CAPITAL
FUNDING TO TURN IDEAS INTO CATEGORY-DEFINING COMPANIES
​Critical Mission Studio (CMS) is driving open innovation to modernize industrial and mission critical systems ​​
More Than Capital...
We Work With Early-Stage Ventures and Incumbents
We co-create, invest and launch new ventures as well as invest in existing tech-focused companies who are exploring new innovations and venture concepts.
Flexible Funding & Deal Terms
$2-5M in funding and access to our network of angels, family funds, VCs, and institutional investors to accelerate your next stage of growth. Critical Mission is an evergreen fund which supports more flexibility.
Access To Critical Mission
Community & Ecosystem
Gain access to a diverse community of investors, founders, designers, industry leaders and operators that can help you meet challenges and provide applied problem solving.
Navigate Challenges
& Roadblocks
We support your team with a hands-on approach to company building including, structuring, hiring, product strategy, branding, go-to-market, and fund raising.
Mission Critical & Industrial
Domain Focus
We identify emergent technologies and under-addressed market opportunities across mission critical arenas, including smart cities, buildings, manufacturing, supply chains, energy, transportation, resources and more.
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Industrial &
Manufacturing
Supply Chain,
Logistics & Retail
Physical
Infrastructure
Agriculture
& Resources
Transportation
Systems
Digital
Infrastructure
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Energy &
Utilties
Healthcare
& Biotech
Smart
Cities
Re-Defining Venture Development
Venture capital funds are closed end which dictates fixed time frames for developing, scaling and exiting ventures. This approach has driven the VC industry to focus on an ever narrower range of opportunities and pressure ventures to meet investor-driven mandates that are often misaligned with a start-up's goals. Critical Mission's funding approaches support more flexibility.
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Investment Thesis
​We believe mission critical applications are misunderstood, under-served, under-invested, behind the tech curve and vast in scale. These B2B domains are in the midst of a shift to modern digital and AI-enabled solutions that will drive recurring revenue, attractive financial returns and shorter time to exits.
What makes an attractive start-up venture:
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Have a clear path to revenue.
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Focus on smart adaptive and autonomous systems.
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Leverage cloud native, data-centric software tools.
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AI-enabled systems that focus on full automation not just assistance.
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Entrepreneurs and teams with a track record of growth and deep domain expertise.
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Incumbent businesses with customers and revenues that want to enhance or modernize their core technology capabilities. ​​
To help accelerate value creation, Critical Mission has organized open-source developer tools and IP to help ventures accelerate their innovation capabilities. ​​
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