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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Venture Capital startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Advantage Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North America | ||
Callais Capital | Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States, North America | ||
Tamares | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture | Gibsland, Louisiana, United States, North America | ||
Louisiana Funds | Early Stage Venture | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, North America | ||
Voodoo Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital Early Stage Venture investors in Louisiana. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Louisiana)
Advantage Capital
Advantage Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in growth equity, lending, and mezzanine debt capital investment in companies at all stages of development: early, expansion equity, and later stage; except seed. It focuses on small businesses. Advantage Capital invests in low income communities, both urban and rural, and other investments supporting state and local economic development efforts. It seeks to invest in companies that develop or apply proprietary technologies or approaches to products, systems, and services primarily in the communication, information technology, information technology services, telecommunication services and communication equipments, business services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences, and energy industry, but also considers other opportunities. Advantage Capital seeks to invest in rural businesses involved in the production, processing and supply of agricultural products. It also provides debt capital in the form of senior debt, mezzanine debt, subordinated loans, government-guaranteed lending, business capital for investments and loans in underserved areas, and equity capital to real estate development firms and real estate projects. Advantage Capital primarily invests in Connecticut, Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Maine, Midwest, Oregon, New York, Texas, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and the District of Columbia in the United States. It seeks to make an initial investment between $0.5 million and $10 million in companies with sales value less than 5 million. Advantage Capital can make larger and further investments based on pre-set milestones or subsequent financing events and prefers to co invest with other investment firms in the form of equity or deeply subordinated debt, to support bank lending. Occasionally, smaller investments are made depending on the stage of the investment. Advantage Capital typically invests in preferred equity securities and current or preferred debt instruments that are either convertible or issued with warrants. It seeks to invest in states and communities that are underserved by traditional sources of risk capital and focuses on state and federal economic development initiatives that bring businesses, technologies and jobs to communities that need them. David Bergmann, Martin Bodenham, and Steven T. Stull founded Advantage Capital in 1992. It has its its headquarters in New Orleans in Louisiana and additional offices across the United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Callais Capital
Callais Capital builds regional portfolios of startups with diverse, equitable and inclusive teams. We have been actively investing in startups since 2014, with an emphasis on the burgeoning startup ecosystem along the Third Coast and Mississippi River Valley.
Stages: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States, North America
Industries: Asset Management, Impact Investing, Property Management, Venture Capital
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Tamares
Tamares, a private investment group with significant interests in real estate, technology, manufacturing, leisure and media. Tamares Private Equity invests passively and actively in operating businesses in Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Gibsland, Louisiana, United States, North America
Industries: Manufacturing, Real Estate, Venture Capital
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Louisiana Funds
Louisiana Funds is an early stage venture capital fund focusing primarily on Louisiana-based life science companies. Louisiana Funds’ portfolio includes pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, agritechnology, information technology, and other high technology firms.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, North America
Industries: Venture Capital
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Voodoo Ventures
Voodoo Ventures, LLC is an internet incubator based in New Orleans, LA. The company was founded by [Chris Schultz](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-schultz) in 2003 to develop and launch start up companies. Since 2003 Voodoo Ventures has provided seed capital for three companies: [Huckabuck, Inc](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/huckabuck-com), [siteMighty, Inc](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sitemighty-inc) and [Flatsourcing, Inc](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/flatsourcing). Mr. Schultz founded Voodoo Ventures after the acquisition of his first company, [Destination VIP, Inc](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/destination-vip-inc) a destination management company, by Las Vegas-based Vegas Hot Spots, LLC. Voodoo Ventures is very active in working with Louisiana entrepreneurs and provides informal consulting and mentoring programs currently. Will Donaldson joined Voodoo Ventures in July 2007 as an intern and in September 2008 became an Analyst with the company. Voodoo Ventures plans to serve as an incubator for Internet start ups in the Gulf South, providing seed capital and working to develop business plans, business models, and develop software prototypes. It will then connect these companies with angel investors and VC firms in Louisiana.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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