Mike Hennessey
Food Service Worker at Huey Magoos & Seven Stills Brewery & Distillery & Dunkin Donuts
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Partner
2024 - Current
Venture Partner, Limited Partner, Advisor, and Investment Committee Member for this Latin American Venture Firm helping mission-driven entrepreneurs scale into the Americas.
Managing Director
2006
BlueBanyan invests in technical founders building SaaS, CyberSecurity, Software and Blockchain Companies like Nostra.ai, Seals.ai (YC Alum), Metal, Parabola.io, SunBird, Boostable (acq. by Metro Collective), Abacus (acq. by Certify), Manifest (acq. by Rakuten), IndexTank (acq. by LinkedIn), Violin Memory (IPO), JW Player (merged with Connatix), Ustream (acq. by IBM), DotSpotter (acq. by CBS Interactive), Hennessey Capital (acq. by Hitachi/Mitsubishi), DBM Cloud (acq. by Nasuni), AlphaCard (acq by Cortec). Clean Energy: Solar Mosaic (funded by Affinity Partners), Principle Power offshore wind, Mission Motors electric motorcycles mentor, CleanTech Open Volunteer
Food Service Worker
2013
-Huey Magoos serves awesome chicken tenders. Serving in Miami, MiraMar, Cooper City, Sunrise @ Amerant Arena (Florida Panthers NHL team) with more on the way. -Seven Stills served up some killer whiskey made from Craft Beer. Gin, Vodka, Beer, RTD cocktails but fell victim to Covid and California policies. -Dunkin [sold in 2022] serves ...well you know what they do if not Casey or Ben Affleck will tell you here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSvNhxKJJyU&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBIX9FG6kZ0&ab_channel=Dunkin%27
Seed Investor
2010
Angel Investor in various companies in Latin American Region including WareClouds (Chile/Brazil), Cornershop (Mexico/Chile acq. by Uber), Frete (Brazil formerly Sontra/CargoX), FondiMex (Mexico), Board of Chile Global Funds, Mentor to Endeavor and NXTP (Argentina), Blink Booking (acq. by Groupon), PulpoMedia (acq. by Latin Comm. Holdings), and Co-Founder of PuenteLabs.
LP and Venture Capital
1997 - 2020
(2024) Driven Ventures--empowering entrepreneurs to scale into the Americas. (2022) Alter Global--MENA, Latam, SE Asia emerging tech Seed Fund. (2022) Atman Capital--Brazil/US Cross Border Venture Fund (2020) Chile Global Funds--Fundacion Chile and SOMA (Walton Family) supported Venture Fund (2019) Unbounded Capital--Blockchain Infrastructure Venture Fund (2015) Ten Eleven Ventures--CyberSecurity Venture Fund (2009) Highland Capital Partners--Retail/Horizontal Venture Fund (1997) DCM Ventures--Silicon Valley Asia Pacific Fund
Psychology
2016 - 2019
The Pathwise Program is designed around the principles of Socratic learning, and takes leaders beyond traditional leadership development, teaching members to practice conscious leadership in a distinctive cohort setting.
Enterprise Sales Background
1995 - 2002
Enterprise Software Sales -Oracle Channel Partner Sales at the beginning of the CRM sector (1995-1997) -PegaSystems Direct Sales for CRM in retail and tech (1997-1999) -Inktomi Direct Sales at the beginning of search and online commerce (1999-2002).