The Startup Scene in Massachusetts
Browse the Massachusetts startup ecosystem featuring 257 investors and startups. Our directory includes 255 angel investors and VCs with an average check size of $17.9M, plus 2 startups across all sectors. 6 investors are actively investing, and 2 startups are generating revenue.
Startups (2)
View all Massachusetts startups →NicklPay
Kevin Wu
Boston, MA
The problem is clearly defined as the inefficiency and revenue loss faced by small to medium B2B distributors due to fragmented systems, leading to significant time spent on reconciling inventory and...
alldae
Ryan McDonnell
MA
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Investors (255)
View all Massachusetts investors →WAVE Opportunity Fund
WAVE Opportunity Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
Castle Island Ventures
Castle Island Ventures
Boston, Massachusetts
AVSF - Lila Sciences
AVSF - Lila Sciences
Boston, Massachusetts
AVSF - Friendli AI
AVSF - Friendli AI
Boston, Massachusetts
Hub Angel Investment Group Fund
Hub Angel Investment Group Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
Mission BioCapital
Mission BioCapital
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Black Coral Capital
Black Coral Capital
Boston, MA
Black Coral Capital is a fund investing in the alternative energy / cleantech space. The fund can invest in a wide variety of cleantech arenas, both directly and through funds. Black Coral was formed...
Parallel Venture Capital
Parallel Venture Capital
Boston, Massachusetts
AVSF - Polygraf
AVSF - Polygraf
Boston, Massachusetts
Catalyst Fund Resilience
Catalyst Fund Resilience
Cambridge, Massachusetts
T.Rx Capital Fund
T.Rx Capital Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
FA Technology Ventures
FA Technology Ventures
Boston, MA
FA Technology Ventures is an early stage investor, providing venture capital, management and guidance for companies in the emerging growth sectors of Information Technology and Energy Technology.
Partners HealthCare
Partners HealthCare
Boston, MA
Partners HealthCare was founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Partners is an integrated health care system that offers patients a continuum of...
AVSF - Samaya
AVSF - Samaya
Boston, Massachusetts
AV Foundation Fund September
AV Foundation Fund September
Boston, Massachusetts
Altimeter Growth Olympic Fund
Altimeter Growth Olympic Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
AVSF - Cohere
AVSF - Cohere
Boston, Massachusetts
LoLa Capital Privateer
LoLa Capital Privateer
Prides Crossing, Massachusetts
DBDK Venture Fund
DBDK Venture Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
Altimeter Adirondack Fund
Altimeter Adirondack Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
AVSF - Optery
AVSF - Optery
Boston, Massachusetts
AVSF - Peer
AVSF - Peer
Boston, Massachusetts
Pilot House Ventures
Pilot House Ventures
Boston, MA
Pilot House Ventures is a Boston, Massachusetts-based venture capital firm that invests in promising early stage technology companies, including enterprise software, network infrastructure, internet,...
Atlas Venture Opportunity Fund
Atlas Venture Opportunity Fund
Cambridge, Massachusetts
AVSF - Cylinder
AVSF - Cylinder
Boston, Massachusetts
82VS Seed Fund
82VS Seed Fund
Waltham, Massachusetts
AVSF - Passport
AVSF - Passport
Boston, Massachusetts
AVSF - Tavus
AVSF - Tavus
Boston, Massachusetts
HLM Investment Partners
HLM Investment Partners
Waltham, Massachusetts
Cybernetix Ventures Fund
Cybernetix Ventures Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
Transformation Capital Fund IV-A
Transformation Capital Fund IV-A
Boston, Massachusetts
Transformation Capital Fund
Transformation Capital Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
Transformation Capital Fund IV (Cayman)
Transformation Capital Fund IV (Cayman)
Boston, Massachusetts
AV Blockchain & Fintech Fund
AV Blockchain & Fintech Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
Musket Research Associates
Musket Research Associates
Cambridge, MA
Musket Research Associates is an investment banking firm specializing in healthcare. It was founded in 1992 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Altimeter Growth
Altimeter Growth
Boston, Massachusetts
AVSF - Aalo
AVSF - Aalo
Boston, Massachusetts
GreatPoint Ventures
GreatPoint Ventures
Cambridge, MA
GreatPoint Ventures (GPV) is a specialized venture development firm focusing on seed-stage commercialization of exciting, new technologies. GPV invests in "big picture" opportunities that have the...
AVSF - Vector
AVSF - Vector
Boston, Massachusetts
AVSF - CesiumAstro
AVSF - CesiumAstro
Boston, Massachusetts
AVSF - Observe
AVSF - Observe
Boston, Massachusetts
AV Franklin Street Ventures Fund
AV Franklin Street Ventures Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
AV Healthtech Fund
AV Healthtech Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
AV Comm Ave Ventures Fund
AV Comm Ave Ventures Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
Wavecrest Growth Partners III Founders Fund
Wavecrest Growth Partners III Founders Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
AV The Fence Ventures Fund
AV The Fence Ventures Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
V360 Holdings LLC Series Springhood FLAG
V360 Holdings LLC Series Springhood FLAG
Sudbury, Massachusetts
V360 Holdings LLC Series Springhood Phoenicis
V360 Holdings LLC Series Springhood Phoenicis
Sudbury, Massachusetts
Bain Capital
Bain Capital
Boston, MA
Established in 1984, Bain Capital is one of the world's leading private investment firms managing approximately $65 billion in assets under management. Their affiliated advisors make private equity,...
RA Capital Planetary Health International Fund
RA Capital Planetary Health International Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
RA Capital Planetary Health Fund
RA Capital Planetary Health Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
oneworld BEV Fund
oneworld BEV Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
Clean Energy Venture Group (CEVG)
Clean Energy Venture Group
Boston, MA
CEVG provides seed capital and hands-on management expertise to early-stage climate tech and clean energy startups. They focus on companies that can materially mitigate GHGs, are close to...
