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JANUARY 10, 2011

Last month, San Diego-based venture capital firm Mission Ventures (www.missionventures.com) sold its portfolio firm, Carlsbad-based 3E , just the latest in a string of exits for the firm, which also included an IPO in Maxlinear earlier in the year. How much involvement did Mission have in that sale?

Mission Ventures 140

Mission Ventures Acquisition San Diego Invest 140

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The round was led by Intel Capital, and also included current investors Comcast Interactive Capital, Artiman Ventures, and Mission Ventures. Ortiva's technology is used to optimize the delivery rate of video to mobile phones, based on network conditions and available bandwidth.

SoCalTech 140

SoCalTech Mission Ventures Mobile Resource 140

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The firm said the new round is a Series B, and comes from investors Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partnes, and Windward Ventures. Genereux was most recently at Nirvanix, where he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing.

Windward 153

Windward S3 Mission Ventures San Diego 153

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Nirvanix said CommVault customers can select the firm's Storage Delivery Network (SDN) product via a drop-down selection within the Simpana software. Nirvanix provides storage-as-a-service through an online network. READ MORE>>.

Windward 140

Windward Mission Ventures San Diego Networking 140

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

The funding came from Mission Ventures and Okapi Ventures. Transaction Wireless said the funding will go towards sales and marketing expansion, technology development, and customer deployment. Leo Spiegel of Mission Ventures and Marc Averitt of Okapi Ventures have joined the firm's board as part of the funding.

Mission Ventures 100

Mission Ventures San Diego Mobile Sales 100

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APRIL 21, 2009

Nirvanix provides cloud-based storage which can be used by both Internet and web-based businesses, as well as enterprises; the firm recently hired a VP of Sales from Brocade, and in October rolled out CloudNAS, software which creates a network-attached-storage device based entirely on the firm's Internet-based cloud storage API.

Windward 100

Windward SaaS Mission Ventures San Diego 100

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Demand Media, the internet publishing firm which is in the midst of an IPO effort, is the brainchild of Richard Rosenblatt, who was at the reins of Intermix, the parent firm of MySpace, and brokered the sale of MySpace to News Corporation. Venture backers : Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway.

Startup 178

Startup Tech Coast Angels Demand News 178