# Mike Galgon

> Mike Galgon is a seed investor at Pioneer Square Labs (Seattle) backing Software and SaaS. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pioneer Square Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-square-labs)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-galgon-817374

Mike Galgon is a Managing Director, Venture Partner, and Co-Founder of PSL. He loves partnering with Founders to build world-class companies. Beyond working with pre-launch studio projects, Mike represents PSL on the boards of Ad Lightning, Taunt, Gradient, and Attunely.Mike has had a long career as an entrepreneur and investor in the PacificNorthwest. Mike co-founded aQuantive, which boasted both the largest independent digital agency in the world (Avenue A|Razorfish) and the largest marketer-side ad serving platform (Atlas), prior to selling to Microsoft in 2007. After leaving Microsoft in 2009, Mike served on the boards of Buuteeq (sold to Priceline), Energy Savvy, Market Leader (sold to Zillow), Real Networks, Flexe, Pixvana, and Pipeline Deals.Outside of work, you’ll find Mike in the outdoors: backpacking, camping, surfing, telemarking, snowshoeing, wakeboarding, biking, running, etc., etc.. More trails than macadam, but he’ll get it in regardless. And, when possible, you’ll find him with at least one of his four daughters. Mike has also served on the boards of a variety of non-profit organizations, including Global Partnerships (a leading impact investor focused on market-based solutions to global poverty), The Bush School, The Thacher School, and Summit Public Schools (a leading national charter school network).Mike studied Economics at Duke University, Getting It Done as a Diving / Mine Countermeasures Officer in the US Navy, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 54% |
| SaaS | 4 | 31% |
| Mobile | 3 | 23% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 15% |
| Advertising | 2 | 15% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 15% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Panda AI | Panda AI develops a B2B artificial intelligence platform designed to simplify work and combine various tasks. The platform uses natural language processing to help teams stay on the same page, enabling businesses to combine various apps and simplify workflow. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $760K | Seed | Jun 15, 2023 |  |
| Gemmist | Gemmist is a provider of personalized hair care recommendations and products. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Seattle, Washington, United States. | $2.8M |  | Jan 15, 2021 |  |
| Gemmist | Gemmist is a provider of personalized hair care recommendations and products. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Seattle, Washington, United States. | $2.8M | Seed | Jan 15, 2021 |  |
| Panda AI | Panda AI develops a B2B artificial intelligence platform designed to simplify work and combine various tasks. The platform uses natural language processing to help teams stay on the same page, enabling businesses to combine various apps and simplify workflow. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $3.3M | Seed | Aug 18, 2020 |  |
| Gradient.io | Gradient.io is an intelligent insights platform for Amazon. Using proprietary machine learning technology, Gradient.io’s platform helps brands understand and optimize their digital point-of-sale presence. Gradient.io solutions include Gradient Digital Shelf, Gradient Score, Gradient Dynamics, and Gradient Compete. Brands taking advantage of thesesolutions can finally unlock the full power of Amazon. For more information, visit https://gradient.io | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 23, 2018 |  |
| Ripl | Ripl was launched in October 2015 with the mission of helping small businesses and influencers succeed in the realm of digital marketing. A key part of finding that success is having the ability to create compelling visual and social media content.The application allows users to integrate their own photos into professionally-designed templates tocreate animated video posts. With simple customization options for text, colors, and music, Ripl makes it easy for users to create engaging posts on the go.In January 2016 the company introduced Ripl PRO, a premium plan for small businesses and other social media power users. The monthly PRO subscription unlocks access to the full library of animated post layout design templates and additional features such as custom brand integration, music track overlays, and content post scheduling. In 2017 the company released its Android mobile app. In 2018 the company launched its Web application for use on laptops and desktop computers. | $1.9M |  | Jun 03, 2016 |  |
| Ampd | Ampd's enterprise Adtech platform is transforming how brand and commerce teams optimize media for the modern shopper journey. With agentic routing, closed-loop attribution, and commerce optimization, Ampd empowers fragmented teams to align and drive share growth at retail. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2016 |  |
| AppVirality | AppVirality is a plug-and-play growth hacking toolkit for mobile applications that helps app developers in identifying and implementing the right growth techniques, no coding required. Its referral marketing solution helps customize, launch, and automate referral campaigns for mobile apps and SaaS products. Its tools work through a softwaredevelopment kit and dashboard and customizable application referral programs to help boost a brand its app installs and engagement that enable mobile-focused companies to identify and implement the right growth techniques without having to write new code.AppVirality was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. | $500K | Seed | Sep 09, 2015 |  |
| AppVirality | AppVirality is a plug-and-play growth hacking toolkit for mobile applications that helps app developers in identifying and implementing the right growth techniques, no coding required. Its referral marketing solution helps customize, launch, and automate referral campaigns for mobile apps and SaaS products. Its tools work through a softwaredevelopment kit and dashboard and customizable application referral programs to help boost a brand its app installs and engagement that enable mobile-focused companies to identify and implement the right growth techniques without having to write new code.AppVirality was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. | $465K | Seed | Jan 12, 2015 |  |
| PipelineDeals | PipelineDeals is the simplest way to increase your sales team's productivity and grow your sales pipeline. With simple and easy to use CRM and Sales Enablement features, PipelineDeals enables salespeople to be more productive.PipelineDeals offers intuitive solutions to help businesses get organized around their business’s lifelines offuture revenue. Part customer relationship management (CRM) software, part sales enablement, part sales productivity platform all wrapped into a simple interface.PipelineDeals was launched in 2006 in Pennsylvania, United States. | $1M | Series A | Jan 10, 2015 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Voyager Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voyager-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alliance of Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alliance-of-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ascend](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascend-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [India Internet Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/india-internet-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Black Jays](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/black-jays-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pioneer Square Labs

VC Fund · Seattle, United States

Pioneer Square Labs is a studio that creates and launches technology startups. They provide market research, concept validation, engineering, data science, visual, UX design, and product management services. They also provide recruiting, fundraising, marketing, company formation, finance, operations, legal, and HR services.

5 contacts available at Pioneer Square Labs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ansel Santosa | Senior Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ansel-santosa |
| Ben Gilbert | Co-Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-gilbert |
| David Zager | Partner and CDO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-zager |
| Greg Gottesman | Co-Founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-gottesman |
| Julie Sandler | Co-Founder, General Partner, and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-sandler |

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## FAQ

### What does Mike Galgon invest in?

Mike Galgon invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 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 Galgon last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mike Galgon closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 13 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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