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Adding Value to Startups: Club M25 Summit 3.0
Talks about Venture Capital, Midwest and Tech
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Mike Asem
Founding Partner at M25
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Mike Asem
Founding Partner at M25
Greater Chicago Area
Overview
Mike Asem is the Founding Partner of M25, an investment firm in the Greater Chicago Area specializing in funding startups in various sectors like GovTech, Entertainment & Sports, and TransportationTech. With a Bachelor's Degree from Purdue University, Mike has successfully invested in companies like Improovy and Rebundle, and serves on the boards of BLCK VC, Civic Eagle, and Elate, showcasing his leadership and entrepreneurship skills in the Midwest startup ecosystem.
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2016 - Current
M25 is a venture capital investment firm targeting early-stage, tech-enabled startups in the Midwest. With investments in over 100 companies since 2015, we are one of the most active investors in the region.
M25 is the most active early-stage VC firm investing in Midwest headquartered startups (14 states, 100+ companies) across most industries
Board Member, Midwest Lead
2019
BLCK VC was formed to connect, engage, empower, and advance black venture investors by providing a focused community built for and by black venture investors.
Board Member
2019
Civic Eagle leverages innovative technology to help organizations quickly identify, track, and analyze legislation and regulations.
Plural is a company that provides public policy tools to help teams save time and discover opportunities in workflows.
Raised $10,000,000.00 from Comeback Capital, Backstage Capital, Techstars, Higher Ground Labs and Boomtown Accelerators.
Board Member
2019
Elate is helping companies power sustainable growth by optimizing business outcomes through data-driven OKRs. With Elate's industry-leading Operations Intelligence platform, leaders now have a platform that drives adoption, collaboration, and a measurable business impact across every department of your organization.
Elate is an operations platform designed to reach business outcomes by unifying internal technologies and disparate data.
Raised $9,440,000.00 from WestWave Capital, Serra Ventures, Elevate Ventures, HPA (Hyde Park Angels), Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Capital Midwest Fund, Flywheel Fund and M25.
Board Member
2018
ScriptDrop is a Healthcare IT company with a focus on innovating in the pharmacy space.
ScriptDrop is a medication access startup that connects pharmacies to a network of trained professional couriers.
Raised $22,906,828.00 from Caduceus Capital Partners.
Fellow, Class 24
2019
Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows
Advisor
2016
Board Member
2018
PicDiversity, Inc. is a nonprofit that exists to provide teachers with photos that mirror the diversity of their students. America’s classrooms are a mix of races, nationalities, genders and disabilities. Photos used as visual aides to demonstrate appropriate school behaviors or subject objectives, should reflect this diversity.
Director of Collaborative Relationships
2015 - 2016
As Director of Collaborative Relationships, my main directive is to create and cultivate meaningful connections with alumni and friends of Purdue, leading to the success of Foundry startup companies and the licensing of Purdue technologies. Some of my responsibilities include, but are not limited to: • Find and match mentors capable of providing meaningful advice to Foundry clients. • Identify and manage talent introductions, leading to formal engagements with Foundry startup companies in leadership positions or as board members. • Establish first customers identification, leading to corporate engagements with Purdue. • Cultivate and nurture potential collaborative and development partners or customers for Foundry startups. • Oversee participation in and develop new competitions such as Business Plan or Prototyping. • Market unlicensed intellectual property to large companies or by identifying teams and entrepreneurs that may assist. • Identify and develop first customers for purposes of funding research, licensing intellectual property and leading to MOU activities.
Purdue Research Foundation serves in advancing Purdue University's discovery, learning, and engagement activities.
Raised $10,350,000.00 from National Science Foundation.
Student Fellow
2013 - 2014