Investment focus: accelerating the development of life science companies, products and related technologies.

Focus: venture capital investor on both sides of the Atlantic, specialising in early-stage life science companies.

Investment focus: business services, communications, information technology and healthcare services companies with new products and services that address large existing markets.

Investment focus: management buy-outs, expansion financing and recapitalization in technology, business services, media communications and health care.

Investment focus: early stage opportunities in information technology and health care.

Investment focus: growth capital and acquisition opportunities in the information services industry and early-stage investments in Internet and e-commerce companies.

Focus: production company with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Montreal seeking equity investments in several slates of quality motion pictures.

Investment focus: insurance and healthcare technology.

Investment focus: information technology and life sciences startups with a focus on the Southeast U.S.

Investment focus: high growth information technologies and life sciences companies.

Investment focus: early-stage startups in the communications area and particularly optical communications.

Investment focus: seed and early-stage ventures involving information technology, life sciences or physical sciences.

Investment focus: companies that are enabling the convergence of wireless communications and the Internet.

Focused on companies in chemical, general industrial, and healthcare sectors. Features portfolio of companies and press releases.

Investment focus: seed and early-stage information technology companies with proprietary and leading-edge technologies.

Focus: early stage funding in the e-commerce, communications, networking, Internet, information technology and semiconductors areas.

Investment focus: information technology and life sciences sectors.

Investment focus: seed and early-stage high-technology companies positioned for growth segments of the Information Technologies market.

Investment focus: early-stage companies in the global communications industry.

Investment focus: early- and late-stage information technology and life sciences in Europe and the US.

Invests in and helps develop privately held ventures in the media, communications and information services industries.

Focus: strategic investments and corporate acquisitions in the healthcare and technology sectors.

Focus: venture development group and venture capitalist seeking early-stage opportunities in microtechnology and nanotechnology.

Focus: investing in early stage companies in broadband and wireless communications, software and biotechnology areas.

Investment focus: early stage companies in the communications, information technology, and healthcare industries.

Focus: leveraged buy-outs, recapitalizations, industry consolidations in telecommunications, transportation, business services and manufacturing.

Investment focus: entrepreneurial companies in healthcare, information systems, telecommunications and retailing.

Investment focus: U.S. life sciences companies with late-stage products and/or platform technologies.

Investment focus: small private growth companies and/or under-represented small-cap public companies.

Investment focus: start-ups in Internet infrastructure, e-commerce, information technology, telecommunications and healthcare services areas.

Investment focus: information technology, Internet technology, optoelectronics-fiber optics and new media.

Investment focus: expansion-stage technology and services companies, including software, Internet, Intranet, e-commerce, telecommunications and multimedia companies.

Early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging communications and internet infrastructure companies.

Investment focus: early-stage information technology and life sciences industry sectors.

Focus: venture development company working with start-up and early-stage companies principally in the health, beauty and entertainment industries.

Investment focus: start-up and early stage Internet, software and healthcare companies.

Focus: identifies and evaluates growing companies that have the potential to achieve leadership positions within their industries.

Investment focus: information technology, communications and digital media companies or companies driven by developments in these industries.

Investment focus: early-stage e-health and information technology, health care services and life sciences.

Investment focus: early stage investments in the telecommunications and semiconductor industry.

Investment focus: help technology and media sector companies start, grow, and develop.

Investment focus: seed, startup or late stage opportunities involving electronic communications.

Focus: investments in insurance, financial services and related business services.

Focus: late-stage investments in the medical technology industry.

Investment focus: seed and early-stage deals, turnarounds, industry consolidations and buy-outs in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas

Focus: high technology investments in information technologies and life sciences.

Invests in middle-market companies that manufacture and distribute a broad array of consumer and industrial products.

Investment focus: communications and information technology firms at a variety of stages.

Focus: invests in emerging, high-growth potential companies with a focus on science and technology.

Investment focus: exclusively early-stage communications companies

Investment focus: early-stage companies in the communications, information technology and semiconductor sectors.

Investment focus: emerging and early-stage companies in the technology and healthcare industries.

Focus: private equity investment firm which makes controlling investments in middle-market manufacturing and distribution businesses.

Focus: early-stage investment opportunities in the communications and e-business fields.

Focus: private equity investment in the global infrastructure industry.

Focus: investments in information technology start-ups and strategic alliances with major information technology companies in the US, Europe and Japan.

