Venture Capital Firms

21st Century Job Fund - MEDC 
Firm Type:  Public (Government)
Location: Lansing   
Phone:  (517) 373 9808
Website   
The 21st Century Jobs Fund will be used to jump start Michigan's economy and diversify and grow the state's economy in the future by focusing resources in three areas: Encourage the Development and Commercialization of Competitive-Edge Technologies; Increase Capital Investment Activity; and Increase Commercial Lending Activity.       

Apjohn Ventures 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location: Kalamazoo/ Birmingham
Phone:  (269) 349  8999
Website 
Apjohn Group is a newly formed 'business accelerator' focused on early stage life sciences opportunities, broadly defined to include drugs/therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, genomic / proteomic tools, and bioinformatics. Its primary goal is to commercialize innovative life sciences technologies.  They accomplish this through partnering with innovators and providing the valuable resources of management talent and angel/seed financing.

Arbor Partners 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Ann Arbor
Phone:  (734) 668 9000
Website 
Arbor Partners, LLC is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in information technology companies primarily in the Midwest.  Founded in 1996, the firm manages over $37 million in two funds.

Arboretum Ventures 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Ann Arbor 
Phone:  (734) 998 3688
Website
Arboretum Ventures invests in early stage life sciences companies primarily in the Midwest.  Our focus includes medical devices, biopharmaceuticals and health care IT.

Ardesta 
Firm Type:  Holding Company 
Location:  Ann Arbor 
Phone:  (734) 994 7000
Website
Ardesta is focused on being the leader in bringing small tech products to the global marketplace.  "Small Technology" includes nanotechnology, MEMS and microsystems.  Ardesta starts up and invests in small tech companies and accelerates the commercialization of small technology. Ardesta commenced in October 2000 with approximately $100 million of initial funding.

Beringea 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Farmington Hills
Phone:  (248) 489 9000 
Website
Beringea invests in dynamic businesses guided by exceptional management in the Healthcare and Media, Brands and Intellectual Property sectors.

Bio-Star Fund 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Saginaw 
Phone:  (989) 921 7000
Website
Bio-Star Private Equity Fund, LLC is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in medical device companies primarily in the Cardiovascular and Vascular industry.  Founded in 2002, the firm had its first closing on November 1, 2003 for $6.3 M and currently has $10.4 M under management.  The final closing date for the fund will be on November 1st, 2004.

Blue Chip Venture Co.
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Ann Arbor 
Phone:  (734) 668 2282
Website       
Blue Chip Venture Co. offers venture capital in a variety of industries, including healthcare, marketing and media services enterprise software, technology infrastructure, and where Blue Chip's expertise and linkages can meaningfully contribute to the success of the company.  The firm's investment philosophy is to partner with companies that have strong, experienced executive teams; serve the role of an active lead investor by structuring and negotiating new investment opportunities; capitalize on our leadership position in the Midwest; and invest in early and growth-stage companies.

Bridge Street Capital Partners L.L.C. 
Firm Type: Venture Capital 
Location:  Grand Rapids
Phone:  (616) 732 1050
Website  
Bridge Street Capital Partners brings together practical experience, entrepreneurial spirit, operational knowledge, and a sense of purpose. The firm provides local private equity capital to regional businesses for ownership transitions and growth funding.  

DTE Energy Ventures Inc. 
Firm Type:  Corporate Venture Capital 
Location:  Detroit
Phone:  (313) 235 7881
Website  
DTE Energy Ventures invests in and works with high potential energy technology companies to develop products and nurture businesses. The firm seeks to build value by creating mutually rewarding partnerships between DTE Energy operating businesses, high value customers and portfolio companies. 

Dow Chemical Corp. 
Firm Type:  Corporate Venture Capital 
Location:  Midland
Phone:  (800) 258 2436
Website
Dow Venture Capital, a corporate venture capital group within The Dow Chemical Company, provides capital and other developmental resources to start-up companies that meet Dow Venture Capital investment objectives. Dow Venture Capital has committed over $300 million globally to companies and venture funds involved in Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Communications and Information Technology, Electronics, and Materials Science.  Dow is a leading science, technology and manufacturing organization with annual sales of $28 billion.

EDF Ventures 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Ann Arbor 
Phone:  (734) 663 3213
Website
EDF Ventures, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based venture capital firm, invests in early stage market driven opportunities in health care and information technology.  Founded in 1987, EDF manages $120 million across three venture funds.

Endurance Ventures 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Ann Arbor 
Phone:  (734) 996 4434
Website
Endurance Ventures is a venture firm focused on investing into technology businesses that benefit from its business development advisory activity.  Founded in 2003, the firm manages three funds with total contributed capital of $60,000,000.

M Group 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Birmingham
Phone: (248) 540 8843
Website
M Group, Inc. is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in technology, software, Internet infrastructure and life sciences companies located predominantly in the Midwest.  The firm was founded in 1993 and currently has $30M of capital under management.

MacBeedon Venture Group
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Ann Arbor
Phone: (734) 222 4655
Website   
MacBeedon Partners, LLC is a pre-seed investment and management firm focused on creating technology companies and jobs in the Great Lakes Region. The firm promotes the creation and growth of new technology ventures by providing both funding and entrepreneurial leadership.   

