A Big Corporation: Focus: relationships and strategy to increase your chance of acquiring capital.
Adams Capital Management: Investment focus: companies in the information technology, telecommunications and medical equipment industries that have experienced or are now experiencing significant discontinuities.
Advantage Capital Partners: Investment focus: venture capital and mezzanine investments in communications, information technology, health care/life sciences, special situations/regional opportunities, recapitalizations and management buyouts
Airam Capital Group: Focus: provides early-stage companies with transaction-focused services designed to create partnerships, generate capital and create merger and acquisition opportunities.
Alloy Ventures, Inc.: Focus: seed and early-stage computer hardware, software, internet and life science companies
Battery Ventures: Investment focus: early emerging companies in the communications and software technology markets in the U.S. and abroad
Bay Partners: Investment focus: majority of initial investments come in the first or second rounds in information technology, with reserves held for follow-on rounds
Blumberg Capital: Focus: early-stage venture capital to the evolving global information economy.
Boulder Ventures Limited: Investment focus: start-up, early stage and emerging-growth companies.
Brook Venture Fund: Investment focus: early expansion stage companies already generating revenues.
Canaan Partners: Investment focus: capital for growth across all industry sections -- information technology, healthcare and medical and otherwise -- at any stage of development, from early through expansion stage
Catalyst Investment Group: Focus: unquoted, but tradable shares on the AIM market of early stage growth companies that qualify for personal tax relief under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).
Chrysalix Energy Limited Partnership: Investment focus: emerging companies that are developing technologies, products and services within the fuel cell sector.
DCXWorld.com Ltd.: Clearing house for informal, early-stage, entrepreneurial investment. Based in the UK.
Earlybird Venture Capital: Investment focus: early stages of a company or during a phase of expansion while the company is privately held.
EdTech Ventures: Focus: branding, marketing, finance, business development and product positioning, capital acquisition, troubled business rescue and merger or acquisition.
Edward G. Jones & Company: Focus: help early-stage technology companies focus on finance, operations and the business plan to attract investment partners.
Fulcrum Investments: Focus: private early stage venture fund providing seed and first round financing for socially responsible startup and emerging companies.
Gamma Investors: Focus: assists early and middle-stage businesses by providing capital, strategic investor relationships and know-how.
GlobalMB: Investment focus: growth capital to emerging companies.
Hudson Ventures: Investment focus: early-stages to allow companies to diversify, revamp or expand operations.
Ignition Ventures: Start Up Advisors: Focus: start-up advisors.
IMS Ventures: Investment focus: early-stage venture capital firm that provides financing to entrepreneurial enterprises.
Inventures Group: Focus: early-stage, hands-on venture capital firm.
JumpStart Inc.: A business development organization that identifies and invests in early-stage companies in Northeast Ohio that are considered to have strong potential to become high-growth businesses. Includes company background, portfolio, and events.
Lovett Miller: Investment focus: early-stage, growth capital and growth buy-outs for companies that reduce business transaction costs while enhancing customer service.
M Group: Investment focus: new product launches, growth-oriented infrastructure or marketing development for Internet, technology and software companies.
New York Angels: Independent consortium of individual accredited angel investors focused on investing in early-stage companies in the New York City area.
NewGothamVC: A New York-based venture capital firm investing in communications and technology companies that are also located in New York.
Nucleus Partners: Focus: seed-stage venture capital firm formed specifically to enable success for seed, validation and growth stage companies.
Odin Capital Group: Investment focus: early and middle-stage companies engaged in information services, niche financial services and e-commerce.
RAIN Street: Focus: Regional Angel Investor Network (RAIN) funds are a vehicle for accredited investors to pool funds and become involved with local companies.
Silicon Pastures: Focus: a premier local network of investors and strategic partners for emerging businesses based in Milwaukee, WI.
Skyblaze Ventures, LLC: This VC firm seeks to play a role in the next generation of the Internet. It has funded well-known companies.
Summit Venture Partners: Focus: five-stage investment strategy that combines professional services and strategic investments to produce increased valuations and successful funding events for emerging organizations.
The Cambria Group: Investment focus: small and mid-sized sound businesses with established operating histories across a wide range of industries and geographies
The Gathering of Angels: Investment focus: potential high returns for the high-risk opportunities that are part of the seed- and early-stage investment process.
US Global: Focus: project development and finance firm, focused on enterprises with a high return potential in a variety of industries.
VCfirm.com: A seed and early stage investment firm specializing in e-commerce businesses which target the Asian market.
VenGlobal Capital Fund, L.P.: Targets investments in early-stage companies with a focus on software and communications.
Venturehouse Group: Investment focus: technology businesses at the very earliest stages of their development.
WWG Partners: Focus: assists early-stage companies in formulating and executing their business strategies and obtaining early-stage funding.
Xyte: Focus: capitalize on technology-based ideas, products and resources to maximize return on investment.