GF Private Equity Group, LLC is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in incubation, early stage venture capital, leveraged buyout, turnarounds, special situation transactions, venture capital funds, buyout funds, and turnaround funds. The firm typically seeks to make investments in companies engaged in the technology and software, life sciences and medical devices, telecommunications and media, natural resources and alternative energy, government and defense, and financial services and fund sectors. Within the technology sector it makes investments in spectroscopy, chromatography, nanotechnology, composites, RFID, MEMS, and new solutions for the Internet and the e-commerce industries. The firm invests in supply chain optimization using RFID technologies within the enterprise software sector. In the communications software sector, it makes investments in new protocols and applications that enable media convergence. Additionally, the firm seeks investments in companies engaged in healthcare, information technology, and energy in the application software sector. Within the life sciences and medical device sector, it makes investments in immunoassay technologies and companies developing methods for achieving faster drug discovery and those targeting treatments for conditions such as diabetes and chronic renal disease. In the telecommunications and media sector, investments are sought in companies engaged in WiMax, VoIP, digital broadcasting, satellite communications, and optical technologies. Within the natural resources and alternative energy sectors, the firm invests in energy, water filtration, desalinization, infrastructure engineering and reconstruction, building construction, and solar and wind power generation. In the government and defense sector, it invests in those emerging technologies and certain company buyouts that are relevant to the defense and homeland security-related industries. Additionally, the firm seeks investment opportunities in companies engaged in asset management and financial consulting services within the financial services and funds sector. It operates as a subsidiary of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe Growth Fund. GF Private Equity Group, LLC was founded in 2003 and is based in Durango, Colorado.