Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
Number of Founded Organizations 1
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner

Mike Scanlin is a Venture Partner at Mistral based in California. Most recently, Mike was a Partner at Battery Ventures where he focused on early-stage investments. To date, Mike has invested $86.5 Million in 10 different companies, and has served on more than a dozen Boards of Directors.

Prior to joining Battery Ventures, Mike spent four years

with Sierra Ventures, where he held board seats at Air Media, Steelbox Networks, 360Commerce (acquired by Oracle) and Micro Power (acquired by Westin Presidio). He was a board observer for Axentis, DBS Communications, Element Labs, Vykor, and Zebra Imaging.

Before Sierra, Mike was VP; Entrepreneur Development Operations at Garage.com (now Garage Technology Ventures) where he personally read more than 10,000 executive summaries and helped dozens of companies raise more than $330 million in venture financing.

Mike also spent many years as a software engineer, and has been published more than 50 times. Other career highlights include: General Magic (Nasdaq IPO in ’97) and Storm Technology (Nasdaq IPO in ’94). Mike graduated with honors from UC San Diego with a Bachelor’s Degree in Management Science. He has held NASD Series 7, 24, and 63 licenses

Number of Partner Investments 1
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Investor Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Oct 17, 2022
Passiv
Mistral Venture Partners
Yes
Seed Round - Passiv
CA$3M
Number of Current Jobs 2
Number of Past Jobs 1
Mike Scanlin has 2 current jobs as Venture Partner at Mistral Venture Partners and CEO at Born To Sell. Additionally, Mike Scanlin has had 1 past job as the Partner at Sierra Ventures.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Sierra Ventures
Partner
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
Mike Scanlin is the Advisor at Adility.
Number of News Articles 1
NewsMay 21, 2015