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Investment bankers who maximize value for entrepreneurs.  Placement documents written by best-selling author William Knoke.  Specialize in cutting-edge companies from startup to IPO.  Los Angeles, California.

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Investment Banking.  We are an investment banking firm that helps entrepreneurs in Southern California raise investment capital.  We are involved mostly in private placements, venture capital, corporate partners (corporate partnering), joint venture deals (JV), but get involved in your company if it involves a merger and acquisition (M&A), consolidation, initial public offering (IPO), a "private investment in a public entity" (PIPE) or similar financial transaction.

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Black Book Development.  As part of any investment banking project, you will need a "Black Book."  Depending on the deal, this can take the form of a business plan, private placement memorandum (PPM), offering memorandum (offering memoranda), strategic plan (strategic planning), or more.  Some clients ask us to help in investor presentations, road shows, or in developing PowerPoint presentations or financial projections (including cash flow analysis, breakeven analysis and financial projections).

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Industry Focus.  We particularly like high technology, leading edge deals, but consider assignment in a wide variety of industries that gives us an ability to provide a "cross fertilization" of ideas:  Advertising, Agriculture, Biotechnology, Broadcasting, Business Services, Cable Television, Chemicals, Comm. Equipment, Communications, Computer Hardware, Computer Retail, Computer Services, Construction, Consulting, Consumer Prods, Consumer Services, Defense and Aerospace, Distribution, Education, Electronics, Energy, Entertainment, Environment, Financial Services, Food, Franchises, Healthcare, Hospitality, Industrial Equipment, Information Technology, Insurance, Internet Technology, Legal, Leisure, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Materials, Media, Medical Devices, Medical Services, Multimedia, Natural Resources, Networking, Pharmaceuticals, Publishing, Real Estate, Restaurants, Retail, Semiconductor, Software, Transportation and Waste Management.

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Geographical Focus.  With offices in Los Angeles, our primary focus is in Southern California (Los Angeles County, Ventura County, Santa Barbara County and Orange County with particular emphasis on Agoura Hills, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Calabasas, Camarillo, Canoga Park, Carpinteria, Casitas Springs, Century City, Chatsworth, Culver City, El Segundo, Encino, Fillmore, Glenview, Granada Hills, Hidden Hills, Hollywood, Malibou Lake, Malibu, Manhattan Beach, Marina Del Rey, Mira Monte, Montecito, Moorpark, Newbury Park, North Hollywood, Northridge, Oak View, Ojai, Oxnard, Pacific Palisades, Piru, Playa Del Rey, Port Hueneme, Reseda, San Fernando, Santa Barbara, Santa Paula, Sherman Oaks, Simi Valley, Somis, Studio City, Summerland, Tarzana, Thousand Oaks, Topanga, Van Nuys, Ventu Park, Ventura, Weschester, West Hollywood, West Los Angeles, Westwood, Winnetka and Woodland Hills).

But we do get involved in projects in all 50 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.)

For international business or global deals, the founder of our Company speaks English, French, German and Spanish, and we have on staff Portuguese as well.  We have particular experience in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Mexico and Brazil.   

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Approaching Venture Capital Companies.  Many of our clients often come to us first, before approaching venture capital companies.  This gives you the best valuation, and negotiation abilities.  In particular, we can help you approach the following:

* JPMorgan Partners - provides equity and mezzanine financing for a variety of investment opportunities.

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* vFinance Capital - private merchant banking concern providing investment opportunities to corporations and high net worth individuals through equity investments in emerging companies.

* Carlyle Group, The - a private equity firm.

* Sequoia Capital - invests in technology components, systems, software, and services.

* Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (2)

* Primedia Ventures - focuses on Internet infrastructure products and services, mobile applications for communications and commerce, and business services software applications.

* New Enterprise Associates (NEA) - invests in early-stage companies.

* Draper Fisher Jurvetson - focuses on information technology businesses.

* Atlas Venture - early stage venture capital firm investing in communications, IT, and life sciences companies.

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* Katalyst - offers business advisory, venture capital, and investment banking services.

* 1to1 Ventures - invests in early-stage companies.

* 21st Century Internet Venture Partners - dedicated to opportunities born of the Internet.

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* A.M. Pappas And Associates - focuses on the life sciences industry.

* ABN AMRO Private Equity - partnership that makes equity investments in rapidly growing telecommunications, information technology, business services and healthcare services companies.

* Acacia Venture Partners - specializes in healthcare and related industries.

* Access Capital - provides access to private equity and venture capital.

* Access Venture Partners - invests in web-based business applications, e-commerce infrastructure, communications equipment and services, and semi-conductors sectors.

* ACI Capital Co, Inc. - invests in growing middle market companies.

* Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) - focuses on communications, Internet infrastructure, software services, and healthcare.

* Advantage Capital - invests in information technology and the Internet, telecommunications and media, health care and life sciences, and energy-related technologies.

* Advent International - focuses on telecommunications, software, business services, health care, and life sciences.

* Affinity Capital - invests in seed and early-stage health care companies.

