# Miramar Ventures

> Miramar Ventures is a VC fund in Corona Del Mar backing Software and SaaS. See 73 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Corona Del Mar, United States
- Total investments: 73
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 15%
- Fund size: $69M
- Last fund: Feb 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/miramar-venture-partners
- Website: http://www.miramarvp.com

Miramar Ventures is a VC fund in Corona Del Mar focused on Software and SaaS. Miramar Digital Ventures is a seed and early stage venture fund focused on the next evolution of data.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Miramar Ventures. Shizune tracks 6 team members at Miramar Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/miramar-venture-partners?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$8M |
| Series A | $2M–$21M |
| Series B | $6M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 23% |
| SaaS | 7 | 10% |
| Mobile | 6 | 8% |
| Analytics | 6 | 8% |
| Enterprise Software | 6 | 8% |

100 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 21 | 29% |
| Seed | 18 | 25% |
| Series B | 13 | 18% |
| Series C | 6 | 8% |
| Convertible Note | 5 | 7% |

9 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bruce Hallett | Managing Director | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-hallett |
| Bob Holmen | Managing Director | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-holmen |
| Ed Milstein | Entrepreneur in Residence | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-milstein |
| Heiner Sussner | Managing Director | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heiner-sussner |
| Sherman Atkinson | Managing Director | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sherman-atkinson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wethos AI | Wethos harnesses is the power of AI to address real-world challenges, offering smart, data-driven solutions that boost efficiency, streamline operations, and uncover hidden potential, empowering businesses to excel in a rapidly evolving environment. | $7.5M | Seed | Aug 15, 2024 |  |
| Embrace | Embrace is the only user-focused observability platform that ties technical performance to end-user impact. Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides Real User Monitoring (RUM) across mobile and web, giving engineering teams the visibility and context they need to prioritize and resolve issues faster, optimize performance, and deliver exceptionaldigital experiences.Embrace is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and contributes to several OpenTelemetry Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Embrace counts AllTrails, Amazon, Cameo, GOAT, Hyatt, The New York Times, and many more as customers. Supported by NEA, AV8 (Allianz), Greycroft, and Eniac, Embrace is a YCombinator (YC Growth) company based in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Buenos Aires, and London. | $45M | Series B | Oct 20, 2021 |  |
| Thankful | Developer of an automation software created to improve online customer service. The company's software utilizes artificial intelligence to deflect half of inbound queries that are the repetitive tasks and leaves customer care agents more time to solve difficult and interesting issues, enabling clients of eCommerce customer service to improvecustomer satisfaction and lower costs. | $12M | Series A | Sep 27, 2021 |  |
| Brilliant | Brilliant Home Technology is a home automation company. | $40M | Series B | Aug 30, 2021 |  |
| Brilliant | Brilliant Home Technology is a home automation company. | $21M | Series A | Oct 11, 2017 |  |
| pop.in | Smiletime, Inc. powers pop.in, an app for spontaneous, ephemeral live connection. On pop.in, civility and inclusivity are the bedrock of dynamic conversations, which are hosted in an environment that allows for discussions to be as multifaceted as the people having them. An unlimited number of people can join pop.ins and use video, audio, text andimages to have nuanced dialogue. A pop.in only lasts as long as people are in them, so by their definition, pop.ins are never empty and never lonely. And with the ability to create "ground rules" that are unique to every pop.in, hosts are empowered to be deliberate in setting a tenor and intention for their conversations from the get-go. Smiletime, Inc. believes technology can and should enable honest dialogue and empathetic connection, and that's what they've created with pop.in.Smiletime, Inc. was founded by Alex Kruglov, Sharon Chang, and Jace Hall in 2014, and is located in Los Angeles, California. | $1M | Seed | Sep 12, 2017 |  |
| Embrace | Embrace is the only user-focused observability platform that ties technical performance to end-user impact. Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides Real User Monitoring (RUM) across mobile and web, giving engineering teams the visibility and context they need to prioritize and resolve issues faster, optimize performance, and deliver exceptionaldigital experiences.Embrace is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and contributes to several OpenTelemetry Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Embrace counts AllTrails, Amazon, Cameo, GOAT, Hyatt, The New York Times, and many more as customers. Supported by NEA, AV8 (Allianz), Greycroft, and Eniac, Embrace is a YCombinator (YC Growth) company based in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Buenos Aires, and London. | $4.5M | Seed | May 23, 2017 |  |
| Social Native | Social Native is an online platform that enables its users to create customized branded content.The platform enables its users to connect with relevant creators based on interests and brand affinity. It offers images and videos on demand, personalized content, age-targeting, testimonials, product placements, and brand affinity.Social Native waslaunched in 2014 by David Shadpour and Eytan Elbaz and is based in California. | $8M | Seed | May 15, 2017 |  |
| eRelevance Corporation | eRelevance’s marketing automation service is a new and innovative approach to helping small to medium-sized businesses generate revenue from their customers. Their expert marketing done by marketing experts is faster, cheaper, and more effective. Unlike traditional marketing consultants, they are the marriage of next-generation technology andexperts, at an attractive price point. eRelevance’s marketing service generates, on average, 16x the ROI potential per month for their customers. No more marketing software tools to learn or use, or expensive consulting fees. Founded in 2013, eRelevance is privately held and headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more information, please visit erelevancecorp.com. | $5.1M | Series A | May 08, 2017 |  |
| Breinify | Breinify’s mission is to democratize data science. Today, we have built a powerful predictive personalization at scale platform for consumer enterprises. Our lightweight platform enables consumer brand marketers to deliver powerful personalization in real-time without having to support an in-house data science team.Breinify customers includeBevMo!, Duraflame, Hidden Valley Ranch, and many more to drive $125M in new revenue, 20x results (between split testing) for 2+ page visits, and +105% in CRM growth.Breinify technology is powered by our proprietary AI which blends traditional machine learning and complex temporal algorithms to learn, react, be proactive, and make extremely granular intelligent decisions that vary for each individual at any time. In 2021, Breinify has up-sold to >80% of existing customers with incredible land and expand / GTM strategies. Breinify is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Raised a $11M oversubscribed seed round led by Gutbrain Ventures, PBJ Capital, and Streamlined Ventures. Participation from CXO Fund, Startup Capital Ventures, Amino Capital, Sterling Road, and others. | $1.4M | Seed | May 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 73 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Miramar Ventures invest in?

Miramar Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 73 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 Miramar Ventures's check size?

Miramar Ventures typically joins rounds of $500k–$8M at Seed, $2M–$21M at Series A and $6M–$40M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Miramar Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Miramar Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Miramar Ventures?

The team at Miramar Ventures includes Bruce Hallett (Managing Director), Bob Holmen (Managing Director) and Ed Milstein (Entrepreneur in Residence), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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