Mike Sullivan
Partner
San Francisco Office
Mike Sullivan is a partner in the San Francisco office. His practice focuses on representing emerging companies, entrepreneurs and venture capital funds. Mike has led hundreds of financing and M&A transactions for emerging companies in a wide variety of industries, including the cleantech, software, life sciences, mobile and consumer 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). Mike is the Chair of the Board of Advisors of StartOut, the leading LGBT entrepreneurship advocacy nonprofit.
Some of Mike's clients have included:
- Artyc PBC (refrigerant-free cold storage and shipping; funded by Lowercarbon Capital, True Ventures and SOSV)
- AIMotive, Inc. (autonomous vehicle software; funded by Robert Bosch Venture Capital; Tim Draper and others)
- Alta Reality (virtual reality)
- EarnUp (loan optimization platform; funded by Blumburg Capital and SignalFire)
- Earth.AI Inc. (AI-enabled platform for mineral discovery; Y Combinator)
- Earthshot Labs PBC (data science for climate solutions)
- Fountain Therapeutics (discovery and development of treatments for aging-associated diseases; undisclosed investors)
- Goodly Inc. (student loan repayment as an employee benefit; Y Combinator)
- Grabango (checkout-free technology; funded by Propel Venture Partners, Ridge Ventures and Commerce Ventures)
- Hangar One Vodka (acquired by Jose Cuervo)
- Matterport (3D scanning solutions; Nasdaq MTTR)
- 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)
- Neptune Flood Incorporated (insurtech)
- Planet Labs (satellite data company; NYSE: PL)
- Quidnet Energy Inc. (energy storage; funded by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Evok Innovations)
- Safehub (earthquake sensors; funded by A/O PropTech, Fusion Fund, Ubiquity Ventures and others)
- Samasource Impact Sourcing (machine learning training; funded by Ridge Ventures and CDPQ)
- Slync, Inc. (supply chain integration; funded by Goldman Sachs Growth, Correlation Partners, 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)
- Tempo Interactive (home fitness platform; funded by Softbank, Norwest Ventures, General Catalyst and others)
- TS Conductor (next generation conductor technology; funded by Breakthrough Energy Ventures)
- Unison (proptech; funded by F-Prime 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, Marcy Venture Partners, Evok Innovations, Griffin Gaming Partners, Ridge Ventures, Illuminate Ventures and Walden Venture Capital.
