Michael Walrath
Founding Partner @ WGI Group
New York, United States
Michael Walrath is a Chairman and CEO at Yext. Michael previously worked at moat.com as a Chairman. He attended the University of Richmond.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 12%
Last updated:
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Industries Michael Walrath invests in
Stages Michael Walrath invests in
Countries Michael Walrath invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$47M
- Series A
- $600k–$12M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (29%)
- SaaS 3 (18%)
- Advertising 3 (18%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (18%)
- Internet 2 (12%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Whoosh
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Whoosh develops modern club operations software to help private clubs manage everything from the course to the clubhouse. Built with the input of the world's best operators, Whoosh streamlines operations, improves member and staff communication, and enables better hospitality and member experiences. | $10.3M / Series A / Jun 06, 2024 | |
Antithesis
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Antithesis develops QA software that revolutionizes the way software testing is performed. At Antithesis, the company wants to bring the confidence and productivity benefits of autonomous testing to your team. It has developed a platform that searches for bugs in your software, in a controlled environment where all bugs are reproducible. Its firstoffering finds fault tolerance bugs: failures of the software that occur under specific network, hardware, or timing conditions. | $47M / Seed / Feb 13, 2024 | |
Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB)
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TimescaleDB is an open-source time-series database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. TimescaleDB is engineered up from PostgreSQL (packaged as an extension) and yet scales to 100+ billion rows even on a single server. It natively supports standard SQL and the features you expect from a relational database. The company isheadquartered in New York City with a globally distributed team. | $12.4M / Series A / Jan 24, 2018 | |
Confide
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Confide is a messaging platform that relies on public and private encryption keys to keep messages secret while they’re in transit. With encrypted, self-destructing, and screenshot-proof messages, Confide gives users the comfort of knowing that their private communication will now truly stay that way. | $1.6M / Seed / Mar 10, 2016 | |
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Confide
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Confide is a messaging platform that relies on public and private encryption keys to keep messages secret while they’re in transit. With encrypted, self-destructing, and screenshot-proof messages, Confide gives users the comfort of knowing that their private communication will now truly stay that way. | $1.6M / Seed / Mar 10, 2016 | |
Pypestream
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Founded in 2015, Pypestream created the Customer Engagement Center (CEC), a next-gen conversational AI solution that rapidly transforms any business into a fully automated digital brand. Having developed seven ground-breaking automation patents in channel-based communications, Pypestream has quickly become the leader in the fast-growing enterpriseAI space. With its headquarters in New York, Pypestream is expanding globally and has a customer base of Fortune 500 companies, including Shell, Chase, Procter & Gamble, Google, Sling, and HBO Max. Pypestream is continually innovating customer engagement in several key industries, including Streaming and Wireless, Insurance, Healthcare, Travel, eCommerce, and Financial Services.Pypestream is dedicated to ushering companies into the digital era and making every one of their customers, a customer for life. | $2M / Seed / Oct 07, 2015 | |
Yext
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Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers to consumer questions. The platform helps businesses manage all of the public facts that they want consumers to know across the digital ecosystem. It also provides precise, accurate, and current answers to location-based queries that are conducted across the web andmobile applications and voice and AI engines.It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in New York. | $50.3M / Series F / Jun 04, 2014 | |
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Confide
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Confide is a messaging platform that relies on public and private encryption keys to keep messages secret while they’re in transit. With encrypted, self-destructing, and screenshot-proof messages, Confide gives users the comfort of knowing that their private communication will now truly stay that way. | $1.9M / Seed / Feb 04, 2014 | |
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Confide
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Confide is a messaging platform that relies on public and private encryption keys to keep messages secret while they’re in transit. With encrypted, self-destructing, and screenshot-proof messages, Confide gives users the comfort of knowing that their private communication will now truly stay that way. | $1.9M / Seed / Feb 04, 2014 | |
mParticle
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MParticle is a customer data platform for brands to accelerate growth. With MParticle, brands can unify data and simplify partner integrations with enterprise-class security and reliability. It improves marketing, advertising, and analytics by connecting data seamlessly across channels.Sophisticated marketers at companies like Walmart, Starwood,NBC Universal, Spotify, and Airbnb use MParticle to integrate and orchestrate their entire growth stack, allowing them to win in key moments of the customers' journey. It was recognized as one of Crain’s 100 Best Places to Work in New York City and named a “Vendor to Watch” in Gartner’s 2017 Digital Marketing Hubs Magic Quadrant report.MParticle is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, Seattle, Florida, and London. | $3M / Seed / Oct 15, 2013 | |
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Co-Investors
About WGI Group
WGI Group provides early-stage capital to entrepreneurs. The company assists its portfolio companies by drawing from its own experiences in fundraising, hiring, scaling infrastructure, marketing and the many other facets of high-growth technology startups.WGI Group also co-invests with other investment groups, including several Sand Hill Roadventure capitalists as well as various angel groups. It was founded by Jonah Goodhart in 2007.WGI Group is headquartered in New York, United States.
WGI Group Contacts
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Michael Walrath
Founding Partner
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Jonah Goodhart
Co-Founder
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Noah Goodhart
Founder
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FAQ
What does Michael Walrath invest in?
Michael Walrath invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Advertising startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 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 Walrath's check size?
Michael Walrath typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$47M at Seed and $600k–$12M 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 Walrath participates in.
When did Michael Walrath last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Michael Walrath closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 17 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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