* Agio Capital Partners - private investment firm interested in buyouts, corporate divestitures and growth financings.

* Allegra Partners - invests in Internet-driven telecommunications, software, and service companies.

* Alliance Technology Ventures - early-stage venture capital firm specializing in life sciences and information technology startups.

* Allied Capital (NYSE:ALD) - provides private investment capital to middle-market companies.

* Allison Johnson Venture Partners - invests in early stage biotech, Internet, and technology based companies in the Pacific Northwest and the Western U.S.

* Alloy Ventures, Inc. - provider of seed and early stage funding to computer, network, Internet, and life science companies.

* Alpine Technology Ventures - early stage investment in California-based information technology companies.

* Alta Berkeley Associates - early stage financing across Europe for information technology, media, and healthcare companies. Offices in London, Geneva, Boston, and San Francisco.

* Alta Communications - invests in service, software, hardware, and asset plays.

* Alta Partners - invests in information technology and life sciences companies.

* Altira Group LLC - focused on equity capital for seed and early stage companies that develop and commercialize technology for the oil and gas industry.

* Altos Ventures - focuses on seed and early-stage investments in high-technology companies.

* Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd. - venture capital firm investing in new technologies in the U.K. and continental Europe.

* American Industrial Partners - private equity firm that has been investing in private and public companies since 1989.

* Ampersand Ventures - invests in communications, information technology, software, life sciences, and specialty materials and chemicals.

* Angel Strategies LLC - offers funding for startup and early stage companies.

* Anila Corporation - focuses on business to business Internet and communication technologies.

* Antares Capital Corporation - investing in developmental and expansion stage companies in the Southeast and Texas.

* Anthem Capital - focuses on information technology, telecommunications, and life sciences companies in the Mid-Atlantic region.

* Apex Investment Partners - invests in information technology companies.

* Applied Genomic Technology Capital Funds - invests in start-up and early stage genomic information and technologies companies.

* Arbor Partners, LLC - focused on e-commerce and e-business companies.

* ARCH Venture Partners - providing funds for information technology, life sciences, and physical sciences firms.

* ARD Ventures - provides buyout financing to distressed technology companies with flexible secured lenders.

* Argo Global Capital - investing in companies that are enabling the convergence of wireless communications and the Internet.

* Arlington Capital Partners - private equity fund focused exclusively on the communications, technology, and information services industries.

* Ascent Venture Partners - invests in communications, software, and infrastructure technology, with a focus on entrepreneurs throughout the East Coast.

* AsiaTech Internet Group (ATIG) - specializes in high technology and communication industry investments, as well as the transfer of technology to Asia.

* Aspen Ventures - provides seed and early stage funding for information technology companies.

* Asset Management Company - provides seed and early stage venture capital.

* Athena Technology Ventures - invests in early stage global communications companies.

* Atlantic Coastal Ventures - provides venture capital for technology, broadcast, telecommunications, and industry consolidations.

* Atlas Venture - early stage venture capital firm investing in communications, IT, and life sciences companies.

* Atrium Capital - provides capital to emerging growth companies and select private equity situations.

* August Capital - invests in information technology companies.

* Aurora Funds, Inc. - venture capital firm that invests primarily in emerging technology-based companies in the Southeastern United States.

* Austin Ventures - invests in early-stage technology companies.

* Avalon Investments - offers capital to emerging technology organizations.

* AVI Capital, L.P. - partnership specializing in seed and early-stage investments in high-technology companies.

* Aweida Capital Management - invests in companies focusing on data storage, software, and the life science industries.

* BA Venture Partners - invests in broadband and wireless communications, Internet infrastructure software and services, and biotechnology.

* Bancroft Ventures Limited - offers stock loans and other securities loans for individuals and businesses worldwide.

* Barrington Partners - invests in early and seed stage companies in networking, Internet services and software, and digital media markets.

* Batterson Venture Partners - invests in the telecommunications and information technology, Internet, software, medical devices, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and advanced materials industries.

* Battery Ventures - invests in companies across the communications, software, and Internet/eCommerce industries.

* Bay Partners - invests in providers of wireline and wireless communications equipment.

* Bedrock Capital Partners - focuses on early stage investments in the Internet, communications, and healthcare markets.

* Beer & Partners - specializes in helping clients to find investment capital.

* Ben Franklin Technology Partners - promoting innovation and economic growth in Southeastern Pennsylvania by linking entrepreneurs and technology.

* Benchmark Capital - manages a venture fund focused on early stage investments in the information technology and consumer related domains.

* Berkeley International Capital Corporation (BICC) - investing in later-stage, high technology companies.

* Bessemer Holdings - private equity firm building the long-term value of the businesses they invest in.

* Bessemer Venture Partners - focused on building enterprises through investments in the information technology, healthcare, and retail market sectors.

* BG Affiliates LLC - private equity investment firm that provides capital to high quality, middle-market operating companies.

* BioAsia Investments - provides funding and consulting services to life sciences companies.

