Brian Mesic

Managing Director at Ankona Capital

📍 San Diego, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 25 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United States20+ investments
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Board Member
Jan 2022
Lawmatics is the #1 automation platform for law firms, offering legal client intake, CRM, marketing automation, billing, and much more, all in one easy-to-use software. With Lawmatics, law firms streamline their operations, impress clients, and win more business. To learn more, visit www.lawmatics.com.
Board Member
Mar 2021
Cordial automates billions of data-driven, cross-channel messages to create lifetime customer connections for leading companies.
Board Member
Dec 2019
SOCi is the leading CoMarketing Cloud for multi-location enterprises. We empower nearly 1,000 brands like Ford, Ace Hardware, Jersey Mike’s, Kumon, and more to automate and scale their marketing efforts across all locations and digital channels. Through the use of best-in-class generative AI and machine learning, the SOCi Genius platform provides multi-location enterprises actionable insights and recommendations while automating their most important workflows at scale. With SOCi, businesses can strengthen their digital presence across local search and social pages while protecting their online reputation, driving improved customer engagement and market leading results. To learn more about how SOCi can help fuel your localized marketing success, please visit us at www.meetsoci.com or message us at hello@meetsoci.com.
Board Member
Oct 2018
VideoAmp is a software and data company creating a more sophisticated data-driven advertising ecosystem that redefines how media is valued, bought and sold. The VideoAmp platform provides measurement and optimization tools that unify audiences across the disparate systems of traditional TV, streaming video and digital media. Unlocking new value for those currently operating within a siloed view of their audiences, VideoAmp creates efficiencies for the entire industry. VideoAmp is transforming a 100-year old industry by powering a more effective three-way value exchange that results in advertisers increasing their return on investment, publishers increasing their revenues and improving the viewing experience for consumers.
Board Member
May 2017
Stay connected to customers in the moments that matter. Listed in Capterra's top 5 customer experience softwares for 2020, Medallia Zingle's intelligent messaging platform enables brands around the world to communicate with customers and employees at scale, through two-way text messaging and powerful workflow automations.
Investor
2013
MkII is not a traditional VC, we organically start companies with great people. Prism Skylabs was launched in 2011 at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco is the first announced MkII Ventures project. Prism Skylabs brings physical spaces online, creating new places for people and businesses to understand and engage each other.
Investor
2013
Leading email data solutions provider Return Path has completed the acquisition of Email Copilot, a California-based company that provides dynamic visualization, monitoring, reporting, and analysis of email deliverability data. In this deal, Return Path has acquired the entire company including technical assets and the existing book of business. Learn more: https://returnpath.com/newsroom/return-path-acquires-email-copilot-extending-suite-email-optimization-solutions/
Investor
2013
Conversation builds relationship. Businesses build customer relationships @ scale on Layer's enterprise conversation platform: Improving engagement, conversion, service & support. www.layer.com
Investor
2012
Big Frame is a media company that provides marketing and production resources for the biggest YouTube Influencers, and creates video advertising campaigns for top brands that reach the right audience next to premium content. The Big Frame network on YouTube represents top online talent including MysteryGuitarMan, Destorm, Julian Smith, DaveDays, WhatsUpElle, Tay Zonday, and more, helping them grow their audiences and give their fans more of what they love. Big Frame specializes in seamlessly integrating brands into their high quality video content. Big Frame connects brands directly with their artists on YouTube and the social web to ensure a personalized experience and strong audience engagement. The company has executed branded campaigns for global clients including The Home Depot, Sony Electronics, THQ, Virgin Mobile, Levis and Fox.
Board Member
2012
Everything you need from a bank account, plus 12,000 Visa® card designs to choose from.
Investor
2012
Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms your cameras into powerful business tools. Through computer vision, A.I., and machine learning, Prism unlocks valuable information from video that can be immediately understood, shared and acted upon. Leading companies in 80 countries around the world use Prism to better understand, manage and grow their business.
Investor
2012
Scopely is a leading global interactive entertainment and video game company, home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises, including the most successful mobile game ever launched "MONOPOLY GO!," along with "Stumble Guys," "Star Trek™ Fleet Command," "MARVEL Strike Force," "WWE Champions" and "Yahtzee® With Buddies," among many others. Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games across mobile, web, PC and console that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience. Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami™ that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry. Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies” and as a TIME100 “Most Influential Company In the World,” Scopely has surpassed $10 billion in lifetime revenue due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years. Scopely has global operations across North America, Central America, EMEA and Asia, with additional game studio partners across four continents. Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group in July 2023 for $4.9 billion, and is now an independent subsidiary of Savvy. For more information on Scopely, visit: scopely.com.
