Mark Kendall
Venture Capitalists (VC) play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Houston Venture Capitalists (VC). 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 Houston Venture Capitalists (VC)
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Mercury Fund
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Mercury focuses on entrepreneurs and software innovation companies and startups.
Chevron Technology Ventures
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Investor Type: Corporate Venture Capital, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Chevron Technology Ventures champions innovation, commercialization and integration of emerging technologies within Chevron.
Texas HALO Fund
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Texas HALO Fund is an investment company that specializes in investing in early-stage businesses.
The Artemis Fund
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed
The Artemis Fund invests in high-growth, tech-enabled companies led by women.
Sporos Bioventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Sporos Bioventures is a biotechnology firm that aims to catalyze the rapid and accurate development of cancer and immune disease treatments.
Fitz Gate Ventures
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Fitz Gate Ventures invests a majority of its capital in companies from the Princeton ecosystem and a portion more broadly.
Cathexis Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Cathexis Ventures specializes in the fields of venture capital and private equity.
GOOSE Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
GOOSE is an investment firm with an investor pool of Fortune 500 execs and serial entrepreneurs investing in early stage venture.
SpaceFund
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
SpaceFund is a venture capital firm, providing informed investing in a diversified portfolio of space companies.
Limitless Crypto Investments
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Investor Type: Hedge Fund, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Seed
LCI offers exposure to ventures, tokens, and projects related to blockchain tech, digital currency, and crypto assets.
Seed Round Capital
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Investor Type: Accelerator, Angel Group, Entrepreneurship Program, Incubator, Syndicate, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Seed Round Capital is a Houston-based tech startup investment and advisory firm.
Curate Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Curate Capital is a venture capital firm.
Energy Transition Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Energy Transition Ventures is a venture capital investor investing in startups in the energy transition.
New Climate Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
New Climate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in innovative carbon reduction and avoidance technology companies.
Crosstimbers Capital Group
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Crosstimbers Capital Group offers direct investments in entrepreneur-owned companies and private investment opportunities.
Polus Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Polus Capital provides Entrepreneur-friendly capital to profitable and growing businesses.
TA Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
TA Capital invests in the growth stage of start-ups with capable teams and strong visions.
Fayez Sarofim & Co.
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Fayez Sarofim & Co. are dedicated investment managers focused on long-term investing and portfolio management.
Montrose Lane (fka Cottonwood Venture Partners)
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Montrose Lane is an investment firm partnering with technology companies that make energy affordable, safe, and environmentally friendly.
L37 Venture Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
L37 is an investment firm that invests in visionary founders and companies to transform industries and solve problems.
Fannin Innovation Studio
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Fannin Innovation Studio focuses on commercializing innovation developed in the Texas Medical Center institutions.
Climate Impact Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Climate Impact Capital invests in technology-driven early-stage firms that have the potential to transform climate change issues.
Golden Section Ventures, LLC
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
SaaS, B2B, Industrial Tech, Hospitality Tech, Health IT
Garrison Investment Group
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Garrison Investment Group is a leading middle market credit and asset based investor. The firm was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in
Raven One Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Raven One Ventures is an early-stage venture fund, focusing on innovative opportunities with significant disruptive abilities.
Amnis Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Amnis Ventures is an investment firm that invests in technologies in supplying sustainable results.
UC-RNT Fund
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
UC-RNT Fund is an alternative investment fund that partners RNT Associates (Ratan Tata) and the University of California.
Golden Section Venture Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Golden Section is a seed-stage VC firm collaborating with entrepreneurs who are growing B2B SaaS businesses.
Griffin Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Griffin Partners operates as a commercial real estate development, management, and leasing company.
Chowning Group
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Houston-based private investment firm
HYPE Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
HYPE Capital is an investment firm.
Vesalius Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Vesalius Ventures is a venture capital firm created for diversified investments, targeting large but unmet market needs, compelling
Murphree Venture Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Murphree Venture Partners invests in energy, tech-enhanced business services, waste management, and critical infrastructure companies.
Sanders Morris Harris
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Sanders Morris Harris is a financial services firm that offers investment and advisory services.
Allison Wood Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
A global investment company built on a culture of vision and value creation.
Digitech Venture Capital Fund
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Digitech is a strategic VC fund that invests in tech companies at their early stages and plays an active role in their growth.
ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures provides direct investment and business development expertise to small, external tech startups.
Ford Venture Capital Group
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Venture Capital Firm
AMP Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Amp Ventures focuses on the Clean Energy sector that encompasses renewable energy, energy efficiency, and reduces the environmental impact.
Broadpeak Ventures
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Investor Type: Accelerator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Broadpeak Ventures is an investment group specializing in early stage growth companies.
Scotia Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Scotia Capital is a Mining Group.
Sternhill Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Founded in 1999, Sternhill Partners is a U.S.-based venture capital firm that provides seed- and early-stage technology investments.
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Grant
Laura and John Arnold Foundation’s core objective is to address our nation’s most pressing and persistent challenges using evidence-based,
Houston Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Houston Ventures invests in early, mid, late venture, and growth stage companies.
