Connection to Capital
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Venture Capital Funds
Canyon Angels
Canyon Angels is an angel investment group founded in 2015. Through strategic partnerships and top tier deal flow, they have grown to over 70 investors. Their primary goal is to fund highly scalable startups that allow accredited investors to diversify their portfolios.
PHX Ventures
PHX Ventures believes sustainable, high-growth software companies can be a force for good and have lasting impact on individuals, families and communities.
Point Financial
Point Financial, Inc. has a mission to provide flexible, entrepreneurial financing for emerging market companies to reach their financial goals, achieve positive liquidity with less equity funding and devise a strategy that will ultimately extend their business runway while providing them with the financial staying power necessary to accomplish their end objective, often an IPO or M&A.
Brookstone Venture Capital
Brookstone VC provides professional investor services and capital to B2B software and internet technology companies with market-proven products and services.
AZ-VC
AZ-VC was established to address a critical gap in funding for post-revenue companies seeking to scale beyond seed-level financing. By providing world-class venture capital, AZ-VC aims to eliminate the ‘funding desert’ paradox, empowering growth-stage businesses with the resources they need to thrive.
Xcellerant Ventures
Xcellerant focuses on being the leading investor-friendly venture capital firm revolutionizing healthcare innovation, empowering entrepreneurs, and creating a vibrant ecosystem where groundbreaking ideas enhance accessibility, efficiency, affordability, and quality of healthcare.
Grayhawk Capital
Grayhawk seeks early-growth stage companies with $2MM – $6MM in ARR, capital efficient models, and a $1BN+ global market. Management teams are key to all their investments; they seek outstanding founders who are leaders, ambitious, and coach-able. Grayhawk Capital invests primarily in B2B disruptive SaaS solutions across a variety of verticals. Recurring sectors include, but are not limited to Customer Centric Software, Healthcare IT, Cybersecurity, FinTech, Business Productivity and Communications.
Pangaea Ventures
Founded in 2000, Pangaea Ventures is a leading venture capital firm focused on identifying and supporting high-potential hard tech ventures. They seek to generate meaningful returns for their investors by backing breakthrough innovations that deliver transformative solutions for planetary health.
Social Leverage
Social Leverage LLC was founded in 2009, to provide capital, help syndicate and offer strategic guidance to emerging web businesses. The partners of Social Leverage have invested in more than 100 early stage web businesses and have served as founders and executives of numerous companies. Their passion is helping entrepreneurs build great companies.
True North Venture Partners
True North VPs make long-term commitments to their businesses through a perpetual holding company, which is capitalized in excess of $700 million. They focus on investing in businesses that help the world realize a clean and sustainable future.
Bay Wharf Capital
Bay Wharf Capital is an early-stage generalist firm with an objective of backing and helping early stage startups. Their goal is to empower early stage startups to become the next market leaders through funding, mentorship, and networking opportunities.
Flagstaff Ventures
Flagstaff Ventures is an early-stage consumer venture fund that embraces the power of visionary entrepreneurs and their drive to challenge the status quo. From consumer tech to CPG, they invest in pre-seed and seed stage companies that have created potential market dominating innovations. With a focus on operational execution, Flagstaff Ventures supports founders in building exceptional operating businesses by leveraging their partners’ backgrounds, skills, and extensive networks.
Trinity Capital
Trinity is at the forefront of technology and innovation, providing diversified financial solutions to the global growth economy with uncommon care for and investment in people and partners. They provide venture debt and equipment financing to high-growth, venture-backed growth-stage companies. They fuel disruptive technologies and revolutionize the future by investing capital, time, experience, and resources to help their portfolio succeed.
E and I Ventures
E and I Ventures are primarily focused on making minority equity and debt investments in early stage technology businesses. They are often drawn to companies that have recently completed a transformational event or proof of concept, and thus are undergoing a transition, either operational or strategic, which they can help navigate. Their approach relies on partnering with leaders, and bringing a constructive and pragmatic mindset to drive significant long-term growth and value.
Atlas Capital
Atlas Capital, LLC is a private equity firm which employs a hybrid investment strategy, investing equity in both expansion stage IT companies as well as traditional manufacturing, real estate and service businesses with growth opportunities.
Arizona Tech Investors
Arizona Tech Investors (ATI) was founded in 2007 by Arizona-based investors committed to supporting capital needs of early-stage high- growth technology-driven companies within Arizona and neighboring states. ATI seeks opportunities where new capital can move young businesses to the next level of growth and success. To maximize the probability of a successful company, ATI goes beyond just making investments. Members also support portfolio companies through advisory roles, strategic guidance, as well as resource and partner referrals and more.
Flinn Foundation – Seed Grants Program
The Flinn Foundation Seed Grant program provides a $100,000 grant over 18 months to no more than 10 biomedical research teams each year. In addition to the initial grant program, up to two of the projects may receive an additional $100,000 throughout the following year. The research team must be associated with an Arizona university, research institution, or health-care system to become eligible for the program.
Bayless Ventures
Bayless Ventures focuses on supporting pre-seed and seed round digital health and technology enable healthcare service companies through funding and active mentorship.
Venture Scale
Venture Scale is a six-month long accelerator that provides founders with customized consultation sessions and deep dives into product-market and scaling, as well as a $100,000 grant. To participate, you must be a finalist of the Arizona Innovation Challenge (see Additional Resources).
