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Verizon Ventures

Verizon's strategic venture arm investing in early-stage companies and connecting them with the parent network

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About Verizon Ventures

Verizon Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Verizon. It makes early-stage strategic investments and brings founders together with people inside the telecoms group who can help them.

What Verizon Ventures does

  • Strategic investment: early-stage funding for companies with breakthrough ideas.
  • Ready-to-share teams: access to internal specialists, development tools and research.
  • Connections: introductions timed to the point when a start-up most needs them.
  • Commercial deals: investments that have led to key commercial agreements with Verizon.

Customers and markets

Founders building technology relevant to Verizon's network. One published example involves a portfolio company that uses Wi-Fi signals to detect activity in smart homes, offered through Verizon's home awareness service.

Key facts

  • Parent: Verizon
  • Leadership: Michelle McCarthy is named as managing director
  • Focus: strategic early-stage investing

Profile written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

Categories & features

  • Business
  • Commercial
  • Digital
  • Learning
  • Security
  • York
  • Early Stage

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