* Birchmere Ventures - invests in information infrastructure, e-services, telecommunication software, enterprise software, and bioinformatics.

* Blue Chip Venture Company - focuses on companies in the Internet infrastructure, e-commerce, information technology, telecommunications, and healthcare services areas.

* Blue Rock Capital - investing in high-growth seed and early-stage companies from New England to the Carolinas.

* Blue Water Capital - focuses on investments in information technology and services companies.

* Blueprint Ventures - dedicated to early stage communications companies building next generation Internet infrastructure.

* BlueStar Ventures - focuses on early stage technology, Internet, and telecommunications start-up companies.

* Boston Capital Ventures - manages private venture capital partnership funds in software and technology companies for individual and institutional investors .

* Boston Millennia Partners - providing early stage private equity financing to companies in the telecommunications, information technology, and healthcare services industries.

* Boulder Ventures - concentrates investments in information technology and life sciences companies.

* Brentwood Venture Capital - invests equity capital in start-up, early stage and emerging growth high-technology companies.

* BRM Capital - invests in Internet and communications infrastructure companies.

* Brookstone Partners - private equity investment firm invests in early and mid-stage, public or private companies.

* Burrill & Co. - invests in biotechnology companies.

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* Canaan Partners - invests venture capital, private equity and subordinated debt in entrepreneurial companies in the information technology, medical and healthcare and distribution industries.

* Capital Access Partners - technology investment bank specializing in the software, telecommunications, electronics, and medical device industries.

* Capital Across America - targets companies seeking second and third stage investments.

* Capital Investments, Inc.

* Capital Southwest Corporation (Nasdaq:CSWC) - focusing on long term equity investments across a variety of industries.

* CapiTech - invests in companies whose technological products and services are related to the energy field.

* Capitol Partners - leveraged buyout firm investing in fragmented, high-growth industries.

* Capstone Ventures - early-stage venture capital firm with a focus on technology-enabled service companies, primarily in the outsourced business service and health care markets

* Cardinal Partners Venture Capital - makes early-stage investments in healthcare, medical technology, healthcare services, and life sciences.

* Carlton Corporate Finance - specializes in financial restructuring and strategic advice including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and capital raising activities.

* Carlyle Group, The - a private equity firm.

* Carrot Capital - provides capital and management expertise to seed and early stage companies.

* Cascadia Capital - focuses on infrastructure and enabling technologies, wireless, broadband, and business services companies.

* Castile Ventures - invests in network equipment, e-business infrastructure, and Internet enterprises.

* Castle Harlan - makes private equity investments in a variety of industries including aviation services, consumer products, restaurants, energy services, and general manufacturing.

* Catalyst Group, The - invests in manufacturing, consumer products, media and telecommunications, energy and industrial services, and distribution.

* Catalyst Investors - makes private equity investments in traditional and emerging segments of the telecommunications, media, and related Internet industries.

* CCG Venture Partners, LLC - venture capital and expansion capital for highly profitable small private companies.

* CEA Capital Partners - provides private equity capital for growth and buyout investments in the media, communications, and information services industries.

* CeBourn - providing capital formation and transaction advisory services to a broad range of clients.

* CenterPoint Ventures - invests in communications infrastructure, business software technologies, semiconductor products, and industrial technologies.

* Champion Ventures - designed for professional athletes to connect with the Silicon Valley investment community.

* Channel Medical Partners - venture capital firm dedicated to making late-stage investments in the medical technology industry.

* Charles River Ventures - early-stage venture capital firm that works in working in constructive partnership with driven, talented entrepreneurs.

* Charter Ventures - provides venture capital for emerging growth companies in the information technology and life science areas.

* ChinaVest - provides investment capital and management experience to companies doing business in or with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

* Chrysalis Ventures - invests in the business services, telecommunications, media and entertainment, financial services, and health care sectors, with a focus in the Southeast and Midwest.

* CID Equity Partners - providing equity capital and strategic leadership to high-growth Midwest based companies.

* Clarity Partners - invests in communications, emerging media, and related technologies.

* Clearstone Venture Partners - providing early stage financing to technology companies.

* CMEA Ventures - invests in information technology and life sciences.

* Columbia Capital - invests in communications services and technologies, including software and hardware.

* Comcast Interactive Capital - $350 million venture capital fund affiliated with Comcast Corporation with a primary goal to generate superior financial returns from equity investments in companies in the Internet and other interactive technologies.

* Commercial Bridge Capital - offers short-term venture loans to emerging growth companies.

* Companhia Riograndense de Participações - venture capital invests in stocks or convertible debentures of little and midsized companies with fast growth perspectives and high profitability.

* ComVentures - focuses on communications technology

* Convergence Partners - focuses on communications, information technology, and business services.

* Coral Ventures - venture capital firm with focuses in healthcare and technology.

* Cornerstone Capital Holdings - private equity firm focusing on middle market buyouts, recapitalizations, and industry consolidations.

* Corpfin.com - private investment, public equities, hedge funds, and investment offerings.

