# Verizon Ventures

> Verizon Ventures is a VC fund in Basking Ridge backing Software and Mobile. See 146 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basking Ridge, United States
- Total investments: 146
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 23%
- Fund size: $1M
- Last fund: Sep 2009
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/verizon-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/verizonventures
- Website: http://www.verizonventures.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VerizonFiOS

Verizon Ventures is a VC fund in Basking Ridge focused on Software and Mobile. Verizon Ventures seeks and invests in promising entrepreneurial companies who are tackling some of today’s biggest technological challenges for Verizon's consumer and enterprise customers.Over the last decade Verizon Ventures has invested in more than forty companies covering a range of industries, technologies and market segments. VerizonVentures offers support to its portfolio companies with technology and product development, market planning and sales, and access to the networks and platforms of Verizon Communications.Combining the power of experienced investment professionals with a focused venture development team, Verizon Ventures connects innovators with strategic and financial resources that advance their businesses.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3M–$40M |
| Series B | $10M–$35M |
| Series C | $9.4M–$107M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 34 | 23% |
| Mobile | 16 | 11% |
| SaaS | 15 | 10% |
| Analytics | 14 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 14 | 10% |

153 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 31 | 21% |
| Series A | 29 | 20% |
| Series C | 18 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 15 | 10% |
| Seed | 12 | 8% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 81 | 55% |
| Israel | 10 | 7% |
| Canada | 3 | 2% |
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| Singapore | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kristina Serafim | Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kristina-serafim |
| Michelle Russey McCarthy | Managing Director | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michelle-russey-mccarthy |
| Alden Mahabir | Manager & Director - Strategy & Planning | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alden-mahabir |
| Alexander Khalin | Director Venture Capital | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-khalin |
| Alex Kaufman | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-kaufman-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Origin AI | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Verana Networks | 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 | 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 | 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 |  | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| HaptX | 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 |  |

10 of 146 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Verizon Ventures invest in?

Verizon Ventures invests primarily in Software, Mobile and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 146 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 Verizon Ventures's check size?

Verizon Ventures typically joins rounds of $3M–$40M at Series A, $10M–$35M at Series B and $9.4M–$107M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Verizon Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Verizon Ventures?

Public channels for Verizon Ventures 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 Verizon Ventures?

The team at Verizon Ventures includes Kristina Serafim (Managing Director), Michelle Russey McCarthy (Managing Director) and Alden Mahabir (Manager & Director - Strategy & Planning), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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