As of March 27, 2012, vSpring Capital was acquired by Signal Peak Ventures. vSpring Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, startup, early-stage investments, and bridge stage. The firm also invests in later stage companies under special circumstances. It seeks to invest in information technology and life sciences companies with a focus on genomics; proteomics; enabling medical technologies employed in drug discovery, synthesis, screening, and delivery; networking companies; wireless; telecommunications; infrastructure; linux; multimedia; information management; enterprise software; communications; security software; Internet; mobile computing; diagnostics; and medical devices. The firm prefers to invest in the Intermountain West region in the United States with a focus on the Rocky Mountain region. It can invest in other regions for later-stage investments but in syndication with a lead investor. The firm seeks to invest between $250,000 and $5 million. It typically invests between $2 million and $3 million initially and invests between $5 million to $10 million over the life of a company. The firm prefers to act as a lead investor and take a board seat in the portfolio companies. It is a licensed Small Business Investment Company. vSpring Capital was founded in 2000 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah with additional offices in Los Alamos, New Mexico and Albuquerque, New Mexico.