* CPI Ventures - a private venture capital firm focused on seed phase and early stage investments.

* Crescendo Ventures - provides funding in communications and Internet infrastructure and services.

* Crest Communications Holdings - invests in companies providing services and technology solutions within the global communications and Internet infrastructure industries.

* Cross Atlantic Capital Partners

* CrossBow Ventures - invests in the information technology, Internet and e-commerce, telecommunications, life science and health care, and environmental industries.

* Crosspoint Venture Partners - initial stage equity investor with focused expertise in networking and communications, health care, and financial services.

* Crystal Internet Ventures - invests in Internet companies including software, hardware, access, security, content, and vertical applications.

* CVF Technologies Corporation (1)

* Delphi Ventures - providing equity financing and supportive business expertise to young biomedical and healthcare companies.

* Delta Capital Management - focuses on the health care, telecommunications, and information technology industries. Invests primarily in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi companies.

* Denali Venture Capital - specializing in biotechnology.

* Devers Group Inc.

* Diamondhead Ventures - provides seed and early stage investments.

* DICO A/S - primarily investing in high growth companies.

* Digital Partners Venture Capital - provides capital for early stage Northwest Internet and communications companies.

* DigitalVentures - specializing in the digital convergence industry, the Internet, interactive media, and supporting enabling technologies.

* DN Capital - London-based VC focused on European infrastructure software companies.

* Doll Capital Management - invests in communications, networking, and Internet companies.

* Dominion Ventures, Inc. - providing capital and value added resources to high growth private companies in the information technology, communications, life sciences, healthcare, and service industries.

* Double Impact - Silicon Valley venture catalyst accelerating the growth of entrepreneurial businesses worldwide.

* Draper Fisher Jurvetson - focuses on information technology businesses.

* Draper International - invests in companies in India and in U. S. companies doing business in India.

* Draper Triangle Ventures

* Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Private Equity - investing capital in private American middle market companies.

* DynaFund Ventures - venture capital fund investing in microelectronics, telecommunications and information technology start-ups.

* Early Stage Enterprises - focuses on information technology, computer software, Internet software and services, medical devices and diagnostics, life sciences, and healthcare services.

* Earlybird Venture Capital - invests in early stage or expansion phase technology companies.

* EasEnergy, Inc. - facilitating resource investment by Electricité de France in emerging companies in North America.

* East River Ventures - invests in information technology system architecture, infrastructure, services, and enabling technologies.

* Eastern Technology Fund - invests in companies located in the Eastern corridor of the United States

* Easton Hunt Capital Partners - focuses on life sciences, telecommunications infrastructure, industrial manufacturing and distribution, software, and energy.

* EastWest VentureGroup - invests in technologies, applications, and services for communications, information, commerce, and entertainment.

* Edelson Technology Partners - making technology-based venture investments in start-ups, later round, and mezzanine financings.

* Edison Venture Fund - specializing in private equity venture capital, expansion financings, management buyouts, consolidations, and secondary stock purchases.

* El Dorado Ventures - focused on early stage, information technology investments.

* Empire Ventures - invests in a number of segments in the software and Internet/intranet industries.

* encubate holdings - invests in wireless, Internet, and interactive television companies.

* EnerTech - investing in service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace.

* Environmental R&D Capital Corporation - invests in emerging growth opportunities in and relating to the environmental industry.

* Eos Partners - focuses on business services, consumer, healthcare and technology services, and telecommunications.

* Equity Ventures Ltd - manages two venture capital funds for expansion capital and management buyouts.

* Euclid Partners - focusing on first-round and startup investments in biotechnology and information technology.

* Evanston Business Investment Corporation-EBIC-Venture Capital - provides early-stage equity funding for growth oriented companies in the Chicago area, with a special emphasis on companies located in Evanston, Illinois or affiliated with Northwestern University.

* FA Technology Ventures - provides capital for information technology and energy technology companies.

* Facilitator Capital Fund - offers growth and buyout financing for manufacturing and distribution companies located in the Midwest.

* Fairfax Partners II - provides early stage capital to grow new businesses and supply comprehensive growth capital for later stage companies who are nearing self-sufficiency.

* Fano Securities - provides institutional and individual investors with access to private equity investments.

* FBR CoMotion Venture Capital - focuses on early-stage investment and acceleration services technology companies.

* FDG Associates - offers middle market financing to corporations.

* Fidelity Ventures - helping to develop companies in healthcare, communications, software, employer services, and education.

* Financial Technology Ventures - invests in financial services technology and electronic commerce companies.

* Flagship Ventures - entrepreneurship and venture capital firm that creates, finances, and builds companies in the life science, information technology, and communications sectors.

* Fluke Venture Partners - funds venture opportunities in the Internet, software, communications, specialty retail ,and healthcare sectors.

* Focus Capital Group - making early-stage investments in Israeli and Turkish companies.

* Forward Ventures - invests in biotechnology and life science companies.

* Foundation Capital - focuses on information technology.

* Francisco Partners - focuses on structured investments in technology and technology-related businesses.

