About
Mike Stachowiak is an entrepreneur, technologist, and active member of the start-up community in Silicon Valley.
Mike most recently co-founded Lift Media. Inc., which delivers innovative revenue solutions to retail merchants. Lift Media was acquired by Webloyalty Inc. in 2008, where Mike led west coast operations until March 2010.
Previously, Mike was the founding engineer in charge of search technology at 4INFO. As the founding engineer, he helped grow 4INFO from 3 to 35 employees over a two year period that included two prominent venture rounds. Mike played a pivotal role building 4INFO’s scalable infrastructure and high-talent engineering team. 4INFO is backed by US Venture Partners, DFJ, Gannett Corporation, and NBC’s Peacock Equity.
Mike has a BSE from the University of Michigan School of Engineering, where he was an honored EECS Departmental Scholar. He is considered an expert in natural language processing with multiple patents for his inventions.
Interests: Entrepreneurship, Startups, Consumer Internet Applications, Customer Acquisition, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing
Recent Angel Investments:
- Codesion - SaaS Software Development Tools (Acquired by CollabNet Nov ‘10)
- LionSide - Social Gaming for Sports Fans (Acquired by DeNA 2011)
- Balance Financial - Personalized Bookkeeping
- Hollow (Associate Producer, UK Horror Film)
Email: mike.stachowiak at gmail
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mstachowiak
CrunchBase: www.crunchbase.com/person/mike-stachowiak
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mstachow
Twitter: @mstachow
