Mike Hirshland
Founder of Resolute Ventures
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2011 - Current
Resolute Ventures is a national venture capital firm that leads pre-seed and seed stage financings. Our portfolio includes AppZen, Bark & Company (NYSE: BARK), Clubhouse, Clutter, Color Genomics, Greenhouse, MixMax, Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN), Whoop and Sunrise (acqd. by MSFT). Our Mission is to build and enable a peer network of Resolute Founders who: share a certain entrepreneurial spirit and energy; are driven by a need to work on things that matter; are unafraid to dream big; are founders whom we think have a better chance than most to actually achieve those dreams; and who believe being connected to a group of like-minded founders will help them succeed.
General Partner
1999 - 2011
Led investments in Q1 Labs (IBM), Automattic, Quantcast, and others. Created Dogpatch Labs, which helped launch over 100 startups including Instagram and TaskRabbit
Polaris Partners is an investment firm that invests in healthcare and biotechnology companies.
co-founder
2009 - 2011
a new and different kind of incubator
Founder
2008 - 2011
Director
2007 - 2011
Judiciary Committee Counsel
1996 - 1998
Served as Committee Counsel; supervised Microsoft investigation and hearings
Associate
1995 - 1996
Law Clerk to Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy
1994 - 1995
Associate Consultant
1988 - 1990
Education
J.D.
1990 - 1993
A.B., Magna Cum Laude
1984 - 1988