# MI Ventures

> MI Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Mobile and Software. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jun 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/mi-ventures-llc
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/miventuresllc
- Website: http://www.miventuresllc.com

MI Ventures is a company which strives to advise and invest in creative, disruptive business ventures. MI Ventures participates in seed and series A rounds of investments to assist early stage companies in proving out their models and ideas that we hope better the world around us.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$1.6M |
| Series A | $3.7M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 4 | 20% |
| Software | 4 | 20% |
| SaaS | 3 | 15% |
| Big Data | 3 | 15% |
| Analytics | 3 | 15% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 80% |
| Series A | 2 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 90% |
| Estonia | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aamer Abdullah | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aamer-abdullah |
| Aaron Allon | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-allon |
| Chip Teets | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chip-teets |
| Pema Sherpa | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pema-sherpa |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Distil Networks | Distil Networks specializes in bot detection and mitigation focused on stopping automated attacks to make the web more secure. With Distil, users can automatically block 99.9% of malicious traffic without impacting legitimate users. Distil web security defends websites against web scraping, competitive data mining, account takeovers, transactionfraud, unauthorized vulnerability scans, spam, man-in-the-middle attacks, digital ad fraud, and denial of service. Distil API Security protects public and partner-facing APIs against developer errors, integration bugs, automated scraping, and web and mobile hijacking. Distil Analyst Managed Service brings human intelligence to the science of bot mitigation. | $21M | Series B | Jun 30, 2015 |  |
| PCB:NG | PCB:NG provides software optimized electronics manufacturing services. It manufactures electronic devices on the basis of electronic device designs uploaded by the consumers. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2015 |  |
| Social Rewards | Social Rewards' focus is Entertainment Social Media Marketing including Movie Trailer Marketing, a $4BB Industry via their Social Loyalty platform.Social Rewards won "Best Use of Engagement Technique" at the 2013 Gamification Summit with their client Caesars Entertainment, the largest Casino Resorts Entertainment Company in theworld . | $1M | Seed | Dec 31, 2014 |  |
| Lenda | Lenda is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of home loan, no fee, and cash-out refinancing. It offers an online platform that enables individuals to refinance their home loans online. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 30, 2014 |  |
| PlanGrid | PlanGrid provides a cloud-based construction document collaboration platform that allows plans, markups, photos, and reports to be instantaneously shared with everyone on a construction project. Its platform lets contractors and architects collaborate from their desktop or mobile devices across all their project plans, specifications, photos, RFIs,and punchlists. Major construction firms use the platform of PlanGrid. Kenny Stone, Ralph Gootee, Ryan Sutton-Gee, and Tracy Young founded Loupe in 2011 that later became PlanGrid, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. | $18M | Series A | Jul 11, 2014 |  |
| ResolutionTube | ResolutionTube is a patented mobile augmented reality collaboration platform for the customer service industry, initially targeting the field service industry. We connect the engineers on the field with the experts using our patent pending video platform. Connect to the right person at the right time. Get answers not only from your colleagues butfrom everyone within the organization. Video chat with them right away. The video chats are recorded and vetted before they become part of a tutorial. The knowledge center gets richer and more useful with time. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 19, 2013 |  |
| Kanvas Labs | Kanvas Labs is building a mobile platform that allows its users to create micro-social networks around real world experiences. It enables its users to create videos with photos and gifs or record with a custom stop motion camera. These clips can be edited with text, stickers, overlays, drawings, or music and then shared with friends and followerson the networks, as well as other social destinations such as | $1M | Seed | Nov 01, 2013 |  |
| Whisk | Any fees that Whisk we may charge you for Transportation Services are due immediately and are non-refundable. This no refund policy shall apply at all times regardless of your decision to terminate your usage, our decision to terminate your usage, and either accidental or planned disruption caused to our service. Whisk reserves the right todetermine final prevailing pricing – pricing may change but will be available on the Whisk website. If you feel a billing error has occurred please notify us within 7 business days for review. | $1.4M | Seed | Sep 25, 2013 |  |
| Cambrian Genomics | Cambrian Genomics makes the first hardware/systems for laser printing DNA. Researchers in academia & industry order or clone >$1b/year of DNA. CGI delivers high quality sequence verified DNA to buyers in this existing/growing worldwide market. |  | Seed | Sep 11, 2013 |  |
| Bottlenose | Bottlenose is a cognitive computing company that makes data analysis easy. By automating machine learning, data mining, and predictive analytics, Bottlenose helps its clients spend more time extracting insights and less time managing data.The company's platform, Nerve Center, makes BI live and interactive. It detects patterns and trends inmassive amounts of rapidly changing data to help customers achieve business awareness and complete insight into what is going on in and around the organization.The company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California. | $3.7M | Series A | Jul 30, 2013 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ff Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ff-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eniac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eniac-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Social Starts](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-starts) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1-800-FLOWERS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1-800-flowers-com) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does MI Ventures invest in?

MI Ventures invests primarily in Mobile, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is MI Ventures's check size?

MI Ventures typically joins rounds of $600k–$1.6M at Seed and $3.7M–$18M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds MI Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact MI Ventures?

Public channels for MI Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at MI Ventures?

The team at MI Ventures includes Aamer Abdullah (Principal), Aaron Allon (Principal) and Chip Teets (Associate). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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