David FriedlandThis article showcases our top picks for the best America based Venture Capital companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Venture Capital industry, but are all exceptional startups and companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top America Venture Capital Companies
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Goldman Sachs
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The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide.
Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments with respect to mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges.
This segment also engages in securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities.
The company’s Investment Management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in New York, New York.. .
GGV Capital
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GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders. As a multi-stage, sector-focused firm, GGV focuses on seed-to-growth stage investments across Consumer/New Retail, Social/Digital & Internet, Enterprise/Cloud and Frontier Tech sectors.
The firm was founded in 2000 and manages $6.2 billion in capital across 13 funds. Past and present portfolio companies include Affirm, Airbnb, Alibaba, Bitsight, ByteDance (Toutiao), Ctrip, Didi Chuxing, Grab, Gladly, Hello Chuxing, HashiCorp, Houzz, Keep, LingoChamp, Namely, Niu, Nozomi Networks, Opendoor, Peloton, Poshmark, Slack, Square, Wish, Xauto, Xiaohongshu, Yellow, YY, Zhaoyou and more.
The firm has offices in Beijing, San Francisco, Shanghai and Silicon Valley. Learn more at ggvc.com, @GGVCapital or GGVCapital on WeChat..
Techstars
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Techstars helps entrepreneurs succeed. Through the Techstars Worldwide Entrepreneur Network, founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow.
Techstars operates four divisions: Techstars Startup Programs, Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Programs, Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships, and the Techstars Venture Capital Fund. Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Program supercharges success and Techstars Startup Programs inspire, educate and connect entrepreneurs.
Techstars Venture Capital Fund invests in the most innovative and disruptive Techstars companies to fuel their success. Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships helps brands create world-changing products and services.
Techstars accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,000 companies with a market cap of $8.1 billion. www.techstars.com.
Hercules Capital, Inc.
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Hercules is the largest non-bank lender to venture capital-backed companies at all stages of development in a broadly diversified variety of technology, life sciences, and sustainable and renewable technology industries. With over a decade of experience in venture debt, Hercules is uniquely positioned to quickly create innovative financing solutions that perfectly fit within a company’s existing capital structure and map to its business objectives.
Recognized as the industry leader, Hercules understands the flexibility these types of companies need and has the experience to work closely with them, even through challenging times, to help them reach critical milestones. Hercules’ deep sector expertise, geographic presence and its strong capital base have made Hercules the lender of choice for more than 480 innovative companies..
Silver Lake
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Silver Lake is a global technology investment firm focused solely on making large-scale investments in leading technology companies. They are partners to world-class management teams who seek to use their capital and expertise to build and extend their market leadership.
seeks to formulate its investments to enable growth and frequently employs conservative capital structures designed to drive aggressive investment in new initiatives, innovation, and business expansion. Their core investment thesis is that the technology industries represent an extraordinary yet under-exploited target for large-scale private investments.
The firm also seeks to cultivate proprietary or specialized investment opportunities not typically available to generalist investors. It devotes its full scope of talent and intellectual capital to the singular mission of investing in the world’s leading technology, technology-enabled, and related growth businesses.
Silver Lake was established in 1999 by David Roux, Glenn Hutchins, Jim Davidson, and Roger McNamee and is based in Menlo Park, California.. .
Republic
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Republic is an investment platform for everyone to invest in private deals, including startups, real estate, video games, and crypto.
RELENTLESS Management Group
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RELENTLESS is a SaaS technology-focused private equity accelerator, located in San Luis Obispo Ca. They partner with entrepreneurs and product experts to take an active role providing mentorship, capital, and best practices for each of their portfolio companies.
Entrepreneurs have great passion and creativity for the products and services they produce. The RELENTLESS goal is to quickly harness that passion while incorporating proven leadership, sales, and business management systems into each of these companies.
Through staggered admissions and mentorship tailored to the unique strengths and needs of individual founders and business, the RELENTLESS team creates a custom acceleration path, avoiding generic advice and focusing on what founders need, when they need it. RELENTLESS does not raise capital on behalf of its companies but does assist and support the effort if the need becomes apparent.
This means we typically engage with companies after they have raised capital (preferred), or when they are in the process of raising capital and need the resources and expertise of RELENTLESS to help bolster investor confidence. .
SeedInvest
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SeedInvest is a equity crowdfunding platform that provides investors with access to highly vetted startup investment opportunities. The SeedInvest network contains over 15,000 accredited investors, including hundreds of family offices and institutions.
SeedInvest typically invests between $500,000 – $5 million as part of a syndicate.. .
Pantera Capital
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Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies and companies in the space. Bitcoin is an entirely new thing – a “post-currency” ledger – that is borderless, secure, low-cost and which allows virtually instantaneous payment and transfer.
