Mike Kwatinetz
Founder & General Partner @ Azure Capital Partners
Atherton, United States
Mike Kwatinetz is a founding General Partner with Azure Capital Partners where he specializes in software and related infrastructure technologies. His current board memberships are BlogHer, Breaktime Studios, Chairish, Education.com, JumpStart, Medsphere, Open Road and Rooftop Media. He also served on the boards of Bill Me Later (acquiredby eBay), TripIt (acquired by Concur), TopTier (acquired by SAP), Wildseed (acquired by AOL), Prospect Park, and Woodbury Computer Associates (acquired by JWP). Other representative investments include VMware (acquired by EMC).Prior to Azure, Mike was Group Head of Technology Research, a Managing Director and the senior software and hardware analyst at several major investment banks, including Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank Securities and PaineWebber. Mike was also a senior research analyst at Sanford Bernstein & Co.Prior to his career in technology research, Mike was CEO of Woodbury Computer Associates, a software products and consulting firm, which resulted in a 160x cash-on-cash return.Mike, prior to Azure, has provided research coverage and strategic advice to numerous technology companies and has consistently been viewed as a top resource on many, including Microsoft, Compaq, Dell, Apple, Hewlett Packard, VA Linux and Gateway. His coverage universe also included e-business software and internet devices and infrastructure. His theories on the shift of industry control to Microsoft and Intel, "The 4th Wave of the Web," the advantages of Linux, and the need for PC vendors to go "Beyond the Box" were considered agenda setting for the investment community. His technology investment strategy newsletter, SoundBytes, was one of the most widely read amongst public portfolio managers. He was top-ranked by Institutional Investor in PC Hardware and ranked second in PC Software and was the only sell-side analyst to ever be top three rated in both software and hardware, doing so for six straight years before leaving to form Azure in early 2000. In 1997 and 1998, Mike was rated Institutional Investor's No.1 Large-Cap "Home-Run Hitter" for stock selection among all Wall Street analysts and remained among the Top 5 in 1999. Furthermore, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal have selected him as the No.1 PC analyst.Mike received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematical Modeling from the University of California Berkeley and his M.B.A. in Accounting from New York University. He sat on the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) advisory committee for a number of years. He is also author of "The Big Tech Score," published by John Wiley & Sons.
- Total investments:
- 36
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 39%
Last updated:
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Industries Mike Kwatinetz invests in
Stages Mike Kwatinetz invests in
Countries Mike Kwatinetz invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 7 (19%)
- Software 5 (14%)
- Travel 3 (8%)
- Internet 3 (8%)
- Mobile 2 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 8 (22%)
- Seed 7 (19%)
- Funding Round 6 (17%)
- Series B 5 (14%)
- Series C 4 (11%)
Country
- United States 20 (56%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
Investments
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GoodTrust
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GoodTrust is a secure digital legacy platform for your websites, social media, online accounts and documents with easy share function now or when you pass away. | $5M / Seed / Dec 20, 2021 | |
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GoodTrust
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GoodTrust is a secure digital legacy platform for your websites, social media, online accounts and documents with easy share function now or when you pass away. | $2.3M / Seed / Jan 26, 2021 | |
Chairish
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Chairish is an online marketplace for high-end home furniture, art, and decor.The company offers a vast assortment of vintage, antique, and contemporary pieces from best-in-class designer brands, dealers, galleries, and artisans. Items listed on Chairish are pre-screened by its team of curators to be sure Chairish's inventory meets its highstyle standards.Chairish was founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California. | $33M / Series B / Sep 10, 2020 | |
Showbie
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Showbie combines all of the essential tools for assignments, feedback, and communication in one easy-to-use platform. Showbie's features were designed with teachers and students in mind. Teachers can get set up and start using Showbie's powerful platform within minutes. Teachers who use Showbie love how it transforms their classroomsinto engaging, collaborative, and organized learning environments. Showbie's suite of tools make it easy to give rich, differentiated feedback to students, so everyone gets the help they need to succeed. Showbie allows students to share files and ideas with each other, ensuring everyone is on the same page and encouraging collaboration. Showbie lets teachers work with their peers and easily engage with families. Teachers can set up groups to work directly with colleagues, share best practices, or discuss the needs of particular students. Parents can easily be part of the conversation too; teachers can set up groups just for families where they can post class updates and even permission slips. Because of its easy-to-use, intuitive design, it's no surprise that teachers love Showbie. A 2018 Showbie survey (http://ow.ly/T30r30l0H5j) found that 98% of teachers said it was easy to use and implement and 97% said it helped them improve feedback and speed up grading. With more than 3 million users worldwide, Showbie is poised to become the leading platform for the digital classroom. | $3.8M / Series A / Aug 20, 2020 | |
