<p>Alta Berkeley Venture Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed and startup and early stage. The firm also provides bridge financing. It targets its investments in communication and computing technology and medical technology sectors. Within communication and computing technology sectors, the firm focuses on semiconductor, components, system, and software level of integration. Within medical technology, it focuses on medical devices, bio-chips, and bio bioinformatics. The firm primarily invests in Europe and Israel. It initially invests between $1.5 million and $3 million and then average investment goes up to between $4 million and $8 million. The firm prefers to take a lead role in its investments. However in syndicates, it acts as both a lead investor and a co-investor. The firm prefers to invest for a period between four and seven years and seeks to exit its investment through public offerings, acquisitions, and trade sales in the United States and Europe.</p>