Focus: investing in Western European companies in hardware, software and services in and around communications infrastructure.

Focus: creates and grows market-transforming ventures.

Focus: early-stage funding in communications and Internet companies.

Investment focus: favors early-stage life sciences ventures

Investment focus: private companies in information technology, communications, life sciences, healthcare and service industries.

Investment focus: early-stage information technology businesses with market potential.

Investment focus: early-stage companies in microelectronics, telecommunications and information technology.

Investment focus: specialists in arranging long term finance for hotels, from £1m to £25m.

Investment focus: information technologies including communications, media, software and healthcare.

Investment focus: primarily West Coast early-stage technology-based ventures, mainly information technologies

Focus: invests in US and Japan network and Internet venture companies as a strategic partner.

Investment focus: seed and early-stage technology companies involving healthcare, software or the environment.

Investment focus: healthcare, communications, software, employer services, and education.

Assists investors who seek viable film projects and producers who seek financing.

Provides capital to firms that create technology applications of interest to the financial services industry.

Investment focus: film, entertainment, and media.

Investment focus: all stage financing to healthcare and information technology companies in the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest.

Investment focus: expansion-stage information technology, telecommunications and medical technology companies located in the Midwest.

Investment focus: growing information technology firms.

Investment focus: start-up and early stage companies in the investment advisory and money management community.

Focus: funding, industry knowledge and a global network of resources to early-stage information technology companies

Focus: venture capital firm in Latin America and the Caribbean that invests in health and medical service companies.

Investment focus: start-up and early-stage companies in the US and Europe that leverage technology for distribution of goods and services.

Investment focus: seed and early-stage information technology companies.

Investment focus: seed and early-stage west coast companies involving telecommunications and related fields

Focus: investing in management buyouts in media, telecommunications, financial services, technology and marketing.

Investment focus: information technology and healthcare companies.

Investment focus: technology, healthcare, business services, education and training companies.

Investment focus: later stage companies in the business services, media and communications industries.

Investment focus: Companies whose technological products and services are related to the energy field.

Investment focus: high-growth businesses developing innovative products and services in the information and electronic technology areas.

Investment focus: private equity capital fund dedicated to investing in industrial minerals businesses.

Investment focus: early-stage companies offering information technology products and services.

Investment focus: early stage and seed companies in healthcare and wireless technology.

Investment focus: expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies in the information technology and life sciences industries.

Focus: specialized advisor for mergers, acquisitions and strategic finance in the information technology sector.

Focus: teams with entrepreneurs to create successful new companies that are technology-based ventures in e-commerce, communications and health care.

Focus: early-stage venture capital and angel investing organization focusing on Internet financing, e-commerce and entrepreneurial companies.

Focus: early-stage investments in communications and Internet companies in Israel, the US and Europe.

Investment focus: high growth information technology companies in Europe and the USA.

Investment focus: emerging stage companies that enable telecommunications, new media and the Internet.

Investment focus: communications, Internet, and customer service companies.

Focus: acquires and operates growth businesses in partnership with management focusing on manufacturing and value-added distribution businesses.

Provides grouth capital and global sourcing for consumer product companies.

Investment focus: early-stage companies involving e-commerce, Internet media, enterprise software and information technology services.

Focus: subsidiary of Lucent Technologies invests in early-stage technology companies in high-growth communications areas.

Investment focus: early-stage communications and related information technology companies.

Focus: early to late stage venture funding for real estate technology companies.

Investment focus: early-stage and emerging growth companies in consumer and business services, healthcare, and technology.

Investment focus is on communications network and service opportunities.

Focus: pursues late-stage traditional growth companies as well as co-investments in corporate buy-outs and spin-offs of information technology companies.

Focus: broad-based venture capital and advisory company dedicated to the life sciences sector.

Investment focus: early-stage companies with a strong information technology component.

Private equity and mezzanine financing primarily for energy related projects.

Focus: invests primarily in early-stage technology and healthcare.

Focus: private equity firm specializing in the business services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and information, and telecommunications services industries.

Focus: companies with revolutionary technology that is ready for commercialization.

Investment focus: early-stage technology and telecommunications companies.

Focus: media advisory firm that works with entrepreneurs and companies that are developing new ventures in both "traditional" media (cable/satellite programming and distribution) and/or "new media" (the Internet and Broadband).

Equity capital firm specializes in communications and information technology industries.

