Angelsoft was founded in 2004 with a simple idea: to bring the power of collaboration technologies to the early-stage investment industry. Today, with 445 angel groups and VCs, 16,367 investors, and 3,000 new company applications a month, Angelsoft has become a vital ecosystem where real entrepreneurs and real investors meet and collaborate in the effort to build the best new companies of the 21st Century.

At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them.

Morrison & Foerster’s Emerging Company and Venture Capital group helps emerging companies succeed at every stage of their development. We advise companies from their initial business formation to raising venture capital financing and achieving a successful exit through a sale or public offering.

Osborne Clarke is one of Europe's most respected and dynamic law firms.  We advise high performing organisations from early stage growth companies to market-leading multi-national corporations.  Our success is the result of delivering excellent, business-focused legal advice in an energetic, straightforward and efficient way.  
   
We are at the heart of the venture capital market, being one of only a few European practices with a dedicated venture capital and private equity group.  We also have a presence in Silicon Valley (the home of technology investing) which sets us apart from our competitors.
   
Last year we worked on over 60 venture capital investments. These deals had a combined value of more than £250m. We also worked on a significant number of exits. We are ranked number one for venture capital work by both of The Legal 500, 2008 and Chambers 2009 in their clients' guides to the UK legal profession.
   
We advise investors (investment trusts, venture capital trusts, limited partnerships or other vehicles) on investments and companies and management teams seeking capital. We have extensive experience in all stages of the venture market: start-up / early stage, large syndicated growth rounds, venture debt and pre-IPO funding.

Reed Smith represents many of the world’s leading companies in complex litigation and other high-stakes disputes, cross-border and other strategic transactions, and crucial regulatory matters.With lawyers from coast-to-coast in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Asia and the Middle East, our firm is known for its experience across a broad array of industry sectors.

SVB Financial Group provides diversified financial services to emerging, growth and established technology companies and the life science, private equity and premium wine markets. Through its focus on specialized markets and extensive knowledge of the people and business issues driving them, SVB Financial Group provides a level of service and partnership that measurably impacts its clients' success.