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Min Investment:
$750,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
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Lists including Michael
Work Experience
2025
Managing Director | Private Family Office
2025
Michael is the head of the Starshot Ventures private family office. In this role, he oversees investments, business operations, and family philanthropy.
2025 - 2025
Independent Consultant
2025 - 2025
Advising venture investors, startup founders, and family offices around strategy, operations, & fundraising.
Investment Committee Member – USC Marshall Venture Fund
2018 - 2025
Michael is a member of a volunteer board advising USC Marshall students, faculty, and administrators on the deployment of an endowed venture capital fund.
2021 - 2025
Senior Vice President | Institutional Multi-Family Office
2021 - 2025
Evoke Advisors is an independent Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and multi-family office. In his role as SVP Michael advised ultra-high net worth families, trusts, and non-profit institutions with respect to investment management, estate & tax strategy, and philanthropic and legacy planning.
2018 - 2022
Board Member | Venture Investor
2018 - 2022
Zest.ai is changing the way finance works by changing the way credit decisions are made. The company uses machine learning and data science to help companies make more accurate credit decisions with the mission of making fair and transparent credit available to everyone.
2017 - 2021
Board Member | Venture Investor
2017 - 2021
Acquired by Stewart Title in May 2021, Cloudvirga is a software platform built to revolutionize the mortgage industry by building intelligence into the origination process. Cloudvirga’s mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platforms go beyond just taking an application, automating tasks traditionally performed by operations staff to cut costs, improve the customer and loan officer experience, and deliver business insights across the origination process. Cloudvirga’s unique approach to the mortgage process allows lenders to realize the benefits of tomorrow’s digital mortgage today.
2014 - 2021
General Partner | Multi-Stage Venture Capital
2014 - 2021
Michael was a General Partner at Upfront Ventures, Southern California’s largest and longest-tenured venture capital firm. In this role, he lead early and growth stage investments in defining technology businesses across fintech, SaaS, and consumer.
2018 - 2020
Board Member | Venture Investor
2018 - 2020
NuORDER is a cloud & mobile B2B eCommerce solution empowering brands and retailers to streamline their business operations since 2011. The NuORDER platform provides brands and retailers a central hub to browse products and catalogs, access realtime inventory data and place orders from a computer or mobile app – 24/7/365.
2016 - 2020
Board Member | Venture Investor
2016 - 2020
Dailylook is a personal styling experience powered by real personal stylists leveraging our cutting edge data science to deliver the optimum merchandise at the right time to every customer. Founded in 2011, the company's mission is to inspire confidence through self expression while taking the hassle out of looking great.
2012 - 2014
West Coast Editor
2012 - 2014
Michael was a member of the founding team of Pando Media where he helped build an organization dedicated to covering the intersection of technology, business, and policy.