AVSF - Nitricity
AVSF - Nitricity
Boston, Massachusetts
Strawberry Creek Ventures Fund
Strawberry Creek Ventures Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
Blue Ivy Ventures Fund
Blue Ivy Ventures Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
Congress Avenue Ventures Fund
Congress Avenue Ventures Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
AV AI First Fund
AV AI First Fund
Boston, Massachusetts
North Hill Ventures
North Hill Ventures
Boston, MA
North Hill Ventures specializes in early-stage financial technology and marketing technology companies. Through their experience as investors, advisors, and operating managers, they have developed...
Ampersand Capital Partners
Ampersand Capital Partners
Wellesley, MA
[Ampersand](http://www.ampersandventures.com/) is a middle market private equity firm focused on investments in two core sectors: Healthcare and Industrial.
Fidelity Ventures
Fidelity Ventures
Boston, MA
Fidelity Ventures provides capital and other resources that help portfolio companies bring new products and services to market.
Floating Point
Floating Point
Cambridge, Massachusetts
AVSF - Synchron
AVSF - Synchron
Boston, Massachusetts
Timescale Ventures Fund
Timescale Ventures Fund
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Sigma Partners
Sigma Partners
Boston, MA
Sigma Partners is a venture capital firm, founded in 1984, that has invested in over a hundred early stage companies and has over $2 billion under management. In 2007, it raised $500 million for...
North Bridge Venture Partners
North Bridge Venture Partners
Waltham, MA
North Bridge Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts and San Mateo, California. Headquartered on both sides of the country, the firm spreads...
Summit Partners
Summit Partners
Boston, MA
Summit Partners is a growth equity firm that invests in rapidly growing companies. Founded in 1984, Summit has raised nearly $15 billion in capital and has provided growth equity, recapitalization...
Kodiak Venture Partners
Kodiak Venture Partners
Wellesley, MA
Kodiak Venture Partners pursues a disciplined investment strategy that is focused on building seed and early stage technology companies into high-growth industry market leaders. Kodiak partners have...
Commonwealth Capital Ventures
Commonwealth Capital Ventures
Boston, MA
[Commonwealth Capital Ventures](http://www.commonwealthvc.com/) is a leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth stage technology companies. Our experienced professionals empower...
Vesbridge Partners
Vesbridge Partners
Wakefield, MA
Their focus is on companies creating the next wave of technologies and solutions. Vesbridge Partners is the former Networking & IT team of St. Paul Venture Capital (SPVC), with significant history...
Longworth Venture Partners
Longworth Venture Partners
Waltham, MA
Longworth Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that has led investments in some innovative and successful technology companies.
Ascent Venture Partners
Ascent Venture Partners
Boston, MA
[Ascent](http://www.ascentvp.com) is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage, emerging technology companies.
Spray Venture Partners
Spray Venture Partners
Newton, MA
Spray Venture Partners focuses exclusively on contributing capital and expertise to emerging healthcare technology companies. They work closely with clinical and technical founders to create...
Fidelity Biosciences
Fidelity Biosciences
Cambridge, MA
They are a division of Fidelity Investments, one of the worldâs leading providers of financial services. For more than 30 years, Fidelity Investments has been a significant presence in the venture...
Fairhaven Capital Partners
Fairhaven Capital Partners
Cambridge, MA
Fairhaven Capital Partners (previously [TD Capital](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/td-capital)) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts based venture capital firm investing in early stage,...
Gartmore Investment Management
Gartmore Investment Management
Boston, MA
Gartmore is a respected independent fund manager, whose sole focus is asset management. We offer a wide range of investment products and services, tailored to meet the varying needs of both retail...
BancBoston Ventures
BancBoston Ventures
Boston, MA
BancBoston Ventures was the Bank of Bostonâs early stage venture capital fund. Eventually the Bank of Boston was [acquired](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/27/national/main580134.shtml) by...
Tudor Growth Equity
Tudor Growth Equity
Boston, MA
Tudor Ventures is the venture capital and private equity arm of Tudor Investment Corporation, an internationally recognized, $17 billion in assets, diversified investment management firm. Tudor has...
incTANK Ventures
incTANK Ventures
Cambridge, MA
incTANK Ventures is a seed stage investor that takes an active role in mentoring and supporting early stage ventures. They work alongside entrepreneurs, researchers, and universities to reduce risk...
Monitor Clipper Funds
Monitor Clipper Funds
Boston, MA
Monitor Clipper Partners is a private equity investment firm formed in 1998 by The Monitor Group, a leading group of advisory businesses that has at its core one of the worldâs largest strategy...
Point Judith Capital
Point Judith Capital
Boston, MA
Point Judith Capital is a leading early stage venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. They focus on investments in software and technology enabled services. They take an active approach...
Key Venture Partners
Key Venture Partners
Boston, MA
Growth Equity: Key Venture Partners ("KVP") is a Waltham, MA based firm investing growth equity and expansion capital in revenue generating companies with capital-efficient business models. Industry...
Schooner Capital
Schooner Capital
Boston, MA
Schooner Capital LLC is a private investment firm located in downtown Boston. A family office, they have no outside limited partners and approach all investments with a long-term perspective. Areas...
Long River Ventures
Long River Ventures
Amherst, MA
The Long River team has sat on both sides of the table; they have been founders/CEO's of venture-backed start-ups, as well as investors. As entrepreneurs, Long River principals have launched and...
TD Capital
TD Capital
MA
TD Capital is the merchant banking and private equity arm of TD Bank Financial Group. TD Capital manages TD Bank's proprietary merchant banking, mezzanine and private equity investments and maintains...
