Funding
Excell Partners
Excell Partners is a unique regional economic development partnership established in cooperation with the University of Rochester and the State of New York to manage a state-supported fund which provides […]
Impellent Ventures
Impellent partners with world-class founders to solve the toughest problems through technology enabled businesses. By pairing capital and connectivity to great entrepreneurs, the firm helps accelerate innovation–starting with support at […]
Kiva Rochester
Kiva Rochester is a partnership between the City of Rochester and Kiva, the world’s largest crowdfunded microlender. Since August of 2016, Kiva Rochester has worked to provide Rochester small business […]
RIT Venture Fund
The RIT Venture Fund was capitalized with $3.5 Million and will strive to build a diversified portfolio of early and later stage companies. The total average investment per company is […]
Rochester Angel Network
The Rochester Angel Network (and its associated Angel Fund) is a private group of accredited investors in the Greater Rochester, NY Region with an interest in investing in early stage […]
Armory Square Ventures
Armory Square Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in Upstate NY and NYC. It focuses on opportunities where we can combine our capital with our networks to […]
Cayuga Venture Fund
Cayuga Venture Fund is based in Ithaca, New York and since 1994 has been working to create and establish a thriving community of leading edge, high tech start-up companies in […]
G2 Venture Partners
G2VP works to find, build and support companies that are modernizing and revolutionizing the traditional industries that make up over half of the global economy.
PathStone Enterprise Center
The PathStone Enterprise Center makes loans to small and micro businesses, and provides a strong program of pre-loan and post-loan technical assistance and training programs designed to support our clients’ […]
Rand Capital
Rand Capital focuses on making venture capital investments in small-to medium-sized companies that are engaged in the exploitation of new or unique products or services, with a sustainable competitive advantage, […]
Safar Partners
Safar Partners is a new venture capital/growth capital fund focused on commercializing technologies in the cleantech, advanced materials, life sciences, artificial intelligence, and robotic industries. Primary focus of deal flow […]
Simon School Venture Capital Fund
The Simon School Venture Capital Fund (SSVCF) is an early stage student-run VC fund run by 2nd year MBA students at the Simon School, University of Rochester. The SSVCF is an […]
Small Business Administration
Created in 1953, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) continues to help small business owners and entrepreneurs pursue the American dream. The SBA is the only cabinet-level federal agency fully […]
Stonehenge Growth Equity Partners
Growth Stage Venture Capital fund focused predominantly on high potential technology and business services companies based in underserved regions, primarily Florida, the Southeast, and Upstate New York, areas where an abundance […]
Venture Jobs Foundation
The Venture Jobs Foundation is a 501.c.3 public charity that invests in small businesses bringing jobs to distressed neighborhoods. We organize events addressing knowledge or skills important to the growth […]