Michael Skok

Founding Partner at Underscore VC, Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 22 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2017𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Lead Investor, Board Member
Sep 2017
At Moltin, we believe that brand experiences should never be obscured by technology and that commerce development should be simple, lightweight and fun. Moltin is an API-first digital commerce solution that enables retailers to build distinctive shopping experiences and embed them into any consumer touchpoint. It combines an extremely flexible set of APIs, developer toolkits, pre-built applications and cloud infrastructure to make commerce development simple, lightweight and fast. Moltin APIs are the simplest, most powerful in the industry. Retailers can test new channels quickly, scale into new markets, and keep pace with ever-evolving consumer trends. With Moltin, commerce flows seamlessly across any channel, device and experience. Moltin has a rapidly growing community of more than 17,000 developers around the world, pushing the boundaries of traditional commerce.
Investor, Board Member
2016
B2C marketers today are constrained by the gap that exists between data and marketing systems. Zaius’ B2C CRM eliminates that gap by bringing customer data and campaign execution together in a single platform, empowering marketers to engineer the repeat purchase. With complete control of customer data for segmentation and analysis, marketers can better understand shopping behaviors and deliver truly personalized campaigns across channels, at scale and with speed. If you can dream it, you can do it with Zaius. Zaius is backed by Matrix Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Underscore VC, and Leaders Fund.
Lead Investor and Board Member
2016
Mautic is the worlds only open marketing cloud. Recently acquired by Acquia, Mautic expands Acquias vision to form an alternative to expensive, closed, stagnant marketing clouds and offer the industrys first Open Digital Experience Platform. Customers can now automate, personalize, and measure the entire customer lifecycle – across every channel, at every stage, and at every interaction.
Co-Lead Investor and Board Member
Jul 2013
In today’s world of always-on online consumption and commerce, consumers are demanding what they want, when they want it. Salsify empowers brand manufacturers, distributors and retailers to win on the digital shelf. Salsifys Product Experience Management platform combines PIM, Syndication and Automation with core commerce capabilities designed to enable sales both across retailer/distributor channels as well as marketplaces, social commerce, and direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites. The worlds biggest brands including Mars, LOréal, Coca-Cola and Bosch use Salsify every day to stand out on the digital shelf. To learn more about Salsify, visit www.salsify.com To join our team, visit www.salsify.com/careers To subscribe to our blog visit blog.salsify.com
Co-Lead investor and Board Member
2011
Apperian App Management is a product of Arxan, the global trusted leader of application protection solutions, delivers the confidence to build, deploy, and manage an organization’s most innovative and valuable applications. Apperian is the leading enterprise-class mobile application management (MAM®) and security platform for the delivery of critical apps to 100% of users across an organization. Apperian provides fine-grained security and dynamic policy controls at the individual app level for deployments where mobile device management approaches are not possible or desired, such as BYOD, contract workers and other unmanaged devices. Learn more at: https://www.arxan.com/apperian
Lead Investor and Board Member
2008
Acquia empowers ambitious digital innovators to craft the most productive, frictionless digital experiences that make a difference to their customers, employees, and communities. We provide the worlds leading open digital experience platform (DXP), built on open source Drupal, as part of our commitment to shaping a digital future that is safe, accessible, and available to all. With Acquia DXP, you can unlock the potential of your customer data and content, accelerating time to market and increasing engagement, conversion, and revenue.
Board Member and Investor
2008
Unidesk is the management platform for Windows app mobility. Our layering technology separates Windows apps from infrastructure so they can be managed once and delivered from any end user computing solution, on any cloud, to any device. VDI, session, cloud, on-premises, or hybrid – Unidesk makes application lifecycle management easy for IT. For more information, visit www.unidesk.com.
Co-Lead Investor and Board Member
2004
The future of business is CRM + AI + Data + Trust. Maximize revenue now with Commerce Cloud.
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2017
Lead Investor, Board Member
Sep 2017
At Moltin, we believe that brand experiences should never be obscured by technology and that commerce development should be simple, lightweight and fun. Moltin is an API-first digital commerce solution that enables retailers to build distinctive shopping experiences and embed them into any consumer touchpoint. It combines an extremely flexible set of APIs, developer toolkits, pre-built applications and cloud infrastructure to make commerce development simple, lightweight and fast. Moltin APIs are the simplest, most powerful in the industry. Retailers can test new channels quickly, scale into new markets, and keep pace with ever-evolving consumer trends. With Moltin, commerce flows seamlessly across any channel, device and experience. Moltin has a rapidly growing community of more than 17,000 developers around the world, pushing the boundaries of traditional commerce.
2016
Investor, Board Member
2016
B2C marketers today are constrained by the gap that exists between data and marketing systems. Zaius’ B2C CRM eliminates that gap by bringing customer data and campaign execution together in a single platform, empowering marketers to engineer the repeat purchase. With complete control of customer data for segmentation and analysis, marketers can better understand shopping behaviors and deliver truly personalized campaigns across channels, at scale and with speed. If you can dream it, you can do it with Zaius. Zaius is backed by Matrix Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Underscore VC, and Leaders Fund.
Lead Investor and Board Member
2016
Mautic is the worlds only open marketing cloud. Recently acquired by Acquia, Mautic expands Acquias vision to form an alternative to expensive, closed, stagnant marketing clouds and offer the industrys first Open Digital Experience Platform. Customers can now automate, personalize, and measure the entire customer lifecycle – across every channel, at every stage, and at every interaction.
2015
Founding Partner
Sep 2015
Underscore VC is a Boston-based venture capital firm backing bold B2B software entrepreneurs at pre-Seed and Seed. Inspired by the principles of open source software — community, collaboration, and transparency — Underscore pioneered an “open source” investing model, sharing investment returns with a vibrant, curated, expert ecosystem — the Underscore Core Community​ — that sources and supports the startups Underscore backs. Learn more: https://underscore.vc/.
2013
Co-Lead Investor and Board Member
Jul 2013
In today’s world of always-on online consumption and commerce, consumers are demanding what they want, when they want it. Salsify empowers brand manufacturers, distributors and retailers to win on the digital shelf. Salsifys Product Experience Management platform combines PIM, Syndication and Automation with core commerce capabilities designed to enable sales both across retailer/distributor channels as well as marketplaces, social commerce, and direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites. The worlds biggest brands including Mars, LOréal, Coca-Cola and Bosch use Salsify every day to stand out on the digital shelf. To learn more about Salsify, visit www.salsify.com To join our team, visit www.salsify.com/careers To subscribe to our blog visit blog.salsify.com
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