Advent International
Advent International
Boston, MA
Advent has the broadest geographic reach of any private equity investor with 15 offices and 6 affiliates in 23 countries. We will almost certainly have experience investing in your market. We have...
PAR Capital Management
PAR Capital Management
Boston, MA
PAR Capital Management manages PAR Investment Partners, L.P., a private investment fund. The firm was founded in 1990 and is located in Boston, Massachusetts. Our philosophy is based on the belief...
Ironside Ventures
Ironside Ventures
West Newton, MA
Ironside Ventures is a Massachusetts-based investment firm offering venture capital financing to fast growing companies in the United States. Since establishing their firm in 1998, they have been...
Race Point Capital Group
Race Point Capital Group
Waltham, MA
Race Point Capital takes a particular interest in opportunities which have the potential to be transformative of an existing market or create new markets. In particular, Race Point Capital looks for...
Boston Capital Ventures
Boston Capital Ventures
Boston, MA
Boston Capital Ventures manages private venture capital partnership funds for individual and institutional investors which invest in growth companies. The original BCV fund was formed in 1982. For...
Sverica International
Sverica International
Boston, MA
Sverica International, founded in 1993, is a leading private equity firm with over $425 million of capital under management across three funds. Sverica invests in, works closely with management teams...
Allied Minds
Allied Minds
Boston, MA
Allied Minds is a private investment firm that forms, funds, manages and builds start-ups.
EMC
EMC
Hopkinton, MA
EMC is a manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. EMC produces a range of enterprise storage products, including hardware disk arrays and storage management...
Velocity Equity Partners
Velocity Equity Partners
Boston, MA
Velocity Equity Partners is a private venture capital firm investing in early stage growth companies primarily in the Northeast. Velocitys mission is to create value by identifying and supporting...
Berwind Private Equity
Berwind Private Equity
Harvard, MA
Berwind Private Equity is a multi-generational company that identifies investment opportunities for the Berwind family. Being internally funded allows us to quickly evaluate and act upon...
Beacon Angels
Beacon Angels
Boston, MA
Beacon Angels is a Boston-based angel group that makes investments in the $100,000 to $300,000 range in small fast-growing companies.
Weston Presidio Capital
Weston Presidio Capital
Boston, MA
Weston Presidio Capital is a general venture capital firm that focuses its investments within the United States but targets a wide variety of markets. According to their 2008 website, they've...
Rose Park Advisors
Rose Park Advisors
Boston, MA
Rose Park Advisors is an investment firm focused on identifying investment opportunities by applying the framework of disruptive innovation.
Commons Capital
Commons Capital
Brookline, MA
Commons Capital LP is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on helping exceptional entrepreneurs build successful companies that exhibit strong financial returns as well as significant social...
Adage Capital Management
Adage Capital Management
Boston, MA
Adage Capital Management is a Boston-based $8.9B Money Management firm focused on managing S&P 500 assets predominantly for Endowments and Foundations such as Harvard University, Northwestern...
PAR Capital Ventures
PAR Capital Ventures
Boston, MA
Westfield Capital Management
Westfield Capital Management
Boston, MA
Westfield Capital Management is an SEC-registered investment advisor dedicated to providing quality investment management services to institutions and wealthy individuals. Westfield supervises...
WestView Capital Partners
WestView Capital Partners
Boston, MA
WestView Capital Partners is focused exclusively on lower middle market companies. They provide equity capital to companies in a wide range of industries. Since 1990, the principals of WestView have...
Navigator Technology Ventures
Navigator Technology Ventures
Cambridge, MA
Navigator Technology Ventures (NTV) works with innovators to turn their technologies into successful companies. They provide a unique combination of venture funding, technological expertise with the...
Brooke Private Equity Advisors
Brooke Private Equity Advisors
Boston, MA
Brooke Private Equity Advisors, Private Equity is a principal investment firm. The firm typically invests in a companyâs first institutional round of investment regardless of the stage of the...
Riverside Partners
Riverside Partners
Boston, MA
Riverside Partners LLC is a Boston-based private equity firm.
Chestnut Hill Ventures
Chestnut Hill Ventures
Wellesley, MA
Chestnut Hill Ventures LLC is a private equity firm. The firm considers investments in the following sectors: consumer products, business services, financial services, media and entertainment, and...
Sigma Prime Ventures
Sigma Prime Ventures
Boston, MA
Sigma Prime Ventures invests in early-stage companies focused on SaaS, Cloud Mobile and technology enabled services.
Gemini Investors
Gemini Investors
Wellesley, MA
Founded in 1993, Gemini is a Massachusetts based private equity firm that provides capital and strategic resources to lower middle market companies. Since its inception, they have invested...
Dace Ventures
Dace Ventures
Waltham, MA
[Dace Ventures](http://www.daceventures.com) is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in internet-related innovations focused on digital media, consumer marketing and mobile services.
Audax Ventures
Audax Ventures
Boston, MA
"Audax Group is a premier source of investment capital for middle market companies. Established in 1999, Audax manages over $4 billion of capital through its private equity, mezzanine debt, senior...
Aeneas Ventures
Aeneas Ventures
Boston, MA
Aeneas Venture Corp is the venture capital arm of [Harvard Management Company](http://www.hmc.harvard.edu/).
Covington Associates
Covington Associates
Boston, MA
Covington Associates is a premier boutique investment banking firm with offices in Boston, Chicago, and New York. Founded in 1991, the vision for Covington Associates has been to provide clients...
TSG Equity Partners
TSG Equity Partners
Stow, MA
TSG Equity Partners is a private equity investment firm providing growth and acquisition financing to expansion stage and middle-market companies. The firm focuses on companies in the Northeast U.S....
Biogen Idec
Biogen Idec
Weston, MA
Biogen Idec uses cutting-edge science to discover, develop, manufacture and market biological products for the treatment of serious diseases with a focus on neurological disorders. Founded in 1978,...
