# Michael Montero

> Michael Montero is a seed investor at Struck Studio backing SaaS and Information Technology. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Struck Studio](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/struck-studio)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelmontero/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/michaelmontero

Michael Montero is a seed investor at Struck Studio in New York focused on SaaS and Information Technology. Michael Montero is the Founder of Montero Ventures. He previously worked at American Express as a Vice President, Global Mobile and Web Engineering. Michael Montero attended New York University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 50% |
| B2B | 1 | 25% |
| Video | 1 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meez Culinary Solutions | Meez Culinary Solutions is a SaaS company that transforms recipe content including videos and pictures into an interactive database. Meez Culinary Solutions helps its users to ideate, organize and search, collaborate, share, and execute their ideas. | $9M | Series A | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Shardeum | Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that provides low gas fees while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding. Shardeum uses sharding to increase TPS with the addition of every new node. Shardeum will scale linearly thanks to dynamic state sharding. Every node that joins theShardeum network automatically raises the number of transactions per second (TPS), ensuring cheap transaction costs even as use grows. | $18.2M | Seed | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| Meez Culinary Solutions | Meez Culinary Solutions is a SaaS company that transforms recipe content including videos and pictures into an interactive database. Meez Culinary Solutions helps its users to ideate, organize and search, collaborate, share, and execute their ideas. | $4.5M | Seed | Dec 10, 2021 |  |
| Sequel.io | Sequel is a low-code live video platform that lets brands like Zoominfo, AMS, Apollo and G42, host webinars and events directly on their own websites—turning them into hubs for engagement. With built-in Audience Insights and Sequel AI, Sequel tracks the full customer journey and delivers rich intent data to power more personalized and effectivego-to-market strategies. | $2.7M | Seed | Apr 23, 2021 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Struck Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/struck-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aurify Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aurify-brands) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Big Brain Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-brain-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Branded Hospitality](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/branded-strategic-advisors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Struck Studio

VC Fund · Santa Monica, United States

Struck Studio operates as a venture capital firm, focusing on investing in and building transformative technology. The firm functions as a co-founder, providing strategic support to startups from ideation to achieving growth. Struck Studio identifies promising startup concepts, invests in them, and helps them find experienced entrepreneurs to runthe company once signs of product/market fit are found. The firm is also involved in the crypto space through Struck Crypto. Struck Studio is independently funded by top venture firms.

2 contacts available at Struck Studio.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Montero | Founder & Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-montero |
| Tom Ryan | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-ryan |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Montero invest in?

Michael Montero invests primarily in SaaS, Information Technology and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 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 Montero last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Montero closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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