# Dave Ryan

> Dave Ryan is a funding round investor at Mission Ventures backing VoIP and Music. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mission Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mission-ventures)
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jun 2013
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Dave Ryan is a funding round investor at Mission Ventures focused on VoIP and Music. Dave Ryan has been a founding Mission Ventures Managing Partner since 1996. He has 28 years of venture capital experience focusing on early-stage information technology and service companies.Prior to Mission Ventures, beginning in 1983, he served as General Partner of Copley Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm focused onearly-stage investing in information technology, business services and healthcare. Prior to Copley, Dave held positions in strategic planning, business development and plant modernization with Medusa Corp, a Midwest-based manufacturer of industrial materials.Dave holds a Bachelor's degree from Northeastern University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University. He is currently a Director of Access360 Media, Active Storage, BMS Reimbursement Management, NetSeer, Nirvanix, and WorkWell Systems

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| VoIP | 1 | 13% |
| Music | 1 | 13% |
| Content | 1 | 13% |
| Internet | 1 | 13% |
| Marketing | 1 | 13% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Psonar | Psonar is a digital jukebox in the Cloud - bringing streaming music to people aged 12-25 worldwide with a unique payment model - Pay Per Play. With an expanding catalogue of over 600,000 tracks, a licence agreed with the largest major label and distribution partnerships with app store operators and social networks, Psonar is positioned to bethe global music service of choice for teens and younger adults. Psonar is optimised for mobile with adaptive HTML5, iOS and Android apps.Music fans, especially those under 25, increasingly access music through mobile phones. Freemium streaming services (such as Spotify) aren't available on mobile and other free services, such as YouTube, are sub-optimal (annoying ads, poor playlist support, unavailable tracks and mixed quality). These fans want to access popular tracks easily, want to build playlists and share or gift them and want value for money.There are over 400 million active music fans in this demographic in the G20 countries.Pay Per Play - fans pay, typically, 1p / 1c / 1€c per play paying via mobile (contract or pre-pay) or by debit/credit card. They can gift plays to other people for the same price. Other digital services (gaming sites, virtual worlds, dating sites, online quizzes etc) can offer their users access to Pay Per Play music through the Psonar API (2 sites are building Psonar Pay Per Play into their services and several more are planning to do so) at the same price. Payments are made through the Bango platform.Psonar is the only internet music service offering pay as you go access to streaming music and has negotiated a unique licence with the world's largest music group as well as over 20 independent distributors.Users can access Psonar through an adaptive HTML5 web app or via native apps for iOS (available in the app store) and Android. Both apps have tight Facebook integration including login and personalised recommendations (derived from Facebook's OpenGraph API). Psonar's native Android app (in private beta currently) has been developed with input from both Facebook and Google and and will be released in early 2013. Psonar has a US business process patent application filed which is in examination currently. |  |  | Jun 01, 2013 |  |
| Nirvanix | Nirvanix leads the industry with simple cloud based solutions that provide your business with everything it needs to run smoothly and efficiently. With a wide array of services, we are your one-stop shop. We’d love to have the opportunity to earn your valued business.After a long hiatus we are ready to re-open our doors and introduce to you thenew and improved version of the best VoIP and business phone system solution in the market. Nirvanix has partnered with one of the biggest investors in the cryptocurrency space and aims to bring you the first crypto based VoIP solution | $25M | Series C | May 03, 2012 |  |
| Netseer | NetSeer has created concept-based advertising, a breakthrough product that matches search queries and Web page content to relevant ads, without relying on keywords alone; this allows placement of richer, more relevant, and more profitable ads for both high value keywords and those keywords with little or no value today. | $6.3M |  | Dec 01, 2010 |  |
| Nirvanix | Nirvanix leads the industry with simple cloud based solutions that provide your business with everything it needs to run smoothly and efficiently. With a wide array of services, we are your one-stop shop. We’d love to have the opportunity to earn your valued business.After a long hiatus we are ready to re-open our doors and introduce to you thenew and improved version of the best VoIP and business phone system solution in the market. Nirvanix has partnered with one of the biggest investors in the cryptocurrency space and aims to bring you the first crypto based VoIP solution | $10M | Series B | Nov 10, 2010 |  |
| Nirvanix | Nirvanix leads the industry with simple cloud based solutions that provide your business with everything it needs to run smoothly and efficiently. With a wide array of services, we are your one-stop shop. We’d love to have the opportunity to earn your valued business.After a long hiatus we are ready to re-open our doors and introduce to you thenew and improved version of the best VoIP and business phone system solution in the market. Nirvanix has partnered with one of the biggest investors in the cryptocurrency space and aims to bring you the first crypto based VoIP solution | $5M | Series B | Apr 09, 2009 |  |
| Netseer | NetSeer has created concept-based advertising, a breakthrough product that matches search queries and Web page content to relevant ads, without relying on keywords alone; this allows placement of richer, more relevant, and more profitable ads for both high value keywords and those keywords with little or no value today. | $8.1M |  | Jan 08, 2009 |  |
| Nirvanix | Nirvanix leads the industry with simple cloud based solutions that provide your business with everything it needs to run smoothly and efficiently. With a wide array of services, we are your one-stop shop. We’d love to have the opportunity to earn your valued business.After a long hiatus we are ready to re-open our doors and introduce to you thenew and improved version of the best VoIP and business phone system solution in the market. Nirvanix has partnered with one of the biggest investors in the cryptocurrency space and aims to bring you the first crypto based VoIP solution | $18M | Series A | Dec 19, 2007 |  |
| Nirvanix | Nirvanix leads the industry with simple cloud based solutions that provide your business with everything it needs to run smoothly and efficiently. With a wide array of services, we are your one-stop shop. We’d love to have the opportunity to earn your valued business.After a long hiatus we are ready to re-open our doors and introduce to you thenew and improved version of the best VoIP and business phone system solution in the market. Nirvanix has partnered with one of the biggest investors in the cryptocurrency space and aims to bring you the first crypto based VoIP solution | $12M |  | Sep 18, 2007 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Windward Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/windward-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Valhalla Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valhalla-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Mission Ventures

VC Fund · San Diego, United States

Mission Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm providing investment and guidance to early-stage companies in emerging markets.

5 contacts available at Mission Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dave Ryan | Founding Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-ryan |
| Douglas F. Wall | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/douglas-f-wall |
| Leo Speigel | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leo-speigel |
| Leo Spiegel | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leo-spiegel |
| Paddy Willis | Co-Founder, CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paddy-willis |

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## FAQ

### What does Dave Ryan invest in?

Dave Ryan invests primarily in VoIP, Music and Content startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Dave Ryan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dave Ryan closed in Jun 2013. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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