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Mike Rowan
EIR at Techstars Founder Catalyst Program at Techstars
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Mike Rowan
EIR at Techstars Founder Catalyst Program at Techstars
Stonington, Connecticut
Overview
Mike Rowan is a 7-time founder with a background as an executive at SendGrid and Techstars, known for his expertise in product innovation and operations management. Currently, he serves as the Managing Partner at Hive Hatch and Chief Product Officer at Techstars, where he leverages his experience to build and advise successful startups in various sectors such as health tech, messaging, and cloud infrastructure.
Highlights of Mike Rowan's career include his roles as VP Product at SendGrid and his founding of multiple successful companies like Get Structure and Joy Labs, showcasing his proficiency in entrepreneurship and product development.
Work Experience
EIR @ Techstars Founder Catalyst Program
2024 - Current
As an EIR, I help founders cut through the noise and focus on practical steps that move their startups forward. I work with them to clarify their challenges, navigate next steps, and connect with the right people — whether it’s technical experts, business mentors, or potential partners — so they can approach each stage of growth with confidence and the right support.
Mentor
2018
Actively engage in programs to provide hands in operational knowledge & help founders proactively look around the corners as best I can.
Chief Product Officer (Studio)
2018 - 2020
A product studio to support the development and launching of venture-scale businesses with the support of corporate partners.
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Advisor
2022
Parambil is an Al-powered knowledge platform built for tort law. Products on market include automatic case validation, medical chronologies, complaints, fact sheets and more...
Managing Partner
2021
A small portfolio of early stage investments in awesome founders
Daphne's Tax Service is a financial firm that provides accounting, bookkeeping, tax preparation, payroll, and financial planning services
Co-founder & CEO
2022 - 2023
Operations as a service for venture-backed founders. The financial visibility needed to be a data-driven decision maker. We take care the financial operations so founders can lead their business more effectively. - Accounting & Bookkeeping - Corporate Setup & Entity Compliance - Planning & Budgets - Financial Performance Reviews - Financial & Data Room Organization - Mentor Support & Guidance
Co-founder & COO
2018 - 2023
The venture studio we’d always talked about. Super fun. Super hard. Lots of learnings too, happy to share.
Powering the innovation and network that develops the world’s software. Pushing the boundaries of science and happiness.
Co-Founder & COO
2019 - 2021
Memo is building a better way for people to connect and communicate online.
VP Product (Labs / Studio)
2011 - 2018
IPO (SEND) & Acquired by Twilio (TWLO) Product Studio / Lab (Horizon 2 & 3) An internal product studio building next generation products. - Multi-channel marketing automation, workflows, APIs and applications - Data replication & transformation APIs and applications - Cloud-based load testing platform for APIs and applications - IOT device deployment and messaging framework - Email Advertising platform and APIs for multichannel display ad campaigns
SendGrid is a cloud-based customer communication platform that drives engagement and business growth.
Raised $80,368,000.00 from Bessemer Venture Partners.
Founder & CEO
2010 - 2011
A product studio for developer tools/services --> To SendGrid it went.
Co-founder & CTO
2006 - 2011
RatePoint, founded with other former GeoTrust co-founders to help small businesses collect, manage and promote consumer driven reviews & feedback. Operators of local business email and survey platforms to support local business growth Designed and operated reputation api/knowledge graph for local businesses Designed & Powered API first likeness & recommendation engine for SaaS integration
Head of Research and Development (Founding team)
2000 - 2006
Acquired by VeriSign/Symantec (2006) Inventor of domain validated SSL certificates. Committee of EV SSL Standards Builder & operators of Anti-Phishing API’s and Services Platform (major browsers used) Operators of ubiquitous Certificate Authority platform
Online security services company
Raised $39,099,000.00 from St. Paul Venture Capital and Prism Venture Management.
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