Board Member
2010
Plixi is a service for sharing pictures around people, places and events and creating collective memories. Plixi allows users to instantly share their photos to popular social networks through mobile devices and on the web. Plixi specializes in providing an innovative open API, and mobile SDKs, to the developer community of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare and more to come. The platform empowers third-party application developers to quickly add media sharing capabilities and other unique features to their applications without incurring the resources to build, innovate and manage a media sharing infrastructure. Proving the power and scalability of the platform the company's website is architected using the same open API offered to third-party developers. The company aims to create a better way to share collective memories around life experiences at places and events in a way that feels natural and engaging to users.
Board Member
2009
Founded in 2005, TrueCar has built a trusted brand and a strong reputation for providing consumers with useful tools, research, market context, and pricing transparency as they embark on their car-buying journey. The Company is bringing more of the purchasing process online by enabling consumers to find a new or used vehicle that is right for them, apply for financing, and sell or trade in their current vehicle. We partner with our Certified Dealers to help millions of consumers find the right new or used vehicle that meets their needs, delivering a great consumer experience that is personalized and efficient. Our people are our strength. We care deeply about our culture and creating an inclusive, casual, and fun workplace that is completely remote. We work collaboratively, across departments, fostering an environment where there’s open communication and recognition of hard work. TrueCar isn’t simply a place to have a job. It’s a company where you can grow your career and have a fulfilling, flexible role. We value the entrepreneurial spirit and encourage the TrueCar Crew to take ownership of both their projects and their careers. We’ve created a comprehensive benefits package that recognizes and rewards our TrueCar Crews passion and effort. In addition to competitive compensation and 401(k) matching, we also offer personalized benefits including home office connectivity allowances, community impact days and matching donation program, a generous equity package for eligible positions, wellness reimbursements, and, because everyone needs an occasional recharge, an excellent PTO policy and 14 paid holidays.
Board Member
2008
Viewdle looks inside video frame-by-frame to create a comprehensive digital index that delivers relevant results at a level of granularity and accuracy not possible with existing video search tools. Viewdle applications can be used to create incremental value in video assets by unlocking previously invisible information that drives enhanced utility and monetization. Technology Viewdle’s automated engine utilizes state-of-the-art facial recognition technology as part of a multi-modal approach that extracts information from all three dimensions of video: visual, text and audio. The proprietary algorithms powering the engine are very scalable and fast with off the shelf hardware, making cost-conscious turnkey implementation possible.
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2022
Board Member
Jan 2022
Lawmatics is the #1 automation platform for law firms, offering legal client intake, CRM, marketing automation, billing, and much more, all in one easy-to-use software. With Lawmatics, law firms streamline their operations, impress clients, and win more business. To learn more, visit www.lawmatics.com.
2021
Board Member
Mar 2021
Cordial automates billions of data-driven, cross-channel messages to create lifetime customer connections for leading companies.
2019
Board Member
Dec 2019
SOCi is the leading CoMarketing Cloud for multi-location enterprises. We empower nearly 1,000 brands like Ford, Ace Hardware, Jersey Mike’s, Kumon, and more to automate and scale their marketing efforts across all locations and digital channels. Through the use of best-in-class generative AI and machine learning, the SOCi Genius platform provides multi-location enterprises actionable insights and recommendations while automating their most important workflows at scale. With SOCi, businesses can strengthen their digital presence across local search and social pages while protecting their online reputation, driving improved customer engagement and market leading results. To learn more about how SOCi can help fuel your localized marketing success, please visit us at www.meetsoci.com or message us at hello@meetsoci.com.
2018
Board Member
Oct 2018
VideoAmp is a software and data company creating a more sophisticated data-driven advertising ecosystem that redefines how media is valued, bought and sold. The VideoAmp platform provides measurement and optimization tools that unify audiences across the disparate systems of traditional TV, streaming video and digital media. Unlocking new value for those currently operating within a siloed view of their audiences, VideoAmp creates efficiencies for the entire industry. VideoAmp is transforming a 100-year old industry by powering a more effective three-way value exchange that results in advertisers increasing their return on investment, publishers increasing their revenues and improving the viewing experience for consumers.
General Partner
Mar 2018
Ankona invests $5 to $10M into early growth-stage B2B software companies generating $5 to $15M in recurring revenues. Ankona is a team of experienced investors and founders with over 50 years of combined software experience and is actively investing out of its debut fund, ACP I.
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