# Michael Wilens

> Michael Wilens is a Series A investor at Fidelity (Boston) backing SaaS and Email. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Fidelity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fidelity-investments)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-wilens-20b0555/

Michael Wilens is a Series A investor at Fidelity in Boston focused on SaaS and Email. Michael Wilens serves as a Special Advisor at Fidelity Investments. Wilens also serves as a board director of COLT Telecom, ProBuild and Exemplify.Wilens joined Fidelity Investments in June 2008 as the president of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCo), and currently serves as a special advisor to senior Fidelity leadership. In thiscapacity, he provides executive oversight to a variety of Fidelity business units including Fidelity Charitable, the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT), Fidelity Business Consulting, XTRAC Solutions, Enterprise Talent, and Enterprise Account Management. Mr. Wilens also previously served as the president of Corporate Operations and Technology, in addition to leading Fidelity’s Workplace Investing business. Prior to joining Fidelity, Wilens spent eleven years in senior roles at Thomson Reuters, including chief executive officer of its North American Legal division, Westlaw.Wilens holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, and bachelor and master of science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5M–$6.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| Email | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Customer Service | 1 | 50% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 50% |

7 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Language I/O | The future of translation is conversational and Language I/O’s proprietary machine translation optimization technology ensures that every conversation is understood. Their machine translation optimizer can translate difficult to translate user-generated content such as jargon, slang, abbreviations, and misspellings in 150 languages over chat,email, article, and social support channels.Language I/O seamlessly integrates within all major CRMs and also provides an API. Finally, we let customers decide whether to use professional human linguists, our machine translation optimizer, or a combination of the two. | $6.5M | Series A | Jan 11, 2022 |  |
| Language I/O | The future of translation is conversational and Language I/O’s proprietary machine translation optimization technology ensures that every conversation is understood. Their machine translation optimizer can translate difficult to translate user-generated content such as jargon, slang, abbreviations, and misspellings in 150 languages over chat,email, article, and social support channels.Language I/O seamlessly integrates within all major CRMs and also provides an API. Finally, we let customers decide whether to use professional human linguists, our machine translation optimizer, or a combination of the two. | $5M | Series A | Mar 23, 2021 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Omega Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omega-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Golden Seeds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-seeds) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gutbrain Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gutbrain-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Caruso Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caruso-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [PBJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pbj-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Fidelity

VC Fund · Boston, United States

Fidelity is a privately-owned investment manager focusing on a diverse set of customers. It also provides IRAs, 401(k) rollovers, annuities, discount brokerage services, retirement services, estate planning, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, and life insurance services to its clients. Fidelity provides its services toindividual investors, businesses, financial advisors, and institutions. It manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds. Fidelity invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It conducts in-house research to make its investments. It helps over 32 million people feel more confident in their most important financial goals, manage employee benefit programs for over 22,000 businesses, and support more than 13,000 financial institutions with innovative investment and technology solutions to grow their businesses.Headquartered in Boston, Fidelity serves its customers through 12 regional offices and more than 190 Investor Centers in the United States.

5 contacts available at Fidelity.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Wilens | President, Enterprise Services | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-wilens |
| Neil Constable | Head of Quantitative Research and Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neil-constable |
| Rudy Gopalakrishnan | Executive | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rudy-gopalakrishnan |
| Vipul Gautam | SVP, Director of Research, Workplace Investing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vipul-gautam |
| Abigail Johnson | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abigail-johnson |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Wilens invest in?

Michael Wilens invests primarily in SaaS, Email and Software startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 2 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 Wilens's check size?

Michael Wilens typically joins rounds of $5M–$6.5M 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 Wilens participates in.

### When did Michael Wilens last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Wilens closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 2 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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