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www.benchmark.com

www.bridgescale.com
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www.glynncapital.com/
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www.whicapital.com

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www.hearst.com
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www.venturepacific.ca f
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www.independence.com/

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www.brv.com f

www.secondave.com f
www.granitevc.com

www.accel.com f
www.indexventures.com/ f

www.incubic.com f
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www.ggvc.com
www.wpp.com
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www.apax.com
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www.nordic.com
www.vpsa.com f

www.catamountventures.com f
www.globespancapital.com f
www.omidyar.net
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www.dncapital.com f
www.eastoncapital.com f
www.morgenthaler.com

www.techcapital.com f

www.mayfield.com f
www.rusticcanyon.com f
www.trinityventures.com

www.insightpartners.com
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www.vauxlesventures.com f

www.dfjgotham.com f
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Russian venture capital list

http://www.private-equity.org.uk/stats/Russian%20Federation/all.cfm

U.K V.C

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http://www.beerandpartners.com/

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Angels
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http://activecapital.org/ f

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http://www.tribeofangels.com/

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Venture capitals that invests in gaming industry
Company: Red 5 Studios, Aliso Viejo, CA
Investment: $ 8.9 million
Investor: Benchmark Capital
Description: Red 5 Studios is an online game studio which develops original MMO games

Company: Digital Chocolate, San Mateo, CA

Investment: $ 22.5 million
Investors: Bridgescale Partners; Chengwei Ventures; DN Capital; Glynn Capital Management; Kleiner Perkins Caufield & B
Ventures; WHI Capital
Description: Digital Chocolate is a developer of games and applications for mobile phones.

Company: Electric Sheep, New York, NY

Investment: $ 7 million
Investors: CBS; Gladwyne Partners
Description: The Electric Sheep Company designs experiences and delivers add-on software for 3D virtual worlds. The Co

Company: Double Fusion, San Francisco, CA

Investment: $ 26 million
Investors: Accel Partners, Hearst Corporation, IDG; Ventures Pacific, Jerusalem; Venture Partners, Norwest; Venture Part
Description: Double Fusion is a provider of in-game advertising and marketing solutions. The company’s technology d

Company: Kongregate, San Francisco, CA

Investment: N/A
Investors: Independent investors
Description: Kongregate seeks to create an online hub for players and game developers to meet up, play games, and oper

Company: Cellufun, New York, NY

Investment: $ 3 million
Investors: Longworth; Venture Partners
Description: Cellufun is an ad sponsored mobile gaming portal providing free entertainment content and casual, connected

Company: Vollee, Hertzliya, Israel

Investment: $ 4 million
Investors: Benchmark Capital; BlueRun Ventures
Description: Vollee’s interactive video streaming platform delivers a catalog of PC and console titles with 3D graphics,

Company: Atomic Moguls, Seattle, WA

Investment: $ 1 million
Investors: Amazon.com; Second Avenue Partners
Description: Operates a movie-based fantasy games website

Company: GameGlance, Bangkok, Thailand

Investment: $ 2 million
Investors: Independent investors
Description: GameGlance is an in-game advertising network. GameGlance’s strategic planning, design, advertising, pr

Company: Bunchball, Redwood City, CA

Investment: $ 2 million
Investors: Adobe Ventures; Granite Ventures
Description: Bunchball is a provider of social gaming services to personals sites, social networks, and online communities.

Company: OGPlanet, Torrance, CA

Investment: $ 1.5 million
Investors: Independent investors
Description: OGPlanet is a publisher of free online multiplayer games that generate revenue through the sale of virtual item

Company: Mind Candy, London, United Kingdom

Investment: $ 7 million
Investors: Accel Partners; Index Ventures; NewMedia
Spark
Description: Mind Candy is an interactive entertainment company focused on puzzles and alternate reality games

Company: Greystripe, San Francisco, CA

Investment: $ 1.2 million
Investors: Incubic Venture Fund; Monitor Ventures; WS
Investment Company
Description: Greystripe’s solution provides mobile content free to consumers in an ad-supported model. Greystripe ope

Company: WildTangent, Redmond, WA

Investment: $ 13 million
Investors: Granite Global Ventures; WPP Group
Description: WildTangent is an online game network in North America offering online and downloadable games from publis

Company: Sulake, Helsinki, Finland

Investment: $ 7.6 million
Investors: Movida Group
Description: Sulake is an online community, entertainment, and media company focusing on virtual worlds, casual multipla
Company: IGA Worldwide, New York, NY
Investment: $ 5 million
Investors: Intel Capital
Description: IGA Worldwide provides in-game advertising solutions. Its ad serving network enables advertisers to target co
including integrated product placement and co-promotion through its wholly-owned communications consultancy, Hive.

