Acta Wireless is a venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

 firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to wireless and telecom companies. Acta Wireless has several offices with locations in Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C, and London, England.

Investments

Current investments include: Millennial Media, the largest independent mobile advertising network in the United States; Cardstar and Launch Box Digital. Acta Wireless is also a sponsor of the Mobile Giving Foundation

Mobile giving foundation

The Mobile Giving Foundation is a non-profit organization based in the U.S. state of Washington, working to increase mobile donating in the US. Chairman and CEO, Jim Manis in early 2008 fostered a deal between the top four major US carriers, allowing non-profit text message fees to be...

. In conjunction with investing in young seed stage companies Acta consults with many industry leaders such as Vodafone

Vodafone

Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...

, Verizon, Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

 and GSMA.

External Links

• Acta Wireless (company website)
• Crunch Base Acta Wireless Profile (Crunch Base)