101 Best & Most Active Washington Private Equity Firms

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Private Equity Firms play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Washington Private Equity Firms. 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 Washington Private Equity Firms

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International Finance Corporation

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Investor Type: Government Office, Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

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

International Finance Corporation is a private equity and venture capital subsidiary focused on the private sector in developing countries.

The Carlyle Group

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

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

The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.

Vulcan Capital

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Investor Type: Family Investment Office, Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

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

Vulcan Capital is a private equity firm that invests in category-leading technology, internet, and life sciences companies.

Frazier Healthcare Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

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

Frazier Healthcare Partners is a healthcare investment firm for pharmaceuticals, healthcare services, & medical products.

Paladin Capital Group

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

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

Paladin is a global investor that supports innovative technology companies through venture investment and growth capital.

Sahsen Ventures

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Sahsen Ventures makes investments in for-profit and nonprofit organizations with an emphasis on technology and biotechnology.

Anzu Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity

Anzu Partners is an investment firm that invests in industrial and life science technology companies.

Echo Health Ventures

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

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

Echo Health Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in health care companies.

Emerging Capital Partners (ECP)

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

ECP is a private equity group dedicated to investing in Africa.

Vulcan

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Vulcan Inc. operates as an investment and project management company in Seattle, Washington.

ACON Investment

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

ACON Investments is an international private equity investment firm managing capital through varied investment funds.

NGP Energy Technology Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

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

A $148 million private equity fund investing in energy companies, is sponsored by NGP Energy Capital Management.

BlackRock Private Equity Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

BlackRock Private Equity Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in direct and fund investments.

Balius Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Venture

Balius Partners provides differentiated capital to mission-driven, owner-operators seeking a long-term partnership.

EIG Global Energy Partners(EIG)

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

EIG has been a trusted partner to many preeminent companies in the energy sector since 1982 and our global platform supports seven offices

Halifax Group

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

THE HALIFAX GROUP is a private investment firm focused on lower middle-market businesses with total enterprise values between $30 million

Goldfinch Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture, Private Equity

Goldfinch Partners invests in enterprise technology companies.

SEAF

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

SEAF is an investment firm that provides growth capital and operational support to businesses in emerging markets.

LNC Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

LNC provides its partners with flexible capital solutions and the strategic support to drive value creation for all stakeholders

HCI Equity Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

HCI Equity Partners is a private equity firm which invests in growth oriented industrial product and service companies.

Carlyle Global Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Carlyle Global Partners (CGP), the firm’s first long-dated private equity fund.

Privateer Holdings

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Privateer Holdings is a private equity firm shaping the future of legal cannabis.

Bezos Family Foundation

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

The Bezos Family Foundation is a private, independent foundation.

Godspeed Capital Management

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Godspeed Capital Management is a lower middle-market Defense & Government services, solutions, and technology focused private equity firm.

Stagwell Group

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

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A private equity firm led by ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer

Astra Capital Management

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Astra Capital Management is a private equity firm.

Caravan Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Caravan Capital is an independent investment management firm specializing in the frontier and emerging equity markets.

Propeller Airports

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

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Propeller Airports is a private equity firm that invests in the aerospace and transportation sectors.

Unico

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Unico is commercial real estate investor, developer, and full-service operator with assets in emerging markets.

Perseus

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Perseus is a merchant bank and private equity fund management company.

Darby Technology Ventures

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Darby Overseas Investments is an emerging investment firm that manages private equity and fixed-income funds for institutional investors.

Montlake Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Montlake Capital is a private equity firm specializing in consumer, businesses, and financial products, technology, and services.

DC Ventures

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed

DC Ventures is an early-stage focused Venture Capital and Startup advisory firm.

Evergreen Pacific Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture

Evergreen Pacific Partners currently manages two private equity funds totaling $700 million, with a focus on investing in traditional,

First Row Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage:

We invest in the future of how people earn and spend money. Born in Seattle and covering the West Coast.

The Resource Group

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Private Equity, Venture

The Resource Group is an investment holding company specializing in the business process outsourcing sector.

Albright Capital Management

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Albright Capital Management LLC is a private equity firm specializing in emerging markets

DiamondStream Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

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

DiamondStream Partners is a manager that invests in the future of travel and aviation.

Pike Street Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Pike Street Capital manages a private equity fund focused on growth buyouts in industrial technology in the lower middle market.

SRM Development

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

SRM Development is a privately owned real estate firm specializing in the acquisition, development, and construction of properties. The

Spaulding & Slye Investments

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Spaulding & Slye Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jones Lang LaSalle, offers clients and partners an integrated service platform

Kupanda Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Kupanda Capital is a leading investment and advisory firm established to incubate, capitalize and scale pan-African companies.

Creative Equity Lending

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Debt

Investment Stage:

Creative Equity Lending is a funding source for real estate investment transactions with good equity.

Invictus Capital Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Invictus Capital Partners is an investment management firm.

Rosemont Seneca Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Rosemont Seneca Partners is business development and policy advisory firm focused on the infrastructure.

EMP Global

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

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EMP traces its roots to the founding in 1992 of its predecessor company, Emerging Markets Partnership.

Parametric Portfolio Associates

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Parametric has been providing engineered portfolio solutions to institutional and private clients for over a quarter of a century.

Iron Point Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Iron Point Partners is a real estate investment firm specializing in distressed and other special situation investment opportunities

LAP Latin American Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Latin American Partners is a leading private equity and mezzanine fund manager focused on middle market companies.

