Michael Parekh
Board of Directors @ Stocktwits
Michael Parekh is a Series A investor at Stocktwits focused on Mobile and Social Media. After over two decades at Goldman Sachs, Michael has been active investor & entrepreneur over the past decade, focused on both private & public technology-driven opportunities. He also serves on various advisory boards of start-up internet companies. A Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former partner at Goldman Sachs, and founder of itsInternet Research effort in 1994, Michael has been living online since the early days of CompuServe in the 80s and AOL in the '90s.Michael helped build the Internet Research effort at the firm, which eventually comprised of many analysts covering major internet segments around the world.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Michael Parekh invests in
Stages Michael Parekh invests in
Countries Michael Parekh invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$2.5M
- Angel
- $1M–$3M
- Series A
- $800k–$6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 5 (36%)
- Social Media 4 (29%)
- Apps 3 (21%)
- Messaging 3 (21%)
- Video 2 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (43%)
- Seed 3 (21%)
- Angel 3 (21%)
- Series B 2 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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just.me Inc
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just.me is a free mobile messaging platform that successfully brings the functionality of the camera app, video capture, voice messages, texting, email and other messaging apps all into one powerful application. The user can save memories for themselves; share with family, friends or colleagues; or publish for the world to see; all with asingle app. Memories, Messages or Posts can have unlimited photos, videos, voice and text. Recording life events and deciding who to share them with is here, and its free.Because just.me sits on the smartphone address book, it puts the user in control as to who sees each shared message. There is no ambiguity as to who will see what you share.At just.me it is all about you as you are in control of your information and messages.The app is in beta for iPhone and under development for Android. There is also a web version with reduced publishing features. | $500K / Seed / Jul 30, 2011 | |
Path
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Path is a mobile photo-sharing and messaging service for building personal social networks with up to 150 contacts. Currently Path Places. Path Talk and Path sold to Daum Kakao May 28, 2015.Path brings people closer together. Guided by the belief that mobile technology will fundamentally change the cultural, social, and economic landscape, Pathfocuses on simplicity, quality, and privacy to provide the best mobile personal networking service in the world. Path was designed with the people they love, closest friends, and family in mind. | $2.5M / Seed / Nov 14, 2010 | |
Fluidinfo
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Fluidinfo makes data social within organizations, creating a place for discovery and innovation. Using a publicly writable database as its foundation, Fluidinfo creates technology that changes how individuals and business share and interact with data. Fluidinfo was founded in 2009 and has its headquarters in New York.Fluidinfo are funded byangel investors including Esther Dyson, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Dixon and the following institutional investors: betaworks, IA Ventures, RRE VENTURES LLC, Lerer Hippeau Ventures and Founder Collective. Fluidinfo provides a no-questions-asked writable social object to represent each and every thing. Using a flexible underlying representation of information and a new model of control, it allows users and applications to work with information without constraint. That includes dynamically organizing, sharing, combining and augmenting information, and searching in ways that have previously not been possible. It also allows users to choose exactly which information to share with whom, with separate controls for reading and writing. Fluidinfo makes it possible for data to be social. It allows almost unlimited information personalization by individual users and applications, and also between them. This makes it simple to build a wide variety of applications that benefit from cooperation, and which are open to unanticipated future enhancements. Even more importantly, Fluidinfo facilitates and encourages the growth of applications that leave users in control of their own data. | $800K / Series A / May 24, 2010 | |
Bump Technologies
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Bump Technologies builds mobile applications and APIs that allow two smartphones to identify one another and connect by simply being bumped together. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Mountain View, California. Bump Technologies is funded by Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and other angel investors. | $3.4M / Series A / Oct 24, 2009 | |
Stocktwits
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Stocktwits is a real-time financial communications platform for the financial and investing community. Stocktwits created the $TICKER tag to enable and organize “streams” of information around stocks and markets across the web and social media. These streams provide new forms of insight, ideas, and information that are used by investors,analysts, media, and others as they research stocks and manage their investments.The company was founded in 2008 by long-time investor Howard Lindzon. Today, more than 300,000 investors, market professionals, and public companies share information and ideas about the market and individual stocks using Stocktwits, producing streams that are viewed by an audience of over 40 million across the financial web and social media platforms. | Angel / Sep 23, 2008 | |
Blekko
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Blekko is a search company founded by Rich Skrenta and his core team from previous company Topix and Netscape's Open Directory. Blekko was founded halfway through 2007 and has already earned itself an angel round from Baseline Ventures and two ex-Googlers. | $3M / Series B / May 14, 2008 | |
EQAL
