# Mission Gate

> Mission Gate is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Travel and Tourism. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/missiongate
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MissionGateVC
- Website: http://www.missiongate.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missiongateVC

Mission Gate is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Travel and Tourism. Founded in 2014 by George Bachiashvili, Mission Gate is a venture capital firm backing startups and entrepreneurs from all over the world with necessary resources for realizing their full potential. We invest in seed and early-stage startups in the internet, mobile, blockchain, innovative consumer products and other industries. Through our networkand experience, we are connecting entrepreneurs with the industry leaders and top talent, while providing them with an entire spectrum of insights to guide them through all phases of growth

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$8M |
| Series A | $8M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 2 | 17% |
| Tourism | 2 | 17% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Communities | 2 | 17% |
| Health Care | 2 | 17% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 58% |
| Series A | 3 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 17% |
| Ecuador | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| George Bachiashvili | Founder and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-bachiashvili |
| Mikhail Ninikelashvili | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mikhail-ninikelashvili |
| Shalva Daushvili | Mission Gate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shalva-daushvili |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zoundream | Babies cry sounds convey a massive stream of information: its needs, emotions, well-being, and physical status. Indeed, it’s the only way small babies have to communicate with the external world.In Zoundream, we use cutting edge developments in sound recognition, to the specific field of baby cries. Our technology can not only translate cries inreal time (e.g. hungry, sleepy), but also identify potential pathologies – improving well-being of families and babies, all around the world. | $4.7M | Seed | Sep 26, 2025 |  |
| Customily | Customily is an e-commerce platform that allows customers to personalize products online. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in St Louis, Missouri. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Ola GG | Ola GG is a developer of decentralized gaming software created to provide Hispanic play-to-earn gamers with a community platform. Gamers may earn money from gaming and enhance their quality of life thanks to the company's platform, which offers complete cryptocurrency and blockchain games as well as a sustainable virtual economy'sintegral web3 products and instructive games. | $8M | Seed | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Sangha Capital | Sangha Capital is an investment firm. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| FastFarma | FastFarma operates as a digital pharmacy. |  | Seed | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Coinfirm | Coinfirm is the recognized global leader in blockchain regtech. Their mission is to provide technology for regulatory compliance, bringing new levels of transparency and trust to the world of digital currencies. Their aim is to serve as a foundation for the safe adoption of blockchain by all actors in the economy, including traditional financialinstitutions, governments, regulators as well as ordinary citizens. They do that by applying regulatory technology for blockchain that solves a variety of compliance challenges. Their proprietary solutions streamline compliance to near-automation. Taking anti money laundering effectiveness form around 1% as it is in the current traditional system and take it to over 90% effectiveness. They provide anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) services for virtual currencies and blockchain actors. They enable traditional financial institutions and regulators to safely engage with the crypto world.Their Trudatum product gives users the ability to register and authenticate any type of data, providing instant, secure online confirmation of the authenticity of documents and other files. | $8M | Series A | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Tripsider | Once-in-a-lifetime travel experience with extraordinary people. Tripsider is an online platform for multiday adventure trips by independent guides.We create an algorithm to match travelers for group tours based on their social interests, values, and past experiences. Using this matchmaking formula and micro-segmentation, we allow travelers tobook their next adventure in a sitting. And our communication ecosystem provides safe and instant connections directly to the travel expert.We managed to grow 2X in 2020 despite COVID, and now we're anticipating 5X growth in 2022. Tripsider is operationally profitable, getting traction in the US, and finished the 500 startups (Georgia) acceleration program. | $1M | Seed | Sep 02, 2021 |  |
| YouTravel.me | YouTravel.me is a marketplace platform that specializes in travel experts and private independent guides for tourist. | $1M | Seed | Sep 02, 2021 |  |
| dnaNUDGE | dnaNUDGE aims to nudge people towards a better lifestyle based on their DNA. | $60M | Series A | Aug 19, 2021 |  |
| WhereIsMyTransport | WhereIsMyTransport is a leading mobility technology company and central source of complete public transport data for emerging-market megacities. Working on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe and South and Southeast Asia, we digitalise network information from all modes of public transport and maintain data accuracy as thesedynamic systems change. Our products and data services improve the public transport experience, and inform industry-leading clients. | $14.5M | Series A | Jun 08, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Starta VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/starta-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ACTAI Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/actai-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does Mission Gate invest in?

Mission Gate invests primarily in Travel, Tourism and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 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 Mission Gate's check size?

Mission Gate typically joins rounds of $1M–$8M at Seed and $8M–$60M 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 Mission Gate participates in.

### How do I contact Mission Gate?

Public channels for Mission Gate 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 Mission Gate?

The team at Mission Gate includes George Bachiashvili (Founder and CEO), Mikhail Ninikelashvili (Associate) and Shalva Daushvili (Mission Gate). 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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