# Michael Gorman

> Michael Gorman is a Series B investor at 8thBridge backing Insurance and Health Care. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [8thBridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alvenda-inc)
- Location: Minneapolis, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbgorman

Michael Gorman is a Series B investor at 8thBridge in Minneapolis focused on Insurance and Health Care. Michael Gorman is the Co-Founding Managing Director of Split Rock Partners & he attended Harvard Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Insurance | 2 | 17% |
| Health Care | 2 | 17% |
| Retail | 1 | 8% |
| Hospital | 1 | 8% |
| Software | 1 | 8% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 25% |
| Series E | 3 | 25% |
| Series C | 2 | 17% |
| Series D | 2 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 33% |
| Brazil | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gravia | Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. | $90M | Series E | Mar 09, 2022 |  |
| Gravia | Gravia offers steel products and services tailored for construction, industry, agribusiness, and metalworking. Its products include steel plates, coils, sheets, pipes, tubes, rebars, beams, angles, wires, bars, rods, mesh, gratings, and customized steel solutions for various industries. | $90M | Series E | Mar 09, 2022 |  |
| Gravia | Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. | $28M | Series D | Mar 18, 2021 |  |
| Gravie | Gravie is a health benefits platform that offers insurance services. Their software products include Comfort and Ichra. Gravie designed health benefits to help employers control costs. They take a defined contribution approach, to employers set a fixed budget each year. | $28M | Series D | Mar 18, 2021 |  |
| Gravia | Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. | $14.1M | Series C | Jul 19, 2017 |  |
| Gravia | Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. | $12.5M | Series B | Apr 17, 2015 |  |
| BlackDuck | Black Duck secures and manages open source software worldwide, eliminating open source security vulnerabilities and license compliance pain. With the rapid, widespread adoption of open-source software, Black Duck is a key component of Synopsys’ Software Integrity Platform, the most comprehensive solution for integrating security into the SDLC andsoftware supply chain.Black Duck was established in 2002 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States. | $20M | Series F | Sep 03, 2014 |  |
| BlackDuck | Black Duck secures and manages open source software worldwide, eliminating open source security vulnerabilities and license compliance pain. With the rapid, widespread adoption of open-source software, Black Duck is a key component of Synopsys’ Software Integrity Platform, the most comprehensive solution for integrating security into the SDLC andsoftware supply chain.Black Duck was established in 2002 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States. | $12M | Series E | Oct 12, 2011 |  |
| 8thBridge | Acquired by Fluid, Inc. April 2014 8thBridge provides a Social Discovery platform to brands that want to empower people to discover new product ideas from each other, inspire the creation of crowd-sourced content, and gain a far deeper understanding of their customers. Social media has changed the world forever – for the better – helping tolevel the playing field between millions of people and the institutions that serve them. No government, religion, brand, or company has been left untouched by this movement. Over 100 retail industry senior executives surveyed by KPMG in 2013 reported that social media is the #1 most impactful technology trend on their business. We believe the term “consumer” will soon be retired to the history books as fewer and fewer people consume what they’re sold or do what they’re told. Socially-enlightened brands work with 8thBridge because they not only recognize this new world order, but are ready to embrace it and begin reshaping their business around people. 8thBridge provides a proven path to social monetization for marketing and ecommerce executives that have not been satisfied with their ability to translate fans and followers into measurable sales lift. 8thBridge was recognized by the Always On Global 250 in 2011 as one of the top 250 private companies in the world. 8thBridge is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. Since its founding in 2008, world class brands like Ticketmaster, 7 For All Mankind, Delta Air Lines, Oscar de la Renta, Electronic Arts, and many others have partnered with 8thBridge. 8thBridge is funded by Split Rock Partners and Trident Capital. | $10M | Series B | Mar 21, 2011 |  |
| 8thBridge | Acquired by Fluid, Inc. April 2014 8thBridge provides a Social Discovery platform to brands that want to empower people to discover new product ideas from each other, inspire the creation of crowd-sourced content, and gain a far deeper understanding of their customers. Social media has changed the world forever – for the better – helping tolevel the playing field between millions of people and the institutions that serve them. No government, religion, brand, or company has been left untouched by this movement. Over 100 retail industry senior executives surveyed by KPMG in 2013 reported that social media is the #1 most impactful technology trend on their business. We believe the term “consumer” will soon be retired to the history books as fewer and fewer people consume what they’re sold or do what they’re told. Socially-enlightened brands work with 8thBridge because they not only recognize this new world order, but are ready to embrace it and begin reshaping their business around people. 8thBridge provides a proven path to social monetization for marketing and ecommerce executives that have not been satisfied with their ability to translate fans and followers into measurable sales lift. 8thBridge was recognized by the Always On Global 250 in 2011 as one of the top 250 private companies in the world. 8thBridge is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. Since its founding in 2008, world class brands like Ticketmaster, 7 For All Mankind, Delta Air Lines, Oscar de la Renta, Electronic Arts, and many others have partnered with 8thBridge. 8thBridge is funded by Split Rock Partners and Trident Capital. | $5M | Series A | Jan 25, 2010 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FirstMark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstmark-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [AVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axa-strategic-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Revelation Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/revelation-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Aberdare Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aberdare-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flagship Pioneering](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flagship-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About 8thBridge

VC Fund · Minneapolis, United States

Acquired by Fluid, Inc. April 2014 8thBridge provides a Social Discovery platform to brands that want to empower people to discover new product ideas from each other, inspire the creation of crowd-sourced content, and gain a far deeper understanding of their customers. Social media has changed the world forever – for the better – helping tolevel the playing field between millions of people and the institutions that serve them. No government, religion, brand, or company has been left untouched by this movement. Over 100 retail industry senior executives surveyed by KPMG in 2013 reported that social media is the #1 most impactful technology trend on their business. We believe the term “consumer” will soon be retired to the history books as fewer and fewer people consume what they’re sold or do what they’re told. Socially-enlightened brands work with 8thBridge because they not only recognize this new world order, but are ready to embrace it and begin reshaping their business around people. 8thBridge provides a proven path to social monetization for marketing and ecommerce executives that have not been satisfied with their ability to translate fans and followers into measurable sales lift. 8thBridge was recognized by the Always On Global 250 in 2011 as one of the top 250 private companies in the world. 8thBridge is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. Since its founding in 2008, world class brands like Ticketmaster, 7 For All Mankind, Delta Air Lines, Oscar de la Renta, Electronic Arts, and many others have partnered with 8thBridge. 8thBridge is funded by Split Rock Partners and Trident Capital.

5 contacts available at 8thBridge.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Duncan Angove | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duncan-angove |
| linda Whitaker | Chief Scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/linda-whitaker |
| Michael Bragg | VP Strategic Accounts and Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-bragg |
| Michael Gorman | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-gorman |
| Mike Hrabe | Team Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-hrabe |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Gorman invest in?

Michael Gorman invests primarily in Insurance, Health Care and Retail startups, most often at Series B and Series E stage. Most of the 12 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 Michael Gorman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Gorman closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 12 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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