Michael loves partnering with entrepreneurs as they embark on the long journey of building category-defining products and organizations that transform the way we live, work, and play. He will be responsible for building out the team, defining brand and value proposition, developing sourcing, diligence, and investment processes, and working closely with founding teams post-investment. Michael is based in San Francisco, California.
Prior to Portage, Michael was a Product Manager at Coinbase, where he helped found the Coinbase NFT Marketplace and also led a team building crypto payments solutions at Coinbase Commerce. Prior to that, he was a founder and before that, an investor at Andreessen Horowitz where he focused on investments in crypto, AI, developer tools, and enterprise software. In a past life, Michael started his career as software engineer at companies such as Microsoft and Intuit and startups such as OpenGov.
Michael holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and was also a Visiting Student at Harvard, MIT, and Harvard Business School.