The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money, and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce. Until 2014, Pantera focused on global macro hedge fund investments.
The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies and companies in the space.
Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.. .
Veritas Capital
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Veritas Capital is a private equity investment firm that invests in companies that provide critical products and services.
Flagship Pioneering
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Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and grows first-in-category ventures to transform human health and sustainability. They accelerate Flagship Pioneering’s advances in biology, engineering, medicine, energy, and beyond.
The firm harnesses science and entrepreneurialism to envision alternative futures, beginning with seemingly unreasonable propositions and navigating to transformational outcomes through an evolutionary methodology. Flagship Pioneering combines innovative capacity, entrepreneurial leadership, and professional capital management in a single enterprise that systematically produces first-in-category companies.
They attract, develop, and retain the top scientific, entrepreneurial, and managerial talent in the world.. .
CircleUp
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CircleUp is the investment platform providing capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands with a modern, scalable approach to private markets. CircleUp is comprised of internally-managed equity funds, a credit program, and an Insights & Connections team – all powered by Helio, CircleUp’s proprietary machine learning platform.
Helio collects and analyzes billions of data points to evaluates 1.3 million consumer businesses and predict future business success.. .
Polaris Partners
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Polaris Partners has over 20-year history partnering with repeat entrepreneurs and innovators who are improving the way people live and work. The multibillion-dollar firm invests in healthcare and technology companies across all stages, from founding to profitable growth.
Polaris has offices in Boston and San Francisco. Polaris Partners was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts..
Invesco
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Invesco is an independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. The firm is specialized investment teams managing investments across a comprehensive range of asset classes, investment styles, and geographies.
They are privileged to manage more than $926.0 billion in assets on behalf of clients worldwide (as of November 30, 2018 ). They offer a wide range of single-country, regional and global capabilities across major equity, fixed income, and alternative asset classes, delivered through a diverse set of investment vehicles.
High-quality results begin with specialized insight and disciplined oversight.. .
S2G Ventures
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S2G Ventures is a multi-stage food and agriculture venture fund investing in entrepreneurs whose products and services meet the shifting demands for healthy and sustainable food. The firm’s mission is to catalyze innovation to meet consumer demands for healthy, sustainable, and local food.
S2G will identify sectors across the food system that are ripe for change, and form a multi-stage portfolio including seed, venture, and growth-stage investments. It seeks to invest in agriculture, ingredients, infrastructure and logistics, food safety and technology, retail and restaurants, and consumer brands.
S2G Ventures was established in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.. .
Horizon Technology Finance
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Horizon is a venture lending platform that offers structured debt products to life science and technology companies. Its team of investment and operations professionals has been providing debt capital to some of the most exciting companies for decades.
The members of the Horizon team have, collectively, originated and invested more than $5 billion in venture loans to thousands of companies. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut..
SignalFire
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SignalFire is a complete redesign of the modern venture firm based on six years of careful study, development, and iteration on how to best fuel today’s entrepreneur. Their distributed network approach gives access to some of the world’s best entrepreneurs, product, and engineering leaders in virtually every key discipline and industry, provided by a centralized team of world class investors and engineers trained at General Catalyst, Bessemer, KPCB, Google, and Yahoo.
They have developed a first of its kind centralized infrastructure to help with recruiting, business development, customer acquisition as well as educational and community events. They invest in leaders with an uncommon passion and perspective for leveraging data and technology solutions to upend substantial markets..
Owl Ventures
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Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies. The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning.
Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies. The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management..
Accel
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Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that powers a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a world-class, category-defining business.
The company brings more than three decades of experience in building and supporting companies. Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship and business enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries.
Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media, and others. Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz founded it in Palo Alto, California in 1983..
SixThirty
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SixThirty is a global venture capital fund that operates a go-to-market program for B2B FinTech, InsurTech & Cybser Security startups. SixThirty invests in and helps grow between 8 – 12 early-stage (generally Seed – Series A) companies each year, providing funding, mentorship, and connections.
Learn more about the SixThirty investment process at https://sixthirty.co/apply/. SixThirty’s mission is to find the most innovative ideas in enterprise financial technology, insurance technology, and cyber security across the globe, and work with like-minded corporate investors and partners to mentor and grow them into great businesses..
EXPERT DOJO
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Expert DOJO is the most active international early-stage startup accelerator in Southern California. We invest $100,000 in each of our startups and help them get traction and scale faster than they could ever do by themselves.
Since 2018, we have invested in over 80 startups to accelerate their growth. What makes us special is our focus on building visionary companies.
If you can visualize your unicorn, you have a higher probability of achieving its full potential. That’s where Expert DOJO comes in.
We invest in pre-seed and seed companies ready to scale quickly. Most of our startups are minority and female founded technology companies.
