Michael Flaxman
Investor at Family Office
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2017 - Current
Principal Engineer
2016 - 2017
Applying the lessons learned from Bitcoin to a private blockchain with massively higher throughput.
Paxos is a regulated financial institution building infrastructure to enable movement between physical and digital assets.
Raised $543,477,863.00 from MercadoLibre.
Co-Founder
2014 - 2014
Funded bitcoin startup that never found product market fit.
CoinSafe.com makes a free and easy to use app that turns any smartphone, tablet or desktop computer into a Bitcoin ATM.
Co-founder
2011 - 2012
Priceonomics crawls and structures data on the web. We're funded by Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Ron Conway (SV Angel), Crunch Fund, Spark Capital and many more.
Priceonomics is a price guide that helps companies gather data from the web.
Raised $1,670,000.00 from Irene Pedraza, Mike Curtis, Sam Altman, DCVC, David Villeger, Steve Baker, Brian Larson, Tuesday Capital, Erik Moore and Y Combinator.
Founding Partner
2008 - 2011
Thumbtack is a home services website connecting users with local service providers.
Raised $773,200,000.00 from Silicon Valley Bank and Hercules Capital.
Management Consultant
2007 - 2009
Strategy Consulting for Banks and Insurance Companies. Was based out of New York for a year and then briefly San Francisco.
CAVOK is a technical consulting firm that supports the development of manual systems and processes.