MH

Mike Hennessey

Managing Director at BlueBanyan

San Francisco, California

Investor
Strategy Operator
Sales Operator
Advisor

Invests in

Stages:

Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Start-ups
Online Advertising
Cleantech
Search
Latin America
Spanish
Strategy Development
Investments
Entrepreneurship
New Business Development
Business Development
Strategy
Finance
International Business
Business Strategy
SaaS
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Strategic Partnerships
Management
Marketing

Education

Investments

Wareclouds

Seed

Total Funding: $1M

FondiMex

seed

Total Funding: $1

Orchata

Seed

Total Funding: $4M

DBM Cloud Systems, Inc.

Seed

Total Funding: $1M

Metal Pay

Angel

Total Funding: $1

Parabola

Seed

Total Funding: $34M

Cornershop

Seed

Total Funding: $31M

Abacus Labs

Seed

Total Funding: $4M

CargoX

Seed

Total Funding: $390M

Mosaic

Seed

Total Funding: $80M

Work Experience

BlueBanyan LLC

2006

  • Managing Director

    2006

    BlueBanyan invests in technical founders building SaaS, CyberSecurity, Software and Blockchain Companies like Nostra.ai, AssetLayer, Metal, Parabola.io, SunBird Messaging, Boostable (acq. by Metro Collective), Abacus (acq. by Certify), Manifest (acq. by Rakuten), IndexTank (acq. by LinkedIn), Violin Memory (IPO), JW Player, Ustream (acq. by IBM), DotSpotter (acq. by CBS Interactive), Hennessey Capital (acq. by Hitachi Capital now Mitsubishi HC Capital), DBM Cloud (acq. by Nasuni), AlphaCard (acq by Cortec). Clean Energy: Solar Mosaic solar financing, Principle Power offshore wind, Mission Motors electric motorcycles mentor, CleanTech Open Volunteer

Huey Magoos & Seven Stills Brewery & Distillery & Dunkin Donuts

2013

  • Food Service Worker

    2013

    -Huey Magoos serves awesome chicken tenders. Serving in MiraMar, Cooper City, Sunrise @ Amerant Arena (Florida Panthers NHL team) with more on the way (Miami). -Seven Stills served up some killer whiskey made from Craft Beer. Gin, Vodka, Beer, RTD cocktails but fell victim to Covid and California policies. -Dunkin [sold in 2022] serves ...well you know what they do if not Casey or Ben Affleck will tell you here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSvNhxKJJyU&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBIX9FG6kZ0&ab_channel=Dunkin%27

Latin America

2010

  • Seed Investor

    2010

    Angel Investor in various companies in Latin American Region including WareClouds (Chile/Brazil), Cornershop (Mexico/Chile acq. by Uber), Frete (Brazil formerly Sontra/CargoX), FondiMex (Mexico), YC alum Orchata (Mexico), Board of Chile Global Funds, Mentor to Endeavor and NXTP (Argentina), Blink Booking (acq. by Groupon), PulpoMedia (acq. by Latin Comm. Holdings), and Co-Founder of PuenteLabs.

Venture Capital Investments

1997 - 2020

  • LP and Venture Capital

    1997 - 2020

    (2024) Driven Ventures--Latam eCommerce Seed Fund. (2022) Alter Global--MENA, Latam, SE Asia emerging tech Seed Fund. (2022) Atman Capital--Brazil/US Cross Border Venture Fund (2020) Chile Global Funds--Fundacion Chile and SOMA (Walton Family) supported Venture Fund (2019) Unbounded Capital--Blockchain Infrastructure Venture Fund (2015) Ten Eleven Ventures--CyberSecurity Venture Fund (2009) Highland Capital Partners--Retail/Horizontal Venture Fund (1997) DCM Ventures--Silicon Valley Asia Pacific Fund

Pathwise Leadership

2016 - 2019

  • Psychology

    2016 - 2019

    The Pathwise Program is designed around the principles of Socratic learning, and takes leaders beyond traditional leadership development, teaching members to practice conscious leadership in a distinctive cohort setting.

Enterprise Software Sales

1995 - 2002

  • Enterprise Sales Background

    1995 - 2002

    Enterprise Software Sales -Oracle Channel Partner Sales at the beginning of the CRM sector (1995-1997) -PegaSystems Direct Sales for CRM in retail and tech (1997-1999) -Inktomi Direct Sales at the beginning of search and online commerce (1999-2002).