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Sources of Venture Capital and Private Equity Funding

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RaiseCapital.com "....is an online community, where entrepreneurs can display their business ideas and capital needs to investors. Whether your venture is a start-up or existing business, RaiseCapital.com is the perfect vehicle for entrepreneurs seeking capital. The service is FREE. RaiseCapital.com makes it possible for individuals and businesses to market their venture at no cost. As a member seeking capital, you will be able to market your venture to investors using text descriptions, pictures and/or streaming video. Additional free benefits include your own posting blog, a counter that allows you to see how many people viewed your post and a unique URL for your venture...."



Pubcowhitepapers.com Bypass angel funding: little known alternative to the private placement game.


Top Pick for Excellent Venture Capital Resource

Garage Technology Ventures "is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund. We’re looking to invest in entrepreneurial teams with big ideas and a need for seed capital to turn their ideas into great companies.

"... We are willing to invest in unproven teams attacking unproven markets with unproven solutions. We’re not interested in teams that are creating the nth solution to the same old problem nor companies who are trying to improve things by only 10 or 20 percent.

On a more tactical level, the characteristics of the companies we invest in are:

  • Sectors: Software, services, clean technology, and material sciences (not life sciences)

  • Funding: Seeking seed or early investments from $500,000 to $3,000,000

  • Geography: California or Western US based

  • Business model: requiring less than $5,000,000 to reach break even or sustainability..."

 

Business in the Eye of the Storm magazine "... a free monthly publication that addresses issues pertinent to U.S. Businesses entering the Knowledge Age. Sponsored by UHY Advisors, the publication leverages case studies and industry experts to provide value to C-level executives of mid-market companies..."

Below is a video which gives a very realistic glimpse into what it takes to launch a startup company.

The Capital Network "...In Greater Boston, TCN is an essential network for entrepreneurs seeking to grow their businesses through the acquisition of investment capital. TCN's network consists of entrepreneurs on their way, entrepreneurs who have lessons and talents to offer and investors who may have themselves drifted across the entrepreneurial line. The network includes vital resources such as TCN sponsors whose services are essential to the growth and maturity of businesses. Of course, angel investors are key to the success of many entrepreneurial ventures not only for the capital they infuse but for their acumen and connections in the network. Current angel investors as well as those who want to learn what angel investment is about are all part of TCN.... "

SCORE Free small business mentoring

Small Business Administration

Small Business Investment Companies (SBIC) Program   "... The mission of the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program is to improve and stimulate the national economy and small businesses by stimulating and supplementing the flow of private equity capital and long term loan funds for the sound financing, growth, expansion and modernization of small business operations while insuring the maximum participation of private financing sources...."

Companies Who Sponsor Venture Capital Events Where Fund Seekers Can Network With and Pitch Multiple Investors

FundingPost.com

Below is an intro to 5 early-stage venture capital investors in NYC from a FundingPost conference. They tell about their Funds and discuss types of deals they look for.

The Cleantech Network™ "... founded cleantech as a viable investment category in 2002 and is proud to have played an influencial role in the development of an investment category experiencing an annual growth rate in excess of 50%. In the network we bring capital and innovation together through our Cleantech Forums® and membership services...."

SVASE, the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs "... is the largest and fastest growing nonprofit association in Northern California dedicated exclusively to helping early stage entrepreneurs across all technology sectors build successful companies.... hosts 10-15 events each month, attended by 400-600 technology executives and press.  Our weekly emailing reaches over 10,000 executives, making ours one of the largest, most powerful opt-in lists in the Valley.... SVASE is able to help constituents build their businesses around the clock and around the world...."

Venture Capital News

Top Picks for Helping Entrepreneurs

VFinance.com  is the leading destination on the internet for companies seeking capital, as well as institutional and high net-worth investors seeking dynamic high-growth companies. Each year, the site hosts more than one million investors and CEOs from over 50 countries. This huge audience creates a perpetual, global deal stream for our bricks-and-mortar financial service units and enables us to identify emerging opportunities for our clients.

StartupJournal  from publishers of the Wall St. Journal includes a Business Plan Online feature to create a first draft of your concept, plus daily news to keep you abreast of the startup world.  Free online sample business plans.

