# Michael Birch

> Michael Birch is a seed investor at 1% of Nothing (San Francisco) backing Apps and Internet. See 50 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [1% of Nothing](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1-of-nothing)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 50
- Last investment: Aug 2021
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mickbirch
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mickbirch

Michael Birch is a seed investor at 1% of Nothing in San Francisco focused on Apps and Internet. Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo. He previously worked at Blab as a Co-Founder. Michael Birch attended Imperial College London.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $465k–$5M |
| Angel | $500k–$750k |
| Series A | $4.5M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 11 | 22% |
| Internet | 10 | 20% |
| Social Media | 10 | 20% |
| Software | 8 | 16% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 12% |

103 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 42% |
| Series A | 14 | 28% |
| Angel | 4 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 4% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 32 | 64% |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 22% |
| Denmark | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HolidayFox | HolidayFox is a platform to discover and book family staycations. From a fun filled day out with the kids through to a whole holiday, HolidayFox has it all. Get suggestions, find, build and book your perfect package all in one place | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Aug 18, 2021 |  |
| Whatifi | Whatifi provides a new way to make and consume interactive experiences on your phone with friends. Whatifi unlocks the ability to discuss, debate and decide what happens next in the movies you watch with friends and family, offering dozens of plotlines, character arcs, and endings. | $10M | Seed | Jun 10, 2020 |  |
| Keyo | Keyo is an end-to-end solution that offers apartment rentals. Now, Keyo has blossomed into a full-scale software-as-a-service for landlords, targeting small-to-medium-sized renters with 20 to 5,000 units. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | $5.5M | Series A | May 11, 2018 |  |
| Motion - Activity Goals | The hardest part of exercising is putting your trainers on.Set your personal weekly activity goal and create a team with friends to make sure you all keep hitting your goals.Choose a goal that works for you:- Active calories- Steps- No. of Workouts- Active distanceCreate a team with your friends and share your goals with each other,so you can motivate each other as you progress through the week towards your goal.Auto Sharing - By syncing your wearable (AppleWatch / FitBit /Garmin) directly with Motion or any other tracker / App via Health, you will never need to ‘post’ your activity to Motion, it will be automatically shared with your group as soon as you finish.Team Streak - The aggregate of your individual goals becomes the team goal, build up the team streak by making sure that everybody in the team hits their own goal. | $427K | Pre-Seed | Apr 04, 2018 |  |
| SmartUp.io | SmartUp is the ultimate platform for peer-to-peer knowledge creation, sharing and exchange.Conceived and developed by a seasoned team of founders and investors behind Founders Forum, Spotify, Siri, lastminute.com and others, SmartUp now hosts more than 150,000 members and is used around the world by startup founders, companies, innovators,business schools and curious entrepreneurs.SmartUp’s intuitive learning system provides communities engaging and fun ways to contribute and consume bite-sized pieces of knowledge and insight. Its powerful platform unlocks your community’s real knowledge to help every member unleash their potential. | $5.5M | Series A | Feb 14, 2017 |  |
| Second Home | Second Home owns and operates an office space for entrepreneurs and creative businesses. Rohan Silva, Samuel Aldenton, and Robin Klein founded it in 2014, with its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom. | $25.5M |  | Oct 31, 2016 |  |
| Meograph | Meograph develops an augmented reality application that makes 3D people from 2D video. It brings users into AR or VR games with their micro-expressions using devices they already have. With just an average smartphone or webcam it literally converts video into 3D locally on the device. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in SanFrancisco, California. | $875K | Seed | Sep 30, 2016 |  |
| Juvo | Juvo was founded with an overarching vision: to establish financial identities for the billions of people worldwide who are creditworthy, yet financially excluded. In partnership with mobile network operators, Juvo’s proprietary Identity Scoring technology uses data science, machine learning and game mechanics to create an identity-basedrelationship with anonymous prepaid users, opening up access to otherwise unattainable mobile financial services. Juvo is a privately held company backed by global business leaders and luminaries in the world of tech, mobile and finance. Its executive team comprises accomplished industry leaders across the data science, consumer internet, financial services and mobile telecom fields. | $14M | Series A | Sep 09, 2016 |  |
| Knotch | Knotch is the content intelligence platform for brands. We pair performance data with consumer sentiment in real time to help marketers plan, measure, optimize and benchmark. Information is the key to growth, and Knotch is committed to enhancing your content efforts across owned and paid strategies. | $10M | Series A | Jan 01, 2016 |  |
| NextLesson | NextLesson’s mission is to make learning relevant and engaging. Built for teachers of K-12 students, NextLesson offers relevant curriculum that immerses students in real-world problem solving through topics they care about. | $2.9M | Seed | Sep 02, 2015 |  |

10 of 50 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Floodgate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/floodgate) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Marc Bell Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-bell-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Ooga Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ooga-labs) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Tuesday Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tuesday-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About 1% of Nothing

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

1% of Nothing wants to change the world through inspiring early-stage corporate philanthropy. It connect startups and founders to causes, where they can donate 1% of their equity, tying their own success to making major differences with those causes.

3 contacts available at 1% of Nothing.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Matt Galligan | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-galligan |
| Michael Birch | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-birch |
| Scott Harrison | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-harrison |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Birch invest in?

Michael Birch invests primarily in Apps, Internet and Social Media startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 50 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Michael Birch's check size?

Michael Birch typically joins rounds of $465k–$5M at Seed, $500k–$750k at Angel and $4.5M–$10M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Michael Birch participates in.

### When did Michael Birch last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Birch closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 50 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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