Mike Orsak

General Partner at Worldview Technology Partners

Palo Alto, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    1996 - Current

    Co-founded Worldview, a global venture capital firm. At our peak we had offices in Palo Alto, Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore, London, and Frankfurt. Was named to the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 VCs 5 times (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2009). Served on the Board of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. Served on the Board of Meritech Capital. Led or co-led investments into 13 companies that went public, including nVidia, Corvis, Infinera, Oplink, Cosine Communications, Calico Commerce, Click Software, Tellium, Digital Think, IGN.com, and AFC. Successful acquisitions included Lightspeed International, Redstone, Netcore, Upshot, Cyras, Aeluros, Accelerant Networks, Collation, and Loglogic.

  • Managing Director

    1990 - 1996

    Spearheaded investments into private technology companies for Jafco, which at the time was the largest venture firm in the world. Raised a $60M US-focused fund that returned over 20X. Successful investments included nVidia, Ciena, and Tivoli.

  • Summer Associate

    1989 - 1989

    Identified, reviewed and researched business plans for this early stages venture firm.

  • Technology Research Analyst

    1986 - 1988

    Reseach Analyst covering the stocks of computer systems companies, which included Apple, Dell, Sun Micro, Convex, Silicon Graphics, and Tandem. Worked on financings for Dell and Sun.

  • Manager, Microcomputer Software research program

    1984 - 1986

    Initiated and directed research program targeting emerging growth areas of software.

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