Mast Capital Management
Mast Capital Management
Boston, MA
MAST Capital Management, LLC is a Registered Investment Advisor with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Companyon Ventures
Companyon Ventures
Boston, MA
Companyon backs a small number of founder-led B2B software startups (focused on SaaS) with deep post-investment support across talent, GTM/scale, and capital. Typical target: North America-based B2B...
Project 11 Ventures
Project 11 Ventures
Cambridge, MA
Berkshire Partners
Berkshire Partners
Boston, MA
Berkshire Partners has invested in mid-size private companies for the past 25 years through seven funds with aggregate capital commitments of approximately $6.5 billion.
Parthenon Capital Partners
Parthenon Capital Partners
Boston, MA
Parthenon is a private equity investment firm with approximately $2 billion of capital under management. Parthenon Capital has offices in Boston and San Francisco with approximately 30 professionals...
Seacoast Capital Partners
Seacoast Capital Partners
Danvers, MA
Seacoast Capital invests mezzanine and equity capital in small, growing companies led by strong, entrepreneurial management teams. They invest in high quality U.S. businesses that are market leaders...
Tekla Capital Management
Tekla Capital Management
Boston, MA
Tekla Capital Management LLC is a registered investment adviser based in Boston, Massachusetts, and is currently the investment adviser for two closed-end equity funds, H&Q Healthcare Investors and...
Suffolk Equity Partners
Suffolk Equity Partners
Cambridge, MA
Suffolk Equity is an investment company funding businesses and entrepreneurs and helping them achieve their goals of growth and improvement.
Don Huffner
RZC Advisors
Boston, MA
SideCar Angels is a Boston-based angel group that pools members’ funds to deliver six-figure investments quickly into early-stage, US corporations with a signed lead term sheet. They co-invest...
Venture Capital Fund of New England
Venture Capital Fund of New England
Wellesley, MA
The Venture Capital Fund of New England's investment activities are characterized by: - A focus on early stage companies - A geographic concentration in the New England region - An emphasis on...
Endeavor Partners
Endeavor Partners
Cambridge, MA
Endeavor Partners is an early stage fund run by [Michael Tanne](/people/michael-tanne). Endeavor invests in early stage ventures doing social apps, consumer products and services, SaaS solutions,...
Solstice Capital
Solstice Capital
Salem, MA
Solstice Capital seeks superior venture capital returns for its limited partners through investments in seed- and early-stage companies in the industry areas of alternative energy, education, the...
Raptor Ventures
Raptor Ventures
Boston, MA
Venture capital fund affiliated with hedge fund Raptor Capital Management in Boston. Raptor Ventures is seeking to raise $75 million for its first fund.They partner with and deploy capital to...
Innospark Ventures
Innospark Ventures
Boston, MA
Innospark backs technical founders building applied AI and deep-technology solutions across healthcare, life sciences, and enterprise software. The firm provides domain expertise and operational...
Egan-Managed Capital
Egan-Managed Capital
Boston, MA
Egan-Managed Capital was formed by the Egan family with the objective of helping future entrepreneurs build significant enterprises. They seek opportunities to invest in companies where they can...
State Street Global Investments
State Street Global Investments
Boston, MA
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), one of the industry's largest institutional asset managers1, is the investment management arm of State Street Bank and Trust Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of...
RA Capital Management
RA Capital Management
Boston, MA
RA Capital Management is an investment advisor based in Boston specializing in the life-sciences and drug development sectors. Their team has been investing since 2002 and is comprised of...
Eastward Capital Partners
Eastward Capital Partners
West Newton, MA
Eastward Capital Partners, LLC is a venture debt firm specializing in emerging companies backed by venture capital firms. It seeks to invest in technology companies including information technology,...
HarbourVest Partners
HarbourVest Partners
Boston, MA
HarbourVest is an independent investment firm that provides innovative private equity solutions to institutional clients worldwide. As one of the first private equity fund-of-funds, they have a long...
Masthead Venture Partners
Masthead Venture Partners
Cambridge, MA
Masthead's partners possess successful track records creating long-term value in early-stage companies. They seek market-making ventures with strong teams and powerful intellectual property in...
Peak Ridge Capital
Peak Ridge Capital
Boston, MA
Peak Ridge Capital Group is a cutting edge, global alternative asset management firm. We focus on providing truly unique investment products to our diverse investor base. Our approach to providing...
PureTech Ventures
PureTech Ventures
Boston, MA
They specialize in seed and early-stage investment in novel therapeutics, medical devices, and research technologies. They focus on major unmet medical needs that have yet to be addressed by emerging...
Invest Northern Ireland
Invest Northern Ireland
Boston, MA
Invest Northern Ireland is Northern Irelandâs economic development agency. Their overall goal is to help create wealth for the benefit of the whole community by strengthening the economy and...
Beacon Equity Partners
Beacon Equity Partners
Boston, MA
Each of their partners has fueled and managed explosive growth at technology companies. They invest in early and middle stage technology companies in Europe and the US. To help accelerate growth,...
Shiprock Capital
Shiprock Capital
Wellesley, MA
Shiprock Capital LLC, founded by Richard C. Shipley, Chairman of Shipley Company LCC, is a private equity firm that invests in the development of early and expansion stage technology companies in the...
Mitsubishi Corporation Life Sciences Venture
Mitsubishi Corporation Life Sciences Venture
Andover, MA
As a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi International Corporation (MIC) is a unique knowledge-based company. Established in 1954 and headquartered in New York City, MIC...
Neoteny
Neoteny
Wellesley, MA
Founded in 1999, Neoteny is a venture capital investment firm based in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The firm seeks to invest in the hardware, software, internet, biotech, technology, media, and...
Hub Angels Investment Group LLC
Hub Angels Investment Group
Boston, MA
Hub Angels Investment Group is a long-standing Boston-area angel group investing since 2000 in young technology and life sciences companies, primarily in the Northeastern United States. They have...
Excel Medical Ventures
Excel Medical Ventures
Boston, MA
The Excel Medical Ventures team builds companies that apply transformative life science technology to solve problems in healthcare and beyond. The Excel investment portfolio is balanced across...
LSP BioVentures
LSP BioVentures
Cambridge, MA
LSP BioVentures is a venture capital fund focused on opportunities in the life science arena. Based in Cambridge (MA) in the USA; the fundâs management combines the strength of its parent company,...
Partners Innovation Fund
Partners Innovation Fund
Boston, MA
Partners Innovation Fund provides the necessary support to advance innovations in medical systems, therapy, drugs and medical devices.
Boston Millennia Partners
Boston Millennia Partners
Boston, MA
Boston Millennia Partners provides private equity financing to high growth companies in the healthcare and life sciences industry. Our team brings over one hundred years of combined private equity...
M/C Partners
M/C Partners
Boston, MA
M/C Partners is a private equity company investing in the communication, technology and media industries.
NXT Ventures
NXT Ventures
Marblehead, MA
Identify and support disruptive startups across industries; provide capital and operational guidance; specialize in cross-border synergies with emphasis on Asian markets; investment horizon 5-7...
Fletcher Spaght Ventures
Fletcher Spaght Ventures
Boston, MA
Fletcher Spaght Ventures, L.P. (FSV) is a venture capital firm investing in emerging growth healthcare and high technology companies. Differentiating it from other venture capital firms, FSV is able...
Cue Ball
Cue Ball
Boston, MA
Cue Ball is a Boston-based venture and early growth equity firm focused on recurring revenue platforms in business information services, digital media, and specialty consumer opportunities. The firm...
MP Healthcare Venture Management
MP Healthcare Venture Management
Boston, MA
MPH is a venture capital firm that invest in innovative research and development that focuses in biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals, therapeutics and diagnostics.
Capital Resource Partners
Capital Resource Partners
Boston, MA
[Capital Resource Partners](http://www.crp.com/) specializes in combined debt and equity structures that provide creative financing alternatives for middle-market firms.
Experiment Fund
Experiment Fund
Cambridge, MA
Experiment Fund is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage investments. It focuses on investing in student start-ups and novel technologies. It invests in startups connected to...
BV Investment Partners
BV Investment Partners
Boston, MA
BV Investment Partners is one of the oldest and most experienced sector-focused private equity firms in North America. Since its founding in 1983, the firm has invested over $2.6 billion in over 75...
Terawatt Ventures
Terawatt Ventures
Cambridge, MA
Terawatt Ventures invests in innovative technologies and business models that address global energy challenges. With its flexible structure and open approach, Terawatt seeks out unique...
Hastings Equity Partners
Hastings Equity Partners
Needham, MA
Hastings Equity Partners is a private equity firm with offices in Houston and Boston focused on investing in lower, middle-market businesses in the energy sector. Hastings approach is to leverage...
AH Ventures
AH Ventures
Boston, MA
AH Ventures is a venture capital arm of Adams, Harkness & Hill specializing in early to mid stage investments. It prefers to invest in software, technology manufacturing solutions, semiconductors,...
Megunticook Management
Megunticook Management
Boston, MA
Megunticook Management invests in promising media, communications, and technology companies at the earliest stages of their development cycles.
Staley Capital Advisors
Staley Capital Advisors
Waltham, MA
The Staley Capital team has developed and executed a highly successful investment strategy that matches diverse private investment and operating skills to its investment focus. Renny Smith has...
Equity Resources Group
Equity Resources Group
Cambridge, MA
Equity Resource Investments, LLC is an investment manager that acquires, through partnerships that it manages, fractional real estate interests. The firm focuses on privately-held interests as well...
Leerink Swann
Leerink Swann
Boston, MA
Leerink Swann combines financial expertise and healthcare insight to enable clients to make the best-informed investment decisions. They use knowledge and abilities to advise clients on their...
Bainco International Investors
Bainco International Investors
Boston, MA
Bainco International Investors provides a stable, experienced asset management and wealth planning foundation for a select group of high net-worth individuals, families, and trusts. Founded in 1987,...
The Cross Country Group
The Cross Country Group
Medford, MA
The Cross Country Group is comprised of entrepreneurial, technology-enabled service and marketing businesses. Since 1972, CCG has incubated, developed, acquired, invested in and grown an array of...
Alta Communications
Alta Communications
Boston, MA
Alta Communications is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in later-stage opportunities. The firm also considers early-stage investments particularly in the traditional media...
Venture Lab
Venture Lab
Boston, MA
Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides patient seed capital and support to innovative financial inclusion start-ups, fostering experimentation and promoting business models that...
Altimeter Capital
Altimeter Capital
Boston, MA
Altimeter Capital is an alternative asset management company investing in the travel, internet, media and technology industries.
Boston Community Capital
Boston Community Capital
Boston, MA
Boston Community Capital (BCC) is a community development financial institution whose mission is to build healthy communities where low-income people live and work. They accomplish this mission by...
Grail Partners
Grail Partners
Boston, MA
Grail Partners, LLC provides investment banking and financial advisory services to corporate and institutional clients. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions consulting, exclusive sales and...
Windspeed Ventures
Windspeed Ventures
Lexington, MA
Windspeed Ventures was founded in 1999 to offer a different private investment experience. The Windspeed partners have known one another and worked together for nearly a decade. Over the years, as...
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co
Boston, MA
They at Liberty Mutual have committed themselves to providing broad, useful and competitively-priced insurance products and services to meet their customers ever-changing needs.
