天使投资Angel Investors Charles River Ventures . Boston-based VC firm. Offers QuickStart Seed Funding program, which provides up to $250,000 in seed capital in the form of a loan, which then converts to equity at a 25% discount to the Series A round. Reduced due diligence requirements (and faster) than typical VC round. CRV has made 9 such loans in the past year. Large portfolio of digital media, software, communications, and technology investments. Draper Fisher Jurvetson ("DFJ") Gotham Ventures. New York-based affiliate of DFJ. Seed and early stage investments ($1-$2 million) in Internet, eCommerce, software, communications, clean-tech, and homeland security. No geographic restriction, but most investments on East Coast or in NYC. Occasionally co-invests with DFJ. Portfolio includes Monitor110, ContextWeb, Guidester, and Ingenio. First Round Capital. Seed-stage firm started by former entrepreneur Josh Koppelman (Half.com) and idealab partner Howard Morgan. Intensive focus on and expertise in Internet sector. Professional Angel-stage financing. Invests nationally, with offices in Philadelphia, NY, and SF. More than 40 investments in past few years, including Digital Railroad, Wikia, Aggregate Knowledge. OpenAds, StumbleUpon, and Powerset. Greycroft Partners. Small, New York-based VC ($75 million). Invests only in digital media companies (consumer and business). Initial investments from $500,000 to $3 million. Portfolio includes Pump Audio, paidContent.org, TAKKLE, The Huffington Post, M5 Networks, Azureus, and Ladies Who Launch. New York Angels. Consortium of New York-based individual angel investors. Generally small investments ($250,000 to $750,000) in early-stage companies (ironically, not seed stage) in a wide range of industries: Aerospace, life sciences, media, Internet, software, communications, business services, financial services, utilities. Members have invested $28 million in 65 companies since 1997. Digital industry investments include Critical Mention, SignStorey, Adapt Media, MediaTile, eJamming, Game Trust, and Reunion.com.
Pennell Venture Partners. Small, New York-based VC. Handful of seed and early-stage investments in software and services over the past decade. No office. Investments up to $1.5 million. No recent investments. Portfolio includes Acorn Systems and Critical Mention. Robert Pittman. Former president of AOL and founder of MTV. Runs The Pilot Group, but also makes seed and venture investments. Scott Kurnit. Founder of About.com. Occasionally makes individual angel investments. Union Square Ventures. Most visible and focused Alley VC firm. Mostly makes seed-stage investments in Web 2.0-type companies (details here). Intensive Internet focus and expertise. No geographic restrictions, but most portfolio companies in and around New York. Recent investments include Del.icio.us, Feedburner, Indeed, Clickable, Etsy, Oddcast. Two key partners: Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham. Fred writes an influential, well-read blog: A VC.
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