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2006 Silicon Valley Venture Capital Directory Now Available; Directory is the Only Guide Exclusively Devoted to Silicon Valley VCs, Private Equity Firms, Angels and Incubators.


SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  -- Massinvestor Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of its 2006 Silicon Valley Venture Capital Directory, which profiles 450 Venture Capital and Private Equity firms with offices in Silicon Valley.

This newly revised and updated edition includes more than thirty additional firms not published in the 2005 Directory, including local VC outfits such as Astellas, Blue Dot, Dakota, Perseus, and Shasta.

In addition to covering all local Venture Capitalists, the directory includes profiles of all local Private Equity firms (later-stage investors), Incubators, prominent Angel investors, Family Investment offices, Merchant Banks, Fund of Funds Fund of Funds

A mutual fund that invests in other mutual funds.

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, Venture Debt and Economic Development offices. Nearly 500 investment firms are profiled in total.

While many professionals are familiar with the big Silicon Valley Venture Capital names--Kleiner, Mayfield, Sequoia, DFJ DFJ Dysfunkshun Junkshun (Austin, Texas band) , Menlo--it may be surprising to know there are 450 Venture Capital and Private Equity firms with offices in Silicon Valley.

The Directory's Editor and Publisher, Michael Stern Michael Stern may be:
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, has been covering the Venture Capital industry for more than seven years.

"It's great to be back in Silicon Valley with a new book," Stern said. "Once again there were many changes with Silicon Valley VCs--new firms have been created, new funds have been raised, and new partners have been added. We make it our mission to stay up to date with all the developments."

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 a recent PriceWaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree survey, Silicon Valley continues to rank as the number one region in the country in terms of the amount of Venture Capital funds Venture Capital Funds

An investment fund that manages money from investors seeking private equity stakes in small and medium-size enterprises with strong growth potential.

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 invested and transactions.

The Directory is sold exclusively through the website: www.massinvestor.com. The Directory includes an eBook (a complete electronic version of the printed Directory in an easy-to-use PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format.  format), as well as an interactive Excel spreadsheet containing the contact information (including email addresses) of more than 1,000 individual Silicon Valley investment partners.

About Massinvestor, Inc.

Founded in 1998, Massinvestor, Inc. is the leading publisher of Venture Capital Directories, providing authoritative coverage of the nation's top regions for Venture financing -- Silicon Valley, Massachusetts, Texas, Mid-Atlantic, and the Southeastern U.S.
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