Three Guineas Fund is a public foundation. We identify and support promising innovations aligned with our mission. We have had a particular interest in models that contribute to systemic change and that bridge for-profit and non-profit sectors.

Three Guineas maintains a small portfolio of grant partners, and strives to model a philanthropic process and culture that promote partnership and relationship building. We recognize that solutions to complex problems require a diversity of voices, range of skills, global perspective and a tolerance for risk. All Fund activities embody a theory of change and explore new approaches to solving a social problem.

The Kauffman Foundation - The Foundation of Entrepreneurship

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, the Kauffman Foundation is among the thirty largest foundations in the United States with an asset base of approximately $2 billion.

The Althea Foundation takes on difficult and neglected mental-health issues that are life defining, in an effort to lessen the trauma and increase resilience and recovery. Our vision and values are based on these three core beliefs.

Fenwick & West provides comprehensive legal services to high technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. We have over 250 attorneys and offices in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California.

Fenwick & West is committed to providing innovative, cost-effective and practical legal services that focus on global high technology industries and issues. We differentiate ourselves by having a deeper understanding of our clients' technologies, industry environments and business needs than is typically expected of lawyers.

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.

AOL is a leading-edge web services company, including a network of premium and niche content sites, and an extensive offering of world-class tools and platforms. AOL's business spans the Internet with online and local content, innovative products and valuable services for consumers, publishers and advertisers. With one of the industry's largest advertising networks, AOL engages consumers with online advertising services on both AOL's owned and operated properties and third-party websites. In addition, AOL operates a premium subscription-based access service in the United States.

“Deloitte” is the brand under which tens of thousands of dedicated professionals in independent firms throughout the world collaborate to provide audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, and tax services to selected clients. These firms are members of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (“DTT”), a Swiss Verein. Each member firm provides services in a particular geographic area and is subject to the laws and professional regulations of the particular country or countries in which it operates. DTT helps coordinate the activities of the member firms but does not itself provide services to clients. DTT and the member firms are separate and distinct legal entities, which cannot obligate the other entities. DTT and each DTT member firm are only liable for their own acts or omissions, not those of any other entity.

At Iron, we create marketing messages that get to the point: simply, quickly, effectively. Then we package those messages in a way that builds a personal, emotional connection, that cannot be ignored or forgotten.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo is a versatile law firm of more than 450 highly qualified and dedicated attorneys representing diverse international clients in many industries, who turn to us for a wide range of legal services and resources. Our clients include major public corporations, privately held and family businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups and emerging growth companies, investors, underwriters, directors and officers, research scientists, medical and academic institutions, public agencies and industry associations.

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.

Moss Adams LLP is the 11th largest accounting and consulting firm in the United States, and the largest headquartered in the West. Founded in 1913 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Moss Adams has 21 locations in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Our partners and staff provide accounting, tax, and consulting services to public, private, and nonprofit enterprises in many different industries, including technology and life sciences, health care, and manufacturing and distribution.

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.

With 800 lawyers and other professionals in 13 offices in the U.S. and Europe, and a global reach throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Sonnenschein serves the legal and public interest needs of many of the world's best-known and most admired businesses, nonprofits and individuals.

 

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.

Venture Catalyst's global network of experienced and skilled fund placement professionals assist in fundraising and strategic business development for private equity, venture capital and direct investments. We have a wide range of high-quality institutional investors, pension funds, banks, endowments, sovereign funds and family offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and the Middle East who have chosen to work with members of our team in placing funds into a wide number of private equity, venture capital, and direct deals.

Venture Catalyst's emphasis on quality is paramount to investors who we choose to work with and investment mandates which we dedicate our resources, time, and energy. Our goals are simple. We strive to be the selected and trusted global partner for those who choose to work with us in achieving high performance and outstanding returns.

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.

Ballou PR is an international public relations agency with offices in Paris, London and New York City as well as deep links into Silicon Valley, specializing in high technology, life sciences and related industries, including VC and business services. The firm expertly integrates traditional and emerging techniques of communications to develop proactive and aggressive public relations programs designed to increase the value of a company and drive sales. Ballou PR designs and implements strategic B2B and B2C public relations services that enable clients to establish a leading presence in domestic or foreign markets (specializing in pan-European and U.S. penetration). By going beyond traditional media relations, Ballou PR ensures a cutting-edge and customized approach to creating buzz around their client’s specific business using analyst relations, financial relations, business networking, awards, social media and speaking events.

At Cisco customers come first and an integral part of our DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success.

Cooley Godward Kronish is a national law firm for the converging worlds of high technology, high finance and high-stakes litigation. We are counselors, strategists and advocates for the foremost private and public companies across a wide variety of industries and in all major technology fields. Our clients include business organizations, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, financial institutions, private equity firms, professional services firms and real estate owners and developers. Cooley has approximately 650 attorneys and represents clients in more than 20 industries

IF Communications is a small PR firm consisting of full-time and freelance directors with experience in the technology, mobile and venture sectors. We are purely focused and committed to the venture eco-system and therefore, understand the market and media inside out.

Our service is far beyond just media relations. Our approach is to know the venture firms, the portfolio companies, key influencers, bloggers, analysts and journalists. In short, we make sure we are knowledgeable across the whole space, know the key trends and have the best contacts. Having built strong relationships over the past seven years, we help clients with introductions, deal flow, discount on advertising and speaking slots, data and a whole raft of valuable added services that we can offer due to our clear focus.

Although IF Communications is based in London, we also have outreach in San Francisco. By having a footprint in the Valley and in Europe we believe we can be far more effective in driving awareness. We have a senior team, built with industry experts and communications specialists, working with clients at all times. We are a small team focused on delivery at a competitive price.

PayCycle, America’s #1 Online Payroll Service, makes managing your payroll easy. This convenient and affordable service handles all your payroll needs: paycheck calculations, instant checks, direct deposit, W-2s, electronic tax payments, electronic tax filings & more.

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.

Tier One Partners, LLC is a full-service public relations and marketing communications firm comprised of partners with deep experience in the technology, consumer technology, financial services, professional services and consumer retail markets and practice areas in healthcare, green innovation and mobile/telecom.  Tier One uses its experience to infuse its programs with knowledgeable insight, proven strategies and creative solutions that get results.  From Business-to-Business to Business-to-Consumer communications, the firm provides its range of services through a virtual team environment that enables it to deliver premium PR talent and results at highly competitive rates.  Headquartered in Boston, Tier One also has hubs in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle.  For more information, please visit www.tieronepr.com or find us on Twitter (@tieronepr) and Facebook.

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) can help you rise to the exciting opportunities and challenges that globalisation offers. We work with UK-based businesses to ensure their success in international markets. We also encourage the best overseas companies to look to the UK as their global partner of choice.

For wealthy individuals and families with complex wealth management needs, U.S. Trust offers innovative and customized financial solutions to help meet unique lifestyle, family, business and philanthropic goals. A coordinated team backed by more than 200 years of experience and the resources of one of the world’s largest financial institutions works with each client to understand and address their needs. We apply deep wealth management expertise and financial acumen to deliver across a comprehensive range of capabilities, including: Wealth Structuring, Investment Management, Customized Credit and Banking, Legacy and Philanthropy, and Family Office services.

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance for more than 23 million customers through 6,100 stores, the internet and other distribution channels across North America and elsewhere internationally.