Jun 2023 – Present · 3 yrs

• Modelcode.ai, Inc. uses innovative, proprietary Generative AI to automate Code Modernization. The company, founded and led by Silicon Valley veteran entrepreneurs, engineers, and well-known AI experts with multiple exits, focuses on solving tech debt, including, for example, large-scale refactoring, the transformation of legacy monolithic code/service to modular code/micro-services, C# to Java translation, Python 2 to Python 3 upgrades, automated unit testing, and document generation. Modelcode.ai is revenue generating, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and funded by Bessemer Ventures and Heroic Ventures.

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Cursor.com, the AI Code Editor. First ever investor in Anysphere (aka Cursor).

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · https://michaelfertik.substack.com

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Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

• World leader in on-platform monetization.

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 5 mos

• First ever commitment, first ever investor.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · Palo Alto, California

• Built the best conversational agents in the world, based on #HighDensityAI. Acquired by Fortune 500 company.

Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 5 mos

• Formation and First-Money Venture Capital.

Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 5 mos

• First ever commitment, first ever investor.

Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 5 mos

• First money investor.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 · 5 yrs · Palo Alto, California

• Subsidiary of WaveShift, LLC. Delivering innovative, science-based treatments addressing the myopia pandemic to children around the world. Acquired by CooperCompanies (NYSE:COO). SightGlass Vision's Diffusion Optics Technology (DOT) spectacle lenses received Breakthrough Device designation from FDA.

Jan 2015 – Oct 2025 · 10 yrs 9 mos

• Reputation is the world's leader in digital reputation and customer experience for business. (The consumer business for reputation and privacy, known as ReputationDefender, was sold in 2018 and is no longer part of Reputation.)

Jan 2006 – Jan 2015 · 9 yrs

Jan 2015 – May 2024 · 9 yrs 4 mos

• Eyecare R&D Holding Company. SightGlass Vision, Inc. was its subsidiary.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 · 6 yrs

• Unified observability & log management platform. First investor. Third overall holder. Acquired by SentinelOne in early 2021 before SentinelOne’s IPO on NYSE as “S” in June 2021.

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 5 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Digital privacy, entrepreneurship, and law.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 · 4 yrs

• Non-partisan CEO campaign for sustainable, reasoned solution to US debt crisis. At the time I was involved, it was called The Campaign to Fix the Debt (and may have subsequently evolved or changed).

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr

Jan 2003 – Jan 2009 · 6 yrs

• Committee to identify and support excellent candidates for executive offices across the United States. (Hiatus during federal judicial clerkship.)

Jan 1999 – Jan 2002 · 3 yrs