Investors in Pennsylvania

We’re (not just) investors. We’re (more than) advisors. We’re (beyond) connectors. Ben Franklin Technology Partners combines the best practices of early stage investing with a higher purpose – to lead the region’s technology community to new heights, creating jobs and transforming lives. For over 30 years, Ben has been the leading seed stage capital provider for the region’s technology sectors, investing over $170 million in more than 1,750 regional technology companies, many of which have gone on to become industry leaders. Ben Franklin has also launched university/industry partnerships that accelerate scientific discoveries to commercialization, and has seeded regional initiatives that strengthen our entrepreneurial community.

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.

The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/NEP) is part of a state-funded economic development initiative created in 1983. They link early-stage technology firms and established manufacturers with funding, people, technology, universities and other resources to help them prosper. In the process, BFTP/FEP aims to help fuel economic growth for northeastern Pennsylvania.

SeventySix Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, startup, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in technology-enabled companies with a focus on shopping malls, healthcare clinics, wellness, e-commerce, online food delivery, retail, sports, media and entertainment, business, media, entertainment industries, telephone equipment, security and alarm services business, green technology, mobile, financial, and business 2.0 sectors. It prefers to invest in companies based in the United States with a focus on the Mid-Atlantic region including Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia. The firm typically makes initial investment of $3.5 million with the total investment between $5 million and $8 million. It prefers to be a lead investor and seeks to have a board seat in the company. SeventySix Capital was founded in 1999 and is based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

Bridgepoint is a international private equity firm. For over 25 years they have been ambitious for the companies they have acquired, working with talented management teams across a range of industries to focus on long-term growth and success.

Founded in 1946, the Hillman Company is a family office based in Pennsylvania, United States. The firm offers investment advisory and other related services to their clients.

Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds is a Pennsylvania-based principal investment firm focused on purchasing equity securities of growing businesses.

Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, early stage, growth, maturity, later stage, and expansion stage investments. The firm also provides bridge financing. It seeks to invest in life sciences and biosciences emerging companies with a focus on biotechnology tools and services, bioinformatics, physical, engineering and life sciences research, bionanotechnology, diagnostics and screenings, medical devices, healthcare information technology, medical robotics, therapeutics,developers of therapeutic treatments and tools and services. The firm prefers to invest in Western Pennsylvania. The firm invests between $0.1 million and $10 million in companies. It seeks to invest in firms that plan on relocating to Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse was founded in 2001 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Founded in 1997, Novitas Capital is Pennsylvania-based private equity firm targeting investments in early-stage technology and life science companies

Rittenhouse Ventures is a Philadelphia-based early stage venture fund that invests in capital-efficient emerging technology companies across Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic region.Rittenhouse invests in small (generally $1 to $3 million) financing rounds of early stage information technology companies that utilize emerging technologies to create compelling business opportunities. While the Fund invests across the information technology spectrum, it has a primary vertical focus on Healthcare Information Technology and Pharmaceutical IT. It also invests in Technology-Enabled Services companies focused on other verticals including Financial Services Information Technology and Outsourced Business Services.