Massachusetts Green Energy Fund
Massachusetts Green Energy Fund
Brookline, MA
The Massachusetts Green Energy Fund invests in a broad range of emerging power generation technologies, including photovoltaics, fuel cells, hydrogen storage, hydrogen generation, wind, wave, tidal,...
Prism Venture Management
Prism Venture Management
Needham, MA
Prism Ventureworks has 5 funds with $1.25 billion in investments. Their most recent fund is for $250M which was raised in June 2005. Each of their team members focuses on different industry sectors...
Lead Dog Ventures
Lead Dog Ventures
Wayland, MA
Lead Dog Ventures was founded by software industry veteran John Landry to provide today's early-stage technology companies the intellectual, relationship and financial capital to become tomorrow's ...
CramerOnline
CramerOnline
Norwood, MA
[CramerOnline](http://www.crameronline.com/) is a digital marketing and event solutions agency.
ABRY Partners
ABRY Partners
Boston, MA
ABRY Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in late stage; total buy-outs of financial investors, families, publicly-traded or strategic owners; acquisition roll-ups, platform...
Capstone Partners
Capstone Partners
Boston, MA
Capstone Partners is a leading national investment banking advisory firm dedicated to serving the corporate finance needs of middle market business owners, investors, and creditors. The firm...
Apricot Capital
Apricot Capital
Boston, MA
Apricot Capital is a seed stage investment firm based in Boston, MA and Toronto, Canada. Investments: awe.sm, Careport Health, Clypd, Crashlytics (acquired 2012), Habit Labs, Kinvey, Massive Damage,...
Longwood Founders Fund
Longwood Founders Fund
Suite 1555, MA
Catalyst Health & Technology Partners
Catalyst Health & Technology Partners
Braintree, MA
Catalyst Health Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm targeting technology solutions applied within the health care and life science industries. At the core of this strategy is a committed,...
Denham Capital
Denham Capital
Boston, MA
Denham Capital is a leading energy-focused global private equity firm. Denham Capital advises funds with approximately $6.5 billion of invested and committed capital. Denham makes direct investments...
Saturn Partners
Saturn Partners
Boston, MA
Since 1994, Saturn Partners has taken an active role in the formation and management of seed and early-stage technology companies. Saturn looks for companies with potential for significant growth,...
Brookline Venture Partners
Brookline Venture Partners
Cambridge, MA
Brookline Venture Partners was founded in 2004 to invest in early-stage companies. Its founders are entrepreneurs with operational, financial, and sales experience. BVP partners Ken Levine and Mark...
Accion
Accion
Boston, MA
Accion is a global nonprofit dedicated to building a financially inclusive world with access to economic opportunity for all, by giving people the financial tools they need to improve their lives. A...
Brown Brothers Harriman
Brown Brothers Harriman
Boston, MA
Brown Brothers Harriman is the oldest and largest partnership bank in America. They are proud of their history, but prouder still of the energy and determination they provide to their clients every...
CB Health Ventures
CB Health Ventures
Boston, MA
CB Health Ventures manages $150 million of private equity funds focused on investment opportunities in healthcare services, medical information technology, biotechnology and genomics. CB Health...
@Ventures
@Ventures
Waltham, MA
@Ventures provides venture capital and growth resources to early stage clean technology companies. Established in 1995, @Ventures has funded more than 75 companies across a broad range of technology...
Hambrecht & Quist Capital Management
Hambrecht & Quist Capital Management
Boston, MA
Hambrecht & Quist Capital Management, LLC ("HQCM"), a registered investment adviser based in Boston, Massachusetts, is currently the investment adviser for two closed-end equity funds, H&Q Healthcare...
Biogen Idec New Ventures
Biogen Idec New Ventures
Cambridge, MA
Biogen Idec creates new standards of care in therapeutic areas with high unmet medical needs. Founded in 1978, Biogen Idec is a global leader in the discovery, development, manufacturing and...
Breakaway Ventures
Breakaway Ventures
Boston, MA
[Breakaway Ventures](http://www.breakaway.com/) provides venture capital and management consulting services for high growth technology enabled consumer facing businesses. Breakaway Ventures was...
Sherbrooke Capital
Sherbrooke Capital
Newton Lower Falls, MA
Sherbrooke Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused exclusively on investing capital in the rapidly growing Health and Wellness industry. Their goal is simple, and probably the same as...
Norwich Ventures
Norwich Ventures
Waltham, MA
Norwich Ventures is a venture capital firm committed to helping entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals and inventors build innovative medical device companies. They invest early in a company's life,...
Covidien Ventures
Covidien Ventures
Mansfield, MA
Covidien is passionate about making doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other medical professionals as effective as they can be. From Autosuture to Valleylab, from Kendall to Mallinckrodt, the...
Nexus Medical Partners
Nexus Medical Partners
Quincy, MA
The Nexus Group is a private equity firm managing several funds with offices in Massachusetts and South Carolina and affiliates in San Francisco, London, Munich, Geneva and Tokyo. The Group...
Broadview Ventures
Broadview Ventures
Boston, MA
Broadview Ventures, Inc. (Broadview) was established in 2008 as a new program conceived by the Leducq family. Through Broadview, the trust will work to accelerate the development of promising...
Argonaut Partners
Argonaut Partners
Boston, MA
Argonaut Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in the acquisition and operation of middle market value-added distributorships, direct marketing, catalog and telemarketing firms with...
Vimac Ventures
Vimac Ventures
Boston, MA
VIMAC's investing model is founded on two core principlesârespect for the entrepreneur, and humble acceptance that nobody has seen the future. New business creation is essentially a collaborative...