However, we remain industry agnostic and invest in founders from all over the world and from diverse backgrounds.. .
ACME Capital
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ACME Capital is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in breakthrough technologies that fuel platform shifts and disruptive business models that capitalize on new platforms. Its purpose is to support those founders who choose to take their capital.
The firm was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.. .
MicroVentures
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MicroVentures is an online equity crowdfunding platform enabling angel investors to connect with startups to raise capital. It connects accredited investors with startups, businesses, and services looking to raise funds or participate in select secondary market opportunities.
The company provides founders access to early-stage capital and accredited investors opportunities to invest in private equity. It prefers to invest in companies from the software, technology, telecommunications, and media sectors.
MicroVentures was established in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.. .
Galvanize
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Galvanize is a school for entrepreneurs, engineers, and data scientists. It is a learning community for technology with nine physical and two remote campuses, where innovative startups, aspiring students, and large enterprises benefit from this dynamic, unique business ecosystem.
Galvanize is backed by investors including, but not limited to, Catalyst Investors, ABS Capital Partners, University Ventures, New Markets Venture Partners, and Colorado Impact Fund. The company was co-founded by Tony Mugavero, Chris Onan, Jim Deters, and Lawrence Mandes in 2012, and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado..
CB Insights
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CB Insights, previously known as ChubbyBrain, is your personalized gateway to smarter, faster, friendlier intelligence on high growth private companies. CB insights is the ideal tool for those engaged in private equity, venture capital, corporate development, investment banking, corporate innovation & strategy, angel investment and consulting.
Whether it is deal sourcing, due diligence, or market and competitive intelligence, CBI has been created to assist you in discovering the right private company information in the most efficient, comprehensive way.. .
MaC Venture Capital
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MaC Venture Capital is an early stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology and products that can become infectious. We invest in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace.
Our proven track record of 100+ investments has unlocked growth opportunities through capital, advisement, and relationship building. MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful Los Angeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures and M Ventures..
PitchBook Data
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PitchBook is an independent and impartial research firm dedicated to providing premium data, news and analysis to the venture capital and private equity industries. As a specialty-focused information resource, PitchBook’s core strength is its ability to meticulously collect, organize and analyze hard-to-find private equity deal data.
PitchBook’s flagship product is the web-based PitchBook Platform, as well as its daily newsletter and research reports.. .
Abbott
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Abbott is engaged in pharmaceuticals and manufacturing healthcare products. It developed the first HIV blood-screening test.
Its product portfolio includes Norvir, a treatment for HIV; Synthroid, a synthetic thyroid hormone; Depakote, an anticonvulsant drug; and Humira, a drug for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and more. Its medical tests and diagnostic instrument systems are manufactured for usage in hospitals, laboratories, blood banks, and physician offices to diagnose and monitor diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, cancer, heart failure and metabolic disorders, and more.
Abbott also operates its product manufacturing segment known as Abbott Point-of-Care. It manufactures diagnostic products for blood analysis.
It also provides cardiac assays to the emergency room. It currently has 90,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries.
Abbott was established in 1888 by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott. It is based in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois..
Privateer Holdings
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Privateer is a private equity firm shaping the future of legal cannabis. Founded in 2010 in Seattle by three visionary entrepreneurs with decades of experience in investment banking and venture capital, Privateer Holdings represents a group of investors from around the world seeking to end cannabis prohibition and the social harms it causes.
Through a combination of acquisitions, investments and incubation, Privateer is focused on building a portfolio of global brands that will lead, legitimize and define the future of cannabis. The current portfolio includes: Leafly, the world’s cannabis information resource; Tilray, a leading global producer of medical cannabis; and Marley Natural, the official cannabis and lifestyle brand of Bob Marley..
OneValley
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OneValley is a global entrepreneurship platform for individuals, startups, and corporations seeking innovation and accelerated growth.
Braavo Capital
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Braavo provides revenue-based financing to mobile app and game developers worldwide. Whether you’re a an early-stage health and fitness app or a multi-million dollar mobile gaming publisher, Braavo is your partner for flexible, affordable and on-demand financing.
Founded in 2015, Braavo is headquartered in New York City. The company has funded nearly half a billion dollars to the top app companies in the world and is backed by investors including e.ventures, SWS Venture Capital, SV Angel, BoxGroup, Upper90, and a number of successful angels and entrepreneurs from the fintech and mobile community..
ESO Fund
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ESO Fund provides current and former employees of venture backed companies with financial help needed to exercise options and cover associated taxes. It has a due diligence strategy and transaction protocol to evaluate and close transactions very quickly.
ESO Fund provides a new approach to exercising stock options without financial stress by eliminating the AMT normally associated with exercising stock options. The fund provides Individuals who have already exercised private stock options with partial liquidity on the same terms that allows the owners to recover capital, while still retaining the potential upside from the stock.
