Who We Are
At Mir Ventures, we mentor, advise, roll up our sleeves, and invest in pre-seed and seed-stage companies that deepen interactions among machines, humans, technology, and society through communication, collaboration, and convening — the fundamental ”3C”s
We strongly prefer to invest in technology using bricolage innovation around the edges that are essential and invisible — oxygen for a large market and requiring no marginal effort for adoption
We seek out management teams where 3C is essential to their culture and that leverage 3C to create extraordinarily unique solutions with exceptional empathy
Mir Ventures Team
John Braze
Managing Partner
Superpowers
Commercializing deep-tech, risk mitigation, non-obvious markets, product globalization, aligning stakeholder incentives.
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas Permian Basin.
Ash Archibald
Managing Partner
Superpowers
Go to market strategy and operations, channel sales development, enterprise sales, analytics, scaling sales teams. The Wharton School, University of Pennsylva Universidade de São Paulo – FEARP
Sandy Sharp
Advisor
Superpowers
Organizational dynamics, Telling it like it is, Meeting people where they are,
Vivid communication
Stew Friedman PhD
Advisor
Superpowers
Sixth-sense intuition, evaluating team cohesion, behavior, motivations
Robin Hanson PhD
Advisor
Superpowers
AI and machine learning, behavioral economics, straight talk, BS detector
Mark DeSantis, PhD
Advisor
Superpowers
25 yrs. scaling startups as CEO, public policy, government markets, smart city, AI
Barry Behnken, PhD
Venture Partner
Superpowers
Deep-tech, computer vision, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, optics and lasers
Vik Bakhru, MD
Venture Partner
Superpowers
Digital health, health services, technology, telemedicine, venture-funded businesses
Our Portfolio
We invest in companies that deepen interactions among machines, humans, technology and society through communication, collaboration, and convening.
