Michael Skok
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Greater Boston Area, MA United States
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Founding Partner at Underscore VC, Venture Partner at Harvard Business School
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Michael is a serial entrepreneur of more than two decades turned investor for more than a decade and now he is also mentoring, continuously learning, and teaching entrepreneurship.
Michael is one of the founding partners of Underscore VC. Prior to that he was a GP at North Bridge Venture Partners. He has created ventures with founders, and invested in many great entrepreneurs who went on to build billions of dollars of value focusing on large market opportunities such as eCommerce and Big Data. Michael focuses on breakthrough technologies & disruptive business models such as SaaS, Cloud, Open Source & Blockchain. He is the founder of the Future of Open Source & Future of Cloud Comput...
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