Company: Stardoll, Stockholm, Sweden

Investment: $ 6 million
Investors: Index Ventures; Sequoia Capital
Description: Stardoll is a paper doll dress-up community site. Stardoll allows users to create their own doll or choose from

Company: TVHead, Mountain View, CA

Investment: $ 11.5 million
Investors: Apax Partners; Bay Partners; Mitsui Incubase
Description: Operates an on demand television gaming service

Company: Winster, San Mateo, CA

Investment: $ 1.5 million
Investors: U.S. Venture Partners
Description: Winster.com is a social community where players cooperate to help each other solve puzzles to win prizes

Company: Three Rings Design, San Francisco, CA

Investment: N/A
Investors: Mercury Capital Partners
Description: Three Rings is a startup developer of persistent world online games

Company: Terraplay Systems, Solna, Sweden

Investment: $ 3.2 million
Investors: Cisco Systems; IT-Provider; Nordic Venture
Partners; VPSA
Description: Terraplay operates the Global Gaming Network, a hosted service enabling game publishers, network operator

Company: Linden Lab, San Francisco, CA

Investment: $ 11 million
Investors: Benchmark Capital; Catamount Ventures; Globespan Capital
Partners; Omidyar Network; Independent Investors
Description: Develops massive multiplayer online role-playing games, including Second Life.
Company: Telltale Games, San Rafael, CA
Investment: $ 0.8 million
Investors: Keiretsu Forum
Description: Telltale develops and deploys cinematic quality animation and storytelling technologies, to create interactive c

Company: Stardoll.com, Stockholm, Sweden

Investment: $ 4 million
Investors: Index Ventures; Independent investors
Description: Stardoll is a paper doll dress-up community site. Stardoll allows users to create their own doll or choose from

Company: IGA Worldwide, New York, NY

Investment: $ 12 million
Investors: DN Capital; Easton Capital Group; Morgenthaler Ventures
Description: IGA Worldwide provides in-game advertising solutions its
ad serving network enables advertisers to target consumers across a range of platforms and genres. They also provide str
including integrated product placement and co-promotion through its wholly-owned communications consultancy, Hive

Company: LiveHive Systems, Waterloo, Ontario

Investment: $ 1.8 million
Investors: Tech Capital Partners
Description: Provides two-screen, interactive solutions for the entertainment industry. LiveHive offers solutions for TV broa

Company: PlayFirst, San Francisco, CA

Investment: $ 5 million
Investors: Mayfield Venture Partners; Rustic Canyon Partners; Trinity Ventures
Description: Publisher of original casual games, available across multiple platforms, including PC, Mac, and mobile device

Company: Jagex, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Investment: N/A
Investors: Insight Venture Partners
Description: Develops and operates java-based online games. Jagex focuses on persistent character games with immersiv
Company: Quazal, Montreal, Quebec
Investment: N/A
Investors: Collar Capital; FondAction CSN; La Caisse de Dépôt et de Placement du Québec; Viavar Capital
Description: Delivers multiplayer technologies to the videogames market. Quazal provides game developers with an SDK t

Company: Cellufun, New York, NY

Investment: N/A
Investors: Vaux Les Ventures
Description: Cellufun is an ad sponsored mobile gaming portal providing free entertainment content and casual, connected

Company: Massive, New York, NY

Investment: $ 10 million
Investors: DFJ Gotham; DFJ New England; NeoCarta Ventures; Newlight
Associates; RRE Ventures; Tobat Capital
Description: Massive operates a network for dynamic video game advertising that allows for all forms of downloadable med

