Michael Block

Managing Director/Special Advisor at Adit Ventures, LLC

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2020
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Esme Learning delivers career-transforming online executive education in partnership with leading universities. We are reinventing remote learning by leveraging AI-enabled tools and years of peer-reviewed cognitive and neuroscience research to deliver an immersive and highly applied collaborative learning experience. Digital learning pioneers Beth Porter (edX, Pearson) and David Shrier (Oxford, MIT, Imperial College Business School) founded the company in 2019.
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2020
Board Member
Apr 2020
Esme Learning delivers career-transforming online executive education in partnership with leading universities. We are reinventing remote learning by leveraging AI-enabled tools and years of peer-reviewed cognitive and neuroscience research to deliver an immersive and highly applied collaborative learning experience. Digital learning pioneers Beth Porter (edX, Pearson) and David Shrier (Oxford, MIT, Imperial College Business School) founded the company in 2019.
2019
Managing Director/Special Advisor
Nov 2019
Founded in 2014, Adit Ventures is a venture capital investment firm with over 1000 LPs, $500MM in AUM, and exits in Airbnb, DocSend, GoPro, Lemonade, Lyft, Palantir, RobinHood, Rubrik, SoFi, Spotify, Snap, and Lyft. Adit’s acquires shares in category-leading, high-growth private companies via direct investments in primary rounds or early employees/investors seeking liquidity. Adit’s ability to source and offer these exclusive opportunities to the firm’s investor-partners stems from the global network of relationships the team has developed over their 150+ years of combined investment experience. Adit’s proprietary ten-step investment process identifies high-value investment opportunities in dynamic and sustainable businesses. Adit invests for growth. Adit seeks to capitalize on long-term secular trends and themes in the global economy where we see dynamic areas of growth. Not only does Adit believe these sectors provide the best opportunity for capital appreciation, but also that they enable the firm to make a positive impact on the world by advancing innovation and improving quality of life. Adit is firmly committed to generating a healthy return on our invested capital in alignment with our investors, our goals, and our principles.
2018
Managing Director, Market Strategist
Jun 2018
Third Seven Advisors (TSA) is an independent, private wealth management firm. A Registered Investment Adviser (RIA), TSA adheres to a strict fiduciary responsibility to our clients while providing unbiased, fee-based, objective advice. We are uniquely positioned to offer our advisors and clients a suite of traditional and alternative investment products, which we believe is essential in the current public markets environment. But that’s not what makes us different. Our focus is simple: We are entrepreneurs serving entrepreneurs We can enhance an advisor’s business wherever they are in their lifecycle through The Growth Center We believe in putting “the investments” back in investing What makes us different, is what makes you better. Visit our website for more information: www.thirdsevenadvisors.com Also visit Third Seven Advisors on social media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/11207225/ Twitter: @TSADVISORS
Managing Director, Market Strategist
Jun 2018
Third Seven Capital is a privately owned boutique investment bank and advisory firm, which specializes in providing intellectual and equity capital to early-stage companies not yet ready to approach the institutional market. Our core management team brings over 150 years of financial market experience to our clients and investors across myriad industries ranging from oil/gas, consumer discretionary, technology, healthcare and real estate. Our aim is to bring a high quality investment banking experience to the boutique banking space while providing strategic and operational advice alongside capital investment to our “portfolio companies”. If you are interested in our services then please visit us at www.thirdsevencapital.com.
2010
Phoenix Partners Group
Chief Equities Strategist
2010