Michael Neril
Founder & Managing Partner @ Spider Capital
San Francisco, United States
Michael Neril is a seed investor at Spider Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Michael has worked with technology startups for 15 years as an advisor, investor, co-founder or operator. Michael is a co-founder of Webb Investment Network (“WIN”), which he launched in 2010 with Maynard Webb. As Managing Director, Michael led all investment activities for the firm. He focused largely on enterprise cloud applications,marketplaces, and mobile marketing platforms, investing in over 50 companies across these sectors. Prior to WIN, Michael worked at LiveOps, a cloud-based contact center and labor marketplace, where he ran business development for its next-generation virtual work marketplace. While there, he also incubated and ran the fastest growing product line within the Company. Michael joined LiveOps after it acquired the second of two technology startups which he co-founded called Ooreka, a virtual work marketplace. Michael started his career as an investment banker in ING Barings’ Technology Group where he primarily advised venture-backed startups on M&A and corporate finance activities. Michael is also a mentor at several startup accelerators. Michael earned a BA in International Relations from Tufts University.
- Total investments:
- 42
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Michael Neril invests in
Stages Michael Neril invests in
Countries Michael Neril invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 15 (36%)
- Artificial Intelligence 12 (29%)
- Machine Learning 8 (19%)
- SaaS 6 (14%)
- Computer 6 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (33%)
- Series A 12 (29%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (14%)
- Series B 4 (10%)
- Series C 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 17 (40%)
- Canada 2 (5%)
- Israel 2 (5%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| CoLab is a Design Engagement System that helps engineering teams make better technical decisions, faster. By combining AI-powered design checks with real-time collaboration, CoLab turns every review into structured, searchable knowledge database. Over time, that knowledge becomes fuel for AI agents that prevent repeat mistakes and surface lessonslearned when they matter most. It’s how engineering teams scale good decisions across people, programs, and time. | $17.2M / Secondary Market / Nov 10, 2025 | ||
| CoLab is a Design Engagement System that helps engineering teams make better technical decisions, faster. By combining AI-powered design checks with real-time collaboration, CoLab turns every review into structured, searchable knowledge database. Over time, that knowledge becomes fuel for AI agents that prevent repeat mistakes and surface lessonslearned when they matter most. It’s how engineering teams scale good decisions across people, programs, and time. | $72M / Series C / Nov 10, 2025 | ||
| Percepto is a developer of autonomous drone technology for inspection and surveillance.Drones hold the potential to disrupt multi-billion dollar industries including energy, security, insurance, agriculture, and more. Drones completely change the way inspection, measurement, surveillance, and deliveries are done today. Still, the main barrier tomaking them a must-have platform is the ability of drones to perform tasks autonomously.The company is at the forefront of redefining how industrial sites and critical infrastructure are holistically inspected and monitored, harnessing remote robotics to autonomously collect, aggregate, and analyze visual data.Leveraging its experience with Percepto Sparrow, the most deployed drone-in-a-box solution on the market, Percepto introduced Percepto AIM (Autonomous Inspection and Monitoring) the first end-to-end autonomous inspection and monitoring platform. Percepto AIM empowers the remote operation center of the future to assess risk, minimize downtime, drive efficiency, increase safety, and reduce operational costs. | $67M / Series C / Jun 12, 2023 | ||
| Datagen Technologies develops simulated data technology to be scalable, bias-free, and automatically annotated. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $50M / Series B / Mar 23, 2022 | ||
| Cyble provides the fastest and most comprehensive coverage across adversaries, infrastructure, exposure, weaknesses, and targets.Cyble empowers governments and enterprises to safeguard their citizens and infrastructure by providing critical intelligence in a timely manner and enabling rapid detection, prioritization, and remediation of securitythreats through its advanced capabilities for data analysis, expert insights, and automated processesHeadquartered in Cupertino, California, with offices in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and India, Cyble has a global presence. To learn more about Cyble, visit www.cyble.com.w: cyble.com / getodin.com / thecyberexpress.com / amibreached.com | $10M / Series A / Feb 22, 2022 | ||
| Cyble provides the fastest and most comprehensive coverage across adversaries, infrastructure, exposure, weaknesses, and targets.Cyble empowers governments and enterprises to safeguard their citizens and infrastructure by providing critical intelligence in a timely manner and enabling rapid detection, prioritization, and remediation of securitythreats through its advanced capabilities for data analysis, expert insights, and automated processesHeadquartered in Cupertino, California, with offices in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and India, Cyble has a global presence. To learn more about Cyble, visit www.cyble.com.w: cyble.com / getodin.com / thecyberexpress.com / amibreached.com | $4M / Seed / Apr 06, 2021 | ||
| Celential.ai're an early-stage startup bringing to market AI-driven services to empower people to own their career development and match talented candidates with the best opportunities. Their team has deep expertise in AI & building data/AI-driven products, as well as a stellar track record in recruiting/developing/managingtalents. | $9.5M / Series A / Mar 30, 2021 | ||
| Datagen Technologies develops simulated data technology to be scalable, bias-free, and automatically annotated. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $18.5M / Series A / Feb 15, 2021 | ||
| Percepto is a developer of autonomous drone technology for inspection and surveillance.Drones hold the potential to disrupt multi-billion dollar industries including energy, security, insurance, agriculture, and more. Drones completely change the way inspection, measurement, surveillance, and deliveries are done today. Still, the main barrier tomaking them a must-have platform is the ability of drones to perform tasks autonomously.The company is at the forefront of redefining how industrial sites and critical infrastructure are holistically inspected and monitored, harnessing remote robotics to autonomously collect, aggregate, and analyze visual data.Leveraging its experience with Percepto Sparrow, the most deployed drone-in-a-box solution on the market, Percepto introduced Percepto AIM (Autonomous Inspection and Monitoring) the first end-to-end autonomous inspection and monitoring platform. Percepto AIM empowers the remote operation center of the future to assess risk, minimize downtime, drive efficiency, increase safety, and reduce operational costs. | $45M / Series B / Nov 24, 2020 | ||
| Vectice is the Regulatory MLOps platform for AI/ML developers and validators. Vectice makes documenting, governing, and collaborative reviewing of AI/ML models a breeze.Vectice continuously documents models throughout the model lifecycle, keeping models audit-ready while ensuring transparency and alignment with evolving standards. Withautomated lineage tracking, integration of validation libraries, and customizable workflows, Vectice empowers AI developers and model validators to focus on high-impact work while ensuring they follow regulatory guidelines.Vectice works with global AI/ML developers, validators, and leaders to realize ROI within 45 days by expediting approval workflows that accelerate time-to-production by 25%, maximizing operational efficiency that slashes documentation creation time by 90% and increases team productivity up to 25%.Vectice integrates seamlessly with popular AI/ML tools like Python, R, Snowflake, Databricks, MLflow, and more. | $3M / Seed / Jun 17, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Spider Capital
Spider Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in seed-stage investments. The firm targets investments in technology-driven enterprise cloud software companies. The firm focuses on investments in United States, Canada, and Israel. The firm seeks to lead or co-lead seed round investments. The firm also provides follow-on funding by co-investing with other funds. The company was founded by Michael Neril in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Spider Capital Contacts
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Judy Loehr
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Matt Fisher
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Michael Neril
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What does Michael Neril invest in?
Michael Neril invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Michael Neril closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 42 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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