# David Michael

> David Michael is a Series A investor at Anzu Partners backing Life Science and Biotechnology. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Anzu Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anzu-partner)
- Location: San Diego, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 70%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-michael-295149/

David Michael is a Series A investor at Anzu Partners in San Diego focused on Life Science and Biotechnology. David Michael is based out of San Diego, California and is the Managing Partner of Anzu Partners. David previously worked at The Boston Consulting Group as a Senior Partner. David Michael attended the Stanford University. David Michael has been Awarded school’s highest honor, the Ernest Arbuckle Award.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Life Science | 2 | 20% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 20% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 20% |
| Laser | 1 | 10% |
| Energy | 1 | 10% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 30% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| Singapore | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| e-Zinc | Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future. | $31M | Series A | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| TeraPore Technologies | TeraPore's cutting edge technology facilitates rapid and efficient purification of biological fluids. Combining uniform pores with large pore densities enables purification of high-value products with fast processing times. Please contact us for more information. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 02, 2023 |  |
| ImmunoScape | ImmunoScape is an immunomics-focused company with a technology platform that allows for immune profiling and characterization of the human immune response at extremely high resolution. The company’s Deep Immunomics platform combines mass cytometry, single cell sequencing, and proprietary computational bioinformatics, data analysis, andvisualization tools to provide novel, reproducible immune profiling information. This technology has been utilized across multiple therapeutic areas, especially in oncology and infectious disease, both to better understand immunotherapy safety and efficacy and to identify drug targets. | $14M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 20, 2022 |  |
| e-Zinc | Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future. | $25M | Series A | Apr 07, 2022 |  |
| NUBURU | NUBURU is disrupting the world's battery manufacturing, cell phone manufacturing, and e-mobility markets by providing the best in class technology for welding copper, aluminum and dissimilar metals. The disruptive performance of NUBURU's lasers has been validated by customers worldwide. It has invested in automated manufacturing inanticipation of the large demand from these rapidly growing market segments. NUBURU is currently in fund raising mode, seeking mezzanine funding for expanding manufacturing, sales, and marketing and operation organizations. The company blue laser technology breaks new ground—available as either a standard AO laser or high-brightness MISAKI laser by enabling radical gains in speed and quality in existing metal processes, as well as also unlocking a path to new designs for both conventional laser-metal machining and additive manufacturing (3D printing). | $5.6M | Private Equity | Jan 26, 2022 |  |
| InterVenn | InterVenn focuses on the identification, quantification, and classification of Glycoproteomic and other PTM signals found in human blood and tissue for biomarker and target discovery. It specializes in the fields of biotechnology and life science. The company's VISTA is the first commercially available platform that can assess (serum orplasma) protein glycosylation in a site-specific manner, across thousands of peptides and glycopeptides.It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. | $201M | Series C | Aug 02, 2021 |  |
| ImmunoScape | ImmunoScape is an immunomics-focused company with a technology platform that allows for immune profiling and characterization of the human immune response at extremely high resolution. The company’s Deep Immunomics platform combines mass cytometry, single cell sequencing, and proprietary computational bioinformatics, data analysis, andvisualization tools to provide novel, reproducible immune profiling information. This technology has been utilized across multiple therapeutic areas, especially in oncology and infectious disease, both to better understand immunotherapy safety and efficacy and to identify drug targets. | $14M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 14, 2021 |  |
| InterVenn | InterVenn focuses on the identification, quantification, and classification of Glycoproteomic and other PTM signals found in human blood and tissue for biomarker and target discovery. It specializes in the fields of biotechnology and life science. The company's VISTA is the first commercially available platform that can assess (serum orplasma) protein glycosylation in a site-specific manner, across thousands of peptides and glycopeptides.It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. | $34M | Series B | Nov 16, 2020 |  |
| ImmunoScape | ImmunoScape is an immunomics-focused company with a technology platform that allows for immune profiling and characterization of the human immune response at extremely high resolution. The company’s Deep Immunomics platform combines mass cytometry, single cell sequencing, and proprietary computational bioinformatics, data analysis, andvisualization tools to provide novel, reproducible immune profiling information. This technology has been utilized across multiple therapeutic areas, especially in oncology and infectious disease, both to better understand immunotherapy safety and efficacy and to identify drug targets. | $11M |  | Aug 12, 2020 |  |
| TeraPore Technologies | TeraPore's cutting edge technology facilitates rapid and efficient purification of biological fluids. Combining uniform pores with large pore densities enables purification of high-value products with fast processing times. Please contact us for more information. | $6M | Series A | Mar 06, 2018 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Genoa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/5-prime-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BDC Capital Cleantech Practice](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cleantech-practice) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [EDBI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edbi) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eni Next](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eni-next) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [RA Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ra-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Anzu Partners

VC Fund · Washington, United States

Anzu Partners is an investment firm that focuses on industrial and life science technology companies with the potential to transform their industry. Anzu's portfolio support platform is dedicated to drive results beyond our initial investment and establish long-term relationships. We team with entrepreneurs to develop and commercializetechnological innovations by providing capital and deep expertise in business development, market positioning, global connectivity, and operations. .Co-founders Whitney Haring-Smith, David Michael, and David Seldin launched the firm in 2014 in Washington, District of Columbia.

5 contacts available at Anzu Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cathryn Stickel | Director, Talent Management and Organizational Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cathryn-stickel |
| Christine Fitzgerald | Senior Accountant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christine-fitzgerald |
| David Michael | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-michael-4 |
| David Seldin | Managing Partner and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-seldin-2 |
| Debrah Herman | Chief Financial Officer and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/debrah-herman-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does David Michael invest in?

David Michael invests primarily in Life Science, Biotechnology and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did David Michael last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Michael closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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