Focus: investment capital for growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations and buyouts of manufactured homes, golf and leisure businesses.

Focus: Profitable companies with less than $15MM in revenues in niche markets.

Focus: equity investments in real estate, leveraged buy-outs and growth companies.

Investment focus: startups in information, communications and medical technologies.

Investment focus: companies in the consumer goods, retailing and distribution, health care and pharmaceutical sectors in Central and Eastern Europe.

Investment focus: early-stage and expansion-stage companies in the business and consumer technology marketplace.

Focus: equity financing and management assistance to start-up and early-stage companies in the bioscience and healthcare industries.

Specializing in venture financing, leveraged buyouts, growth financing. Focus on broadcasting, technology infrastructure, and manufacturing and services. Features protfolio and links to resources.

Focus: investments in early-stage information technology companies in Silicon Valley.

Focus: start-up and early-stage investments in information technology companies.

Investment focus: early-stage companies developing information and medical technology

Focus: venture investment and advisory firm focused on the information services industry.

Investment focus: early-stage Internet companies and other technology opportunities in such areas as commerce services, enterprise software applications, distance learning and advertising-related technologies.

Focus: equity investments in start-up, early-stage and growth companies in the communications, Internet and healthcare industries.

Investment focus: turn internal IT ventures and projects into independent start-up companies.

Focus: equity investments in communications and media companies around the world.

Focus: financing to entrepreneurs in the healthcare and digital media industry.

Investment focus: life sciences.

Focus: identifies promising early-stage biomedical and optics technologies and provides seed funding and management support for critical early development work.

Investment focus: targets the Internet, healthcare and telecommunications industries.

Investment focus: expansion capital for service companies located primarily in the Southeast and Southwest

Investment focus: e-commerce, infrastructure technology, software, telecommunications/wireless and online media.

Investment focus: growing industrial products companies.

Investment focus: private investment and advisory firm focusing on information technology and financial and business services.

Focus: early-stage investments in information technology companies, particularly e-commerce and communications infrastructure companies.

Investment focus: early to mid-stage energy, environmental and advanced materials companies.

Investment focus: early-stage technology communications, software and Internet companies.

Focus: help build early-stage technology companies that promise to shape the future of the new digital medium.

Investment focus: worldwide energy service and equipment industry.

Focus: invests in growing companies in the areas of telecommunication and Internet infrastructure.

Investment focus: proprietary medical technologies and businesses.

Investment focus: early to mid-stage information technology-based or Internet-enabled companies.

Investment focus: middle market food companies.

Investment Focus: early stage companies in sports, leisure and recreation.

Investment focus: expansion capital, primarily in late-stage and established growth companies that supply, support or depend on space-related activities.

Focus: venture capital arm of The Walt Disney Company to help companies succeed in emerging media and entertainment markets.

Focus: growth capital and interim financing to private companies in the technology, telecommunications and health sciences sectors.

Investment focus: seed and early-stage Internet infrastructure and optical networking companies with emphasis in bandwidth creation, wireless connectivity and managed services.

Investment focus: communications infrastructure and software in communications infrastructure.

Investment focus: seed financing of young start-ups in the field of information technology.

Focus: early-stage investments in technology and life science industries.

Investment focus: life science and healthcare companies that are in the commercialization phase.

Investment focus: early stage opportunities in life science companies.

Investment focus: early-stage information technology ventures located in the areas of Portland-Seattle, Southern California and Silicon Valley.

Industry focus: equity investments in U.S. based enterprises demonstrating sustainable cash flows and having valuations between $30mm and $100mm.

Investment focus: emerging markets in Asia, Middle East and Africa.

Investment focus: telecommunications, including wireless and wireless infrastructure.

Investment focus: communications and networking start-ups.

Investment focus: financing emerging growth companies in the broadband and wireless media.

Focus: venture consulting firm focused on high technology and bioscience sectors.

Investment focus: technology, health and media ventures with major growth potential in the Southeast.

Invests in expansion-stage companies in information technology, manufacturing, distribution and the medical industries.

Investment focus: early-stage information technology, communications, software and Internet companies in the New England area.

Focused on medical device and business process outsourcing industries. Features portfolio companies.

Investment focus: growth capital for Midwest and Southeast manufacturing and value added services companies with revenues of at least $5.0 million

Investment focus: all stages in communications, Internet technology, healthcare, transforming industries and consumer.

Investment focus: early-stage companies in communications, software, Internet and information technology.