Mike Alfred

Value-oriented investor with a very long term perspective

📍 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United States
15
Total investments
9
Early stage
4
Mid stage
0
Late stage
9y
Years active

Portfolio

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Seed Investor
Sep 2021
Swan is a leading Bitcoin financial services company. The Swan app simplifies Bitcoin purchases with instant and recurring buys. Swan IRA provides a tax-advantaged solution for saving Bitcoin in retirement accounts. For HNWIs and businesses, Swan Private provides white-glove service for large purchases, treasury solutions, and employee Bitcoin benefits. With Swan Vault, clients can easily custody their own Bitcoin with peace of mind. Financial advisors trust Swan Advisor for client Bitcoin allocations, backed by world-class custody and educational content. Swan prides itself on exceptional client service, making #Bitcoin accessible to all. For more information, please visit swan.com.
Series B Investor
Aug 2021
Based in San Francisco, Bitwise is one of the largest and fastest-growing crypto asset managers. The firm is known for managing the world’s largest crypto index fund (OTCQX: BITW) and pioneering products spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, and crypto-focused equity indexes. Bitwise partners with financial advisors and investment professionals to provide quality education and research. The team at Bitwise combines expertise in technology with decades of experience in traditional asset management and indexing, coming from firms including BlackRock, Blackstone, Meta, and Google, as well as the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Bitwise is backed by leading institutional investors and asset management executives, and has been profiled in Institutional Investor, CNBC, Barron’s, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal.
Seed Investor
May 2021
Ritual is a wellbeing platform where leaders in science, faith, and culture share practices that help you feel centered, nourished and purposeful in your daily life. We help you to cultivate grateful living in Daily Gratitude with Alex Elle, deepen your spiritual life in Daily Prayer with Kathleen Cahalan, and much more. Inside the Ritual app, you can use our wellbeing assessment tool to discover your unique needs and start taking small steps towards higher wellbeing. Download the Ritual app on iOS & Android today.
Seed Investor
Dec 2020
Curant provides intelligent and automated payments for freight forwarders and 3PLs. Our platform is purpose-built for global logistics service providers. We offer a secure, white-labeled solution that allows forwarders and 3PLs to bypass expensive payment networks while increasing the customer experience.
Seed Investor
Jul 2020
Amenify is multifamily Proptech company which powers resident lifestyle services for apartment communities. Cleaners, food and grocery delivery, handyman, chores, car washes, pet care, and more are now all part of your properties offerings. Amenitys unique approach to cash credits creates a verifiable and proven approach for operators to create new ancillary income like never before. Operators generate more revenue, residents get credits to use on services, and local small businesses are supported through Amenify. Amenify is now live in over 1.5 million homes/apartments including many of the top 50 PMCs.
Advisor & Seed Investor
Jul 2020
Amenify is multifamily Proptech company which powers resident lifestyle services for apartment communities. Cleaners, food and grocery delivery, handyman, chores, car washes, pet care, and more are now all part of your properties offerings. Amenitys unique approach to cash credits creates a verifiable and proven approach for operators to create new ancillary income like never before. Operators generate more revenue, residents get credits to use on services, and local small businesses are supported through Amenify. Amenify is now live in over 1.5 million homes/apartments including many of the top 50 PMCs.
Investor
Aug 2019
Konvoy is a thesis-driven venture capital firm. We invest in the platforms and technologies at the frontier of gaming. Messages are views of Konvoy and not investment advice or recommendations. May have positions in assets discussed.
Seed Investor
Mar 2019
Headquartered in Roxboro, N.C., Open Book Extracts is a cGMP-certified manufacturer of premium plant-based cannabinoid products, aiming to be the industry’s true north by delivering premium products, exceptional service, and industry-leading transparency. With control of the entire supply chain, a state-of-the-art extraction campus near North Carolina’s Research Triangle, proprietary refinement and conversion methods backed by a growing IP portfolio, and a team of PhD chemists and seasoned business leaders, OBX is the trusted partner for global brands seeking to enter the marketplace. OBX Asia, with its headquarters in Hong Kong, provides strategic guidance and on-the-ground support for our Asia customers. OBX’s cGMP-certified productions operations are led by a seasoned science team, including a PhD food scientist from Cornell, a PhD organic chemist from the University of Nevada, and two masters chemists with pharmaceutical backgrounds, including a quality control director who joined OBX after a 15-year career as an analytical chemist at GlaxoSmithKline. OBX offers one of the largest portfolios of cannabinoid isolates at 99%+ purity, including CBD, CBG, CBN, CBC, and THCV, as well as formulation services and turnkey finished good manufacturing including edibles, softgels, tablets, tinctures, pet products, and topical products.
Seed Investor
Mar 2019
Overview provides deep learning vision systems and a quality workflow platform. We help manufacturers save time and money with automated inspection and streamlined quality control. Manufacturers across industries partner with us to achieve measurable results: 75% reduction in inspection costs, 50% reduction in rework, 100% defect coverage, and 20% reduction in scrap. Why manufacturers choose Overview: Our platform delivers state-of-the-art accuracy with industry-leading ease of use and maintainability. Unlike traditional machine vision, our AI-first architecture is designed for real production environments where conditions change, data is imperfect, and downtime isnt an option. We understand manufacturing because weve lived it. Founded by former senior Tesla manufacturing leaders, our team brings deep expertise from scaling quality systems in the worlds most demanding environments—experience that shaped everything from our rapid deployment capabilities to our tools that handle messy production data. Global reach, dedicated support: With teams across 10 countries, we provide white-glove support wherever you manufacture, from Silicon Valley to major production hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. At Overview, were not just shaping the future of AI—were making it work where it matters most: on your factory floor.
