# Michael Mignano

> Michael Mignano is a Series A investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners backing Software. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmignano/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mignano
- Website: https://x.com/mignano

Michael Mignano is a Series A investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Michael Mignano is based out of New York, New York, and is the Partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners and also a Board Member of Tome. Michael previously worked at Spotify as Head of Talk (Podcasts, Video, and Live). Michael Mignano attended the University of Delaware.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.3M–$6M |
| Series A | $6.5M–$30M |
| Series C | $80M–$6B |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 9% |
| Marketplace | 4 | 9% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 13 | 30% |
| Seed | 10 | 23% |
| Series C | 5 | 11% |
| Series B | 4 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Board | Board is a 24-inch tabletop gaming console that blends the tactile, face-to-face interaction of traditional board games with the immersive and dynamic elements of video games. Designed to bring people together physically around a table, it features 12 exclusive games across arcade, strategy, action, and more, each controlled by unique physicalpieces that make gameplay intuitive. Suitable for players aged 6 and up, Board supports solo, cooperative, and competitive play, making it ideal for family game nights and social gatherings, with parental controls and no mature content. It offers a fresh, social, and interactive gaming experience that encourages engagement and fun for players of all skill levels. | $20M | Series A | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| Granola | AI note-taking solution | $125M | Series C | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Suno | Suno is a music start-up that enables anyone to make the songs they want. The company aims to help people rediscover the joy of play and exploration. | $250M | Series C | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Dialogue AI | Dialogue AI is a customer research platform designed to make research accessible to every team by democratizing the process. It uses intelligent AI assistance to streamline the entire study lifecycle, from generating a high-quality research plan and recruiting precise participants to executing the studies. Its core product is an AI agent thatconducts conversational, adaptive interviews at scale, which then generates instant insights, transcripts, and key takeaways for the user. | $6M | Seed | Oct 17, 2025 |  |
| Macroscope | Macroscope wants on-demand analytics to take the place of status meetings. Use the highest signal-to-noise code reviews to merge code more quickly and with fewer problems. | $30M | Series A | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Neuralink | Neuralink develops implantable brain-computer interface (BCI) systems designed to facilitate direct communication between the human brain and external devices. The company focuses on creating a scalable neural implant that records and transmits brain signals with high precision. Neuralink's primary device, often referred to as a"Link," includes ultra-thin threads that are surgically placed in the brain to monitor neural activity and potentially stimulate it. These devices are intended for applications in medical treatment, such as helping individuals with paralysis regain motor function or communication capabilities. Neuralink also invests in developing robotic surgical systems to perform the implantation procedure with high accuracy and minimal invasiveness. The long-term goal involves enabling broader human-computer symbiosis, including interaction with artificial intelligence systems. | $649M | Series E | May 27, 2025 |  |
| Granola | AI note-taking solution | $43M | Series B | May 14, 2025 |  |
| xAI | XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe. | $6B | Series C | Nov 20, 2024 |  |
| TollBit | TollBit is a content monetization platform that allows AI bots and data scrapers to pay websites directly to license their content and protects the health of the entire content ecosystem. | $24M | Series A | Oct 22, 2024 |  |
| Granola | AI note-taking solution | $20M | Series A | Aug 08, 2024 |  |

10 of 44 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NFDG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nfdg-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Spark Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spark-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Shrug Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shrug-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Lightspeed Venture Partners

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies.Lightspeed Venture Partners invests invarious sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social.

5 contacts available at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arsham Memarzadeh | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arsham-memarzadeh |
| Galym Imanbayev | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galym-imanbayev-3ecc |
| James Ephrati | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-ephrati |
| Justin Overdorff | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-overdorff |
| Michael Mignano | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-mignano |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Mignano invest in?

Michael Mignano invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 44 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 Mignano's check size?

Michael Mignano typically joins rounds of $3.3M–$6M at Seed, $6.5M–$30M at Series A and $80M–$6B at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Michael Mignano participates in.

### When did Michael Mignano last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Mignano closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 44 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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