Michael Colonnese

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📍 Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
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Feb 2026
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
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Aug 2022
Instant live customer conversations! Empower your inside sales team by automating the hardest parts of outbound calling. Orum leverages AI to detect voicemails, filter out bad numbers, and navigate phone directories to get your reps into live conversations quickly. Orum allows for calling multiple numbers in parallel, automatically marking dispositions and call outcomes in your CRM and most importantly, helping you speak with more of your prospective clients. We plug right in with Salesforce, Outreach and SalesLoft. With Orum, theres no more waiting for Voicemails, manual dialing or fumbling for your account research. We bring all the research you need in front of your reps and connect you with your target clients instantly!
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May 2019
Carta powers interconnectivity in private markets — uniting data, people, and workflows in one connected system. We connect founders, investors, and limited partners through software purpose-built for private capital. Trusted by 50,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence. Carta’s Fund Administration platform supports 8,500+ funds and SPVs, representing nearly $185B in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Carta has been included on the Fortune Best Large Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance and Best Workplaces in the Bay Area lists, Forbes’ list of the Worlds Best Cloud Companies, Fast Companys Most Innovative list, Inc.s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list, and is certified as a Great Place to Work for 2025-2026 (3 years running!). For more information, visit carta.com.
Investor and Advisor
2019
HR DataHub is an intelligence platform that helps HR professionals access data-led insights to better understand how the HR world is moving around them. We collect HR data straight from organisations in all sectors and use that to provide reliable market analysis so that organisations can benchmark themselves against others, safely and confidentially. We cover all the HR topics under one roof: Reward, Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Relations, Recruitment, Engagement, Talent, Learning & Development, HR Efficiency, Benefits and Pay Gaps.
Investor and Advisor
2019
HR DataHub is an intelligence platform that helps HR professionals access data-led insights to better understand how the HR world is moving around them. We collect HR data straight from organisations in all sectors and use that to provide reliable market analysis so that organisations can benchmark themselves against others, safely and confidentially. We cover all the HR topics under one roof: Reward, Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Relations, Recruitment, Engagement, Talent, Learning & Development, HR Efficiency, Benefits and Pay Gaps.
Experience · 9 entries
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2026
Investor
Feb 2026
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
2022
Investor
Aug 2022
Instant live customer conversations! Empower your inside sales team by automating the hardest parts of outbound calling. Orum leverages AI to detect voicemails, filter out bad numbers, and navigate phone directories to get your reps into live conversations quickly. Orum allows for calling multiple numbers in parallel, automatically marking dispositions and call outcomes in your CRM and most importantly, helping you speak with more of your prospective clients. We plug right in with Salesforce, Outreach and SalesLoft. With Orum, theres no more waiting for Voicemails, manual dialing or fumbling for your account research. We bring all the research you need in front of your reps and connect you with your target clients instantly!
2019
Investor
May 2019
Carta powers interconnectivity in private markets — uniting data, people, and workflows in one connected system. We connect founders, investors, and limited partners through software purpose-built for private capital. Trusted by 50,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence. Carta’s Fund Administration platform supports 8,500+ funds and SPVs, representing nearly $185B in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Carta has been included on the Fortune Best Large Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance and Best Workplaces in the Bay Area lists, Forbes’ list of the Worlds Best Cloud Companies, Fast Companys Most Innovative list, Inc.s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list, and is certified as a Great Place to Work for 2025-2026 (3 years running!). For more information, visit carta.com.
Investor and Advisor
2019
HR DataHub is an intelligence platform that helps HR professionals access data-led insights to better understand how the HR world is moving around them. We collect HR data straight from organisations in all sectors and use that to provide reliable market analysis so that organisations can benchmark themselves against others, safely and confidentially. We cover all the HR topics under one roof: Reward, Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Relations, Recruitment, Engagement, Talent, Learning & Development, HR Efficiency, Benefits and Pay Gaps.
Partner
2019
Cabot Global Investments is a micro venture capital fund focused exclusively on the HR technology sector. We back exceptional HR Technology entrepreneurs with big visions by providing capital, access to our network, and expert mentors to help grow scalable businesses. Our portfolio companies benefit from our hands-on involvement in all stages of development, leveraging our industry relationships and expertise to help grow great companies and build great products.
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