* Frontier Capital - invests in Internet infrastructure, power management and provisioning, network security software, storage applications, and business intelligence and outsourcing companies.

* Funk Ventures, Inc. - provides venture capital to startup companies in the internet-technology, real estate, education, and entertainment markets.

* Fuqua Ventures - invests in life sciences and information technology companies.

* FusePath - focuses on investments in middleware applications, wireless technologies, and broadband companies.

* G51 Capital - invests in seed and early-stage software and Internet companies.

* Gabriel Venture Partners - focuses on information technology and telecommunications.

* Galen Partners - invests exclusively in private healthcare companies.

* GATX Ventures - provides financing for emerging growth companies in the high technology and life sciences sectors.

* Gazelle TechVentures

* Generation Partners - focuses on equity transactions including buyouts, growth build-ups, expansion capital and information technology venture capital opportunities.

* Geocapital Partners - providing equity capital to growing information technology companies. Investment focus is on early-stage companies.

* Global American Corporation - private equity investment firm that raises capital for small to medium sized businesses.

* Granite Ventures LLC - early-stage venture capital investments in software, communications, Internet, electronic publishing, and more.

* Great Hill Partners, LLC - provides equity financing and strategic guidance to companies in the media, information, telecommunications, and business service sectors.

* Green Mountain Capital

* Greylock - invests in software, communications, and healthcare industries.

* Grimaldi Group, The - offering investment services, global strategic thinking, and start-up coaching for Internet ventures and organizations.

* Grotech Capital Group - providing financing for early, expansion, and later stage companies.

* Grove Strategic Ventures - identifies and invests in early stage Internet companies.

* GRP - makes private equity investments in start-up and early-stage companies in the United States and Europe.

* Gryphon Capital Partners - funding promising technology oriented companies located in western and southern Virginia.

* HarbourVest Partners - seeking investment opportunities through new partnerships, secondary interests in partnerships, and direct investments in operating companies.

* Harris & Harris Group (Nasdaq:TINY) - venture capital firm specializing in private development stage and startup companies.

* Heller Capital - obtaining venture capital, creating business plans, business consulting, incorporations, and nonprofit formations.

* Hellman & Friedman - invests in management buyouts in media, telecommunications, technology, and other industries.

* Highland Capital Partners - working with entrepreneurs to create companies in software, communications and health care.

* Hoak Capital Corporation/James M. Hoak & Co. - private equity firm investing in the media and communications industry.

* Hook Partners - privately held firm whose investing in early stage Silicon Valley and Southwest high technology companies.

* Horizon Ventures - invests in early stage information technology companies.

* Hornet Capital - value added investment company specializing in helping small manufacturing companies move into the digital age.

* Howard Industries, Inc. - providing committed capital for exceptional closely held companies.

* Hudson Venture Partners, L.P. - dedicating expertise and capital to technology companies.

* Hummer Winblad Venture Partners - VC fund exclusively focused on investing in software companies.

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* Huron Capital Partners, LLC - specializes in funding equity buyouts, acquisition financing, recapitalization, and mergers.

* i-Hatch Ventures - provide capital and advisory services to early-stage Internet ventures.

* IDG Ventures - specializing in PC and Internet/Intranet hardware and software, advertiser and subscriber-supported new media content, and electronic commerce systems.

* Ignite Group, The - focuses on information technology investments.

* Ignition Corporation - investment firm focused on the wireless Internet.

* Impact Venture Partners - early-stage venture capital firm focused exclusively on Internet-related products and services.

* Incepta LLC - develops, invests in, and manages early stage, high growth telecommunications enterprises, actively supporting them with a range of resources.

* Index Securities - investment banking firm focusing on emerging-growth companies and institutional investors in Europe.

* Industry Ventures - provides early stage venture capital to companies providing software or services to corporate clients.

* Inflection Point Ventures - invests in telecommunications, information technology, and electronic commerce companies.

* Information Technology Ventures - specializes in early stage information technology companies.

* Inglewood Ventures - invests in early stage healthcare companies, primarily in Southern California.

* InnoCal Venture Capital - invests in early stage information technology, primarily in Southern California.

* Innovatech du sud du Québec - assists enterprises in southern Quebec throughout the start-up and development phases. Focuses on technological innovation.

* Integra Ventures - invests in seed to later-stage life science companies.

* Integral Capital Partners - operates partnerships that invest in expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies in the information technology and life sciences industries.

* Interactive Minds - providing early-stage technology firms with seed and first-round investment, business development, and management consulting.

* International Capital Partners, Inc. - provides expansion capital to smaller growth companies.

* Intersouth Partners - specializing in early-stage venture funding in the Southeast.

* InterWest Partners - focusing on IT and medical technology companies.

* Inventures Group - early-stage, hands-on venture capital firm founded by Eric Hahn, former Netscape CTO.

* Ironside Ventures - invests in communications infrastructure and information technology companies.

* Ironwood Capital - making investments in Internet, telecommunications, health care, financial services, and other industries.

