CIV is a Venice Beach, California-based venture capital firm focused on backing and building companies that are transforming critical industries. Founded by Abhijoy Mitra, Jeff Rosenthal, and Patrick Maloney, the firm operates at the intersection of industrial transformation, advanced infrastructure, and global economic resilience. With a hybrid model that blends investment with company creation, CIV is uniquely positioned to partner with exceptional founders, or co-found businesses from the ground up when the right opportunity doesn’t yet exist. CIV’s mission is to support companies solving systemic, long-horizon problems in areas like AI infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, and supply chain modernization. The firm brings together deep operating experience, flexible capital structures, and a powerful global advisory network to guide portfolio companies from formation through scale.
CIV targets early-stage and growth-stage companies operating at the forefront of systemic transformation, where macro forces like artificial intelligence, geopolitical shifts, and rising energy demands are reshaping entire industries. The firm focuses on high-impact verticals such as AI infrastructure and compute, next-generation manufacturing and reshoring, energy and nuclear innovation, industrial automation, supply chain resilience, and fintech tailored to critical markets.
CIV actively backs founders with the ambition to reinvent both physical and digital infrastructure, often in overlooked sectors where traditional venture capital hesitates. In addition to partnering with existing companies, CIV also incubates new ventures in-house when market gaps align with its thesis.
In April 2025, CIV announced the close of its inaugural fund, CIV Fund One, securing over $210 million in committed capital. The fund attracted a prestigious group of limited partners, including StepStone Group, Gwynne Shotwell(President & COO of SpaceX), Brown Advisory, and Fred Wilson (Co-founder, Union Square Ventures), alongside a global network of institutional investors, endowments, family offices, and visionary founders. Designed to capitalize on sectors at key inflection points, CIV Fund One focuses on transformative shifts such as the reshoring of manufacturing, the integration of AI into core infrastructure, and the acceleration of global energy transitions.
The fund merges traditional early-stage venture investing with a venture studio model, giving CIV the ability to both partner with existing founders and incubate new companies internally when market opportunities demand it. Early investments from the fund include Senra Systems, a manufacturing startup automating the wire harness industry; The Nuclear Company, a CIV-founded platform building fleet-scale nuclear energy systems; Base Power, focused on distributed energy infrastructure; Crux, delivering fintech solutions tailored to industrial markets; and Verse, which is modernising global supply chains.
CIV Fund One exemplifies the firm’s commitment to shaping the next industrial era, armed with both the strategic vision and investor backing to drive deep, lasting impact.
Leadership
CIV was co-founded by Abhijoy Mitra, Jeff Rosenthal, and Patrick Maloney - a team with deep roots in company building, operations, and systems-level innovation. Their combined backgrounds span venture capital, global supply chains, energy, and startup incubation. Together, they bring a pragmatic, founder-aligned approach to reimagining infrastructure and scaling ambitious companies.
Investment Strategy
CIV employs a dual investment and incubation strategy. When a compelling opportunity arises with the right founding team, the firm deploys capital and expertise to help scale existing startups. When the market opportunity exists but the company doesn’t, CIV co-founds companies in-house, giving it structural advantages in market entry, resource allocation, and long-term value creation.
The firm invests with high conviction and a long time horizon, focusing on capital-intensive but scalable solutions in vital industries. Its model includes access to a global network of advisors, a flexible capital structure, and deep operational support at every stage.
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