Michael Mignano
Investor at Lightspeed Ventures
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Board Member
2024
Make any song you can imagine.
Board Member
2024
AI-powered news that helps you understand more, faster.
Particle.News helps in developing an AI-based news reader that would provide users with personalized news flows.
Raised $15,300,000.00 from Max Mullen, Axel Springer, Mohamad Fayez Taha, Vijaya Gadde, Lakshman Sankar, Evan Williams, Adverb Ventures, Scott Belsky, Bruce Falck and Jason Goldman.
Board Member
2023
The idea-to-video platform that brings your creativity to motion.
Pika is a startup that develops an AI-powered platform for editing and generating films from captions and still images.
Raised $135,000,000.00 from SV Angel, Greycroft, AIspace Ventures, Sahin Boydas, Jared Leto, Spark Capital, Andrej Karpathy, Nat Friedman, Makers Fund and Aaron Levie.
Board Member
2023
The AI assistant for enterprise sellers.
Tome radically changes the way sales teams get deals done, with custom LLMs that assist reps throughout every stage of the sales process.
Raised $75,300,000.00 from Audacious Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Greylock, Bipul Sinha, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Eric Schmidt, Coatue, 8VC, David Luan and Emad Mostaque.
Board Member
2023
The AI-powered notepad for people in back-to-back meetings.
Granola is a SAAS company that offers AI driven note-taking services.
Raised $24,250,000.00 from Lightspeed India Partners, Firstminute Capital, Spark Capital, Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman.
Head of Talk (Podcasts, Live, and Video)
2019 - 2022
Product Advisor
2010 - 2021
The Infatuation is a website, app, newsletter, and recommendation platform that helps users find restaurants for every situation.
Raised $33,500,000.00 from WndrCo.
Co-Founder & CEO
2015 - 2020
The world’s largest podcasting platform. Powering the global podcasting infrastructure and more creators’ podcasts than all other platforms combined. Acquired by Spotify in 2019 and now known as Spotify for Podcasters.
Education
B.S.
2001 - 2005