# Sherman Atkinson

> Sherman Atkinson is a seed investor at Miramar Ventures backing Software and Advertising. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Miramar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miramar-venture-partners)
- Location: Newport Beach, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Mar 2016
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shermanatkinson
- Website: http://www.miramarvp.com

Sherman Atkinson is a seed investor at Miramar Ventures in Newport Beach focused on Software and Advertising. Miramar Ventures is a West Coast seed & early stage investment firm focused on funding the most promising founders and market disruptive ideas in the modern mobile sector. Since our inception in 2002, Miramar Ventures has partnered with leading entrepreneurs to transform game changing ideas into capital efficient, profitable businesses.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 50% |
| Advertising | 4 | 40% |
| Mobile | 3 | 30% |
| Health Care | 3 | 30% |
| Apps | 2 | 20% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 90% |
| Series A | 3 | 30% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Series E | 1 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Findout Media | Findout is a discovery platform that connects local content, users and commerce.The Findout mobile app shows full length articles about great places nearby recommended by hand selected local experts. With a focus on curation and quality, Findout users are able to quickly discover new places, save and share them with friends and directlytransact with suppliers to book, reserve, or order.Users: Benefit from free access to curated articles and experts.Authors: Benefit from exposure, branding and traffic.Suppliers: Benefit from awareness and direct sales. | $500K | Seed | Mar 15, 2016 |  |
| Fama | Fama is an AI-based solution that identifies and offers an opportunity to address problematic behavior among potential hires and current employees by analyzing publicly available online information. This type of content can ultimately lead to brand risk and toxic culture, and is often missed in the hiring and management process. | $2.7M | Seed | Dec 23, 2015 |  |
| Factual | Factual is the location data company the world’s most valuable brands and tech companies trust to understand and intelligently grow their businesses.Factual provides product and engineering teams, marketers and data analysts access to the world’s most trusted, accurate and comprehensive data on places and people worldwide, transforming products,advertising and businesses with data that puts everything in context. | $35M | Series B | Dec 10, 2015 |  |
| Scripsense | Scripsense is where innovation meets philanthropy.They provide the easiest, most effective technology available for organizations to raise money by empowering members to give through their everyday spending.Founded in 2013 by entrepreneurs Lori Jackson and Melinda Masson, scripsense revolutionizes the standard modes of fundraising with apowerful and professional fundraising platform for desktops and mobile devices.Using scripsense’s interactive shopping program, organizations and their members can keep track of all cash rebates earned for the organization when their members purchase eGift cards, products or services from merchants nationwide.Nonprofits, schools, charities, religious institutions and associations of all types benefit from easier, more successful fundraising, while requiring significantly less busy-work for coordinators and members. In addition, local and national retail merchants receive higher visibility and prestige in the community as well as increased revenues.Scripsense is so powerful and easy to use that it has become the one-stop-shop for fundraising campaigns! | $453.3K | Seed | Sep 19, 2014 |  |
| Forcefield | At Forcefield they are developing a safe internet browsing product for children and young teens that combines filtering, a premium content library, a dynamic social network for young users and real controls and reporting for parents. |  | Seed | Sep 17, 2014 |  |
| Quettra | Quettra is a mobile intelligence company focusing on personalizing mobile experiences and monetization by understanding user’s interactions with their phone from a very deep operating system level view. | $2.9M | Seed | Aug 08, 2014 |  |
| Veritone | Veritone is an artificial intelligence company that has developed aiWARE, an AWS-certified platform offering orchestrated, cognitive computing to transform and analyze structured and unstructured data for clients in a variety of markets, including media and entertainment, legal, compliance, and government. The open platform integrates an ecosystemof cognitive engines, which can be orchestrated together, and a suite of proprietary applications, to reveal unprecedented, multivariate insights from linear files such as radio and TV broadcasts, surveillance footage and public and private content globally. Veritone is the presenting sponsor of the Artificial Intelligence Marketplace at CES and has been recognized by Oracle for Excellence in Application Development. | $15M |  | Jul 15, 2014 |  |
| Field Squared | A pioneer and leader in the field service management space, Field Squared is the industry’s first unified Field Service Management Process Automation Platform. As a cloud-based SaaS solution, Field Squared is flexible, scalable and purpose-built to optimize the efficiency of the mobile workforce in the field. Focusing on business processautomation, Field Squared enables enterprises to digitally transform, completely automate and streamline their field service operations, from the frontline to back-office systems. Based in gorgeous Highlands Ranch, Colorado, nestled against the incomparable Rocky Mountains, we built something different, an industry-first innovation to disrupt the field service management space. | $925K | Seed | Mar 27, 2014 |  |
| Liquid Grids | Liquid Grids is being used by companies across the healthcare spectrum, including biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, health insurance providers and healthcare product companies. We partner directly with brands or their marketing agencies to deliver the most effective contribution to their digital and inboundmarketing campaigns.Our vision is to be the leader of Social Health Intelligence by providing the most advanced and predictive intelligence about healthcare consumers available. To provide groundbreaking, disruptive marketing strategies that change the way the industry interacts with the online health communities.Our mission is to enable the Healthcare industry to engage with consumers online, motivate them to adopt healthier lifestyles and more effectively manage chronic illnesses, resulting in better health outcomes and significant cost savings to the system. | $3.2M | Series A | Feb 26, 2014 |  |
| Artisan Partners | Artisan Partners is a global investment management firm that provides a broad range of high value-added investment strategies in growing asset classes to sophisticated clients around the world. |  | Post-IPO Equity | Feb 26, 2014 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-collective) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amplify.LA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-la) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Checketts Partners Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/checketts-partners-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Double M Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/double-m-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Teamworthy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haystack-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Miramar Ventures

VC Fund · Corona Del Mar, United States

Miramar Digital Ventures is a seed and early stage venture fund focused on the next evolution of data.

5 contacts available at Miramar Ventures.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Sherman Atkinson invest in?

Sherman Atkinson invests primarily in Software, Advertising and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 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 Sherman Atkinson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sherman Atkinson closed in Mar 2016. Shizune tracks 10 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?

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