# Mission Ventures

> Mission Ventures is a VC fund in San Diego backing Software and Mobile. See 102 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Diego, United States
- Total investments: 102
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last fund: Jul 2005
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mission-ventures/about/
- Website: http://www.missionventures.com/index.php

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

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 15% |
| Mobile | 10 | 10% |
| Internet | 8 | 8% |
| Advertising | 7 | 7% |
| Semiconductor | 6 | 6% |

96 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 26 | 25% |
| Series A | 24 | 24% |
| Series C | 21 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 12% |
| Series E | 3 | 3% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 44 | 43% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |
| Estonia | 1 | 1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dave Ryan | Founding Managing Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-ryan |
| Douglas F. Wall | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/douglas-f-wall |
| Leo Speigel | Managing Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leo-speigel |
| Leo Spiegel | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leo-spiegel |
| Paddy Willis | Co-Founder, CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paddy-willis |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IQ Labs | IQ Protocol develops a decentralized money market for digital asset renting and on-chain subscriptions. It enables digital asset owners to earn passive income by safely lending their NFTs & Fungible Tokens. | $12M | Seed | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| The Artful Baker | The Artful Baker is a food manufacturing company that manufactures and sells biscottis, cookies, biscuits, and various baked goods. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 11, 2021 |  |
| Enevate | Enevate develops and licenses advanced silicon-dominant Li-ion battery technology for electric vehicles (EVs), with a vision to charging EVs as fast as refueling gas cars and accelerating their mass adoption. Enevate's pioneering advancements in silicon-dominant anodes and cells have resulted in its XFC-Energy® and HD-Energy® technology thatfeatures 5-minute extreme fast charging with high energy density, low temperature operation for cold climates, low cost and safety advantages over conventional graphite Li-ion batteries. Enevate, with a portfolio of 250 issued and in process, has raised over $110M from investors including Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi (Alliance Ventures), LG Chem, Samsung, Mission Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tsing Capital, Infinite Potential Technologies, Presidio Ventures – a Sumitomo Corporation company, Lenovo, CEC Capital, Bangchak, and others. The company has its global headquarters in Irvine, California. For more information go to www.enevate.com. | $81M | Series E | Feb 10, 2021 |  |
| Enfusion | Enfusion is a developer of mobile and PC games |  | Series A | Jan 15, 2021 |  |
| Alpine Data Labs | According to The Economist, the amount of information created each year is growing at a 60% compounded rate. The potential insight in this information could determine the fate of businesses, economies, our health, and even our safety.Big Data is useless unless organizations can find a reliable, cost-effective way to apply predictive analytics.Alpine is the world’s first collaborative, code-free solution for Advanced Analytics on Big Data and Hadoop. With Alpine, data scientists and business analysts can work with large data sets, develop and collaborate on models at scale without having to use code or desktop software. Leaders in all industries, from Financial Services to Healthcare, use Alpine to outsmart their competition. Maybe you should too. Find out more at www.alpinenow.com | $1.5M | Convertible Note | May 25, 2017 |  |
| Enevate | Enevate develops and licenses advanced silicon-dominant Li-ion battery technology for electric vehicles (EVs), with a vision to charging EVs as fast as refueling gas cars and accelerating their mass adoption. Enevate's pioneering advancements in silicon-dominant anodes and cells have resulted in its XFC-Energy® and HD-Energy® technology thatfeatures 5-minute extreme fast charging with high energy density, low temperature operation for cold climates, low cost and safety advantages over conventional graphite Li-ion batteries. Enevate, with a portfolio of 250 issued and in process, has raised over $110M from investors including Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi (Alliance Ventures), LG Chem, Samsung, Mission Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tsing Capital, Infinite Potential Technologies, Presidio Ventures – a Sumitomo Corporation company, Lenovo, CEC Capital, Bangchak, and others. The company has its global headquarters in Irvine, California. For more information go to www.enevate.com. | $13.8M | Series C | Mar 15, 2017 |  |
| Alpine Data Labs | According to The Economist, the amount of information created each year is growing at a 60% compounded rate. The potential insight in this information could determine the fate of businesses, economies, our health, and even our safety.Big Data is useless unless organizations can find a reliable, cost-effective way to apply predictive analytics.Alpine is the world’s first collaborative, code-free solution for Advanced Analytics on Big Data and Hadoop. With Alpine, data scientists and business analysts can work with large data sets, develop and collaborate on models at scale without having to use code or desktop software. Leaders in all industries, from Financial Services to Healthcare, use Alpine to outsmart their competition. Maybe you should too. Find out more at www.alpinenow.com | $16M | Series B | Nov 22, 2013 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Eveo | Eveo is a leading full-service healthcare communication agency, rooted in innovation and technology.Ranked as the #1 Independent Digital Healthcare Agency in the U.S. for 3 years in a row, Eveo partners strategically with health brands to conceive insight-driven innovations that deliver business results.For more than a decade, we have beenpioneering digital healthcare marketing by inventing new solutions that have quickly become the new standard of communication.Today, with a global presence and a strong focus on strategy, we build audience-centric campaigns that include multiple touch points, devices, and solutions such as mobile, social, web, video, games, and digital selling, all seamlessly integrated under one vision, one goal: our client's success. | $9.2M |  | Feb 15, 2012 |  |

10 of 102 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Mission Ventures invest in?

Mission Ventures invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 102 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Mission Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Mission Ventures?

The team at Mission Ventures includes Dave Ryan (Founding Managing Partner), Douglas F. Wall (Co-Founder) and Leo Speigel (Managing Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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