Urban Investment Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Urban Investment Partners is a real estate investment firm that specializes in multi-family and mixed-use residential properties.

Attractor Investment Management

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Founded 1996 Employees 4 Burlingame, CA 650/685-8540www.attractor.com Tech IPOs 3 2000 equi-return 46.6% MARKET Private venture capital

Four Seasons Ventures

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture

Four Seasons Ventures, a private equity firm, moves technologies from the U.S. government research agency labs into the private sector.

Ignition Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Ignition Capital is a Seattle-based investment group managing multiple funds across private equity, venture capital, and Chinese ventures.

Zing Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed

At Zing Capital we invest in people, not just ideas. We know that success lies in the people behind the brand.

Pithia

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Investor Type: Micro VC, Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

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

We are an investment firm focusing on “blockchain realism”. We invest in foundational business that enable blockchain infrastructure

First In

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Private Equity, Venture

First In is a Venture capital and Private Equity firm that backs entrepreneurs on a mission to change enterprises with data.

Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

GP/Eleos Social Venture Fund is an early-stage impact-led fund investing in social enterprises in East Africa.

WestMill Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

WestMill Capital is a value-oriented real estate investment firm focused on innovative approaches to real estate finance.

Arable Capital Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Arable Capital Partners is a private investment firm focused exclusively on food & agriculture investing

M5 Venture

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Investor Type: Corporate Venture Capital, Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital, Venture Debt

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

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BEB Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

BEB Capital is a real estate investment firm that optimizes value creation in all aspects of the diverse portfolio of assets.

Cronus Ventures

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed

Cronus Ventures, LLC (Cronus), is an early stage investment capital firm that invests in startup information technology companies.

Talisker Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Talisker Partners is a private investment firm partnering with exceptional business owners

Tunisian American Enterprise Fund

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Tunisian American Enterprise Fund invest in sustainable growth, and create greater opportunities.

Heartland

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Heartland operates as a real estate advisory and investment firm.

Private Equity Growth Capital Council

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

The PEGCC develops, analyzes, and distributes information about the private equity and growth capital investment industry.

Thayer Capital Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Thayer Capital Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based private equity investment firm.

Inova LLC

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Inova is a software development company. We have +6 years experience in native mobile development (iOS & Android) and web development.

Rainier Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Rainier Partners is a private equity firm that invests in lower middle-market businesses.

Impel Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Impel Capital is a private equity firm whose principals have closed over $3 billion in transactions.

Nitze-Stagen

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Nitze-Stagen is an integrated real-estate development and investment company.

Vesta Hospitality

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Vesta Hospitality is a fully integrated hotel development and hospitality management company.

Pinnacle Capital Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Pinnacle Capital Partners is a Great Falls company.

The Holt Group

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

The Holt Group is a Washington-based real estate company that offers land development and construction.

Westward Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Westward Partners is a private investment firm focused on producing attractive long-term returns through alternative asset investments.

Timberlane Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Timberlane Partners is a real estate investment company focusing on multi-family, retail, and office renovation and development.

Talon Private Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

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Talon Private Capital is a commercial real estate private equity investment firm.

Farragut Capital Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Debt

Investment Stage: Debt, Private Equity

Farragut Capital Partners is a privately held investment firm providing subordinated debt and equity capital.

Juniper Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Juniper Capital provides financing for commercial real estate investments.

Donovan Capital Group, LLC

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Debt, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity

Private investment firm that makes minority equity and debt investments in companies that strengthen U.S. national security.

JB Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Debt

Investment Stage:

JB Capital is a merchant bank providing responsive, creative capital solutions to privately held.

Pacific Technology Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture

Pacific Technology Partners, a private investment firm, provides buyout and growth capital for technology companies.

Gemini Capital Management Fund

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Gemini capital management fund is the investors is a private investment firm with focus and flexibility.

Capital Trust Ventures

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture

Capital Trust Ventures is a U.S.-based private equity firm that invests in later-stage information technology companies.

Women’s Growth Capital Fund

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Venture

The Women’s Growth Capital Fund, based in Washington, DC, invests equity capital primarily in early and expansion stage women-owned firm.

Ranch Creek Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Ranch Creek targets real asset businesses that have the potential for significant free cash flow and growth.

Swiftsure Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Swiftsure Capital LLC is a private equity investment firm specializing in investments in software and hardware technologies sector.

Caivis

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Caivis is a firm that specializes in Capital Investments.

Milestone Merchant Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture

Milestone Merchant Partners is the financial advisory firm providing investment banking services to institutions and companies.

GMS Capital Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Private Equity, Venture

GMS Capital Partners is an investment management firm focused on sourcing, arranging, and making investments across different asset classes.

Ruxton Ventures

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage:

Ruxton Ventures is private equity firm that invests in technology,media and education companies.

Syrus Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Syrus Partners makes investments for majority positions in small businesses with great cultures.

CVG Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Private Equity, Venture

CVG Capital is a novel investment opportunities in private equity,blended finance and FinTech.

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Investor Type: Angel Group, Co-Working Space, Fund Of Funds, Investment Bank, Micro VC, Private Equity Firm, Syndicate, Venture Debt

Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed

We enables more entrepreneurial activity in the communities to use the state-of-art technologies in ever changing industries.

SMARTCAP

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

SMARTCAP is a direct real estate investment firm that manages commercial real estate investments focusing on value-added office and industrial development projects.