The following is a list of venture capital firms in Maryland. This list was compiled from public information and Internet searches. It is not intended to serve as a recommendation or endorsement of any company listed below.
- Abell Investments: Venture capital as well as grantmaking to disadvantaged business owners in Baltimore, MD area.
- ABS Capital Partners: Primary services for later-stage business development. Capital to pursue acquisitions, provide some shareholder liquidity, and for rapid-growth companies.
- Anthem Capital, L.P.: Venture capital focus on early-stage businesses in health care, life sciences, and information technology, in Mid-Atlantic states, including Maryland.
- Gabriel Venture Partners: Early-stage venture capital.
- Highland Capital Partners: Venture capital for early-stage and growth-stage companies. Emphasis on information and communications technology, health care, and Internet and digital media companies.
- Inflection Point Ventures: Funding for early-stage telecommunications, information technology, and electronic commerce companies. Services Mid-Atlantic and states and New England.
- Key Principal Partners: Capital for manufacturing, distribution or service-oriented companies in late-growth stages.
- Kinetic Ventures, L.L.C.: A leading venture capital investor in communications, information and power/clean technology driven businesses.
- Maryland Small Business Development Financing Authority (MSBDFA): Assists in the development and establishment of businesses owned by socially or economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs in Maryland. According to their website, "MSBDFA's financing activity is supported through the repayment of loans, generation of interest income and the collection of fees."
- Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO): Funding assistance, business incubation, and start-up resources.
- MMG Ventures, L.P.: MMG offers a variety of programs and funding options for small, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses.
- Montagu Newhall Associates, Inc.: For late-stage company capital investments.
- New Enterprise Associates: Venture capital for start-ups, and businesses in mid- late-stage growth.
- Novak Biddle Venture Partners: Provides equity financing and assistance to the management of early-stage, information technology companies principally located in the Mid-Atlantic region including Maryland.
- Sterling Venture Partners: Invests in companies seeking expansion stage and growth capital. According to their website, "The team initially deploys between $5 million to $25 million of equity in each portfolio investment, typically assuming a non-controlling interest and partnering with entrepreneurs who are enthusiastic about executing upon untapped opportunities for their businesses."