* iSherpa Capital - focuses on wireless and supporting technologies.

* IVP - actively investing in the Internet and communications industries.

* J. Paul Buchanan and Associates - provides venture, real estate, and equipment lease financing to private and small public health related companies.

* J.L. Albright Venture Partners Inc. - invests primarily in emerging Internet, e-commerce, networking, and software companies.

* JatoTech Ventures - investing in technology companies.

* Jefferson Capital Partners, Ltd. - investing in growth financings, management buyouts, and recapitalizations of well managed, growing companies, primarily in consumer, health care and information services.

* JEGI Capital - invests in enabling technologies, infrastructure, and support services companies relevant to the media and marketing communications industries.

* JK&B Capital - investment focus is in telecommunications, software, and information technologies.

* JPMorgan Partners - provides equity and mezzanine financing for a variety of investment opportunities.

* KB Partners - investment focus is in the Internet, computer hardware and software, information technology, semiconductors, industrial and engineering technology and products, medical devices and services, and telecommunications industries.

* KBL Healthcare Ventures - invests in start-up, early-stage, and emerging growth companies in the healthcare industry.

* Kestrel Venture Management - providing capital and support to small, growing companies.

* Kettle Partners - investment focus is on broadband technology companies.

* Kinetic Ventures - invests in e-commerce, communications, and customer service telecommunications companies.

* Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (2)

* Kline Hawkes & Co. - invests in information technology, communications, and enterprise solutions.

* Kodiak Venture Partners - focuses on communications, semiconductor, and software companies.

* KPS Special Situations Fund - focused on investing in restructurings, turnarounds, bankruptcies, and employee buyouts.

* Kremen, Father & Partners, LLC - venture management firm focused on early stage corporate tactics and strategy.

* Labrador Ventures - invests in early stage technology companies.

* Lazard Technology Partners - focuses on early-stage investments in information technology.

* Levy Trajman Management Investment Inc. - provides portfolio companies the needed capital for growth while actively participating as a partner in setting the business vision and making day-to-day executive decisions.

* LF Venture Capital - providing investments for consumer product companies, including the fashion, houseware, and toy industries.

* Lightspeed Venture Partners - focuses on early stage investments in communications and Internet software companies.

* LiveOak Equity Partners - focuses on information technology and health care companies in the Southeast.

* LocalFund.com - matchmaker of entrepreneurs and private investors.

* Longworth Venture Partners - focuses on investing in early stage Internet, software, and IT services companies.

* Lovell Minnick Partners, LLC - provides growth capital and strategic advice to developing companies in the financial services industry.

* Lovett Miller & Co., Inc. - venture capital and private equity to rapidly growing companies in technology, health care, retail, and more.

* M Group - invests in Internet, technology, and software companies.

* Madrona Venture Group - early-stage firm focused on the Internet economy.

* Mainsail Partners - private equity firm focused on investing in or acquiring profitable, growing companies in the United States and Canada.

* Marc Bell Capital Partners - private equity and real estate firm specializing in acquiring distressed assets.

* Marcus & Millichap Venture Partners - focuses on early to late-stage venture capital for real estate technology companies.

* Mason Wells - private equity investor investing in growth oriented middle market companies.

* Massey Burch Capital Corp. - venture capital firm focusing on high growth investments in the southern United States.

* Maton Venture - VC firm investing in technology companies.

* Matrix Partners - a private venture capital partnership with an investment program focused on early stage software and communication companies.

* MCG Capital Corporation (Nasdaq:MCGC) - finances small- to medium-sized companies in the media, communications, and technology sectors.

* Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF) - nonprofit venture capital firm assisting independent news media in underdeveloped democratic countries.

* Medicus Venture Partners - invests in early stage medical and biotechnology companies in the western U.S.

* MedVenture Associates - specializes in the fields of medical devices, medical information technology, ehealth, healthcare services, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology products.

* Menlo Ventures - providing funding to early stage communications, software, and healthcare technology companies.

* Mentor Capital Partners - provides investment capital and leadership to private and public companies with revenues and market capitalization of $5 to $100 million.

* Mericom AG - provides services and financing for telecommunication projects. Its primary goal is to promote new technologies and to be active in emerging technologies.

* Meritech Capital Partners - focuses on wireline and wireless communications equipment and services, and Internet enabling technologies and services.

* Metropolitan Venture Partners - assists qualified entrepreneurs in the development of early stage businesses in the U.S. and Europe.

* meVC Venture Capital - empowers investors through news, education, and services related to venture capital, entrepreneurship, and finance.

* Meyer Duffy Ventures - focuses on companies offering service and software solutions for the management of corporate networks or Internet infrastructure.

* Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds - focuses investments on biotech, storefront retail, real estate, construction, and natural resources.

* Millennium Hanson - invests in Internet companies.

* Mission Ventures - invests in early-stage Internet and communications companies.

* Mitsui and Co. Venture Partners - invests in U.S. early-stage companies and works with management to build global companies, adding value through Japanese business development.

