Michael Mignano

Co-Founder

New York City, New York, United States20 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led investments in AI and media startups.
Co-founded the world's largest podcasting platform.
Grew photo editing platform audience to over 100 million.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capitalist with a strong background in media and technology startups.

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Digital ProductionProduct DevelopmentOnline Product DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentProduct InnovationAppsMobileMobile ApplicationsEbooksDigital MarketingSocial MediaHTML5XHTMLPHPJavaScript

About

I’m a VC and serve as a Partner at Lightspeed, a global venture capital firm with more than $25B AUM. On behalf of Lightspeed, I’ve led investments in companies at the intersection of AI, consumer, and media, such as Pika, Suno, Tome, Granola, Particle, TollBit, and more. I’m also a builder, having recently co-founded Oboe and previously Anchor, which is the world’s largest podcasting platform, and is now known as Spotify for Podcasters. Anchor was acquired by Spotify in 2019, where I went on to serve as the Head of Talk, leading the podcast and video businesses. Prior to starting Anchor, I served as VP of Product for Aviary, growing the photo editing platform’s audience to over 100 million creators before being acquired by Adobe in 2014.

Experience

Macroscope

Board Member

Jul 2025 – Present · 8 mos

Neuralink

Investor

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos

Oboe

Co-Founder

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · New York, United States

On a mission to make humanity smarter.

Tollbit

Board Member

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · New York, United States

Helping websites protect and monetize their content.

Xai

Investor

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

AI’s knowledge should be all-encompassing and as far-reaching as possible. xAI's goal is to advance human comprehension and capabilities.

Suno

Board Member

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Make any song you can imagine.

Particle

Board Member

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

AI-powered news that helps you understand more, faster.

Pika

Board Member

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

The idea-to-video platform that brings your creativity to motion.

Granola

Board Member and Founding Investor

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs

The AI-powered notepad for people in back to back meetings.
We led the company's first round of funding in 2023.

Lightfield

Board Member

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

The AI assistant for enterprise sellers.

Lightspeed venture partners

Partner

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Some of the companies I led early investments in and/or sit on the board of include Granola (the company's first investment), Suno, Macroscope, xAI, and Pika.

Spotify

Head of Talk (Podcasts, Live, and Video)

Feb 2019 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

Anchor

Co-Founder & CEO

Aug 2015 – Feb 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos · New York, NY

The world’s largest podcasting platform. Powering the global podcasting infrastructure and more creators’ podcasts than all other platforms combined. Acquired by Spotify in 2019 and now known as Spotify for Podcasters.