Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo and Birthday Alarm. Birch was raised in North London, England, went to Imperial College, London in Central London (where he met Xochi, his wife), then worked in West London. After finally deciding that he had done London, Michael moved to San Francisco in 2002.
Having worked in a number of not-so-exciting computer related jobs, he relished the chance to set up an Internet based family business with his wife, Xochi and brother, Paul. Remembering birthdays was never his strong point, much to his embarrassment, so what could be better than something he could use himself.
Michael was responsible for developing the original Birthday Alarm website back in 2001, but is no longer involved in its development.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Scoopler | 10/09 | Seed | $750k | 4 |
| Eventbrite | 12/08 | Debt | $1.5M | 11 |
| Goodreads | 11/07 | Angel | $750k | 5 |
