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Michael Mignano

VC at Lightspeed and former CEO/Co-Founder of Anchor

New York City Metropolitan Area

Angel
VC
Investor

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $3,000,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $15,000,000.00

Skills

Digital Production
Product Development
Online Product Development
Web Development
Product Innovation
Apps
Mobile
Mobile Applications
Ebooks
Digital Marketing
Social Media
HTML5
XHTML
PHP
JavaScript
CSS
jQuery
MySQL
Facebook API
Wordpress

Education

Investments

Particle.News

Series A

Total Funding: $15M

Pika

Series B

Total Funding: $130M

Tome

Series B

Total Funding: $75M

circle labs

Seed

Total Funding: $4M

Studio

Seed

Total Funding: $130M

Acquire.com

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $11M

Universe

Series A

Total Funding: $48M

XMTP

Series A

Total Funding: $25M

NexHealth

Series B

Total Funding: $180M

Ten Little

Seed

Total Funding: $13M

Work Experience

Lightspeed Venture Partners

2022

  • Partner

    2022

Suno

2024

  • Board Member

    2024

    Make any song you can imagine.

Particle

2024

  • Board Member

    2024

    AI-powered news that helps you understand more, faster.

Pika

2023

  • Board Member

    2023

    The idea-to-video platform that brings your creativity to motion.

Tome

2023

  • Board Member

    2023

    The AI assistant for enterprise sellers.

Granola

2023

  • Board Member

    2023

    The AI-powered notepad for people in back-to-back meetings.

Spotify

2019 - 2022

  • Head of Talk (Podcasts, Live, and Video)

    2019 - 2022

The Infatuation

2010 - 2021

  • Product Advisor

    2010 - 2021

Anchor

2015 - 2020

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2015 - 2020

    The world’s largest podcasting platform. Powering the global podcasting infrastructure and more creators’ podcasts than all other platforms combined. Acquired by Spotify in 2019 and now known as Spotify for Podcasters.

Adobe

2014 - 2015

  • Head of Product, Aviary

    2014 - 2015