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Highland Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, mid venture, later stage, early growth stage, venture buyouts, spin-outs, expansion stage, emerging growth, and recapitalizations investments. The firm seeks to invest in the information technology, consumer, communications, traditional brick and mortar stores, financial services, clean technology, and healthcare sectors. Within the information technology sector, it seeks to invest in growth stage internet, mobile internet, digital media, digital marketing, consumer internet, online education, enterprise technology, consumer technology, factory automation, emerging media, business servi...

Highland Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, mid venture, later stage, early growth stage, venture buyouts, spin-outs, expansion stage, emerging growth, and recapitalizations investments. The firm seeks to invest in the information technology, consumer, communications, traditional brick and mortar stores, financial services, clean technology, and healthcare sectors. Within the information technology sector, it seeks to invest in growth stage internet, mobile internet, digital media, digital marketing, consumer internet, online education, enterprise technology, consumer technology, factory automation, emerging media, business services, e-commerce, consumer electronics, online business, software, services, payments and mobile enabled businesses, software-as-a-service, open source software, low-cost telesales, payment systems, emerging broadband, interactive television, and media technologies. In the communications sector, the firm typically invests in networking and communications infrastructure, mobile, wireless technologies, telecom services, service opportunities, cable infrastructure, electronic components, and semiconductor opportunities. Within the healthcare sector, it prefers to invest in medical technology, software, services, medical devices, and biotechnology. Within consumer sector, the firm seeks to invest in consumer goods and services, retail, and specialty retailers with a particular interest in natural products, nutrition, and juvenile products. Within China, the firm invests in the technology, media, and telecom sectors only. It invests in Asia, China, New York, Boston, North America, Silicon Valley, and Europe with a focus on Ireland. The firm makes equity investment between $1 million and $10 million. The firm is generally the first institutional investor in the companies it backs and seeks to take a board seat on its portfolio companies. Highland Capital Partners was founded in 1988 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with additional offices in Bethesda, Maryland; Geneva, Switzerland; Shanghai, China; London, United Kingdom; and Menlo Park, California.

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