ESO Fund was formed by Stephen Roberts, Jimmy Lackie, and Scott Chou in 2012.. .
Safeguard Scientifics
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Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE: SFE) has a distinguished track record of fostering innovation and building market leaders.
For more than 60 years, Safeguard has been providing growth capital and operational support to entrepreneurs across an evolving spectrum of industries. Today, Safeguard is focused specifically on healthcare and technology.
Safeguard is a proven partner for entrepreneurs looking to accelerate growth and build long-term value in their businesses. Investors in NYSE:SFE have a unique opportunity to tap into the high potential of Safeguard’s early- and growth-stage partners companies..
Riviera
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[Riviera](http://rivierapartners.com) is a search and recruiting firm providing tech-enabled services to startups seeking top engineering talent. The company uses a blend of internally developed data insights, proprietary technology, and recruiter expertise to provide clients with the right outcomes in the most efficient manner possible.Riviera has developed a unique “man + machine” approach that aggregates readily available external data and fuses it with internally gathered information, which recruiters can then use to derive meaningful insights about people and companies. Utilizing the scoring algorithms of Sutro, a proprietary operating system, Rivera can quickly identify optimal matches between candidates and clients.
Recognized by venture capitalists, tech companies and the media as a top search and recruiting firm in the Bay Area, Riviera provides the reach and relationships of a large search organization with the feel of a specialized, boutique provider. Industry veterans Michael A.
Morell and Ali Behnam founded the firm in 2002.. .
Disruptive Technology Advisers
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Disruptive Technology Advisers is a merchant bank that works with top private technology companies and investors around the world.
Aumni
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Aumni is an investment analytics platform for private capital markets that include venture funds, family offices, university endowments and corporate venture firms. By combining the best of A.I.
and human expertise, Aumni’s platform extracts and analyzes critical deal data buried in dense legal agreements. Aumni has analyzed an unprecedented breadth and depth of private capital data representing investors with over $1 trillion in assets under management..
BFS Capital
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Delivering funding solutions is the reason they’re in business They’re experts in the working capital needs of small businesses. Headquartered in South Florida, their technology-enabled financing platform provides up to $2 million in small business loans and merchant cash advances to businesses in all 50 states and Canada, and through their affiliate, Boost Capital, in the United Kingdom.
They’ve delivered more than $1 billion in total financing to small- and mid-sized businesses across more than 400 industries, helping entrepreneurs like you to access working capital for any business need. A direct funding source and industry leader since 2002, they have years of experience and firm financial backing from institutional and bank partners, which has helped to solidify their position as the preferred funding source for small businesses.
They’re proud of their track record of success in supporting the dreams of thousands of customers – 80% of whom are repeat business, resulting in a Better Business Bureau A+ rating.. .
Koan
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Koan helps companies manage goals and status in a collaborative way. Employee alignment and engagement remains a top challenge for almost every organization.
With the shift to remote work, communication gets siloed, priorities shift and information gets lost in the daily spreadsheet shuffle. Koan enables teams to align and engage through the power of habit, keeping everyone connected to the mission and focused on achieving their most critical goals.
Inspire, align, and focus your remote workforce with Koan’s easy to use OKR and status platform. Learn more at koan.co..
Relationship Science
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Relationship Science (RelSci) is a technology solutions company that helps individuals and organizations leverage their relationships for a competitive business advantage. The RelSci platform provides deep information about over 6 million influential decision makers – who they are and who they know, what you have in common with them, and how you can gain access to them and their organizations.
Our relationship mapping tool empowers you to discover new relationships, advance existing ones, and maximize every opportunity.. .
iAnthus
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iAnthus provides a unique combination of capital and hands-on operating and management expertise. iAnthus Capital Holdings, Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary iAnthus Capital Management, LLC, provides investors diversified exposure to best-in-class licensed cannabis cultivators, processors, and dispensaries throughout the United States.
iAnthus currently owns, operates or has partnered with marijuana license holders in Massachusetts, Vermont, Colorado, and New Mexico.. .
Deerfield Management
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Deerfield Management seek to advance healthcare through investment, information and philanthropy.
Alley
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Alley is a community agency that unites rich and diverse communities around the country with corporate partners to provide the resources and catalysts to drive positive change in technology, and in the broader world. We are an agency that connects your business to untapped communities & offers custom services to meet your goals.
We program events that bring people together, talks that inspire, & initiatives that drive results and we source the right people to meet your objectives.. .
Quontic Bank
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Quontic Bank offers checking and savings accounts to small business loans and home mortgages, as well as online and mobile banking. Quontic Bank is an adaptive digital bank.
Through its app, Quontic offers less-advantaged, decent human beings — self-employed, immigrants, millennials, low income, seniors, etc. — adaptive banking services that elevate their financial strength while embracing their circumstances.