Kraft Group
Kraft Group
Foxborough, MA
The Kraft Group is a major player in the world of business. As a holding company with the network and capital resources of a large global corporation, their interests are diverse and concentrated in...
Amplify Partners
Amplify Partners
Cambridge, MA
Amplify Partners is an early-stage venture capital fund. We back technical entrepreneurs pursuing the multi-hundred-billion dollar disruption we refer to as Infrastructure 2.0. Thats it. We dont...
Bioventures Investors
Bioventures Investors
Wellesley, MA
BioVentures Investors has three funds currently under management; all focused on the commercial development of advanced technology in Life Sciences and Healthcare. We know this industry. We have...
Rock Maple Ventures
Rock Maple Ventures
Boston, MA
Rock Maple Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm founded in 2001 which is based in Boston, Massachusetts with an additional office in New York, NY. Rock Maple's primary area of focus is...
North Bridge Growth Equity
North Bridge Growth Equity
Waltham, MA
North Bridge Growth Equity (NBGE) is a growth equity firm which invests in technology and technology-enabled companies characterized by strong revenue and profitability momentum, large and dynamic...
Genzyme Ventures
Genzyme Ventures
Cambridge, MA
Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures (SGBV) is an important component of Sanofis broader global strategy to invigorate external innovation and research that will ultimately lead to new products. SGBV has...
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
Waltham, MA
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) is a quasi-public agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts tasked with implementing the Massachusetts Life Sciences Act, a ten-year, $1 billion...
Data Point Capital
Data Point Capital
Boston, MA
Data Point Capital is a venture capital fund focused on the internet. The fund is non-stage specific and is made up of business executives and internet leaders who have created tremendous value...
Progress Ventures
Progress Ventures
Cambridge, MA
Progress Ventures is an early-stage investment fund focused exclusively on the burgeoning markets in advertising technology and digital media. We partner with experienced entrepreneurs and commit...
Volition Capital
Volition Capital
Boston, MA
Volition Capital is a growth equity firm that principally invests in high potential, founder-owned companies across different technology sectors. Our firm specializes in partnering with founders to...
Ticonderoga Capital
Ticonderoga Capital
Braintree, MA
They provide expansion capital in the form of equity and subordinated debt to healthcare software and tech-enabled business services firms located throughout the United States. They focus upon those...
Mediphase Venture Partners
Mediphase Venture Partners
Newton, MA
Mediphase Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focusing on health care/life sciences companies. They seek rapidly growing companies with outstanding market opportunities. They are active...
Great Hill Partners
Great Hill Partners
Boston, MA
Great Hill Partners is a private equity firm with $2.7 billion under management. Great Hill Partners seeks to partner with middle-market companies operating in high growth sectors in the...
Argo Global Capital
Argo Global Capital
Wakefield, MA
[Argo Global Capital](http://www.argoglobal.com) is a venture capital firm focused on investing in companies that are enabling the convergence of wireless communications and the Internet.
Boston Scientific
Boston Scientific
Natick, MA
Boston Scientific has advanced the practice of less-invasive medicine by providing a broad and deep portfolio of innovative products, technologies and services across a wide range of medical...
Stage 1 Ventures
Stage 1 Ventures
Waltham, MA
Stage 1 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that is seeking to build partnerships with great entrepreneurs that are flexible and who want to build meaningful companies. They want to...
Boston Seed Capital
Boston Seed Capital
Westwood, MA
Boston Seed Capital, LLC provides seed stage funding for internet-enabled businesses. Our experience is in internet-enabled, consumer, B2B SAAS and the supporting services marketplaces.
Excel Venture Management
Excel Venture Management
Boston, MA
Excel Venture Management builds companies that apply transformative life science technologies to solve problems in healthcare and beyond. The Excel investment portfolio is balanced across healthcare...
Spectrum Equity
Spectrum Equity
Boston, MA
Spectrum is a private equity investor in companies leading the information economy. Founded in 1994, we have raised six private equity funds totaling $4.7 billion of capital exclusively focused on...
Advancit Capital
Advancit Capital
Norwood, MA
Advancit Capital is an early stage investment firm focused on media, entertainment and technology companies. The firm seeks the opportunity to form long-term partnerships with talented, focused and...
Kepha Partners
Kepha Partners
Waltham, MA
"Kepha" is Aramaic for "rock." They have a back-to-basics approach focused on pre-seed, seed and Series A companies. They call this "venture building," and it is what created the venture industry in...
ABS Ventures
ABS Ventures
Waltham, MA
From their website: "Formed in 1982, ABS Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm backed by leading global institutional investors. The firm works with exceptional management teams to build...
Castile Ventures
Castile Ventures
Wellesley, MA
Castile Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that provides financial banking and strategic guidance.
Summerhill Venture Partners
Summerhill Venture Partners
Toronto, MA
Summerhill Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on select areas within the wireless, digital media, and information technology sectors. We are currently managing a US$175...
Third Rock Ventures
Third Rock Ventures
Boston, MA
Third Rock Ventures invests in transformational life science companies that show high growth potential and are well-positioned to make a difference in the marketplace.
TA Associates
TA Associates
Boston, MA
Founded in 1968, TA Associates is one of the oldest and largest private equity firms in the world. They invest in private companies in exciting industries, with the goal of helping management teams...
Oxford Bioscience Partners
Oxford Bioscience Partners
Boston, MA
Oxford Bioscience Partners (OBP), established in 1992, is a venture capital firm that provides equity financing and management assistance to emerging, entrepreneurial-driven companies within the life...
RockPort Capital Partners
RockPort Capital Partners
Boston, MA
RockPort Capital Partners is a leading venture capital firm that partners with cleantech entrepreneurs around the world. They collaborate with management teams to foster growth and create value,...
