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Mike Edelhart

Managing Partner at Joyance Partners

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner

    2017

    Joyance invests in companies that, through science and tech, cultivate joy to improve the way we live, focusing on the health and consumer sectors from Pre-Seed to Series A.

  • Managing Partner

    2014

    Social Starts is a venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds. We focus on companies that encompass the intersection of health and happiness.

  • Managing Partner

    2020

    Ataraxia is an early-stage fund manager focused on helping people live longer and live better.

  • CEO

    2010 - 2013

    Pivot was a conference focused purely on how major brands, agencies, marketers, and content creators can succeed by understanding, accessing, and influencing the emerging Social Construct.

2010 - 2011

  • Revenue Advisor

    2010 - 2011

    APPNATION drew together leaders from all areas to delineate the ideas, practices, and players to define the next stage of app transformation.

  • Managing Director

    2008 - 2010

    First30 Services is a company that creates companies or helps in their creation, from rapid product prototypes to analyzing markets to parachuting in an entire team to get a company rolling.

2008 - 2009

  • CEO

    2008 - 2009

    LiveDeal is an internet classifieds and small business services company.

2004 - 2008

  • Chairman

    2004 - 2008

    Sequoia-backed XML digital publication archive and digital edition company.

2005 - 2006

  • CEO

    2005 - 2006

2001 - 2003

  • CEO

    2001 - 2003