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101 Best & Most Active New York Investment Banks

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Investment Banks play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top New York Investment Banks. We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.

This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.

Top New York Investment Banks

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.


Goldman Sachs

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Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed

Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.


BlackRock

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post-Ipo, Private Equity

BlackRock is an investment company that offers its services to institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors.


Morgan Stanley

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post-Ipo, Private Equity, Seed

Morgan Stanley is a financial services company that offers securities, asset management, and credit services.


Allen & Company

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Family Investment Office, Investment Bank, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed

Allen & Company is a private investment and advisory firm.


JP Morgan Chase

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Debt, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity

JP Morgan Chase is a global financial services provider that offers investment banking, asset management, treasury, and other services.


JPMorgan Partners (JPMP)

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity

J.P. Morgan Partners, LLC (JPMP) is a private equity division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), one of the largest financial.


Citi

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Citigroup is a diversified financial services holding company that provides various financial products and services.


GS Growth

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

GS Growth provides preferred equity and mezzanine capital to high-growth and technology driven companies.


Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial firm.


Chase Capital Partners

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Commercial Banking serves more than 30,000 clients, including corporations, municipalities, financial institutions and not-for-profit


JP Morgan

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

JP Morgan offers financial services, serving large multinationals, emerging companies, institutional investor, and individuals.


Merrill Lynch

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity

Merrill Lynch is one of the world’s premier providers of wealth management, securities trading and sales, corporate finance and investment


Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Morgan Stanley is a financial services and asset management corporation.


RBC Capital Markets

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post-Ipo

RBC Capital Markets provides a focused set of products and services to corporations, institutional investors and governments.


CIBC World Markets

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

CIBC World Markets is a Canadian investment banking subsidiary that operates in the international equity and debt capital markets.


J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

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Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity

J.P. Morgan is a global industry leader with more than $13.7 trillion in assets under custody and $5.1 trillion in assets under


Lazard Technology Partners

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Lazard Technology Partners pursues investment in information technology and technology-enabled businesses and is a venture firm in New York.


The Raine Group

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture, Private Equity

The Raine Group is a global merchant bank focused exclusively on technology, media and telecommunications.


Cowen Group

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Post-Ipo, Private Equity

Cowen Group is a diversified financial services firm and, together with its consolidated subsidiaries, provides alternative investment


Shoko Chukin Bank

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Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Debt

Investment Stage:

Shoko Chukin Bank is a financial company offering personal banking services.


Broadhaven Capital Partners

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Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed

Broadhaven Capital Partners is an independent merchant bank advising and investing in financial services


Jefferies

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Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Debt

Jefferies provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets.


BNY Mellon

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Corporate Venture Capital, Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

BNY Mellon is an investment company that provides investment management, investment services, and wealth management services.


Jennison Associates

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture, Private Equity

Jennison Associates has earned a reputation for excellence by fulfilling client investment needs since its founding in 1969.


Bank of America Securities

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Bank of America Securities is the investment banking arm of Bank of America and offers trading, brokerage and other services.


C.E. Unterberg, Towbin

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

They are the investment partnership for high growth technology companies.


Evercore Partners

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Evercore Partners is a New York-based investment banking firm that advises its clients on M&A, divestitures, and more.


Jefferies Financial Group

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Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Capital

Investment Stage:

Jefferies Financial Group engages in investment banking, capital markets, asset management, and direct investing.


DH Capital

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed

DH Capital is a private investment banking partnership founded in 2001 and serves the media, Internet and telecommunications industries.


Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette was a U.S. investment bank founded by William Donaldson, Richard Jenrette and Dan Lufkin.


Third Seven Capital

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Third Seven Capital is a privately owned boutique investment bank and advisory firm.


PaineWebber

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Paine Webber and Company was a U.S.-based stock brokerage and asset management firm.


Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP) provides innovative alternative investment solutions across hedge funds, private


Wit SoundView Ventures

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Wit SoundView Group is an online investment banking group focused exclusively on the Internet and technology sectors.


Cantor Fitzgerald

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Cantor Fitzgerald is a global financial services firm that specializes in equities, investment banking, and real estate.


MUFG Union Bank

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture

MUFG is a multinational group that offers comprehensive and tailored financial solutions.


Oppenheimer & Co.

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Oppenheimer & Co. provides a full range of investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management services.


Avendus Capital

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Avendus Capital is India’s premier investment banking firm that offers financial and strategic advisory services.


Parkview Ventures

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed

We provide expert advice on Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Investments and Joint Ventures. We are 100% focused on the Internet industry,.


Goldman Sachs Bank USA

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Goldman Sachs Bank USA provides various banking products and services.


Lazard

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Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Capital

Investment Stage:

Lazard is a financial advisory and asset management firm focused on income strategies, alternative investments, and private equity funds.


Guggenheim Securities

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Guggenheim Securities is the investment banking and capital markets business of Guggenheim Partners.


First Albany Companies

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

A leading institutionally focused independent investment bank and asset management firm


JANA Partners LLC

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

JANA Partners is an event-driven activist investment manager.


Moelis & Company

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Moelis & Company is an investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base.


Cowen and Company

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Cowen and Company, founded in 1918, is the broker-dealer business of Cowen.


Citigroup Global Markets

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Citigroup Global Markets provides world-class products and financing solutions.


Viridian Capital Advisors

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Viridian Capital Advisors is a financial and strategic advisory firm dedicated to the cannabis market.


Gleacher Capital Partners

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Gleacher Capital Partners is an independent investment bank that provides financial advisory and capital raising services.


SJ Investment Partners

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

SJ Investment Partners private equity firm acquiring middle-market consumer and services companies.


Kudu Investment Management

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

A leading capital provider to asset management and wealth management firms.


Layer 7 Capital

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Layer 7 Capital is a boutique investment bank that specializes in mergers and acquisitions.


PineBridge Investments

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture

PineBridge is an independent asset manager with over 60 years of experience in emerging and developed markets.


National Securities Corporation

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

An independent full service brokerage firm offering professional & individual services


Jordan Edmiston Group

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Jordan Edmiston Group is an independent investment banking firm that focuses the media, information, marketing and technology sectors.


Deutsche Bank Securities

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Investment banking and security brokerage services


The Walden Group

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

The Walden Group, Inc. is a consulting firm and an investment bank serving the healthcare industry.


Salomon Smith Barney

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Salomon Smith Barney provides advisory services to limited partners, venture capital, and leveraged buyout funds.


Ocean Group

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed

Ocean Group is a New York-based private company that caters seed and early stage venture, and private equity investments.


H. C. Wainwright & Co.

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

H.C. Wainwright & Co. blends traditional values with innovative services, operating with integrity and offering leading-edge investment.


Berenson & Company

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Berenson assembled a team with not only deep financial and domain knowledge, but also deep operating expertise.


Valence Capital Management

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture

Valence Capital Management, LP provides capital for financing new or growing business ventures.


Orkila Capital

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Orkila Capital is a company that offers investment management services.


RM Global Partners

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

RM Global is an investment banking and strategic advisory firm .


Evolution Financial Group

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

A respected advisor and counter party for institutional investors, corporate clients, and wealthy individuals around the globe.


Wasserstein Perella

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Wasserstein Perella is a boutique investment bank providing banking and financial services worldwide.


Invemed Associates

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Invemed Associates is a merchant banking and investment banking firm


Alliance Global Partners

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Alliance Global Partners is a national investment firm whose broker-dealer affiliation has been a member of FINRA.


Haitou Global

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Haitou Global is a global asset allocation platform providing asset management, investment banking, digital technology product and services.


MTS Health Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

MTS Health Partners, L.P. is a boutique investment bank that offers corporate finance advisory services to the healthcare sector. The firm


Arcadian Investment Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Arcadian Investment Partners is an investment firm focused on direct investments in growing middle-market companies.


Modern Bank

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Modern Bank is a privately owned, entrepreneurial bank


Digital Capital Advisors

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity

Digital Capital Advisors is a tech-focused global investment bank that provides M&A, Private Placement and Strategic Advisory services.


ELMA Philanthropies

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

ELMA Philanthropies provides philanthropic advisory services to the ELMA Group of Foundations.


Sandhill Investment Management

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Sandhill Investment Management is a boutique investment management firm providing management and oversight of over $602 million in assets.


TAP Advisors

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

TAP Advisors is a corporate finance advisory investment banking firm.


Larkspur Capital Corporation

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Larkspur Capital Corporation, a member of the NASD, is a private investment bank that specializes in private placements and financial


Aegis Capital Corporation

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

A Financial Services Company that makes a difference


Brookline Capital Markets

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Brookline Capital Markets provides a wide range of capital markets and advisory services to trans formative companies.


JDS Capital Management

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

JDS Capital Management, Inc. is a New York-based investment advisor.


COSCO Capital Management

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

A boutique investment banking firm that focuses on energy companies and projects.


Gerard, Klauer, Mattison & Co. Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Gerard, Klauer, Mattison & Co. Partners


Sunrise Securities

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Sunrise Securities Corp. is a boutique investment bank that specializes in debt and equity financings.


Punk, Ziegel & Company

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Punk, Ziegel & Company is a boutique investment bank that offers corporate finance advisory services.


Dinosaur Financial Group

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Dinosaur Financial Group is an independent, owner-managed global investment firm.


FE International

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market

FE International provides M&A advisory services for mid-market SaaS, e-commerce and content businesses.


5D

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Angel Group, Family Investment Office, Fund Of Funds, Hedge Fund, Incubator, Investment Bank, Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Late Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture

5D is a financial services firm.


Ardea Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Ardea Partners is a private investment banking advisory firm that provides strategic and financial advice to executives and enterprises.


Greentech Capital Advisors

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Greentech Capital Advisors serves companies that transforms energy, industrial, and resource infrastructure.


Venture Capital Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Venture Capital Partners is a multinational venture capital firm and bank.


Chardan

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Chardan is an investment bank that offers capital market and research services.


EarlyBirdCapital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

EarlyBirdCapital is a boutique investment bank and Special Purpose Acquisition Company investment vehicle.


New Era Cap

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

New Era Cap is New York-based advisory firm.


Incentrum Group

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Incentrum Group is a merchant bank focused on the Healthcare, Life/Material Science, and Technology Industries.


Berkshire Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Berkshire Capital is a leading global boutique investment bank.


Madison Alley Global Ventures

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Preeminent strategic M&A and capital advisory firm for digital marketing, advertising, media and technology companies.


Bryant Park Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Bryant Park Capital is an investment bank providing mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance advisory services.


Joseph Stone Capital

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Joseph Stone Capital is an investment banking firm.


Seaport Global Securities

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Seaport Global Securities is an Investment bank with full capital markets capabilities.


Atlas Advisors

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage:

Atlas Advisors is an investment banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions and capital raise.


Kidron

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Investor Type: Investment Bank

Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture

Kidron Corporate Advisors LLC is a full service boutique investment bank specializing in cross-border emerging growth companies in the

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