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The Force Awakened, But Is It Still Strong?
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Michael Raybman
Investor at Umami Capital
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Michael Raybman
Investor at Umami Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Michael Raybman is a seasoned builder with a background in web development, Ruby on Rails, and mobile applications, currently serving as the CTO/Technical Product Manager at null. With a track record that includes roles as Head of Product at Hustle Fund and Director of Product at Mojito, Michael has demonstrated expertise in Agile project management and leading successful product development initiatives.
Work Experience
CTO/Technical Product Manager
2023 - Current
Building and investing with companies that push the envelope on modern workforce dynamics. Advocate of atomic work and fully asynchronous location-agnostic teams.
Investor
2023
Angel invest and co-lead deals in future work, AI productivity, B2B SaaS, and blockchain, fintech, healthtech. My edge as an investor is helping companies reach extraordinary velocity in their engineering teams.
Umami Capital is a venture syndicate with a multicultural mission
Director of Product
2021 - 2022
Owned the NFT marketplace stack (on-chain and off-chain) for one of the largest enterprise NFT platforms by net transaction value. Led product and engineering teams from prototype to 8-figure revenue.
The all-in-one web3 platform powering brands & creators
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Moore Strategic Ventures, Atypical Ventures, Ancient, Future Perfect Ventures, CMT Digital, Sotheby’s and Avant Global.
Head of Product, Programmatic Investor
2020 - 2021
Provided product and technology leadership to portfolio companies in both operational and strategic capacity. Worked with founders to establish product teams, solve emerging problems, make sense of data, and recruit talent. As an investor, focused on quantitative deal analytics, portfolio construction and performance. Built models and tooling for pricing, monitoring, KPI benchmarking by sector, and diligence automation.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2019 - 2020
Led internal venture incubation in National Grids (F500) corporate venture arm. Responsible for product ownership across 3 venture development teams. Conducted market research, go-to-market design, and built MVP's.
Narragansett Electric is an electricity transmission and distribution service provider, as well as a natural gas distributor.
Product Architect, Blockchain
2018 - 2019
Managed decentralized application development, including smart contract implementation, token economics modeling, systems architecture, and product design
Founder, CEO
2012 - 2017
Reactor Media delivers quantitative performance analytics and audience targeting solutions for written content. Our technology helps clients including the New York Times, Rodale Inc, Rosetta Stone, ASUS Computer and others maximize ROI on press releases, blog posts, white papers, sponsored content and curated news. MassChallenge, MullenLowe Wundebar alum.
Alumni Entrepreneur In Residence
2013 - 2014
Worked with MassChallenge 2013 Finalists and Team to help startup founders define product strategy, build teams, and engage with MassChallenge resources.
Founder
2010 - 2012
The simple way to book travel online. Used by over 20,000 travelers, WaySavvy recieved national coverage from Los Angeles Times and XConomy, was the winner of XSITE Innovation Prize and named a Seedcamp NYC finalist in 2011.
Lead Engineer, Research Software (OAPOL)
2007 - 2009
Led software engineering in a cross-functional team of mathematicians, clinicians and developers. Scoped, architected and developed the first release of OAPOL, a healthcare outcomes modeling product deployed for Harvard, Yale and UCLA meedical schools. System components included Markov Monte Carlo simulation over datasets of 1-100MM patients, reporting automation, and self-hosted computing cluster configuration.
Mass General Brigham specializes in providing medical treatments and health diagnostics services.
Education
BA/MA with Honors
2005 - 2010