Michael Stoppelman Overview

  • Investor Type
  • Angel

  • Status
  • Active

  • Professionals
  • 1

Professionals

  • Investments
  • 75

  • Portfolio
  • 54

  • Exits
  • 20

Exits

Michael Stoppelman General Information

Description

Mr. Michael Stoppelman serves as Advisor at SignalFire. Mr. Stoppelman served as an Advisor at Burst Capital and Propelo. He serves as a Venture Advisor at Verissimo Ventures. He co-founded Yelp. He serves as Venture Partner at Kivu Ventures. He is an Angel Investor. He is the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at Yelp. He started at Yelp as a software engineer working on the search engine. He took over as head of engineering in 2012 after serving as a manager and Director of Engineering in the proceeding years. He scaled the engineering team from 30 to over 500 engineers. Before Yelp he was a software engineer at Google for 3.5 years and served as the tech lead for the AdSense Traffic Quality team. He received his BS in Computer Science from Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2003. He serves as a Board Advisor at Ponto Software.

Business Details

Investor Status
Actively Seeking New Investments
Primary Investor Type
Angel (individual)
Corporate Office
  • Santa Monica, CA
  • United States

Michael Stoppelman Investments (75)

Company Name Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Industry Company Stage Lead Partner
Siro 20-May-2025 Later Stage VC Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Tensor9 14-May-2025 Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Hostie AI 29-Apr-2025 Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Pixeltable 05-Dec-2024 Software Development Applications Generating Revenue
Integrated BioSciences 02-Oct-2024 Drug Discovery Generating Revenue
Slingshot AI 20-Aug-2024 Other Healthcare Technology Systems Startup
Zamp 09-May-2024 Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Morty (Entertainment Software) 20-Apr-2023 Entertainment Software Generating Revenue
Pebble (Social/Platform Software) 13-Jan-2023 Angel (individual) Social/Platform Software Generating Revenue
Tldraw 30-Nov-2022 Seed Round Multimedia and Design Software Generating Revenue

Michael Stoppelman Exits (20)

Company Name Exit Date Exit Type Exit Size
Census 01-May-2025 Merger/Acquisition
Kubecost 17-Sep-2024
Iron Ox 04-Jul-2024
StayTuned (Business/Productivity Software) 27-Jun-2024
dot.LA 26-Apr-2024
Charma 01-Oct-2023
Okay (Business/Productivity Software) 31-May-2023
Okera 03-May-2023
Openbase (Software Development Applications) 24-Apr-2023 Out of Business
Propelo 24-Jan-2023 Merger/Acquisition

Michael Stoppelman Investments by Industry, Year, and Region

Investments by Industry

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Michael Stoppelman Co-Investors (443)

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Michael Stoppelman FAQs

  • Who is Michael Stoppelman?

    Michael Stoppelman is an angel Investor who has made 75 investments.

  • What kind of investor is Michael Stoppelman?

    Michael Stoppelman is an angel investor.

  • What does Michael Stoppelman do?

    As an angel investor, Michael Stoppelman invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.

  • What has Michael Stoppelman invested in?

    Michael Stoppelman has made numerous investments in companies like Siro, Tensor9, and Hostie AI within the Business/Productivity Software industry.

  • What has Michael Stoppelman invested in recently?

    Michael Stoppelman's latest investment was on 20-May-2025 in Siro, a company within the Business/Productivity Software industry.

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