Mike Hennessey
Managing Director at BlueBanyan
San Francisco, California
Invests in
Stages:
Sectors:
Min Investment:
$10,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Mike
Investments
Wareclouds
Total Funding: $1M
FondiMex
Total Funding: $1
Orchata
Total Funding: $4M
DBM Cloud Systems, Inc.
Total Funding: $1M
Metal Pay
Total Funding: $1
Parabola
Total Funding: $34M
Cornershop
Total Funding: $31M
Abacus Labs
Total Funding: $4M
CargoX
Total Funding: $390M
Mosaic
Total Funding: $80M
Work Experience
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
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
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.
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
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.
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).