It was founded in 2009 and is a Member FDIC bank, headquartered in New York City and located in a growing number of states.. .
Crunchbase
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Crunchbase is a platform for finding business information about private and public companies. Crunchbase information includes investments and funding information, founding members and individuals in leadership positions, mergers and acquisitions, news, and industry trends.
Originally built to track startups, the Crunchbase website contains information on public and private companies on a global scale. Crunchbase sources its data in four ways: the venture program, machine learning, an in-house data team, and the Crunchbase community.
Members of the public can submit information to the Crunchbase database. These submissions are subject to registration, social validation, and are often reviewed by a moderator..
Universal Music Group
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Universal Music Group provides recorded music, music publishing, and merchandising services worldwide. It discovers and develops songwriters, and owns and administers copyrights to musical compositions for use in recordings, public performances, and related uses such as films and advertisements; and sells artist and music branded products through multiple sales points including online, fashion retail, and live performances worldwide.
Universal Music Group was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of Vivendi Société Anonyme..
Crowdfunder
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Crowdfunder is an equity crowdfunding platform connecting investors with early-stage entrepreneurs. It sources and funds high-growth ventures with a network of over 130,000 entrepreneurs and investors.
Crowdfunder and its VC Index Fund provide the opportunity for direct online investment into single ventures, as well as diversification into a broad VC-led portfolio (Index Fund) of early-stage startups backed by many of the world’s leading Venture Capital firms and private investors. Crowdfunder was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California..
Sutton Bank
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Founded in 1878, the history of Sutton Bank is fundamentally linked to the development of southeastern Seneca and western Huron Counties. Attorney Lester Sutton opened the bank to serve the growing needs of merchants and farmers in Attica, OH.
It has long been a community pillar, staying strong through the Great Depression, times of war and fluctuating economies. Sutton continues to be a vibrant bank fueled by the vigor and efficiency of its community.
A progressive, privately held independent, community bank, Sutton Bank has consistently been named one of the top small business and agricultural lenders in the State of Ohio. This supports our dedication to meeting the financial needs of the community, and our commitment to providing exceptional customer service with local decision-making.
At its core, banking has always been a business of responsibility and earning the trust of its customers. The leaders of Sutton Bank feel a responsibility to remain independent and provide products and services that grow out of understanding our customers’ needs, both individuals and businesses.
Our roots are deeply tied to the people, commerce and values of north central Ohio. We know the people and the communities we serve.
Our employees live and work in these communities, and participate in the decisions of local business organizations. Today, Sutton Bank operates eight full-service branch offices throughout a 4-county area..
IPwe
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IPwe is democratizing the IP space by creating a marketplace for patents to transact. They working to enable the patent asset class by leveraging blockchain technology, smart contracts, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics.
They are bringing transparency to the patent market and cutting out the billions of USD of wasted costs associated with the inefficient market. IPwe combines the information and tools to identify, research, understand, and transact in patents.
It enables traditional transactions (licenses and acquisitions) and empowers new classes of transactions like financings, maintenance fee payments, and insurance.. .
Vyze
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Vyze is a financial technology leader in consumer financing solutions. NCL helps merchants launch and implement innovative lending programs that provide more consumers with the financing options they want and need.
NCL’s simple solutions deliver increased sales and a better consumer financing experience while giving retailers and manufacturers greater control over their lending options.. .
DiligenceVault
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DiligenceVault is a provider of mutualized data and tech platform for fund investing research.
TEDCO
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TEDCO was created by the Maryland State Legislature in 1998 to facilitate the transfer and commercialization of technology from Maryland’s research universities and federal labs into the marketplace and to assist in the creation and growth of technology-based businesses in all regions of the State. TEDCO is an independent organization that strives to be Maryland’s lead source for entrepreneurial business assistance and seed funding for the development of startup companies in Maryland’s innovation economy.
In Maryland and beyond, TEDCO is a resource of mentoring, funding and networking for entrepreneurs and start-ups that need guidance as they bring innovative concepts to market. TEDCO is more than an early stage funding resource.
It is the hub of Maryland’s entrepreneurial network where startups find mentors, organizational assistance, facilities for daily operations, and a roadmap for success.. .
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
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Brooklyn Bridge Ventures is a seed stage investor. That typically means pre-revenue, pre-Powerpoint, pre-business plan, and even pre-product.
That means there’s a lot of risk, a lot of potential, a lot of unknowns, and companies need a lot of help.. .
Nimble Storage
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Nimble Storage solutions are built on the idea that enterprises should not have to compromise between performance, capacity, ease of management, and price. Nimble’s patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture, designed from the ground up to effectively combine flash with high capacity drives, makes high performance affordable, simplifies and enhances disaster recovery and backup, and delivers stress-free operations.
