# Michael Faye

> Michael Faye is a startup investor at Segovia (New York). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Segovia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/segovia-corporation)
- Location: New York, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-faye/3/889/651

Michael Faye is a startup investor at Segovia in New York. Michael is co-founder of GiveDirectly, Segovia, and Taptap Send. He has worked extensively in enterprise technology as an Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company, with international governments at the United Nations Millennium Project, and operating large-scale field projects while earning his PhD in Business Economics from Harvard. Michael alsoholds a BA from Harvard in Mathematics and Classics (although he didn’t know Segovia is an aqueduct) and was recognized as a top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy.

## About Segovia

VC Fund · New York, United States

Paying people living in extreme poverty is hard. Segovia technology makes it easy, facilitating payments across Africa and Asia through an integrated platform with support for both corporate payments and social programs. Segovia payments are helping refugees restart their lives in Europe, helping communities rebuild after Ebola in Liberia, andsupporting gig economy workers in East Africa, among many other applications.Segovia’s team combines talented engineering with expertise in emerging-markets payments. Our team includes the co-founders of GiveDirectly, along with early technical leaders behind the IBM SmartCloud, Facebook’s internationalization team, and Google’s search query monetization and Palantir’s expansion into commercial work. Investment is led by Reif Hoffman along with Arif Naqvi, the Omidyar Network, and others.

3 contacts available at Segovia.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Henry Bridge | President & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henry-bridge |
| Michael Faye | Co-Founder and Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-faye |
| Michael Goldfarb | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-goldfarb |

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