Contact List for Venture Capital Firms located in Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri and Montana

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.

Please check out Other Funding Sources to Consider for Venture Capital. This section contains great insights into funding sources that you might not have considered. The information found there can help you to develop leads and network with others in the financial field.

I will keep adding to this Contact List of Venture Capital Firms from time to time. Please Contact Me if you would like to add any contact information to the list if you are a VC firm located in Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri or Montana. If possible include the size investments your firm typically makes and describe what areas you invest in. For example do you only invest in a one industry such as technology, medical, or electronics.

If you are an entrepreneur or company looking to obtain funding, try to narrow your search to only those contacts that you really feel may be interested in funding your company. This will save you valuable time by streamlining your search, not to mention reducing your stress factor.

You should base your decision of which Venture Capital Firms to contact on two factors: 1. the dollar amount you are seeking and 2. the type of industry in which that particular VC firm typically makes an investment. Some Firms are smaller and only fund up to $1 of $2 Million, while the larger firms won’t fund anything under $10 Million. Bottom line, don’t waste your time with the larger VC firms if you are only looking for up to $2 Million.

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Minnesota

Aavin Venture Capital 2500 Rand Tower 527 Marquette Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55402 Phone: 612-375-9866 Fax: 319-363-9519 www.aavin.com

Accuitive Medical Ventures 3652 Hermann Court NE Rochester, MN 55906 Contact name: John Deedrick Phone: (507) 529 4003 Fax: (507) 529 4004 http://www.amvpartners.com

Affinity Capital Management 901 Marquette Ave. Suite 2820 Minneapolis, MN 55402 Tele: 612-252-9900 Fax: 612-252-9911 www.affinitycapital.net

Bayview Capital Management, LLC 641 E. Lake St. Suite 230 Wayzata, Minnesota 55305 Tele: 952-345-2000 Fax: 952-345-2003 http://www.bayviewcap.com

H. B. Fuller Ventures 1200 Willow Lake Blvd St. Paul, MN 55110 Phone: 651.236.5495 www.hbfuller.com
H.B. Fuller Ventures is the corporate venture fund of H.B. Fuller Company. They invest in start up technology companies entering the commercialization stage of development. Their fund was started in early 2003 with the goal of making 2-3 investments per year in the range of $500,000 to $2 million.

Mississippi

Thirty-seven years ago an entrepreneur looking for capital to launch a small business had very few sources to turn to. There was no institutional resource to back up promising but untried ideas. Again and again, businesses with great potential for innovation failed - or never got off the ground.

To help solve this problem, Congress created in 1958, the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program. SBICs, licensed by the Small Business Administration, are privately organized and privately managed investment firms, yet they are participants in a vital partnership between government and the private sector economy. With their own capital and with funds borrowed at favorable rates from the federal government, SBICs provide venture capital to small independent businesses, both new and already established.

In Mississippi, you can contact the following Small Business Investment Companies:

Sun-Delta Capital Access Center, Inc., (SSBIC) Mr. Howard Boutte, Jr., Vice-President 819 Main Street Greenville, Mississippi 39701 PH: (662) 335-5291 FAX: (662) 335-5295
Investment size range - preferred min: $25,000 preferred max: $200,000
Type of capital provided - loan, debt equity, subordinated debt Funding stage preference – seed, early stage, acquisition, MBO, expansion, later stage.

CapSource 2000 Fund, LP James R. Herndon, Managing Partner 795 Woodlands Parkway Suite 100 Ridgeland, Mississippi 39157 PH: (601) 899-8980 FAX: (601) 952-1334 Website: www.capsources.com

Missouri

Advantage Capital Partners 7733 Forsyth Boulevard Suite 1850 St. Louis, MO 63105 Phone: (314) 725-0800 Fax: (314) 725-4265 www.advantagecap.com
Advantage Capital Partners is a private equity firm that invests in promising companies in connection with federal, state and local economic development initiatives. Since 1992 Advantage has raised more than $700 million in institutional capital and has invested in a wide variety of companies and real estate projects. Targeting its investment activities in geographic areas that are underserved by venture capital, Advantage seeks to generate exceptional returns for its investors as well as for the communities in which it operates.

Capital For Business, Inc. 11 South Meramec, Suite 1430 Clayton, MO 63105 Tele: 314-746-7427 www.capitalforbusiness.com
We typically invest between $500,000 and $5 million in:
• Manufacturers of industrial products or parts;
• Distributors of industrial products or parts;
• Providers of business-to-business services.
They don't invest in start-ups, turnarounds, new technologies, biotechnology, real estate, energy, or financial institutions.

Montana