company.

2i Capital  www.2icapital.com Focus: investment and intellectual capital network.

IDG Ventures  www.idgventures.com Investment focus: information technology companies, preferring either seed or first-round financings, or very late (last before IPO) stage investments

IE Consulting  www.ieconsulting.co.uk Assists clients operating within the private industry with resolving day-to-day strategic issues, with emphasis on the venture capital and private equity environment.

Incyte Capital  www.incytecapital.com Focus: private equity fund which seeks value-added investments in small to medium sized private companies.

Independence Holdings Partners  www.independencefund.com Focus: private equity, venture capital and alternative investment products for high net worth investors, institutions and their financial advisors.

Industrial Growth Partners  www.igpequity.com IGP provides private equity capital for management buyouts in middle-market manufacturing companies.

InnoCal  www.innocal.com Investment focus: early and expansion stage, technology-based businesses

Institutional Venture Partners  www.ivp.com Investment focus: leading early-stage companies with advanced technology in information and life sciences, and selectively in later stage opportunities

Intersouth Partners  www.intersouth.com Investment focus: seed and early-stage life science and technology companies located near the Research Triangle and Austin

InterWest Partners  www.interwest.com Investment focus: full range of stages in information technology, health care and non-technology ventures

JAFCO America Ventures, Inc.  www.jafco.com Investment focus: communications, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors

Japan Asia Investment Company  www.jaic-vc.co.jp Focus: industrial sectors that improve quality of life.

JK&B Capital  www.jkbcapital.com Investment focus: telecommunications, software and information technologies, but will consider outstanding opportunities in other industries

J.L. Albright Venture Partners Inc.  www.jlaventures.com Investment focus: emerging companies with exceptional prospects for growth, strong fundamentals and superior products and/or services

JP Morgan Partners  www.chasecapital.com Investment focus: private equity for a global investment opportunities including management buy-outs and recapitalizations, venture capital, growth equity and equity to reduce excessive debt burdens.

Katalyst  www.katalyst.com A middle market, investment and advisory firm offering venture capital, investment banking services and business advisory services.

KBL Healthcare Ventures  www.kblhealthcare.com Investment focus: startup, early-stage and emerging growth companies in the healthcare industry, particularly medical devices, healthcare services and niche pharmaceuticals

Kestrel Venture Management  www.kestrelvm.com Investment focus: deals too large for most individual investors and too small for many venture capital firms - broad array of New England industries

Keystone Capital, Inc  www.keystonecapitalinc.com Private equity investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions.

Khazaen Financial and Industrial Consulting  khazaen.com Focus: company start-ups; early stage funding.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers  www.kpcb.com Investment focus: early-stage ventures, and includes the KPCB Java Fund

Kline Hawkes & Co.  www.klinehawkes.com Investment focus: later-stage venture deals, change of control situations and industry consolidations in California companies involving communications, technology or health care

Koor Industries Ltd.  www.koor.co.il Investment company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets.

KPS Special Situations Fund  www.kpsfund.com Investment focus: constructive investing in turnarounds, restructurings, bankruptcies, employee buyouts and other special situations.

Labrador Ventures  www.labrador.com Investment focus: early-stage companies seeking less than $1 million and involving digital technologies - information, communications, software, media/entertainment, and semiconductors

LeBonfante Group  www.lebonfante.com Focus: develop businesses and provide venture capital primarily throughout the Hispanic market.

Lynwood Capital Partners  www.lynwoodcapital.com Focus: acquiring or investing in niche businesses with revenues of ten to fifty million dollars.

Mac Investment Company Inc  www.macinvestco.com Focus: specializing in venture capital, private equity, and direct investments.

Madison Dearborn Partners  www.mdcp.com Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing.

Marcus Venture Consulting  www.marcusventures.com Works with early stage technology and technology-related ventures to bridge the risk gap, and help entrepreneurs and financers achieve their goals.

Maton Venture  www.maton.com Investment focus: technology-based, private companies at various stages of development

Matrix Partners  www.matrixpartners.com Investment focus: early-stage software and communications companies

Mayfield Fund  www.mayfield.com Investment focus: seed to second-round financing in companies with unique, information or healthcare technology-driven products and services that address well-defined needs in rapidly growing markets

MBC Dotcom  www.mybizcapital.com Venture capital and business finance facilitator and advisory firm.

