i don't know the type of buisness you are looking for an investment in. however if the business plan is solid and the idea is really good, the companies listed below can help.

the thing with venture capital however is they do take a percentage of the business. They are gambling on your success and yes they absolutely want a say in how things are being run.

http://www.capitalaccessnetwork.com/

Capital Access Network, INC. (CAN) has been serving small businesses for more than a decade.

We develop and improve upon ways to make it easier to get - or deliver - what every business needs: working capital. Our wholly-owned subsidiaries have provided over $2 billion in more than 80,000 transactions.

Our subsidiaries' working capital products build on the power of Daily Remittance. This creates the flexibility required to meet the needs of each unique small business being served.

As a result, this has provided our Data Services Division with detailed information on sales activity occurring in small businesses since 1998.

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http://www.urbanselect.com/

Urban Select Capital Corporation is an investment issuer focused on investing growth capital into private and public companies in a broad range of sectors including renewable energy, natural resources, chemicals, agriculture and consumer retail services. Urban Select’s management team is composed of investment professionals combining an Asian background with Western education and extensive experience in investment banking, venture capital and fund management in Canada, China and the U.S.
Resource projects are currently our main focus.
Specialties

Raising Venture Capital
Valuations
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A's)
Joint Ventures (JV's)
Reverse Take Over's (RTO's)
Deal Sourcing, Events and Seminars,


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http://www.mobiusvc.com/

DENVER Area would have been good but no longer investing :(

Mobius Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund comprised of seasoned veterans and entrepreneurs from leading technology companies, who bring not only deep domain expertise, but also hands-on operating experience to the companies in our portfolio.

Mobius Venture Capital began investing in 1996 -- early investments included Geocities, ELoan, USWeb, and Verisign. The current fund, Mobius VI, has been invested in over sixty innovative technology companies including, Danger (Acq. MSFT), deCarta, FeedBurner (Acq. GOOG), Impinj, Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN), LRN, Postini (Acq. GOOG), Quova, Sling Media (Acq. DISH), Stratify (Acq. IRM), and Technorati.

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http://www.intellectualventures.com/Home.aspx

“An industry dedicated to financing inventors and monetizing their creations could transform the world.”
–Nathan Myhrvold, Founder and CEO

We believe ideas are valuable. At Intellectual Ventures, we invest both expertise and capital in the development of inventions. We collaborate with leading inventors and partner with pioneering companies. By providing access to our portfolio of patents, we help our customers innovate and reduce their risk by Bridging the Invention Gap™ between the invention rights they currently have and the invention rights they need.

As the global leader in the business of invention and owner of one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing patent portfolios, we are creating an active market for invention that connects buyers, sellers, and inventors. We do this by:

Employing talented inventors here at Intellectual Ventures who work on new inventions to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems.
Purchasing inventions from individual inventors and businesses and combining them into market-specific portfolios, which we then license broadly.
Partnering with our international network of more than 3,000 inventors and helping them to monetize their inventions.




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