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Michael Carney

Fund – Investment Committee Member at University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • SVP, Financial Advisor

    2021 - Current

    Evoke Advisors is an independent Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and multi-family office, advising ultra-high net worth individuals, families, trusts, and non-profit institutions. Within Evoke, my team specializes in partnering with entrepreneurs and private business owners as they navigate the wealth-creation journey including pre-sale planning, investment management, multi-generational estate planning, tax strategy, and philanthropic and legacy planning.

  • USC Marshall Venture Fund – Investment Committee Member

    2018

    The USC Marshall Fund invests in early-stage ventures led by USC students, alumni, faculty, and staff.

  • Board Member

    2018 - 2022

    Zest.ai is changing the way finance works by changing the way credit decisions are made. The company uses machine learning and data science to help companies make more accurate credit decisions with the mission of making fair and transparent credit available to everyone.

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2021

    Acquired by Stewart Title in May 2021, Cloudvirga is a software platform built to revolutionize the mortgage industry by building intelligence into the origination process. Cloudvirga’s mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platforms go beyond just taking an application, automating tasks traditionally performed by operations staff to cut costs, improve the customer and loan officer experience, and deliver business insights across the origination process. Cloudvirga’s unique approach to the mortgage process allows lenders to realize the benefits of tomorrow’s digital mortgage today.

  • General Partner

    2014 - 2021

    General Partner at Upfront Ventures, Southern California’s largest and longest-tenured venture capital firm. Leading early and growth stage investments in what we expect to be the defining technology businesses of the coming decades.

  • Board Member

    2018 - 2020

    NuORDER is a cloud & mobile B2B eCommerce solution empowering brands and retailers to streamline their business operations since 2011. The NuORDER platform provides brands and retailers a central hub to browse products and catalogs, access realtime inventory data and place orders from a computer or mobile app – 24/7/365.

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2020

    Dailylook is a personal styling experience powered by real personal stylists leveraging our cutting edge data science to deliver the optimum merchandise at the right time to every customer. Founded in 2011, the company's mission is to inspire confidence through self expression while taking the hassle out of looking great.

  • West Coast Editor

    2012 - 2014

    Helped build a new media company with the goal of covering the intersection of technology, business, and policy. Focused on telling the stories of innovative companies around the world and the multi-dimensional entrepreneurs and investors who create them.

  • Managing Director

    2008 - 2012

    WorldVest is a boutique merchant bank investing in venture-stage businesses on a global basis. The firm focuses on the technology and natural resources sectors in North America, Asia, and Latin America.

  • Director of Business Development

    2007 - 2008

    Castle Arch, a real estate investment company specializing in the entitlement and development of raw land. At its peak, Castle Arch owned and operated approximately 5,000 acres across the US in various stages of development.

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