Company: Xfire, Menlo Park, CA

Investment: $ 5 million
Investors: Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Granite Global Ventures; New Enterprise Associates
Description: Xfire is a free tool that tracks when and where gamers are playing PC games online. It works across game typ

Company: Sulake, Helsinki, Finland

Investment: $ 23 million
Investors: 3i Group; Benchmark Capital; Elisa Group
Description: Sulake is an online community, entertainment, and media company focusing on virtual worlds, casual multipla

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The Angel Investment Network is the only website that is exclusively focused on locating quality investment opportunities o

ACE-Net was developed by the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy. Only entrepreneurs who can sel

Sweet Spot:
Although companies can raise up to $5 million in financing with ACE-Net, the network may be most helpful to companies s

No-Go:
Certain businesses cannot list on ACE-Net. These include businesses involved in the oil or gas industries, sole proprietors

Average investment range:

$250,000 to $5 million

Number of angels/investors in the network:

Investors' Circle

Nonprofit national network of angel investors, foundation officers and entrepreneurs. Business that are reviewed by Investo

Sweet Spot:
Socially responsible deals.
Average investment range:
$10,000 to $6.5 million

Number of angels/investors in the network:

110+

Contact:
Investors' Circle
320 Washington St.
Brookline, MA 02445
617-566-2600
inbox@investorscircle.net

The Tribe of Angels

A group of Jewish industry leaders who invest in companies primarily in the United States and Israel. Operates as a busine

Sweet Spot:
High tech and biotechnology.

Average investment range:

$50,000 to $1 million

Number of angels/investors in the network:

300+

Contact:
Paul Allen
San Francisco, CA
paul@tribeofangels.com
415-710-0801

Gathering of Angels

Established in October 1996. A monthly meeting of private, high-net-worth investors that provide seed-level financing to st

Sweet Spot:
Invests in companies nationwide. Currently has investor groups based in Atlanta, Dallas, Hilton Head, Houston, Pebble Be

Average investment range:

$200,000 to $1.5 million

Number of angels/investors in the network:

Contact:
Tarby Bryant
#4 Hawthorne Circle
Santa Fe, NM 87506
505-982-3050
tbryant@nm.net

Portland Area Angel Network

PAN will consider hearing presentations from companies based in Oregon and Clark County, Washington. The group mee

Sweet Spot:
Companies in high-growth industries, with a clear exit strategy.

Average investment range:

$500,000 to $2,000,000

Number of angels/investors in the network:

Contact:
Portland Angel Network
c/o Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum
222 NW 5th Suite 308
Portland, OR 97209
503-222-2270
PAN@oef.org

Arizona Angels

Formed in 1999, Arizona Angels invest only in Arizona-based companies. They consider themselves very opportunistic an

Sweet Spot:
High-growth companies beyond the seed or start-up stage that need capital to demonstrate a business proof of concept, in

No-Go:
No real estate or mining companies need apply. Strongly prefer to be contacted via E-mail.

Average investment range:

$500,000 to $1.5 million

Number of angels/investors in the network:

100+

Contact:
Arizona Angels
Greg Cobb, Managing Director
7000 E. Shea Blvd, # F1840
Scottsdale, AZ 85254-5261
480-922-1455
gcobb@arizonaangels.com
Common Angels

Named after the city's historic public meeting grounds, CommonAngels® is a group of 50 leading private investors and thre

Sweet Spot:
Early-stage software companies in the Northeast.

No-Go:
Prefer not to receive full business plans (or anything else for that matter) in hard copy. Send executive summaries by E-ma

Average investment range:

$500,000 to $2 million

Number of angels/investors in the network:

50 private investors; three dozen limited partners

Contact:
CommonAngels
James Geshwiler, Managing Director
One Cranberry Hill, Suite 6
Lexington, MA 02421
781-274-9124
james@commonangels.com

Gould & Co.

No Web site

Invests in companies based in the Northeast, preferably in New England.

Sweet Spot:
Companies that are emerging into large markets.

