Mike Gridley

Bio

Mike concentrates on originating, valuing, and managing investment opportunities in secondary venture portfolios and serves on the Fund VI investment committee. Since joining Industry Ventures in 2004, Mike has sourced and led over twenty-five transactions of both secondary directs and limited partnership interests. Previously, Mike worked at BV Capital (formerly Bertelsmann Ventures) in San Francisco, a $275 million international venture capital fund. At BV, he sourced, structured, and managed direct venture investments and developed key co-investment relationships with other venture capital firms and strategic corporate investors in Silicon Valley. Earlier in his career, Mike worked in Business Development at Personify, a software analytics company that was acquired by Accrue Software. Mike holds a BA from University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Regents and Alumni Scholar, and an MS from the London School of Economics.