Luma Health
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Luma Health patients should be able to connect to their healthcare provider in a way that’s modern and mobile-first. Their services include healthcare, patients, appointments, scheduling, patient messaging, patient engagement, patient communication, public health, patient access, and more. | $3.4M / Seed / Sep 01, 2017 | |
Second Nature
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Second Nature is a consumer goods company that specializes in providing air filters. It offers a web-based platform that enables people to purchase online its services include shipping, installation, and maintenance that helps their client to improve their indoor air quality and protect the HVAC system.The company was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in North Carolina, United States. | $6.9M / Series B / Jul 25, 2017 | |
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Luma Health
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Luma Health patients should be able to connect to their healthcare provider in a way that’s modern and mobile-first. Their services include healthcare, patients, appointments, scheduling, patient messaging, patient engagement, patient communication, public health, patient access, and more. | $3.4M / Convertible Note / Feb 17, 2017 | |
MegaBots
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MegaBots, Inc., uses cutting-edge robotics technology to create the giant piloted fighting robots of science fiction, videogames and movies. These robots fight in epic-scale arena combat the likes of which the world has never seen before.MegaBots are 15-foot-tall, internally piloted humanoid robots that fire cannonball-sized paintballs at eachother at speeds of over 120 miles per hour. As the robots battle, armor panels chear off and litter the field, smoke and sparks pour out of the chassis, massive robotic limbs tear off, and robots crumple to the ground until only one is left standing. | $2.4M / Seed / May 10, 2016 | |
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Showbie
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Showbie combines all of the essential tools for assignments, feedback, and communication in one easy-to-use platform. Showbie's features were designed with teachers and students in mind. Teachers can get set up and start using Showbie's powerful platform within minutes. Teachers who use Showbie love how it transforms their classroomsinto engaging, collaborative, and organized learning environments. Showbie's suite of tools make it easy to give rich, differentiated feedback to students, so everyone gets the help they need to succeed. Showbie allows students to share files and ideas with each other, ensuring everyone is on the same page and encouraging collaboration. Showbie lets teachers work with their peers and easily engage with families. Teachers can set up groups to work directly with colleagues, share best practices, or discuss the needs of particular students. Parents can easily be part of the conversation too; teachers can set up groups just for families where they can post class updates and even permission slips. Because of its easy-to-use, intuitive design, it's no surprise that teachers love Showbie. A 2018 Showbie survey (http://ow.ly/T30r30l0H5j) found that 98% of teachers said it was easy to use and implement and 97% said it helped them improve feedback and speed up grading. With more than 3 million users worldwide, Showbie is poised to become the leading platform for the digital classroom. | Seed / Mar 22, 2016 | |
Maker Media
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Maker Media is a global platform for connecting makers with each other, with products and services, and with our partners. Through media, events and ecommerce, Maker Media serves a growing community of makers who bring a DIY mindset to technology. Whether as hobbyists or professionals, makers are creative, resourceful and curious, developingprojects that demonstrate how they can interact with the world around them. The launch of MAKE Magazine in 2005, followed by Maker Faire in 2006, jumpstarted a worldwide Maker Movement, which is transforming innovation, culture and education. Located in Sebastopol, CA, Maker Media is the publisher of MAKE Magazine and the producer of Maker Faire. It also develops “getting started” kits and books that are sold in its Maker Shed store as well as in retail channels. | $5M / Series A / Jun 09, 2015 | |
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Co-Investors
About Azure Capital Partners
Azure Capital Partners provides develops products based upon a technology that allows them to compete effectively with much larger incumbents and that enables time to market advantage It seeks to invest in the internet and information technology sector with a focus on software, media, infrastructure technologies, mobile, communications services andequipment, mobility solutions, and communications applications, web, and digital media.
Azure Capital Partners Contacts
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Andrea Drager
Principal
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Dan Park
Venture Partner
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Mike Kwatinetz
Founder & General Partner
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Paul Ferris
Founder & General Partner
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Paul Weinstein
Founder & General Partner
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What does Mike Kwatinetz invest in?
Mike Kwatinetz invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and Travel startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 36 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 Kwatinetz last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Mike Kwatinetz closed in Dec 2021. Shizune tracks 36 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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