Nimble Storage is funded by [Sequoia Capital](/financial-organization/sequoia-capital), [Accel Partners](/financial-organization/accel-partners) and [Lightspeed Venture Partners](/financial-organization/lightspeed-venture-partners).. .
Multis
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Multis provides financial services for companies holding euros, dollars, and cryptocurrencies. We are building the best crypto wallet designed for businesses who need to scale, move fast, make the most of their crypto and fiat currencies.
We’re helping these companies embrace cryptocurrencies and shape a global and borderless economy. We’re a founding team of happy and passionate crypto-dreamers: Thibaut (CEO) and Théo (CTO), with backing from world-class US and European investors like Y Combinator, Coinbase Ventures and eFounders.
The company is incorporated in San Francisco but we’re working from Paris and Europe for now.. .
Mattermark
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Mattermark is a data platform for venture capital companies to quantify signals of growing and potentially lucrative start-ups. Mattermark offers deal intelligence to the world’s leading dealmakers – venture capital, private equity, corporate development, sales, and marketing professionals looking to take a data-driven approach to deal sourcing and due diligence.
The company was launched in 2012 as a data platform for VCs with hopes of becoming the go-to software for firms to use when quantifying signals of growing and potentially lucrative startups.. .
Assure
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Assure specializes in special purpose vehicles (SPVs) and fund administration for the private investment marketplace. It provides the most complete back-office services in the market for fund managers, equity crowdfunding platforms, angel groups, and other private-transaction investors.
The firm was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.. .
Visible.vc
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Visible.vc is an investor relationship management platform used by company founders across the globe.
BioCrossroads
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BioCrossroads is a venture capital firm specializing in life sciences companies based in Indiana.
Venture Global LNG
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Venture Global LNG is a long-term, low-cost producer of liquefied natural gas pipelines. Working with a global LNG technology vendor, Venture Global intends to configure a 10.0 MTPA LNG facility utilizing efficient, low cost, mid-scale LNG liquefaction technology.
It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.. .
LedgerPrime
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LedgerPrime is a Digital Asset Investment Firm
Coplex
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Coplex is a Corporate Startup Studio. We turn the art of building businesses into a repeatable science.
The Coplex Startup Studio combines the right team and a proven 9-12 month program to experiment and rapidly execute your best ideas to maximize your chance of success.. .
Trusted Insight
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Trusted Insight is an LP network that provides institutional investors with curated news, jobs, rankings, online and offline events, and a forum. With over 140,000 members on the platform controlling over $18 Trillion in assets, Trusted Insight is the fastest growing and most trusted alternative platform.
30,000 institutional investors engage with Trusted Insight each week. They are actively investing in alternative assets, primarily private equity, hedge funds, real estate and private companies.
Founded by Alex Bangash, Trusted Insight started in 2010 and is venture-funded and revenue-producing. Its investors were the first investors or founders of Facebook, LinkedIn, Mint, Match.com, and Blackstone, among others.
The company has offices in NYC and San Francisco.. .
Bedrock
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Bedrock is a monetization platform for building the next generation of ad-products. Bedrock empowers publishers to build, host and distribute their own ad-products.
Publishers drive clicks into Bedrock where advertisers bid on clicks at the keyword level on a cost-per-click basis. Advertisers focus exclusively on their downstream conversion and incentivize publishers to optimize ad-products..
Madrona Venture Labs
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Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio based in Seattle and housed at Madrona Venture Group.
Vida Ventures
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Vida Ventures’ mission is to bring science to life by advancing transformative biomedical innovations that have the potential to make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients. They want to do well by doing good for others.
Vida Ventures is a bicoastal life sciences company building and investment firm, founded in 2017 by a group of scientists, physicians, entrepreneurs, and investors who are passionate about building and funding breakthroughs in biomedicine .. .
Converge Ventures
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Converge Ventures harnesses the power of public-private partnerships to develop and market cutting-edge products. The company’s proprietary model addresses the problems that commonly plague startups with a proven, repeatable process that curates the key elements needed for successful and profitable ventures.
It provides an environment in which innovative start-ups can grow and thrive, which encourages greater returns on investment.. .
Shoppable Inc.
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Shoppable Inc. is an e-commerce provider.
Volt Capital
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Token Daily Capital is a research and community driven crypto fund.
Synchrony Financial
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Synchrony Financial is a premier consumer financial services companies.
Lendr
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In an economy where it’s almost impossible for small businesses to get traditional loans, Lendr offers fast, friction-free cash advances to help small and medium business owners focus on what they do best: grow. They say yes more because they consider more.
It’s not just about your credit score. They look at your full story—the health of your business, your real-time performance and potential—so they can customize the right solution right now.
There are no hidden fees. No lengthy paperwork.
Just honest, transparent lending that helps you get the working capital you need—when you need it—to seize the opportunities you deserve.. .
MVC Capital
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MVC provide long-term equity and debt investment capital to fund growth, acquisitions and recapitalizations of small and middle-market companies in a variety of industries primarily located in the U.S. MVC’s investments can take the form of common and preferred stock (control and non-control investments) and warrants or rights to acquire equity interests; senior and subordinated loans; or convertible securities.
MVC serves as the lead investor for transactions, as well as a co-investor in companies along with other private equity sponsors.. .
USAA
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USAA is a private Fortune 150 financial services company that provides banking, insurance, and investment to the military community.
KingsCrowd
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KingsCrowd is an online private market rating and analytics platform for equity crowdfunding research and rating service. The platform provides insights, analytics, and ratings to help you navigate the fragmented market of startup investing and vet the deals worth adding to the investment portfolio.
It enables us to create a predictive Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven startup investing platform that allows us to identify the factors that drive outsized startup investment returns. KingsCrowd connects investors and entrepreneurs to help private companies grow.
It aims to empower everyone to invest in startups confidently through a platform-agnostic suite of EC support products including research, recommendations, data analytics, and financial products. KingsCrowd was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA..
Proseeder Technologies
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ProSeeder’s technology is privately labeled and easily configurable for corporations to manage and report on initiatives, acquisitions, investments, partnerships, and other corporate development activities. Its platform empowers corporations with adaptive tools for collaboration, diligence, and execution; quantifying strategic ROI of investments & partnerships that supercharge corporations’ efforts to innovate iteratively.
It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.. .
Globevestor
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Globevestor is a US-based, new-age online VC firm that operates a hybrid of managed micro-funds and an online platform, to invest in highly-promising startups in US/India. Globevestor is an easy way to invest in highly-promising startups from anywhere in the world.
It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.. .
Customers Bank
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Customers Bank is a super-community bank with $11.7 billion in assets as of September 30, 2019, offering commercial services.
Humana
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For 50 years, Humana, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, has been an innovator with a commitment to service, health and wellness. Their focus on people, choice, engagement, and innovation guides our business practices and decision-making.
In addition to group health plans, Humana’s diverse lines of business work to serve all types of consumers. From families to seniors to military members to self-employed individuals, there is a plan to meet many unique needs..
Gladstone Capital
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Gladstone Capital’s debt investments primarily consist of three types of loans to small and medium sized businesses in the United States.
Album VC
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Album VC is a US-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology ventures, shaping the future of technology and culture. The company works in its own way, prioritizing people over transactions and creating value over taking it.
Album VC is headquartered in Lehi, Utah.. .
EquityNet
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EquityNet is a financial services company that specializes in providing solutions in the fields of angel investors, investment banking, business funding, and venture capital. It provides access to thousands of approved, self-accredited investors and has helped entrepreneurs across North America raise over $300MM in equity, debt, and alternatively sourced capital.
The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.. .
Lateral Capital
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Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent.
We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education, energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.. .
Peterson Ventures
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Peterson Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs.
Counterpart Advisors
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Counterpart Advisors is a Venture Capital, Private Equity & Consulting firm that engages in highly competitive and visible markets.
i(x) investments
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i(x) investments is an entrepreneurial, multi-strategy impact investing platform that actively addresses key areas of human need. Founded in 2015, i(x) investments is a permanently capitalized holding company for investors who want to create long-term economic growth in combination with positive, measurable social impact.
i(x) believes the world’s biggest problems are also the biggest market opportunities and invests in the areas of energy, water, food, technology, education, health, housing, access to capital and gender parity. The company uses a multi-strategy investment approach throughout the entire capital structure..
National Holdings
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National Holdings Corporation (National) is a holding company. The Company’s segments include brokerage and advisory services, tax and accounting services, and corporate.
Its brokerage and advisory services segment includes broker-dealer and investment advisory services, sale of insurance products and licensed mortgage brokerage services provided by the Broker-Dealer Subsidiaries, National Asset Management, Inc., National Insurance Corporation, Prime Financial Services and GC Capital Corporation. Its tax and accounting services segment includes tax preparation and accounting services provided by Gilman Ciocia, Inc.
The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides various financial services. Through National’s broker-dealer and investment advisory subsidiaries, it offers retail brokerage to individual and institutional clients; provide investment banking, merger and acquisition and advisory services to micro, small and mid-cap companies and is engaged in trading securities..
SketchDeck
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Scalable design for marketing teams. Design drives growth.
SketchDeck is the most convenient design service that exists. We design everything from presentations to infographics, and it’s all easily managed through our powerful web platform.
Trusted by Okta, Microsoft, Cognizant, and hundreds more.. .
NewView Capital
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NewView Capital is a new model venture capital. It spun out of New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in response to evolving market dynamics, including extended exit timelines.
