# Mike Vernal

> Mike Vernal is a Series A investor at DAAL backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 58 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [DAAL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daal)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 58
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vernal/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mvernal
- Website: https://x.com/mvernal
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vernal

Mike Vernal is a Series A investor at DAAL in Menlo Park focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Mike Vernal is the current Partner of Sequoia Capital. He previously worked at rideOS as a Board Member. Mike Vernal attended Harvard University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$9.3M |
| Series A | $8.5M–$32M |
| Series B | $20M–$75M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 34% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 14 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 19% |
| SaaS | 5 | 9% |
| Internet | 5 | 9% |

77 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 16 | 28% |
| Seed | 15 | 26% |
| Series B | 9 | 16% |
| Series C | 8 | 14% |
| Series D | 3 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 32 | 55% |
| Canada | 4 | 7% |
| Israel | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Intelligence.AI | Intelligence.AI provides AI-driven recruiting software focused on hiring software developers. Its platform helps recruiters discover developers who are not visible through traditional sourcing channels. Intelligence.AI supports evaluating technical candidates without deep technical knowledge by validating skills beyond resumes. The software assistswith engaging candidates using personalized outreach and messaging. It is designed to help recruiting teams scale sourcing and screening while reducing manual effort. | $7.9M | Seed | Aug 03, 2026 |  |
| Corridor | Corridor provides a security platform that integrates directly with AI coding tools and developer workflows to guide secure code generation in real time. It reviews code and pull requests to identify vulnerabilities, enforce security guardrails, and deliver actionable remediation guidance at the source. The platform also offers visibility intoAI-generated code usage, policy compliance, and security events across engineering teams. | $25M | Series A | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| Worktrace AI | Worktrace AI is an AI solution generative that observes your work , identifies workflows and translates them into the latest AI solutions. | $9.3M | Seed | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Unblocked | Unblocked is a continuous integration platform for mobile apps hosted in the cloud. Unblocked was developed as a result of difficult collective experiences spending long periods of time in meetings, putting up with interruptions, and sifting through dated documentation while developing software at businesses like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Apple. | $20M | Series A | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Statsig | Statsig allows the users to safely test new features in production before rolling out to avoid product debates and ship mistakes. | $100M | Series C | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Decagon | Decagon creates generative AI for building customer service agents that work much more like humans and its platform gives customer support team leaders more visibility into their automated customer experience operations | $30M | Series A | Jun 18, 2024 |  |
| Pika | Pika is a startup that is developing an AI-powered platform for editing and generating films from captions and still images. The company is revolutionizing the video creation and editing process through the integration of AI, offering a user-friendly and easily accessible tool for everyone. | $80M | Series B | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| Unblocked | Unblocked is a continuous integration platform for mobile apps hosted in the cloud. Unblocked was developed as a result of difficult collective experiences spending long periods of time in meetings, putting up with interruptions, and sifting through dated documentation while developing software at businesses like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Apple. | $8.3M | Seed | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Unblocked | Unblocked is a context engine that gives AI coding agents the organizational knowledge behind your codebase: the decisions, discussions, and history scattered across GitHub, Slack, Jira, and Confluence. Agents with this context produce mergeable code on the first pass, burning fewer tokens on exploration and less developer time on review cycles andrework. | $8.2M | Seed | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Rockset | Rockset is a computer software company that offers a cloud data infrastructure. They are bridging the gap by changing the way data is stored, processed, and accessed for making better, faster data-driven decisions and data powered apps. Empowering enterprises to unleash all their data is a difficult challenge that inspires them every day.It wasfounded in 2016 and it's based in San Mateo, California. | $44M | Series B | Aug 29, 2023 |  |

10 of 58 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [XYZ Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xyz-ventures-33d5) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [N47](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next47) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About DAAL

VC Fund · Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia

Daal is a venture capital that aims to connect the most promising IT opportunities around the world with the talent and leadership of world-class investors based in Saudi Arabia. As offshoot of storied investment company, Sumou Holdings, Daal represents the bridge to a future that recognizes two certainties: the importance of IT innovation andthe need for the GCC region to connect with and welcome the best and brightest emerging companies from around the world. The aim of Daal is to create excellent opportunities for investment by providing mentorship and business development insights to companies within the IT space. The Daal team has the experience to guide and nurture the growth of these companies on the international stage. This is especially true for emerging companies looking to expand into the Middle East and penetrate the Saudi market. As a VC fund, Daal offers its investors a chance to participate in high-growth opportunities unique to the IT sector. Daal is led by investors and principles who are committed to bringing innovative companies to the GCC region.

2 contacts available at DAAL.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abdulrahman-al-qahtani |
| Mike Vernal | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-vernal |

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## FAQ

### What does Mike Vernal invest in?

Mike Vernal invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 58 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 Vernal's check size?

Mike Vernal typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$9.3M at Seed, $8.5M–$32M at Series A and $20M–$75M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mike Vernal participates in.

### When did Mike Vernal last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mike Vernal closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 58 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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