Verizon Ventures
Why personalized consumer brands are the future
Managing Director, Kristina Serafim, on how portfolio company, Community, is redefining SMS and enabling two-way communication between brands and consumers.
Leveraging data solutions to power innovation
Managing Director, Kristina Serafim, on how Verizon Ventures' portfolio companies deliver fresh data solutions that unlock new possibilities for organizations.
Verizon Ventures' 2022 year in review.
Strategic investments lead to key commercial deals.
See how we work with founders.
We’re building the technologies and network that move the world forward. We’re strategic investors armed with ready-to-share teams, development tools and research. We’re looking for next-generation breakthrough ideas.
We connect ideas and opportunities.
Through our early-stage strategic investments, we support leading-edge technologies that advance Verizon’s mission to connect people, businesses and ideas.
We champion entrepreneurs.
Verizon Ventures bridges start-ups to Verizon’s resources. We’re the node to a vast network that can jump-start everything from concept development to product testing to commercial launch.
We have the 5G you’re looking for.
Portfolio companies have access to strategic resources, including Verizon’s 5G network, pioneering 5G labs, and a network of committed people with vast expertise in many verticals.
Venture capital and the Verizon Ventures team.
Our team has deep roots in network, tech, and finance. We foster active exchanges of ideas and we look forward to engaging with our founders.
Take a look at our portfolio.
We seek and nurture new technologies and businesses that will change how we experience the world. We look for solutions to problems that no one has thought of yet.
Versa Networks
Transforming security and network infrastructure for the enterprise
Optibus
Optimizing urban transportation with machine learning (ML)
Pivotal Commware
Pioneering the smart repeater ecosystem for millimeter-wave (mmWave) 5G fixed wireless service
Versa Networks
Transforming security and network infrastructure for the enterprise
Optibus
Optimizing urban transportation with machine learning (ML)
Pivotal Commware
Pioneering the smart repeater ecosystem for millimeter-wave (mmWave) 5G fixed wireless service
Our team.
Each member of the Verizon Ventures team has a unique set of skills—business development, finance, and technology—that helps identify and grow forward-thinking technologies to further Verizon’s strategic agenda across business units.
Citizen Verizon: Impact the world.
Verizon as a whole aims to bolster human prosperity by expanding digital access, protecting the climate and preparing communities for next-generation jobs.
