Profile

Vital Venture Capital, LLC was formed in 2007 under a predecessor name to invest in Certicom, Inc., a publicly-traded encryption software company based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Certicom possessed a unique market postion in elliptic curve encryption technology and had a highly valuable international portfolio of related patents. Vital Venture Capital became one of the largest shareholders of Certicom and interacted with both Certicom management and other large shareholders. Vital Venture Capital completed a successful exit of its Certicom investment in early 2009 through its sale for cash to Research in Motion Limited. Vital Venture Capital’s mission is to use our talents, insights, knowledge and experience to find, analyze and structure venture capital investments in companies so as to provide significantly above-market returns on our own capital and on the funds that co-investors’ entrust to our stewardship. Our hope is that a meaningful portion of this capital will be used to better the lives of others and improve our world.