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Michael Mignano

Investor at Lightspeed Ventures

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Michael Mignano is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, having previously served as the Co-Founder and CEO of Anchor. His notable career highlights include leading successful investments in companies like Particle.News, Tome, and Universe, and holding key roles at Spotify and Adobe. With a background in digital production and product development, Michael Mignano has made significant contributions to the tech industry through his leadership at Anchor, successful investments at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and advisory roles at companies like Spotify and Adobe.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2022 - Current

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.

  • Investor

    2024

    AI’s knowledge should be all-encompassing and as far-reaching as possible. xAI's goal is to advance human comprehension and capabilities.

XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery.

Raised $12,384,679,312.00 from Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Qatar Investment Authority and CoreNest Capital.

  • Co-Founder

    2024

    On a mission to make humanity smarter.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Helping websites protect and monetize their content.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Make any song you can imagine.

  • Board Member

    2024

    AI-powered news that helps you understand more, faster.

Particle.News helps in developing an AI-based news reader that would provide users with personalized news flows.

Raised $15,300,000.00 from Max Mullen, Axel Springer, Mohamad Fayez Taha, Vijaya Gadde, Lakshman Sankar, Evan Williams, Adverb Ventures, Scott Belsky, Bruce Falck and Jason Goldman.

  • Board Member

    2023

    The idea-to-video platform that brings your creativity to motion.

Pika is a startup that develops an AI-powered platform for editing and generating films from captions and still images.

Raised $135,000,000.00 from SV Angel, Greycroft, AIspace Ventures, Sahin Boydas, Jared Leto, Spark Capital, Andrej Karpathy, Nat Friedman, Makers Fund and Aaron Levie.

  • Board Member

    2023

    The AI assistant for enterprise sellers.

Tome radically changes the way sales teams get deals done, with custom LLMs that assist reps throughout every stage of the sales process.

Raised $75,300,000.00 from Audacious Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Greylock, Bipul Sinha, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Eric Schmidt, Coatue, 8VC, David Luan and Emad Mostaque.

  • Board Member

    2023

    The AI-powered notepad for people in back-to-back meetings.

Granola is a SAAS company that offers AI driven note-taking services.

Raised $24,250,000.00 from Lightspeed India Partners, Firstminute Capital, Spark Capital, Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman.

  • Head of Talk (Podcasts, Live, and Video)

    2019 - 2022

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