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Michael Miao

VP of Finance & BizOps @ Glean / former Partner @ IVP

San Francisco, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $100,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Work Experience

2023

  • VP of Finance & BizOps

    2023

    At Glean, I oversee our Strategic Finance, Accounting, Business Operations, and Investor Relations functions.

2015 - 2023

  • Partner

    2015 - 2023

    IVP is a growth-stage VC firm with $7B AUM. I had the privilege of partnering with some amazing founders during my eight years at the firm. Investment Experience (Chronological Order): - Jasper Series A - Pigment Series B - SEON Series B (Board) - Veriff Series B (Board) - Aledade Series E - H1 Series B (Board) - Aiven Series B (Board) - Curology Series D (Board) - HashiCorp Series D - CrowdStrike Series E - Motive Series C (Board) - Wise Series E - Grammarly Series A (Board)

2014 - 2015

  • Strategic Finance

    2014 - 2015

    Led several cross-functional strategic projects across corporate finance, biz ops and product management Built financial and operating models for use in company planning and strategic engagements A/B tested new features and built internal tools to track KPIs Spearheaded SQL/analytics training for 10+ Strategic Finance and Business Operations new hires Corporate Finance: - Built data driven cohort based model to predict Dropbox storage growth for company planning - Worked on Dropbox’s $500M Revolving Credit Facility and Dropbox’s $350M Series C fundraise - Developed board decks for quarterly board meetings Biz Ops: - Dropbox Pro go-to-market roadmap strategy to accelerate Pro’s long-term growth potential - Worked on Amazon Web Services negotiation that led to significant decrease in public cloud costs - Built competitive landscapes for collaboration software, Y-combinator and data analytics companies Product Management: - A/B tested and launched new promotions for expired Samsung and HTC deal users - A/B tested and shipped Weekend Notifications feature - Shipped initiatives such as metadata optimization and elimination of low engagement space bonuses

2012 - 2013

  • Investment Banking

    2012 - 2013

    Completed transactions include: - Cox Media Group's $20M private placement in Collective - Rally Software's $138M follow-on offering - Web.com's $225M convertible debt offering - SunPower's $300M convertible debt offering - Dell's $25bn leveraged buyout - Freescale's $800M term loan facility - Guidewire's $378M follow-on offering - Supercell's $1.5bn sale of 51% stake to SoftBank and GungHo (adviser to key selling shareholders) - Trulia's $200M convertible debt offering