# Mike Rothenberg

> Mike Rothenberg is a seed investor at Rothenberg Ventures backing Software and Human Resources. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Rothenberg Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rothenberg-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jun 2016
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themillennialvc/
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Mike Rothenberg is a seed investor at Rothenberg Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Human Resources. Mike Rothenberg is the General Partner and Founder at Rothenberg Ventures. He attended Stanford University and Harvard Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 36% |
| Human Resources | 3 | 27% |
| Virtual Reality | 3 | 27% |
| Drones | 2 | 18% |
| FinTech | 2 | 18% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 64% |
| Series B | 3 | 27% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kespry | Kespry provides an aerial intelligence platform that transforms how organizations capture, analyze, and share insights about their business. It provides the information they need to accelerate their operations. Purpose-built for industrial use yet simple enough for any user, a wide variety of industries rely on Kespry to solve business-criticalproblems. Delivering a fully integrated solution from drone data capture to industry-specific analytics, Kespry serves customers across North America, Europe, and Australia, including John Deere, Hancock Claims Consultants, Catastrophe Response Unit (CRU), Fluor, Lehigh Hanson/Heidelberg, and Colas USA. | $16M | Series B | Jun 21, 2016 |  |
| TimeLooper | TimeLooper's immersive time travel technology enables tourists to turn back the clock and experience historical events and sites at key moments in history through virtual reality videos appearinig as apps on iPhones. | $1.9M | Seed | Jun 01, 2016 |  |
| 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. | $2M | Seed | Nov 10, 2015 |  |
| Vicarious Surgical | Vicarious Surgical is a next generation robotics company developing a disruptive technology with the goal of increasing the efficiency of surgical procedures, improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2015 |  |
| Planet | Planet is a startup based in San Francisco and founded by former NASA employees that collects information about its changing planet via a fleet of compact, highly capable Earth-imaging satellites. The broad coverage and high frequency of Planet's satellite imagery will enable customers with unprecedented access to global and local insightsthat currently are either impossible or cost-prohibitive to obtain. It designs, builds, and operates the largest fleet of satellites, as well as online software, tools, and analytics needed to deliver data to users. Planet offers a diverse selection of imagery and analytic solutions, all made available online through our platform and web-based tools. They provide geospatial insights at the speed of change, equipping users with the data necessary to make informed, timely decisions.In addition to California, Planet has offices in Germany and Canada where they deliver market-leading geospatial imagery to a global network of customers and partners in over 100 countries. The Planet's mission is to image the entire Earth every day and make global change visible, accessible, and actionable. | $23M | Series C | Apr 14, 2015 |  |
| Zeitview | Zeitview is an aerial data analytics platform that provides aerial drone services for energy and infrastructure sectors. Utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning, the company analyzes visual data to provide actionable insights, enhancing asset performance and longevity. Zeitview serves industries such as solar, wind, propertymanagement, telecommunications, and utilities. Their platform delivers fast, accurate inspections, aiming to lower costs and improve operational efficiency. |  | Seed | Apr 08, 2015 |  |
| Gusto | Gusto develops web-based payroll solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. It operates an online platform that provides payroll, benefits, human resources, and integration services for employers and employees in the United States.Gusto offers health benefits and workers’ compensation benefits that include medical insurance, commuterbenefits, and 401(k) contributions as well as workers’ compensation insurance plans, time tracking, and integration services, and access to employees for processing payroll from web-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. It also provides access to employees and contractors to browse their previous pay stubs, review their payroll forms, verify their personal details, and statistics about their pay, tax payments and federal forms filing services, and security and support services.Gusto serves startups, coffee shops, doctors, creative agencies, lawyers, and boutiques. Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London founded ZenPayRoll in 2011 that became Gusto, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California with an additional office in Denver in Colorado. | $60M | Series B | Apr 06, 2015 |  |
| Andela | Andela operates the world’s largest private marketplace of skilled digital talent. Its adaptive hiring model gives companies greater flexibility to quickly deploy skilled talent based on need. The company’s exclusive AI-powered platform, Andela Talent Cloud, optimizes the process of finding the right talent and getting projects started fast.Clients can select individual roles or engage fully managed teams up to 66% faster at 30-50% less cost than traditional approaches. Andela’s seasoned hiring professionals manage all the groundwork associated with borderless hiring, from compliance and payroll to talent management. Andela’s diverse talent ecosystem spans over 135 countries, including untapped markets like Africa and Latin America, and is highly skilled in advanced technologies to support Application Development,Artificial Intelligence, Cloud & DevOps, Data Engineering, and more. | $3M | Seed | Sep 23, 2014 |  |
| Matterport | Matterport is a spatial data firm dedicated to digitizing and indexing the built environment. Its all-in-one 3D data platform allows anyone to transform a location into an exact and immersive digital twin that can be used to design, develop, operate, promote, and comprehend any environment. | $16M | Series B | Jul 07, 2014 |  |
| Robinhood | Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. | $3M | Seed | Dec 01, 2013 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Susa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susa-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [137 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/137-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CRE Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/africa-angels-network) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Album VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/album) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Altimeter Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altimeter-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Rothenberg Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Rothenberg Ventures invests in early-stage frontier technology startups. Its team of investors, operators, and community builders support founders through portfolio success programs across virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, space, next-generation hardware, and IoT. It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at Rothenberg Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dave Haase | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-haase-540d |
| Firdavs Abdunazarov | Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firdavs-abdunazarov |
| Hannah Han | Controller | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hannah-han |
| Mike Rothenberg | General Partner and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-rothenberg |
| Skye Jordan | Events and Office Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/skye-jordan |

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## FAQ

### What does Mike Rothenberg invest in?

Mike Rothenberg invests primarily in Software, Human Resources and Virtual Reality startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 11 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 Rothenberg last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mike Rothenberg closed in Jun 2016. Shizune tracks 11 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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