Michael Self

Investing in a rapidly changing world with founders that are relentless in changing the world rapidly

📍 Seattle, Washington, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2021
Operator-angel🌍 United States
10
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7
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1
Mid stage
1
Late stage
10y
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Board Member/Investor
Aug 2021
We make it easy to shop small and independent brands.
Board Member
Apr 2021
Landlord Tech offers products focused on solving problems for property managers and owners through technology and automation. Our mission is to provide digital tools to residential real estate owners and property managers that make a real difference to their business. Landlord Techs flagship product, OurPetPolicy, delivers a comprehensive solution for owners to manage tenants with pets, emotional support animals, service animals, and more. In addition, OurPetPolicy provides technology to reduce fraudulent emotional and service animal requests in an effort to address the growing challenges property management is facing.
Board Member/Investor
Jan 2021
Karus is an AI-powered end-to-end auto finance platform that streamlines the consumer auto loan process for dealers, originators, and lenders. The platform uses machine learning algorithms to analyze borrower data and assess creditworthiness, reducing the time and effort required to approve loans at the point-of-sale. Karus also provides lenders with real-time portfolio monitoring and risk management tools to mitigate credit risk and optimize portfolio performance. By automating the entire loan process from origination through to portfolio management, Karus aims to make consumer auto financing faster, more efficient, and more accessible for both borrowers and lenders.
Board Member
Aug 2019
PlexTrac, the market leader in pentest reporting and management, allows MSSP and Enterprise customers to extend beyond pentesting by streamlining critical offensive security workflows as part of a continuous validation strategy. With PlexTrac, security teams can aggregate offensive security data from multiple sources, prioritize risk with the industry’s first fully configurable contextual scoring engine, and close the loop on continuous validation with measurable risk reduction.
Board Member
Mar 2019
Powering New Possibilities with Multi-Brand Restaurant Tech
Board Member
Jul 2018
TEAL’s Network Orchestration Service (NOS) and patented, GSMA certified eSIM technology connects any compatible device onto any data network worldwide. With more built-in network operator integrations than any other platform provider, TEAL gives businesses everywhere the flexibility and control to remotely deploy and switch between networks, ensuring the highest level of reliability and performance for any mission critical solution. TEAL supports customers across many industries including fleet management, robotics, AI, BVLOS drones, industrial IoT, healthcare, EV infrastructure, agriculture, railways, smart city infrastructure, and energy. We believe in a world where you should be in control of your connectivity and with TEAL you gain the freedom to choose which networks your devices connect to. This saves companies time and money while delivering all the advantages of lightning-fast connectivity. TEAL has been named the fastest-growing company in Washington State and the Seattle-Metro area, and we’re ranked 122nd nationally on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list! With a staggering 2,961% revenue growth over the past three years, we’ve also claimed the title of the 9th fastest-growing software company in the United States.
Co-Founder, Board Member
Jan 2018
With customers in seven countries around the world and counting, Plotify is the world’s first global, end-to-end technology-focused real estate asset manager and platform. Plotify allows sophisticated investors and family offices from anywhere in the world to instantaneously build and optimize a customized portfolio of directly and wholly owned, income-generating real estate assets with speed, precision and economies of scale, starting with Single Family Rentals in the USA and UK.
early stageReal Estate
Board Member
Dec 2017
Stylish serviced apartments for your next weekend away.
early stageReal Estate
Board Member
May 2017
Ovation is a leading provider of genomic data for the life sciences industry. We are dedicated to supporting the advancement of precision medicine and offer access to a wide range of high-quality, consented genomic data linked to diverse, longitudinal phenotypic data at scale. Our data allows researchers to identify and validate biomarkers, discover new targets and understand resistance mechanisms in various populations. Our cloud-based LIMS system allows clinical labs to easily adopt innovative molecular tests, while also transforming samples into valuable research-grade data across various disease areas. Learn more at www.ovation.io.
Board Member
Jun 2016
CMG is a financial technology firm that is modernizing the equity capital markets. CMG’s platform connects sell-side firms and the buy side to provide workflow efficiencies throughout the entire ECM offering process. CMG helps clients make more timely, better-informed decisions with data intelligence solutions that provide real-time offering information, historical data and a single system of record for firm-wide deal activity and compliance. Launched in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, the CMG platform is currently relied on by 25 investment banks and 135 asset managers representing over $40 trillion in AUM.
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2021
Board Member/Investor
Aug 2021
We make it easy to shop small and independent brands.
Board Member
Apr 2021
Landlord Tech offers products focused on solving problems for property managers and owners through technology and automation. Our mission is to provide digital tools to residential real estate owners and property managers that make a real difference to their business. Landlord Techs flagship product, OurPetPolicy, delivers a comprehensive solution for owners to manage tenants with pets, emotional support animals, service animals, and more. In addition, OurPetPolicy provides technology to reduce fraudulent emotional and service animal requests in an effort to address the growing challenges property management is facing.
Board Member/Investor
Jan 2021
Karus is an AI-powered end-to-end auto finance platform that streamlines the consumer auto loan process for dealers, originators, and lenders. The platform uses machine learning algorithms to analyze borrower data and assess creditworthiness, reducing the time and effort required to approve loans at the point-of-sale. Karus also provides lenders with real-time portfolio monitoring and risk management tools to mitigate credit risk and optimize portfolio performance. By automating the entire loan process from origination through to portfolio management, Karus aims to make consumer auto financing faster, more efficient, and more accessible for both borrowers and lenders.
2019
Board Member
Aug 2019
PlexTrac, the market leader in pentest reporting and management, allows MSSP and Enterprise customers to extend beyond pentesting by streamlining critical offensive security workflows as part of a continuous validation strategy. With PlexTrac, security teams can aggregate offensive security data from multiple sources, prioritize risk with the industry’s first fully configurable contextual scoring engine, and close the loop on continuous validation with measurable risk reduction.
Board Member
Mar 2019
Powering New Possibilities with Multi-Brand Restaurant Tech
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