When we launched Volition Capital in January 2010, we also launched the Ask Volition blog aimed at opening a dialogue with entrepreneurs and founders around some of their key questions.  As many entrepreneurs have noted, Volition Capital is focused on high growth, founder-owned technology companies with $5M-$50M in revenue.  Volition is a growth equity firm, rather than a traditional early-stage VC firm.  We think there’s tremendous value to being focused, but one byproduct of that is there will always be companies that don’t fit our focus area.  Hence, one question we have often received from entrepreneurs whose companies may not be the perfect fit for us is: Can you recommend any other firms that might be a better fit?

We get that question enough that we thought it’d be useful to create a resource that we can easily point entrepreneurs towards.  Given the amazing feedback we’ve received on the Global VC Blog Directory, we have pulled together a similar directory of technology venture capital firms.  Though we call this a “venture capital” firm directory, there are several seed investors, many traditional VC firms, a few growth equity firms (like Volition) and some large diversified funds.  We have ranked the firms by the traffic they get to their corporate websites (based on average Q4 monthly uniques according to Compete).  We caution folks from reading too much into traffic stats as there are fantastic firms up and down the list, many of whom we know well.  But, we believe readers appreciate some organization rather than none at all.  In order to make the list, the firm’s website had to have monthly unique data from Compete for October, November, and December 2009, which we then averaged.  Of course, given that threshold, Volition Capital itself didn’t make the list because we just launched in January.  But, we aim to make quarterly updates where we can add new firms or firms that we have missed.  Please leave any suggestions in the comment field.

Venture Capital Firm Directory (Avg. Monthly Uniques – Q409)

1. First Round Capital (31,632)
2. Sequoia Capital (22,441)
3. Bessemer Venture Partners (14,825)
4. Highland Capital Partners (12,704)
5. Garage Technology Ventures (12,375)
6. Draper Fisher Jurvetson (11,823)
7. New Enterprise Associates (11,762)
8. Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers (10,924)
9. Polaris Venture Partners (10,217)
10. Benchmark Capital (10,162)
11. Battery Ventures (10,034)
12. Founders Fund (9,654)
13. Accel Partners (9,604)
14. Greylock Partners (9,445)
15. Centennial Ventures (9,224)
16. General Catalyst Partners (9,086)
17. Summit Partners (8,270)
18. Norwest Venture Partners (8,198)
19. Founder Collective (8,189)
20. Spark Capital (7,834)
21. Foundry Group (7,787)
22. Technology Crossover Ventures (7,503)
23. Matrix Partners (7,309)
24. Lightspeed Venture Partners (6,475)
25. Union Square Ventures (6,333)
26. OpenView Venture Partners (6,319)
27. Charles River Ventures (6,316)
28. TA Associates (6,245)
29. Austin Ventures (6,037)
30. Canaan Partners (5,763)
31. Mayfield Fund (5,643)
32. True Ventures (5,627)
33. Atlas Venture (5,462)
34. Alsop Louie Partners (5,346)
35. Maveron (5,164)
36. Mohr Davidow Ventures (5,139)
37. Rustic Canyon Partners (5,006)
38. Redpoint Ventures (4,950)
39. Warburg Pincus (4,863)
40. Highway 12 Ventures (4,821)
41. Shasta Ventures (4,664)
42. Khosla Ventures (4,624)
43. Split Rock Partners (4,613)
44. Trinity Ventures (4,603)
45. Madrone Venture Group (4,593)
46. August Capital (4,521)
47. Venrock (4,298)
48. VantagePoint Venture Partners (4,274)
49. Edison Venture Fund (4,004)
50. U.S. Venture Partners (3,992)
51. Foundation Capital (3,832)
52. Sigma Partners (3,621)
53. In-Q-Tel (3,499)
54. JMI Equity (3,490)
55. Morgenthaler (3,409)
56. Greycroft Partners (3,390)
57. Flybridge Capital Partners (3,243)
58. Scale Venture Partners (3,173)
59. Bain Capital Ventures (3,155)
60. Index Ventures (3,096)
61. .406 Ventures (3,076)
62. Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (2,908)
63. Globsepan Capital Partners (2,642)
64. Chrysalis Ventures (2,610)
65. Updata Partners (2,523)
66. OATV (2,480)
67. Oak Investment Partners (2,468)
68. Interwest Partners (2,452)
69. Institutional Venture Partners (2,392)
70. North Bridge Venture Partners (2,360)
71. Sierra Ventures (2,353)
72. ONSET Ventures (2,319)
73. Longworth Venture Partners (2,314)
74. Kennet Partners (2,239)
75. ABS Capital Partners (2,226)
76. Village Ventures (2,195)
77. Panorama Capital (2,164)
78. Columbia Capital (2,139)
79. DAG Ventures (2,068)
80. GGV Capital (2,047)
81. Crosslink Capital (2,035)
82. Sutter Hill Ventures (2,006)
83. Bay Partners (1,894)
84. HIG Ventures (1,887)
85. Rembrandt Venture Partners (1,876)
86. Sevin Rosen Funds (1,805)
87. Rockport Capital Partners (1,729)
88. Steamboat Ventures (1,723)
89. JAFCO Ventures (1,703)
90. Valhalla Partners (1,700)
91. Common Angels (1,665)
92. CueBall Group (1,651)
93. Menlo Ventures (1,640)
94. Alloy Ventures (1,632)
95. Mission Ventures (1,604)
96. Tenaya Capital (1,575)
97. Commonwealth Capital (1,560)
98. Kodiak Venture Partners (1,525)
99. Granite Ventures (1,465)
100. Palomar Ventures (1,411)
101. ARCH Venture Partners (1,407)
102. Castile Ventures (1,366)
103. Voyager Capital (1,364)
104. Ascent Venture Partners (1,337)
105. Allegis Capital (1,331)
106. NewSpring Capital (1,290)
107. Sofinnova Ventures (1,288)
108. Versant Ventures (1,284)
109. Altos Ventures (1,281)
110. Storm Ventures (1,280)
111. Boston Millenia Partners (1,267)
112. Crescendo Ventures (1,252)
113. Grotech Ventures (1,212)
114. GrandBanks Capital (1,203)
115. @Ventures (1,200)
116. Paladin Capital Group (1,196)
117. DCM (1,182)
118. Weston Presidio (1,087)
119. Novak Biddle Venture Partners (1,076)
120. Hunt Ventures (1,065)
121. Funk Ventures (1,026)
122. Intersouth Partners (1,026)
123. Thomas Weisel Venture Partners (992)
124. Claremont Creek Ventures (925)
125. TL Ventures (922)
126. Thoma Cressey Bravo (915)
127. IDG Ventures (896)
128. Prism Ventureworks (845)
129. Investor Growth Capital (843)
130. Walden International (829)
131. Clarus Ventures (784)
132. Mileston Venture Partners (778)
133. Forward Ventures (765)
134. Tugboat Ventures (752)
135. Flagship Ventures (743)
136. Technology Partners (743)
137. Omidyar Network (738)
138. Levensohn Venture Partners (679)
139. ATA Ventures (673)
140. Noro-Moseley Partners (668)
141. Aurora Funds (667)
142. Domain Associates (633)
143. JK&B Capital (591)
144. Vista Ventures (589)
145. Focus Ventures (541)
146. Kepha Partners (509)
147. Needham Capital Partners (495)
148. Telesoft Partners (469)
149. Lee Munder Capital Group (459)
150. Draper Richards (388)

(Prepared by Larry Cheng and Dave Gordon of Volition Capital – with the help of several friends in the industry.)

Tags: directory, growth equity, vc, venture capital

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