Nth Power
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  San Francisco, CA 
Phone:  (415) 983 9983  
Website  
Nth Power is the first and most experienced venture capital firm funding promising startup companies in the growing sector of energy technology, materials and other related businesses. With over $425 million under management in four funds and an investment record that begins in 1997, Nth Power is widely known and well regarded as the driving force behind many of the most successful energy technology companies.   

North Coast Tech. 
Firm Type:  Investors Venture Capital 
Location:  Ann Arbor
Phone:  (734) 662 7667
Website 
North Coast Technology Investors, LP is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in technology-driven companies throughout the Midwest. North Coast invests in a range of industries, including advanced manufacturing, life sciences, software and telecommunications.

Oracle Capital Partners 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Sterling Heights 
Phone:  (313) 965 9950
Website
Formed in late 2003, Oracle Capital Partners is a mission driven private equity firm that invests in minority business enterprises with strong growth potential and that traditionally lack access to capital.  Targeted sectors include: industrial/manufacturing, consumer products, business/commercial services, health care, and technology.

Peninsula Capital Partners LLC 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Detroit 
Phone:  (313) 237 5100
Website
Peninsula Partners invests in a variety of industries.  It targets late-stage expansion, buyout or acquisition in the investment range of $4-$30-million.

Plymouth Venture Partners LLC 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Ann Arbor 
Phone:  (734) 747 9401
Website
Plymouth Venture Partners invests in healthcare and technology industries.  Currently, it has $10-million invested in 15 ventures.

RPM Ventures 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Ann Arbor 
Phone:  (734) 332 1700
Website
RPM Ventures offers venture capital in a variety of industries, including automotive, manufacturing, software, semiconductors, IT, high-tech, university spinouts, and advanced materials.  It provides funding for seed, start-up and first-stage ventures.  Its preferred range of investments is $500,000 to $2-million.

Seneca Partners 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Birmingham 
Phone:  (248) 723 6650
Website
Seneca Partners manages Seneca Health Partners, a venture capital fund that provides growth capital to healthcare technology, service and product/devices companies that have demonstrated some level of commercial success.  The firm focuses on investments located in the Midwest and the rest of Middle America.

Sigvion Capital
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Chicago, IL   
Phone:  (312) 226 6373  
Website 
Sigvion was founded in 2004 to finance and support the life-saving and world-changing medicines of tomorrow. Sigvion brings the highest level of scientific, clinical, market and financial rigor to bear during its investment process.    

Sloan Ventures 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Birmingham 
Phone:  (248) 540 9660
Website
Sloan Ventures is a seed/early stage venture development company based in Birmingham, MI.  Sloan Ventures focuses on the development of and investing in Software, IT and Life Sciences companies located primarily in Michigan and the Midwest.  Sloan Ventures manages an $8 million fund, and has raised over $60 million for its portfolio companies.

StarVest Partners, LP
Firm Type:  Investor
Location:  New York
Phone: (312) 863 2500
Website
StarVest Partners, LP invests in network and systems integration, wireless/software and enabling technologies.  Its 1st and 2nd round institutional investment is $3-7-million.

TGap Ventures 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Kalamazoo 
Phone:  (269) 217 1999
Website
TGap is an early stage venture capital firms focused primarily on the Midwest market.  Software, medical devices, IT, and specialty manufacturing are among our industry interests.  They also invest opportunistically in other industries and in later stage companies.

Tullis Dickerson 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Ann Arbor
Phone:  (734) 623 6300
Website 
Tullis-Dickerson & Co., Inc. is one of the country's largest health care-focused private equity groups, providing capital to small and mid-sized companies. The firm provides seed through late stage capital to creative, committed management teams leading growth companies.

Valenti Capital LLC 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Bloomfield Hills 
Phone:  (248) 593 8800
Website      
Valenti Capital LLC is an investment firm located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Valenti Capital manages several hundred million dollars in hedge funds, venture capital funds, and other private equity transactions      

Venture Investors
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Madison, WI
Phone:  (608) 441 2700
Website  
Venture Investors is one of the premier providers of seed and early stage venture capital in the Midwest. Formed in 1982, Venture Investors has a proven track record of identifying and financing world-class technology companies throughout the Midwest, delivering top quartile returns to its investors. The partners at Venture Investors have worked together for over two decades in identifying, financing, and assisting seed and early-stage entrepreneurial companies.  

Waypoint Ventures 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Ann Arbor    
Phone:  (734) 332 1700
Website
Waypoint Ventures, LLC invests in seed and early-stage information technology companies.  The firm provides strategic guidance, customer introductions, investor contacts and other value add support to portfolio companies.

White Pines Management 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Ann Arbor 
Phone:  (734) 747 9401
Website
White Pines Ventures, LLC provides subordinated debt and equity to privately held businesses to facilitate change in ownership, expansions, consolidations, and recapitalizations.  White Pines manages more than $75 million in two funds.

Wolverine Venture Fund 
Firm Type:  Venture Capital 
Location:  Ann Arbor 
Phone:  (734) 615 4419
Website
The Wolverine Venture Fund (WVF) is a multi-million dollar venture capital fund operated directly out of the University of Michigan Business School. The Fund's investments are made with the active involvement of MBA students, with the assistance of faculty and an eight-member advisory board of professional venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. The WVF is the largest, most active University-based venture fund of its type in the country.