Needham & Company, LLC is a nationally recognized investment banking and asset management firm focused primarily on serving emerging growth industries and their investors. Founded in 1985 by George A. Needham, Raymond H. Godfrey and David K. Townes, the firm is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Boston, Massachusetts, Menlo Park and San Francisco, California.

Needham & Company's principal activities are public and private financings; corporate finance advisory services, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; equity research; sales and trading primarily for institutional investors; and asset management through public and private funds. Since its founding, the firm has acted as lead or co-manager in more than 450 public offerings, including 145 IPOs, raising in excess of $31.2 billion, and as placement agent on over 55 private offerings.