Michael Abbott

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📍 Menlo Park, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 31 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Nov 2025
Amp Z is a power-first digital infrastructure platform purpose-built for the AI era. Built on an integrated, power-first approach, we bring together land, energy, and AI-ready data center infrastructure to deliver deployment-ready compute capacity at scale. The Company was launched in 2023 by Amp Energy, a 17-year global renewables platform that has deployed more than $5B across 14 GW of clean energy assets.  Amp Z represents the evolution of this proven global energy platform —  now focused on building the energy backbone of the AI economy.
Board Member
Sep 2025
Agtonomy is an AI and software services company specializing in intelligent automation for agriculture, turf, and beyond. Through partnerships with leading equipment manufacturers, Agtonomys platform is embedded into industrial machinery to enable automation in complex, real-world environments. Its platform boosts efficiency, safety, and sustainability, while allowing operators to retain command over every task.
Board Member
Jun 2024
webAI helps enterprises build, deploy, and operate custom AI on infrastructure they own, not in someone else’s cloud. Built for mission-critical environments, webAI brings AI to your data so organizations can run private, specialized models with full data sovereignty, real-time performance, and predictable economics. From public sector and defense to aviation and manufacturing, organizations that require the most private AI platform choose webAI to move from experimentation to production faster, owning their intelligence instead of renting it.
Board Member
Jan 2024
Headquartered in London, we are proud to serve small, local businesses across Europe. We build tools to unlock hassle-free payments and better business management so local businesses can thrive. Our all-in-one offering is designed to simplify the every day in business, all on fair and transparent terms. Join us in creating solutions that small, local businesses deserve.
Board Observer
Nov 2023
Cruise is building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles. Since our 2013 founding in San Francisco, we have hired over 1,600 talented individuals and opened additional offices in greater Seattle, Pasadena, Phoenix and Munich. We have raised $10B from General Motors, Honda, Microsoft, SoftBank, T. Rowe Price, Walmart and others. Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale, building all-electric, zero-emission, self-driving vehicles that will help save lives, reimagine cities, reduce carbon pollution, redefine time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for individuals who live in dense urban settings. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving vehicles, join us. getcruise.com/careers.
Board Member
Aug 2015
Mobcrush is a technology and entertainment company focused on live streaming and the creator-driven media revolution. Founded in 2014 in Santa Monica, CA, the thirty-person company has raised $35.9M in venture funding from prominent firms including Evolution Media, KPCB, First Round Capital, Raine Ventures, and Lowercase Capital. Visit https://www.mobcrush.com/about to learn more about Mobcrush, or visit our careers page at mobcrush.com/careers.
Board Member
Jul 2015
For app-first companies, Leanplum is the only solution that helps personalize and optimize all customer touchpoints, both inside and outside the app. Founded in San Francisco, Leanplum has offices across North America, Europe, and Asia, and has received more than $125 Million in funding from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Leanplum has also been recognized as one of Fortunes Best Companies to Work For and Entrepreneurs Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America. Learn more at www.leanplum.com.
Board Member
May 2015
Cal Poly Foundation is a higher education company based out of Bldg 15, San Luis Obispo, California, United States.
Board Member
Apr 2015
AppOrbit is Modern Application Management Made Simple. AppOrbit is a Modern Application Platform that automates modernization and management of applications, their data, and security to address the top challenges facing enterprise IT. Founded in 2014, with backing from Kleiner Perkins and Costanoa Ventures, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California. Satisfied customers include Airtel, Autodesk, Annaly Capital, Ericsson, and Prospect Medical Holdings.
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Jul 2014
Snap is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.
Board Member
Jun 2014
Airware is the leading enterprise drone analytics company helping enterprises leverage today’s rapidly advancing technologies (such as drones, cloud computing, machine learning and more) to safely see and sense their sites and structures to improve productivity, mitigate risks, and take workers out of harm’s way. Effective Friday, September 14th Airware has ceased operations: https://www.airware.com/en/blog/thank-you-farewell/
Board Member
Apr 2014
Plex streams thousands of movies and TV shows from filmmakers around the globe. From Bollywood to Hollywood, Cannes to Japan. Classics. Animation. Family-friendly content. Documentaries. Musicals. There’s something for everyone. Save your place on your phone and continue on your TV — Plex works across all devices. Along with streaming content, Plex gives you instant access to all of your media collections—your home videos, photos, music, TV shows, and movies—so you can quickly find and stream what you want to any device, any time. You can also DVR over-the-air content and stream it to virtually any device, as well as watch Live TV on certain clients. Platforms include Macs, PCs, smartphones, tablets, Xbox and PlayStation gaming consoles, Smart TVs, Roku, Chromecast, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, NVIDIA SHIELD, and more. Whether it’s your movie collection, your DVR-ed TV, or your music library, Plex makes your media look beautiful by automatically adding movie posters, plot summaries, cover art, and descriptions. Plex also allows you to share it all with your friends and family, no matter where they are. Plex Pass, our premium offering, gives users the very best features of Plex. From the ability to sync media to your mobile device, to running your Plex Media Server in the cloud, to recording over-the-air content with Plex DVR, Plex Pass makes the whole experience the most awesome it can be.
