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Editor’s note: This is the 10th in a series of profiles on venture capital and investment firms operating from North Carolina to Georgia. Prepared by Matthew Burns and Daniel Pearson for Local Tech Wire, the series is published Monday through Friday. Paul Jones and Daniel Egger, two lawyers and former entrepreneurs, teamed up in 1998 to create Durham-based Eno River Capital to help fellow business owners with seed capital and management expertise, leading them to the next stage of development. Many of the life sciences and information technology companies Eno has backed have been spun out of North Carolina...

Editor’s note: This is the ninth in our daily series about venture capital and investment firms which are active in the Carolinas and Georgia. The series was compiled by Matthew Burns and Daniel Pearson. An affiliate of Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Reston, Va.-based Draper Atlantic brings West Coast style and money to Southeastern information technology companies. The firm focuses its investments on companies developing communications equipment and software, enterprise software and services or Internet infrastructure services. Under the guidance of managing partners Jim Lynch, who previously headed DFJ’s Polaris fund, and former entrepreneur John Backus,...

Editor’s Note: This is the seventh part of our series focusing on firms which focus for the most part and/or are based in the Carolinas and Georgia. The series was prepared by Matthew Burns and Daniel Pearson. Each firm was asked to fill out a questionnaire. Not all firms chose to answer all questions or in complete detail, such as funding amounts. To avoid confusion, each firm’s responses appear as submitted to Local Tech Wire. The series will run Monday through Friday. Believing management experience is as critical to young companies as venture capital, Durham-based Catalysta Partners provides more...

Editor’s Note: Looking for investors? Partners? Want to know who the “players” are in the venture capital world and finance? Local Tech Wire may help you find some answers in this the fifth part of our series focusing on firms which focus for the most part and/or are based in the Carolinas and Georgia. The series was prepared by Matthew Burns and Daniel Pearson. Each firm was asked to fill out a questionnaire. Not all firms chose to answer all questions or in complete detail, such as funding amounts. To avoid confusion, each firm’s responses appear as submitted to...

Editor’s Note: Looking for investors? Partners? Want to know who the “players” are in the venture capital world and finance? Local Tech Wire may help you find some answers in this the fourth part of our series focusing on firms which focus for the most part and/or are based in the Carolinas and Georgia. The series was prepared by Matthew Burns and Daniel Pearson. Each firm was asked to fill out a questionnaire. Not all firms chose to answer all questions or in complete detail, such as funding amounts. To avoid confusion, each firm’s responses appear as submitted to...

Editor’s Note: Looking for investors? Partners? Want to know who the “players” are in the venture capital world? Local Tech Wire may help you find some answers in this the third part of our series focusing on VC firms which focus for the most part and/or are based in the Carolinas and Georgia. The series was prepared by Matthew Burns and Daniel Pearson. Each firm was asked to fill out a questionnaire. Not all firms chose to answer all questions or in complete detail, such as funding amounts. To avoid confusion, each firm’s responses appear as submitted to Local...

Editor’s Note: Looking for investors? Partners? Want to know who the “players” are in the venture capital world? Local Tech Wire may help you find some answers in this the second part of our series focusing on VC firms which focus for the most part and/or are based in the Carolinas and Georgia. The series was prepared by Matthew Burns and Daniel Pearson. Each firm was asked to fill out a questionnaire. Not all firms chose to answer all questions or in complete detail, such as funding amounts. To avoid confusion, each firm’s responses appear as submitted to Local...

Editor’s Note: Looking for investors? Partners? Want to know who the “players” are in the venture capital world? Local Tech Wire may help you find some answers. This is the first in a series of profiles focusing on VC firms which focus for the most part and/or are based in the Carolinas and Georgia. The series was prepared by Matthew Burns and Daniel Pearson. Each firm was asked to fill out a questionnaire. Not all firms chose to answer all questions or in complete detail, such as funding amounts. To avoid confusion, each firm’s responses appear as submitted to...