Michael Abbott
General Partner @ Kleiner Perkins
San Francisco, United States
Michael Abbott is a Series A investor at Kleiner Perkins in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Artificial Intelligence. Michael Abbott is the VP of Engineering at Apple.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
Last updated:
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Industries Michael Abbott invests in
Stages Michael Abbott invests in
Countries Michael Abbott invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 7 (27%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (27%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (15%)
- Analytics 3 (12%)
- Marketing 3 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 8 (31%)
- Seed 5 (19%)
- Series B 5 (19%)
- Series C 3 (12%)
- Funding Round 2 (8%)
Country
- United States 16 (62%)
- India 1 (4%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| alphaXiv serves applied AI teams by streamlining the path from research to production | $7M / Seed / Nov 19, 2025 | ||
| Oasiz is pioneering what it calls “playable content”—a new category where AI-powered tools enable users to generate games in seconds and share with the same speed and cultural resonance as memes or short videos. Unlike traditional game platforms, Oasiz is designed for viral discovery: creators can layer in the subtle cues, humor, and authenticitythat fuel TikTok’s cultural waves, but now in the form of games. | $2.5M / Seed / Oct 08, 2025 | ||
| Serro helps engineering organizations scale their TPM capacity. In an era where AI agents are rapidly increasing code output, engineering teams need a new operating layer for coordination, visibility, and follow-through. Serro creates live program memory from scattered engineering signals across code, tickets, meetings, and messages. Delegatecoordination to Serro agents. Scale the shared human oversight. | $3.2M / Pre-Seed / Jun 09, 2025 | ||
| Unblocked is a continuous integration platform for mobile apps hosted in the cloud. Unblocked was developed as a result of difficult collective experiences spending long periods of time in meetings, putting up with interruptions, and sifting through dated documentation while developing software at businesses like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Apple. | $20M / Series A / May 06, 2025 | ||
| The leader in private AI. | $43M / Series A / Sep 10, 2024 | ||
| Astrocade AI is an AI-powered social gaming platform that allows anybody to create games and interactive experiences. | $12M / Seed / Jun 11, 2024 | ||
| Candidate Labs is a recruitment platform that offers all hiring process services for candidates and employers to connect professionally. We’re reimagining what’s possible in the recruiting space by creating a radically better experience for both professionals and the technology companies hiring them. Through end-to-end process reinvention andtechnology enablement, our team of experienced search professionals are delivering results other firms simply cannot. | $5M / Seed / Jun 25, 2020 | ||
| Ripcord turns documents into powerful data. As a disruptor in the document intelligence market, Ripcord’s AI-driven platform harnesses proprietary robotics, generative AI, and cloud software to digitize and accurately derive vital information from paper and digital documents. Founded out of NASA research, Ripcord is backed by leading investorsincluding Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, Icon Ventures, Lux Capital, MUIP, and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. | $9.5M / Series A / Mar 23, 2017 | ||
| We build Navigator, a Teamwork Assistant for busy leaders. Navigator comes pre-loaded with world-class collaboration workflows for meeting management, decision-making, and culture-building. To start, Navigator applies best practices to help leaders run productive and engaging meetings without all the busywork. | $12M / Series A / Sep 15, 2016 | ||
| ClearStory Data's solution offers a new way for business users to easily discover, analyze and consume data at scale from corporate, web and premium data sources for combined and up-to-date insights. Data sources include relational databases, Hadoop, Web and social application interfaces, and third-party data providers. ClearStory Data'splatform modernizes data analysis by introducing a new user model for big data analysis. The platform simplifies access to disparate data sources, automatically manages data harmonization, and enables interactive analysis at scale. With ClearStory's solution, organizations can easily converge data from corporate and third-party sources to make business decisions faster and across distributed teams in ways never before possible. | $10.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 29, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on earlycomputer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in the digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.
Kleiner Perkins Contacts
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Charles Holloway
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Ilya Fushman
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Jerry Liang
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Kevin Compton
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What does Michael Abbott invest in?
Michael Abbott invests primarily in SaaS, Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Michael Abbott closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 26 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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