Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Michael is a tech executive, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He's an advisor to [Pinterest](/company/pinterest), has a fund, [Endeavor Partners](/financial-organization/endeavor-partners), through which he invests in and/or advises early stage companies including AngelList, LinkedIn (IPO 2011), BrightRoll (acquired by Yahoo), Wikia, Firebase (acquired by Google), Vector Space, ICON Aircraft, World View Enterprises, Dryft (acquired by Apple), Dulance (acquired by Google), and others.

Michael cofounded AdForce, a pioneer in online advertising (IPO 1999), was EIR at Redpoint Ventures, and founded XDegrees a distributed storage solution (acquired by Microsoft). Michael also founded Wink/Search Engine Technologies (acquired 2008) and was previously product manager at Verity, the first leading search engine (IPO 1995). Michael was a founding board member of Full Circle Fund, and was board member at Cloudmark, Fundly, and GAIN Fitness.

Michael holds an MBA from [Stanford University](/organization/stanford-university) and a degree in Electrical Engineering from [University of Alberta](/organization/university-of-alberta).