Mission Ventures is a San Diego, California based venture capital firm. They invest in seed and early-stage companies in the communications, enterprise applications, infrastructure, and technology-driven services sectors. Mission Ventures targets investments in entrepreneurial companies in Southern California. They do not invest in the healthcare sector.
Mission Ventures works to partner with their portfolio companies and offers their capital, experience, management talent and experience to their partnered companies. Mission Ventures was founded in 1996 by Douglas F. Wall.
Mission Ventures has made investments in Enevate, Alpine Data Labs, Psonar, Nirvanix, Eveo, KidZui, Netseer, Aortiva Wireless, LeisureLink, Fastpoint and Slacker.
They have exited their investments in Verimatrix, Alpine Data Labs, Nirvanix, Slacker, Netseer, LeisureLink, Eveo, Transaction Wireless, KidZui and Ortiva Wireless.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Enevate Corporation is a developer of energy storage technology for lithium-ion battery ecosystems.
MaxLinear is a Carlsbad, California-based company founded in 2004 by Brendan Walsh, Kishore Seendripu and Curtis Ling.
Verimatrix is a San Diego-based software company developing content security, authentication, watermarking, and cybersecurity solutions.
Nirvanix is a San Diego-based company founded in 2007 by Edgard Capdevielle.
SodaHead.com is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2007 by Jason Feffer.
KidZui is an educational technology company founded by Cliff Boro.
People
Dennis Clerke
Investor
Douglas Wall
Investor
Jeremy Glaser
Investor
Ram Gollamudi
Employee
Sam Kim
Employee
Tim Driscoll
Employee