Mikal Khoso
Founder of Tenpoint Labs
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
The future of search is changing, and buyers are everywhere. AI Search. Social Search. Traditional Search. Multi-media Search. We build multi-media content engines for companies so they can show up where it matters.
Writer
2016
- Blog about Deep tech & economics - (https://trajectory.substack.com/) - Blog about emerging markets innovation (https://www.reademergent.com/) My writing has been referenced by Axios, Techcrunch, Deloitte, Law.com and 15+ universities
Startup Investor
2017
Select Investments include: US Investments - chainlinklabs.com (Pre-seed, ~$10B crypto market cap) - relativityspace.com (Series C - E, $4.5B+ valuation) - iconbuild.com (Series A, $1B+ valuation) - serverobotics.com (Seed, Board Observer, NASDAQ: SERV) - firstresonance.io (Pre-seed, Board Observer) - vizionapi.com (Pre-seed) - curatesolutions.com (Pre-seed, Acquired) - tetrascience.com (Seed) - https://www.c16bio.com/ (Pre-seed) - 3dfortify.com (Pre-seed) - reverielabs.com (Pre-seed) Emerging Markets - abhi.com.pk (Pre-Series A) - breadfast.com (Series A) - chari.co (Pre-Series A) - pathao.com (Series A) - loopfreight.io (Pre-seed) - moneyhash.io (Seed) - simetrik.com (Seed) - bazaartech.com (Seed + Series A)
Advisor to the Government of the UAE
2022 - 2023
- Helping The UAE Government and Sheraa (https://sheraa.ae/) evaluate and design a venture capital strategy as part of their entrepreneurial initiatives - Continue to serve as a startup advisor to Sheraa Portfolio companies
Venture Partner
2022 - 2023
- Helped manage investment pipeline and sourced and invested in a pre-seed ecommerce and a seed-stage fintech startup - Spent the last 8 months incubating and validating a B2B startup Makkin Pay (https://makkin.mik.al/). Ultimately realized the timing was premature, felt like the pain points weren't deep enough and regulatory path too challenging to continue building.
Investor
2018 - 2022
- Led ten investments and generated 6x MOIC with investments across AI, industrial tech, robotics, SAAS and logistics - Created a detail-oriented portfolio management system and redesigned quarterly and annual investor reporting - Hosted 20+ events including happy hours, dinners and panel events and built up a warm network of 100+ VCs nationwide - Held a board observer seat at First Resonance and Serve Robotics
Investor
2017 - 2018
Investor in: - 3DFortify, Series Seed (3dfortify.com) - Noble, Series Seed (getnoble.co) - C16Bio, Series Seed (https://www.c16bio.com/)
Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation.
Investor
2017 - 2017
Cut my teeth in VC and sourced ChainLink Labs at pre-seed (~$8B+ crypto market cap today)
New Ventures Associate
2016 - 2016
The New Ventures division of Northeastern University embraces the lean startup methodology to incubate new business ideas, diversify revenue streams, and advance a model of education that moves beyond traditional boundaries. While there we were building Level education (www.leveledu.com) where I had several responsibilities including: - Co-led the development from idea to validation to go-to-market for the Level Set Product - Aggregated and analyzed admit data from multiple inbound sources using Excel and SQL to identify trends and drive improvement in key metrics - Built relationships with employer partners nationwide to secure various degrees of participation in the Level program - Developed and implemented a comprehensive inbound marketing strategy turning the Level Blog into the largest source of sales qualified leads