Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
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Lists including Michael
Investments
KarmaCheck
Total Funding: $66M
Gynger
Total Funding: $32M
Healthie
Total Funding: $16M
Pixel Vault
Total Funding: $100M
nameless
Total Funding: $15M
Autograph
Total Funding: $210M
Torre
Total Funding: $16M
Mercato
Total Funding: $32M
Mint Songs
Total Funding: $4M
Strigo
Total Funding: $11M
Work Experience
2019
Cofounder, Managing Partner
2019
Velvet Sea Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs turn their visions into reality.
2020
Board Observer & Advisor
2020
A funny beverage company who hates corporate marketing as much as you do. Its evil mission is to make people laugh and get more of them to drink more healthy beverages more often, all while helping to kill plastic pollution.
2022
Board Member
2022
Background checks reimagined. Achieve the fastest turnaround times you’ll ever experience.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Leadership Council
2023
2023
Owner - NY Team of Grass League High-Stakes Golf League
2023
The Grass League is the world's first high-stakes par 3 golf league, uniquely embracing both professional and amateur events in team-based formats. Grass League events are set on lighted par 3 courses with the flagship host site located in the Phoenix market.
2022
Director
2022
2021
Board Observer, Advisor
2021
Autograph is a platform that brings like minded fans together in one place and rewards them for loving what they love most. Co-founded by Tom Brady, Autograph is the first place to record daily acts of fandom and convert them into unprecedented access and experiences that forge unforgettable memories.
2021
Director
2021
SuperRare is the digital art market on Ethereum. Each artwork is authentically created by an artist in the network, and tokenized as a collectible digital.
2010
Investor
2010
Fund for all personal investments, including Scopely, Liquid Death, Braze, Tumblr and more.
2007 - 2015
Chief Strategy Officer
2012 - 2015
Joined the Salesforce management team after the sale of Buddy Media. I served as Salesforce's Chief Strategy Officer and, before that, Chief Marketing Officer of the marketing software division. During my three years at the company, Salesforce grew its annual revenue run rate to $6 billion from $2 billion and was named the most innovative company in the world by Forbes Magazine for three consecutive years.
Buddy Media, Founder, Chairman, CEO
2007 - 2012
Founded Buddy Media with my wife, Kass, and sold it to Salesforce.com less than 5 years later for about $800M. The company is now the foundation of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud.