#82 Mike Fitzgerald
Co-founder and managing director, Cultivation Capital
Mike Fitzgerald #82 Co-founder and partner, High Alpha As an undergrad at Miami University, Mike Fitzgerald was “weeded out of business school calculus,” which ultimately led him to major in communications and pursue a career in sales after graduation. Fitzgerald co-founded a number of software companies, including TinderBox, Lessonly and Visible. He now uses his decades of sales expertise to back software, sales, and marketing startups, such as the unicorn enterprise companies Salesloft and Attentive. Fitzgerald and his team at High Alpha have already been busy in 2022, leading two early-stage and seed-round deals that totaled $23.1 million for the startups, data from Crunchbase indicated. The deals included Shaker, a software to facilitate real-estate transactions; Filo.co, a video, voice, and chat social platform; and Encamp, a software to align a company’s goals with environmental goals. Source: businessInsider