Michael Onghai

Co-founder, Founder CEO, Chief Investment Officer

2012

Value investing, Special Situations Investing, Private equity. Real Estate. Deals. The only family office that invests in the right managers at the right place and at the right time. Majority ownership in LookSmart Group (OTC:LKST). Portfolio includes: MGTCI (OTC:MGTI), Tongxin (OTC:TXIC), Victory Welding, AppAddictive, Clickable. See www.snowyaugust.com . Investor in bitcoin since 2011. Started mining bitcoin in 2013. Angel investor in CoinBase and FundersClub. Sold domain civic.com which is one of the most successful ICO's. Advisor to LoyalCoin .

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

2021

General Partner

2020

Alpha Sigma Capital is a blockchain-focused hedge fund. We are active investors in blockchain companies that are in their growth phase. We focus on trading and investing in the top 200 altcoins, cryptocurrencies, equities, options and futures. Combines the benefits of active investing like private equity, and the advantages of crowd mispricing of publicly tradable instruments.

Chief Executive Officer and Customer Pain Killer

2013

Chief Executive Officer and Customer Pain Killer at LookSmart, a Nasdaq publicly listed company. LookSmart is a holding company that owns Clickable, an omni-channel marketing big data analytics company and Novatech.io, a managed services data center. LookSmart still also owns the LookSmart Search Ad Network that serves over 6 billion monthly search traffic. Note to LinkedIn marketers especially those from offshore companies in India (with photos of hot girls LOL): Your time is as precious as my time. If you send me a spam request and I do not respond, please do not send a second one or I will block you immediately LOL. I get 10 Linkedin messages daily from offshore companies such as you. TYVM.

Panelist

2012

Panelist at FundersClub to help FundersClub decide which ideas to accept to its pioneering VC platform.

Director/Board Member

2012

Board Member and Audit Committee at MGT Capital, an intellectual property portfolio company listed in the American Stock Exchange.

Principal

2005

Concentrated Asia fund -- Special situations in Asia, and online businesses. Lived in Asia for at least 3 years and grew up in Asia until I was 16. I picked up some event-driven special situations that involved spin-offs, convertible refinancing and rights offerings that turned out to be multibagger ideas in Southeast Asia, a region I am very familiar with because of my upbringing and my Chinese heritage.

Analyst

2003 - 2005

Value Long/Short Equity Hedge Fund. Specialized in Spin-offs, Post-bankruptcies, special situations and online businesses. I discovered many spin-off ideas that generated multibagger returns with low volatility. I picked up a German spin-off and a financial services spinoff much earlier than the time the bigger hedge funds such as Greenlight Capital and Third Point took their positions. I have time-stamp proof in my valueinvestorsclub.com write-ups.

Founder/Chairman

2011

A social advertising and social commerce platform. AppAddictive is a S.W.A.T. team of engineers and data crunchers, who help CEOs and CMOs harness the benefits of data-driven, results-oriented social advertising. Acquired by a unicorn in 2014 at a valuation that is a 20 bagger for our investors!

Advisor

2012 - 2022

Internet Media Labs, Inc., founded by Peter Bordes, Robert Moore and Tom Molen, is a New York based digital media company. IML uses proprietary technology to build platforms that will allow individuals, businesses, and brands to engage in social media with greater efficiency, intelligence, and relevance.

Incubatee Company CEO

2011 - 2011

One of the companies in the DreamIt Session 2011.