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- 630 Most Active U.S. Venture Firms
From print resource, The Directory of Venture Capital. In alphabetical order, some with live links to firm websites.
- Accel Partners
Focuses investment of over $1.3 billion under management in just two areas: communications and Internet/intranet. Big names in portfolio: RealNetworks, Macromedia, Gigabit Wireless, Synopsys.
- Alliance Technology Ventures
Balanced investment program emphasizing communications technology, Internet infrastructure, e-commerce, and the life sciences. Focuses on companies within a convenient day trip from Atlanta.
- Apax Partners
Manages over $5.6 billion, and embraces situations from classic venture capital to later-stage buyouts. Covers broad range of industries, including I.T., Internet, telecom, health care.
- Atlas Venture
Invests in fast-growth, technology-driven markets, with a focus on business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce; internet software and services; communications; semiconductors; e-health; biopharmaceuticals and medical devices.
- Barksdale Group
Focused on applications and infrastructure that are instrumental in forging the Net economy. Special interest in broadband and wireless. Founded by Jim Barksdale, former President and CEO of Netscape Communications Corp.
- Battery Ventures
Invests worldwide in private companies within the communications, software and internet/e-commerce markets. Invests at all stages -- start-ups to buyouts.
- Benchmark Capital
Focuses on early-stage investing in application services, consumer devices, e-commerce (business-to-business, business-to-consumer, consumer-to-consumer), infrastructure services, networking equipment, semiconductor, and software.
- CMGI
Creating and managing the largest, most diverse network of Internet companies in the world, in four segments of the Internet economy: Advertising/Marketing, Content/Community, E-commerce, and Enabling Technologies.
- divine interVentures
"The Internet Zaibatsu." Founded by Andrew "Flip" Filipowski, the onetime CEO of Platinum Technology, focuses on B2B commerce in five areas: exchanges, software, broadband technology, Net appliances, and "for-profit charity efforts."
- Draper Fisher Jurvetson
High-profile firm investing in Internet/Intranet applications and services, optoelectronics/fiber, data comm/telecomm/wireless, e-commerce, bandwidth improvement, semiconductor designs, groupware, knowledge management, electronic design automation.
- eHatchery
Incorporates strategy of integrated capital investment, functional consulting, and active involvement, creating collaborative partnership with portfolio companies. Provides companies with customized turn-key support, as well as equity investment capital.
- Flatiron Partners
Located in the heart of Silicon Alley. Has established more than three dozen companies including some of the best known companies of the Internet Age -- Geocities, Industry Standard, theStreet.com, Kinko's.com, Kozmo.com, VerticalOne.
- Forbes ASAP: The Best VCs
When Forbes polled numerous VCs, investment bankers and entrepreneurs on who they considered to be the best VCs, the names mentioned ranged beyond the usual suspects and uncovered some interesting new talent. (5/29/00)
- Garage.com
Using the Web and its extensive network of professional service providers, Garage.com brings together high-quality entrepreneurs with experienced investors from the venture capital, corporate investment, and angel investor communities.
- Granite Ventures
Formerly H & Q Venture Associates, Granite Ventures maintains an early-stage focus.
- Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
First venture capital fund focused exclusively on software companies. Willing to invest in software-aided competitors that are leveraging the power of information to take market share from larger, more entrenched industry players.
- IDG Ventures
Invests in privately held, start-up companies in specific information technology markets where IDG's global resources and extensive experience add extra value.
- Internet Capital Group (ICG)
Focuses exclusively on acquiring interests in and building business-to-business (B2B) Internet companies. Famous for VerticalNet.
- JP Morgan H&Q
Finances "the new economy" -- e-business, e-services, consumer commerce, Internet media, applied technologies, communications technologies, systems and semiconductors, and healthcare. Formerly Hambrecht & Quist.
- Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Private high-profile firm with a network of companies that invest in Internet, enterprise software, consumer media, communications, semiconductor, medical devices/diagnostic, drug discovery/therapeutics and healthcare services and informatics companies.
- Matrix Partners
Waltham, MA-based financier with an excellent track record. Focus is on companies involved in networking/connectivity.
- Redpoint Ventures
Invests in broadband infrastructure, services and media opportunities for the next generation Internet and television.
- Sequoia Capital
Favorite investment candidates are companies operating in the electronic and healthcare sectors. Likes investments to be well positioned in new and very rapidly growing markets where the customers have great enthusiasm for the company's products.
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