Azure Capital Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth capital investments. It also invests in post-seed and Series A stage, startups with differentiated products and defensible technologies.
These startups develop products based upon a technology that allows them to compete effectively with much larger incumbents
and that enables time to market advantage. It seeks to invest in the internet and information technology sector with a focus on software, media, infrastructure technologies, mobile, communications services and equipment, mobility solutions, and communications applications, web, digital media, and related web properties. It invests in North America, Silicon Valley, the United States and Canada with a focus on Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal.
Azure Capital Partners seeks to acquire a board seat in its portfolio companies. Michael Kwantinetz, Paul Ferris, and Paul Weinstein founded it on April 7, 2000, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California additional offices in Calgary in Canada and Menlo Park in California.