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Miles Bird
Founder of StoryHouse Ventures
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Miles Bird is the Founder and General Partner at StoryHouse Ventures, focusing on investing in Claremont startups, with a background in leadership, entrepreneurship, venture capital, and business development. Notable career achievements include founding the Randall Lewis Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and making investments in companies like AddGlow and Symbl.ai at early stages like Pre-Seed and Seed.
Work Experience
Founder & General Partner
2020 - Current
Storyhouse Ventures backs alumni entrepreneurs from the Claremont Colleges ecosystem, tackling big problems with revolutionary solutions. Claremont Colleges alumni venture-backed founders raised $52.8B in capital, second only to Stanford, and produced 26 $1B+ outcomes from 2013 to 2023. In less than two years, StoryHouse's community building initiatives achieved monthly engagement with 68% of 1434 Claremont alumni founders and 25% of 11,823 alumni life sciences and tech senior executives through events, outreach calls, jobs boards, and newsletters. Per current trends StoryHouse will reach 90% of founders and 70% of senior execs by 2026 solidifying StoryHouse’s position as the first call for Claremont entrepreneurs and providing a large pool of warm introductions for go to market support for portfolio companies. StoryHouse accessed 98% of the 493 pre-Series A financings by Claremont alumni, investing in 9.7% of those deals from Q4 2022 and Q3 2024. StoryHouse invests primarily in health & life sciences, enterprise tech and deeptech which accounted for 80% of the value creation and 55% of the financings in the Claremont ecosystem over the past decade and aligns with the StoryHouse Team’s expertise.
StoryHouse Ventures is an investment firm that provides seed, venture, and private equity to companies.
Investor
2018 - 2019
Leading seed-stage venture capital firm (DigitalOean, GitLab, Square). Focused primarily on enterprise pre-seed and seed-stage investments and community-building efforts for the firm. Hosted over a dozen events leading to robust accretive deal-flow for Tuesday and led 3 investments. Notable investments include: - AgVend (seed)
Tuesday Capital is a VC firm that invests in companies and maintains a variety of relationships with other VC firms.
Investor
2016 - 2018
Leading early-stage venture capital firm (MosaicML, IonQ, Upstart). Focused primarily on enterprise pre-seed and seed-stage investments and various community-building and sourcing amongst top VCs which led to >1000 new opportunities evaluated by Correlation Ventures. Notable investments include: - Alloy (pre-seed investment; Series C by Lightspeed) - Gabi (Series A investment; acq. by Experian; $320M)
Community & K50 Lead
2013 - 2015
Leading global community for student entrepreneurs recognized by WSJ, Forbes, TechCrunch, and others. Scaled entrepreneurial community to 100+ universities globally. Managed two classes of accelerator program, K50, for 50 promising early-stage companies in each cohort. Notable companies include: - Eko Devices (Series D by ARTIS Ventures) - Onfido (acq by Entrust; $650M) - FiscalNote (NYSE: NOTE) - Owlet (NYSE: OWLT)
Various Entrepreneurial Endeavors
2008 - 2013
Was involved with various entrepreneurial endeavors while an undergraduate student and in between investment roles. Entrepreneurial endeavors include: - Meter: GTM for networking infrastructure company - K50 Ventures: advisor to general partner of early-stage VC firm - Escondido Ventures: advisor to general partner of early-stage VC firm - T-Bird Capital LLC: entity to manage personal angel and AngelList SPV investments - Calypso AI: advised early-stage AI business - Khan Investment Management: dropped out of college for 1-year to help launch public equity investment strategy for the Mongolian market - iShop4Microfinance: created website that raised funds for microfinance organizations using affiliate marketing referral incentives - Life Patch: helped launch bluetooth monitoring device for infants' well-being
Various Internships
2009 - 2013
Various finance and social impact internships during my undergraduate studies. Internships included: - Hybrid Social Solutions - PRTM Management Consulting - Asia Pacific Investment Partners - Grameen Bank
Co-Founder & Student Champion
2012 - 2013
Championed the launch of campus-based entrepreneurship resource center for Claremont Colleges undergraduates. Today, RLCIE fosters and supports the entrepreneurial initiatives of the students at the Claremont Colleges. The Center provides resources for faculty and student research on topics related to innovation and entrepreneurship; supports curricular and co-curricular programming, including workshops, networking events, speakers; and mentoring and internship programs. The RLCIE leadership team includes students, faculty, staff, and an Advisory Board.
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