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Websitevendio.com
Blogvendio.com/vendable
Twitter@levitmc
BirthplaceDanville, CA
Birthdate6/3/71

Degrees

University of California, Santa Barbara, MA 1993
Business Economics

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Managing Partner
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EVP Marketing
VP of Marketing
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Michael Levit

Michael is a serial entrepreneur working on his fifth startup, Spigot Inc., which he co-founded in 2008. Prior to Spigot Michael ran the business side of Vendio, an eCommerce platform, where he grew transactions to $1.5+ billion/year before selling the business to Chinese giant Alibaba.

Michael’s previous experience includes starting AOL’s Broadband division, running sales and marketing at Hearme and Paltalk, co-founding and overseeing Business Development at Bluelight.com a venture between Softbank, Martha Stewart, Kmart and Yahoo, and working in Accenture’s technology and strategy consulting practice where he co-founded the Internet Center in Palo Alto some 16 years ago.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Hullabalu 6/13Series A$1.8M16
Namo Media 3/13Seed$1.88M13
Socialcam 4/12Angel36

Videos

Sources

  1. To Spark Children’s Imaginations, Hullabalu Raises $1.8 Million From SV Angel, Great Oaks & Others For iPad Storytelling App (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. DrawChat Creator Launches His Mobile Ad Startup Namo Media, Raises $1.9M Round Led By Google Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Socialcam Nabs Angel Funding From The A-List: Yuri Milner, Tim Draper, Laurene Powell Jobs, And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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