Mike Annunziata
General Partner at Also Capital
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & General Partner
2018 - Current
We lead pre-seed rounds in companies solving hard engineering problems. Investing across Space, Communications, Climate, AI, Healthcare, Energy, and Robotics. Pre-seed/seed portfolio of over 20 companies with an aggregate enterprise value of over $1B. Pre-seed/Inception: -Radiant (USV, DCVC, a16z, Founders Fund) -Northwood (Founders Fund, a16z) -Varda Space (Founders Fund, Lux, Khosla, Caffeinated Capital) -AnySignal (Caffeinated Capital, Blue Yard, Acequia Capital) -ConductorAI (AltCap, Haystack, Bungalow) -Integral (Haystack, Caffeinated Capital, TheGP, Virtue) -Biosphere (Lowercarbon, Founders Fund, Caffeinated Capital) -ShipIn Systems (Zeev Ventures) Seed: - K2 Space (Altimeter, First Round, Countdown Capital) - Float Health (Wave Capital, Canvas Ventures)
Investing at the People Stage and Optimizing for Interesting is our way of helping do just that.
Board Member
2021
Varda is expanding the economic bounds of humankind by building the world’s first space factories.
Varda is a space manufacturing startup that creates products in microgravity and retrieves them for terrestrial use.
Raised $141,025,000.00 from Caffeinated Capital, Fifty Years, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, Nitesh Banta, General Catalyst, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund and Sinai Capital Partners.
Scout
2022 - 2023
Partner at Caffeinated Capital Collective, a pre-seed and seed-stage operator fund investing in exceptional founders
Caffeinated Capital is a technology venture capital firm that partners with founders at the inception stage.
CEO & Co-founder
2016 - 2023
Farther Farms is a Series B Hard Tech startup building a more sustainable food system through processing technology innovation. Using supercritical fluids and other methods, we develop and sell value-added food products that aim to make quality food, accessible everywhere.
Farther Farms is dedicated to providing a superior product to their consumers.
Raised $1,215,764.00 from Side Door Ventures.
Investment Partner
2016 - 2018
Student investment fund backed by First Round Capital. Member of NYC Investment Team investing in inception/pre-seed rounds of the best student founders.
Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation.
Senior Investment Analyst
2014 - 2018
Senior Investment Analyst for $10B Ivy League University Endowment. Sourced, diligenced, and monitored fund and co-investments in private equity, venture capital, and growth equity asset classes. Prior experience sourcing and managing Real Estate and Natural Resources investments, as well as global public equities and private credit portfolios. Ongoing involvement with endowment portfolio management and asset allocations projects, including portfolio rebalancing, strategic and tactical asset allocation.
Legal Analyst
2011 - 2014
$30B+ family office investing across all liquid and illiquid asset classes.
Recruitment Intern
2010 - 2010
MLB Store is an e-commerce platform that provides a wide range of branded jerseys to choose from.
Labor Relations Professional Intern
2009 - 2009
Finance Intern
2009 - 2009
EMI is a British multinational music recording and publishing company that also focuses on electronics device and systems manufacturing.