Average investment range:

$100,000 to $2 million

Number of angels/investors in the network:

400+

Contact:
Gould & Co.
86 Front St.
Merrimack, NH 03054
603-429-1631
gouldcapital@aol.com

Maine Angels

Maine Angels was formed in 2003, and typical angel/venture capital returns without industry restrictions. They prefer to inv
Sweet Spot:
Have a preference for companies closer to home but are open on a case-by-case basis to syndication or collaboration reg

Average investment range:

$100,000 to $2 million

Number of angels/investors in network:

Contact:
Submit executive summaries to applications@mailangels.org; for general information e-mail info@maineangels.org.

Tri-State Private Investors Network

In the past five years, Tri-State PIN members have invested in more than 50 start-up and early-stage companies. Business

Sweet Spot:
Early-stage companies from the Northeast through the Mid-Atlantic region.

No-Go:
Don't call or send snail mail. Send E-mail only, preferably straight from the website, where the application process is expla

Average investment range:

$500,000 to $2 million

Number of angels/investors in the network:

Contact:
For more information, please contact via the Tri-State PIN website, www.angelinvestorfunding.com

Sweet Spot:
Manufacturing technology and new patents.

Average investment range:

$250,000 to $1.5 million

Number of angels/investors in the network:

Contact:
The Meyering Corp.
20630 Harper Ave., Suite 103
Harper Woods, MI 48225
313-886-2333
cmeyering@ameritech.net

Tech Coast Angels www.techcoastangels.org

Tech Coast Angels operates three regional networks in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. Each network holds

Sweet Spot:
Early-stage technology and life sciences companies in southern California.

Average investment range:

$250,000 to $2 million

Number of angels/investors in the network:

200+

Contact:
Tech Coast Angels
23011 Moulton Parkway
Suite F-2
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
949-859-8445
renee@techcoastangels.com

Sierra Angels

Preference for businesses located in Nevada, California, or other nearby locations. Looks for companies offering unique pr

Sweet Spot:
Northern Sierra-based technology companies.

Average investment range:

$250,000 to $2,000,000

Contact:
Sierra Angels
PO Box 3215
Incline Village, NV 89450-3215
775-831-7804
Send E-mail to the most appropriate address:
04Software@sierraangels.com
04Computing_Communications@sierraangels.com
04HealthSciences@sierraangels.com
04Internet@sierraangels.com
04OtherTech@sierraangels.com
Network for Business Angels & Investors

Has invested in 51 companies since 1995.

Sweet Spot:
Traditional companies with good technology and technology companies.

Investment range:
$10,000 to $3 million

Contact:
Network of Business Angels & Investors
Jerry Martin
3873 Roswell Rd.
Suite 4
Atlanta, Georgia 30342-4431
404-261-2434
nbai@bellsouth.net
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s site allows users to play great web-based games alongside friends.

hers in an interactive mobile portal and partners with mobile operators to distribute and market the service to 3G subscribers.
screen images, videos, and scrolling banners and dynamically delivers them into mobile games and applications

nd access to games; and in-game and around-game advertising solution

ted gaming services across all channels. The Global Gaming Network supports mobile connected gaming on all platforms, including sto
rties for interactive delivery.
 er that host game communities on all gaming platforms

me object formats.
ent and energy, health, and women or minority-led business.
qualify for presentation may still be eligible to network with investors and other businesspeople in the group. Currently has operations in

11 year-to-date in 2004.

Maui in November 2004.

e screening process. PAN is affiliated with the Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum, a nonprofit organization providing educational and networ

e invested more than $3.5 million in six companies.

ince 1998, we have worked closely with early stage software companies in the Northeast, funding 22 with over $25 million of our funds
 munication services for field service personnel, real estate, software, electronics manufacturing, microbreweries, theater, restaurants, a

e-mailed an evaluation form with explanations, and if possible, recommendations to assist the entrepreneur.
oup has invested more than $37 million in more than 40 companies. Invests only in companies in southern California.
ice to 3G subscribers.
ming on all platforms, including storefronts, content download, community, in-game payments and multiplayer.
roup. Currently has operations in Boston, California, Chicago, Connecticut, New York, and Israel.
providing educational and networking opportunities to entrepreneurs, service providers, and investors.
with over $25 million of our funds and $90 million from other investors.
breweries, theater, restaurants, and travel. Run by Ellen Sandles, founder and executive director, the group is based in New York.
hern California.
group is based in New York.