Mission Markets

Mission Markets, established in 2009, operates as a specialized financial services firm dedicated to facilitating capital flow into impact investments. The company was founded by Michael Van Patten, who serves as the CEO. Prior to founding Mission Markets, Van Patten had a career in traditional finance, including roles at Robertson Stephens and as a co-founder of the New York office for Thomas Weisel Partners, experience that informed the creation of a platform for the growing impact investing sector.

The firm provides a suite of services and technology designed to connect socially and environmentally conscious investors with relevant opportunities. Mission Markets serves a diverse clientele, including investment banks, private banks, and wealth management firms, offering them private-label technology platforms for their impact investing activities. This business-to-business model allows financial institutions to present curated impact investment products to their own clients, streamlining the process of due diligence, execution, and reporting.

The company's core offering revolves around its technology infrastructure, which acts as a marketplace and a platform for managing transactions in the social and environmental sectors. By providing the underlying technology and framework, Mission Markets enables its institutional clients to efficiently engage in the impact economy. The firm's revenue is likely generated through licensing fees for its platform and transaction-based fees for the deals facilitated through its infrastructure. In a significant milestone, Mission Markets was acquired by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2013, a move that validated the growing importance of the impact investing space and provided Mission Markets with greater scale and resources.

Keywords: impact investing, financial technology, capital markets, sustainable finance, ESG, private-label platform, social impact, environmental markets, investment banking services, wealth management solutions