Michael Liddell

Technology Executive & Venture Investor | Enterprise Software, Digital Infrastructure & Emerging Technologies | Growth, Capital, & Company Building

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2024
VC🌍 United States
12
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1
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8y
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Seed Investor
Jan 2024
Glacis is a middle-ware protocol for developers to manage cross chain messages/bridging with fine grained controls. It was built to help standardize messaging, avoid vendor lock in and single bridge failures, adding redundancy and fail over in case of outages or issues, retry attempts and access controls.
Investor
Jul 2023
Web3 teams need a better way to track project and asset activity across blockchain networks, wallets and smart contracts to efficiently monitor and respond quickly to market events. At Esprezzo were building tools to do just that. Our vision is to provide elegant interfaces for people to get blockchain, smart contract and NFT data when and where they need it, whether theyre newbies or seasoned Web3 team members. We are a small, nimble and well-funded 100% remote team with team members in San Francisco, Los Angeles Metro, Miami, and Dallas. We are looking for smart, curious people to join us on this exciting journey. Our first product, Dispatch, is a tool for real-time Web3 alerts with an intuitive interface designed for all — no in-depth smart contract development expertise needed.
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Jun 2023
Investor
Feb 2023
Tanssi’s appchain infrastructure protocol is designed to simplify and accelerate the deployment of appchains. By connecting a chain to Tanssi, it is instantly transformed into a modular appchain. This transition grants access to a developer-friendly and permissionless environment, fully stocked with all essential infrastructural components to run a chain right out of the box. Key features include a shared and decentralized network of block producers, ensuring robust security and data retrievability, alongside seamless integrations with vital tools like bridges, wallets, block explorers, RPC endpoints, indexers, oracles, and more. As a result, appchains can be deployed in just minutes—a significant improvement over the typical months-long process. Learn more at tanssi.network.
Board Member
Jan 2023
Detroit based esports and content creation organization.
Board Member and Investor
Mar 2022
NorthStar is a comprehensive, next generation, virtual alcohol and substance use rehab program. Our compassionate program removes barriers to treatment including judgment and stigma. Our scientific and medical approach dramatically improves clinical outcomes. Current available treatment options are not medically focused, nor evidence based and have not evolved in over 70 years. Using advanced technologies including Virtual Reality (VR), Telehealth, data science, and genetics, NorthStar provides a completely private home treatment experience for patients suffering with Alcohol Use Disorder. Our anonymous avatar-based VR peer groups empower people with similar experiences to connect in a truly open and authentic manner.
Investor
Jan 2022
Founded on the principle of democratizing access—first to music in 1999, now to creative expertise in 2025—Napster has consistently been at the forefront of transformational technology shifts that expand markets and empower users. The company’s latest platform turns passive consumers into active creators, providing the interface layer between foundation AI models and human creativity. For more information, visit napster.com.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Jambb is a digital comedy collectibles startup on a mission to serve collectors by unlocking the value of novel content and empowering users to own cultural moments with utility and exclusivity akin to physical collectibles. Jambb enables fans to acquire and share epic moments in the form of their favorite jokes, bits, sets, specials, and memorabilia, while allowing comedians to reach new types of fans, create additional revenue streams from their content, and benefit from open secondary markets—a mechanism unique to NFTs that is rarely, if ever, seen in entertainment. Jambb is tying comedy to NFTs by using cutting-edge technology to create sustainable entertainment that can uniquely identify owners and help fans acquire epic cultural moments. Historically, NFTs have lacked utility and underlying value. Jambb is changing that paradigm by providing true ownership to collectors, who can rent access to other fans via the Jambb platform, stitch together their own comedy show, or employ a whole host of other options. Jambb collectibles can be found on Flow, the blockchain behind NBA Top Shot, GigLabs, Eternal, and other major NFT players.
Seed Investor
Jan 2019
The PureStake founding team has been building infrastructure and networks for 20 years. Our core values include putting the security and reliability of our services first (which means that features, sometimes have to come second). We are a team of serial entrepreneurs that have led multiple successful technology startups in the SaaS and cloud markets.
Seed Investor
Jan 2018
We are the builders of Algorand, the high performance Layer-1 blockchain. Let us unlock the power of Algorand for you.
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2024
Seed Investor
Jan 2024
Glacis is a middle-ware protocol for developers to manage cross chain messages/bridging with fine grained controls. It was built to help standardize messaging, avoid vendor lock in and single bridge failures, adding redundancy and fail over in case of outages or issues, retry attempts and access controls.
2023
Investor
Jul 2023
Web3 teams need a better way to track project and asset activity across blockchain networks, wallets and smart contracts to efficiently monitor and respond quickly to market events. At Esprezzo were building tools to do just that. Our vision is to provide elegant interfaces for people to get blockchain, smart contract and NFT data when and where they need it, whether theyre newbies or seasoned Web3 team members. We are a small, nimble and well-funded 100% remote team with team members in San Francisco, Los Angeles Metro, Miami, and Dallas. We are looking for smart, curious people to join us on this exciting journey. Our first product, Dispatch, is a tool for real-time Web3 alerts with an intuitive interface designed for all — no in-depth smart contract development expertise needed.
Investor
Jun 2023
Investor
Feb 2023
Tanssi’s appchain infrastructure protocol is designed to simplify and accelerate the deployment of appchains. By connecting a chain to Tanssi, it is instantly transformed into a modular appchain. This transition grants access to a developer-friendly and permissionless environment, fully stocked with all essential infrastructural components to run a chain right out of the box. Key features include a shared and decentralized network of block producers, ensuring robust security and data retrievability, alongside seamless integrations with vital tools like bridges, wallets, block explorers, RPC endpoints, indexers, oracles, and more. As a result, appchains can be deployed in just minutes—a significant improvement over the typical months-long process. Learn more at tanssi.network.
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