Michael Barreiro

Engineering Leader and Investor | Former One | Former Azlo | Former SkySlope

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
Operator-angel🌍 United States
6
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4y
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Portfolio

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Investor
Jan 2024
We’re on a mission to help organizations fight back against fraud actors. What sets us apart is our team of fraud experts with over 150 combined years of experience in the fraud-fighting trenches. Weve taken that hard-won expertise and built it directly into TrackLights intelligent and automated solutions. Fraud is a sophisticated problem that requires modern tools and solutions. We’ve flipped the game board on fraud prevention by: Getting proactive – identifying potential fraud before payments are issued, not after. Incorporating unstructured data – our game-changing ability to analyze open-source intelligence exponentially increases fraud detected. Leveraging AI – accelerating analysis, synthesizing data into summaries of fraud risk, and providing tailored recommendations to users. With Ray, your AI Co-Pilot, fraud prevention becomes effortless. Ray shines a light on potential fraud, allowing you to navigate complex data with ease. No longer do you have to choose between doing your job efficiently and preventing fraud. TrackLight seamlessly integrates into your existing workflows, providing fraud guidance while you focus on your core operations. Join our mission to modernize fraud-fighting. Follow us for insights shaping the fraud prevention industry, innovative thinking around the path to less fraud and more information on culture and careers at TrackLight.
Investor
2023
Ferret is an AI platform architected from the ground up to empower companies and individuals with real-time, unbiased intelligence to identify risks and embrace opportunities. Leveraging cutting-edge AI and more than hundreds of thousands of global data sources, Ferret provides information — once only available to the financial industry — to all types of professionals, from angel investors to business leaders, making transparency the new norm. Co-founded by serial entrepreneur Rob Loughan and technologist Al MacDonald, Ferret is headquartered in the Los Angeles area with offices in Santa Monica, California and Melbourne, Australia.
Investor
2023
Doing for the Creator Economy what Google AdWords did for search
Investor
2023
Azra Games believes that the childhood experience of bashing, smashing, and storytelling with your favorite toys in unhinged and imaginative play is the purest form of gaming. We are on a mission to recapture that freedom for the modern era with kickass collectibles and combat RPGs powered by Web3 technology. LFG! We are both gamers and crypto natives. Founded by virtuoso game designer Mark Otero, best known for Electronic Arts’ top grossing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, serial-preneur Sonny Mayugba (COO) and crypto degen Travis Boudreaux (CTO), Azra Games is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and NFX. Mark Otero is joined by an insanely stacked dev team. Game credits include franchises such as Star Wars, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Marvel, Battlefield, Assassin’s Creed and more. That said, we build to our strengths. Our first game, LEGIONS & LEGENDS, will be Mark’s ninth collectibles and combat RPG.
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2022
Urban Catalyst is a premier real estate firm specializing in private equity placement into both ground-up development projects and income-producing properties. As both a fund manager and developer, Urban Catalyst boasts extensive experience in ground-up development. Its fund portfolio includes tax-advantaged Opportunity Zone funds and a traditional real estate private equity fund. Urban Catalysts Opportunity Zone Fund, centered in downtown San Jose, California, ranked in the top 4% of all 2023 tracked Opportunity Zone fund sponsors, according to the research firm Novogradac. Additionally, Forbes named it one of the top ten Opportunity Zone funds. Urban Catalyst was also recognized as the 2024 Developer of the Year by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
mid stageReal Estate
Investor
2022
We back early-stage founders who turn bold ideas into breakout companies. Over the past three years, Fund I has supported over 70 startups — not just with capital, but with the grit, clarity, and commitment it takes to engineer real wins across Big Data, Cloud, B2B SaaS, AI, and more. Now we’re gearing up for Fund II, launching in Q4 2025. Alongside direct investments in exceptional founders, Fund II will introduce a new layer of value: our in-house venture studio — designed to build from zero and co-create the next wave of transformational startups. More to come. But the mission remains the same: to help ambitious founders go faster, further — and win. Let’s build what’s next.
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2024
Investor
Jan 2024
We’re on a mission to help organizations fight back against fraud actors. What sets us apart is our team of fraud experts with over 150 combined years of experience in the fraud-fighting trenches. Weve taken that hard-won expertise and built it directly into TrackLights intelligent and automated solutions. Fraud is a sophisticated problem that requires modern tools and solutions. We’ve flipped the game board on fraud prevention by: Getting proactive – identifying potential fraud before payments are issued, not after. Incorporating unstructured data – our game-changing ability to analyze open-source intelligence exponentially increases fraud detected. Leveraging AI – accelerating analysis, synthesizing data into summaries of fraud risk, and providing tailored recommendations to users. With Ray, your AI Co-Pilot, fraud prevention becomes effortless. Ray shines a light on potential fraud, allowing you to navigate complex data with ease. No longer do you have to choose between doing your job efficiently and preventing fraud. TrackLight seamlessly integrates into your existing workflows, providing fraud guidance while you focus on your core operations. Join our mission to modernize fraud-fighting. Follow us for insights shaping the fraud prevention industry, innovative thinking around the path to less fraud and more information on culture and careers at TrackLight.
2023
Investor
2023
Ferret is an AI platform architected from the ground up to empower companies and individuals with real-time, unbiased intelligence to identify risks and embrace opportunities. Leveraging cutting-edge AI and more than hundreds of thousands of global data sources, Ferret provides information — once only available to the financial industry — to all types of professionals, from angel investors to business leaders, making transparency the new norm. Co-founded by serial entrepreneur Rob Loughan and technologist Al MacDonald, Ferret is headquartered in the Los Angeles area with offices in Santa Monica, California and Melbourne, Australia.
Investor
2023
Doing for the Creator Economy what Google AdWords did for search
Investor
2023
Azra Games believes that the childhood experience of bashing, smashing, and storytelling with your favorite toys in unhinged and imaginative play is the purest form of gaming. We are on a mission to recapture that freedom for the modern era with kickass collectibles and combat RPGs powered by Web3 technology. LFG! We are both gamers and crypto natives. Founded by virtuoso game designer Mark Otero, best known for Electronic Arts’ top grossing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, serial-preneur Sonny Mayugba (COO) and crypto degen Travis Boudreaux (CTO), Azra Games is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and NFX. Mark Otero is joined by an insanely stacked dev team. Game credits include franchises such as Star Wars, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Marvel, Battlefield, Assassin’s Creed and more. That said, we build to our strengths. Our first game, LEGIONS & LEGENDS, will be Mark’s ninth collectibles and combat RPG.
2022
Investor
2022
Urban Catalyst is a premier real estate firm specializing in private equity placement into both ground-up development projects and income-producing properties. As both a fund manager and developer, Urban Catalyst boasts extensive experience in ground-up development. Its fund portfolio includes tax-advantaged Opportunity Zone funds and a traditional real estate private equity fund. Urban Catalysts Opportunity Zone Fund, centered in downtown San Jose, California, ranked in the top 4% of all 2023 tracked Opportunity Zone fund sponsors, according to the research firm Novogradac. Additionally, Forbes named it one of the top ten Opportunity Zone funds. Urban Catalyst was also recognized as the 2024 Developer of the Year by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
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