Sparksuite
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Launches, acquires, and grows a family of innovative software companies and meaningful open source projects.
Houston Health Ventures
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
HHV is a seed-stage healthcare investment fund focused on health IT.
McNair Interests
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
McNair Interests is a private investment and management company.
Elevation Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Elevation Capital focuses on capitalizing the rapid momentum of itscurrent startups.
Sweat Equity Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity
Sweat Equity Partners is an entrepreneur-led family of companies.
Senterra
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Senterra operates as an investment group that focuses on thoughtful investing.
Woodrock & Co
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
WoodRock & Co. was founded on the principal that investment banking is first and foremost a service business
KP Capital Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
KP Capital Partners is a venture capital firm based in Houston, Texas.
R&D Bauer Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
R&D Bauer Ventures is an investment firm that provides investment and financing services.
Indus River Ventures
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Investor Type: Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed
Indus River Ventures invest early as a lead investor and are healthcare leaders, powered by programs, platforms, and devices.
Morton Cohn Investments
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Morton Cohn Investments is an oil & energy company.
Flagship Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Flagship is a direct bridge lender
L.E. Simmons & Associates
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
L.E. Sommons & Associates is an energy services and investment company.
Charter Venture Group
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Charter Venture Group is a private equity and venture capital firm that invests in the healthcare industry.
Cogene Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
Cogene Ventures, a Texas-based venture capital firm, specializes in early-, mid-, expansion-, and late-stage investments.
Catalyst Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Catalyst Partners is a capital advisory and principal investment firm focused on energy and emerging technology.
BCM Technologies (BCMT)
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
BCM Technologies’ investment strategy revolves around the concept that maximum returns from early stage life science investing will result
Stanford Financial Group
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Stanford Financial Group is a network of financial services companies specialized in early and late stage venture capital investments.
Black Beret Life Sciences
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Black Beret Life Sciences is a biotechnology investment firm that manages investments in game-changing biotechnology centers.
Quantum Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Quantum Partners is a management consulting.
Nazmark
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Nazmark is to identify, fund, and guide early stage companies with high-growth potential.
Sorfina Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Sorfina Capital is a venture capital firm and is based in the United States.
CitareTx Investment Partners I
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
CitareTx Investment Partners I was founded in 2008
Creeris Ventures
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed
Creeris is a VENTURE company that creates, funds, and operates companies under its control.
Haddington Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Venture
Haddington Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm.
Stark Capital Management,LLC
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Stark Capital Management is a company that offers investment and institutional support services.
BlueRock Energy Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
BlueRock Energy Capital is an independent oil and gas producer finance company.
Richland Investments
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Richland Investments is a company that specializes in capital investment services.
Global H2O Investments
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Global H2O Investments provides capital for developing new or acquiring existing water, wastewater and “waste-to-value” infrastructure
Farid Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Farid Ventures provides capital and advisory services for early and growth-stage enterprises providing software.
Cockrell Investment Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
Cockrell Investment Partners
Triple Tap Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Triple Tap Ventures is focused on running great businesses with great people.
Medingenii Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
We invest in breakthrough technologies in the Medical, Healthcare and Life Science industries.
Crossmark Global Investments
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Crossmark Global Investments, Inc was formed in 2017.
AutoFinance Group, Inc
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Auto Financial Group is one of the nation’s leading sources of residual based finance products for credit unions.
Capital Direct Funding
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Capital Direct Funding is a commercial loan company which located in Houston who specialize in investment return and residential transaction
Bamboo Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Bamboo Capital is a technology investment firm providing funding to early-stage startups.
Reliant Energy Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Reliant Energy Ventures
Eyes of Texas Partners
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Eyes of Texas Partners is a provider of computing technology, software, hardware, distribution and marketing solutions.
Tchoupitoulas Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Tchoupitoulas Partners is an investment firm based in Houston, Texas.
Cypress Point Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Venture
Cypress Point Partners was added in 2013.
Appian Way Capital Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Appian Way Capital Partners is a private capital firm that specializes in $1-$5 million investments in companies nationwide.
New Capital Management
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
New Capital Management is a company that specializes in financial services.
Starboard Star Venture Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Starboard Star Venture Capital is a venture capital fund that focuses on investments in early-stage technology companies.
Circa Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Circa Ventures is a VC firm that offers seed money for information technology and science-based start-ups.
Sixth Floor Investors
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Sixth Floor Investors was added in 2010.
AIM Funds
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Venture
AIM Funds
Enron Investment Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Enron Investment Partners is a venture capital.
GTD Capital Holdings
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
capital management company
MediGen Group
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
MediGen Group LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed,start-up, and early stage companies.
Brochstein Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Venture
Brochstein Ventures is an investing firm.
Bond Sheets
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Venture
Bond Sheets helps raise capital for companies by taking equity in the company and resell the value of the equity to bond holders.
AmeriFinancial
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Established in 1995, AmeriFinancial is a private investment, venture capital and advisory firm that has specialized exclusively in early
Warwick Resources
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Warwick is an operational advisory organization focused on identifying companies with exploration and development opportunities in Africa.
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