Investment

I like to keep tabs on who out there is funding the enterprises I support and admire.  So figured I’d share my list of venture capital firms, angel investor networks, and related organizations with y’all.

Venture capital

• Good Capital – http://www.goodcap.net/
• Mindful Investors – http://www.mindfulinvestors.com/
• Focused on natural and organic consumer products.
• Physic ventures – http://www.physicventures.com/: Science based, consumer directed sustainable living companies
• DBL Investors – http://www.dblinvestors.com/: Focus on low income Bay Area neighborhoods could hurt you.
• Funk Ventures – http://www.funkventures.com/: cleantech focused
• Vantage Point Venture Partners – http://www.vpvp.com/: Focused primarily on cleantech as well as a few other fields.
• Lightspeed Venture Partners – http://www.lightspeedvp.com/: Focus on technology companies
• Catamount Ventures – http://www.catamountventures.com/: Investing in environmental/sustainable, consumer internet, and enterprise technology companies
• Gray Ghost Ventures – http://www.grayghostventures.com/: Mission: To invest collaboratively in innovative, early stage enterprises that contribute to the well-being of low-income communities in emerging markets and provide an attractive financial return.
• Omidyar Network – http://www.omidyar.com/: Philanthropic investment firm focused on improving lives through market-based efforts.
• The Westly Group – http://www.westlygroup.com/:  Clean tech investments
• One Earth Capital – http://www.oneearthcapital.com/
• New Cycle Capital – http://www.newcyclecapital.com/: Funding world changing ideas with cleantech lean

Angel investor groups

• Investor’s Circle –  http://www.investorscircle.net/: Angel funding network.  Apply to present at biannual conference – this round due Jan 13^th
• Band of Angels – http://www.bandangels.com/
• Keiretsu Forum – http://www.keiretsuforum.com/frontend/index.aspx

Other investment funds to check out (For now this is a catch all, will break this out more as I develop this list)

• RSF Social Finance – http://rsfsocialfinance.org/
• Encore Consumer Capital – http://www.encoreconsumercapital.com/: A PE firm, with focus on consumer products with sustainable bent.
• Acumen Fund – Venture philanthropy

Other investment resources

• National Venture Capital Association – http://www.nvca.org/
• Resource Innovation Capital – http://resource-innovation.com/index.html: Clean energy investment advisory services
• Watershed Capital – http://www.watershedcapital.com/index.html