# Mike Collett

> Mike Collett is a seed investor at Promus Ventures (Chicago) backing Machine Learning and Mobile. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Promus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/promus-ventures)
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikecollett
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mikecollett
- Website: http://www.promusventures.com

Mike Collett is a seed investor at Promus Ventures in Chicago focused on Machine Learning and Mobile. Mike Collett is the Founder and Managing Partner of Promus Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 19% |
| Mobile | 2 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 6% |
| Retail | 1 | 6% |
| Fashion | 1 | 6% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 38% |
| Series A | 4 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |
| Series E | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 31% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| Denmark | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capra Robotics | Capra Robotics is a research engineer company that patented platform for outdoor mobile robots. | $11.6M | Seed | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| SeerAI | SeerAI is a software development company that provides spatiotemporal analytics and data fusion. | $4M | Seed | Oct 02, 2023 |  |
| Recycleye | Recycleye is a developer of digital tools designed to detect and provide analytics on waste management. The company's tools specialize in machine learning tools to enable smarter characterization, ubiquitous tracking, and automated sorting of waste, enabling users to accelerate the transition towards a circular economy. | $17M | Series A | Feb 02, 2023 |  |
| Recycleye | Recycleye is a developer of digital tools designed to detect and provide analytics on waste management. The company's tools specialize in machine learning tools to enable smarter characterization, ubiquitous tracking, and automated sorting of waste, enabling users to accelerate the transition towards a circular economy. | $4.8M | Seed | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Rocket Lab | Rocket Lab is a space, building rockets and spacecraft that make it easier to get to orbit and to do amazing things there. Rocket Lab provides end-to-end mission services that provide frequent and reliable access to space for civil, defense, and commercial markets. Headquartered in Long Beach, California, Rocket Lab designs and manufactures theElectron launch vehicles and Photon satellite platform and is developing the Neutron launch vehicle. Since its first orbital launch in January 2018, Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle has become the second most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered 105 satellites to orbit for private and public sector organizations, enabling operations in national security, scientific research, space debris mitigation, Earth observation, climate monitoring, and communications. Rocket Lab has two launch sites, including a private orbital launch site located in New Zealand, and a second launch site in Virginia, USA expected to be operational by the end of 2021. Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as the first private commercial mission to Venus. | $140M | Series E | Nov 18, 2018 |  |
| Dispatch | Dispatch is the operating system that empowers modern service experiences for the world’s largest service brands. Our platform connects the enterprise, service provider, and customer together to create a world-class service experience that surpasses the rising expectations of the modern-day market. | $12M | Series A | Jun 14, 2017 |  |
| Behavox | Behavox is an enterprise platform that unifies all types of data into a single data lake, allowing users to query the data and apply machine learning to identify capital markets misconduct and insider threats.Separate Behavox installations form the network defence that aggregates misconduct detection algorithms. The network then uses machinelearning and AI to optimise detection algorithms and suggest new ones. This innovation enables the “brains” to the system to continuously improve and evolve.Complex, high-load and sophisticated engineering is at the core of all the products that Behavox develops to enable deployment at the largest institutions in financial services. They are taking cutting-edge academic research and applying it to enterprise problems that require complex backend engineering with large-scale production footprint. |  | Series A | Jul 13, 2016 |  |
| Gauss Surgical | Gauss Surgical is a med-tech company that develops a vision-based platform for accurate and real-time measurement of surgical blood loss. They develop beautiful applications for iOS backed by sophisticated algorithms and a robust, HIPAA-compliant technical stack to enable real-time monitoring during surgery. The company was incorporated in 2011and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | $12.6M | Series B | Mar 30, 2016 |  |
| Dispatch | Dispatch is the operating system that empowers modern service experiences for the world’s largest service brands. Our platform connects the enterprise, service provider, and customer together to create a world-class service experience that surpasses the rising expectations of the modern-day market. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2015 |  |
| Dispatch | Dispatch is the operating system that empowers modern service experiences for the world’s largest service brands. Our platform connects the enterprise, service provider, and customer together to create a world-class service experience that surpasses the rising expectations of the modern-day market. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2014 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GrandBanks Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grandbanks-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Atypical Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atypical-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Creator Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creator-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-collective) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Jumpstart Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jumpstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Listen](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/listen-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Promus Ventures

VC Fund · Chicago, United States

Promus Ventures invests in early-stage deep-tech software and hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.

5 contacts available at Promus Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gareth Keane | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gareth-keane |
| Kateryna Lopatynska | Administrative & Operations Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kateryna-lopatynska |
| Mike Collett | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-collett |
| Andreea Munteanu | Head of Marketing and Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreea-munteanu-d4d1 |
| Bill Merchantz | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-merchantz-61f8 |

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## FAQ

### What does Mike Collett invest in?

Mike Collett invests primarily in Machine Learning, Mobile and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 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 Mike Collett last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mike Collett closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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