Investors in Wisconsin

Silicon Pastures, a Wisconsin-based venture capital company, funds early-stage, high technology companies.

BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation is a non-profit organization focused on funding for-profit early-stage companies. It works with works with government, educational institutions, other charitable organizations, angel groups, and venture funds to identify, invest or co-invest in, mentor, and promote fast growing early-stage companies to create technology-based jobs in Wisconsin. BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation was founded in 2013 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

WSAF identifies, capitalizes and actively mentors early-stage, scalable, Wisconsin Companies. WSAF is industry agnostic, focusing on early exit opportunities.

Founded in 1985, Gen Cap America (GCA) is a private investment firm headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. GCA specializes in acquisitions and recapitalizations of middle market businesses. GCA is actively investing Southvest Fund VI, L.P., a $165 million fund which began making investments in May 2010. Investment candidates usually have revenues between $5 and $100 million and most are privately held businesses or subsidiaries and divisions of larger corporations. Investments are made in established businesses with demonstrated operating histories and quality management teams. GCA is a partner with management teams who wish to invest in their companies by becoming part of the buying group. Recapitalizations are also structured for business owners who desire immediate liquidity yet wish to participate in the growth of their business by maintaining operating control.

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.

WARF) is the private, nonprofit patent and licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin–Madison, one of the world’s great research universities. WARF was founded in 1925 and is a pioneer and innovator among university-based technology transfer offices. WARF’s mission is to support, aid and encourage UW–Madison research by protecting its discoveries and licensing them to commercial partners for beneficial use in the real world. It is best known for commercializing groundbreaking vitamin D therapies, the revolutionary anticoagulant Coumadin®, innovative medical imaging and cancer radiation systems, and its patents for human embryonic stem cells.

Service Provider Capital is a venture capital fund that co-invests in series A deals led by institutional venture funds. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Golden, Colorado.

Capital Midwest Fund is a Wisconsin-based private equity firm that specialises in early-stage investments in manufacturing, life sciences, consumer goods, healthcare, business services and technology companies across the Central United States.

4490 Ventures is a technology-focused, early-stage venture capital fund based in Madison, Wisconsin. The fund seeks to invest in companies in the Midwest. It seeks to invest between $5 million to $8 million per investment.

HealthX Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, startup, early stage, and later stage venture investments. The firm invests in healthcare focusing on digital healthcare technology and health IT. It invests in companies developing solutions in areas, such as operational efficiency, connected healthcare devices, data management and integration, and business intelligence solutions for healthcare. The firm invests in Wisconsin with a focus on Madison, and Midwest based companies. HealthX Ventures is based in Madison, Wiscosin.