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EQAL is a next-generation media company that combines technology and people to power 24/7/365 digital media properties around consumer brands and celebrities. An EQAL media property is a multiplatform digital magazine that creates a seamless experience for fans across various devices and social networks. With more than 40 mediaproperties, EQAL's award-winning Media Networks include Jennifer Lopez.com; Bethenny.com; Elizabeth Banks.com; ToriSpelling.com; Lauren Conrad.com; Alicia Silverstone's TheKindLife.com; Derek Hough.com; YouTube phenoms ElleandBlair.com and Michelle Phan.com; WalkWithWalgreens.com, KRAFT's Effie Award winning RealWomenofPhiladelphia.com and others. The growing EQAL network reaches more than 60 million trend-setting consumers and generates billions of content impressions every month. EQAL Media Studios produces the portfolio of content for the YouTube Original fashion & beauty channel u look haute. EQAL was founded by online programming pioneers Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried who created many of the "firsts" in the development of the online video industry with lonelygirl15, KateModern and Harpers Globe. EQAL's pop culture-obsessed teams of editors; writers, designers and social media experts create multiplatform media properties in partnership with familiar personalities and brands across numerous verticals. Umbrella is our proprietary social publishing platform that powers our network of highly interactive social websites and mobile apps. The core platform is an API that integrates dozens of third-party API's, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Foursquare, Instagram and more. Because Umbrella websites and applications are connected via API's to popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter, our media properties are "service and device agnostic," making it easy for fans to interact with the property on their favorite social network using their preferred device. The Umbrella platform consists of a web-services application and RESTful API that provides a generic interface for dozens of third-party social API's. Applications built on top of the Umbrella API can seamlessly read-write data across multiple services with fewer API calls and lower overhead. The platform includes a content management system and a mobile publishing application, and provides a framework for future application development including mobile consumer apps, connected-television apps, and more. Our innovative "sponsored post" ad unit is integrated into the feed of content on the homepage of our celebrity websites and syndicated to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Because the ads are shareable, like-able, and incorporate discounts and giveaways, they drive high levels of engagement and ROI. Leveraging our branded content team, brand advertisers can directly work with our celebrity partners to create an on-site "celebrity campaign" or a micro-site "branded community." EQAL's worked with the biggest brands on earth, including Kraft, Walgreens, Avon, Clorox and more, and set the bar for social media advertising with the 2011 Effie award-winning Real Women of Philadelphia campaign. The leadership team includes technology and creative executives from CAA, Disney, E! Entertainment, Firstborn, McKinsey, Trailer Park, MTV, FUSE TV, Idealab, and Amazon. EQAL's in house production arm, EQAL Studios, launched the YouTube Fashion & Beauty Original YouTube Channel, u look haute in April 2011. The core programming includes a mix of short form (3-5 minutes) and long form (12-22 minute) videos. u look haute features traditional celebrities like Lauren Conrad and Chelsea Kane, YouTube stars like Elle and Blair Fowler and developing YouTube talent in Mary Darling and Leah Ashley, ReNailz and Rachel DaMita in a slate of programming laid out like a network. The channel has consistently grown its audience in rapid succession through discovery and excitement over the episodic and on demand programming—viewership surpassed 1 million in 16 days; passed 2 million at the start of week 6; topped 3 million in less than eight weeks, exceeded 4 million just 17 days later and moved beyond the five million mark on July 6, three months after its launch, passing 7 million views in the first five months since its premiere. The channel debuted more than 140 videos totaling over ten hours of original programming in the first 15-week season. | $5M / Series A / Apr 16, 2008 | |
Seesmic
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Seesmic is a powerful suite of social media management and collaboration tools that provide businesses and individuals with everything they need to build and manage their brands online. With applications on the market.Seesmic is headquartered in San Francisco and was founded by French entrepreneur | $6M / Series A / Feb 14, 2008 | |
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Blekko
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Blekko is a search company founded by Rich Skrenta and his core team from previous company Topix and Netscape's Open Directory. Blekko was founded halfway through 2007 and has already earned itself an angel round from Baseline Ventures and two ex-Googlers. | $2M / Series A / Sep 01, 2007 | |
Rupture
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Rupture was an online destination connecting gamers and allowing them to share gaming experiences, events, challenges, and achievements. The site was founded by Shawn Fanning and investor Ron Conway. After working together with the original Napster and then with music distributor primarily for World of WarCraft (WOW) gamers.The company was based in San Francisco, California. Parent company ThreeSF, Inc., was acquired by | $3M / Angel / Jul 01, 2007 | |
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Co-Investors
About Stocktwits
Stocktwits is a real-time financial communications platform for the financial and investing community. Stocktwits created the $TICKER tag to enable and organize “streams” of information around stocks and markets across the web and social media. These streams provide new forms of insight, ideas, and information that are used by investors,analysts, media, and others as they research stocks and manage their investments.The company was founded in 2008 by long-time investor Howard Lindzon. Today, more than 300,000 investors, market professionals, and public companies share information and ideas about the market and individual stocks using Stocktwits, producing streams that are viewed by an audience of over 40 million across the financial web and social media platforms.
Stocktwits Contacts
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Michael Parekh
Board of Directors
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Howard Lindzon
Co-founder and CEO
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Michael Feser
CEO ST Invest LLC d/b/a Trade App
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Rishi Khanna
Chief Executive Officer
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FAQ
What does Michael Parekh invest in?
Michael Parekh invests primarily in Mobile, Social Media and Apps startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 14 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 Parekh's check size?
Michael Parekh typically joins rounds of $500k–$2.5M at Seed, $1M–$3M at Angel and $800k–$6M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Michael Parekh participates in.
When did Michael Parekh last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Michael Parekh closed in Jul 2011. Shizune tracks 14 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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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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