Mike Orsak
General Partner, Worldview Technology Partners
Palo Alto, California
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General Partner
1996
Co-founded Worldview, a global venture capital firm. At our peak we had offices in Palo Alto, Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore, London, and Frankfurt. Was named to the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 VCs 5 times (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2009). Served on the Board of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. Served on the Board of Meritech Capital. Led or co-led investments into 13 companies that went public, including nVidia, Corvis, Infinera, Oplink, Cosine Communications, Calico Commerce, Click Software, Tellium, Digital Think, IGN.com, and AFC. Successful acquisitions included Lightspeed International, Redstone, Netcore, Upshot, Cyras, Aeluros, Accelerant Networks, Collation, and Loglogic.
1990 - 1996
Managing Director
1990 - 1996
Spearheaded investments into private technology companies for Jafco, which at the time was the largest venture firm in the world. Raised a $60M US-focused fund that returned over 20X. Successful investments included nVidia, Ciena, and Tivoli.
1989 - 1989
Summer Associate
1989 - 1989
Identified, reviewed and researched business plans for this early stages venture firm.
1986 - 1988
Technology Research Analyst
1986 - 1988
Reseach Analyst covering the stocks of computer systems companies, which included Apple, Dell, Sun Micro, Convex, Silicon Graphics, and Tandem. Worked on financings for Dell and Sun.
1984 - 1986
Manager, Microcomputer Software research program
1984 - 1986
Initiated and directed research program targeting emerging growth areas of software.