NewView Capital has developed a new model in venture capital to drive sustainable growth for entrepreneurs, venture capital firms, and limited partners in this changing venture landscape.. .
iownit
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iownit is an investment platform for private securities. Its blockchain-powered technology is able to support the listing, investing, and trading of private securities.
iownit’s digital private securities market is operated by its broker-dealer subsidiary IOI CAPITAL AND MARKETS, LLC. Our team has over 100 years of combined experience in the financial services industry including, trade settlement, investment banking, trading, compliance, institutional client support, and marketing.
It took 3 years and a combined 20 years of person hours to build a comprehensive Blockchain-powered platform. iownit enables digital transactions in the private securities market.
We believe that technology can improve the flow of capital by automating and streamlining routine processes and freeing all market participants to focus on what matters the most to them. Making informed investments should not be cumbersome.
The right technology allows for convenient, secure, and transparent capital formation. We aspire to change the way the private securities markets operate and to lead the early stages of this technological evolution..
Wealthface
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Wealthface is a new way to offer financial advice— A combination of digital advice and face to face advice. Innovative, affordable, and human.
We aim to protect your interest first and to realize your financial goals. We build a diversified investment portfolio of ETFs on your behalf at low cost..
Continental Grain Company
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Continental Grain Company is dedicated to working with its existing agricultural businesses pursuing strategic opportunities in protein-based businesses while taking advantage of new investment opportunities. Established in 1813 as a grain trading firm based in what is now known as Arlon, Belgium, Continental Grain Company grew to become one of the largest privately held companies in the world.
Through its diversified operations and investment activities, Continental Grain Company builds long-term value in partnership with exceptional management teams. The Company’s goal is to attain financial success in ways that reflect favorably upon its employees and business partners.
With a rich entrepreneurial legacy and significant permanent capital, Continental Grain Company continues to seek new global growth opportunities across the food and agriculture landscape through its various investment groups, including CGC Ventures, Corporate Investments, and its middle market investment group, Arlon.. .
SuRo Capital
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SuRo Capital (Nasdaq: SSSS, formerly known as GSV Capital) is a publicly-traded fund that seeks to invest in high-growth, venture-backed private companies. The firm primarily seeks to invest in social mobile, sustainability, cloud computing, big data, marketplaces, and education sectors.
It also seeks to create a portfolio of high-growth emerging private companies through a repeatable and disciplined investment approach, as well as to provide investors with access to such companies through its publicly traded common stock. SuRo Capital was established in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California..
Riverstone Holdings
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Riverstone is an energy and power-focused private investment firm founded in 2000 by David M. Leuschen and Pierre F.
Lapeyre, Jr. with $38 billion of capital raised..
Knight Foundation
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Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots. We invest in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S.
and James L. Knight once published newspapers.
Our goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which we believe are essential for a healthy democracy. Through our Knight Enterprise Fund, we provide early-stage venture funding for media innovation.We invest in early-stage companies at the frontier of media and technology that improve people’s access to quality information because we believe this leads to healthier communities..
Jernigan Capital
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Jernigan Capital, Inc. is a commercial real estate finance company.
The Company provides capital to private developers, owners and operators of self-storage facilities. It intends to generate long-term returns on development property investments through a fixed rate of interest on its invested capital together with an interest in the positive cash flows of the self-storage development from operations, sales and/or refinancings.
It generates cash flows from construction loans and operating property loans in the form of a fixed interest rate and origination fees. It originates various loans, such as bridge loans and credit lines.
It has development property investments in Orlando, Atlanta, Tampa, Chicago and Miami. Its operating property loans are located in New Orleans, Newark, Nashville, Sacramento and Chicago.
The Company conducts its investment activities through Jernigan Capital Operating Company, LLC. The Company is externally managed and advised by JCap Advisors, LLC..
Fortress Investment Group
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Fortress Investment Group, an investment management firm, manages alternative assets in private equity, liquid hedge funds and credit funds.
Rand Capital
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Rand Capital makes venture capital investments in unique small-to medium-sized companies typically in New York and surrounding states.
S28 Capital
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S28 Capital is an early-stage venture fund with $170M under management. We’re a team of founders and early startup employees.
The investing team helped build companies such as PagerDuty and Playdom and also invested in companies such as Zoom and Coupang. Some of our investments include Plangrid, Mattermost, Rippling, Reflektive, Social Construct, and Perpetua..
8 Decimal Capital
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8 Decimal Capital is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on both token and equity investment. We currently have more than 30 portfolio companies, and an AUM of 60M USD.
Our investment team consists of more than 10 venture capital veterans, researchers, and trading professionals. We thematically invest in core infrastructure layer projects that address security, scalability, and privacy, provide a full suite of post-investment value-add to our portfolio companies..
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