Maven Venture Partners launches seed and early-stage, pioneering companies that enable Mobility.  Four previous technology waves have built the foundation for Mobility, the Fifth Wave.  Maven defines Mobility as solutions that leverage the convergence of the internet, enterprise and communications infrastructure.  Maven’s franchise is Mobility. We invest in intelligence, the global applications, services and software platforms that enable Mobility. 

The Maven partners, Jack Gill, George Richard, and Jennifer Gill Roberts, have eighty years of collective success as venture and corporate early-stage investors, entrepreneurs and executives at leading firms including Sevin Rosen Funds, Vanguard, Airtouch, Sun Microsystems, and Infospace.  The Maven partners have funded and founded 100+ plus global companies up and down the technology stack and delivered top quartile returns across multiple investment cycles.

The Maven Partners have founded, funded, and operated global enterprise, internet and communication infrastructure companies that support and enable Mobility.  Jack Gill is one of venture industry's pioneers. Jack was the Founder and Managing Partner of Vanguard Ventures through 6 top quartile funds.  George Richard led Airtouch/PacTel global expansion and successfully launched four private Mobility companies. Jennifer Gill Roberts’ early-stage venture and operational experience were focused on laying the foundation of Mobility as she built the communications systems and software practice at Sevin Rosen Funds and led key product initiatives at Apple, Sun and HP.

The Maven Partners believe that Mobility is the Fifth technology wave. It is the most compelling investment opportunity in alternative investments. Mobility services and applications are forecasted to exceed $200 billion in 2010. The wealth creation opportunity from new venture backed Mobility companies is comparable to that which has been realized from the internet.  During the past decade we have seen the proliferation of mobile devices, the advent of the always-on network, and the explosion of enterprise and personal digital content. The mobile device is becoming the primary vehicle for computing and communications driven by youth, people in emerging economies, and the nomadic worker.  Mobility is enabling and empowering a virtual and distributed enterprise.

Maven bridges Mobility companies from concept to commercialization by coupling our singular perspective on Mobility with our experience and success as founders and venture investors. Maven’s approach is strategic and collaborative and built on a foundation of passion, perspective and performance. We work with mavens to assess and make the difficult decisions facing early stage companies including team building, product roadmap and deliverables, appropriate business model, partner strategy and geographic priorities.

Maven’s investment priorities are driven by our perspective, experience, network and success. We take a proactive approach to the investment process. The Partner’s maintain ongoing dialog with companies, academic institutions and mavens throughout their Mobility ecosystem to establish and prioritize our investment sub themes. Investment priorities include, messaging, search, network intelligence, supply chain, personal publishing and contextual based services.

Maven provides incomparable access to the Mobility opportunity for the entrepreneur, our LPs, and stakeholders.  Maven’s singular perspective, the investment success, deep domain knowledge, relevant experience, complimentary global networks and approach positions us to source and build the Yahoos, eBays, Microsofts and Googles of Mobility.