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Jul 2013
BizEquitys valuation software allows financial professionals to generate accurate, on-the-spot business valuations and business insights for their clients. Financial advisors, accountants, business coaches, insurance agents, and bankers use BizEquity’s cloud-based platform to deliver greater value to their clients, differentiate their services, generate additional revenue streams, and connect with prospective clients. What was traditionally an expensive, time-intensive, and invasive process, has now been streamlined and significantly reduced in cost by BizEquitys software. Developed and supported by valuation experts with first-hand experience, BizEquity is works with over 850 leading professional advisory firms in the US, Europe, and Asia. Their patented software is distributed through leading financial services firms such as TD Bank; UBS; PNC; Northwestern Mutual; Equitable; Goldman Sachs, and over 750 other financial services firms and over 4,000 advisors. BizEquity was acquired by ACBJ in 2019 and now is able to provide financial services firms support to better reach business owner clients to help them discover their worth. Visit our site at www.BizEquity.com Or request a Demo at https://www.bizequity.com/demo
Board Member
Jul 2013
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering offers its 2,400 undergraduate students more than 30 majors and areas of emphasis, and provides its 4,200 graduate students with advanced studies in more than 25 fields. The Viterbi School is one of the nation's leading engineering institutions in the fields of aerospace, astronautics & space technology, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer science & computer engineering, electrical, environmental, industrial & systems, materials science, mechanical engineering, and systems architecting & engineering. Did you know? The U.S. News and World Report ranks USC Viterbi in the top 10 in this year's Best Graduate School Rankings. USC Viterbi ranked #1 in the U.S. News and World Report 2013 rankings: Online Graduate Engineering Programs and Online Computer Information Technology Programs. USC Viterbi's Online Engineering Management degree is ranked #2 in the nation by SuperScholar’s Best Online Schools for Engineering Management Degrees. USC Games was named #1 video games program by The Princeton Review for the 4th year. USC CS is ranked in the top 10 on Microsoft academic research rankings in Computer Science.
Board Member
Dec 2012
ClearStory Data is transforming enterprise-scale business analytics via AI and machine automation so companies can empower their business users and business leaders to speed insights and discover more from their disparate data assets for material business impact. Clearstory is uniquely differentiated with modern capabilities across data prep via Data Inference, automated Intelligent Data Harmonization™, Instant Data Discovery, Auto-discovery of Business Insights in Collaborative StoryBoards™. Clearstory Data also is a pioneer in leveraging Apache Spark-based data processing to speed insights from large and complex data sources. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with offices across North America and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, DAG Ventures, Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). Visit www.clearstorydata.com and follow us on Twitter @ClearStoryData.
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Board Member
Nov 2025
Amp Z is a power-first digital infrastructure platform purpose-built for the AI era. Built on an integrated, power-first approach, we bring together land, energy, and AI-ready data center infrastructure to deliver deployment-ready compute capacity at scale. The Company was launched in 2023 by Amp Energy, a 17-year global renewables platform that has deployed more than $5B across 14 GW of clean energy assets.  Amp Z represents the evolution of this proven global energy platform —  now focused on building the energy backbone of the AI economy.
Board Member
Sep 2025
Agtonomy is an AI and software services company specializing in intelligent automation for agriculture, turf, and beyond. Through partnerships with leading equipment manufacturers, Agtonomys platform is embedded into industrial machinery to enable automation in complex, real-world environments. Its platform boosts efficiency, safety, and sustainability, while allowing operators to retain command over every task.
Board Member
Jan 2025
We provide high-end technical and professional services for the entire lifecycle of data centers. With a commitment to quality, precision, innovation, technology, and sustainability, we empower people and the industry’s ecosystem. Our goal is to transform data center operations worldwide through greater efficiencies, sharing knowledge, realizing demonstrable value, and by building long-term relationships. Delivering sustainable outcomes – it starts and ends with us.
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Oct 2024
We are Thorn. Our mission of defending children from sexual exploitation and abuse is deeply embedded within our core—a shared code that drives us to do challenging work with resilience and determination. Here, you’ll work among the best hearts and minds in tech, data, and business, creating powerful products that protect children’s futures. Unleash your own formidable talents while learning among peers and growing every day. All in a supportive environment of wellness, care, and compassion. Build your career as we help build a world where every child can be safe, curious, and happy.
Board Member
Jun 2024
webAI helps enterprises build, deploy, and operate custom AI on infrastructure they own, not in someone else’s cloud. Built for mission-critical environments, webAI brings AI to your data so organizations can run private, specialized models with full data sovereignty, real-time performance, and predictable economics. From public sector and defense to aviation and manufacturing, organizations that require the most private AI platform choose webAI to move from experimentation to production faster, owning their intelligence instead of renting it.
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