Contact List for Venture Capital Firms located in Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts and Michigan

Below are some contacts for Venture Capital Firms to help you in your search for capital. Please, come back often, because I am continually updating the Website and the lists. I have tried to include specific information and resources to help you save time with your research and developing your own contact list. Check out as many as you can and keep notes of any information you get to avoid calling the same investors twice. You should contact as many firms as possible, because you never know which one will be interested.

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Maine

CEI Community Ventures 2 Portland Fish Pier, Suite 201 Portland, ME 04101 Tele: (207) 772-5356 Fax: (207) 772-5503
www.ceicommunityventures.com
Located in Portland, Maine, Community Ventures manages a $10M venture capital fund. Led by a team with extensive operating, investing and consulting experience, Community Ventures works actively with you to help you build value and realize your business aims. They can connect you to critical resources using their relationships throughout Northern New England and greater Boston with banks, other equity funds, the business community and economic development agencies. Their experience, relationships and collaborative style make them a value-added partner. Community Ventures invests from its own fund in amounts ranging from $100,000 to $500,000. Working with partner funds, they can also help coordinate and/or lead larger financings (as much as $5 million) with investors that share their outlook.

Maryland

The Abell Foundation Suite 2300 111 S. Calvert Street Baltimore, MD 21202-6174 Phone: 410-547-1300 Fax: 410-539-6579 www.abell.org
Among the Foundation's investments are investments in companies that create jobs in Baltimore and promote various social objectives, such as increasing energy efficiency and producing alternative energy.

Blue Chip Venture Capital 301 4th Street Annapolis, MD 21403 Tele: 410-266-7375 Fax: 800-886-1466 www.bcvc.com
Blue Chip prefers to work with executive staff and management teams that are highly ethical, passionate and strategic and have a proven track record of success. They invest about one-half of our capital in companies located in the Midwest, a region in which Blue Chip has developed a strong presence. Their goal is to maintain a sharp focus on healthcare, information technology, and marketing and media services companies seeking first- and second-round funding. Targeted Industries – Range of industries, concentration on 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.

Grotech Capital Group 9690 Deereco Road, Suite 800 Timonium, MD 21093 Tele: 410-560-2000 Fax: 410-560-1910 www.grotech.com
Grotech Capital Group is a private equity firm with a 22-year winning track record and approximately one billion dollars under management. Grotech is a recognized leader investing in information technology, health care and consumer companies located in the eastern United States.

Highland Capital Partners 7475 Wisconsin Avenue Suite 625 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Phone: 301-280-0131 Fax: 301-280-0121 http://www.hcp.com/
Highland invests in seed, early and growth stage companies in the information technology, communications and healthcare markets. Highland is almost always the first institutional investor in the companies they back.

Inflection Piont Ventures (IPV) 7903 Sleaford Place Bethesda, MD 20814 Tele: 301-656-6837 Fax: 301-656-8056 http://www.inflectpoint.com
IPV provides venture capital and business support for early stage telecommunications, information technology, and electronic commerce companies. They invest primarily in pre and post-revenue companies seeking their first round of equity financing. They prefer to lead or co-lead investments. Their initial investments range in size from $500,000 to $2,000,000. We expect the large majority of our investments to be located in the Mid-Atlantic states and New England.

JMI Equity Fund 2 Hamill Road, Suite 272 Baltimore, MD 21210 Phone: (410) 951-0200 Fax: (410) 951-0201 http://www.jmi-inc.com
JMI Equity is a private equity/venture capital firm focused on enterprise software and services.

Massachusetts

ABRY Partners LLC 111 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02199 telephone: (617) 859-2959 fax: (617) 859-8797 www.abry.comm

Advanced Technology Ventures Bay Colony Corporate Center 1000 Winter St. Suite 3700 Waltham, Massachusetts 02451 Tele: 781-290-0707 Fax: 781-6840045 www.atvcapital.com

Bain Capital Ventures 111 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02199 Tele: 617-516-2000 Fax: 617-516-2010 www.baincapitalventures.com

Battery Ventures 20 William St. Suite 200 Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481-4103 Tele: 781-577-1000 Fax: 781-577-1001 http://www.battery.com/

Capital Resource Partners 200 State Street Boston, Massachusetts 02109 Tele: 617-478-9600 Fax: 617-478-9605 www.crp.com

Castile Ventures 890 Winter Street, Suite 140 Waltham, MA 02451-1449 Tele: 781-890-0060 Fax: 781-890-0065 http://www.castileventures.com
Castile Ventures invests in innovative early-stage enterprises creating new generations of communications, software and IT infrastructure.

Egan-Managed Capital 30 Federal Street Boston, MA 02110 Tele: 617-695-2600 Fax: 617-695-2699 www.egancapital.com
Partnering with today's entrepreneurs to create successful New England technology companies of tomorrow.

Fidelity Ventures One Federal Street, 16th floor Boston, MA Tel: (617) 392-2448 Fax: (617) 476-9023 www.fidelityventures.com
Fidelity Ventures investment focus is in the information technology (IT) and communications sectors. Within IT, they look for innovation in such areas as security, systems management, wireless infrastructure, and the data center. In communications, they invest in the home networking sector as well as software and systems for service providers.

Flagship Ventures One Memorial Drive 7th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 Tele: 617.868.1888 Fax: 617.868.1115 www.flagshipventures.com
Flagship Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on creating, financing, and building innovative companies in the Life Science and Technology sectors.

Highland Capital Partners 92 Hayden Avenue Lexington, Massachusetts 02421 Phone: 781-861-5500 Fax: 781-861-5499 http://www.hcp.com
They invest in seed, early and growth stage companies in the information technology, communications and healthcare markets. Highland is almost always the first institutional investor in the companies they back.

Housatonic Partners 111 Huntington Avenue Suite 2850 Boston, MA 02199-5160 Phone (617) 399-9200 Fax (617) 267-5565 http://www.housatonicpartners.com
Housatonic Partners is a private equity investment firm founded in 1994 with over $350 million in capital under management. They invest in profitable companies in the business services, media and communications industries.

Inflection Piont Ventures (IPV) 30 Washington Street Wellesley, MA 02481 Tele: 781-416-5107 Fax: 781-237-6699 http://www.inflectpoint.com
IPV provides venture capital and business support for early stage telecommunications, information technology, and electronic commerce companies. They invest primarily in pre and post-revenue companies seeking their first round of equity financing. They prefer to lead or co-lead investments. Their initial investments range in size from $500,000 to $2,000,000. They expect the large majority of their investments to be located in the Mid-Atlantic states and New England.

Village Ventures 92 Hayden Avenue, first floor Lexington, MA 02421 Tele: 781-482-1041 Fax: 781-482-1044 www.villageventures.com
Village Ventures invests in promising seed and early stage opportunities identified by its investment professionals as well as the local managers of its Partner Funds. They are an early stage venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building technology and life science companies in emerging U.S. technology centers.

Michigan

Camelot Ventures 20555 Victor Parkway Suite 100 Livonia, Michigan 48152 Phone: (734) 805-5133 www.camelotventures.com
Camelot Ventures invests in companies in which we can leverage the expertise and success we've gained from operating our own respective businesses. They focus on industries in customer relationship management (CRM), call center, catalog, traditional or direct marketing applications, retail, electronic commerce or financial services sectors.

Forest Hill Partners L.L.C. Detroit Office 34132 Oakland Ave. Farmington, MI 48335 Tel: 248-888-1101 Fax: 734-264-6127 www.foresthillpartners.com
Theor mission is to level the playing field for small to midsize businesses, providing the capital and resources necessary to compete and thrive in today’s economy.