# Mike Hennessey

> Mike Hennessey is a seed investor in San Francisco backing Software and Information Technology. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellhennessey
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/henstire
- Website: https://x.com/henstire

Mike Hennessey is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Mike Hennessey

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 20% |
| Mobile | 3 | 15% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 15% |
| Apps | 2 | 10% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 70% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Series A | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 50% |
| Chile | 2 | 10% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| Brazil | 1 | 5% |
| Mexico | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wareclouds | Wareclouds puts ecommerce products in their customers hands in a fast and cheap way, by using peoples idle space and time. This people store products and assemble orders in their house, and move packages in their free time. | $1.2M | Seed | Oct 20, 2022 |  |
| Orchata | Orchata is a platform by which you can get groceries delivered in 15 min with no substitutes and at supermarket prices. All the way from fresh fruits, vegetables, drinks, proteins, snacks to bread, medicine, and household essentials. | $4M | Seed | Aug 12, 2021 |  |
| Orchata | Orchata is a platform by which you can get groceries delivered in 15 min with no substitutes and at supermarket prices. All the way from fresh fruits, vegetables, drinks, proteins, snacks to bread, medicine, and household essentials. | $4M | Seed | Aug 01, 2021 |  |
| Parabola | Parabola is the spreadsheet alternative where you combine the data running throughout your company and create automated processes.Pull in data from any source you can imagine—from scattered spreadsheets and tools, to emails and PDFs—and build logic that replicates the manual work you do every day. Use our canvas to combine and transform yourdata, and surface the results to the right people at the right time so you can do more with the data you rely on. In the process, you’ll codify the steps for every workflow you manage so they become repeatable, shareable, and usable for the whole team.Create solutions for the problems you’ve always wanted to solve, and make your work more shareable and impactful along the way.Parabola is proud to serve companies like Flexport, Sonos, Uber Freight, Brooklinen, and Chubbies and is backed by OpenView Partners, Matrix Partners, Thrive Capital and more. | $2.2M | Seed | May 22, 2018 |  |
| DBM Cloud Systems | DBM Cloud Systems is a provider of an Advanced Intelligent Replication Engine ("AIRE") which is a scalable, software-only platform for replicating object data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. | $1M | Seed | Nov 01, 2016 |  |
| Metal Pay | Metal Pay develops a blockchain based payments and rewards wallet for digital assets. Marshall Hayner founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. |  | Seed | Oct 06, 2016 |  |
| Parabola | Parabola is the spreadsheet alternative where you combine the data running throughout your company and create automated processes.Pull in data from any source you can imagine—from scattered spreadsheets and tools, to emails and PDFs—and build logic that replicates the manual work you do every day. Use our canvas to combine and transform yourdata, and surface the results to the right people at the right time so you can do more with the data you rely on. In the process, you’ll codify the steps for every workflow you manage so they become repeatable, shareable, and usable for the whole team.Create solutions for the problems you’ve always wanted to solve, and make your work more shareable and impactful along the way.Parabola is proud to serve companies like Flexport, Sonos, Uber Freight, Brooklinen, and Chubbies and is backed by OpenView Partners, Matrix Partners, Thrive Capital and more. |  | Seed | Nov 10, 2015 |  |
| Cornershop | Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.Founded simultaneously in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City in 2015, we now operate in 8 countries across the Americas.In July 2020, Uber acquired a majority stake in the company. This provided an important injection of capital and allows the company to access moreresources to continue building and improving its service over the upcoming years. Cornershop Mexico was not part of the transaction and will continue to operate independently while waiting for approval from the Mexican antitrust authorities (COFECE). | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 02, 2015 |  |
| Abacus Labs | Abacus Labs, Inc. develops Abacus, a mobile application that simplifies and enhances the expense-management system for employees and managers.Abacus was founded in 2013 by Omar, Ted, and Josh with a simple idea: when employees at your company incur expenses, you should be able to pay them back quickly. Abacus has been designed from the ground upto keep pace with the speed at which business now moves.Replacing the expense report with a real time expense system, Abacus is helping businesses get money wherever it needs to go faster. By accounting for company spend at the expense level as it’s happening, Abacus keeps all company business systems in sync and offers the most dynamic reporting on the market. Its goal is to provide finance teams with tools and data that enable them to become a strategic pillar in their organization. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 29, 2014 |  |
| Abacus Labs | Abacus Labs, Inc. develops Abacus, a mobile application that simplifies and enhances the expense-management system for employees and managers.Abacus was founded in 2013 by Omar, Ted, and Josh with a simple idea: when employees at your company incur expenses, you should be able to pay them back quickly. Abacus has been designed from the ground upto keep pace with the speed at which business now moves.Replacing the expense report with a real time expense system, Abacus is helping businesses get money wherever it needs to go faster. By accounting for company spend at the expense level as it’s happening, Abacus keeps all company business systems in sync and offers the most dynamic reporting on the market. Its goal is to provide finance teams with tools and data that enable them to become a strategic pillar in their organization. |  | Seed | Oct 04, 2013 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [JAM Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jam-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Investo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investomex) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mike Hennessey invest in?

Mike Hennessey invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 20 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 Hennessey's check size?

Mike Hennessey typically joins rounds of $1M–$4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mike Hennessey participates in.

### When did Mike Hennessey last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mike Hennessey closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 20 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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