* Mohr, Davidow Ventures - MDV provides early-stage venture capital to information technology companies. Areas of expertise include networking, the Internet, enterprise software, and semiconductors.

* Morgan Stanley Venture Partners - manages a group of private equity funds that invest in high growth companies, concentrating on the information technology and healthcare industries.

* Morgenthaler - venture capital and private equity in information services, healthcare, industrial growth, and business services companies.

* motorskill.com - strategy combines venture capital and shared resources in order to bring incubated companies to the public market in an efficient manner.

* Murphree Venture Partners - invests in the Internet infrastructure and application software, life sciences, telecommunications, and optical/semiconductor devices sectors.

* NeoCarta - dedicated to building Internet technology and communications businesses.

* NetworkAsia - focuses on Internet enabling and wireless technologies. Offers investment strategy, guidance, and relationships.

* New America Partners - private equity and venture capital firm investing in companies that can benefit from outsourcing to China.

* New England Partners - invests in technology, healthcare, and consumer product companies.

* New Enterprise Associates (NEA) - invests in early-stage companies.

* New Vista Capital - invests in early stage information technology companies.

* Newbury Ventures - specializing in communications and medical technology companies.

* Newton Technology Partners (NTP) - early stage venture capital firm which targets information technology opportunities in the Asia Pacific, particularly Korea.

* NextPoint Partners - focuses on telecommunications, Internet, business-to-business integration, new media, software, and business-to-business outsourcing.

* Nokia Venture Partners - invests in mobile Internet related businesses.

* Noro Moseley Partners - invests in technology and medical device companies.

* North American Business Development Companies - specializes in acquiring or making equity investments in small businesses.

* North Bridge Venture Partners

* North Coast Technology Investors - focuses on software and communications technology investments.

* North Hill Ventures - invests in information technology and software companies.

* Northwood Ventures

* Norwest Venture Capital

* Nth Power Technologies, Inc. - specializing in the energy and communications fields.

* Oak Investment Partners - focusing on building significant enterprises through investments in the information technology, biotechnology and retail market sectors.

* ODIN Capital Group - invests in information services, financial services, and e-commerce companies.

* OffRoad Capital - creating a private capital marketplace where a community of individual investors can provide financing to established private growth companies.

* Olympic Venture Partners - provides venture capital financing to early-stage technology-based companies in the western third of North America.

* Olympus Partners - invests in business services and outsourcing, education, professional training, infrastructure software and information technology services, and financial services.

* Onset Ventures - working with entreprenuers to transform concepts into profitable companies in information, communications and medical technology markets.

* Open Prairie Ventures - invests in advanced materials, medical products, biotechnology, and information sciences.

* Opus Capital - provides emerging technology companies access to capital and operational expertise.

* Oresa Ventures - venture capital for private companies in Central and Eastern Europe.

* Origin Ventures - invests in front-end e-commerce enterprises.

* Oxford Bioscience Partners (OBP) - focuses on the bioscience and healthcare industries.

* Pacific Link Investment Group - investment company that focuses on Asian high-tech ventures and global investors.

* Pacific Venture Group - investing in high growth business opportunities relating to healthcare services and information systems.

* PacRim Venture Partners - invests in information technology companies.

* Palladium Equity Partners - private investment firm founded by operating executives and investment professionals.

* Palomar Ventures - early stage venture fund focusing on information technology investments.

* Parakletos @ Ventures - invests in business to business services and communication infrastructure companies.

* Partech International - invests in information technology, business services, and life sciences companies.

* Patricof & Co. Ventures, Inc. - private equity and venture capital investment firm with international network of affiliates.

* Pegasus Capital Advisors, LP - private equity fund manager focused on special situation investments (debt or equity securities) in middle market companies that have financial, operational, or legal problems.

* Pennell Venture Partners - invests in early stage business-to-business software and information services companies.

* Pennsylvania Early Stage Partners - focuses primarily on developing opportunities in information technology, biotechnology, environmental technology, advanced manufacturing, advanced materials and agribusiness.

* Petra Capital Partners - private equity firm providing subordinated debt capital to growing service-based businesses.

* Piedmont Venture Partners - invests in information technology and healthcare companies.

* Pinetree Capital - specializing in information technology, telecommunications, biomedical/biotechnology juniors.

* Pinnacle West Capital Corp@ (NYSE:PNW)

* Plantagenet Capital - invests in early stage technology companies focusing on financial services, global business to business, and infrastructure.

* Platinum Capital Management Inc. - Specializing in venture capital and private equity

* Point West Capital - provides financing to growing small businesses in the telecommunications and information technology industries.

* Polaris Venture Partners - backing entrepreneurs in companies developing information and medical technology.

* Power Project Financing 1996 - specializing in independent power, project financing, and power sector privitization.

* Prime Technology Ventures - business accelerators for Internet and wireless companies.

* Prime Ventures

* Primedia Ventures - focuses on Internet infrastructure products and services, mobile applications for communications and commerce, and business services software applications.

