Investing Profile

Mike Vernal(13)

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Early-Stage Partner at Sequoia Capital
Palo Alto, California
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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
1600 CONNECTIONS
Harvard University Network
609 CONNECTIONS
Harvard University Network
609 CONNECTIONS
Harvard University Network
609 CONNECTIONS
Self-Employed Network
501 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Sequoia Capital Partner
Investment Range
$10K - $50K
Sweet Spot
$25K
Investments On Record
55
Current Fund Size
$195M

Mike Vernal is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Mike Vernal's Investments On Record (35)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Corridor
Series AMar 2026$25M
$30M
Co-investors: Jake Storm (Felicis Ventures), Micah Smurthwaite (Next47), 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), Joe Morrissey (Andreessen Horowitz), Somar Somasegar (Madrona Ventures), Lauren Reeder (Dorm Room Fund), 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), Rob Toews (Radical Ventures), Milun Tesovic (Expa), Stewart Butterfield, Eric Futoran, Quinn Slack, Mike Abbott, Nitay Joffe
Decagon
Series AJun 2024$30M
$480M
Co-investors: Nick Shalek (Ribbit Capital), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Jack Altman (Benchmark), Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), Ivan Zhou (Accel), Steve Loughlin (Accel), Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Matt Macinnis (Various), Jay Simons (Bond), Anu Hariharan (Rappi), Lucas Swisher (Coatue Management), Gautam Gupta (Alex Angels (Alexandria Angel Network)), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Joshua Müller (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Howie Liu, Aaron Levie, Frederic Kerrest
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), Alex Chung (Curious Capital), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Shawn Dimantha (Angel investor), 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), Nico Wittenborn (Adjacent), Mike Krieger (Anthropic), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Will Price (Next Frontier Capital), Rahilla Zafar (Consensys), Edward Lando (Biowear), Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Jared Leto

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-Employed2023 - Present
Sabbatical Self-Employed 2023 - Present
Seed Investor Fireworks AI2022 - Present
Investor Rippling2021 - Present
Investor Gadget2021 - Present
Board Member Mirage2021 - Present
Board Member Captions2021 - Present
Board Member Switchboard2020 - Present
Board Member Census2020 - Present
Early-Stage Partner Sequoia Capital2016 - Present
Investor Notion2013 - Present
Angel Investor & Institutional Investor Notion2013 - Present
Angel Investor Stealth Company (Mike Vernal)2013 - Present
Angel Investor Various2013 - Present
Angel Investor Various 2013 - Present
Board Member RipplingPresent
Investor Office of US Senator Daniel Patrick MoynihanPresent
Investor ruby labsPresent
Investor Robyn FrankelPresent
Investor IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent
Board Member PicsArtPresent
Sabbatical Self-EmployedPresent
Board Member Statsig2021 - 2025
Investor Fireworks AI2022 - 2025
Board Member Clay2019 - 2025
Angel Investor Various Startups2013 - 2025
Sabbatical Sabbatical2023 - 2024
Investor NewCo2022 - 2024
Investor Keen Technologies2022 - 2024
Board Member Deno2022 - 2024
Board Observer Gadget2021 - 2024
Board Member Airtop2020 - 2024
Board Member PicsArt Inc.2020 - 2024
Board Member Picsart2020 - 2024
Board Member Blues2020 - 2024
Board Member Blues Wireless2020 - 2024
Seed Investor Aven2020 - 2024
Investor StarkWare2018 - 2024
Investor Elementl2018 - 2024
Investor Dagster Labs2018 - 2024
Investor Aquarium2020 - 2024
Board Member Threads2017 - 2024
Board Member Rockset (acquired by OpenAI)2016 - 2024
Board Member Rockset2016 - 2024
Board Member Untapped2019 - 2024
Investor Interval2020 - 2023
Board Observer Akita Software2018 - 2023
Investor 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
Product & Engineering Microsoft2002 - 2008
PM & Engineering Lead Microsoft Corporation2002 - 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