Amherst Fund makes venture capital investments in early-stage companies and also makes private equity investments in later stage companies. While investing carefully to achieve sound returns, Amherst Fund offers flexibility in structuring investments to best meet the needs of the company. Amherst Fund investments have included equity, subordinated debt, and senior debt structures when appropriate.
Markers is a $20 million seed fund that invests in overlooked founders leading valuable technology start-ups designed to disrupt industries and transform the world. We strategically leverage quantitative processes, value investing orthodoxy, and market inefficiencies to identify mispriced investment opportunities capable of generating outsized risk-adjusted returns.
Tamarind Hill is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on backing high-growth technology businesses that are deploying or working towards deploying B2B software models in the Healthcare IT and Supply Chain sectors. Tamarind Hill seeks investment opportunities in businesses that have found product market fit and can benefit from our operating expertise and network to […]
Hyde Park Venture Partners (HPVP) is an early stage venture fund focused on software startups in the Midwest. HPVP focuses its investment activity on B2B software and consumer marketplace startups raising their first or second round of capital. The investment team is a combination of experienced operators, strategists, and investors and helps its portfolio companies […]
MadDog Ventures is a venture operator and early stage investor. In addition to investing, the company partners with venture capital firms and entrepreneurs to immediately complete the full team required to elevate each venture to expansion-round funding or the next level. MadDog Technology specializes in advanced technology and mobile device development.
Red Cedar Ventures, the venture investment arm of the Michigan State University Foundation, focuses on growing startup companies created by MSU faculty, staff, and students. Red Cedar Ventures manages two funds—a $3.5M Pre-Seed Fund and a $5M Opportunity Fund—and participates at any financing stage.
Invest Michigan is a Michigan nonprofit corporation and the fund manager for the Michigan Pre-Seed Fund II, a $10.5 million investment fund providing capital to early-stage technology companies in Michigan. Its funds come from the state’s Michigan Strategic Fund but governed by a private independent board of directors, and its investment decisions are independent of […]