Stata Venture Partners
Stata Venture Partners
Needham Heights, MA
Stata Venture Partners is a private equity fund that invests in early stage new business opportunities . They have strategic investments in a wide array of technologies. Stata Ventures specializes in...
NextView Ventures
NextView Ventures
Boston, MA
NextView Ventures is a seed-stage VC firm focused on internet-enabled businesses, both consumer-facing and B2B.
OpenView Venture Partners
OpenView Venture Partners
Boston, MA
OpenView Venture Partners is an expansion stage venture capital fund, with a focus on high-growth software, internet, and technology-enabled companies. Much of the team's success has been driven by...
SR One
SR One
Cambridge, MA
SR One is the corporate venture capital arm of GlaxoSmithKline. The firm invests globally in emerging life science companies that are pursuing innovative science which will significantly impact...
GrandBanks Capital
GrandBanks Capital
Wellesley, MA
GrandBanks Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in wireless and mobile technologies, digital media, web-based commerce, cloud-based services, storage, and financial...
.406 Ventures
.406 Ventures
Boston, MA
.406 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in innovative Information Technology ("IT") and services companies founded by the finest entrepreneurs. They are a veteran team of...
HLM Venture Partners
HLM Venture Partners
Boston, MA
HLM Venture Partners is a proven, successful venture capital health care investor. Over 60 privately held health care companies have benefited from their expertise, resources and commitment. Emerging...
HealthCare Ventures
HealthCare Ventures
Cambridge, MA
HealthCare Ventures is a leading venture capital firm specializing in life science industry investing. At HealthCare Ventures we concentrate our investment dollars on life science companies showing...
Clarus Ventures
Clarus Ventures
Cambridge, MA
Clarus Ventures is a life sciences venture capital firm.
CommonAngels
CommonAngels
Cambridge, MA
CommonAngels is a hybrid venture capital investing in technology-based seed and early-stage companies.
Village Ventures
Village Ventures
Williamstown, MA
Village Ventures makes early stage investments in digital media and services and financial services.
MPM Capital
MPM Capital
Boston, MA
Unique to MPM is an internal team of industry experts that has been specifically assembled not only to enable MPM to assess opportunities but to participate in the value creation and value enhancing...
SV Life Sciences
SV Life Sciences
Boston, MA
SV Life Sciences is a venture capital adviser and manager that makes selected investments in entrepreneurs and management teams. SV Life Sciences provides finance to businesses at all stages of...
Flagship Ventures
Flagship Ventures
Cambridge, MA
Realizing entrepreneurial innovation is the mission of Flagship Ventures. The firm operates through two synergistic units: VentureLabs(TM) which invents and launches transformative companies, and...
Bain Capital Ventures
Bain Capital Ventures
Boston, MA
Bain Capital Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital affiliate of [Bain Capital](http://www.baincapital.com), was founded with the mission of leveraging a customer focused and operational approach...
Globespan Capital Partners
Globespan Capital Partners
Boston, MA
Globespan Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm with over $1 Billion under management. Globespan primarily invests in go-to-market rounds of information technology, Internet and mobile...
Spark Capital
Spark Capital
Boston, MA
Founded eight years ago, Spark Capital is a leading venture capital firm focused on early stage startups. Sparks portfolio includes companies such as Twitter, Tumblr (acq Yahoo!), Foursquare, AdMeld...
SoftBank Capital
SoftBank Capital
Newton, MA
SoftBank Capital is an independent venture capital firm focused on early stage high growth technology based businesses benefiting from the rapid deployment and adoption of broadband and mobile...
Atlas Venture
Atlas Venture
Cambridge, MA
Founded in 1980, Atlas Venture is a venture capital firm with offices in Boston, London, Munich and Paris. Atlas currently manages over $2.5 billion in capital and invests in the technology and life...
Polaris Partners
Polaris Partners
Waltham, MA
Polaris Partners is a venture company investing in digital media, life sciences, and enterprise software industries.
Charles River Ventures
Charles River Ventures
Cambridge, MA
Founded in 1970, Charles River Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that takes a value-added, hands-on approach to support its portfolio companies. Charles River Ventures is one of the...
David Verrill
Hub Angels Investment Group
Boston, MA
Boston-area angel group investing since 2000 in young tech and life science companies, primarily in the Northeastern United States. Over $50M invested across six funds in 50+ companies, with an...
Kristin King
Boston Harbor Angels
Boston, MA
Boston Harbor Angels is an angel group investing in high-growth, early-stage companies, typically co-investing in rounds of $250K–$1.5M. They focus on capital-efficient businesses close to...
Link Ventures
Link Ventures
Cambridge, MA
Investing in AI technologies and technical founders; early-stage focus (Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A) with operational support, mentorship, and growth acceleration leveraging ties to MIT and Boston...
Walnut Ventures
Walnut Ventures
Boston, MA
Invest in and mentor seed and early stage companies with technology-based B2B or B2C products; collaborate on due diligence and syndicate deals with other angel groups. Provide mentorship on sales,...
SideCar Angels
SideCar Angels
Boston, MA
SideCar Angels is a Boston-based angel group that rides sidecar with top-tier angel groups and VCs to fund early-stage companies. They pool member funds to deliver six-figure investments quickly on...
Launchpad Venture Group
Launchpad Venture Group
Boston, MA
Financial and human capital investment in New England-headquartered early-stage science and tech-driven startups. Focus on priced equity rounds (Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A), capital efficiency, and...
Boston Harbor Angels
Boston Harbor Angels
Boston, MA
Early-stage, capital-efficient companies (close to commercialization) seeking $250K-$1.5M; prefer clear defensible competitive advantage and potential for 10x returns within five years. Members...
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The most active sectors in Massachusetts include B2B SAAS, BIOTECH, BIO HEALTHCARE. 6 investors have made recent investments, showing strong capital deployment activity in the region.
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