Van Wagoner Ventures

Van Wagoner Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm led by Managing Member Garrett Van Wagoner, operating as a late-stage and early private-equity crossover investor focused on the transformation of the global transportation grid. The firm's mission is to lead the financing of what it calls the Fourth Generation Industrial Revolution by backing companies building a cleaner, more sustainable, connected and intelligent transportation ecosystem across land, sea and air, through mobility-connected technology spanning connected services, telematics and logistics, alternative fuels, infrastructure support and smart-grid solutions powered by AI and IoT. Its vehicles include the Silicon Valley Associates Impact 1 Fund, which began marketing in 2016 with a US$250 million target and a socially-responsible-investing mandate centred on green transportation and renewable power infrastructure, and the VW Crossover Fund III Transportation Infrastructure Fund; in July 2017 Van Wagoner Ventures acquired Silicon Valley Venture Group and its predecessor Silicon Valley Associates in an all-equity transaction. Garrett Van Wagoner brings a long public-markets pedigree: he began as an equity analyst in 1978, spent 1982 to 1993 at Bessemer Trust, founded the Van Wagoner Funds mutual fund family, won the Lipper Performance Achievement Award five times, and earlier deployed $340 million across 54 companies in a 1997-vintage crossover program. The earlier Van Wagoner Capital Management, an SEC-registered adviser since 1995, reached a 2004 SEC settlement over the valuation of private securities held by the Van Wagoner Funds. Today Van Wagoner Ventures focuses on financing the clean, connected and intelligent transformation of global transportation.