Investing Profile

Mike Vernal(13)

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Early-Stage Partner at Sequoia Capital

Palo Alto, California

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Mike Vernal's investing connections

10 Investors

Connected to Josh Elman (Greylock Partners), Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), Bill Trenchard (First Round Capital), and 7 other investors on Signal.

Networks Mike is a member of

NewCo Network

1586 CONNECTIONS

Self-Employed Network

425 CONNECTIONS

Harvard University Network

402 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Sequoia Capital Venture Partner

Investment Range

$10K - $50K

Sweet Spot

$25K

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$195M

Mike Vernal is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Developer Tools (Series A)Developer Tools (Seed)Cloud Infrastructure (Series A)Cloud Infrastructure (Seed)Marketplaces (Series A)Seattle / Portland Enterprise (Series A)New York City Consumer Internet (Seed)Enterprise (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area Angel, Scout, and Solo-Capitalists Consumer Internet (Series A)Marketplaces (Seed)FinTech (Series A)FinTech (Seed)

Mike Vernal's Investments On Record (35)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Corridor	Series AMar 2026$25M	$30M
Co-investors: Jake Storm (Felicis Ventures), Christina Cacioppo
Worktrace AI	SeedDec 2025$9M	$9M
Statsig	Series CMay 2025$100M Series BApr 2022$43M Series AAug 2021$10M	$150M
Co-investors: Dannie Herzberg (Sequoia Capital), Sriram Krishnan (Andreessen Horowitz), Somar Somasegar (Madrona Ventures), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Julien Codorniou (20VC), Fidji Simo, Dylan Field, Hadi Partovi
Unblocked	Series AMay 2025$20M SeedOct 2023$8M	$28M
Co-investors: John Lilly (Greylock), Yan-David Erlich (B Capital Group), Bubba Murarka (DFJ/Draper Associates/Draper University), Milun Tesovic (Expa), Rob Toews (Radical Ventures), Eric Futoran, Stewart Butterfield, Quinn Slack, Nitay Joffe, Mike Abbott
Decagon	Series AJun 2024$30M	$630M
Co-investors: Steve Loughlin (Accel), Nick Shalek (Ribbit Capital), Lucas Swisher (Coatue), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Jack Altman (Benchmark), Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), Ivan Zhou (Accel), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Anu Hariharan (Rappi), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Jay Simons (Bond), Gautam Gupta (Alex Angels (Alexandria Angel Network)), Matt Macinnis (Various), Howie Liu, Frederic Kerrest, Aaron Levie
Pika	Series BJun 2024$80M	$130M
Co-investors: Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Shawn Dimantha (Angel investor), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Alex Chung (Curious Capital), Karim Atiyeh, Jared Leto, Aaron Levie, Adam D'Angelo
Rockset	Series BAug 2023$44M Series BOct 2020$40M Series ANov 2018$19M	$100M
Co-investors: Jerry Chen (Greylock)
Mirage	Series BJun 2023$25M Series AApr 2022$11M	$100M
Co-investors: Everett Randle (Benchmark), Bryan Kim (Andreessen Horowitz), Martin Mignot (Index Ventures), Ben Rubin (Sequoia Capital), Nadav Ben-Chanoch (Pareto Holdings), Will Price (Next Frontier Capital), Edward Lando (Biowear), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Mike Krieger, Rahilla Zafar, Jared Leto, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo

Mike Vernal's Media (1)

Sequoia Shakes Up Senior Ranks as Vernal, Moritz Exit Roles

www.theinformation.com

most interested in

Consumer, Social, Marketplaces, Platforms, and the like. Really, happy to learn and help with anything interesting.

Mike Vernal's Experience

Partner Conviction2025 - Present

Sabbatical Self-Employed 2023 - Present

Sabbatical Self-Employed2023 - Present

Seed Investor Fireworks AI2022 - Present

Investor Rippling2021 - Present

Investor Gadget2021 - Present

Board Member Captions2021 - Present

Board Member Mirage2021 - Present

Board Member Census2020 - Present

Board Member Switchboard2020 - Present

Early-Stage Partner Sequoia Capital2016 - Present

Angel Investor & Institutional Investor Notion2013 - Present

Investor Notion2013 - Present

Angel Investor Stealth Company (Mike Vernal)2013 - Present

Angel Investor Various 2013 - Present

Angel Investor Various2013 - Present

Investor IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent

Sabbatical Self-EmployedPresent

Board Member PicsArtPresent

Investor Robyn FrankelPresent

Board Member Statsig2021 - 2025

Investor Fireworks AI2022 - 2025

Board Member Clay2019 - 2025

Angel Investor Various Startups2013 - 2025

Sabbatical Sabbatical2023 - 2024

Investor Keen Technologies2022 - 2024

Investor NewCo2022 - 2024

Board Member Deno2022 - 2024

Board Observer Gadget2021 - 2024

Board Member Airtop2020 - 2024

Board Member Picsart2020 - 2024

Board Member PicsArt Inc.2020 - 2024

Seed Investor Aven2020 - 2024

Board Member Blues Wireless2020 - 2024

Board Member Blues2020 - 2024

Investor StarkWare2018 - 2024

Investor Dagster Labs2018 - 2024

Investor Elementl2018 - 2024

Investor Aquarium2020 - 2024

Board Member Threads2017 - 2024

Board Member Rockset2016 - 2024

Board Member Rockset (acquired by OpenAI)2016 - 2024

Board Member Untapped2019 - 2024

Investor Interval2020 - 2023

Investor Akita Software2018 - 2023

Board Observer Akita Software2018 - 2023

Board Member Whisper2017 - 2023

Investor Census2020 - 2023

Investor Verkada2019 - 2023

Partner Sequoia Capital2016 - 2023

Board Member rideOS (acquired by Gopuff)2017 - 2021

Board Member Houseparty (part of Epic Games)2016 - 2019

VP, Product & Engineering Facebook2008 - 2016

PM & Engineering Lead Microsoft Corporation2002 - 2008

Product & Engineering Microsoft2002 - 2008

Mike Vernal's Education

Harvard University S.M., Computer Science Computer Science

Harvard University S.M. Computer Science

Harvard University A.B. Computer Science

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