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Alexander Hutton Venture Partners
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Alexander Hutton Venture Partners is a Seattle-based $95 million venture capital firm, focused on actively nurturing early-stage technology companies in the Pacific Northwest. The firm offers its portfolio companies hands-on financial, technology and management experience by a team of seasoned business professionals.
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Arch Venture Partners
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ARCH invests primarily in companies co-founded with leading scientists and entrepreneurs, concentrating on bringing to market innovations in information technology, life sciences, and physical sciences. We enjoy special recognition as a leader in the successful commercialization of technologies developed at academic research institutions and national laboratories. ARCH currently manages six funds totaling over $1 billion and has invested in the earliest venture capital rounds for more than 110 companies. ARCH investors include major corporations, pension funds, endowment funds, financial institutions, and private investors
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Benaroya Capital
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Benaroya Capital
has been investing in early stage Northwest companies
since the mid '80s. We specialize in equity and equity-bridge financings in post
seed-stage growth companies in a wide range of industries. Our investments have
been from the fields of Internet (b2b and b2c), telecommunications (chips,
equipment, and software), manufacturing, and consumer.
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Buerk Dale Victor
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Buerk Dale Victor LLC is a Pacific Northwest private equity firm dedicated to growing capital for our investors by investing in and building emerging growth companies. We strive to build enduring companies by leveraging over 150 years of combined operational experience to provide exceptional hands-on support. Our successes include Shurgard Storage, Gymboree, the Commerce Bank and Callaway Golf. BDV invests primarily in the business or consumer products/services, healthcare, retail, technology and financial services industries. Our first fund has made investments in 13 companies including Door to Door Storage, Ivey Imaging, Performant and Intrepid Learning Solutions.
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eFund
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eFund is an investment partnership focused on early-stage investments in
communications and Internet companies. We are experienced company founders and
builders who have been actively involved in starting, growing, managing,
financing and supporting high-growth technology companies. We have been engaged
both in senior management positions, as advisors and investors. As investors, we
have invested in over 60 high-tech investments in the past few years which have
a combined equity today of over $20 billion.
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Encompass Ventures
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Encompass Ventures is a Pacific Northwest-based venture capital firm. It invests in early stage information technology companies in the Western United States. Encompass Ventures has consistently achieved superior returns on investment by adhering to a disciplined investment strategy practiced by experienced partners. Encompass Ventures has developed an extensive network which assists its portfolio companies with international business development in the Asian and European marketplaces. With $100 million in capital currently under management, Encompass Ventures focuses its investment activities on specific sectors of Information Technology (Enterprise Applications, Broadband Enabled Applications, Next Generation Computing Applications and Medical Information Technology).
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Fluke Venture Partners
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Fluke Venture Partners is one of the oldest and most active venture firms in the Pacific Northwest. Over more than two decades—and through up and down cycles—we’ve viewed our relationship with each management team we fund as a long-term partnership that extends from a venture's early stages all the way to industry leadership and beyond.
Our mission is to fund a deliberately diverse portfolio of the most promising high-growth technology, healthcare and consumer-oriented opportunities in the Northwest. As such, we are proud to have backed some of the region’s most successful and enduring enterprises, including Aldus, Coinstar, Eagle Hardware & Garden, Innova, Starbucks, and Tegic Communications.
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Frazier Healthcare Ventures
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Frazier Healthcare Ventures, founded in 1991 and with more than $1 billion of capital under management, is one of the nation's leading providers of early stage venture and growth equity capital to healthcare companies. Having invested in more than 85 emerging healthcare companies, Frazier Healthcare Ventures is known well for the depth of experience and technical expertise of its eleven member investment team. This experience encompasses product development and launch, clinical trial implementation and design, industry operating experience, academic research and clinical practice. Partnering with Frazier Healthcare provides access to capital and an unparalleled breadth of relevant healthcare industry experience.
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Frazier Technology Ventures
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At FTV, our mission is to leverage our operational and investment experience in the new investing environment in a way that finds, develops and matures the best technology rich ideas into sustainable operating companies.
We do this by seeking out promising entrepreneurs, companies and ideas and by getting involved early in a company’s development or — in some cases — even seeding companies. As a result, the majority of our initial investments are either at the seed or Series A level of financing.
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Guide Ventures
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Guide Ventures invests in seed and early stage information technology (IT) companies on the West Coast of the United States, including Western Canada.
We specifically look for firms that are at the stage of developing their markets, completing their products and expanding their management teams. Usually, Guide will lead the investment syndication, although we have teamed with many other individuals, investment banks and venture capital firms.
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IDG Ventures
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With $180M under management, the West Coast fund of IDG Ventures helps entrepreneurs grow innovative
companies on a global basis. We are an independent partnership making investments on behalf of our
limited partner, International Data Group, the world's largest IT media company. IDG Ventures operates
as a global family of five locally-managed funds totaling approximately $600 million under management.
