# Mike Dinsdale

> Mike Dinsdale is a Series A investor at Akkadian Ventures backing Software and Human Resources. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Akkadian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akkadian-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Aug 2023
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikedins
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mdinsdale
- Website: https://x.com/mdinsdale

Mike Dinsdale is a Series A investor at Akkadian Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Human Resources. Mike Dinsdale joined DocuSign as chief financial officer in May 2010. Mike's broad experience is highlighted by a proven track record of driving organizations to hyper growth.Most recently, he served as CFO of Lithium, a Software-as-a-Service platform and application suite provider. At Lithium, Mike raised millions in equity financing overthree rounds and was also responsible for two strategic acquisitions. During his tenure Lithium's valuation increased, positioning the company as the clear leader in social CRM.Prior to Lithium, Mike was employee #10 of Velocity11, a life sciences technology company, where he was instrumental in setting business strategy and aggressively driving revenue growth to $50M. Mike further fueled the growth of Velocity11 by dramatically increasing revenue, securing funding and playing a key role during the firm's acquisition by Agilent Technologies in 2007. Mike holds a B.E.Sc in mechanical engineering from the University of Western Ontario, an MBA from McMaster University and the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.5M–$14M |
| Series D | $100M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| Human Resources | 2 | 29% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 29% |
| Employee Benefits | 2 | 29% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 29% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Series D | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 71% |
| Canada | 1 | 14% |
| Mexico | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mentibus.xyz | EdgeIn provides web3-focused data intelligence to the community via a community-driven data platform. The company combines refined automated processes, personalization of human intelligence, and the meaningful utility of blockchain technologies to give you an unparalleled edge in Web3. EdgeIn was founded in 2022 and is based in San Francisco,California. | $400K | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2023 |  |
| Humi | Humi is a payroll, benefits, and insurance platform developing cloud-based software to automate human resources processes. Its platform helps in employee recruiting and onboarding, time-off tracking, scheduling, payroll management, benefits administration, and performance monitoring and reporting. | $19.5M | Series B | May 25, 2022 |  |
| People.ai | People.ai is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for enterprise revenue.People.ai helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams uncover every revenue opportunity from every customer, by capturing all customer contacts, activity and engagement to drive actionable insights across all revenue teams.People.ai empowers sales leaders to bemore effective at managing their teams and growing revenue by giving them a complete picture of sales activities and leveraging AI to deliver sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, one-on-one feedback, and pipeline reviews.The People.ai platform identifies and targets the buying group, and gives marketers a clear visualization of whom sales has spoken with, and which campaign has been successful in each opportunity. Using this information, marketers are able to build personas and deal models in order to better target their marketing efforts and get better campaign ROI.Customer success and services teams use People.ai to ensure they are engaging with the right people when the customer is handed off to them, but more importantly, these post-sales teams are constantly looking to align their effort and activities with the right opportunities and customers, tracking the true cost to support each customer. | $100M | Series D | Aug 11, 2021 |  |
| Backstory | People.ai is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for enterprise revenue.People.ai helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams uncover every revenue opportunity from every customer, by capturing all customer contacts, activity and engagement to drive actionable insights across all revenue teams.People.ai empowers sales leaders to bemore effective at managing their teams and growing revenue by giving them a complete picture of sales activities and leveraging AI to deliver sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, one-on-one feedback, and pipeline reviews.The People.ai platform identifies and targets the buying group, and gives marketers a clear visualization of whom sales has spoken with, and which campaign has been successful in each opportunity. Using this information, marketers are able to build personas and deal models in order to better target their marketing efforts and get better campaign ROI.Customer success and services teams use People.ai to ensure they are engaging with the right people when the customer is handed off to them, but more importantly, these post-sales teams are constantly looking to align their effort and activities with the right opportunities and customers, tracking the true cost to support each customer. | $100M | Series D | Aug 11, 2021 |  |
| Homebase | Homebase is a software application that provides tools for employee scheduling, time tracking, communication, and task management. The app facilitates communication between managers and employees through messaging features, allowing for easy coordination and updates regarding shifts, tasks, and announcements. Employees can clock in and out usingthe app, allowing managers to track hours worked and monitor labor costs in real-time accurately. | $71M | Series C | Jul 29, 2021 |  |
| minu | minu is revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. The company works with HR divisions of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported byFinTech's leading institutional investors globally, including QED. | $14M | Series A | Mar 03, 2021 |  |
| Clause | Clause is the digital contracting platform. The Platform and API enable contracts to be connected to real-time data from APIs, enterprise systems, and distributed ledgers. The company's mission is to transition contracts from static, natural language, documents to dynamic, digital, documents that integrate with an organization'stechnology infrastructure such as accounting, payments, HR, communications, IoT, and much more. It delivers an unprecedented level of speed, integration, and automation to the business world.Clause was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York. | $5.5M | Series A | Jun 27, 2019 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ICONIQ Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iconiq-growth) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mubadala Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mubadala-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Notable Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/notable-capital-e2dd) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [7BC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7bc-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Akkadian Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Akkadian Ventures is a direct secondary investment firm that focuses on providing liquidity to early employees and investors of venture-backed businesses. It offers tailored solutions for companies and employees, with key benefits that include speed, tax efficiency, and rigorous respect for confidentiality. The firm was founded in 2010 and isheadquartered in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at Akkadian Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Benjamin Black | Co-Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-black |
| Chris Tarr | Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-tarr |
| Craig Nolan | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-nolan |
| Loren Siebert | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loren-siebert |
| Mike Dinsdale | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-dinsdale |

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## FAQ

### What does Mike Dinsdale invest in?

Mike Dinsdale invests primarily in Software, Human Resources and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Series D stage. Most of the 7 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 Mike Dinsdale's check size?

Mike Dinsdale typically joins rounds of $5.5M–$14M at Series A and $100M–$100M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mike Dinsdale participates in.

### When did Mike Dinsdale last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mike Dinsdale closed in Aug 2023. Shizune tracks 7 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?

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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