# Michael Abbott

> Michael Abbott is a Series A investor at Apple backing Artificial Intelligence. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Apple](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apple)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelabbott
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mabb0tt
- Website: http://uncapitalized.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/michael.abbott.3192

Michael Abbott is a Series A investor at Apple in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. Michael Abbott is the VP of Engineering at Apple.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 25% |
| SaaS | 5 | 21% |
| Software | 3 | 13% |
| Analytics | 3 | 13% |
| Marketing | 3 | 13% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 29% |
| Seed | 5 | 21% |
| Series B | 4 | 17% |
| Series C | 3 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 58% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| alphaXiv | alphaXiv serves applied AI teams by streamlining the path from research to production | $7M | Seed | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Oasiz | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| webAI | The leader in private AI. | $43M | Series A | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Astrocade | 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 | 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 |  |
| Aspen | 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 | 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 |  | Jul 29, 2016 |  |
| Airware | Airware is an enterprise drone analytics company enabling enterprises to harness aerial data and turn it into valuable business insights that can be shared and acted on across sites, teams, and geographies. Their solutions enable enterprises to reinvent their organizations for the digital era by translating aerial data into business impact. Dronesare enabling companies to more efficiently and effectively capture data, and Airware allows enterprises to integrate this data with existing information and workflows to improve efficiency, productivity, and safety. Airware provides aerial insights drone solutions for insurance, mining, construction, and aggregates. | $30M | Series C | Mar 31, 2016 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [The Venture Reality Fund/VRF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-reality-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [DAG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dag-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sherpalo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sherpalo-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Apple

VC Fund · Cupertino, United States

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications.Apple provides many products and services, includingiPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores.Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation.Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine.The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

5 contacts available at Apple.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adrian Perica | Head of mergers and acquisitions | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-perica |
| Eddy Cue | SVP of Services | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eddy-cue |
| Ed Ruth | Global Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-ruth |
| Eitan Toledo | Senior Director, Program Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eitan-toledo |
| Jake Shapiro | Head of Creator Partnerships, Apple Podcasts | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jake-shapiro |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Abbott invest in?

Michael Abbott invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Michael Abbott?

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### When did Michael Abbott last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Abbott closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 24 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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