As one of the few truly global venture firms, IDG Ventures has made over 100 investments spanning North
America, Europe and Asia over the last 10 years. We look at a range of sectors including Internet
infrastructure, computer hardware, enterprise software, wireless, bioIT and Internet content/e-commerce.
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Ignition Partners
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Ignition Partners, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., is a premier venture capital firm focused on exceptional value and leadership in software, technology and service start-ups. Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise and operational experience. Ignition's partners are proven business leaders with more than 160 years of combined experience, who have built some of the world's most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Microsoft's enterprise business. Ignition has approximately $750 million in capital under management.
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Intel Corporation
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Intel's strategic investment program is one of the largest global corporate venture programs investing in the technology segment. Its mission is to make and manage financially attractive investments that support Intel's strategic objectives. With an overall strategy to stimulate advances in computing and communications, the Intel Capital team seeks out and invests in promising companies worldwide working together to establish new and innovative technologies, develop industry standard solutions, drive global Internet growth, enable new usage models, and advance the computing and communications platforms.
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Madrona Venture Group
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Madrona Venture Group
is the leading venture capital investor focused on the
Internet economy in the Pacific Northwest, one of the world's most dynamic
regions for producing early-stage, technology-based ventures. Madrona is focused
on technology and software opportunities that leverage the driving forces of the
New Economy: Internet, Broadband, Semiconductor and Wireless technologies.
Headquartered in Seattle, Madrona manages a $250 million fund.
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Maveron
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Maveron a leading venture capital firm focused on the convergence of consumers and technology. Maveron focuses its investments on the Consumer Continuum, an investment universe that spans the consumer/technology spectrum. The Consumer Continuum is based on the premise that technology now impacts almost every facet of a company’s relationship with consumers.
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NWVA
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NWVA invests primarily in three industry sectors: software, communications and consumer. Our focus is on companies: (i) with stellar leadership, (ii) developing proprietary technology or creating recognized brands and (iii) targeting large, growing and uncluttered markets. Our goal is to invest in companies whose competitive advantages can be sustained over the long term and in businesses that have the ability to be the leader in their designated markets.
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OVP Venture Partners
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OVP is the market leader in the Pacific Northwest with over $500 million in committed capital under our management. We originate and lead our investments and focus on firms serving markets such as the network edge and mobility, the corporate data center, imaging and the digital home, bioinformatics and nanotechnology.
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Polaris Ventures
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We believe that venture investing should be a
partnership between investors and entrepreneurs. We seek entrepreneurs who share
our values, and we are extremely selective: we typically review more than 100
potential investments for every company added to our portfolio.
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SeaPoint Ventures
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SeaPoint Ventures
began as a Pacific Northwest "point fund"
associated with three preeminent venture capital firms: Oak Investment Partners,
Sevin Rosen Funds, and Venrock Associates. SeaPoint has since evolved into a
"stand alone" venture capital firm that maintains strong strategic ties to these
larger funds.
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Rustic Canyon Partners
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Rustic Canyon Partners is a leading West Coast-based investment firm with approximately $700 million under management. With a unique footprint that covers Southern California, Silicon Valley and the Pacific Northwest, and an extraordinary team with diverse and complementary backgrounds, we provide the expertise and strategic insight that prudent investment decisions require, and the guidance necessary for sustained growth and superior returns.
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Voyager Capital
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Voyager Capital
is Seattle's
leading ebusiness venture capital firm and provides entrepreneurs with the
resources, experience, and connections to build successful companies. Voyager
invests in early stage e-business software and services, Internet
infrastructure, and wireless companies. Voyager's managing directors bring
experience from a variety of senior management, business development, and
venture capital roles. Voyager's advisory board members and investors provide
important contacts for e-business startups, and are among the most successful
information technology executives and investors in Seattle and Silicon
Valley.
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Vulcan Capital
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Vulcan Capital's venture team focuses on investments within the software, semiconductor, life sciences and communications sectors. We look to partner with entrepreneurs who have the vision and drive to transform technology breakthroughs and scientific advances into world-class companies. We are a focused, hands-on investor with years of operational and investing experience within our team. We strive to be a thoughtful and trusted partner to both our companies and syndicate co-investors.
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WM Strategic Capital Fund
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The WM Strategic Capital Fund is the venture capital/private equity arm of Washington Mutual's
corporate development activities. We invest in
high growth potential companies across a number of market segments, from technology to financial services. Our five partner team supplies each company with a breadth of industry experience, personal network contacts and support, in addition to, providing access to a Fortune 100 financial services institution. We are located in Seattle, WA and actively investigate new investment opportunities on a national basis.
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WRF Capital
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WRF Capital is the venture investment arm of the Washington
Research Foundation. WRF Capital creates and invests in
technology-based start-up companies that have strong ties to the
University of Washington and other non-profit research institutions in
Washington State. Proceeds from investments are used to make financial
gifts to Washington State research institutions.
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