Michael Hirshland

Michael Hirschland is a co-founder of Resolute Ventures. He is on the board of directors of Fancy Hands, CARD.com, Farmstead and Later. Mr. Hirschland is a board member and advisor at Signifyd. He has served on the board of directors of Pact. He has been an investor and participant in the early stage ecosystem for 15 years. Throughout that time, Mike has consistently been a leader in bringing members of the startup community together. Specifically, he created Dogpatch Labs, a community that has helped launch more than 350 companies, including Instagram. Mike also created the famous Digital Media Summit in Jackson Hole, which many top founders attended from 2005-20011. As an early-stage investor, Mike was a partner at Polaris Venture Partners from 1999-2011, where he was an initial seed investor in Automattic, and supported other companies including Q1 Labs (acquired by IBM for $600 million), Quantcast and KISSmetrics. He is also a board member of Webshots.