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Offices: Palo Alto, California
Focus Ventures invests in privately held,
expansion stage technology companies. Focus
seeks communications and software companies
that have completed initial product development
and have begun the marketing of their products
and/or services. Most of the technical risk
is behind them, and they are seeking additional
capital to further expand their sales and
marketing efforts. Focus Ventures investments
are typically in the $3-15 million range,
although they consider larger or smaller
amounts for exceptional situations. They
serve as the lead investor in approximately
half of the rounds in which they participate.
Offices: Los Gatos, California
Formative Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based
venture firm with the management depth,
experience, and industry partnerships to
identify, invest in, and grow early-stage,
emerging-technologies companies: wireless
communications, advanced semiconductors,
electronic design automation (EDA) software,
and computer networking. Formative’s management
team brings a specific combination of skills,
made up of years of experience in areas
of corporate discipline.
Offices: Menlo Park, California
Foundation Capital isn't an investment banker.
There not obsessed with money. And because
of that, they're able to keep their focus
where it belongs: on the many different
facets of creating and building successful
enterprises. To that effort they bring their
own real-world experience at startups, their
contacts and a commitment to work at their
side to create a company they can all be
proud of. They'll see to it that you get
access to industry leaders, potential customers,
prospective partners, world-class board
members and candidates for key management
positions. And they'll do all that because
great people are what it takes to build
great companies.
Offices: Quincy, Massachusetts
While their venture experience is deep,
what truly sets Founders Fund apart is that
they have each started and grown their own
companies. They understand why people choose
to start companies instead of pursuing the
anonymous safety of working for others,
and they understand all the challenges and
rewards that come with starting your own
business. They have been through every stage
of the start-up process, from inception
to IPO.
Offices: Boulder, Colorado
Foundry Group is a venture capital firm focused on making investments in
early-stage information technology, Internet and software startups.
Their passion is working alongside entrepreneurs to give birth to new
technologies and to build those technologies into industry-leading
companies. They invest in companies across North America. Their current
venture fund of $225m was launched in late 2007 and is managed by five
managing directors. Collectively, they have almost five decades of
experience in venture capital investing. During that time they have
invested in over 70 companies as institutional investors and over 50
companies as angel investors.-Fox-
Offices: Foster City, California
In partnership with management, Fox Paine
specializes in providing solutions and capital
for management buyouts, public-to-private
transactions and growth capital investments.
They participate exclusively in friendly,
cooperative transactions with the aim of
creating tangible value for all parties
involved. Founded in 1997, their firm currently
manages more than $1.5 billion, and their
partner companies operate in over 30 countries.
Offices: Seattle, Washington
At Frazier Technology Ventures, they have
deep operational and multidisciplinary skills
gained through years of successfully growing
innovative technology companies. And because
they limit the number of their investments,
they can provide your company with an exceptionally
high degree of interaction and attention
through all phases of development. From
evaluating your core technology, all the
way through to the go-to-market strategy,
Frazier Technology Ventures has general
partner experience to guide your company
to success.
Offices: San Francisco, California
Fremont Ventures provides growth capital
to experienced management teams executing
scalable technology-based business models
in large industries. They are helping experienced
management teams build a new generation
of industry leaders by providing relationships,
strategic insight and ongoing financial
support. They invite you to browse their
site and listen to the people who know them
best: the entrepreneurs they've partnered
with and the board-directors they serve
with, talking about what it means to have
Fremont Ventures as a true partner.
Offices: Charlotte, North Carolina
Frontier Capital is a private equity investment
firm that provides expansion capital to
high growth service companies. Many of these
companies utilize technology as a differentiator.
They have a proven solution in the marketplace
and need capital to accelerate growth. The
firm invests throughout the Southeast and
Mid-Atlantic Regions. Investments are typically
$1 to $3 million in conjunction with a $2
to $10 million equity financing. Frontier
is seeking companies with $2 to $25 million
of revenue, strong growth, high gross margins,
and exceptional management.
Offices: New York, New York & San Francisco,
California
FTVentures invests in companies that create
software or provide business services that
enable financial institutions worldwide
to expand and to operate more efficiently.
Their goal is to build superior industry
leaders in order to earn a high risk-adjusted
return for their Limited Partners. FTVentures
has over $600 million under management.
Their Limited Partners are 38 of the largest
financial institutions in the world and
are leaders in the innovative deployment
of technology and operational solutions.
Offices: Santa Monica, California
Funk Ventures Capital Partners (FVCP) invests
in and supports the growth of highly promising
companies that can significantly impact
people, society or the environment in a
positive way. Using a flexible hybrid structure
of venture funds, managed syndicates and
its own capital, FVCP is able to take advantage
of investment opportunities at levels ranging
from seed to expansion stage. At FVCP, they
understand the entire scope of value-add
venture investing from start-up to IPO because
they've sat on both sides of the table.
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