Verizon Ventures
VC Fund
Basking Ridge, United States
Verizon Ventures is a VC fund in Basking Ridge focused on Software and SaaS. Verizon Ventures focuses on businesses developing solutions in sectors such as 5G network automation, enterprise security, data privacy, and consumer mobility software. Portfolio companies receive access to engineering insights, industry data, and corporate customer relationships to accelerate technical development. The firm structures long-term investments around alternative architectures that aim to alter digital connectivity, network orchestration, and infrastructure management. Additionally, the firm facilitates commercial agreements within its parent corporate ecosystem to integrate emerging applications into mainstream commercial and consumer channels.
- Total investments:
- 153
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
- Fund size:
- $1M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Verizon Ventures invests in
Stages Verizon Ventures invests in
Countries Verizon Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
Round size
- Series A
- $3M–$28M
- Series B
- $10M–$35M
- Series C
- $9.4M–$107M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 36 (24%)
- SaaS 16 (10%)
- Mobile 16 (10%)
- Analytics 14 (9%)
- Information Technology 14 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 31 (20%)
- Series A 29 (19%)
- Series C 18 (12%)
- Seed 14 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 14 (9%)
Country
- United States 82 (54%)
- Israel 10 (7%)
- Canada 5 (3%)
- Portugal 1 (1%)
- Singapore 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Christopher Bartlett
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Kristina Serafim
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Michelle Russey McCarthy
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Alden Mahabir
Manager & Director - Strategy & Planning
|
Manager & Director - Strategy & Planning | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Alexander Khalin
Director Venture Capital
|
Director Venture Capital | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Origin AI revolutionizes WiFi usage by transforming signals into WiFi Sensing technology. Harnessing AI, we analyze signal disruptions caused by daily activities to provide valuable insights for ISP, security, and IoT applications. Key features include Motion, Presence, Falls, and Breathing AI engines, each offering industry-leading accuracy. Ourcompetitive advantages include non-line of sight sensing, high accuracy, elimination of wearable devices, and simple plug-and-play deployment. Origin WiFi Sensing runs 100% on the edge, ensuring superior security through end-to-end encryption and efficient software requiring minimal CPU resources. Easily embeddable into most WiFi devices, our solution adheres to industry-leading security protocols. Experience the transformative power of Origin AI and enhance your business with smart, secure WiFi Sensing solutions. WiFi can do more. | $15.9M / Series B / Dec 12, 2023 | ||
| TileDB is foundational software designed by scientists for scientific discovery.TileDB structures all data types, including that data that does not fit into relational databases built for structured tabular data. Built on a powerful shape-shifting array database, TileDB handles the complexities of non-traditional “unstructured” multimodal data,such as genomic variants, bulk and single-cell transcriptomics, proteomics, biomedical imaging, as well as the frontier data of the future.Used by science and data teams within big pharma and biotechs to power their multiomic FAIR data platforms, TileDB is the destination for scientific breakthroughs where frontier multimodal data is driving drug discovery. | $34M / Series B / Sep 20, 2023 | ||
| Pivotal Commware was established in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough in electromagnetic physics, Holographic Beam Forming™ (HBF). Years ago, Pivotal’s founders recognized that wireless demand for data would outgrow the complex coding, multiplexing and modulation schemes that network operators have deployed thus far. Beamforming was theanswer, but existing high cost, size, weight and power-consuming (C-SWaP) solutions were not. That’s why Pivotal assembled a team experienced in advanced commercial antenna and RF circuit design, advanced DARPA technology programs, and, uniquely, active/nonlinear metamaterials. Beyond technology, Pivotal also offers the depth and breadth of skills to develop integrated, end-to-end solutions. | $102M / Series D / Aug 17, 2023 | ||
| Community is a new social engagement platform that makes two-way communication between influencers and their followers simple, effective, and scalable. It connects businesses, brands, governmental and public personalities, creators, singers, celebrities, and others to their consumers at scale via a unique 10-digit phone number. | $25M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 24, 2023 | ||
| nami's ambition is to elevate smart devices and systems to bring intelligence to homes and commercial buildings through adaptive automation linked to human presence, air sensing and machine learning.We build and run a platform that helps to monitor places and care for you, your loved ones and your colleagues. It also makes the planet greenerand a better place to be.Our hardware and software world-class architecture promises high granularity for sensing with smooth onboarding and reliable calibration for scalable deployments. It’s the foundation for a growing array of subscription services to end consumers: security and safety alerts, energy optimization, better breathing, deeper sleep and emergency health notifications. | $10.5M / Series A / Mar 23, 2023 | ||
| Verana Networks develops an innovative 5G Radio Access Network solution for service providers that have licensed millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum.The company focuses on enabling 5G in mmWave spectrum because that is where the largest amount of new spectrum is. For 5G to succeed, it must deliver a 10X-50X increase in speed and capacity. Blazingfast speed and an increase in capacity enable new applications, these new applications create incremental revenue, and incremental revenue is essential to support the business case for 5G. | Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 02, 2023 | ||
| Dreamscape Learn is an edtech company focusing on cinematic story-telling, cutting-edge immersive technologies, and advanced pedagogy. They believe that the best educational designs combine multiple pedagogical modalities. Students study; they apply knowledge and concepts; they learn by doing and do in order to learn; they learn through text,lecture, visual and audio media, hands-on experience, and from one another. They create programs and products that connect all of these modes of engagement. | $20M / Series A / Jan 19, 2023 | ||
| HaptX® makes technology that simulates touch sensation with unprecedented realism. HaptX Gloves enable natural interaction and realistic haptic feedback in virtual reality for the first time. Built with patented microfluidic technology, HaptX Gloves feature 130 points of touch feedback, apply 4 lbs. of resistive force feedback per finger, and trackhand motions with sub-millimeter precision.Founded by Jake Rubin and Dr. Bob Crockett, HaptX has 35 employees, with offices in Seattle, WA and San Luis Obispo, CA. | $23M / Series B / Sep 15, 2022 | ||
| Caban systems designs and manufactures software enabled modular lithium ion energy storage solutions for off-grid and weak grid telecom sites. | $51M / Series B / Jul 22, 2022 | ||
| Optibus leverages the power of machine learning and optimization algorithms to redefine the way mass-transportation is planned and operated. Optibus’ disruptive technology drive some of the most complex transportation operations worldwide, helping to improve the quality of service, increase efficiencies, save money, and streamline operations. | $100M / Series D / May 16, 2022 | ||
| See all 153 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Verizon Ventures invest in?
Verizon Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 153 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Verizon Ventures invest in?
Verizon Ventures typically joins rounds of $3M–$28M at Series A, $10M–$35M at Series B and $9.4M–$107M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Verizon Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Verizon Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Verizon Ventures?
The team at Verizon Ventures includes Christopher Bartlett (Principal), Kristina Serafim (Managing Director) and Michelle Russey McCarthy (Managing Director), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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