Joseph Michael

Venture Partnerships at Google

📍 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden🔄 Updated October 2026💼 9 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 SwedenInvested this year
9
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5
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1
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Portfolio

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Angel Investor
Jan 2026
Hiring should be about people, not polished CVs and soulless AI screeners. Fika Jobs is building a more human way to hire. Through video conversations with our AI agent, you can share your experience, motivations and what matters to you. We then connect you with roles and teams where you can thrive. For companies, that means meeting relevant candidates based on a deeper understanding of who they are, with a faster path to stronger matches than a traditional CV can provide. Free for job seekers. Free for companies to use, pay only when you hire.
Angel Investor
2025
Natively is the easiest way to build and ship cross-platform mobile apps — no senior engineering team required. Our mission is to empower a new generation of builders to launch high-quality native mobile apps without getting blocked by code, complexity, or cost. We’re building the first truly accessible mobile app development tool — combining the speed of no-code with the power of real code when you need it — and opening the door for the estimated 99.5% of people who currently can’t build mobile apps on their own. Natively is used by early-stage founders, junior developers, designers, and product teams who want to ship faster and smarter. We’re backed by world-class investors and operators — and we’re just getting started. Start building at → natively.dev X: https://x.com/natively_dev
Angel Investor
2025
Empowering marketers in the AI era
Angel Investor
2024
Talentium helps Talent Acquisition teams find, evaluate and engage the right candidates with AI – without changing the way they work. Built for modern hiring teams, Talentium works alongside your existing ATS to streamline sourcing, screening and outreach in one connected workflow. Instead of replacing your recruitment process, we help you make better hiring decisions, faster. Our focus isnt hiring more candidates – its identifying the right ones with greater precision and confidence. Whether youre building critical teams, scaling your company or hiring for hard-to-fill roles, Talentium helps recruiters spend less time on repetitive work and more time connecting with exceptional talent. Were building the precision layer for modern hiring.
Angel Investor
2024
Motorica is the Believable Motion Engine and Animation Toolset for top game studios. Craft full motion matching datasets in just minutes instead of months, powered by real human performance captured in our in-house mocap studio, extended with our cutting edge technology. With deterministic motion control, real-time style blending, and foot-accurate Phase Shifting, Motorica delivers production-ready animation that integrates seamlessly into Unreal, Unity, Maya, and modern game pipelines.
Angel Investor
2024
MAKIINA is building the hardware and software stack for physical intelligence: modular, low-cost, scalable, and made in Finland. From drone motors, actuators, power electronics, sensor units, perception stacks, to a breakthrough AI robotics foundation model, each piece is built like LEGO blocks so they fit together into different form factors of physical AI agents, affordably and at scale.
Angel Investor
2024
Tzafon is an applied research lab building scalable compute systems and training foundation models for computer use and real-world interaction. Were founded by researchers & engineers from leading technology companies with the belief that AGI remains the most important unsolved problem this century. Were globally distributed with headquarters in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, recruiting the best talent from every corner of the world to build the future of machine intelligence.
Early Investor
Dec 2021
Metaplex Studios serves web3 builders on Solana to grow adoption of the Metaplex Protocol: the open-source technology powering the world’s largest, fastest and most affordable NFT ecosystem. We nurture a diverse, dynamic community of creative artists, collectors, and developers emboldened to break free of the constraints of traditional gatekeepers. Whats next happens with Metaplex.
Angel Investor
Jan 2018
Pley enables mobile game publishers and studios to expand their reach to the web and reap the rewards of increased playtime and higher average revenue per user. We do this by offering a toolchain and cloud distribution platform that includes hosting, monetization, browser compatibility and cross-platform play, while enabling developers to port their game to the web and easily manage release cycles. Pley is a registered trademark in Europe of Trail Games AB. The company is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, visit pley.com
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Investments (9)
Founder (1)
2026
Angel Investor
Jan 2026
Hiring should be about people, not polished CVs and soulless AI screeners. Fika Jobs is building a more human way to hire. Through video conversations with our AI agent, you can share your experience, motivations and what matters to you. We then connect you with roles and teams where you can thrive. For companies, that means meeting relevant candidates based on a deeper understanding of who they are, with a faster path to stronger matches than a traditional CV can provide. Free for job seekers. Free for companies to use, pay only when you hire.
2025
Angel Investor
2025
Natively is the easiest way to build and ship cross-platform mobile apps — no senior engineering team required. Our mission is to empower a new generation of builders to launch high-quality native mobile apps without getting blocked by code, complexity, or cost. We’re building the first truly accessible mobile app development tool — combining the speed of no-code with the power of real code when you need it — and opening the door for the estimated 99.5% of people who currently can’t build mobile apps on their own. Natively is used by early-stage founders, junior developers, designers, and product teams who want to ship faster and smarter. We’re backed by world-class investors and operators — and we’re just getting started. Start building at → natively.dev X: https://x.com/natively_dev
Angel Investor
2025
Empowering marketers in the AI era
2024
Venture Scout
Oct 2024
GV supports innovative founders across multiple stages and sectors, from artificial intelligence and life sciences to consumer platforms, enterprise software, and frontier technology. Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV oversees more than $10 billion in assets under management. Our operating partners support founding teams at every stage of company-building across executive talent, design, communications, and marketing. GV is a non-strategic venture capital firm that invests independently from its sole limited partner, Alphabet. We connect startups with Google and Alphabet companies, providing unique access to the world’s best technology and talent. GV has 400 active portfolio companies spanning North America, Europe, and Israel. Our portfolio includes Lightmatter, Stripe, Treeline Biosciences, Vercel, and Wonder, with notable exits including Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, Duo Security, Flatiron Health, Lemonade, and One Medical. The firm is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Cambridge, New York, and London.
Angel Investor
2024
Talentium helps Talent Acquisition teams find, evaluate and engage the right candidates with AI – without changing the way they work. Built for modern hiring teams, Talentium works alongside your existing ATS to streamline sourcing, screening and outreach in one connected workflow. Instead of replacing your recruitment process, we help you make better hiring decisions, faster. Our focus isnt hiring more candidates – its identifying the right ones with greater precision and confidence. Whether youre building critical teams, scaling your company or hiring for hard-to-fill roles, Talentium helps recruiters spend less time on repetitive work and more time connecting with exceptional talent. Were building the precision layer for modern hiring.
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