Investors in North Carolina

Founded in 1981, North Carolina Biotechnology Center is a private, non-profit corporation established by by the state’s General Assembly. The organisation aims to provide long-term economic benefit to North Carolina through support of biotechnology research and development.

Founded in 1999, Enhanced Capital Partners is a national investment firm with over $400 million under management specializing in investments in small and mid-size companies. Enhanced Capital provides a range of investment options to promote the growth and expansion of businesses. Our flexibility and practical investment approach can make the difference in maximizing the growth potential for a company poised for rapid growth.

Hatteras Discovery is a venture capital firm specializing in early and seed stage investments. It seeks to invest in the life sciences and healthcare sectors with a focus on the following key therapeutic areas: ophthalmology, cardiovascular, pulmonary, anti-infectives, oncology, immunology, and orphan diseases. It will invest in North Carolina. It targets investing between $0.25 million and $1 million in portfolio companies. Hatteras Discovery was founded in August 2011 and is based in Durham, North Carolina. It operates as a subsidiary of Hatteras Venture Partners.

NC IDEA is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created to serve as a catalyst for young, high-growth, technology companies in North Carolina. They help these innovative companies mainly by providing early financing in the form of grants.

Arsenal Capital Partners is a private equity firm that offers investment services to middle-market industrial and healthcare companies. It was founded in 2000 and is based in New York.

IDEA Fund Partners provides seed and early stage equity funding along with company building expertise to IT, materials technologies and medical device companies in North Carolina as well as the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

VentureSouth is an early stage investment firm that operates angel groups and committed capital funds in the Carolinas. It consists of Asheville Angels and VentureSouth Charlotte in North Carolina, and ten angel groups that are part of the South Carolina Angel Network in South Carolina.

Credit Suisse Private Equity is the private equity arm of global private bank and wealth manager, Credit Suisse. The division invests in mezzanine, buyouts, secondaries, primarily in Europe and North America. The firm is based in London, United Kingdom.

Hellman & Friedman LLC is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged recapitalizations, acquisitions, buys and builds, traditional buyouts, financial restructurings, growth investments, and numerous types of minority investments. It invests in public and private companies. The firm makes investments in financial services including asset management, insurance, financial technology, and related sub-sectors as financial advisors and distribution, payments, securities services and other business; retail and consumer; energy and industrials; healthcare; companies running clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies and life sciences tools and services; vertical software; business and information services industries with an emphasis on marketing, information, and professional services; data services; Internet and digital media. In case of energy and industrials sector the firm generally looks to avoid businesses with significant macroeconomic and/or commodity exposure. It targets investments in companies based in North America with a focus on the United States, Europe with a focus on Western Europe, and Australia. The firm seeks to make equity investments between $50 million and $1200 million in its portfolio companies. It may act as a controlling shareholder and as an influential minority investor. It also seeks to take majority stakes. The firm prefers to invest alongside management in companies going through transitions including private or closely held businesses looking to institutionalize, to go public, to de-mutualize, or to undertake public to private transactions. Hellman & Friedman LLC was founded in 1984 and is based in San Francisco, California with offices in New York, New York and London, United Kingdom.

Wilmington Investor Network is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage companies. The firm prefers to invest in technology, biotechnology, and medical devices companies. It invests in companies based in eastern North and South Carolina. The firm prefers to invest between $0.2 million to $0.5 million in an individual investment round. Wilmington Investor Network is based in Wilmington, North Carolina.