Mike Edelhart
Managing Partner at Ataraxia Investor
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2017 - Current
Joyance invests in companies that, through science and tech, cultivate joy to improve the way we live, focusing on the health and consumer sectors from Pre-Seed to Series A.
We invest in companies that use science and technology to cultivate joy and improve how we live.
Managing Partner
2014
Social Starts is a venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds. We focus on companies that encompass the intersection of health and happiness.
Social Starts is a venture capital partnership that invests in companies focusing on emerging science.
Managing Partner
2020
Ataraxia is an early-stage fund manager focused on helping people live longer and live better.
Ataraxia, an early stage fund manager focused on helping people live longer and live better.
CEO
2010 - 2013
Pivot was a conference focused purely on how major brands, agencies, marketers, and content creators can succeed by understanding, accessing, and influencing the emerging Social Construct.
Revenue Advisor
2010 - 2011
APPNATION drew together leaders from all areas to delineate the ideas, practices, and players to define the next stage of app transformation.
APPNATION is the largest conference and exhibition in North America focused exclusively on the business of applications.
Managing Director
2008 - 2010
First30 Services is a company that creates companies or helps in their creation, from rapid product prototypes to analyzing markets to parachuting in an entire team to get a company rolling.
CEO
2008 - 2009
LiveDeal is an internet classifieds and small business services company.
LiveDeal provides marketing solutions that boost customer awareness and merchant visibility on the Internet.
Raised $3,000,000.00 from Torstar Corporation.
Chairman
2004 - 2008
Sequoia-backed XML digital publication archive and digital edition company.
Olive Software provides a content transformation platform that provides content owners new revenue streams, audience extension and more.
Raised $25,000,000.00 from Sequoia Capital Israel, Smac Partners and Pitango VC.
CEO
2005 - 2006
CEO
2001 - 2003
Zinio is a multi-platform distribution service for digital magazines from a wide range of publishers.
Raised $37,400,000.00 from Commonwealth Capital Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, Palisades Growth, IDEO, Odyssey Ventures L.P., New Enterprise Associates, Intel Capital and Apax Partners.
Education
BSC
1973 - 1976