Michael Birch

Angel · San Francisco, United States

#378 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 2% of investors worldwide

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34 Portfolio companies+10% in 5 years

4 Unicorns

1 Decacorns

43 Investments

Aug 2021 Last investment

01 · Biggest holdings

Michael Birch’s biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies Michael Birch still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has no parsed shareholder register for Michael Birch, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.

#CompanyValuation

1 Calm HealthUnicorn · Health · USA $2.0B
2 MixpanelUnicorn · Enterprise Software · USA $1.1B

Unicorns and thoroughbreds Michael Birch has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

02 · Portfolio analysis

Where Michael Birch’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 34 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA24
UK9
Denmark1
Germany1

By sectorCount

Media10
Enterprise Software6
Fintech5
Marketing4
Dating3
Education3
Telecom3
Travel3
Event Tech1
Food1
Health1
Jobs Recruitment1

By stage enteredCount

Seed25
Series A8

By growth stageCount

Early Growth24
Breakout Stage6
Late Growth4

03 · Portfolio market map

Inside Michael Birch’s portfolio.

The 34 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 34 tracked.

Media · Decacorn

$13B

Airtable

Enterprise Software · Unicorn

$1.3B

Mixpanel

Enterprise Software · Unicorn

ResearchGate

Education

$250M

Second Home

Real Estate

Juvo

Fintech

$28M

BranchOut

Jobs Recruitment

$100M

Knotch

Media

$80M

Bebo

Media

$25M

Slice

Fintech

$38M

NextLesson

Education

$20M

SmartUp

Education

$23M

Blab

Media

$20M

Friend.ly

Dating

$20M

Couple

Media

$17M

Frontback

USA

$12M

TownHog

Fintech

$2.0M

Rabbit

Media

$13M

BlackJet

Travel

$8.4M

Streak

Marketing

$4.0M

Goodreads

Media

$8.0M

Her

Media

$500K

CitySocializer

Travel

$6.4M

HolidayFox

Travel

$6.2M

Cargo.io

Enterprise Software

$6.0M

MyStore.com

Media

$1.2M

Sendbloom

Transportation

$5.2M

GroupAhead

Fintech

$3.5M

JustSpotted

Media

$3.0M

SwipeGood

Fintech

$2.0M

Taz

$1.9M

Close.io

Marketing

Housebites

Food

04 · Portfolio founders

Where Michael Birch’s portfolio founders come from.

44 founders across the 35 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

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