Kennedy Information Online Venture Capital Firm Search (provided via WSJ''s Startup Journal) "Ready to work for or start the next Yahoo! ? Venture capital firms are today's gatekeepers to the world of emerging businesses. Identify the venture capital firms most likely to fund your business plan or recommend you to one of their hot portfolio companies.  Download full contact information for the venture capital firms that specialize in your industry. Mail merge the results directly into your cover letters and create print-outs for easy follow up. Data is readable by most major software packages including Microsoft Word, Excel, ACT!, and more (ascii comma-delimited format)."

IdeaCafe.com  "The Small Business Channel" A fun approach to serious business  Get totally FREE trade publications.

Angel Deals

AngelDeals.com is an outgrowth of the Venture-Preneurs TM Network, which served the northeastern USA business community by providing face-to-face networking meetings in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded by Dr. Michael Gordon in 1994, the Venture-Preneurs Network had four missions:

  • To assist in the funding of emerging ventures.
  • To present pre-screened deals to capital providers.
  • To educate entrepreneurs on the investor mentality.
  • To provide a vigorous meeting forum for all business professionals.

Today, the Venture-Preneurs Network has evolved into AngelDeals.com, a virtual global network for the business community of Entrepreneurs seeking funding and growth, Investors seeking deal flow, Business Professionals seeking visibility and Job Seekers / Employers.

This unique virtual network serves as a learning environment, a connection engine and a meeting place wherein our members can post free Listings to find the right "door openers".

Highlights of AngelDeals's robust site are:

  • Several mechanisms to connect Entrepreneurs with Investors.
  • A growing, searchable, global Venture Capital Database.
  • The ability to post free Listings in several categories.
  • Access to advice from the Angel and Legal Tips of the week.
  • The ability to create an investment-grade Executive Summary online.
  • A toolbox of essential entrepreneurial resources.
  • A 'Help Section' where members can ask for advice.
  • Sections to search for entrepreneurial opportunities and strategic alliances.
  • A consulting service for Business Plan Analysis & Review by an investor.
  • A comprehensive essential Links section.
 

Join The Membership Today!

Foundations and Centers Supporting Entrepreneurship

The Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership promotes the growth of entrepreneurship in America. The Center's Entrepreneur Training Institute sponsors education, training and research initiatives targeted to the needs of adult entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship support systems

The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship (DCE) ".... is a top-tier entrepreneurial institute recognized around the world as a leader in enterprise creation. Forward looking and community focused, the Center actively encourages a real-world business culture that innovatively bridges the theoretical with the practical. Find out more..."

The Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship ".... aims to advance the understanding of private equity investing—the engine behind the entrepreneurial activity that drives global innovation and productivity. The center focuses on macro and micro issues relating to private equity: capital markets, financing structures, governance and entrepreneurship...."

Young Entrepreneurs' Organization (YEO) strives to help its members build upon their successes through an array of educational and networking opportunities. With more than 3,500 members in chapters around the world, YEO provides its members access to a dynamic network of peers on an international level.

Venture Capital Organizations

Angel Capital Association "... offers its members a variety of benefits including an annual North American Summit, regional meetings to share more detailed information, access to the top minds in the field, research papers and best practice information, and a members' only section of this site with data on each of the members. A true peer-to-peer organization, ACA is already starting to change the nature of early-stage investments for entrepreneurs, angels and venture capitalists. This organization provides thought-provoking discussions and valuable information...."

Community Development Venture Capital Alliance "... is the network for the rapidly growing field of community development venture capital (CDVC) investing. CDVC funds provide equity capital to businesses in underinvested markets, seeking market-rate financial returns, as well as the creation of good jobs, wealth, and entrepreneurial capacity. CDVCA was formed in 1993 and incorporated as a not-for-profit in 1995, CDVCA promotes use of the tools of venture capital to create jobs, entrepreneurial capacity and wealth to advance the livelihoods of low-income people and the economies of distressed communities...."

National Venture Capital Association ".... a member-based organization, consisting of venture capital firms that manage pools of risk equity capital dedicated to be invested in high growth, entrepreneurial companies..." On its website you can find "... model venture capital financing documents..."

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