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Accel Partners

http://www.accel.com/global/home

Investing in early-stage with little or no revenue, across the world.

Best success: Swedish Qliktech

VantagePoint Venture Partners

""We have nearly $4.5 billion of committed capital and since our inception in 1996, we have made substantial investments in Information Technology and Healthcare. We recently made a serious commitment to Asia with teams in Hong Kong and Beijing. Our expertise in these arenas give us a foundation of knowledge that is transferable and complementary to new industries like CleanTech. We were the first large venture capital firm to recognize the opportunity here and have since committed $1 billion for this burgeoning opportunity.""

Reinet Investments S.C.A.

Reinet Investments S.C.A. is a Luxembourg registered and listed long-term capital growth fund. The Rupert family of South Africa exerts substantial influence over the business and affairs of the Company. Reinet was formed out of the restructuring of Richemont, the Swiss listed luxury goods group.

Highland Capital Partners

Investment area:
  • Consumer Fund
  • Healthcare
  • Info & Comm Technology
  • Internet & Digital Media

Sunstone Capital

Nordic venture capital investor based in Denmark
Investment Focus:
Technology & Life Science

Matrix Partners

As an early-stage investor, we foster relationships by playing an active role in helping entrepreneurs build companies from ground zero. As part of our commitment to the success of clients in every stage of development, we place one of our partners on the board of directors of each of our portfolio companies. We are accessible, involved board members, continually tapping into the services of our strong network of contacts with customers, management teams and IT professionals in the service provider, equipment and enterprise marketplaces. Our active management style has helped entrepreneurs realize long-term growth and prosperity.

Kistefos Venture Capital AS (KVC)

Investment Strategy: 5MNOK to 30MNOK to each company as a sole or lead investor
Focus Areas: three focus areas are ICT, Renewable Energy and Financial
KVC's main investment activity is in the technology sector.
While we continue to make technology investments in Scandinavia, we are developing specific competence and a focused portfolio within the ICT, Renewable Energy and Financial Services sectors. Due to a convergence between industries, our focus areas are intimately intertwined, and we explore synergies among our investments in all of our focus areas.

Blue Chip Venture Company

Invest in early-stage companies. Geography – Focus on the Midwest and Northeast, while investing throughout the US and Canada when other investment criteria are met. Targeted Industries – Technology companies serving the media & marketing industries; healthcare companies, including healthcare services, specialty providers, and clinical-stage drug and device companies; software companies; and technology-enabled business service companies.

Ledstiernan

Investment strategy * To invest in start-ups and companies with roots in Sweden and Finland in the TIME sector. * The greater part of the capital shall be invested in mobile applications and mobile Internet. * Strategic and specialized "incubators" invest in early stages of start-ups within selected areas of technology. * To be the first external investor and partner to the entrepreneurs and take a significant holding in the companies in which we invest. * The portfolio companies shall be developed by means of active ownership by Ledstiernan. * Preferably a strong trade sale logic to industrial players.

Mobile Internet Capital Inc.

Technology Focus We focus investments on a single area - mobile communications and the internet. Geographical Focus We focus on businesses that serve the Japanese market. Note that this includes non-Japanese companies seeking business opportunities in Japan and Japanese companies seeking opportunities overseas. Specialist Technology Evaluation We benefit from the professional engineering and technical advice of NTT group companies. Finding the right business We make effective use of the knowledge and contact networks of our corporate shareholders (NTT DoCoMo / IRI / Mizuho Securities) as well as our 35 corporate investors. Emphasis on business incubation Venture businesses we invest in can expect active, hands-on support not only from our professional staff, but also from our 3 shareholders and 35 corporate investors, a true cross-section of 'Japan Inc.'.

Scandinavian Cap AB

Investing in Early stage mainly investing in Sweden or Scandinavian

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

""Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are passionately committed to helping our portfolio companies succeed. We know that it takes more than solid financial support to get a company off the ground - we help make things happen. We deeply believe that teams win."" ""We invest in early-stage and breakthrough ventures that have the promise to create new market opportunities.""

Intel Capital

Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investment program, is one of the largest worldwide corporate venture programs investing in the technology segment.

RRE Ventures

Information technology venture capital, New York based. Also Financial services venture capital. INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY: From RRE website: "RRE generally invests between $5-10 million in early to mid-stage privately held information technology companies. We typically seek U.S. domiciled enterprises that are completing product development and beginning to offer their products or services to a rapidly expanding and quantifiably large market. Of particular interest are companies that serve or partner with the Fortune 500."

Crossbar Capital

From Crossbar Capital website:

"Crossbar Capital in a venture capital fund investing in Software, Internet and Technology Enabled Services companies.

We look for companies with the potential to seize market leading positions through technical innovation that establishes new market segments, or by implementing business models that fundamentally disrupt the competitive dynamic within existing large markets."

Creandum

"Creandum invests both in companies with products and services on the market as well as companies that have just started."

Venrock

From Venrok's website: " The Venrock Investment Focus

Venrock investments span information technology, healthcare, media and energy sectors. While opportunities are viewed individually, elements common to all of our investments include:

  • - Capable management teams with an entrepreneurial vision, drive, and pertinent experience
  • - Products which address dynamic markets with high growth rates and substantial size
  • - Leading edge or breakthrough technology with a proprietary and/or a leadership position
  • - Thoughtful assessment of the risks of the target market sector and those inherent in early stage companies

We prefer to work with entrepreneurs and their enterprises in their earliest form. The majority of Venrock investments are seed or first round, and range from investments of a couple hundred thousand to $10 million or more. Second round investments are considered where there is demonstrated progress toward market leadership."

Atomico

Atomico is a risk capital group. We are entrepreneurs with a global perspective who invest our own capital in passionate entrepreneurs with powerful ideas. Through our experience building Skype, Joost and Kazaa, we understand the value of game-changing business models and have created a worldwide ecosystem to help accelerate the growth of the companies in which we invest.http://www.atomico.com/

MVI

PRIVATE EQUITY POOL

GLG Partners

one of the world's leading public/private investment funds;