Mr. Michael Downing is a Founding Partner and serves as Managing Partner at MDSV Capital. He serves as Board Member at BioCeryx. He Co-Founded & served as Managing Partner at Gravity Ranch. He was the Co-Founder of Gravity Ranch and serves as a Board Member at Authenticiti. He has co-founded 6 ground-breaking technology companies since the mid-1990s, resulting in 3 acquisitions and one IPO. Mr. Downing was a Co-founder of Kicklabs Start-up Accelerator in San Francisco, serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at SRI International, and has acted as an advisor and angel investor to numerous early-stage technology start-ups in Silicon Valley in addition to being a frequent contributor on technology and innovation for CNBC and BloombergTV.
A platform which approaches venture capital investments based on 25+ years of early-stage VC investing experience in Silicon Valley, and a historic portfolio of investments that includes outlier companies such as Stripe, AirBnB, Better.com, Wish, Instacart, SpaceX and many others. A data-driven “early-radar” system that identifies the fast-growing outlier companies across 20 portfolios far in advance of later-stage hyped-up valuations, and provides LP’s the unique opportunity to invest directly into the outliers.