Venture Investors, LLC



Venture Investors, LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed, early stage, and emerging markets. It primarily invests in healthcare and information technology sectors. Within healthcare, the firm invests in biotechnology, diagnostics and therapeutics, human health, drug discovery, new drug delivery technologies, new enabling technologies, and medical devices. Its investment in the information technology sector includes software, communications, instrumentation, electronic materials, internet products and related services, and other information technology related opportunities. The firm also invests in companies that have licensed technology from research universities including the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It seeks to invest in companies based in Wisconsin and the Midwest region of the United States. The firm invests up to $7.5 million in its portfolio companies over time. It seeks to be the lead investor and can also co-invest. The firm prefers to invest in the form of preferred stock and/or debt with warrant coverage. It seeks to achieve liquidity over five to seven years through an initial public offering or the sale of the company. Venture Investors, LLC was founded in 1982 by Mr. Roger H. Ganser and Mr. John Neis and is based in Madison, Wisconsin with an additional office in Ann Arbor, Michigan.