Michael is a pioneering Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneur and VC who co-founded 6 leading-edge software/technology companies over the last 20+ years, of which 3 were acquired and one resulted in an IPO.

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These companies include one of the first Internet Music services in 1997 that helped kick off the online music revolution, the first industry-licensed online music subscription service in 1999, one of the first consumer online video platforms in 2002 (that went public in 2006), and a distributed media platform technology that forever changed the playbook for building a global 100M unique viewer audience.

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Michael, who co-founded Kicklabs, an early startup accelerator in downtown San Francisco in 2008, has been an enthusiastic and tireless angel investor and advisor for over 60 technology startups trying to make a dent in the universe. A few of his noteworthy angel investments include AngelList (20X MOIC), Notion (60X MOIC), Mercury (30X MOIC) and FalconX (190X MOIC).

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Michael was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at SRI International (Stanford Research Institute) for nearly 14 years. Leveraging 28 years of experience as a technology entrepreneur and operator, Michael founded MDSV Capital in 2021, which focuses on investing in hypergrowth outliers from the portfolios of small emerging manager funds, specifically in AI, Fintech, Enterprise SaaS, Defense Tech, Deep Tech and the automation economy.

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