Michael Steinberg
Founder & General Partner @ Reciprocal Ventures
New York, United States
Michael Steinberg is a seed investor at Reciprocal Ventures in New York focused on SaaS and Software. Michael is responsible for the overall leadership and investing efforts at the firm. He is an active investor and presently sits on the boards of Reciprocal portfolio companies Peekd, MindBridge, Qwil, WorkRails, and Tallarium.Michael concentrates on the capital markets, asset management and breakthrough technologies powering blockchains andmachine intelligence. He has been an early backer of notable pioneers in these areas including DataMinr, MindBridge, Solana, and The Graph.Prior to Reciprocal, Michael served as a Portfolio Manager at SAC Capital Management (now Point 72) from 1996 to 2012. Starting at SAC during the early commercialization of the internet, he managed public technology investments within the hardware, enterprise software and communication sectors, generating 15 consecutive years of positive returns. His focus shifted in 2012, where he led the firm’s first Fintech investment in the private markets. He started his career at boutique asset manager Sanford C. Bernstein.Michael has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.On weekends, Michael and his wife actively manage their two teenagers and is passionate about travel, wine and baseball. He can often be found proselytizing cryptocurrencies, Burgundy and the Mets.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Michael Steinberg invests in
Stages Michael Steinberg invests in
Countries Michael Steinberg invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (33%)
- Software 2 (33%)
- E-Commerce 2 (33%)
- Market Research 2 (33%)
- Business Intelligence 2 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (67%)
- Series A 1 (17%)
- Series B 1 (17%)
Country
- United States 3 (50%)
- Germany 1 (17%)
Investments
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Whym
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Whym is an end-to-end ecom, payments & first-party data software suite for social selling. Servicing more than 500 SMB merchants & mid-market retailers across 35,000 consumer wallets through unique, future-of-retail solutions like text-to-pay, universal multi-merchant carts, and transparent digital identities for shoppers.Trusted bybrands like Siete Foods, The Hundreds and Doe beauty.Backed by investors & angels at Stripe, Venmo, Paypal, Apple, Google, Lightspeed, Sequoia, Salesforce, Microsoft, Snap, Facebook, Redbull, Spotify, Bread (BNPL), Good Money, AirBNB, WeWork, The Council, AngelList, Fast Co, P&G, Amplitude, SAP & others.Built by ex-Snap employees who share a background in fintech, consumer GTM and retail software.Visit https://kellyny.land/ Whym is an end-to-end ecom, payments & first-party data software suite for social selling. Servicing more than 500 SMB merchants & mid-market retailers across 35,000 consumer wallets through unique, future-of-retail solutions like text-to-pay, universal multi-merchant carts, and transparent digital identities for shoppers. Trusted by brands like Siete Foods, The Hundreds and Doe beauty. Backed by investors & angels at Stripe, Venmo, Paypal, Apple, Google, Lightspeed, Sequoia, Salesforce, Microsoft, Snap, Facebook, Redbull, Spotify, Bread (BNPL), Good Money, AirBNB, WeWork, The Council, AngelList, Fast Co, P&G, Amplitude, SAP & others. Built by ex-Snap employees who share a background in fintech, consumer GTM and retail software. | $5.9M / Seed / Dec 13, 2021 | |
Extend
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Extend provides digital card solutions for businesses. Using their existing credit card, companies and innovators everywhere can now access the full power of virtual cards for their businesses, products, and clients. Extend offers several products, including a suite of aggregated virtual card APIs, a digital corporate card app, and anindustry-first card tokenization service. | $40M / Series B / Oct 27, 2021 | |
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Extend
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Extend provides digital card solutions for businesses. Using their existing credit card, companies and innovators everywhere can now access the full power of virtual cards for their businesses, products, and clients. Extend offers several products, including a suite of aggregated virtual card APIs, a digital corporate card app, and anindustry-first card tokenization service. | $11M / Series A / Apr 10, 2019 | |
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Extend
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Extend provides digital card solutions for businesses. Using their existing credit card, companies and innovators everywhere can now access the full power of virtual cards for their businesses, products, and clients. Extend offers several products, including a suite of aggregated virtual card APIs, a digital corporate card app, and anindustry-first card tokenization service. | $3M / Seed / Apr 24, 2018 | |
peekd
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peekd is an e-commerce intelligence platform helping online businesses make smart decisions and realize opportunities. With peekd, companies find power in data and get a strategic advantage. Hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world rely on peekd’s products to optimize their online performance and unlock their full potential. Peekd helpsstartups to get started and grow their revenues and established businesses to accelerate into new markets. | Seed / Jan 01, 2018 | |
Grips Intelligence
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Grips Intelligence is an e-commerce market research platform that provides the insights necessary for manufacturers, retailers, and investors to identify growth opportunities. Thousands of businesses around the world rely on Grips Intelligence's transactional intelligence data to optimize their online sales performance and unlock their fullpotential. | Seed / Jan 01, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About Reciprocal Ventures
Reciprocal is an early-stage venture firm backing the future of web3.
Reciprocal Ventures Contacts
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Michael Steinberg
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What does Michael Steinberg invest in?
Michael Steinberg invests primarily in SaaS, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 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 Steinberg last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Michael Steinberg closed in Dec 2021. Shizune tracks 6 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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