# Mike Tyrrell

> Mike Tyrrell is a Series A investor at Venrock (Cambridge) backing Software and E-Commerce. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Venrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venrock)
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Aug 2014
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-tyrrell-67b20/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/miketyrrell
- Website: https://x.com/miketyrrell

Mike Tyrrell is a General Partner at Venrock Associates.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 25% |
| SaaS | 4 | 17% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 17% |
| Mobile | 3 | 13% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 17% |
| Series C | 4 | 17% |
| Series D | 4 | 17% |
| Series B | 3 | 13% |
| Series E | 3 | 13% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Salsify | Salsify is an e-commerce software startup that helps brands by providing tools to track and analyze inventories, presentation, and sales of goods on digital shelves.It offers its Commerce Experience Management (CommerceXM), a platform that combines Product Experience Management (Integrated PIM, DAM, and Experience Builder) with commercecapabilities designed to enable sales both across retailer and distributor channels as well as marketplaces, social commerce, and direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites. The company is backed by Venrock, Matrix Partners, Greenspring Associates, Underscore VC, North Bridge, and Warburg Pincus.Jason Purcell, Jeremy Redburn, and Rob Gonzalez incorporated Salsify in Boston, Massachusetts in 2012. | $155M | Series E | Sep 23, 2020 |  |
| Atria Systems | Aria helps enterprises grow recurring revenue businesses with an agile billing system. The company helps clients to take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetizationplatform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value. | $30M | Private Equity | Dec 11, 2018 |  |
| Salsify | Salsify is an e-commerce software startup that helps brands by providing tools to track and analyze inventories, presentation, and sales of goods on digital shelves.It offers its Commerce Experience Management (CommerceXM), a platform that combines Product Experience Management (Integrated PIM, DAM, and Experience Builder) with commercecapabilities designed to enable sales both across retailer and distributor channels as well as marketplaces, social commerce, and direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites. The company is backed by Venrock, Matrix Partners, Greenspring Associates, Underscore VC, North Bridge, and Warburg Pincus.Jason Purcell, Jeremy Redburn, and Rob Gonzalez incorporated Salsify in Boston, Massachusetts in 2012. | $43M | Series D | Aug 07, 2018 |  |
| Atria Systems | Aria helps enterprises grow recurring revenue businesses with an agile billing system. The company helps clients to take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetizationplatform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value. | $18M | Series F | Sep 12, 2017 |  |
| Numerated | Numerated is the fast-growing fintech making business banking easy for financial institutions and their clients. Banks and credit unions use Numerated’s digital lending platform to meet business expectations for digital convenience and to bring efficiency gains to their internal teams. The platform is unique in its use of data to streamline theorigination of any business banking product, from application to decision to close. More than 400,000 businesses and 30,000 financial institution associates have used Numerated to process $50 billion in lending. Financial institutions with a combined $1 trillion in assets use Numerated, including Bremer Bank, Dollar Bank, Eastern Bank, MidFirst Bank, People’s United Bank, Seacoast Bank and more. The company was recently recognized as one of 2020’s Top 250 FinTechs by CB Insights and 2021’s Best Overall Business Lending Company by FinTech Breakthrough. | $9M | Series A | May 16, 2017 |  |
| Atria Systems | Aria helps enterprises grow recurring revenue businesses with an agile billing system. The company helps clients to take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetizationplatform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value. | $50M | Series E | Feb 18, 2016 |  |
| Salsify | Salsify is an e-commerce software startup that helps brands by providing tools to track and analyze inventories, presentation, and sales of goods on digital shelves.It offers its Commerce Experience Management (CommerceXM), a platform that combines Product Experience Management (Integrated PIM, DAM, and Experience Builder) with commercecapabilities designed to enable sales both across retailer and distributor channels as well as marketplaces, social commerce, and direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites. The company is backed by Venrock, Matrix Partners, Greenspring Associates, Underscore VC, North Bridge, and Warburg Pincus.Jason Purcell, Jeremy Redburn, and Rob Gonzalez incorporated Salsify in Boston, Massachusetts in 2012. | $16.6M | Series B | Jul 06, 2015 |  |
| Gazelle | Gazelle is an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used electronic gadgets. They pay cash for used smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops and then inspect, certify them, and sell them to consumers looking for a cost-effective way to stay connected. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts withoperations in Louisville, Kentucky. | $9.5M | Series E | Aug 11, 2014 |  |
| Happier | Happier is inspired by scientific research showing that focusing on the positive and sharing good things with people you care about makes you happier and healthier.The Happier mobile app is a simple and beautiful way to collect happy moments you find every day, share them with close friends and family, and be inspired to do more of what makes youhappier. | $2M | Seed | Aug 11, 2014 |  |
| Atria Systems | Aria helps enterprises grow recurring revenue businesses with an agile billing system. The company helps clients to take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetizationplatform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value. | $40M | Series D | Nov 19, 2013 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hummer Winblad Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hummer-winblad-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [InterWest Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/interwest-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kodiak Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kodiak-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Venrock

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Venrock continues a tradition of partnering with entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies. With a primary focus on technology and healthcare, portfolio companies have included Apple Computer, Athenahealth, Centocor, Check Point Software, DoubleClick, Endeca, Gilead Sciences, Idec Pharma, Imperva, Illumina, Intel, Nest, SlideShare,and Tudou.

5 contacts available at Venrock.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Gottesdiener | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-gottesdiener-91c0 |
| Anthony Evnin | Partner Emeritus | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-evnin |
| Bryan Roberts | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-e-roberts |
| Mariana Mihalusova | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mariana-mihalusova-65b2 |
| Mike Tyrrell | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-tyrrell |

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## FAQ

### What does Mike Tyrrell invest in?

Mike Tyrrell invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 24 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 Tyrrell last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mike Tyrrell closed in Aug 2014. Shizune tracks 24 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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