# Michael Onghai

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

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LookSmart](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/looksmart)
- Location: New York, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/valueinvestor
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mikeonghai
- Website: https://x.com/mikeonghai
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mikeo

Michael Onghai is a startup investor at LookSmart in New York. Michael Onghai was appointed a director in May 2012.Mr. Onghai has been the CEO of LookSmart (NASDAQ CM: LOOK), since February 2013. He has been the founder and Chairman of AppAddictive, an advertising and social commerce platform since July 2011.Michael Onghai is the President of Snowy August Management LLC, a special situations fundconcentrating on the Asian market, spin-offs and event-driven situations.Michael Onghai is the founder of Stock Sheet, Inc., and Daily Stocks, Inc. - the web's early providers of financial information and search engine related content for financial information.Michael Onghai has founded several other internet technology companies for the last two decades. Michael Onghai is an advisor to several internet incubators and is a panelist who advises FundersClub on which companies to accept for its pioneering venture capital platform.Michael Onghai has earned his designation as a Chartered Financial Analyst (2006) and holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated from the Executive Management Certificate Program in Value Investing (The Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing) Graduate School of Business at Columbia Business School.The board believes that Michael Onghai has the experience, qualifications, attributes and skills necessary to serve as a director and chairman of the Audit Committee because of his years of business experience and financial expertise.

## About LookSmart

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

LookSmart (NASDAQ:LOOK) is an online search advertising network solutions company that provides performance solutions for online search advertisers and online publishers. LookSmart offers advertisers targeted, performance based search advertising via its Advertiser Network; and an Ad Center platform for customizable private-label advertisersolutions for online publishers. LookSmart is based in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.looksmart.com/ or call 415-348-7500.

3 contacts available at LookSmart.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| JC Medina | Senior Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jc-medina |
| Lawrence Herman | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lawrence-herman |
| Michael Onghai | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-onghai |

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