Michiel de Haan is the founder of Atlas Venture, a venture capital company currently managing USD 2.2 billion, from offices in Boston, London, Paris and Munich. Atlas has been involved in more than 300 venture-backed companies. From 1980 to 2000 Michiel served as managing partner of Atlas Venture. His personal venture management involvement within Atlas was focused on Life Science companies in which he held numerous board seats..
In 1974 Michiel received an MBA from Erasmus University in Rotterdam. From 1974 until 1980 he worked at NMB (now ING). He represented the bank in the earliest Dutch Venture Capital Funds and started NMB-Participatie, which he later bought to create Atlas Venture.