* Primus Venture Partners - invests in Internet, electronic commerce, telecommunications, business and education services, and healthcare companies.

* Prism Venture Partners - invests in early-stage and growth companies in communications, Internet business infrastructure, and healthcare technology.

* Priveq Financial Corporation - specializing in venture capital and private equity, with headquarters in Don Mills.

* Proma Investment - links investors, venture capital, and loans to finance start-up companies, financial reorganization, and other investments.

* Prometheus Partners, L.P. - offering private equity focused in recurring revenue service businesses.

* Prospect Street Ventures - focused on information technology investments.

* Providence Equity Partners - private firm that specializes in equity investments in telecommunications and media companies.

* Psilos - specializing in investments in early-stage to pre-IPO healthcare services, digital media, and Internet companies.

* Quadrangle Group - invests in mature and high growth media and communications companies in the United States and Europe.

* Quaestus Management Corporation - We manage a family of private equity limited partnerships which invest exclusively in information services and technology companies.

* Rad Ramot - incubator for Israeli high technology start-up companies.

* Radius Ventures - focuses on start-up and early-stage companies in the healthcare industry.

* Rand Capital Corporation - focuses on the healthcare, technology, and communications industries.

* Ravenswood Capital - investments are in information technology, software, Internet infrastructure, financial and business services, direct marketing technologies, and educational services.

* Red Rock Ventures - invests in early stage business to business Internet or ecommerce solutions companies.

* Redbus Group - provides financial, operational, and management support to British companies and individuals with entrepreneurial ideas.

* Redleaf Venture Management - provides funding and management assistance for technology software firms.

* Redpoint Ventures - venture capital firm focusing on Internet entrepreneurs.

* Rein Capital - seed and venture capital, management consulting, and recruiting for high technology start up companies.

* Research Triangle Ventures - invests in software, electronics, and life sciences technology areas such as biotech, medical device and medical services.

* Richards Investment Capital - specializes in investment capital for southern businesses.

* Richland Ventures - focuses on health care, communications, information, media, and entertainment services companies.

* Ridge Capital Partners, LLC - independently owned private equity firm focused on investing in small to medium-sized companies.

* Riverside Management Group - concentrates on early stage investments in technology and healthcare companies.

* Rock Creek Capital - focuses on information technology and financial and business services.

* Rocket Ventures - invests in e-software and communications infrastructure companies.

* Roser Ventures

* Rosewood Capital - investing in consumer-oriented growth companies.

* Rothschild Quantico Capital

* RRE Investors, LLC - specializes in information technology venture investments.

* Rubicon Capital Investments - offers services for small businesses and governments including strategic and financial advisory, financing of healthcare projects, and more.

* RWI Group - provides venture capital and expertise to early-stage, technology-based businesses. Specializes in software, Internet, and telecommunications companies.

* Sacramento Area Venture Capital Network

* Salix Ventures - invests in health care companies.

* San Francisco Venture Enterprises

* Sand Hill Capital - caters to the needs of growing technology firms.

* Sanderling - invests in biomedical companies.

* Sandlot Capital - invests in information technology companies.

* SBV Venture Partners@

* Seacoast Capital - invests in the manufacturing, distribution, service, healthcare, and retail sectors.

* SeaPoint Ventures - focuses investments on telecom and Internet infrastructure.

* Selby Venture Partners - focuses on seed and early stage technology and Internet investments.

* Sentinel Capital Partners - private firm specializing in management buyouts and growth financing in the U.S. and Canada.

* Sequoia Capital - invests in technology components, systems, software, and services.

* Sevin Rosen Funds - funds early-stage semiconductor, computing, telecommunications, enterprise software, and services companies.

* Shansby Group, The - private equity fund focused exclusively on branded consumer businesses.

* Shepherd Group, The

* SI Ventures - provides investments to early-stage IT-based and information-based companies.

* Siemens Venture Capital - targets companies in the fields of information technology, telecommunications, medical engineering, automation, and microelectronics.

* Sierra Ventures - provides financing to start-up and emerging growth companies focused on information technology and health care.

* Sigma Partners

* Siparex Group - one of France's leading independent providers of private equity investment and corporate finance services for SMCs.

* Skymoon Ventures - transforming ideas into businesses, and generating business plans in house, with a particular focus on semiconductors and telecommunications infrastructure.

* Skypoint Capital Corporation - funding pre-seed and early stage telecom companies.

* Snider Capital, LP - specializing in financing sports, leisure, and recreation early stage companies.

* Softbank Corporation (3)

* Softbank Technology Ventures - provides equity and equity-related investments in digital information technology companies.

* Sorrento Ventures - focuses on health care, communications, computer hardware and software, electronics, and consumer-related industries.

* South Atlantic Venture Funds - invests in the communications, health care, technology, manufacturing, consumer products, and specialty retail industries.

* South Source Inc Venture Capital - investment funding, debt and equity, for acquisitions or expansion of businesses in North America. Investors with preferences for ventures in your industry and size.

* Southeastern Technology Fund - focuses on information technology investm