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.