Mike Sullivan
Partner
San Francisco
Mike Sullivan is a partner and head of the Corporate Group in the San Francisco office. His practice focuses on representing emerging companies, entrepreneurs and angels/venture capital funds. Mike has led hundreds of financing and M&A transactions for emerging companies in a wide variety of industries, including the software, life sciences, mobile, digital media, cleantech and food/wine/spirits sectors.
Mike is a faculty member of the Practicing Law Institute's Venture Capital series, and a contributor to Venture Capital & Public Offering Negotiation (Aspen Law & Business). Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Sullivan was a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.
Some of Mike's clients have included:
- AIMotive, Inc. (autonomous vehicle software; funded by Robert Bosch Venture Capital; Tim Draper and others)
- Bandpage (cross-web tool for managing musician presences; funded by Mohr Davidow; GGV Capital; acquired by Google)
- Content Analytics (big data solutions; funded by Almaz Capital, Visionnaire Ventures and others)
- EarnUp (loan optimization platform; funded by Blumburg Capital and SignalFire)
- Earth.AI Inc. (AI-enabled platform for mineral discovery; Y Combinator)
- Fountain Therapeutics (discovery and development of treatments for aging-associated diseases; undisclosed investors)
- Grabango Co. (computer vision for commerce; backed by Propel Ventures and Ridge Ventures)
- Goodly Inc. (student loan repayment as an employee benefit; Y Combinator)
- Hangar One Vodka (acquired by Jose Cuervo)
- H5 (e-discovery solutions; funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson; IVP; Walden Venture Capital)
- Hungry Root (vegetable-based packaged foods; funded by Crosslink and Lightspeed)
- Kalibrr (platform for online skills-based hiring; funded by Y Combinator; Kickstart Ventures; Learn Capital)
- Matterport (3D scanning solutions; funded by Y Combinator; Lux Capital; Felicis Ventures; Greylock; Qualcomm Ventures; and others)
- Mayfield Robotics (home robots)
- Medcorder Inc. (healthcare tech; funded by Future Ventures)
- Movidius (computational image processor chips; funded by DFJ Esprit; Atlantic Bridge and others; sold to Intel)
- PBworks, Inc. (online collaboration tools; funded by Mohr Davidow Ventures; Seraph Group; Ron Conway and others)
- Quidnet Energy Inc. (energy storage; funded by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Evok Innovations)
- Roostify (automated home loans; funded by Cota Capital and USAA Ventures)
- Slync, Inc. (supply chain integration; funded by Blumberg Capital and others)
- SquareTwo (casual games; funded by Walden Ventures and Translink)
- St. George Spirits (spirits company focused on single malt whiskey, bourbon, agricole rum, absinthe, gin, brandies and liqueurs)
- Unison (fintech company pioneering new ways to fund home purchases; funded by F-Prime, Citi Ventures and RBC)
- Zeguro Inc. (insuretech - cyberinsurance; funded by Mosaik Partners; Healthy Ventures, Social Capital and others)
Mike also represents a number of venture capital firms, including Blumberg Capital, DFJ, Evok Innovations, Ridge Ventures, Illuminate Ventures, Northgate Capital, The Roda Group and Walden Venture Capital.
