Waveland Venture Partners

Waveland Venture Partners is an Orange County-based private investment firm founded in 2000 and operating under the broader Waveland Capital Group umbrella from Irvine, California. Although Crunchbase indexes Waveland Venture Partners as a venture capital firm, the platform's investing today is primarily focused on upstream energy, oil and gas exploration and production, drilling programs, working interests and producing reserves, with assets concentrated in the Bakken Shale and Williston Basin of North Dakota, the Permian Basin, and the San Juan Basin and Mid-Continent of the US. Waveland Energy Partners LLC and its affiliates have sponsored more than 40 energy-related investments since inception, including multi-well drilling programs in the Permian and acquisitions of San Juan Basin assets from majors like Encana, often co-invested alongside leading energy operators. The firm continues to maintain a small Waveland Technology Partners legacy, whose most notable historic outcome was the November 10, 2006 acquisition of Good Technology by Motorola, at the time a landmark mobile messaging and security exit. Senior personnel publicly associated with the platform include Vickie J. Greer and Michael J. Greer. Investors should not confuse this firm with the unrelated Chicago-based Waveland Investments private equity vehicle or the Waveland Ventures venture-debt firm. By concentrating on upstream energy assets across major US basins and co-investing alongside established operators, Waveland Venture Partners deploys capital into oil and gas exploration, production and drilling programs while retaining a small legacy technology portfolio anchored by its historic Good Technology exit.