Includes information on partners, portfolio, and network.

Investment focus: early and late stage information technology and life sciences in Europe and the United States.

The private equity investment arm of BancBoston, focuses on providing a wide range of later stage capital options.

Venture capital arm of FleetBoston, investing in private, emerging companies in the technology, communications, and health care industries.

Investment focus: primarily northeastern technology services, software and telecommunications companies; includes philosophy, plan submission information, and management team profiles.

Provides private equity financing to companies in the telecommunications, information technology, and healthcare and life sciences industries; includes team and portfolio information.

Information on investment focus, portfolio of companies and partners.

Helps university identify, protect, and license its intellectual property; includes news, awards, and information on new ventures.

Investment focus: early expansion stage companies already generating revenues.

Entrepreneurship forum that puts together emerging businesses with venture investors in Boston, Portsmouth, Portland, and New York City. Includes upcoming events, program descriptions, and sponsor profiles.

Private investment firm committed to acquisition and expansion financing for growing companies and developing real estate assets. Includes investment criteria and representative investments.

Background, information on managing partners, sample portfolio of companies.

Holding company with subsidiaries which invest in, and develop Internet companies representing a broad array of internet technologies and services. (Nasdaq: CMGI).

Focus: venture-oriented direct investments in emerging European technology companies seeking expansion and USA market penetration.

Information on investment focus of technology-related companies, team profiles, and investment successes.

Private equity firm investing in middle-market growth companies; provides contact information.

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

Includes investment criteria, portfolio, and advisor profiles.

Investment focus: New England based early-stage technology companies; includes plan submission and member profiles.

Energy and information technology investments; includes information on advisory board and portfolio.

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

Investment foucs: global, with direct investments in software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buyouts of operating companies.

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

Investment focus: communications, software, information services, systems/peripherals and semiconductors; includes profiles of partners.

Investment focus: deals too large for most individual investors and too small for many venture capital firms - broad array of New England industries; information about partners and portfolio of companies.

Information on investment in communications and information technology companies; includes entrepreneurial resource link collection.

Investment in manufacturers, distributors, and technology and service companies, includes portfolio information and details of criteria.

Offers mezzanine fund that invests in middle market companies; includes representative sample of investments.

Investment focus of manufacturing and service companies; includes information on portfolio and investment team.

A venture capital firm that addresses the "capital gap" for start-up and expansion of early-stage technology companies operating in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Site includes resources for entrepreneurs.

Focus: BioVentures family of funds for investing in private healthcare companies in the US and Europe; includes information on funds, publications on portfolio companies, and management team information.

Offers private equity financing; information on strategy, management team, and glossary.

Investment focus: ventures of all stages, primarily in technology-based companies, but also non-technology. Offices also in Menlo Park and San Ramon, California.

Focus: seed to later-stage investments in the communications services, networking infrastructure, e-commerce and media industries; additional offices in Menlo Park, California and London.

Focus: profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services.

Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare, financial services, media and consumer products.

Information on high-tech investments, community activities of family, and publications for the entrepreneur.

Investment focus: European and United States communications technology, information technology and biotechnology.

Focus on software and services, Internet infrastructure, communications technologies, and bioscience; includes news and portfolio company information.

Investment focus: later-stage growth companies, recapitalizations and buyouts in a diverse set of industries.