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Mike Silva

Co-Founder at Across Capital

Boston, Massachusetts

Investor
VC

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Private Equity
Corporate Development
LBO
Strategy
Emerging Markets
Business Development
Finance
Growth Capital
SaaS
Growth Strategies
Go-to-market Strategy
Acquisitions
Angel Investing
Asset Management
Business Strategy
Capital IQ
Capital Markets
Entrepreneurship
Financial Modeling
Investments

Education

Lists including Mike

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Based in Boston & Cambridge

668 people

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All Seed Investors

19695 people

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All Pre-Seed Investors

7974 people

Work Experience

Across Capital

2022

  • General Partner

    2022

Vulcan Capital

2013 - 2021

  • Growth Equity

    2013 - 2021

    Vulcan Capital manages the multi-billion dollar portfolio for Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen. Mike is part of the growth fund which is investing $10m to $100m into rapidly growing, private technology companies on a global basis. Vulcan's mandate is to be a flexible, long-term partner to its portfolio companies. Investments include: - Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) - Dataminr - Emotive - Flipkart (acquired by Walmart) - Grab - Intercom - Loft - Nelogica - Neon - Signal Sciences (acquired by Fastly) - Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) - TraceLink - Uber (NYSE: UBER) - Wildlife Studios - Zuora (NYSE: ZUO)

FTV Capital

2011 - 2013

  • Associate

    2011 - 2013

Investment Banking

2010 - 2011

  • Associate

    2010 - 2011

Stanford Graduate School of Business

2007 - 2009

  • MBA Student

    2007 - 2009

Golden Gate Capital

2004 - 2006

  • Summer Analyst

    2004 - 2006