MDB Capital Group, LLC  www.mdbcapital.com MDB Capital Group is a merchant/investment banking firm that is a NASD registered broker/dealer located in Santa Monica, CA. MDB invests via Reg D private placements in public and private companies.

Menlo Ventures  www.menloventures.com Investment focus: private communications, Internet infrastructure, software, semiconductor, data storage, and computer hardware companies located in the United States.

Mergenet Solutions Inc.  www.mergenetsolutions.com Focus: specializing in venture capital, management services, shell funding, private placement.

Mitiska Net Fund Europe  www.netfundeurope.com European Internet venture capital fund, based in Belgium. Company profile, team members, portfolio and news.

Moore, Clayton and Company  www.mccglobal.com Focus: traditional industries converging with new technologies, in particular healthcare, energy, entertainment, financial services, communications and education.

Morgenthaler Ventures  www.morgenthaler.com Investment focus: early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts involving information technology, health care or industrial technology

Mycapital, Inc.  www.mycapital.com Venture capital database and web application to help companies raise capital.

NCIC Capital Fund  www.ncicfund.org Focus: debt and equity financing for early-stage, technology based companies in Ohio and Indiana

Needham Capital Partners  www.needhamcapital.com Focus: manages investment partnerships primarily in the equities of later-stage private growth companies.

New Enterprise Associates  www.nea.com Investment focus: principally early-stage companies in information technology, medical and life sciences

New Era Partners  www.newera-partners.com Provides investor due diligence, business and technology consultative services to small and mid-size technology firms as well as the venture capital community.

New York Private Placement Network  www.nyppe.com Focus: financial services firm and an online global marketplace for all classes of private securities.

NewVista Capital  www.nvcap.com Investment focus: early-stage technology companies managed by minority and women entrepreneurs

North American Funds  northamericanfund.com Focus: acquiring or making substantial equity investments in small businesses with significant growth potential.

North Bridge Venture Partners  www.nbvp.com Investment focus: early-stage companies in software, communications and health care

Norwest Venture Capital  www.norwestvc.com Investment focus: startups, emerging growth companies, management buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations

Novak Biddle Venture Partners  www.novakbiddle.com Investment focus: information technology companies in the very early stages through first round, but also later-stage opportunities and spin-outs where they can add significant value

NPDC  www.npdcinc.com Focus: seek to identify, fund and nurture business ideas through participation of our members to create and capture new markets.

Oak Investment Partners  www.oakinv.com Investment focus: early-stage and selective restarts or recapitalizations of later-stage information technology, health care or retail companies

Outlook Ventures  www.outlookventures.com Investment focus: early-stage investments in consumer and business-to-business Internet services, intranet-based business applications, interactive tools, multimedia and telecommunications

Ovation Capital  www.ovationcapital.com Investment focus: includes Internet and mobile infrastructure, software, storage and data networking.

Pacific Century Group Ventures  www.pcentury.com Investment focus: all stages from initial private seed capital rounds to senior public equity financings in information technology, natural resources, real estate and special situations

Pacific Horizon Ventures  www.pacifichorizon.com Investment focus: technology companies involving healthcare or life science; early-stages in the Northwest, later-stage deals can be anywhere in U.S.

Pacific Venture Group  www.pacven.com Investment focus: broad range of stages (startup through consolidation) involving healthcare services and information systems oriented towards a managed care solution

Pacifica Fund  www.pacificafund.com Focus: Silicon Valley based seed and first round venture capital firm.

Palladium Equity Partners  www.palladiumequity.com Focus: private investment firm founded by experienced operating executives and investment professionals.

Parallax Capital Partners  www.parallaxcap.com Investment focus: acquisitions and investments in technology businesses.

Partech International  www.partechintl.com Investment focus: startups and emerging growth companies in the United States, Europe and Japan involving information technology, life sciences and business services

The Pembroke Group  www.thepembrokegroup.com Investment focus: early-stage funding for proprietary software and hardware technology, information technology and e-commerce investments.

Peninsula Capital Partners  www.peninsulafunds.com Investment focus: subordinated debt and equity to superior middle-market companies requiring capital to fund growth or other special situations.

Postidea.com  www.postidea.com Business financing marketplace for entrepreneurs and investors.

Primus Venture Partners  www.pri