Development Stage

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.

The Cambria Group - Investment focus: small and mid-sized sound businesses with established operating histories across a wide range of industries and geographies

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Xyte - Focus: capitalize on technology-based ideas, products and resources to maximize return on investment.