Series A Investor
Aug 2018
Building our next financial system at Core Scientific
Seed Investor
May 2018
A global trading platform for alternative investments.
early stageCapital Markets
Seed Investor
Mar 2018
Incident management that makes your company stronger. Manage, respond, and recover from major outages and incidents as a team with Kintaba: the easiest way to implement modern incident management at your company. Kintaba is the easiest way to implement full lifecycle modern incident management for your entire company. Instant chat, automated event tracking, automated IMOC oncall rotations, included postmortem templates, auto-scheduling, and more. Learn from your incidents with automated post mortem processes and incident knowledge search and recall. On-Calls at Your Call Easy to use IMOC and oncall rotations, one-click paging, automated assignments, and employee directory imports so you can add and manage responders quickly. Instant Collaboration Rich slack-integrated chat and activity logging to bring the right people together and keep stakeholders updated so you can mitigate incidents quickly without the distraction of writing status emails. Postmortems On Autopilot Automated Postmortem creation, distribution, and review scheduling to give your team easy access to critical knowledge after high severity events.
Seed Investor
Dec 2017
HOHM is a custom engineered, highly soundproofed sleeping pod, designed to provide individuals with comfort, privacy, and a quick escape from the hectic environment. Our goal with HOHM is to create a network of sleeping units across the US, that are essentially, wherever you are, and that are bookable via our mobile app. HOHM partners with companies, universities, hospitals, and more to improve the health & well-being of those within these locations. Coming 2018
Advisory Board & Investor
May 2017
Outerbridge Capital Management, LLC is a New York-based investment adviser that typically invests across the technology and technology-impacted sectors. As part of its investment process, Outerbridge regularly conducts significant due diligence on its portfolio companies and engages constructively with both management teams and boards where appropriate.
Investor
May 2017
Outerbridge Capital Management, LLC is a New York-based investment adviser that typically invests across the technology and technology-impacted sectors. As part of its investment process, Outerbridge regularly conducts significant due diligence on its portfolio companies and engages constructively with both management teams and boards where appropriate.
Experience · 19 entries
All (19)
Investments (15)
Founder (3)
2021
Seed Investor
Sep 2021
Swan is a leading Bitcoin financial services company. The Swan app simplifies Bitcoin purchases with instant and recurring buys. Swan IRA provides a tax-advantaged solution for saving Bitcoin in retirement accounts. For HNWIs and businesses, Swan Private provides white-glove service for large purchases, treasury solutions, and employee Bitcoin benefits. With Swan Vault, clients can easily custody their own Bitcoin with peace of mind. Financial advisors trust Swan Advisor for client Bitcoin allocations, backed by world-class custody and educational content. Swan prides itself on exceptional client service, making #Bitcoin accessible to all. For more information, please visit swan.com.
Series B Investor
Aug 2021
Based in San Francisco, Bitwise is one of the largest and fastest-growing crypto asset managers. The firm is known for managing the world’s largest crypto index fund (OTCQX: BITW) and pioneering products spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, and crypto-focused equity indexes. Bitwise partners with financial advisors and investment professionals to provide quality education and research. The team at Bitwise combines expertise in technology with decades of experience in traditional asset management and indexing, coming from firms including BlackRock, Blackstone, Meta, and Google, as well as the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Bitwise is backed by leading institutional investors and asset management executives, and has been profiled in Institutional Investor, CNBC, Barron’s, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal.
Seed Investor
May 2021
Ritual is a wellbeing platform where leaders in science, faith, and culture share practices that help you feel centered, nourished and purposeful in your daily life. We help you to cultivate grateful living in Daily Gratitude with Alex Elle, deepen your spiritual life in Daily Prayer with Kathleen Cahalan, and much more. Inside the Ritual app, you can use our wellbeing assessment tool to discover your unique needs and start taking small steps towards higher wellbeing. Download the Ritual app on iOS & Android today.
2020
Seed Investor
Dec 2020
Curant provides intelligent and automated payments for freight forwarders and 3PLs. Our platform is purpose-built for global logistics service providers. We offer a secure, white-labeled solution that allows forwarders and 3PLs to bypass expensive payment networks while increasing the customer experience.
Seed Investor
Jul 2020
Amenify is multifamily Proptech company which powers resident lifestyle services for apartment communities. Cleaners, food and grocery delivery, handyman, chores, car washes, pet care, and more are now all part of your properties offerings. Amenitys unique approach to cash credits creates a verifiable and proven approach for operators to create new ancillary income like never before. Operators generate more revenue, residents get credits to use on services, and local small businesses are supported through Amenify. Amenify is now live in over 1.5 million homes/apartments including many of the top 50 PMCs.
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